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Last May, Bon Odori Japanese Festival 2017 was held again at the SRP Grounds in Cebu. Since this is near to our place, we decided to check it out and perhaps it would be a great topic to be blogged about.

One of the activities in the festival was the Japanese Karaoke Contest. This is a contest where the participants will be singing Japanese songs. The judges were from Japan as well who were part of the event and if they like the singer's way of singing, they'll ring an approval bell to notify the singer that he or she will advance to the next level. In case the singer didn't pass the judges standards, he or she will hear a gong bell.

There were more than ten contestants in the contest and for me they sang their songs quite well however my favorites were those who sang familiar songs like the Voltes V theme song, the Slam Dunk theme song as well as the Ghost Fighter theme song too.

I really like the activity and it was a fun entertainment. Singing a Japanese song was indeed hard but these contestants did great.

The winner though was the lady who sand the Voltes V song. It was entertaining and she received a price of Php 3000.

I look forward for this activity again on the next year's Bon Odori festival. The video here shows all the contestants' presentation.

I hope this brings back childhood anime memories to those anime lovers out there.

Best regards,
Jean Beltran-Figues