Just came back from Japan and Saiyuki FESTA '09!

Sorry for the silence of the last week but I went in Japan.
I visited Tokyo and I went to Saiyuki FESTA ’09! *___*
I’ve planned to go in Japan in 2010 but, reading about FESTA, I’ve decided at the last minute, to anticipate my trip.
I leaved Italy on 27th October and I came back on 2nd November.
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to meet Kazuya Minekura like I hoped but I bought so many Saiyuki gadgets!
Moreover I visited Tokyo (I’m very sad because I missed the occasion to meet arisu_krd!!! AAARGH!!!)
I love Tokyo! I can’t wait to come there again soon!

About Saiyuki FESTA it was AMAZING. Although I went on Bunka Kaikan 4° floor three hours before the beginning of the event, 200 people to get Minekura’s sign were there yet ç_ç
To buy everything you needed to form a queue. But these queues were sooooooo long!!!
I managed to get some items but I gave up to get postcards…the queue to get them was incredible…it was long for the 4 floors of the building!!! I bet I should be still there now…
About the show, there were so many plates. Some of them HUGE! There were the original plates of manga. I loved the ones about Kamisama arc! Amazing! Do you remember the vignette in which behind Kamisama there is a huge stained-glass window? In the show there was this illustration and, thanks to some particular lights, seemed to see the colours on it!
Were showed so many coloured illustrations! Many sketches and the weapons of Saiyuki characters: Tenpou’s katana, the Smith&Wesson, one of the Gato’s gun and the golden gun used in Tenkai!
Unfortunately was forbidden make photos to these parts of the show. But was possible make photos to the clothes of main characters, of JEEP, of the silhouettes of Sanzo Ikkou…

 

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