Kansai Gaidai Culture Fest

In Japan, every November the schools around the country celebrate what they call the "Culture Fest." Specifically for Kansai Gadai, the students operate stores, events, and participate in Dance competitions. Normally, students involved in clubs (i.e. baseball team, basketball team) and circles (i.e. what we call clubs in UWF.)

This is my experience doing a Tako Yaki Store with all my friends. Just to add, it was three days of waking up at 7am and ending at 8pm and doing nothing but selling Tako Yaki.

^ Tako Yaki

Hide and Taka working the extra Tako Yaki burners.



The girls were given the job of wearing costumes (i.e. japanese school girl uniforms, nurses, and stitch...) and attracting customers. This is Mayu dancing in front of the store in a Stitch costume.



Hide messing around with Sho, Akiyo, and Risa cooking the Tako Yaki.



Ryu doing his DJ Ozma "Spider Man" dance... this probably scared the customers away...




Honami in her Nurse outfit bringing in the customers.



I just got pied, so Sho and I took a picture together.



A bunch of the members in front of the store. There were all together bout 18 of us that participated in the three day event.



Ryu was pied by all of these kids at least twice.



Honami getting pied. I think she was hit by about 4 or 5 pies.



Honami, after the pieing.



Mayu wasn't able to escape the pieing. In the end Saya, Honami, and Mayu were the only girls that didn't escape getting pied throughout the three days.


Once the three days were up we decided to celebrate our work and went out to a restaurant. Only one place was open, because everyone else apparently had the same idea in mind.


From Left to right (Hide, Taka, Me, Mayu, Honami, and Emi) About a third of the group at the restaurant after the Culture festival.



The group waiting outside the restaurant.



Ryu and Mami.



Mami and Noriko.



Hide, me, and Ryu- We sang a ton of songs and ate the crappy food they put in front of us. It came out in servings, but the food really wasn't that great. It didn't stop us from having fun.

The three days of the festival was really fun and I was really happy I could be a part of the event. There were all sorts of stands and 10 Tako Yaki stands throughout the Festival. We had a lot of competition, but with the pie throwing, the costumes, and the dancing, our store was the only one that had lines regularly.


Some videos from the three day festival. Please Enjoy.


Ryu Getting Pied




Sho Getting Pied



Taka getting pied