San Francisco Cherry Blossom Festival - April 18, 2010
Every April in San Francisco we have our annual Cherry Blossom Festival (Sakura Matsuri). This was the second year for me going and it was great. I went on April 10, the first day and April 18, the last day of the festival. This post is about April 18th, the final day of the festival. Here is my previous post about the festival on April 10th.
April 18 was the big day, because it had a couple of main events scheduled for the day such as the grand parade which had a lot of Japanese culture related floats and performances, and the cosplay contest which was my focus of the day. My day started with a 40 minute bus ride from the west side of SF to the civic center plaza, where the parade would start and the cosplay contest would begin. I brought my double (fake) swords back gear wrapped up on the bus for my friend’s cosplay. (The CCP is right in front of City Hall.) I arrived at around 11am to find a few members of my Anime club already there, a few cosplayers. (I did not cosplay.) There were a lot of great cosplay around, this being my first time attending a cosplay event and asking to take pictures of the cosplayers. I’ll let some of these pictures do the talking.
I think she was one of the second place winners.
This girl won 1st place for her cosplay of Transformers (of course).
My friend was jealous of the guy because he's with a cute girl.
Snake and someone else going at it CQC style.
Mio and Mugi from K-On!
Black Rock Shooter
This is just a bit of the cosplay. To see the rest of my pictures taken from this year’s cosplay @ SF's Sakura Matsuri, visit my Flickr.
Azusa and Mio were enjoying the last of the Sakura.
I had fun because I got to spend it with people I know and I was able to take a bunch of pictures for my blog and Flickr. It was the first time for me attending a cosplay event rather than just going to the festival and taking random pictures of the festival like last year. Maybe I will go to more events like this in the future, but for now it’s time for me to focus on my upcoming final month of the spring semester of school before summer vacation.
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Snake > Leon enough said =3
Misty/Ash couple was a funny twist. Always funny when people do something like that.
you said everything i wanted to say! ROFL
Cause I'm a ninja.
A lil ninja for that fact =P
That's a girl in there? fawesome!
Wai hallo thar.
LOL old snake
she got mugi's eyebrows :3
Oppai and megane hotness!
Cute mugi!
The cosplay looks really good. In Dublin we had a Japanese culture festival and only four of us cosplayed at it but it was good fun. The girl who coslayed as a transformer is very impressive. It is extremely rare to see a girl cosplaying as a mecha.
Wow! Awesome Jazz!! Really a shame that Bay killed him at the end of the first movie. Favorite TF... RIP Jazz! BTW, this girl has some skills!!
lol!! Epic, gender change power!!
"Something wrong with my leg" :(
Awesome propwork.
Creepy otaku
for a second i thought this was a hand coming out of his costume
total awesomeness, so jealous i am!