The Supernatural Halloween Reigns Supreme
By Doug Breté
Every year in October, the challenge is on to be the biggest and best Halloween party in Nagoya. I have seen the battles.
I know where the bodies are buried.
Honestly, this year the side lines are drawn pretty deep in the trenches - the hordes are coming and they will descend on Mago for the Supernatural Halloween - the place where many a pole dancing Zombie Nurse has tipped her skirt to the adoring crowd of two-headed men with breasts, caged prisoners drenched in artificial blood, and the yearly battle to be the most craven and most daring.
There may be competition - but it will not breach this line.
Be forewarned. Shit is going to get Supernatural this Saturday, Oct. 25!
On to the show.....
Korea Meets Nagoya's Underground
Look, I've covered this scene long enough to know when promoters are blowing smoke. But Small World and RIZR? They're not fucking around this year.
They've imported MAR VISTA from SM Entertainment/ScreaM Records straight out of South Korea to headline this carnival of chaos.
That's right - the same label empire that birthed K-pop royalty is sending us their electronic warfare division.
Club MAGO - that temple of international bass worship - will be ground zero from 20:00 to 05:00. And they're not stopping at one import. Tokyo's ONACITY is rolling down from the capital to show us provincials how the big city gets weird. Mix that with Nagoya's own underground generals and you've got a sonic assault planned across multiple fronts.
VIO: The Freakshow Next Door
While MAGO pounds out the main offensive, Live & Lounge VIO transforms into something altogether more... theatrical. The SUPER KARAOKE BROTHERS are bringing their full-band karaoke insanity - imagine your drunk uncle's wedding performance if he had actual talent and a backing band that could melt faces.
The Metro Club's QUEENS are serving up drag realness that'll make you question everything you thought you knew about gender, gravity, and glitter physics. And Kaoru + rin have somehow corralled 14 - FOURTEEN! - dance crews into a showcase that promises more coordinated limbs than a centipede convention.
Then at 01:00, when the normals have fled and only the true believers remain, Pop Up Palooza commandeers VIO for the PALOOZA ROOM. DJs KELLO, J2, Ian, and JuJu will be spinning the kind of sets that make sunrise look like a personal insult.
The Pre-Game: Free and Feral
Before the main assault, there's THE TOWER OF TERROR a completely FREE warm-up gathering at 18:00 at the north side of the TV Tower (or as the suits call it now, the Chubu Electric Power Mirai Tower - but nobody actually calls it that).
Enjoy Two hours of internationally-minded ghouls getting their photo ops and liquid courage sorted. They'll even be slinging physical tickets for the procrastinators and the digitally challenged.
This isn't some eikiwa mixer - it's loose, it's whatever the mob makes it, and it's the perfect staging ground before the march to MAGO.
The Verdict
I've watched Halloween parties rise and fall in this city like zombie empires. Most flame out after a year or two, consumed by their own hype or crushed under the weight of their ambitions. But Supernatural? It's earned its legendary status through sheer, unrelenting commitment to controlled chaos.
This isn't just another Halloween party where salarymen throw on convenience store devil horns and call it a costume. This is where Nagoya's underground comes to worship at the altar of the absurd, where the international community mingles with local lifers, and where your costume better bring something more than "sexy cat" energy.
The gauntlet has been thrown. Saturday, October 25, the supernatural forces converge on MAGO and VIO. The question isn't whether you should go - it's whether you're brave enough to keep up.
See you in the trenches, creatures of the night. The crown remains unchallenged.
The Intel
The TV Tower Of Terror
Date: Sat, Oct. 25
Time: 18:00-20:00
Location: North of the TV Tower
Cost: Absolutely nothing. Zero. Nada.
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The Supernatural Halloween
Date: Sat, Oct. 25
Time: 20:00-05:00
Venues:
Club MAGO
Live & Lounge VIO
BUY TICKETS HERE
Advance: ¥3,000
Door: ¥4,000
Age: 18+ (bring ID or go home)
The Catch
¥600 drink ticket on entry
(Because even monsters need hydration)
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