To talk about ANIME song DJs

Now, to be honest I don't know much about this so I enlisted the help of my friend

Patrick w Galbraith

author of

OTAKU Spaces & The Otaku Encyclopedia

Come on out here

Hey! Are you doing

Great

Nice see you

So, today's topic is ANIME song DJs what can you tell us about this?

ANIME song DJ events has really been growing in the last few years.If you go around Tokyo today

You'll find an event going on around every week

It's really sort of booming phenomenon these last few years

Yeah

It' really exciting

My image of OTAKU is someone who stays at home

Doesn't go out socially

Reads & watches ANIME MANGA in the bedroom

yeah, I think that's the image. It's sort of a bunch of individuals doing their own thing

Hey look

We're Akihabara all these people together doing social things

Guess what? You go to a club

You get a bunch of OTAKU together

and they have helluva time

Right

These ANIME DJ song cover bands

Really cool because what you get is, a bunch of people with their individual passion

sharing e and becoming a social energy in the room

you'll really have to be the understand it

I was there

Check it out!

We are in Nakano in front of RAIZEEN an ANIME DJ bar

This place is gotta lot of energy and I think you're gonna love it

Come on

Check it out!

This place is great

This bar is set up for ANIME song DJ

There is screen which shows ANIME right next to the DJ

This just had to be excitement

Hello

Let's meet the owner of RAIZEEN

Is it real?

Well

Maybe not

RAIJIN is..

well for me it's very comfortable i mean it's

Look around at the decoration it's all ANIME and ANIME song

DJing is a lot of fun

Master the bartenders is a really

nice and laid back guy

Let's anyone who really wants just

Go and use the DJ equipment

Pretty much no notices as long as there aren't any events going on

So when I first came to japan i didn't really know a lot about uh...

ANIME music,ANIME DJ at all

LIke, over time getting to meet various people uh... like

One of my best friends in my last job was ANIME DJ

and he introduced me to an event one-time & i went along not really

knowing what to expect

uh... it was really really cool that people are friendly fun atmosphere was a

Really good

I kind of uh... I realize that

You know that ANIME music taken out of the context of ANIME was

still really really good

And the the way that people mix ANIME songs together

and think of different things

For example you got like the IMOTO theme, that sometimes some people do

umm

even uh... specifically ANIME songs from a certain era

1980s or something

I thought i was really really cool that people would think about it

Amazing ways to show ANIME songs

She is part of RAIZEEN staff

Really cute

and

also deadly wielding a sword

This bartender could well be SAMURAI

Maybe not

With a little more practice

His dreams just might come true

RAIZEEN definitely has the right atmosphere for ANIME song DJ to learn

Master

Simply appreciate the music and experience

Let's head to Roppongi in central Tokyo for another kind of event

On the other side of this door is another world

This is CHARA-ANI

CHARA meaning kind of Roppongi young carefree and

ANI meaning ANIME

and taken the two and put them all together

to make a fusion of some kind of fantastic dance party

Come on!

KONBANWA

There are no Anime on the screen because they don't wanna

go to one world or the other. It is a

fully perfectly balanced

I don't know

Check it out for yourself!

It's seems like any other Roppongi club

Lots of young people and loads of energy

Many people have come in cosplay

It's the essence of saturday night in Tokyo

Some people have the glow sticks with them

Signs of real after hour OTAKU

People at ANIME DJ events like this really like doing things in unison

as a group

One of the great things about OTAKU parties is that inability to dances not

really necessary

I fitted with a lot of the others who are here to show their passion

in ways dancing can't express

Coordination and skills can be checked in at the door

It's all about having fun

The focus is on the DJ and the music

This DJ is ready to rumble.Glow sticks and library of tunes for the crowd

The music switches back and forth from ANIME songs to

The classic Roppongi hip hop

The crowd eats it up

They are psyched and ready for anything

Before the event I talked DJ KAPPEI and DJ TAKAYA

about what CHARA-ANI is all about

Cultures collide at CHARA-ANI

It's awesome

So Patrick, in part 2 we're gonna continue with this ANIME song DJ

in a place where it's dedicated just for ANIME songs DJs,

Oh,yeah

that's gonna be helluva time

And we'll see more of it

Next time

Bye bye bye