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<\/a><\/p>\nWhat is Uki Uki?<\/strong><\/em> Join us for a fun evening of drinking, dancing and art. Come dressed as your favorite character (or yourself). Featuring free admission to our current exhibition, Bye Bye Kitty!!!, a trivia contest, a cosplay parade and helpful maids who will keep the night rocking. We’ll be giving away tons of prizes, too! Including gift certificates to Kinokuniya, toys from Kidrobot, anime blu-rays and tickets to the New York Comic Con.<\/p>\n – DJ Saiko Mikan<\/strong> will be spinning 60’s Group Sounds from Japan!<\/p>\n – Trivia Contest<\/strong> (Mame chishiki kuizu = \u8c46\u77e5\u8b58\u30af\u30a4\u30ba) with prizes from Kinokuniya and toys from Kidrobot and the grand prize of New York Comic Con tickets!<\/p>\n – NYAF Apple Kissa Caf\u00e9<\/strong> will be entertaining the crowd all night and giving away random prizes from toys to anime blu-rays!<\/p>\n – Cosplay Parade<\/strong> with the three best costumes receiving tickets to New York Comic Con!<\/p>\n – Japanese Beers and Sake for $4!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Friday, May 6, 6 PM \u2014 10 PM Japan Society<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[5321,720,5320],"class_list":["post-12053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events","tag-cosplay","tag-japan-society","tag-uki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12056,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12053\/revisions\/12056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFumiko says: When I say I am \u201cUki Uki shiteiru\u201d, that means I am excited, animated, kind of high, feel bouncy, bubbly\u2026.. definitely a sense of expectation makes you \u201cuki uki\u201d!\u00a0 E.G. You are \u201cUki Uki\u201d when you are going to have a long-awaited date with someone.<\/p>\n