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Black Jack (OVA)

No this isn’t a gambling anime, this is an adaptation of a series from the legend himself, the late great Osamu Tezuka! (And if that name means nothing to you, then you should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque!)

Moving along, Black Jack is the original unlicensed doctor, who is the best man for any treatment archetype. Having lost all faith in the Japanese medical system, he became a legend because of his never quitting attitude, determined to save any life he is everything Tezuka-sensei (who was an actual physician at one point) wanted to be as a doctor.

AnimEgo is releasing a blu ray collection of the original ova (Original Video Animation, don’t as me again!) and from what trailer shows in HD I can’t wait to rewatch it!

You can pre-order at this link !

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AnimeGO 2023 Report!

I had the opportunity to go to AnimeGO this year! It was a Japanese Pop Culture Festival that had so many things there! There was an arcade there, kimono dressing, yummy food and so much more!

I went with my good friend Pie (@piedivide), which you’ll see him appear throughout this report! Thank you for the fun time, Pie!!! ヽ(>∀<☆)ノ

The report is below the cut!

So, context time.

Pie told me about this festival one day about a month or two ago. I didn't even know it was a thing in all honesty, but it sounded so cool! The tickets were pretty cheap as well, and was filled with things that we both liked (aka anime and Japan lol).

And so, we decided to go!

We bought tickets as soon as they came out, and awaited the day to come.

A few days before the Festival, we met up and looked through all of the activities that it was offering on the day. One of the activities that interested us the most is the Kimono Dressing. It only cost $10 for a ticket and you could dress up in a Yukata and take photos!

We literally bought the tickets right away (I pulled out my laptop just so I could buy it lmao), and we managed to get the same timeslot too!

With all of that, we were ready for Sunday!

Day of the Festival!

Before we went to AnimeGO, we took a detour to the UNIQLO store because they were having a Cardcaptor Sakura collaboration and I wanted to get a top if they had any left. Spoiler alert, they did not have any left ;;

We then went to a new bookstore that opened up in the same building, I had no idea it was even up there. I don't go into the city too often so it's always a surprise for me. The inside was very lovely, and of course we gravitated straight to the manga section.

A lot of older manga were there, especially the first three volumes of Animal Academy, one of my favourite manga! I used to borrow the first six volumes from the library, but they only have the second one now which sucks ;;

And so, I couldn't pass up this opportunity. I bought all the volumes lol

And now all we had to do was find the entrance to the venue.

We knew the general direction, but not where it was exactly. We went up and down, thinking we were going the wrong way until we spotted a Nezuko cosplayer who saved us lol

Pie and I went all the way around to get to the venue and even got on an elevator, when we could have just walked through the train station (　˙-˙　)

It's about the journey, not the destination! (tells myself that to make myself feel better lol)

We got these little wristbands to prove we bought tickets as soon as we got there and I managed to break the one I got for Pie orz

He had to get a new one. I’m sorryyyyyyyy (シ. .)シ

We paid our respects to our Fumo overlords (or I forced Pie to)

Arcade!! I love arcades.

The Arcade was the best part to me. All because they had Hatsune Miku Project Diva MegaMix + with the the arcade controls!

I freaked out a bit as soon as I saw it. I've never played this game with the arcade controller so I was pumped to try it!

I played Senbonzakura first, although I probably should have chosen the F version so I could have gotten the pretty MV but that's okay! I got to play and that's all what matters to me lol

I then played my favourite Vocaloid song ever, Butterfly on Your Right Shoulder. I actually failed it the first time because I forgot all of the controls for some reason lmao

I redeemed myself at the end and passed it, don't worry. I was so happy to play it. Len and Rin make me happy!

I also did Hand in Hand and that was fun too! Next time I want to play it more!

Pie did Ghost Rule with this lovely Module that looked so pretty. This is Snow Miku 2019!

We tried out Sound Voltex, which was something I never heard of before. It looked sort of confusing at first, but was a lot of fun once you got the controls down! Aqua from Konosuba was the navigator and she made funny faces at you on the results screen if you did not so great.

Would love to play it again some day.

We also played Taikou no Tatsujin and Muse Dash! We played the heavenly melody, the Calamari Inkantation by the one and only Squid Sisters, blessing the whole Festival with squid music.

Muse Dash was very enjoyable, it was my first time playing it. I heard of it beforehand but never had the chance to try it out. I tried playing it without knowing what the controls were but Pie was smart and pulled up the tutorial lmao

After 3pm, they had a prize gacha system in place where you had to play either a full session Taikou no Tatsujin or Muse Dash and you would get a gacha card upon doing so. You would then line up and roll for two coloured marbles from this white dispenser. The colour determines what type of prize you can choose from.

