The biggest story about Halloween in Japan this year has been Shibuya's attempt to cancel it with an insane police presence, another (unenforceable) ban on drinking in the streets for several days (actually in place since 2019), and large amounts of public money spent on advertising and billboards declaring that street parties and people in costumes are not allowed. They even fenced up poor old Hachiko -- what did he do?! -- in an effort to prevent people gathering in the district.
It hasn't stopped people going there, of course, but in lesser numbers and with lower degrees of energy. The ...
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Through October 31, you can get 20% off any order (including multiple orders). Just use the promo code Trick to claim your discount.
Of course, this being Halloween, you could get yourself a great costume and indulge your kinks and fetishes in the bedroom (or at a party, if you have adventurous friends). Catgirls, schoolgirls, waitresses, maids, and much, much more. No surprises there, considering Japan is the country that invented ...
Halloween is well and truly back. And that means plenty of flesh on display in Shibuya.
Since Friday, the Tokyo district has been packed each night with cosplayers massing for the impromptu cosplay street party that has defined Tokyo Halloween for several years.
In an effort to control the phenomenon, which has resurged this year almost for the first, full time since the Covid pandemic, Shibuya has temporarily banned drinking on the street. The police presence is significant, of course, after the minor unrest in 2018 that led to a truck being overturned in Center Gai. This means hundreds of ...
Our friends at Kanojo Toys are having a Halloween sale over the weekend.
You can get 20% all their toys. Just use the promo code Trick to claim your discount when placing your order. The code is available for multiple orders too, so you can keep claiming the discount throughout the sale, which ends November 2 (Japan time).
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Gotta catch them all!
Well, there are so many Pokémon that that aspiration is surely impossible. But it seems you can catch the important ones.
Satoshi not only caught Pikachu, but was spotted giving Pikachu a good kiss.
Namely, a guy dressed as Satoshi (Ash Ketchum in the West) was recently seen kissing a lady friend dressed as Pikachu in a backstreet of Shibuya.
The young couple, presumably at the end of a successful date, were surreptitiously filmed in an alleyway exploring each other's faces. The four-second video subsequently uploaded to Twitter on October 24 has gone viral. The ...
Managers at Universal Studios Japan are clutching their pearls at the risqué costumes that some patrons are wearing.
The coronavirus pandemic was almost the nail in Japan's Halloween street cosplay coffin: the pandemic years saw the numbers of people gathering for street parties in crazy costumes (often bearing no relation to Halloween) drop dramatically.
Now the custom is returning and theme parks are also always popular places to visit in costumes, regardless of the season. But it seems that patrons at USJ in Osaka are taking things too far, emphasizing the sexy side of the Japanese ...
In previous years, we would enjoy the Halloween season for all the stories it would bring from the Shibuya cosplay street party, where thousands of young people dressed up in revealing costumes and had fun. The pandemic has ended that, though the authorities were already cracking down even before due to some minor unrest in 2018 involving an overturned truck.
So, how to console ourselves? Well, with some costumes of course. But also staying home, alone or with a partner, and having fun with Japanese adult toys.
Don't get scary this year. Get sexy.
Even better, our friends at Kanojo Toys -- ...
We recently reported on the alleged assault on a Japanese porn star on the streets of Shibuya during the Halloween cosplay party. While we don't have any further details on the groping that was witnessed and filmed, we do know now why the porn star was there in the first place -- and why she was so keen to announce to her followers on social media that she was going.
It turns out that Kanon Kanade (奏音かのん) was actually promoting an adult video release that she filmed guerrilla-style partly on the streets of Shibuya.
Whether or not the groping was a staged part of this, or just an ...
The growing popularity of Halloween in Japan has resulted in massive street cosplay parties, particularly in areas like Shibuya in Tokyo.
That have been adverse effects, too, which is almost inevitable when so many thousands of (mostly young) people come together. Last year, in particular, seemed like a turning point when a truck was turned over in Shibuya by drunken revellers. Some used the street parties as a mere excuse to grope women or take panchira underskirt photos.
This year's Halloween in Shibuya was crazily crowded but a little more subdued, with tighter police controls back again ...
Halloween in Japan means many things. It means crazy costumes and street parties. It means cars being overturned. It mean girls in bodystockings. It means a porn shoot truck. It means a top porn star in a cute costume. And it also means old men upskirting young girls.
Yes, this is one of the less than savory elements of the Halloween street parties in Tokyo and other cities around Japan.
One incredulous person caught an elderly photography patently getting panchira shots of girls in Center Gai last weekend during the height of the Halloween revelry. He seems barely aware that others ...
