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kirkusmaximus forgetting first his wallet (and hence his ID), and then his con badge. The former sparked a futile hour of attempting to teach our father how to send a pic over txt messaging. The latter just simply caused us to drive home again. Fortunately, we live only several miles from the con. The bad thing was that they were doing massive construction between our exit and there's all weekend which meant that while it took us seven minutes to get home, it took us 20-45 minutes to get to the con depending on how bad the traffic was. This was very annoying.
Anyway, we got to the con around 10am on Friday. I was cosplaying Balsa, and it was the first time I've cosplayed someone recognizable (if obscure) so it amused me how often I got stopped (yes, that is the spear I spent 3 weeks making). I found one other Balsa too, though my spear pwned hers *g* What often happens to my brother and I at crowded cons is that we're not willing to wait on line for things were sort of iffy about, so if a panel looks interesting we'll be like, "Oh, let's stop by." but if it's a good panel, it's invariably full so we never get to see half of the things that might be interesting. I had a lot of fun wandering around taking pictures of good cosplays. (Kirk got to meet Hard Gay again, much to his amusement.) I may hate Avatar with a mild, but growing passion, but the group cosplaying the mech and Navi from it really did have their stuff together. Also, the King. It feels like our days were rather broken up by going for food or to pick up forgotten things along with wandering around. We spent some time in the manga library, saying hello torinzei, and I met several people from my Japanese class at Rutgers. The dealers room was fun to wander, but after awhile you got annoyed that you couldn't spend money (okay, well, I did spend a little - bought some art, two doujinshi, and Serei no Moribito so I could get it signed, but it was at an insanely cheap price so that's okay). After a panel on spotting fake merchandise, we headed home for dinner, and surprised Dad with a birthday cake. We then headed back for the burlesque, but the ID fiasco happened and sunk that into the ground, leading us to head home to get drunk and watch Adventure Time (yay!).
Saturday was even more crowded than Friday. We couldn't even get into the Yugioh Abridged panel despite it being in a huge room since people were lined up around the outside trying to get in. Lucky for us, we had nothing better to do later and ended up watching the series in the anime watching rooms with a hundred other people (always a fun way to see Yugioh Abridged), along with a lot of the stuff he showed at the panel). My goal for the con was to get a picture of me in my Balsa costume with the director, Kenji Kamiyama , so the one thing I made sure we were early enough to wait on line for was the autograph session. We ended up second in line. He only spoke Japanese so I asked him in Japanese if it was okay to take a picture, which it was, see? What I didn't notice while I was watching him sign and telling him how awesome Seirei no Moribito is, is that his assistant was taking a million pics of me on his cameras (you can see the guy's hand in the background of my pic *L*). Kirk says he just kept pulling out different phones to take pics on, and then he made me pose. I wonder if I'm on random Japanese blogs now? I guess they didn't get a lot of cosplayers from the series he directs. Anyway, it was cool, and goal completed, we wandered around, watched a huge group of Code Geass cosplayers play games from the anime, hit up the manga library (I read Buddha, which is historically inaccurate, but good), then headed to Yugioh abridged. We could have gone to the dance, but my calves were killing me since apparently I was using them to keep my flipflops (covered with Balsa's shoes) on the day before. Walking anywhere is still very painful, though the pain fades if I keep moving after awhile.
Sunday, we came for Anime Jeopardy, but left after the first game cause it was boring and not well organized. We wandered for a bit, then headed over to Yugioh abridged S2, which I am now very sick of, but eh, it killed time. We then almost went to the closing ceremony before deciding against it and heading home. I'm rather exhausted by the whole thing, but it was a lot of fun. Now I'm going to have beer and get other things done that need to be done. Ja ne!
kirkusmaximus forgetting first his wallet (and hence his ID), and then his con badge. The former sparked a futile hour of attempting to teach our father how to send a pic over txt messaging. The latter just simply caused us to drive home again. Fortunately, we live only several miles from the con. The bad thing was that they were doing massive construction between our exit and there's all weekend which meant that while it took us seven minutes to get home, it took us 20-45 minutes to get to the con depending on how bad the traffic was. This was very annoying. Anyway, we got to the con around 10am on Friday. I was cosplaying Balsa, and it was the first time I've cosplayed someone recognizable (if obscure) so it amused me how often I got stopped (yes, that is the spear I spent 3 weeks making). I found one other Balsa too, though my spear pwned hers *g* What often happens to my brother and I at crowded cons is that we're not willing to wait on line for things were sort of iffy about, so if a panel looks interesting we'll be like, "Oh, let's stop by." but if it's a good panel, it's invariably full so we never get to see half of the things that might be interesting. I had a lot of fun wandering around taking pictures of good cosplays. (Kirk got to meet Hard Gay again, much to his amusement.) I may hate Avatar with a mild, but growing passion, but the group cosplaying the mech and Navi from it really did have their stuff together. Also, the King. It feels like our days were rather broken up by going for food or to pick up forgotten things along with wandering around. We spent some time in the manga library, saying hello to
rinzei, and I met several people from my Japanese class at Rutgers. The dealers room was fun to wander, but after awhile you got annoyed that you couldn't spend money (okay, well, I did spend a little - bought some art, two doujinshi, and Serei no Moribito so I could get it signed, but it was at an insanely cheap price so that's okay). After a panel on spotting fake merchandise, we headed home for dinner, and surprised Dad with a birthday cake. We then headed back for the burlesque, but the ID fiasco happened and sunk that into the ground, leading us to head home to get drunk and watch Adventure Time (yay!). Saturday was even more crowded than Friday. We couldn't even get into the Yugioh Abridged panel despite it being in a huge room since people were lined up around the outside trying to get in. Lucky for us, we had nothing better to do later and ended up watching the series in the anime watching rooms with a hundred other people (always a fun way to see Yugioh Abridged), along with a lot of the stuff he showed at the panel). My goal for the con was to get a picture of me in my Balsa costume with the director, Kenji Kamiyama , so the one thing I made sure we were early enough to wait on line for was the autograph session. We ended up second in line. He only spoke Japanese so I asked him in Japanese if it was okay to take a picture, which it was, see? What I didn't notice while I was watching him sign and telling him how awesome Seirei no Moribito is, is that his assistant was taking a million pics of me on his cameras (you can see the guy's hand in the background of my pic *L*). Kirk says he just kept pulling out different phones to take pics on, and then he made me pose. I wonder if I'm on random Japanese blogs now? I guess they didn't get a lot of cosplayers from the series he directs. Anyway, it was cool, and goal completed, we wandered around, watched a huge group of Code Geass cosplayers play games from the anime, hit up the manga library (I read Buddha, which is historically inaccurate, but good), then headed to Yugioh abridged. We could have gone to the dance, but my calves were killing me since apparently I was using them to keep my flipflops (covered with Balsa's shoes) on the day before. Walking anywhere is still very painful, though the pain fades if I keep moving after awhile.
Sunday, we came for Anime Jeopardy, but left after the first game cause it was boring and not well organized. We wandered for a bit, then headed over to Yugioh abridged S2, which I am now very sick of, but eh, it killed time. We then almost went to the closing ceremony before deciding against it and heading home. I'm rather exhausted by the whole thing, but it was a lot of fun. Now I'm going to have beer and get other things done that need to be done. Ja ne!
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