Yellow was the best one.

Although by the time we got there, most of the cool prizes were gone. They had a Lumine and Aether plushie, I would have so loved to have gotten one of them. But alas.

I only got to choose one prize, while Pie got to choose two.

I got this Haru Okumura from Persona 5 clear card hehe that I stuck up on my wall. Pie got a Marth amiibo and a Yusuke Kitagawa from Persona 5 clear file.

We also walked through all the different stalls that were present! We saw a stand that had retro games, and Pie managed to snag the Ocarina of Time 3D for the 3DS for only $40, which is such a steal! I'm glad he was able to be reunited once again with the game.

Pie and I have this tradition where we each buy each other a print (only one, mind you) while at a convention/festival/wherever there is a print, and that’s what we did!

We went to the main artist alley and spilt up.

Pie got me a Kafka print (thank youuuu, I love it) and I got Pie a Kazuha print!

As soon as I saw it, I knew it was perfect. And it was even more fitting since it was Kazuha’s birthday too! ٩( ᐛ )و

Here is us in our pretty Yukata!

I chose this lovely blue pattern with flowers that caught my eye from the moment I saw it. And I chose well, it looks so good!

I felt so cool in it.

The original hair clip I wanted to use kept falling off my head, I felt bad for the person helping me get dressed aha

And then my hair was literally in the way the whole time, next time I'll tie it up. I did actually bring a hair tie but I forgot about it, welp aha

I'm glad I had this opportunity to do so!

Who knows when I’ll have another opportunity like this (unless I go to Japan….one day I’ll go!)

Food!

There was a lot of Japanese food there as expected from a festival such as this one! We tried this Japanese cheesecake which was really nice. Reminded me of something my grandma would make.

The daifuku was a bit too sweet for us both, although it wasn't bad! We got three different flavours: Mango, Strawberry and Matcha.

Much more squishy than I assumed it would be. I liked the mango one the most, I made a "mmh!" sound because I was so surprised at how mango it was and Pie laughed at me.

I can't understand what Pie meant when he says matcha tastes like a tree, I couldn't taste anything I swear lol

I was sitting there, chewing my heart out but the matcha flavour never came...I think my sense of taste was gone that time...

(i forgot to take a photo of what I ate i'm sorry)

We went to a maid café! It was our first time at any sort of maid café. The maids were very pretty and so kind! I ordered a Matcha Custard Puff and Pie ordered a Pumpkin Mini Loaf, which you can see above!

When I received my order by a lovely maid, I was asked if I wanted my food blessed by them. And of course I said yes!

Gotta go all in after all.

We did this little blessing sequence together and it was actually pretty fun! I managed to say everything properly, I thought I messed it up at the end but I did it!!

The food was pretty good. Blessing worked! The matcha custard was really nice. Even Pie, who doesn't like matcha liked it.

Blessings are powerful.

AnimeGO ended at 6pm, and we were about to head home. It felt sort of unfinished to me, like it didn't truly feel like the end. I didn't want to leave so quickly and so suddenly.

I still wanted to do more.

While I was waiting for my train to arrive, Pie suggested we should go out to the bridge that's outside of the station to kill some time. We walked across a bit of it, and we saw that there was a different festival going on below.

For context, AnimeGO was part of a bigger festival called OzAsia that's been running for the past two weeks I believe. That's the one we saw going on below.

Pie and I saw this other festival from the time we got to AnimeGO earlier in the day, but we assumed that we had to pay to go to that one so we took no heed of it aside from commenting it looked cool.

But that's when I spotted a large sign that said "Free Entry" from the bridge and I was like...we should go there. It was free and we were literally right there. It was still light out!

I never did tell my mum when I was heading home anyway. So it was all finee.

And we did go! It's sort of our thing, doing things rather spontaneously haha

It was the Lucky Dumpling Festival, filled with stalls of food you could buy and a stage with performances! It was really cool.

We saw a stall that sold Takoyaki, which was actually the same stall we bought Karaage Chicken from AVCon!

We missed out last time, so we couldn't miss this chance this time. Pie and I bought one to share, since it was a bit expensive and we weren't sure how much we would like it either.

We had to wait like 20-30 minutes. In the meantime, on the stage arrived three idols.

They started to sing.

And the first song they sang was Saijoukyuu Paradox (最上級ぱらどっくす), Idol Time Pripara's second opening.

