“Ganige” apparently is short for manGA, aNIme, and GAmes (geemu), and it’s also a topic of discussion at eAT’08 KANAZAWA this year, according to anime!anime!. This weekend “Ganige Sangyou tte Kotobuki?” (”Congratulations to the Ganige Industry”) will be the topic of the twelfth annual eAT KANAZAWA event, which is the city of Kanazawa’s annual cultural exchange event.
I’m too sleepy to finish translating the rest of the article, which seems to be about past eAT KANAZAWA events. I’m happy about this year’s because finally someone besides me (and my travelling companion) will know that Kanazawa exists. It’s a beautiful city, home to some of Japan’s last remaining pre-WWII architecture as well as much of its gold-leafing and lacquering industry. I know that sounds nerdy, so let me rephrase in weaboo tourist-speak: I went to a real geisha house and drank gold leaf tea omg!