Colorful Delusions

Highly Delayed Anime Xplosion Post

It was fun

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Well, it was.

The events were:

-the open forum
-art contest
-gundam model kit contest
-cosplay competition(this should have been at the top of the list. I blame my train of thought)

Spent one half of the morning watching an artist paint something interesting which I later found out was a close up on a brick wall. Bleh, should have known he was a background artist. Shoving expectations aside, his works are pretty good.

There was a booth with someone drawing caricatures of people. It would be interesting to see how mine looked like, but there was a large crowd. Didn't feel like going through the hassle.

Spent the other half of the morning listening to the open forum with some sentai directors. Bleh, I forgot to bring paper to get their autographs and their names. The highlight of the forum was when Sentai Cosplayer(who will now be called SC for the rest of this post since he may be mentioned often. It was either that or nicknaming him "Kanju" which sort of became his catchphrase during the cosplay) asked 3 questions while doing sentai poses and inserting some japanese words and phrases. The reply was a laugh too.

Met Khan and R2 and went on a picture taking spree. whee!
Met Rika nad Criole while taking a picture of 2 cosplayers.
There was a board with some original characters. Some were nice, others were just silly enough to be nice.

I love conventions. Where else would you find a self-concious Ryu? Kyo with a bow and arrow shouting "CHARGE ARROW!" on stage? A swordie changing his class to a mage? SC shouting "Kanju!" challenging everyone in a costume? intresting facts like, Kyo is really Iori in disguise! Cloud is really Kyo in disguise! Darth Malik is taking volunteers for YATTA! Philippines!

Took pictures of cosplayers during the cosplay parade. May or may not put up pictures depending on my laziness. Bah, announcer couldn't pronounce the names right! R2's camera battery died before the good cosplayers showed up. Sad.

Cosplayers to take note of:
- Bijou with a very large moveable claw
- Edward Elrik(Full Metal Alchemist) with the metal arm and all
- Naruto character with full sized puppet(bad execution though...)
- gunbound character with dragon/tricycle
- Darth Malik complete with voice and lightsaber(never played the game so I'm not sure how accurate the voice was. Sounded great though!)
- LOTR Orc (It just looked great)
- the large One Piece group
- Macross(actual size) and Voltes V(not actual size)
- others, I just don't remember(maybe if I had a chance to post last weekend...)

Then there was the intercession after the cosplay parade:

Bijou was caging people for pictures, heh

"Kyo" was interested in R2's Hsu and Chan comics. They talked(mostly about Maximum Impact)and he imitated some of Iori's attacks(Kyo doing Yaotome... something no one may ever see in a KOF game)

R2 got his magazine adds signed

People were riding on the dragon/tricycle

Cosplayers were battling on stage(especially SC)

The intercession was just great. I shouldn't have left at 7:15. I was able to get permission to stay until 8:00, but by then, it was mostly empty and eventless. I was able to here the cosplay parade though.

1st - gunbound character
2nd - LOTR Orc
3rd - Yuna
the other winners:
- Macross
- Voltes V
- Mimi's digimon(what was it called again? argh)

I forgot the other 2 winners.

I got FLCL vol. 2 and Ragnarok: Into The Abyss vol.6!(about time)
-------------------------------------------------------------------and that's my con report. like I said earlier: It was fun

posted by Raziel @ 1:19 AM