The Anime Reality

Come to me, my Asian princesses.

A few months ago we featured ClearTranquil, a white cosplayer who roamed the streets of Tokyo dressed as a vocaloid. We first featured his room in the Anime Shrines series, which later led to more info on him and his journey to the Oniichanland. Recently, I was checking out his blog and found this post about his trip that I had somehow glossed over before:

When we got to the bottom of the mountain this is where the story gets amazing. We transferred trains and the same group of about 5 girls got on the same car with us again. We got a few train stops down the track when I started to hear them singing. They were singing World is Mine by Hatsune Miku, just a verse. I was like, “Holy crap are they really singing that?” and then they started to sing Meltdown by Kagamine Rin. Billy was like, “Sing with them!”, so I did! I started to hum along to their song (I was a few meters away) and one of them stopped and turned to me and then they ALL stopped and turned to me. I said, “Kagamine Rin” and they started getting excited. One of them said something to me in Japanese and I just pointed to myself and said, “Kaito Cosplay” and they started getting even more excited. It was like, “What’s this? A gaijin knows VOCALOID?”.

So as if they weren’t hysterical enough they went completely off the walls and screaming when I showed them a picture of myself in cosplay that Billy happened to have on his phone. Without that I don’t know what I would have done. They were literally screaming and grabbing the phone from me. Then others came from the train to see what the commotion was about. I had to sign English text-books for them and notebooks. They insisted I shake their hands and I said “sayonara” to them and they got all excited again. I gave out my website URL so I hope they find this post alright.