I'm right in the heart of Akihabara today
To talk about ANIME song DJs
Now, to be honest I don't know much about this so I enlisted the help of my friend
Patrick w Galbraith
author of
OTAKU Spaces & The Otaku Encyclopedia
Come on out here
Hey! Are you doing
Great
Nice see you
So, today's topic is ANIME song DJs what can you tell us about this?
ANIME song DJ events has really been growing in the last few years.If you go around Tokyo today
You'll find an event going on around every week
It's really sort of booming phenomenon these last few years
Yeah
It' really exciting
My image of OTAKU is someone who stays at home
Doesn't go out socially
Reads & watches ANIME MANGA in the bedroom
yeah, I think that's the image. It's sort of a bunch of individuals doing their own thing
Hey look
We're Akihabara all these people together doing social things
Guess what? You go to a club
You get a bunch of OTAKU together
and they have helluva time
Right
These ANIME DJ song cover bands
Really cool because what you get is, a bunch of people with their individual passion
sharing e and becoming a social energy in the room
you'll really have to be the understand it
I was there
Check it out!
We are in Nakano in front of RAIZEEN an ANIME DJ bar
This place is gotta lot of energy and I think you're gonna love it
Come on
Check it out!
This place is great
This bar is set up for ANIME song DJ
There is screen which shows ANIME right next to the DJ
This just had to be excitement
Hello
Let's meet the owner of RAIZEEN
Is it real?
Well
Maybe not
RAIJIN is..
well for me it's very comfortable i mean it's
Look around at the decoration it's all ANIME and ANIME song
DJing is a lot of fun
Master the bartenders is a really
nice and laid back guy
Let's anyone who really wants just
Go and use the DJ equipment
Pretty much no notices as long as there aren't any events going on
So when I first came to japan i didn't really know a lot about uh...
ANIME music,ANIME DJ at all
LIke, over time getting to meet various people uh... like
One of my best friends in my last job was ANIME DJ
and he introduced me to an event one-time & i went along not really
knowing what to expect
uh... it was really really cool that people are friendly fun atmosphere was a
Really good
I kind of uh... I realize that
You know that ANIME music taken out of the context of ANIME was
still really really good
And the the way that people mix ANIME songs together
and think of different things
For example you got like the IMOTO theme, that sometimes some people do
umm
even uh... specifically ANIME songs from a certain era
1980s or something
I thought i was really really cool that people would think about it
Amazing ways to show ANIME songs
She is part of RAIZEEN staff
Really cute
and
also deadly wielding a sword
This bartender could well be SAMURAI
Maybe not
With a little more practice
His dreams just might come true
RAIZEEN definitely has the right atmosphere for ANIME song DJ to learn
Master
Simply appreciate the music and experience
Let's head to Roppongi in central Tokyo for another kind of event
On the other side of this door is another world
This is CHARA-ANI
CHARA meaning kind of Roppongi young carefree and
ANI meaning ANIME
and taken the two and put them all together
to make a fusion of some kind of fantastic dance party
Come on!
KONBANWA
There are no Anime on the screen because they don't wanna
go to one world or the other. It is a
fully perfectly balanced
I don't know
Check it out for yourself!
It's seems like any other Roppongi club
Lots of young people and loads of energy
Many people have come in cosplay
It's the essence of saturday night in Tokyo
Some people have the glow sticks with them
Signs of real after hour OTAKU
People at ANIME DJ events like this really like doing things in unison
as a group
One of the great things about OTAKU parties is that inability to dances not
really necessary
I fitted with a lot of the others who are here to show their passion
in ways dancing can't express
Coordination and skills can be checked in at the door
It's all about having fun
The focus is on the DJ and the music
This DJ is ready to rumble.Glow sticks and library of tunes for the crowd
The music switches back and forth from ANIME songs to
The classic Roppongi hip hop
The crowd eats it up
They are psyched and ready for anything
Before the event I talked DJ KAPPEI and DJ TAKAYA
about what CHARA-ANI is all about
Cultures collide at CHARA-ANI
It's awesome
So Patrick, in part 2 we're gonna continue with this ANIME song DJ
in a place where it's dedicated just for ANIME songs DJs,
Oh,yeah
that's gonna be helluva time
And we'll see more of it
Next time
Bye bye bye