Misako Rocks!

Japan Society interviewed me at NY Anime Festival last month.

Here’s the video!!

: InterviewVideo

Yay–

I’m invited to this big book festival on this Sunday at Columbia University NY!

The Great Children’s Read is a free big festival by NY Times and Target. I’m going to demonstrate and do book signing/merchandise-selling from 11am to 1pm at NY Comicon Booth.

Hope a lot of families, kids, lovers, bikers, and and.. will visit us!

NY Anime Festival starts from Tomorrow! I won’t have a booth this time. But I’ll run a few workshops on Sat and Sunday. Also I’ll do book signing and sell a lot of prints!!

Come and visit me^-^

Yesterday I came back from Anime Weekend Atlanta GA! I had just a great time there.

The festival was organized by great staff and packed with great people! Luckily my books were sold out by Sunday. Thank for coming to my panels too!! I wish we had more space for kids.

I heard that Atlanta had the biggest Aquarium in the world. I wish I could have visited>_< I definitely go there next year!

She stood out very much! I loved her look.

They came to my booth on Sunday. We had a good chat.

These cosplayers  were fantastic! He was doing “Mahha GO GO!” It’s classic!!

I wish I took more photos…>_<

I would love love to go back to Anime Weekend Atlanta GA next year!

Now I have to get ready for NY Anime Festival this weekend!

Hello my friends!

I’m about to leave to JFK airport. I’m invited to Anime Weekend Atlanta this weekend!

As usual I’ll run a few workshops(my speech & Manga Drawing workshop) besides book signing.

Come and visit me in Dealer’s room!! Yay yay!

I still can’t believe that Kuririn and I went to Flaming Lips show last night(Technically it’s Sunday midnight)!!!!!!!! This band is one of our most favorite bands^_^ I never ever expect this!

If you read Rock and Roll Love, I mentioned about this band in the end(Character profile). Some of you know that I’m into this kind of music.

ATP is “All Tomorrow’s Party”. This year Flaming Lips curated the party. It’s 3 days events in upstate of NY. All indie-lovers come and go to shows to shows!! It sounds like Comicon, right? But this is more like Indie Camp, I thought.

On Sunday Bordoms started around 3pm, then finale was Flaming Lips. They showed up around 11:30pm and finished after 1:30am!!! Wowwww

Wayn Coyne showed up inside of this balloon and started walking on audience!

We were blown awayyyyyyyy!!!!! Their performance is just amazing! Everybody couldn’t stop smiling!

This is the only shot of Wayne which we got! I sang most of their songs together!

Before the party, we were playing around with this swing and made me dizzy….

Last night I came back from Dallas TX. I had a great time there.

My great friends Jenny and Eric visited from San Antonio! Jenny became my assistant for three days! Hahahaha.. Thank you Jenny!

Organizers in Anime Fest were very sweet and treated me so well! I’m moved by their hard work.

Me and Jenny^_^

My panels(drawing workshop and speech) were nicely packed! I was very impressed by their talent.

I’ve seen a lot of JACK at cons. But this is the best Jack I’ve ever seen! He’s huge!

Sexy cat lady has to take a break.

Jenny and Eric took me to an indian restaurant which is connected to a temple. They serve a vegan food! Yes!!! perfect to me! It was great!

An artist Jason Meador made my guest badge. It was very cute! My great fan bought this drawing from him and gave it to me. Now this drawing is always in front of me! Thank you!

This weekend I’ll attend Anime Fest Dallas Texas! I’ll run a few workshops besides book signing!

If you’re planning on coming, visit me there.

I’m about to leave to JFK air port….

Today is my MUSE, Michael Jackson’s 51st year old birthday! A director SPIKE LEE threw a huge MJ birthday party in Prospect park in Brooklyn!

We went there to celebrate, sing, dance with MJ fans!

Everybody was dancing crazy! When my favorite song OFF THE WALL was played, Kuririn and I were singing super loudly!

People left a lot of messages!

We saw a lot of great dancers today^_^ Man, I wish I can do break dance>_<

We encountered MJ impersonator!!! NY 1 was interviewing him for a while. Maybe I should have taken a photo with him…

Michael Jackson was one of reasons why I wanted to move to America. I danced to his music all of the time^_^

Happy Birthday Michael Jackson!!

My best friend Wallaby and her twin sister Yokkin sent me great photos^_^ They told me that they got together and watched New York Wave! We used to work at Tokyo Disneyland as a custodial(!!) during our college days. We always did something stupid there! Hahahaha-

Also wallaby is one of my characters for my new adult-graphic novel project!!