Sunday, May 7, 2006

I am so damn tired right now. My weekend total:

Panels: 5 (Shounen Ai, Food of Japan, Naruto Fan Discussion, Gothic & Lolita, Ball-Jointed Dolls. The best panel was the Gothic & Lolita, but my favorite was the Naruto discussion. The panelists were really awesome. My favorite bits:

Q: When do you think the fillers will finally end?
A: When Shino laughs. Oh, wait.

"Shino gets a hoodie for his new look, but poor Chouji looks like a fat samurai reject from Champloo."

Q: What do you think will happen in the next few manga chapters?
A: We'll see Sasuke beat the hell out of Sai! Though, Sai must be pretty strong, since they wouldn't send some weak pansy to fight him. Even though Sasuke is a whiny little wussy.
Me: *yells out* Which is why we LOVE HIM!)

Money Spent on Merchandise: $60 (Considering that only $15 of it was my own money, I feel a little guilty for ripping off my friends. My money-leeching skills are to be feared. Though, at least I used the money to buy a really cute Death Note handbag and a very pretty steel Kino no Tabi keychain with a picture of Kino and her motorrad engraved on it. With my $15 I bought a cross-shaped Death Note keychain.)

Number of Hours Spent Wandering Around the Exhibit Hall: 5-6

Number of Cloud Cosplayers: 10 million

Number of L cosplayers: 1

Number of BJD Spottings: At least a dozen (There were a LOT of dolls over the Artist Alley. The most memorable encounter was with a dollfie owner who was planning on selling one of her dollfies if she couldn't raise enough money within the next hour. (I gave a one dollar donation, since I only had less than two dollars left at the time.) When I checked up on her a couple hours later, she said she had enough money to keep the doll.)

Number of Times I Totally Fangirled Over Something: 6 (The biggest one was during the Masquerade. There was a Devil May Cry skit! It involved Lady mistaking Vash from Trigun for Dante, and Vergil arguing otherwise, since "he thinks he'd know what his own twin brother looks like." Then, Vincent Valentine popped out of nowhere, Vash made a comment on how posing as Dante gets him hot chicks (a.k.a. Lady), which prompted this awesome bit of dialogue:

Vincent: *looks at Lady* Hi, I'm Dante.
Vergil: *points offstage* Look! There's Sephiroth! Go get him! Go!
Vincent: *runs off*

Afterwards, Vergil made a comment on how the real Dante wouldn't button up his coat, so Vash ripped his coat open, which elicited many loud, fangirlish squeals from the females of the audience. I don't know about anyone else, but for me at least, that skit was all sorts of win.

I also screamed out something to a Sasuke and a Roxas cosplayer who came onstage, haha.)

Number of Times I Laughed During the Con: Too many to count (At the con today, my friends spotted one really hot cosplayer looking through tankouban, so I snuck up beside him and pretended to flip through the merchandise in front of me, while sneaking glances from the corner of my eyes. Then, I realized the merchandise I was supposedly looking at was hentai. So, my friends were just like, "....What are you doing?" And I laughed like a moron.)

Something else I think I should mention: I finally watched Advent Children today during a special screening at the con, and OMG. So much Cloud love! And Reno and Vincent love, while I'm at it. It's nice to see that Cloud still has his moments of mako-induced insanity, because Cloud is at his best when he's half-crazed. (I'm one of those oddball Cloud fans.)

And because of various problems, I wasn't able to meet Katana. :(

More in the upcoming con report!
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