u/Narustu_Y

Hello I just went to this exhibition nust wanted to share my opnions.

Honestly a pretty good exhibition what i was kind of suprised was being in japan the majority of the exhibition was not anime solo leveling it was comprised of manhwa panels, they also had a huge irl sized igris and beru which looked so awesome in person their craftsmanship was amazing, I also loved the merch.

As for the thing I didnt like, why are you using the manhwa panels and why did you base the entire merch when you are using Japanese names? I didnt like that one bit one of the exhibition rooms covered jin woo going into that station with the wolfs at the very start of the manhwa and instead of the starion in the manhwa they said shibuya station which I guess is cool because techinally in that direction the real shibuya station was there but I would have preferred originality. Secondly in another exhibition room they had pretty big character figures and quotes beside their manhwa panel why were using Japanese names and not the orginal like it wasnt that the Japanese names were written in Japanese they were Japanese names written in English.

And the thing i didnt like the most was that there was a hella cool thing you could do you could have had your own hunter license not a paper but an acrylic stands it didnt look like the license from manhwa but looked cool nonetheless you could have had your pic in that license with your rank but the thing was instead of saying Korea Hunter Association it said Japan hunter associated which was a huge turnoff for me so I didnt get it sadly. I know i am in japan and all but still just personal preference.

Also that was just thing I didnt like overall this was a really good and worthwhile exhibition and was 100% a must go if you are a manhwa fan because they also had tons of Seoul limited stuff. BTW this was 100% alot better than that one solo leveling exhibition at AX 2023.

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I am surprised nobody was talking about this. So just wanted to post my thoughts of that event in here. So basically in japan there is an event going on right now where you can experince being in haikyuu, you can compare you jump height with characters, you can see some a simulation of hinata and kagayamas quick at different speeds and you can finally recover serves from charcaters through AR. Overall pretty good place, I liked the jump one the most, the merch was also pretty good.

Okay, so while walking to Don Quijote in Asakusa, I saw a rakugo theater and thought, "Oh, rakugo. I should check it out."

I walked in and immediately saw this huge Akane-banashi banner. My first thought was, oh nice, I guess they're just advertising the manga since it's a tourist area.(It was my first time ever in a rakugo theater, so I have no idea how these places worked, plus I can't read Japanese.)

The show starts, and it turns out it wasn't just a banner, it was an entire Akane-banashi × Hayashiya Kikuhiko collab.

Some of the highlights:

• One of the Shin'uchi looked at the audience and joked, "You all seem pretty nervous. Is it because there are so many first timers here for the collaboration event?" He then said we are gonna recite akanes favorite/famous rakugo Jugemu (i do not know what exactly favorite or famous I cant understand Japanese that well plus they speak way so fast), then after that he performed parody version of Jugemu

• During the intermission, the shamisen and the other traditional instruments started playing the Akane-banashi anime opening. I absolutely loved that little touch.

• The Weekly Shonen Jump editors came on stage and talked about the series, mentioning that Akane-banashi is one of the few current Jump manga still drawn traditionally (analog).

• They also displayed the original manuscript pages for Akane's Shinigami performance. It sounded like they were explaining some differences between the original manuscript and the published version, but I'll have to double-check my photos since my Japanese wasn't quite good enough to catch everything.

• And my favorite of all the rakugo supervisor, Hayashiya Kikuhiko, actually performed live. Even cooler, this was his first time performing as the night's headliner (tori) after recently being promoted to Shin'uchi.

• To end the event, he sang the actual Akane-banashi anime opening live with the traditional musicians accompanying him, and even got the audience to join in.

Even though I probably understood only about 40% of the rakugo, I couldn't have planned this if I tried. I just wanted to see what a live rakugo performance was like and somehow stumbled into an Akane-banashi collaboration event. It ended up being one of the highlights of my Japan trip.

And lastly, congratulations to Mr. Kikuhiko on your promotion to Shin'uchi!!!

Just got this message from the newsletter so wanted to spread out the word.

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My pick: Shiki no Uta by Minmi and Nujabes.