It's time for a spoooooookey halloween blog!
As per usual I did a variety of things for halloween, the reason for this is mostly because i'm a massive child and love spooooky pumpkins and running about dressed as a skeleton. I decorated my room with stickers of ghosts and banners of the colour orange, I went to parties in costume and face paint and I ate spooky shaped chocolate, the only thing I didn't do was carve a pumpkin :( This is the first year when such a gourd-less tragedy has occurred and the sky-high prices of vegetables here in Japan is entirely to blame for I could not get a carve-able sized pumpkin for less than around £40 - £50 in Tokyo. The sadness.
Kicking it all off
I was so eager to dress up as a skellybob for this halloween, I practiced my face paint days before, and wandered around in my onesie many a time before the first party day. I had decided to be a skelly this time around as for the previous few years I had gone safe with the zombie outfit of 2010, so I thought I should switch it up a bit. I also couldn't really justify bringing a bag of cloth rags held together win pins and bandages all the way to Tokyo.
The first party I attended was the international student gathering held by my university. This meant it was nice and exclusively tucked away in my campus and was really friendly and chilled. There was free drinks, hashbown-esque potato triangles and sticks with chocolately almonds on the end. This however was no replacement for cocktail sausages and plates of salt and vinegar french fries crisps......maybe my future career path lies in catering Japanese parties in the style of a shitty english buffet. (Or maybe i'm just being a grumpy llama due to the fact I couldn't actually eat any of the free grub as it would ruin my face paint i'd meticulously applied for the 3 hours preceding the party...) |
| A worthy winner?? |
Amongst the food and friendly atmosphere, I also managed to talk to a variety of new Japanese people from my department in the university. Sadly I forgot everybody's name almost instantly and accidentally told a few of the girls I lived in a supermarket. But aside from that, the Japanese language practice was good!! Live (in a supermarket) and learn right?
At the end of the evening there was also a costume contest! I didn't win. SADNESS. But! one of my friends came third, and I felt a little bit of victory there as I had helped make her costume using my super duper GCSE level arts and crafts abilities. The winner of the contest was in the end a guy who had, instead of a costume, just attended the party with bits of cabbage selotaped to his body. He then spent the night waving around what remained of the cabbage in people faces..... And no, this is not the most ridiculous costume to win a prize to be mentioned in this blog...
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| High school musical once told me, 'we're all in this together, once we know, that we are, we're all stars, and we see that.' |
Party, Ultra Edition.
The main party was a bit like a sumo wrestler, big, loud, and not ashamed to flaunt it. It was time, for AGEHAAAAAA!!!
More like a concert than a night club, this venue was so big it had to be built a bus ride away from Tokyo. We were all super excited for this night after hearing so many good things about the Ageha in our time here, and we weren't disappointed. The place had about a million dance floors, heated outdoor terraces and seating areas, a pool section and even a food court (which even sold the good old clubbing staple food, the kebab.
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| Looks quite cool though! |
What made this night extra special was the fact that everybody there, who wasn't a massive bore, had dressed up in halloween costume. In England when halloween rolls around many people grimace and apply slightly darker eyeshadow than usual, or wear an unfashionable hat they got 5 birthdays ago in an attempt at a 'costume'. But here people really seem to enjoy the craziness of all hallows eve and there was hardly a poor-effort costume in sight. This made the fact that I had under estimated the Japanese enthusiasm and desire for fancy dress, and instead of wearing my onesie again had drawn a rib cage on a t-shirt (using the previously mentioned arts and crafts prowess), thinking 'it'll do... nobody will go all-out in a club, surely...?' yet more obvious.... as I stood between a man wearing only speedo sized pants and a horse head, and a sexy Pikachu on a lead.....
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| Welcome to Japan everybody!! |
Halloween should always be a show. And when a show is needed, Japan doesn't do things by halves... There was mirror images of me scantily clad air hostess / bunny dancers in heels longer than their skirts, a variety of live DJs (my favourite was Mitomi Tomoko), and a massive costume contest with a prize over over 3000 pounds!!! However, only in Japan can a man with a toilet on his head and loo roll pants, thrusting vigorously with a plunger on his crotch and a loo brush in the air, win said 3000 pounds to the tune of 'what does the fox say?' D:
Thanks to Gus for the video and Ageha for the photos.
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