When I heard it, I was like "WHATTTTT".

I freaked the heck out, I literally never thought I would ever hear this song in a random festival. I love Pripara, and so to hear this song made me so so SO happy.

Pie can attest to that.

I did not catch nor their names or unit name after the song ended aha

We were sorta far from the stage to hear it properly. But they looked so cool! I loved their outfits. I loved the fact they sang that song like aaaaaaa

And so I stanned these idols who I had no idea what their names were lmao

Our Takoyaki was ready after a while, and we looked for a seat...which was rather hard. There were no seats at all, and we were going to use a random table I saw that we would have to stand at or sit on the grass.

That was until we walked through the front area where the stage was, which had loads of benches.

And lo and behold, there was an empty bench I spotted. Right near the stage. I literally pointed to it aggressively and sprinted to it, so no one could take it. It was ours!

Takoyaki was really good. Like wow! I wished I had more of it then. I am so buying it next time it is available somewhere. So warm…

Of course I am a failure when eating so my Takoyaki balls were falling apart aha ( ´_ゝ`)

We ate it while watching the idols perform various songs and it was so much fun!

There was death metal screaming and it was incredible. The talent.

Such awesome idols. (*≧∀≦*)

Pie and I learnt that we could actually meet them and buy merch from them after the performance.

And of course we did! We were again there already and it’s not everyday you meet idols!

At this point I learnt they were called A-Muse Project, and there was usually 6 members but there were only three here today. It was their first time in Adelaide in fact! They're from Brisbane!

They were so nice and so kind! It was hard to hear them because we were right next to the stage and the next performance was on. And the wind was freezing by the time we managed to talk to them, I was so cold.

Was worth it. Anything for idols lol

We got these little group Cheki with them for $15 and they signed it too! I've never done anything like this before, but it was a lot of fun!

There were also penlights on sale for about $40, which was a bit too much for us so we passed on them.

We didn’t want the signatures to smudge so we just held them carefully for a really long time to make sure (even if we checked they were dry) lol

It now felt like the day was complete. I'm glad we did go to this festival as well!

It’s my first Polaroid I’ve ever gotten and I stuck it up on my wall hehe

We saw many cool cosplayers too, and we vow to cosplay next time we go because it felt sort of like a missed opportunity.

We didn’t get any photos with any of them because it’s honestly rather awkward asking people randomly “hey, can I take a photo?” while not in cosplay aha（´-`）.｡oO

But I did stare in awe.

There was this maid Xiao that we kept seeing everywhere, quite literally. We saw them at AnimeGO and at the Little Dumpling Festival.

We joked that if we called Xiao’s name, they'll come lol

There was a really cute March and such a cool Stelle! And a really cool Dottore that kept eluding me and disappearing randomly, it was rather incredible and creepy at the same time lol

There was also this Flandre Scarlet cosplayer which I absolutely loved. I watched them play Taikou no Tatsujin while waiting in line for the game.

I want to do that one day too, do that cosplay and then play Bad Apple lol

Point is, a lot of cool cosplay.

This place is literally like paradise for someone like me. I love anime, manga and gaming! People are so nice at conventions, I love the atmosphere and simply, I'll never get enough of it all.

We did so many things. It was such a fun day, and I won’t forget about it for a long time.

Thank you for reading!

[piedivide]

AnimeGO Festival 29/10/23 Report

This time I'll be recounting my time at a Japanese culture festival I went to called AnimeGO! It wasn't like...a full-blown convention technically (as much as it actually did feel like a convention lol) but it was such a packed day with so much to do!

I went there with my very good friend Miku (@remimibanana), who you'll see in some images I've scattered throughout the post!

Before we actually went to the festival we took a short detour to investigate a Cardcaptor Sakura collab at Uniqlo...or, well, it was supposed to be there, but there wasn't a single collab item in sight. Just a sign that said there was supposed to be one, but alas, we found nothing ;;

We went and quickly checked out a new-ish bookstore that had opened nearby, where Miku bought herself some manga, and then we were off for the festival! All we had to do was find the entrance.

This turned out to be a slight ordeal. We kinda went in the general direction we knew it was being held, but we didn't know exactly where to go. Eventually though, as we were turning down what we thought was the wrong path, we spotted a cosplayer in the distance and knew that THAT was the right way!

Anyway, in the end we did eventually make it to the entrance. Got our wristbands (after Miku accidentally broke mine and i had to get another one which was funny lol–) and we were ready to go!

