Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Wheee... I have returned.
There is only one word that can discribe that convention: AWESOME!!! We finally got to Atlanta Friday night, and after dinner and unpacking I convinced my dad to let me go to the j-music sleepover for a few minutes. The only bad thing was that we were at the hotel across from the convention center and the hotel it was attached to, so we had to run across eight lanes of traffic to get to and from the con so I couldn't go by myself... So anyway I stayed there until about eleven and then my dad said we had to leave... but they showed a bunch of awesome j-rock videos. Anyways then Saturday we ate breakfast then went to the Ed and Roy Show, which was a panel with Vic Mignonga and Travis Willingham. After that was the autographs with them, and that alone was worth the entire trip!!! I was cosplaying as Ed for that part, and Vic signed my Ed cloak thing on the sleeve, and Travis signed his picture in the convention book. I got a picture with them too, and Vic's newest CD called Metafiction!!! Lemme tell you, Vic Mignogna is just about the nicest person I've EVER met. He's completely awesome with the fans, and so it Travis.

After that, I went back to the hotel room and changed into my Inuyasha costume and got my money for the Dealer's Room ($200). In the dealer's room I bought some keychains for my friends, a Vincent Valentine pillow for kakashi s, a Zelda t-shirt, an Inuyasha poster, the FMA movie, a T.M. Revolution CD, some Japanese snacks and drinks (including waaaay more pocky than is good for me), an FMA poster, a Kenshin pillow, an AWA t-shirt, and in the Artist's Alley I bought a KH2 Axel and Roxas print, a REALLY awesome L print, and a cool Battousai print. I think that was all I got... but $200 went a long way!!! Then I ate lunch and went to the AMV awards (though the AMVs weren't that good actually...).

Then it was the Miniskirt Army panel!!! THAT was fun. I'm actually a member of the Risembool Rangers and not the MSA, but my mom said that we had to eat dinner while the RR panel was going on. Anyway, Travis was late, so we entertained ourselves for a while. It was a pretty small room that was packed with people (with tons of people waiting to get in if anyone left), so I ws standing in the corner against the wall with my dad. They had an FMA trivia thing and I won a mint for knowing what Mustang was named after. After I answered the question, the unofficial leader person at the front goes, "Hey, Inuyasha? SIT BOY!!!" So I sat. I just slammed into the ground and everyone started laughing, and one guy was like "DANG!!! That must've hurt!!" It really didn't but I guess it sounded like it did ^_^ Then, after seeing the Sacrificial Ed (who was a cosplayer a little older than me, who was attached to a leash and led around all day by Vic and Travis... lucky >.<), one Miroku cosplayer walked up to the front to fix the microphone. Someone in the audience shouted "Hey, we've always wanted to see some Miroku/Ed yaoi!!!" Everyone cheered, and my dad started looking for an exit... it was pretty funny. So the Miroku cosplayer glomped Ed and then put his hand over her mouth and kissed it, it was hilarious because the girl who was cosplaying as Ed blushed so much her face was closer to purple than red ^_^ But then Travis finally came and told a few stories about how he got into voice acting, etc. One was about how he ate a rotten Snack Pack pudding thing once... that story was completely hilarious.

Then it was dinner, and then the cosplay contest. There were some awesome costumes (pics wil be up later) but I was stuck in the back of a HUGE room because it was standing-room-only when we got there. Then, we were going to watch Helling Ultimate OVA, but the people messed up and didn't chase the people from the previous showing out... so we didn't get to see that because the next showing was at 11:45 and there was a Peelander Z concert I would NOT miss. So we sat for a while, then I decided to check out Ouran High School Host Club in another video room. I could read the subtitles because there were heads blocking it, and I got a headache from the fangirls that screeched every time one character came on the screen, but from what I could tell it was pretty good ^_^

Well, the opening band ended up staring an HOUR LATE. So we stood in a giant group of con-funk ridden people (it was hot and stinky)... and finally at 1 AM they let us in. We were in the front row. So we watched the opening band (TsuShiMaMiRe) for about an hour, and then it was the Peelander Z concert!!! They are the most insane group I've ever seen!!! They did the human bowling thing, threw mass amounts of gum out onto the crowd, and then Peelander Red duct taped the microphone to Peelander Yellow's head (hair and all!!!) So he climbed up on a ladder in the middle of the crowd and ripped it off, along with a huge chunk of his hair. It looked incredibly painful.

By the time the concert was over (around 4 AM), I was still wired but my dad seemed like he was sleepwalking. We made it back to the hotel room, but my mom had fallen asleep and out room key didn't work >_< So, here I am, once again in my Ed costume, my dad looks like a zombie, and we come crawling down to the front desk at 4:30 AM to get a replacement key. They wouldn't give us one. So some guy had to follow us up to our room to make sure our key really didn't work and that it was our room. I finally got to sleep about 5:30-ish. And then woke up at seven >_<

Anyway, I think I just set the record for my longest post ever. Hope your eyes aren't bleeding too badly... Umm... yeah.... CRAP!!! I'm missing Inuyasha *runs to TV*
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