About HamaOta project(English)
・はまおたプロジェクトとは
What is the HamaOta project?
The aim of the HamaOta project is to form networks and activate and visualize Otaku culture in Yokohama by inter-connecting Otaku shops, Otaku circles, companies, and universities.
Additionally, by visualizing Otaku culture, we believe that we can promote the Yokohama area from a new and unconventional perspective and create new projects and business.
(Yokohama Otaku Guide, Ueno Lab at Tokyo City University, NPO Yokohama Community Design Lab)
・はまおたプロジェクトの活動
Activities of HamaOta project
The project will provide opportunities for Otaku communities to be able to express themselves and connect with each other, by having Otaku music live concerts and anime-related events until the end of next march.
We are developing this project across media including Otaku events, shops, restaurants and cafés, circles, the free listings magazine Yokohama Otaku Guide, and various websites.
・はまおたプロジェクトの背景
Background of the HamaOta project
Otaku and subculture activities are thriving in Yokohama, but it is not so widely known. There are many Otaku shops, cafés and bars, as well as a major game production company and several communities which set up and run cosplay events.
TVK broadcasts many anime and has also hosted the “TVK Anime Festival,” the first anime-related event produced by a single local TV station in the Kanto area. Since there are many anime and games set in Yokohama City and Kanagawa Prefecture, the area has been attracting attention as “Seichi (the sacred place)”.
Because of the limited size of the east side of Yokohama station area, many shops are scattered on the second or third floors of multiuse buildings. Thus the current Yokohama Otaku culture is not as well known and easily visible as Otaku street in Akihabara.
Thus, Mr. Yusuke Hirasawa, owner of HoneyHoney, a Maid café in Yokohama, created a free publication, “Yokohama Otaku Guide”.
http://www.hamakei.com/headline/4754/
・はまおたプロジェクトイベント第1弾「はまおたナイト」イベント概要
Hama Ota project vol. 1, Hama Ota Night
Star voice actresses X high-profile dance team X student band X maids from maid café X Yokohama = Anime Song Live in Yokohama!
Star voice actresses, Ai Shimizu and Eri Kitamura, dance team Zombies, singing and dancing maids from HoneyHoney (a maid café) and Fancycat (a maid izakaya/Japanese-style pub), and student music circle PLAM will all gather together in Yokohama for a live event!
Day and time Saturday, September, 4th, 2010
Door opens at 16:30, performance 17:30-20:30
Place Applause (YOKOHAMA NEWS HARBOR)
Organizer HamaOta project
Yokohama Otaku Guide, Ueno Lab at Tokyo City University, NPO
Yokohama Community Design Lab
Appearances: Ai Shimizu, Eri Kitamura, Zombies, maids from HoneyHoney
(a maid café) and Fancycat (a maid izakaya/Japanese-style pub), and
student music circle PLAM from Tokyo City University
Tickets 3,000 YEN
Co-host TV Kanagawa
Cooperation YOKOHAMA KEIZAI SHINBUN
Participating stores and organizations MELONBOOKS (Yokohama branch),
Karaoke Pasela (Yokohama & Kannai branches), Cocofuri EXCO
・はまおたプロジェクトイベント第2弾「岡田斗司夫のひとり夜話inヨコハマ」イベント概要
Hama Ota project vol. 2, Toshio Okada’s Evening Monologue in Yokohama
What is “Toshio Okada’s Evening Monologue”?
“Toshio Okada’s Evening Monologue” is a Live talk show drawing on Okada’s active involvement in variety of media.
On topics such as his best-seller Don’t think I’ll always be fat and his other books including You Otaku Are Already Dead, as well as his hosting of OTAKINGex, Toshio Okada will talk his head off.
・Additional themes will range from Mobile Suit Gundam, to economics, media theory, and ways of working.
・This live event will be Ustreamed. You can also access the Ustreams of past events on the OTAKINGex web site.
・岡田斗司夫とは
Profile of Toshio Okada
Writer, cultural critic. Born 1958 in Osaka. President of OtaKing Co.
After leaving the amine/game production company Gainax, which he co-founded and served as president, Okada became an adjunct instructor at Tokyo University and started working as a writer and critic. After a variety of activities including a lectureship at MIT, he is now a visiting professor at Osaka University of Arts. His book, Don’t think I’ll always be fat (Shinchoo Shinsho), in which he advocates a recording diet, has sold over 500,000 copies. In total, his books on a wide range of topics have sold over two and a half million copies.
Main production work Anime: Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise, Nadia, The Secret of Blue Water
Game: Princess Maker
Main publications (Japanese):
Our Brainwashing Society (Asahi Shinbun), Introduction to Otaku-ology (Shinchoo Bunko), Is World Conquest Possible? (Chikuma Shoboo), Furon (Gentoo Bunko), You Otaku Are Already Dead (Shinchoo Shinsho), Recording Diet, Definitive Edition (Bunshun Bunko)