(forgive me if i get the order of events mixed up slightly–it was definitely a very scrambled and packed day of events aha but i'll try my best!)

After we spent some time wandering around gaining our bearings, we headed towards the arcade area. The main focus there seemed to be rhythm games and the sort, there were so many! Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA, Taiko no Tatsujin, Sound Voltex, Muse Dash, Beat Saber, Project Sekai, probably others I'm forgetting, I was excited to try them out as I hadn't really played any of them before! Miku on the other hand was probably even more excited because she loves rhythm games, vocaloid music, all that sort of thing!

We took turns playing some of them, and it was a lot of fun! We even took videos of each other playing so we can look back in the future lol. After that, we moved on to the next area.

As we went along, we checked out some of the stands on display. So many merch and artist stands! We spotted one that was selling a lot of Japanese retro games, but some more recent ones as well, and one that caught my eye was Ocarina of Time 3D for the 3DS, for only $40, and I decided to get it immediately. It was one of the games I lost many years ago, and so I knew I had to seize this opportunity. So now I have been reunited with this game once more, and I will be playing it again at some point for sure!

We then found our way to the area where they were selling a whole bunch of Japanese food! But as enticing as it all sounded, we would have to come back later, as we had to be somewhere in about 30 minutes.

We quickly went to find this elusive "manga corner" they had shown on the map within that 30 minutes (mostly so Miku could show off her immaculate reading speeds to me in person–it's pretty impressive lol) but alas we could not find it anywhere, despite being where the map lead us to...so instead we just hung around for a little while chatting before heading to our next destination at our appointed time.

And our next destination was...a kimono dressing station!! We had booked tickets in advance to be dressed in kimonos/yukatas, and it was TIME. We were both very excited for this. There would be many photos.

I picked out this cool dark blue one, pretty simplistic but I liked it! (the selection for guys wasn't very big, they told me that they only get like 2-3 guys doing it every year lol). I think it paired pretty well with the gold sash though! Something about colour contrast, I think I looked pretty good in it!

(my hair is NOT that yellow irl, my camera made the colours look super weird for some reason i swear lol)

Miku chose this vibrant blue floral kimono, with a pink sash to go along with it. She also got a flower hairclip (eventually, some others kept falling off before finding one that actually stayed in her hair haha) and it just looked amazing when it all came together!!

We took lots of photos together too, it was just really awesome ^^

After all that, it was time for food! We beelined straight for the desserts (because why wouldn't you) and we got one cheesecake slice, and three daifuku of varying flavours each! Personally I thought the cheesecake was amazing, and the daifuku were good too, but a bit too sweet for me.

(i also don't really like matcha, which is what flavour the green one was. i tend to liken it to what one might think a tree would taste like, which Miku didn't seem to understand so i just looked crazy trying to justify myself lol)

I'm not sure where else to sneak this comment in so here will do lol, but there was this one person who had this amazing cosplay of Dottore from Genshin who kept appearing and disappearing all over the festival while we were there randomly. Just thought I should mention that. Seemed kinda in-character. Spooky. Cool, but spooky.

Next! We went back to the arcades. By this time, there was this free gacha event happening, where if you played two rounds of Taiko no Tatsujin or two rounds of Sound Voltex, you earned a gacha ticket worth two pulls, which you could then line up to spend on a spinning dispenser that would dispense coloured marbles depicting certain rarities of miscellaneous merch you could get. So of course we had to give our luck a try.

We could only really line up for Taiko no Tatsujin because the line was pretty big (it was a free gacha event after all, so pretty popular lol) and we ended up waiting around half an hour I'd say? But we just chatted the whole time, and watched in awe as this one guy in particular was just, completely SLAYING at Taiko no Tatsujin (Hatsune Miku no Gekishou on the hardest difficulty to be exact because of course lol).

When we got to play, one of the songs we chose was Calamari Inkantation from Splatoon! We were surprised to even see it there, playable, but it was a lot of fun. Our hands kinda hurt after playing it though, perhaps we got too into it lol...

When it was my turn for the gacha, I ended up rolling and getting to choose two items, so I got the Smash Bros. Marth amiibo and the P5 Yusuke Kitagawa clear file. Miku only got to choose one item, and she went with the P5 Haru Okumura clear file.

The next thing we went and did was go to the Maid Café! It was the first time either of us had been to one, so it was definitely a really unique experience. I got a Pumpkin Mini Loaf, and Miku got a Matcha Custard Puff. They both looked really aesthetically pleasing, and tasted just as nice!

