Last Saturday, March 10, 2012, we had a wonderful time supporting the Japan Consulate’s “Japan. Endless Discovery” event with our own Bubble Punch segment, geared towards fashion, fun, and of course, our fans!

The Grove was full to brimming with guests that day, as the crowd shuffled in to experience different aspects of Japanese culture at the all-day event, with product sample booths, cultural performances, and special appearances!

Bubble Punch was happy to invite our friend Simone Legno, creative director and co-founder of tokidoki to join in the festivities, and he graciously offered to do a meet and greet session with fans over at the tokidoki booth! Simone is a great supporter of Japan, with tokidoki having done numerous charity campaigns to help those effected by the Northern Japan Earthquake last year. We are inspired by Simone and his company, all working hard to support Japan at this event!

Simone posing with a fan holding a drawing of one of his cute characters, with the phrase "Ganbarre, Nihon" (Do your best, Japan!) inscribed at the bottom.

Simone drew some awesome sketches for fans on items they brought in for the signing!

Bubble Punch also produced our very own fashion segment that night, to give attendees a look at what’s fun, trendy, and fashionable on the streets of Japan.  We also had a special segment of the show dedicated to Sanrio and Hello Kitty! The crowd packed in to get a glimpse of the over 30 models we had prepared who were decked head to toe in Japanese street fashions! The styles we featured were: Lolita, Mori Girl, Fairy Kei, Japanese punk and visual kei, Gyaru, Wa-Lolita (with clothing designed by the awesome Doll Delight), and the latest fashions from international brand Sanrio!

One audience member was able to capture a the fashion show in its entirety on video!

Intro by Bubble Punch

Full fashion show:

Full photos of some of the models just after the jump!

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On December 9th, 2011 Bubble Punch (that’s us!) along with the help of 6%DOKIDOKI, Medicom Toys, Rune Productions, Sugarpill Cosmetics, Tokyo Fashion, [a]narchy hair, Royal/T cafe, Sapporo, and Jones Soda brought you Rune Boutique!

As you all know, the theme around this event was to bring the colorful and crative world of Rune Naito, father of the “kawaii” look, to America.

Rune Naito is not a name that is regularly heard outside of Japan, but has influenced some of the greatest ‘Kawaii’ minds, like that of Sebastian Masuda of 6%DOKIDOKI.

In order to help bring Rune Boutique stateside with a punch, 6%DOKIDOKI brought over their new mens line along with a colorful fashion show, Medicom Toys brought over their new Rune Boutique inspired items, and Kyary Pamyu Pamyu even flew out to make this event an affair to remember.

We really want to thank the 4,000 of you who drove, flew, ran, and waited in line! All of you made this event a huge sucess.

We all hope that you enjoyed your evening and continue to come out and support not just Bubble Punch, but all of our cross pop-culture related events!

And for some extra bonus points! We had an incredibly busy week, as you know. We spent the entire week setting up, doing inventory with our awesome volunteers, and trying to get the entire night ready for all of you. Everyone involved did an amazing job helping us put all of the pieces of the puzzle together. We definitely could not have done it with out them.

Now you may want to know, with all of our adrenaline pumping from the event, what could we possibly want to do after this big night?

Why gather up 6%DOKIDOKI, Kyary, and Mr. Homma (of Rune Productions), and the Medicom Toys staff and mozy down to Saddle Ranch in Hollywood, of course!

We had corn, biscuts, all of those good things… and a gigantic cotton candy.

Kyary was brave enough to try out the mechanical bull! She lasted pretty long too. Alas she did eventually fall off, not to worry there were cushions to catch her!

Where are the pictures from the event? We know some of you have been dying to get your pictures. Sorry about the slight delay, we had over 1100 pictures to post so it took us a long while.

You can all find yourselves on our flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bubblepunch/

You should be able to see yourself in action. **bear with us, some of them are still uploading, so if you don’t see yourself right away, check again a little bit later**

Thanks again everyone! We couldn’t have done it with out you. Thanks again to all of our sponsors, and we all hope you guys come out to the next Bubble Punch event in 2012!