anime decor at the Tanabata festival

Last Sunday was the last day of the Los Angeles Tanabata festival.  The decorations were beautiful, as always---and this year, even more so---but the biggest surprise was seeing tanabata decorations turned into the heads of anime characters.  0.0!  So many spheres were turned into the heads of Pikachu, Goku, Hello Kitty, Doraemon, and other creatures.  ^u^

The wishes tied to trees, also had some otaku-relavant notes.

The wish "to be anime" was a cute surprise.  But the next wish I found made me laugh out loud:

A Quebey from Puella Magi Madoka Magica!  ^O^