As promised, here are some excellent photos of Fanime 2010 from San Francisco’s famous David Yu.
Used with persimmon
And here are all his shots from 2009 and 2010.
Enjoy.
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Excellent Photos of San Jose’s Famine 2010 from David Yu
Tuesday, August 17th, 201012th Annual Anime Costume Parade at the 2010 Cherry Blossom Festival a Huge Success
Monday, April 19th, 2010The 12th Annual San Francisco Cherry Blossom Costume Parade and Contest went off without a hitch yesterday in Civic Center.
It was just like 2009, 2008, 2007, etc. Check out the complete 2010 gallery from raider3_anime, if you’d like.
This shot from official Cherry Blossom Photographer David Yu captures the scene:
Here’s the awards ceremony under the pouring sun.
And here are the winners, starting their journey to Japantown:
Congratulations to all the participants.
See you next year!
11th Annual Cherry Blossom Anime Costume Contest 2009 in San Francisco
Sunday, April 19th, 2009Under a blazing sun today (we hates the Sun, we hates it forever!), the 11th Annual Cherry Blossom Festival Anime Costume Contest went off without a hitch today in Civic Center.
You’ve seen 2008‘s, here’s this year’s:
An unbelievable number of shutterbugs were there. Photographer dude from the AP didn’t know what to do with himself upon witnessing this scrum – one thing he knew for sure was that he wasn’t going to line up with the paparazzi. Click to expand:
There was a backdrop set up, so I imagine there’ll be a lot of images looking like these floating around soon:
Haru Yoshioka and Baron Humbert von Gikkingen from The Cat Returns (猫の恩返し, Neko no Ongaeshi, lit. The Cat’s Repayment.) These two spent the past four months making the get ups:
For the 8-bit-obsessed Boing Boing demographic, a larger-than-life Game Boy (ゲームボーイ, Gēmu Bōi). Has it really been two decades since this thing debuted?
Edged weapons were the order of the day…
but stick fighting adherents were not uncommon.
Of course the Raccoon Police used more modern implements to keep matters under control:
Hello Kitty’s foil Badzt Maru managed to make plenty of friends…
…as did Usagi Tsukino from Sailor Moon:
All right:
Some posed individually…
…and others took the time to set up ensembles:
Did the judges award extra points for this plush victim in the upper mouth? We can only hope:
Gratutitous “fake lesbians in ill-fitting anime costumes” kissing for cameras? Affirmative. CBS 5 Eye on Blogs won’t be surprised.
Good puppy, bad puppy:
And bubbles. Everybody loves Bubbles.
See you next year!
1st -
Lilleah & Gemily West – Midna & Wolf Link
2nd -
Katy Lauters – Teto (Nausicaa)
Beau Williams – Baron (Cat Returns)
? (sorry, forgot name) – Heartless
3rd -
Lauren Andraus – Talim (Soul Caliber)
Tiffany Kum – Seung Mina (Soul Caliber)
Stephanie Scholl – Valentine (Guilty Gear Overture)
Kristie Metz – Almira (OZ – The Sword of Etheria)
Lorraine Yee – Suu
4th -
Sigrid Williams – Haru (Cat Returns)
Stephanie Tran – Taokaka
Monique Brossard – Bankai Hitsugaia (Bleach)
Sharon Peng & Kei Luong – Kagene Rui/Kagene Ren (Vocaloids)
Becca Parker – (Kuroshitsuji (Ciel Phantom Hive)
Laura Chin – Deathscythe – Gundam Girl (Gundam Wing)
Christine Tsin & friends – Silfer the Sky Dragon (Yugioh)
Charie Monterola – Deijiko (DiGi Charat)
Natasha Hrepcshak – Hyuuga (Neo Angelique)
Katherine Hrepcshak – Angelique (Neo Angelique)
Laura Eldon – ?
2009 Cherry Blossom Festival in San Francisco
It’s coming up yet again! The Cherry Blossom Festival at San Francisco’s Japantownis an event over two weekends. On the last day of the festival, there is a grand parade. Japan Video sponsors a costume contest for the parade that has become more and more popular over the years. As a result, the contest is limited to 100 people. However, the number of people able to join the parade is unlimited!
Here’s the flier:
2009 Cherry Blossom Festival
11th Annual Anime Costume Parade
To accommodate more applicants and to better serve you, we are offering two levels of participation; please choose one.
Costume Contest & Parade (limited to first 100 persons)
You can participate in both the anime costume contest and the parade.
Date: Sunday, April 19, 2009
Time: 10:00am – Check In
10:30am – Costume Contest begins
1:00 pm – Parade starts
Place: In front of City Hall
Costume Contest
1st Prize (1 person)
2nd Prize (3 people)
3rd Prize (5 people)
Consolation Prize
[We'll Announce Prizes Later]
Parade Only
You can participate in the anime parade only.
Date: Sunday, April 19, 2009
Time: 12:00 noon – Check In
1:00pm – Parade starts
Place: In front of City Hall
Pre-registration is required.
>> DEADLINE IS 4/12. <<
Organized by: Japan Video & Media, Inc
1737 Post Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
Tel: 415-563-5220, Fax: 415-563-5454
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日本語も出来ます。
日本語も出来ます。
San Francisco Tells the Secretary of Interior: NO to Off-Shore Oil Drilling
Thursday, April 16th, 2009This was the scene today down at UCSF Mission Bay where the Secretary of the Interior got an earful about how San Francisco doesn’t want offshore oil drilling anytime soon. Poor Interior Secretary Ken Salazar got an earful:
“Our state is saying clearly to you today, no,” Sen. Barbara Boxer told Salazar at the opening of the hearing at the UC San Francisco Mission Bay campus. The California Democrat said the state’s coastline is a huge economic asset “just as it is.”
Logistics, that’s what the protesters had going for them today. You couldn’t miss all the furries, like this seal for example. Click to expand:
Or this polar bear, played by nine-month-old Kai Savage, assisted by Miyo Sakashita of Oakland. “23 DAYS TO SAVE ME”:
This is the what you could see on the long walk to the protest area. A passer-by ID’ed these animal’s as “shark, dolphin, whale, orca” in rapid-fire succession. Right, one of those anyway.
Dude was selling American Apparel T-shirts for just $5. What a country!
The only people not wearing shirts were selling shirts. Go figure:
The Sec-Int was prepared for all sorts of shenanigans. For example, “full body costumes” were not allowed inside, officially.
Only Time Will Tell what the Interior Department is planning.
The Real Cherry Trees of San Francisco Have Just Started to Bloom
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009Well back in January, people around town were upset about the “cherry trees” starting to bloom, but actually, those were cherry plum trees (Prunus cerasifera, syn. P. divaricata aka Myrobalan). Of course these trees have the word ”cherry” in their name, but they’re a kind of plum nevertheless, known for “early flowering.” Our balmy winter might have encouraged a quick start this season.
But now, the actual, true cherry trees are getting into the act, as seen here in Golden Gate Park a few days back. Click to expand:
So next month, the cherry groves of San Francisco will look like this:
That will usher in the Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival starting April 11, 2009, which will bring in the anime fans to participate in Japantown’s big parade. Elements of the anime contingent will be, as usual, salacious and bizarre.
Thusly:
And thusly:
Enjoy your cherry trees, San Francisco!
