Nipponbashi Street Festa 2015! 日本橋ストリートフェスタ 2015

The spring equinox in Osaka is the date for the annual Nipponbashi Street Festa, a cosplay and anime themed road festival.  Here are some photos I managed to take while fighting my way through the very well behaved but extremely crowded area.

Attitude helps. 

 Man-Korra, Korra,Toph, Bolin

 Jibanyan and Fuyunyan from the very popular Yokai Watch.

 Paper/card craft on an extreme level.

 I hope this character was supposed to be tired looking, this guy must have been posing with that huge sword/axe/gun/saw? weapon all afternoon.

 Unnecessarily dark gritty reboot of a cartoon for 3-5 year olds.  Appropriately, this group had many fans.

 As though the character had stepped out of the TV. Daisuke Jigen

 A fantastic Maleficent cosplay, the expression is perfect.  I'm still not sure she was happy with having her picture taken. :P

 Rocket Raccoon from Guardians of the Galaxy

I don't remember Vivi having arms that big!

Zangief (Street Fighter), Belle and Beast (Beauty and the Beast) 

 3/4ths gender bent Harry Potter.

 Kamen Rider, I don't know which one.

Gothic maid.

 Mission Accomplished

 Weeping Angel from Dr. Who.  She actually made a kid cry.

Disgruntled employee.

Then they opened up the main street to cars, everyone had to crowd into the side streets...

We need more street!

Nipponbashi Street Festa: The Cars

The cars in the closest parking lot were also suitably attired for the event with custom paint jobs depicting the owner's favourite characters.

As ever, Miku was very well represented.

It doesn't matter how big your car is, it's what you do with it!

The onion in the character's hand is attached to the rear wiper so it swings.

He ran out of car.

So he painted his bike too.

Ears!

The interiors too...

One car wasn't enough though, so he painted and put ears on his scooter too.
Do everything 210%!

Street Festival in DenDen Town

On March 20th, coinciding with the public holiday for the spring equinox in Japan. A street festival was held in Denden town, the electronics (less so now) and Anime/gaming centre of Osaka.
Many people were in costumes based on game and anime characters most of which were very elaborate. You might recognize some of them, I recognized a few though not terribly many.

Friends, with whom I went to the festival, I don't think anyone is a specific character, could be wrong though.

Naruto!

Everyone had a camera, everyone.

I think it is the Aflac duck.

Everyone was having a very good time.

This guy went full Gundam, very very good costume. No humanity was visible.

I am thinking some kind of Japanese horror film or game, they look too innocent for anything else.

Another very elaborate costume, right down to the irides.

I did say everyone had a camera.

To get attention: Girl + Leather * Sword

This was the biggest crowd of photographers/people with camera phones that I saw during the entire festival.

I think this guy should get some credit for originality, classic game, perfect costume for it.