The beautiful cosplayers of Tokyo’s Halloween night Shibuya street party【Photos】

A costume party in one of Tokyo’s most fashionable neighborhoods brings some beauty to the scary celebration.

It might be hard to to imagine when you’re seeing packs of weirdos dressed up like demented Hello Kitties or horrific (Where’s) Waldos, but Shibuya, the part of Tokyo where the Japan’s biggest Halloween party takes place, is usually a neighborhood that attracts the city’s beautiful people. So on October 31, you’ll still find glamorous Tokyoites out and about in Shibuya, just dressed in Halloween costumes instead of the latest trendy fashions.

Granted, our own pack of surreal Hello Kitty-mimicking reporters got plenty of photo requests. But there’s also plenty of cosplay of the more orthodoxly photogenic variety, as these photos we snapped of other Halloween partiers prove.

Female costumers in Japan are especially concerned with coordination, as matching outfits are a great way to stand out from the crowd while also dividing up any lingering shy self-consciousness among your friends.

▼ Between the facial injuries and the broken-off steering wheel, these cabbies don’t seem like the best drivers, but they do at least offer service with a smile.

▼ A Dia de los Muertos-inspired quintet.

Following unruly behavior in Shibuya on the weekend before Halloween, the ward mayor promised a stronger police presence on the night of October 31. While we don’t have any official law enforcement dispatch statistics, we did notice plenty of patrolwoman costumes.

At least two escaped convicts managed to slip through their dragnet, however.

A common costume ploy for Halloween in Japan is to take an everyday cosplay outfit and add some ghastly visible injuries, like this pair of stitched up maids did.

▼ Our reporter Ahiru Neko photobombs a team of diner waitresses who apparently had a very rough shift.

▼ The theme for this group, meanwhile, seems to be “A day out shopping, circa 1990.”

While many of the outfits had a splash of cuteness or dash of sexiness, some were legitimately frightening, like those which featured copiously bleeding eyes.

Even the Minions couldn’t completely avoid carnage.

Thankfully, those feeling too frightened could take comfort in the serene presence of sisterly sisters…

…or scantily clad cat girls, who provide mental solace of a different sort.

▼ Or you could just keep your mind off of all the blood by wondering if Dr. Slump’s Arale is about to chow down on poo on a stick.

But while there were plenty of high-concept, thoroughly crafted costumes to be seen, this is, first and foremost, a party, and not a cosplay contest.

If you don’t have the time or the money to sort out a complex outfit, a few streaks of fake blood will do fine. Take a look at these friends, for example, who are pretty clearly just wearing their ordinary clothes with cat ears from the 100 yen store, plus a few lines of equally affordable face paint.

They were as welcome as anyone, because it’s not about how good your costume is, it’s about having fun together.

A big thanks to everyone who took the time to pose for us, and we hope to see you all again next year!

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SoraNews24 hits Tokyo’s biggest Halloween party dressed as one of Japan’s most popular characters

Mr. Sato takes our team to Shibuya’s Halloween bash, but not before setting us up with coordinated kawaii costumes.

The massive Halloween street party in Tokyo’s Shibuya neighborhood have been given a black eye this year, with the lively celebration degrading into vandalism and mayhem on the weekend before October 31. And yet, on Halloween itself, we decided to head to Shibuya anyway.

We’re big fans of the holiday, and any party can only be as bad as the people in it. So we figured it was our civic duty to set an example by enjoying Halloween in Shibuya to the fullest, while still staying within the bounds of the law and common courtesy.

Of course, if we were going to Japan’s biggest Halloween bash, we’d need to dress up. So we gathered our staff at SoraNews24 headquarters, turning our conference room into a changing room.

Following the lead of ace reporter Mr. Sato, our staff slipped on their form-fitting white bodysuits, then put on their denim overalls (some with separate pant legs, others with skirts). Then they applied a coat of similarly snowy hued face paint.

Then all they needed for the finishing touch was their hair ribbons…

…and the SoraNews24 Hello Kitty Halloween Costume Team was ready to roll!

▼ P.K. Sanjun and Ahiru Neko guide the squad down into the subway.

At first, we were worried that the inspiration for our costumes might not be as readily apparent as with our Where’s Waldo? getups from last Halloween. But as we walked through Shinjuku Sanchome Station, we heard several shouts of “Kitty-chan!” from passersby.

