This year, the Japan Touch Haru hosted within it the Geek Touch, a new highly anticipated conventione in which we realized.

And I was not alone in this edition 2017 Japan Touch Haru / Geek Touch. There were 30,000 throughout the weekend to admire the entertainment, booths and many guests tell us a whole section of Japanese culture and Geek. This is twice as much as the year before.While last year the Geek Touch was tiny and split against the Japan Touch Haru, the 2017 edition has been great and really dispatched within 3000m2 that made this show. If last year we were walking over, this year the traffic was more fluid, the best position stands thus preventing long queues that mouthntthe whole passage. And with many stalls that there were queues there was going to be.

The stands of the Japan Touch

And 3000m2, we can put the stands. Besides those taking much space asarena which saw players compete Troll-Ball and the lightsaber fights or video game stand that included many consoles retro game and arcade, thee best to see was the stand of Cartonnades. Via their huge booth, you could discover sublime creations and all made from cardboard.

Then, the stand of the shelter 101 worth a look. film props worthy of the licence fallout, handmade with an attention to detail that has exceptional permited no visitors hungry. While opposite was the Arno Props Creation, a workshop that showed us the works of an artist who makes weapons from the Geek Culture. Mass Effect, the Master Sword of Zelda, Fallout, Alien, Everything goes and it's really well done.

It was also possible for visitors to test the helmet HTC Vive and a platform for him to move within a video game. immersion assurede. And for the older of us, we could also make us the most famous photograph in the car wheel of our culture: The Delorean of the Back to the Future movie thanks pit DeLorean Experience.

And more generally, you could find different spaces which cut in several parts the zone. From the entrance on the left was the Geek Zone comprising the Imaginary worlds, A magical space consisting of a very large model showing us everything that makes the charm of fantasy.

But also the book corner which accueillait prestigious artists Peter Snejbjerg, Author of the series Preacher and Hellblazer, Céline Etcheberry or the Bogdanoff brothers. Next door was the WebCorner, a space welcoming webseries Ulysses, Serial Gamer, UTK-Exile, Robb or the crazy Donjon Legacy.

Upper se was the Cartonnades and space Games toys in which you could see a large booth Playmobil and a role play space in which you could see the French ambassador Kerlaft the gamer but also do a battle Nerf.

Finally, conclude this space Geek Zone, we could have access to E=MC2 Corner. This name was a wacky science dedicated space. You could see Astronomy vehicle with reproductions of ESA, Assist, and even fly an animatronic bear and also see rare pieces of theater SF thanks pit Age Crystal, a kind of museum on the eponymous series and the stand SF Modelers which showed spacecraft designs or film accessories.

And for tous those that drink to do as much walking and stand you could find space fantasy world, the bar "At Dragon smoke" that allowed you to drink literally steaming drinks.

While on the right, you could access the space Japan Touch especially that proposed commercial space that allowed you to buy figurines, Japanese food, but also access to the restoration part.

Finally, at the top right was the space with retro video games console and arcade games but also tournament of E-Sport and the Indie Game Lab.

Guests of Japan Haru Touch / Touch Geek

The ambassadors of this 2017 edition is Davy Mourier, Mr Poulpe, but also Igor and Grishka Bogdanoff who were presents on the show via their conference " Are we alone in the Universe? ". But that was not all. Fabrice Canepa, the author of "Aliens: 70 years of culture and against culture" was present along with Christian Hojgaard, Author of "Meschugge" Florence Porcel, Author of the book "Space without gravity" and writer of comics "Mars Horizon" in Glénat, Peter Snejbjerg, Christophe Henin, Role play illustrator casus Belli, Jolly Roger or Heroes and Dragons, Caljbeut that no introduction, Alexandre Nguyen, French voice Sulu the last Star Trek film and Geneviève Doang, Dubbing actress for Nolife channel or to the series American Gods, Céline Etcheberry, Author Milady, Victor Fleury, the specialist Jules Verne, Christian Scheurer, concept architect for Zack Snyder among others or Luc Besson and the sisters Wachowski, HV Gavriel or Mother Castor.

With this guest panel was composed of even more people, you could see them communicate during conferences «Make a fanzine today," "The Dragon Ball impact in your life", "The difference between the dubbing animation and video games, "a" Masterclass: from Dark City in Suicide Squad: design in blockbusters "," Building the reputation of a web series, " What growth can take the E-Sport? " And so on. Whereof himself cultivate between two stands and interview.

The Geek Touch: the must of the Lyon region

In conclusion, this edition 2017 Japan Touch Haru / Geek Touch was really promising and it's great that so many people has moved to admire the work of prodigious artist who make us dream every day. If he were to only be one living never miss, that's it. Roll on 7 and 8 April 2018 for a new edition.