Dance Festival and Taiko Drum Master

Hopefully my vlog doesn't suck TOO badly. Check it out on my YouTube by the way at XAlphaZeroX. It took me like an hour to get a decent take, and when I did it turns out to be 2 seconds too long. So I'm using the SECOND best take.

So yeah, about day... 6 (full day) in Japan. Two days ago I went to a dance festival and let me tell you, it is pretty beast. You got people doing a bunch of martial arts moves mixed with traditional dancing and each group (there was multiple colleges and dance groups there doing their own thing) had a specific theme to their dance.

One funny thing at the festival was that each group had a singer/announcer, and a majority of them sounded like Franky from One Piece.

Anyways, my two favorite themes were a Ninja Samurai type (I'm uploading it on YouTube) thing where the martial arts was most noticable within the dancing. The next favorite theme was a cartoon hero type thing. There were the bad guys (who were dressed as devils) and the good guys (who were dressed like power rangers with out the helmets) and they would fight while they were dancing.

There was this one group that gets a special honor, I forgot what they were called but they had little preschoolers in it, and they were so cute. They were REALLY REALLY cute!!! When ever they had to yell you could hear little tiny high pitched voices screaming along with the college (and elderly) people. If I recorded it, most of you guys would agree with me. But those little kids could dance, normally if we tried that in America, I'm pretty sure most of them would mess up. But these kids were as good as the older kids.

The food at the festival was also awesome. Everything was made right before your eyes. If the food you wanted was grilled, they would grill it open flamed. The food was also VERY fresh. You know how most meats in America are really tender when they are just finished cooking? Thats because of fillers and other meats mashed in destroy some of the connective tissues. Thats why you always have to know what quality of meat you're getting. So anyways, these meats were extremely juicy and chewy.

Some of the vendors at the festival would have signs making special deals like 2 for 1 if you beat them in Rock Paper Scissors. There was also this one where it was like an avalanche based game (where the ball rolls down a series of pegs to change the course) where you pick the jack pot (out of 15 slots and it was 3 for the price of one) and see where the ball lands. You could either get 1, 2 or 3. So Seth tried it out, and he was 1 slot away from his jackpot, but he got 2 for the price of 1. The food that the vendor was serving was a hamburger type patty on a stick. It was delicious!

Seth also tried the Rock Paper Scissors one for a chocolate covered frozen banana.

Random fun fact : One of the bananas had a face with a marshmellow Hitler moustache.

Seth won that one. The bananas were good (ahaha, thats what she said).

Later we hit the arcade (which is a long mall, the one near my house is about 1.25 miles long) and Seth got to try this Taiko Drum Master game (due to the fact we couldn't find a DTX machine anywhere) and he did really good on his first try ever. After the first song (which was level 1/10) he skipped to a level 7/10 and still got 99% of the notes and only missed 10. Video is going to be on YouTube too.