OH NO KIMONO

Yesterday I headed over to Little Tokyo with Adrian and Mark for Day 2 of the the 69th Annual Nisei Week Festival. We decided to go that day because it featured the main event, which was the grand parade. Driving around the area was a bitch because of all the closed roads due to the parade route, and finding parking was even more of a bitch. But once we got settled we roamed the color filled streets of Little Tokyo no problem. There were a shitload of people, and a lot of activities going on. Lots of girls in kimonos, a bunch of street vendors, selling gifts and stuff and of course the food vendors, selling delicious Japanese traditional (and non-traditional, as you will see later) foods and snacks. Nothing else much to say again, I'll let the pictures do the talking.

1st part of the parade featured Japanese war veterans driving around with armed machine-gunned Jeeps to shoot at onlooking parade attendees.

Nisei Week is also a place for cosplayers alike to dress up as characters from games and anime and such. See anybody familiar?

This is Little Tokyo. Take your Viet shit elsewhere! (JK though I like Pho)

The Parade is about to begin

Yakisoba Dog motherfucker. American food with a Japanese twist

Get too close and they'll smack you with those staffs

Get too close and they'll smack you with those fans

You can hear em bang these Taiko drums from a mile away

You aren't cool unless you are on top of the double-decker bus

OH SHIT there are people under there?

Poor horses man...

SUCK IT

This little girl succeeded in getting in my shot

Target, now called MUFG

LOL

I don't ever recall Dhalsim wearing Flip-Flops

That ain't no Chun, that's a Man-li.

Pirate-Pikachu girl

Samurai Lords on horseback (GET IT?! DOHOHOHOHO!....................)