We both really liked the pumpkin loaf and the matcha puff! Even me, despite my aforementioned disdain of matcha...however I think we chalked that up to the maid blessing they got us to follow them along with as they brought out our food. Cool to say that that's something we've done now haha.

After this, we went to fulfil our convention/event/festival tradition of buying each other exactly one print that we think the other person would like. So we went to the artist alley, and went our separate ways to choose a print for each other. In the end I chose a really pretty HSR Kafka print for Miku, since I knew she already had a Silver Wolf print, so it would be perfect!

When we exchanged them with each other, I was glad to see that she was happy with what I picked out for her! And the one she picked out for me was this amazing Kazuha print which I love a lot, it looks just so incredible. It was actually Kazuha's birthday on the day we went, so it was kind of perfect! He is also one of my favourite Genshin characters so I was extremely thankful to her for getting it for me, she knows me well haha ^^

(i will add a photo of the Kazuha print here soon lol)

We wanted to quickly see if we could go and get some more food (namely takoyaki, we've been meaning to get that specifically for ages) but unfortunately they were closing up as we got there, so we had to pass once again, frustratingly. Maybe another day...

After this, it was almost time to go. But not before playing a little bit more at the arcade! The lines were starting to dwindle so now was our chance to go wild and play as much as we could. Miku played a handful more rounds of Project DIVA, I played a couple more, and we went and played Muse Dash too, which took a sec to get the hang of but we got there! That was pretty fun too.

But after that, we were kindly informed that the festival was coming to an end, and that we should make our way towards the exits. Our day of fun was over.

As we left and made our way towards the station, it definitely did feel like a bit of an abrupt ending. We had done pretty much everything the festival had to offer, and it was already one of the most fun days ever. Once we got to the station, the train wasn't here yet, so I suggested that we go back outside to go for a walk while we wait. And so we did!

There was still plenty of daylight left, so we could walk around as much as we wanted, really. And as we made it about halfway across a bridge, still chatting away, Miku spotted something in the distance.

For context: the festival we went to was a smaller part of a larger Asia culture festival that's been on for about two weeks now I believe. And we walked past the main festival at the start of the day in search of where we were supposed to be going. It looked cool from the outside, but we would definitely have to pay to get in, so we passed it up at the time.

So anyway, the thing Miku spotted was a comically gigantic sign that literally said 'Free Entry' right above the main gateway of the larger festival.

And so in the spirit of our now seemingly regular nature of spontaneously deciding to do things (and also in our sheer hesitance to let the day end), we eagerly made our way over to the main festival to check it out!

And so continued our adventure.

It was wayyy more crowded in this area. And it was outdoors as well, so it definitely felt more lively. But along the back wall, we noticed there were heaps and heaps of food stands.

This was our chance to finally try takoyaki.

And sure enough, we found it! They told us the wait would be around about half an hour, so we ordered and then we continued to wander around a bit for about 15 minutes. But once we circled back, a person on the front stage announced that a an idol dance group was about to come out to perform some J-Pop songs, which was a pleasant surprise!

The very first song they performed, Miku actually recognised it!! It was a song called Saijoukyuu Paradox (最上級ぱらどっくす), which was a PriPara OP (I didn't know it myself but it was just as amazing). It was very very fun to watch her immediately recognise it and freak out haha.

We got our takoyaki, eventually found somewhere to sit, and watched through their entire setlist which was amazing! And the takoyaki was so good as well, we both really liked it!

For one of the songs, one of the performers even started belting out a proper death metal scream, it was just incredible. Kinda caught us off guard to be honest! Such skill.

Once they had gotten through their setlist, it was announced that they would be selling penlights and signed polaroids, amongst other merch, and we just had to get something. So we hurried over there, and actually got to meet them and talk with them face to face! They were so incredibly kind!!

We both opted to each get a signed group polaroid with them (we wanted to get penlights but they were $40 each, which was a bit much) and man it was just so amazing.

Best end to a day ever. Also best day ever, just like in general.

At this point it was freezing and it was also beginning to get dark, so it was time to head back to the station.

And that was the end of the day! Honestly I'm still just smiling thinking back on it, and it was only a couple of days ago. I won't be forgetting this day for a long, long time.

Thank you for reading my report! ^^

(and keep an eye out for more in the future 👀)

[oldtrenchy]

Lucky to get out of that downpour, I had fun basking in the festival atmosphere of AnimeGO! Japan Pop Culture Festival, this time at the Adelaide Festival Centre. As always, I do the best I can with what little I have to capture the energy of the event.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the video, you all looked great and I very much appreciated your time and patience.

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