Yesterday there was a Sailor Moon doujinshi event in Kawasaki that I attended, and here are some pictures and highlights.

Coming a mere two months after the last Ochakai, there was less activity at this one. But what was there was interesting enough.

Wrapping across two walls of the event were photocopies of the storyboards to the first half of Episode 155. It's interesting to read the comments by the artists about how this or that scene should take place.

Unfortunately there weren't many new doujinshi or cosplayers this time; there's going to be another event next month- Happy Halloween (the same one as I went to a year ago)- and it sounded like people were gearing up for that one.

But there was something worthy of note this time. You know that fans make their own manga, called doujinshi. You know that fans make their own costumes, and wear it, and call that cosplay. But did you know that fans make their own musicals too?

Yes, the myu live on, thanks to fandom. This Christmas, a troupe will be performing their own Sera Myu review in Yokohama. Here's a quick clip of them doing La Soldier at the Ochakai.

Take a look at their website, and in particular, the shots of their previous performances. Another page too. I'm going to try to make it there this Christmas.

That's what I ended up taking home with me.

As for stories, I went to the event with my friend Onur who runs a Turkish Sailor Moon website and came in from Osaka to check this out. He brought with him two fellow gaijin girls, and the Japanese fans were pointing and staring the whole time. In the past our group of foreigners were pretty much all men so these were some of the first foreign females they'd had in attendance; one had long blonde hair, and despite the fact that she wasn't in costume, the Japanese fans took photos.

Here's the final group shot of the cosplayers present.

There's about a month to go before Happy Halloween, and three months until the Yokohama Myu. Should be interesting.