Geek out time!

I think that I have been stifling my inner otaku for too long.... so last Saturday was the day to release the pressure and just geek out.

I hopped on a train, met a fellow CSU SF friend Robert at Shibuya, and together we travelled two hours to go to.....

TOKYO GAME SHOW 2006!


For a long time, I've heard of this open to the public event, where for the price of 1,200 yen ($12) you can test all the new and upcoming games, plus they give away tons of promotional stuff for playing. It's a giant PR event where the customers win.

















Of course, since I'm a big Final Fantasy/Kingdom Hearts fangirl, I zoomed over to the SquareEnix booth. ^_^ yay, PS3, more Kingdom Hearts games, more FF7 games to be released! I'm seriously considering buying a Japanese PS2 and some games ... maybe I don't have time to play now, but when I come back from Japan... umm, japanese practice? heheh... the PS3 isn't that special though... I don't really care sorry ^^

What's wierd is that every company's booth hires a harem of women to dress in skimpy vinyl costumes to hand out flyers... and tons of men line up and gather to take thier pictures. A little skin can still sell anything, I guess. Their were even Maid Cafes where you could play 2 player cellphone games with girls dressed up as maids at little tables on cute little chairs...


Also, I didn't know it, but this event is also a pretty big cosplay event for video game cosplayers. ^_^ I chatted with some of them to find out about cosplay events. The tall guy with the elf ears was really cool, he wasn't shy at all to talk to me... that's often a problem, since cosplay in Japan is not mainstream and the people who do cosplay are not always the most social people. I'm still searching, so maybe I'll find some good connections soon. ^_^


Oh and on the way to the place where the Tokyo Game Show is heald, you pass right by Tokyo Disneyland. It looks so cool, I can wait to go there with my boyfriend in winter....