Oh
darkness, I haven't forgotten about you, we are forever EVA fans.
Hyper Japan was okay, it's the first time I've actually gone to an anime convention, I almost went to one a couple of years ago, so yeah I can't really compare it to anything else. I went on Friday and Sunday, I got free tickets for both of them and I had a pretty good time. However, I only stayed at the event for about 3 to 4 hours on each of the days.
To be honest, there really wasn't much to do besides just checking out the stalls and even then I didn't really take a good look at was shown, it was just a lot of random things. There was a big Nintendo presence there and a few showcasing of soon-to-be-released games, which I didn't try out.....I went there mainly to check out the food.
On Friday (25th July), I bought a lemonade Ramune (soft drink, which is really good) for £2 a bottle. I tried out Takoyaki from one of the vendors (I didn't realise there was more than one vendor selling it) and I was pretty unlucky in that I just went to the first stall I saw because the Takoyaki was terrible, it was mainly just pancake batter with a tiny morsel of octupus in it with takoyaki sauce and mayo on top with a sprinkling of the green stuff, they were going for £5 for 8 takoyaki balls. I was disappointed in the fact they just tasted horrible, I wish I had tried from the other vendors, I also got Tempura Prawns from the same takoyaki vendor, which were okay but were incredibly bland. After that, I got a few things from the Tofu-Japan and Japan Centre stalls such as caramel corn, Meiji's Chelsea, Pocky, Milk Soda Chewit-thing (can't remember what the brand was), etc. I found out later there are actual stores and sites for both stalls, so when I went back on the Sunday, I didn't bother buying from the stalls apart from getting the famous melon bread, which was delicious. I also got a Breaking Bad-Totoro T-shirt from the Askew Gaming stall. On Sunday, I just bought the Japanese styled skewered chicken which tasted AWESOME, their stall wasn't present on Friday.
There was one stall I liked where they were selling Anime art Canvases, they're called "Canime", I'm thinking of getting a custom canvas from them.
Oh yea, I actually saw and listened to a short live performance done by Yun*Chi at Hyper Japan, which was pretty cool. There was also a Miku Opera premier, which was funny to see.
Overall, Hyper-Japan was a good experience, it wasn't amazing but it was nice chatting to strangers and making new friends.
I finished season 9 of The Office (US) about an hour ago and the show was one of the best sitcoms I have ever seen, it's sad to see a lot of ignorant people ignoring the series in a whole because they think the British version is superior, which it kinda was for the first 1 and a half seasons but the American version became so much more and it was simply incredible.......the best thing on Netflix for sure, that's what she said.
The finale hit all the right spots for me, everybody got a happy ending.
EDIT #1:
Oh yeah, I got Kakigori (Shaved Ice) from Nice Ice on both days at Hyper Japan, it was awesome, if you do go, you have to try this.