This weekend in Nagoya was the World Cosplay Summit.  I’m not totally sure what this means, I only really know that there were tons of people, from all over the world, dressed up as different Anime characters.  Click on this link to learn more about Cosplay.

I met up with Nick Parsons and his father-in-law Scott Greer.  We heading to Osu-Kannon station in Nagoya for this event.  When we got there were also learned there was a traditional festival going on at the same time.  Actually that festival was almost more of a big deal then the parade we came for.  Remember, I just said almost.  There Parade was interesting.  A bus pulled up with all the different characters that were participating in a tournament over the weekend. We saw all kinds of interesting people dressed up in some weird outfits.  Most notable were one guy dressed up in a maid outfit passing out flyers for a capsule hotel.  Another guy looked like Japan’s version of Napoleon Dynamite dress up in a Strawberry Shortcake outfit.  The second guy was really creepy.  So creepy that no one wanted a picture with him or even talked to him.  That’s saying something considering the environment we were in.  Below are a variety of pictures I took.  Some are of the traditional festival.  we showed up in time to catch some people playing some music and that was cool.  If you’re every in Nagoya, Japan make sure you go to Osu Kannon because its a cool little area.