The Roving Ronin Report

A sexy Yoshi with a .....? Tokyo Decadance is a semi-monthly club event in Japan and Europe with different themes sometimes reflecting the holidays and sometimes related with Japanese pop-culture. I went to one event where the theme was old video games such as from Nintendo. There were also some people dressed up as characters from video games or variations of them - a mustacheless Mario (I know - wrong! wrong! wrong!) for example. Some people were apparently dressed as characters from video games that must have come wrapped in brown paper. One DJ played remixes of old video game tunes particularly around 2:50-3:45 and Japanese Chiptune band YMCK made a brief appearance (4:30 in the vid). I could recognize one or two tunes - the mario one was pretty unmistakable but others I have no idea. I never had a Nintendo though I did have SNES and 64. Whoa! I want to play whatever game she is playing! Jesus and a mustache-less Mario

This video is from a year or two ago when I caught the tailend of a fire festival out near Odawara an hour or so to the southwest of Tokyo. Buddhist Priests dressed as Yamabushi - mountain hermits - walked over hot coals. Later, participants were allowed to do the same so I kicked off my shoes, waited in the freezing dirt till I got my chance to walk over by-then-not-so-hot coals. The festival is called Akibasan Gongen Hibuse Matsuri and it's held in mid-December at Ryokaku-in Temple. TORCH DANCING This footage was taken slightly in slo-mo (hence the out-of-focus look) of a torch dance at the fire festival. It's accompanied by a rather catchy Buddhist chant.

HALLOWEEN IN ROPPONGI, TOKYO Some random scenes of Halloween hijinks in Tokyo's little den of sin, Roppongi. You get all types in Roppongi - sexy, drunk, wasted, scurvy, lewd, pervy, etc... and Halloween brings out some of the most "interesting" people to say the least. And of course the best thing is Japanese girls running around in skimpy Halloween outfits the best argument for keeping Halloween firmly in Japan. I went around and polled people about Halloween in Japan. I also saw quite a scuffle between some Japanese guys and one photographer with the cops. All in all a most interesting night! The Sexy Arm of the Law Out on Patro l Sakamoto Ryoma fought for the Emperor and a new Japan while the Na'vi fought for a CGI plane t Elvis samurai? Naughty Nun Sister Sin takes a sip Ooofff! right in the beer gut! Happy Halloween, me hearties!!!