While not the only event at which you'll find wakuwakuWorkshoppe, Animarathon's Artists' Alley is one of the most well-known in the area. Indigo East's wakuwakuWorkshoppe progressively improves each and every year when bringing the table to Animarathon, starting as a wonderful modest table, selling handcrafted plushies. From then, it's expanded into including popular art prints from Indigo East's Redbubble, Society6, and Design by Humans partnerships. It's exploded into a fully self-contained shop that provides so many of the products that Indigo handcrafts: stickers, books, posters, art prints, embroidered patches, magnets, and more.
The table is quite a smörgåsbord featuring everything created and produced by Indigo East. It's always manned by Indigo East along with her assistants that make it all possible-- The popularity of the table has made it impossible to run alone. This allows for the best customer service possible.
Every year, it warms Indigo's heart to hear and see how many people look in wonder at the table, many people exclaiming that it was the best table that they had seen in artists' alley. "Connecting with friends and fans alike is a wonderful experience, but it's an honour to receive such appreciation! It makes everything worthwhile every year"
Conventions
The Table
Every year, the table is painstakingly installed to provide the best experience possible from the beginning in 2014 onward!
2014-2015
2016
2017
Bilingual Japanese and English illustrated children's books by Indigo East, handmade buttons, hand-drawn portraits, hand-crafted embroidered patches, magnets, hand-crafted plushies, art prints by Indigo East, posters, hand-printed tee shirts, handmade charms, and more!
2018
Bilingual Japanese and English illustrated children's books by Indigo East, handmade buttons, hand-drawn portraits, hand-crafted embroidered patches, magnets, hand-crafted plushies, art prints by Indigo East, posters, hand-printed tee shirts, handmade charms, and more!
Always a treat for those interested in Japanese language, kitties, or art. And, purchasing them at the convention's Artists' Alley allows for Japanese language questions and exclusive hand-crafted plushies.
The Books
"Sushi Chef Neko: The Origin of a Tiny Hero"
A Japanese and English Bilingual Book
by Indigo East
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力を貸して家族と友達の側にいることについて物語･･･
"A story about helping out and being there for your family and friends..."
Kitty and his mum have wonderful times making sushi together, but sometimes it takes a tiny hero to keep the fun times rolling for everyone. “Sushi Chef Neko: The Origin of a Tiny Hero” is the first book in Indigo East's "Sushi Chef Neko" series.
In this story, children and adults can enjoy heartwarming, mildly ethereal illustrations by Indigo East while reading in either Japanese or English. This can be a tool for those who want to apply their knowledge or pass the knowledge of language on. On each page, there is colour-coded Japanese Kanji, Furigana, Romanized Japanese and English.
**Premium Magazine print is a larger and equally weighted print as soft cover with coated pages. This is recommended for its large format and economical pricing.
Here are just a few recent plushies handcrafted by Indigo East for wonderful Etsy-ans and esteemed con-dwellers. The queue for these is constant and in high demand, but you will always get all of the effort and the best that Indigo has to offer! She's absolutely chuffed to bits upon seeing the reactions of commissioners~
The Custom-Order Handcrafted Plushies
"Sushi Chef Neko: Snow Shodou"
Learn Japanese with Junpei and Anzu
by Indigo East
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Anzu and Junpei, snowed into their rooms, seem almost as if they have nothing to do.
But, with talk of ink, in the blink of an eye, can a cat learn calligraphy?
He won’t know if he doesn’t try!
Snow Shodou is the next book in the Sushi Chef Neko series by Indigo East. This book introduces Japanese vocabulary words in a fun way that anyone from children to adults can enjoy using loveable characters, visually compelling artwork, lighthearted storytelling, and integrated Japanese writing while introducing readers to the art of Japanese calligraphy.
This book includes educational supplementary reading materials and activities with even more artwork! This material introduces how Japanese is written and spoken along with useful phrases and a picture dictionary of vocabulary from the book.Readers can write kanji with stroke-guided activities. And,there are invaluable kana charts of 146 characters total, including wi, we, and dakuten/handakuten.
**Premium Magazine print is a larger and equally weighted print as soft cover with coated pages. This is recommended for its large format and economical pricing.
The Handcrafted Embroidered Patches
These con-exclusives vary from year-to-year and are always crafted with care and high stitch counts for durability.
These con-exclusives vary from year-to-year and are always crafted with care and high stitch counts for durability.
Handcrafted Charms + Stickers
Exclusive Charms and Stickers of designs by Indigo East that were featured on Redbubble and Design by Humans~!
The Handcrafted Plushies
While limited in quantities at, there's always quite a few of them specially sewn in advance as well as con-exclusive plushies.
and more
Art Prints
These best-selling and featured designs are usually available at Redbubble, Society6, and Design by Humans, but you can get exclusive sizes and paper types! There are also exclusive paintings and drawings that you'll only see at the convention.
(Note: Only some are shown here at a low resolution.)
And many more!
Look out for new plushies at wakuwakuWorkshoppe that may be included at this year's Animarathon