I bombed it out of work when I saw this lot passing by in order to take a few snapshots before my next class started.
Recognise her?
Here she is from the back, complete with red bridge and Noface - the green kanji on the back spells out the festival name.
Blurry but good
Yay! Elmo!
And finally the enthusiastic bearers of Ampaman.
These are all school teams, carrying their papier mache efforts on their shoulders and having a damn good time of it too. A good few dozen of these floats passed by, and I'm told fireworks and 'fireballs' will feature wherever they've ended up.
Earlier in the day we had black-tinted saloons cruising down the street, loudspeakers blaring out some kind of propaganda. From what I could gather from my students they belonged to a group that's considered as dangerous as the Yakuza, fanatically loyal to the long-abandoned god-emperor concept and fully lubricated in their killings and dealings by hefty bribes to all and sundry.
Weird having that kind of thing so out in the open, and being told not to look too hard at them as they pass while all the time their loudspeakers blast away...
Recognise her?
Here she is from the back, complete with red bridge and Noface - the green kanji on the back spells out the festival name.
Blurry but good
Yay! Elmo!
And finally the enthusiastic bearers of Ampaman.
These are all school teams, carrying their papier mache efforts on their shoulders and having a damn good time of it too. A good few dozen of these floats passed by, and I'm told fireworks and 'fireballs' will feature wherever they've ended up.
Earlier in the day we had black-tinted saloons cruising down the street, loudspeakers blaring out some kind of propaganda. From what I could gather from my students they belonged to a group that's considered as dangerous as the Yakuza, fanatically loyal to the long-abandoned god-emperor concept and fully lubricated in their killings and dealings by hefty bribes to all and sundry.
Weird having that kind of thing so out in the open, and being told not to look too hard at them as they pass while all the time their loudspeakers blast away...
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Wow, if that was in the UK someone would flick a lit cigarette on them and send the whole lot up.
Beats the arse off Glastonbury Carnival...
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