AKIHABARA SHINTO BUNNY MAID CAFE: ANDREW ZIMMERN'S BIZARRE WORLD TV SHOW FILMING & PRODUCTION. MARU MUSIC COSPLAY CONTEST & AN CAFE.
Everyone has been asking me when my Tokyo appearance on Andrew Zimmern’s Bizarre World will air. I wish I knew! At the moment, I’m working with the show writer on my segment. Rest assured I’ll give you plenty of notice before it hits TV screens (on Travel Channel, Discovery and other networks worldwide).
On the second day of the shoot, I met Andrew Zimmern at the Shinto Bunny Temple Girls cosplay cafe in Akihabara. I wore a Baby, the Stars Shine Bright dress and (appropriately) a pink bunny sticker on my cheek.
The cafe was… not normal. The bunny maid told us there were three instructions: don’t use your cell phone, don’t speak loudly, and keep going forward. We took the elevator down and instead of a cheery restaurant, we found ourselves in pitch darkness. Thank goodness I’m not claustrophobic — because what happened next was as chilling as the trapped-in-a-coffin scene from Kill Bill. You’ll have to wait until the episode airs to find out!
Cosplay queen Yunmao Ayakawa (left) took part in another segment, and we ended up having dinner together. She ordered a dainty cake and sweet tea… aww! Coming up next: photos from the final location of the Bizarre World shoot.
La Carmina’s friends at Maru Music are hosting a costume/cosplay contest — come enter! The winner will receive a prize pack from Maru Music that includes Visual Kei CDs, DVDs and posters. You can submit a photo of yourself in costume here, then visit the site to vote for your favorite entry. Hurry: the contest ends November 2.
Maru Music has also just released An Cafe’s fourth full-length album: BB Parallel World — which has 11 Visual Kei tracks and a DVD with five music videos! You can find out more and purchase it from their site.
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I went to a Steampunk Haunted House in NYC and was mighty impressed. A haunted theater, accordion player, girl in glass box, man in a toxic mask dragging a shovel until sparks flew… don’t miss this.
More festivities ahead — what are your Halloween plans? What will you be wearing?
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