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Here's a couple of items I stumbled across on-line...

The first is a blog entry who found a video of a bunch of cosplay folks doing an unauthorized public gathering in Akihabara. The blogger conveniently explains the cultural leanings on this sort of thing in Japan. The dance is from the wacky end-credit sequence of a cult-status novel/anime series called "Suzumiya Haruhi's Melancholy." Anyway, it's just really weird.
http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2007/04/video_cosplayer.html

Secondly, the same blog linked to something I thought was really interesting in the sense that I've been previously accused of being a "banana" (that's the Asian version of calling a black man an Oreo)... But apparently there's going to be an anime about the day-to-day life of a half-Japanese man living in Japan. The premise is simple enough and the title is even simpler.
http://www.joeisjapanese.com/joe/