Friday, April 13, 2007

Sakura-Con - Day 2

The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things. Indeed, let us begin: - This time, I got up at 7:30 am and we left around 9:30. Surprisingly, traffic wasn't too bad; it looked like it might be at first, but thank goodness it wasn't. - Arrived at... you know, I can't remember exactly when we got there. I want to say 10:30, but I'm not sure. XP Anyway, there was a noticeable increase in attendees Saturday, compared to Friday; made it even harder to maneuver through the crowds. Right away we went into the dealer's room. There wasn't really anything else to do, so we hung around in there for a couple hours. I bought a cool-iool Mario sweatshirt (must take a picture!); Robin bought the first season of InuYasha, which she was extremely happy about. Too bad she had to buy the TV edit version; couldn't afford the full uncut one. XP We met some of our friends in the dealer's hall (Tuxedo Mask and Yomi), but in the end we lost each other. And now they're saying we had ditched them. Blah... - Around noon we left to go eat lunch; considering the line they had at Subway, we got our lunches rather quickly. Too bad there weren't any available tables. For awhile, we had to sit on the rim by the windows, where there happened to be some vents to keep us company. XP Blah... After a bit, we met a Sakura (CCS) and Sumomo from yesterday, so we talked for a bit. Thankfully a table became open, so of course we jumped on it. Finished our lunch and then said goodbye to the Sakura and Sumomo girls. - After lunch, around 12:30, we went upstairs to see the taiko drumming. Ohhh! If you guys haven't seen taiko drumming before, jump on the first chance you get! It is SO cool! I love it; I wish I had a video camera so I could record the sound as well. But here's a consolation prize! A picture of one of the taiko drummers. Just clicky on the piccy! - The original plan was to watch the taiko drumming for maybe half an hour then head downstairs to watch Comedy AMVs. But, as Robin put it, "We can see AMVs at home, we can't always watch taiko drumming." Darn her and her logic. XP So, because of that we missed out on the Comedy AMVs. By the time the taiko drumming was over and we went downstairs to see them, the room was full already. Oh well. So, we decided to just wait around until the theO meet-up. - Around 2:00 PM we started to realize that some of the people coming into the lobby area were there for the meet-up. Twas funny seeing jazie and AngelPen looking down at their directions and then pointing over to where we were sitting. I had the strongest feeling that they were jazie and AngelPen, but I was too embarassed to just go up and ask. Lo and behold, however, for it was them, as we confirmed once they sat down across from us. Turns out, Gail and John were already waiting in the sitting area behind us. Then SomeGuy and MonkeyOrange arrived; I can't remember the usernames of all the people who came, I'll have to wait on Gail to post it, but there were two more people that came. I was told that Gail would have little goodies for everyone who came to the meet-up; I didn't know by "goodies" that she would be giving out anime. I love you Gail. lol I got a Case Closed (uncut) DVD and a Gatchaman boxset, one which is in the middle of the series. Yeah, kind of hard to get into it, but oh well. Robin got Pani Poni Dash and another Case Closed DVD; can't wait to watch 'em! v^.^ Even though the meet-up was rather short, twas fun. Robin and I got to teach everyone about the awkward turtle, hugs went all around, and I found out that I can lift up SomeGuy quite easily. We all gathered and took pictures; and in case you didn't see it in my cosplay gallery already, here's the one I got: theOtaku FTW! And then we parted ways; even though Robin and I left before them, SomeGuy and Gail beat us upstairs somehow. XP Man, stupid traffic! - After that, we just went into the dealer's hall again. Robin wanted me to buy her this hat, which I did, and it is quite the cute little panda hat. I also bought myself a little Mokona neck-thing... tis not quite a necklace, but it goes around your neck, so therefore "neck-thing". We also saw a really good Inuyasha cosplay; he had the demon eyes and everything. I took some picture of Robin and him together (since Robin was cosplaying as Kagome); here's one of her "sitting" him: Sit Boy indeed! - We'd been browsing in the dealer's hall for awhile, so we then left to cool off in one of the anime theaters. Too bad nothing real interesting was on; we tried watching this one anime called Boys Be..., but the light fixtures above us kept shaking; I think it was probably from the concert upstairs. It started bothering us, and we weren't really getting into the anime anyway, so we left... only to go back within a few minutes because our camera was lost. That was quite a scare. Thank goodness we had only just taken a picture of a lovely Wolfwood, otherwise we'd have to retrace our steps waaay back from the dealer's hall! Turns out, the camera just fell back out of the chairs we were sitting in; I had placed all my stuff in the seat next to me, so the camera must've been knocked out of the chair as we grabbed our stuff and left. Luckily, we found the camera (w00t!); Dad would've killed me if I had really lost it for good. XP - Anyway, after that little moment we tried watching this other movie called Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato, but we really couldn't get into that either. We looked at the schedule Sakura-Con so kindly provided us and saw that they were re-showing the AMVs from the AMV contest upstairs. So we went up to go see it, but right at that moment the concert had let out. MY GOSH. I've never seen so many people congregated in one area like that. The escalators were completely full, I'm glad I wasn't in that rush. But yes, we got ourselves safely to the AMV place. Since they weren't playing comedy AMVs right away, I wanted to go back to the dealer's hall for a minute to buy something. I had seen it earlier but wasn't sure about getting it; I'm glad I did buy it now, because I really love that movie. And the movie is... Tokyo Godfathers! Only one of THE best movies, animated or not, to ever be seen. So then after that, we went back upstairs to the AMV contest room, and we got there just in time to see Comedy/Parody; the best one in my opinion was Cake or Death Note. I'm totally suggesting that for the Otaku Attraction next week. v^.^ - And so, after an apparently busy day, we went home. Saturday was definitely better than Friday, mainly because we weren't so tired. It seems a bit empty actually; we planned for this for so long, and it's over just like that. Now I know why some people go all three days. There you have it, a rather full account of what was done on Day 2. Also, here's a link to my album, with all the pictures I took both days: Sakura-Con w00t w00t! My personal favorite is the Master Roshi. v^.^ And so, I shall leave you now. The walrus is finally done talking. Ta then! God Bless

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