{"id":664,"date":"2008-03-16T23:24:17","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T09:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/16\/of-culture-otaku\/"},"modified":"2008-03-16T23:24:17","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T09:24:17","slug":"of-culture-otaku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/16\/of-culture-otaku\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Culture &#038; Otaku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img_0108b.jpg\" title=\"img_0108b.jpg\"><img align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img_0108b.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"img_0108b.jpg\" title=\"img_0108b.jpg\" \/><\/a>Finally made it to a Honolulu Festival, having missed quite a few past cultural events. I like going to the Convention Center venue, hate to admit it, because it&#8217;s air conditioned. And something different this year was the inclusion of a performance by Haruko Momoi, a popular anime voice actress. She had along a good sized group of her fanclub too. It was entertaining, and I mean that in a good way, not a cynical way. A tiny peek into otaku-dom,\u00c2\u00a0got a taste of the energy and enthusiasm without being swamped by massive crowds of a true hardcore event. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img_0157b.jpg\" title=\"img_0157b.jpg\"><img align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img_0157b.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"img_0157b.jpg\" title=\"img_0157b.jpg\" \/><\/a>And her performance was good, I honestly have to say she sang better than a lot of other big name J-Pop acts I&#8217;ve seen televised live. I do wonder what kind of toll this takes on her voice, unless it really is how she talks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.right-gauge.jp\/\">http:\/\/www.right-gauge.jp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having arrived late on Sunday and not seeing any of Saturday, I missed a lot of the performers, but still got to see a lot of vibrant performances. Go to see an aboriginal Taiwan group, interestingly it had a very native american Indian feel. And I hoofed it on over to Waikiki to catch the Grand Parade. It seems I kind of choose my position poorly. If I were being hardcore photog I would have roamed the street, but I wasn&#8217;t feeling that. I just parked in one spot and dealt with it. Didn&#8217;t even move when the finale Daijayama\u00c2\u00a0dragon rained sparks chasing everyone around me away. Anyway, I&#8217;ll get pics processed and posted sometime, I&#8217;m pretty pooped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally made it to a Honolulu Festival, having missed quite a few past cultural events. I like going to the Convention Center venue, hate to admit it, because it&#8217;s air conditioned. And something different this year was the inclusion of a performance by Haruko Momoi, a popular anime voice actress. She had along a good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-aI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}