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In the annual calendar of Düsseldorf events there are several that I try to talk about regularly.

The festival of Japanese culture will be just one of these events. Like last year, I only had 2 hours to walk along the Düsseldorf promenade. This was enough to catch the opening ceremony, eat tasteless match-urine samples and make hundreds of photos dressed up for the latest manga-fashion of youth.

The opening ceremony is about 10 minutes of mutual compliments, first the Japanese praised the Germans, then the Germans answered the same. Loud applause to the exclamations: "Long live the friendship of the Japanese and German peoples ...", a boring sight. The culmination was the friendly drinking of a barrel of sake by the mayor of Dusseldorf (second from right) and the consul of Japan. They broke the barrel without much stress, judging by the contented faces, the drink went as it should.

Presenter: "Last time we opened the festival with a group of drummers, today Lagerfeld will be among the masters of kimono tailoring instead." It’s a pity that I would rather enjoy energetic drum music with this great pleasure, instead of this aged Lagerfeld, but I had to watch the mayor’s wife dress in a kimono. The procedure itself is curious, in addition, the kimono is not easy, it was sewn from gilded leaves of sakura and looked stunning!

Germans dipping under the Japanese did without gold kimonos, but I must admit, the outfit is also quite good!

Another quality job.

Some can put on horns, insert contact lenses, smear their face with blue paint and still remain attractively horrified!

Hit of the season: “Girl with a gun”, how many there were, count!

Girls with skulls are still rare.

You’ll also rarely encounter revealing outfits. This is a strange thing, the weather is suitable, the people as a whole are unrestrained, one might say in the prime of life, but to see a half-naked body in a crowd of 700,000, you will have to strain your eyes very much.

To dress in some rags - no problem, but give a portion of healthy eroticism - FIG!

A distinctive feature of such events is prohibitive benevolence. Crowds of young people walk around with "Free hugs" posters, i.e. loose hugs. Someone went further, the inscription reads: "First, free hugs, then kisses, and then anything ...".

Well, someone wrote quite clearly.

In fact, all this costume hodgepodge has nothing to do with the festival of Japanese culture! They clung to the body of a serious event with a fashionable leech and occupied all the free places. Despite the fact that they have their own and quite rather big annual Düsseldorf party called Dokomi.

For me personally, it doesn’t matter if the hatter with Alice is part of the Japanese anime culture, the main thing is that "the costume is sitting!".

Such monsters, such monsters, baby talk! What is really scary is the Japanese Jehovah's Witnesses! The inscription on the poster: "The Horsemen of the Apocalypse." The question begs: "Where is the fourth?"

No, this is not the fourth horseman, it is in some incomprehensible way that an infantryman of the First World made his way to a Japanese holiday. Boy, you're off topic!

I was really happy, here he is, a longed for black burger, an unhealed culinary wound of my trip to Japan (because I could not try it there), but it turned out that this was just a picture. Inside they sold "kawaii" dishes and other positive recipes, one of which was a black burger.

You won’t surprise anyone with smiling mugs; this good in our stores is heaps.

Smiling socks are a little better.

And hentai bedding is really good!

Wonderful folding paper cards.

Pay attention, no, not to the shooting archer, but to the robot stand in the background.

There, the repair of the coffee-making robot was in full swing. Naturally, as soon as I went to taste the latest successes of robotics, the device took and broke!