Hyper Japan 2012 - My Day In Pictures

Hello Everyone, and welcome to my post (finally) of my visit to Hyper Japan 2012.

This Japanese festival has been held in February for the last 3 years (the last time I attended it was it's first year, 2010, when the venue was in Brick Lane, London) and celebrates all aspects of Japanese culture, unlike the MCM Expo which is more concentrated on Anime and Manga. The new venue for this event is now Earl's Court, London, and is literally across the road from Earl's Court tube station.

Just to let you know in advance, i forgot to take that many pictures of wandering around, but the venue was a lot larger than the Brick Lane venue, and had many different stalls all over the place.

Win L'Arc-En-Ciel Tickets with HYPER JAPAN

One of Japan's biggest rock bands, L'Arc-En-Ciel, are due to hit The O2 indigO2 in London on the 11th April this year, and HYPER JAPAN are giving you the chance to win tickets to see them.

All you have to do to have a chance of winning the tickets is drop HYPER JAPAN an email with your Name, Contact Details and your unique ticket reference (which is found on your HYPER JAPAN 2012 ticket, so this is only open to people going to the event). The competition winner will be picked on the 27th February, so you still have plenty of time to send in your emails.

For all the details, check out the official HYPER JAPAN post here.

Japan Centre competition for HYPER JAPAN tickets

The Japan Centre are currently holding a competition where you could win yourself two tickets to the upcoming HYPER JAPAN event, which takes place on the 24th-26th February. You can win yourself a day pass to the event, and you get to pick which day of the event you would like to attend.

All you need to do to win yourself the tickets is leave a response on their blog post about the competition saying what part of the event you feel will be the best bit. Don't worry if you don't know what's happening there, they have a list of some of the events taking place so you can take your pick from them. Other ways you can enter are through their Facebook fan page or their Twitter account. Details of how to enter through these two are on the blog post mentioned above.

Best of luck, and i'll see you there if you choose the Saturday tickets!

Bekkii Cruel to perform at HYPER JAPAN 2012

The official website for the Japanese Culture event HYPER JAPAN have today announced that online anime dance sensation Beckii Cruel is to perform on stage on the Sunday of their event.

Beckii found fame back in 2009, when she started singing and dancing to anime soundtracks and uploaded them to Youtube. She now has an unbelievably large following around the world, and also being the 7th most subscribed artist in Japan. She also released a single in the UK called 'You Can't Kiss Me' which reached no.8 in the charts.

I personally will not be able to see her, as I only have a ticket for Saturday of the HYPER JAPAN event, but if you are intending to go on Sunday, please leave a comment and let me know what you think.

If you have yet to see Beckii in action, here is here cover of Danjo Dance:

Singer Natsuko Aso to perform at Hyper Japan 2012

The London Japanese Culture event Hyper Japan announced on both their Twitter account and Website that the anime singer Natsuko Aso will be performing at the event next year. She will be at the event on both the Friday and Saturday, being the 24th and 25th February. She will not be attending the Sunday date of the event.

 Natsuko Aso has quite a few anime titles to her name, including the opening songs to Baka and Test - Summon the Beast and Modern Magic Made Simple and the ending theme to Tantei Opera Milky Holmes Dai-Ni-Maku amongst other titles.

If you would like to purchase tickets to this event (which i will be ^_^) the Hyper Japan ticket site can be found here. Also, for more information on Natsuko Aso and her other works, you can check out her website here