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• 1990-10-25
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• Male
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• New Jersey
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• 2005-06-24
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• Selling my childhood on Ebay
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• Rob

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• 1998
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• Cowboy Bebop
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• Watching anime, playing video games, building anime model kits

myOtaku.com: MadPierrot

Monday, August 22, 2005

Otakon
With Otakon 2005 done, it is time to tell you about it. After getting there I waited for about 20 mintues to get my pre-regged badge. At Otakon the 5 main places to go where the panels, video games, theaters, workshops, main events, and the dealer room. First off the panels, unfortuanately I only saw a short portion, as panels were hard to get into, but of course it always fun to ask your favorite web-celbrties questions. I am not into web comics that much so these didn't really appeal to me. On to the Video games. The video game room was really fun, with tons of import and domestic games, no matter what you were into. They also had tons of game tournaments. The only problem I had was how many game systems they had. The room was huge, bigger then any other room aside from the dealer room, yet they only had maybe 50 (at the most) games set up. At a con with 22,000 people you can imagine every game was always filled up. Next was the theaters. Not suprisingly, they had really good showings of anime, and I watched quite a few I had never seen before. Now here was probably my biggest problem of the con. Every theater had around 20 or 30 rows of chairs, and if you didn't see the last show or get in early you were stuck in the back. Even with the fact I am 5'6" this isn't normally a problem, until they decide to sub EVERYTHING. Normally I am for subs and all, but in a jam-packed showing room it is basicaly impossible to read unless you stand(which I did). Then we have the workshops. Of course you have your typical manga drawing workshops and all, but I was more into the model building, as I can't draw, so that was really fun. Finally, the heavenly dealer room. Otakon, being the largest anime convention on the east coast did not disappoint in these terms. Anything anime related was there, including Gashapon, Manga, dvd's, models, t-shirts, bags, wall scrolls, and it goes on and on And as always, this was the big attraction of the con. So in conclusion, I am going next year and you should too.
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