▼ Actually, each of our reporters is two Kitties in one, since Hello Kitty’s face is also part of the hat.

After a short subway ride on the Fukutoshin Line, we got off the train at Shibuya Station and made our way up to the surface, ready to cross the Scramble Intersection and head into Center-gai, the shopping street that serves as Shibuya Halloween party central

But the Scramble is world-famous for being crazy-crowded on any given day, and with so many people descending on Center-gai on Halloween night, the entrance to the street was so packed that it was impossible to move through it.

So instead we took a roundabout route, heading up the wider main street to the famous Shibuya 109 boutique tower. Along the way, our coordinated Kitty outfits earned us plenty of attention and cheers.

Finally, we came to a side street that wasn’t completely crammed with human bodies, and we worked our way onto Center-gai.

Once we got there, our forward progress pretty much stopped, but that was OK. The mass of humanity was so dense that even without taking a single step, we were surrounded by new friends to make, and many of them asked to take pictures with our Sanrio-stylish reporters.

And best of all? While we were out and about, we didn’t witness an of the vandalism or other crimes that marred the Shibuya parties last weekend. Granted, we arrived around 7 p.m. and left while the trains were still running, which allowed us to avoid the overnight, most thoroughly liquored-up crowds. Still, our experience gives us hope that Shibuya’s Halloween problems haven’t gone past the point of no return, and have us looking forward to the fun again next year.

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DJ Hello Kitty drops the beat and F-bombs at all-night Sanrio Puroland Halloween event【Video】

“Motherf#%$ers, go!”

We all have an image of Hello Kitty as that sweet little kitten-girl who likes apples and appearing on everything from melons to bullet trains. But when you think about it, she’s really got to be like what, 45 now?

She’s certainly allowed to let her hair down and do a little wilin out from time to time. One such time is the Spooky Pumpkin Puro All Night Halloween Party at Sanrio Puroland theme park.

Now, generally a “spooky pumpkin party” at a Hello Kitty theme park doesn’t sound all that wild, but as Twitter user Yuna-cha discovered, Miss Kitty gets a little saucy after hours.

DJキティさんの一部抜粋 このDJキティさんの「マザーファッカーーーーーーーー！！！！！！！」が聞きたくて行ったようなもんだからもうめっちゃ満足。そして爆笑。 ていうかなによりかっこよすぎじゃない？ 天井にサンリオキャラたちがレー… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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ゆなちゃ🌟* (@Ync_Bnc) October 27, 2018

If you watched that video without sound, please go back and see it again with the volume up, because there is something strangely cathartic about watching DJ Hello Kitty open her set with a hearty “Motherfuckers go!”

However, true to her character, Hello Kitty takes any opportunity to interact with the fans by waving, blowing kisses, and making that heart-shape thing with both hands.

補足。これはサンリオピューロランドが公式でやってる、ハロウィンのオールナイトイベント。色んなアーティストがピューロ内の3つの特設ステージを使ってバカみたいに盛り上げてくれます。お酒の販売もあり。22時開園朝の5時閉園。キャラグりも… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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ゆなちゃ🌟* (@Ync_Bnc) October 28, 2018

DJ Hello Kitty was just one act in the line-up of performers that took the stage from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. in the morning of 28 October. The Spooky Pumpkin Halloween Party 2018 had an eclectic mix of 14 artists from the genres of rap, rock, EDM, and more.

With all that music and lasers outlining the faces of Sanrio’s biggest stars like Little Twin Stars and Keroppi. Even those watching online got a kick out of it.

“That looks fucking fun!”
“What the fuck is that? I wanna go!”
“I’m not sure they should be throwing around the f-word at Puroland, but that was still good.”
“Fuck desu.”
“She is a country girl – probably curses like a sailor at home.”
“Between this and Pom Pom Purin showing off his butthole, Sanrio is getting quite edgy.”

It does look like an unexpectedly fun party, but as Yuna-cha pointed out, it’s only once a year. Although the theme of the party is Halloween, this event is also in celebration of Hello Kitty’s birthday which falls on 1 November.

So, if you’re looking for an alternative to all the car flipping and gropers of other Halloween parties in Japan, you may want to plan a trip to Puroland next year where Hello Kitty will absolutely not tolerate such motherfuckery in her house.

Source: Twitter/@Ync_Bnc, Hachima Kiko
Images: PR Times

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