Anime California 2014

Maid cafe

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Due to popular  in japan “Maido Kafe” or maid cafes are slowly coming to america mostly in anime conventions, Anime California had the pleasure to host one. Since maid cafes are usually held with lots of pretty girls dressed in maid outfits to cater to the customers that sits and enjoy tea, coffee, water and light snacks. The maid cafe has a good source of leisure activity, like chit chating or
playing games as well as being entertained with performances by the hosts.
Anime California had one their first debut  conventions in Anaheim, California . Their first stab at a Maid cafe was  more interesting for first time goers,  apart for the conventions itself this event costs a little extra, about 15 bucks, but hey you get to kick it with pretty girls and 2 good looking guys ”no homo”. Now I know what you are saying, kick it with pretty girls eat some snacks drink a little coffee or a splash of tea. after an interview with the hostess  i had gotten a fairly good  the customers are not that rude and more of pic pic, as in can i take a picture with you , oh good grief that famous floating arm/hand shows up in about

Picture by Minhchau "pickchic"

Picture by Minhchau "pickchic"

Picture by Minhchau "pickchic"

Picture by Minhchau "pickchic"

Picture by Minhchau "pickchic"

Picture by Minhchau "pickchic"

Picture by Minhchau "pickchic"

Picture by Minhchau "pickchic"

Picture by Minhchau "pickchic"

Picture by Minhchau "pickchic"

80% of the pictures, the girls find it funny. this also has a 18 and up cafe version, i know i know what you are thinking “ oh so naughty”, well yeah there there is topless… guys *ahem*  i mean shirtless guys, girls are in the famous bunny outfit you know “bulma from dragon ball type”. smexy ! as far as the  event for a first time we had a lot of positive feedback from the staff, great location, great turn out first time mistakes but that's a given, you know trying to iron out them wrinkles . The girls and guys don’t get paid to run this even, they have one sponsor for the maid cafe which is Turtle Tea” shout to to turtle tea #TurtleTea #HookItUp . Overall great time check it out if you ever have the chance.


Captain Savvy's Sing-along Crew
       Captain’s Savvy Sing-along crew’s panel from the first annual Anime California really spoke to me and gained my attention within the first song. I went to both regular and 18+ sets and enjoyed singing along every minute. I’ve always liked anime OSTs and influential music to being a geek/nerd but something about hearing these songs live and sung by other fellow nerds and geeks make the music really hit home and creates memories that leave you a lasting impression one why to come back to the next Anime California. CSS Crew consists of Samuel Khosravi on the lead vocals and guitar, Sean Seuss on backup vocals, guitar, and saxophone, Serj Tachyon on keyboard and guitar and Chris Bunch on bass guitar. While their lead vocalist Samuel Khosravi is on a trip to japan their

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back up vocalist Sean Seuss has taken charge for the time being.
        CSS Crew’s song set stretches far and wide in anime and nerd culture scene. Pokémon, Sailor Moon and Naruto’s OSTs are just some of the anime songs they play in their set. Their rough hour and forty minute set contains popular songs like the he-man version of Four Non Blondie’s what’s going on and Disney songs like Let it go from Disney’s Frozen and acoustic version of  Be a man from Mulan. Singing in Japanese or with a rough pirate accent is no problem for acting lead vocalist Sean. Zombies, Gay pirates and machines that want to kill you are just some of the themes that the Savvy Crew sings about.
         I had the chance to hang out with the Savvy Crew after their 18+ show and we kicked back while I asked keyboardist Serj Tachyon about his beginnings in the Crew and is current thought. He mentioned that without the captain being there the savvy crew was still strong and I believed so too. His beginnings with the crew started with Captain Samuel approaching him before, the captain, played in panels at anime conventions. Samuel started with humble beginnings outside favorite anime conventions playing his set of songs gathering attention of convention attendees. Serj eventually joined the crew and so did other member and eventually the crew become what we know today. Simply the CSS crew are a bunch of nerds that have the gift to express and perform music that has influenced us in one way or another.

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