Sunday, March 19, 2006

My First Convention: Momo-Con 2006 in Atlanta
Music: Nothing
Watching: Nothing


It's 12: 09 PM and I just back home from the Atlanta convention; that was the singles greatest day of my life. No joke. Oh. My. God. Shanna and I kept swearing that we had died and gone to heaven! lol

The trip there, to keep ourselves entertained when talk was not enough, we watched the Lead Movies 1 DVD on Shanna's portable DVD player. lmao, I thought we were going to DIE when the song "Funky Days" started playing, because Shanna's mom would NOT believe that they were saying "funky"! xD

Atlanta was awsome. We saw a billboard for Toonami and a giant movie sign on a building for Robot Chicken near the building the Momo Con was being held. It was also helpful to see an Asian guy dressed as someone from Resident Evil holding a sign pointing to where Momo Con was. xDD

We were so excited, the entire way to the building we were skipping, jumping and squealing like happy little school girls. This was a dream come true for us!

The minute we entered the building a giant Menchi from Excel Saga gave us the thumbs up, then came over to me and glomped me. o_O I was glomped a lot. Maybe I should have bought that shirt that said, "GLOMP ME" x3

The two, Excel Saga and Menchi cosplayers, were the most dedicated to their pose. The Excel was down right cute and just about as hyper as the real thing. The Menchi all day dragged around a plastic, black swimming pool and when people asked for a pic, she got in and they acted a whole scene where Excel who jump at her with a fork and knife and Menchi would halfly fall out, lol. It was cute. I got a pic of it. :)

We were somewhat lost as to where to park, and a car was following us, we looked in the car and the girl was a cosplayer and we shrugged to them as to say "We don't know where the hell we are going, either!" and when we pulled away, we had to laugh, because we saw their liscense plate and saw they were from Alabama, too. xD

The opening ceremony was even fucking funny as hell. We got there a bit early and sat in the half-full auditorium, the woman on stage was hilarious. She said she was going to entertain us as we waited. And everyone in great or cute cosplay that walked in, she put on spotlight by yelling, "OMG! Everyone look as so-and-so!" xD

She pratically fell in love with the boy dressed as Gir from Invader Zim, lol! And we couldn't stop laughing at her or playfully picking on her, because her mic kept dying while she was talking.

She asked where some people were from. The first group she asked were from Mississippi. The second were from Alabama, like us, and she joked, "We all love Alabama!" and Shanna went, "No we don't!"

She started to say something about the special soup for tonight and how last year they didn't have food and the mic cut off as she said "food" and a Vash cosplayer, the funniest guy there, yelled (by the way, we all shouted random, silly things all the time xD), "Wait! Turn the mic back on! You were talking about food!" and everyone in the crowd radomly starts moaning, "FOOOOD!" and it sounded like a heard of cow going, "MOOOO!" xDDDD

This guy dressed as Gohan's alter-ego, Seiya Man, suddenly stood up and started doing poses (this guy knew all the actual poses!). Not to be outdone, the Vash started posing too, and we all just cheered and laughed! Shanna and I knew her parent's must have been wondering.... "WTF!?" xD

They showed this video to us, to talk about how "hard" it was and what "work" went into bringing us a free anime convention; it was so damn funny, I wish I had a recorder just to record watching it! xD

We all were laughing because the Windows Media Player box was clearly showing; it was so ghetto! xD And the video was hilarious, the did a parody of Iron Chef, lol. The con may have been free, but it was still real, being sponsored by big anime names like AnimeNation and Funimation.

We were also sitting next to a girl who was no first timer, because she was telling us how last year they didn't have food and she was just a big a Gaara fan as Shanna and when she saw her Gaara wrist-band she cooed, "Aw! I love Gaara! ...He's my baby!" xD

As we left, we headed upstairs and into the Display Room; pure paradise. We were in Heaven: T-shirts, plushies, yaoi, yuri, manga, DVDs, anime music CDs, Jpop CDs, Jrock CDs, even a few Kpop CDs like BoA! Pillows, cat ears, action figures, cards, bags, cosplay weapons, handmade costumes, pins... you name it.

Okay, I HAD like 230-something dollars when I entered... Last I checked, I have 40 left. xDDD

In the end, after about going in the 20 various times, I bought:
A hide wallscroll
A Dir en grey wallscroll
Dir en grey Macabre Tour DVD
XJapan's Last Live DVD
A hide DVD
A Momo Con T-shirt
A "Yaoi, MY Anti-Drug" T-shirt
and a Chibi Gaara T-shirt for Shanna x3

Most of the stuff Shanna bought was Gaara-related in some way, lol. A keychain, a plushie, a shirt... lol.

We also took lots of pictures of cosplayers. OMG! I never thought there'd be Jrock cosplayers, let alone the many and WONDERFUL one we found!

The first one we found was the most amazing Kyo cosplayer. He was dressed as Kyo was in the "Clever Sleazoid" PV. From head to toe, he was PERFECT! His eyes, shoes, even teeth! His pose was even very Kyo!

By the end of the day, we ended up nicknaming him our "stalker" because no matter where we went, we ALWAYS managed to run into him again! And even he would look at us like, "WTF, didn't I just see these girls!?" xD

We saw 4 Manas of Malice Mizer. Infact, the second Jrock cosplay we saw was this absolutely fabulous Gackt and Mana from the "Illuminati" PV. No one ever does this look right. The shiny pleather always looks cheesy and rough, but these two were gorgeous.

The didn't use wigs, either! It was their hair! So, it was less tackey! The girl cosplaying Mana was beautiful and stayed in character and did all his facial expressions and etc. Very good work.

We didn't see the other Manas until later, but we did see a Hitsugi of Nightmare! Shanna stopped her and asked for her pic, I had to ask her later in the Display Room, because at the time I was busy tying Shanna's pant strings I had stepped on for the Jillionth time >.< lol, but she was really good too, even the hair was perfect.

The most ghetto cosplay we saw was when we first came in... Some guy dressed as Ed from FullMetal Alchemist wrapped tin-foil around his arm to be the metal arm. xD!! Priceless. lol. There were at least 3 Gravitation cosplay groups. FullMetal was the second popular cosplay. There were quite a few Chi and Freya's from Chobits. And a lot of orgiginal Gothic Lolitas, since sunday is the day for that and all.

But no surprise, the anime of the year is definitly Naruto. It felt like EVERYONE had on one of those headbands! Naruto characters everywhere ya turned! We found a great Kakashi that I pratically made Shanna help me stalk until we got his picture. And he was so kind to put back on his facial gear for us. ^^ He even had the book and our pic was funny because he was propped up against a girl dressed as Momichi. xDDD

Even I was in Naruto cosplay and didn't know it! Like 20 people had my jacket... >.> But, I wore my hair in pigtails, and it's blood red, but I'm dressed as Naruto and so I got people thinking I was Naruto and some thinking I was Gaara. Shanna and I joked that I was the birth child of Sexy nin Jitsu Naruto and Gaara. xD

We latered wondered at her grandmother's if anyone thought I was Sexy nin Jitsu Naruto because of my pigtails; we found out later when we returned and a guy said to me, "Hey, I like your Sexy nin Jitsu." and we both just started laughing. Poor guy, he had no idea why and was like, "What's so funny? ...Okay, I'll shut up now..." We didn't mean to, but it would have been more embarrassing to him if we had explained. xD

I was most surprised how so many people wanted my picture! I thought I was in horrible cosplay, yet I kept being stopped by people saying, "Excuse me, you are so cute, may I please have a picture?" lol. Of course, I was more than happy to oblige. ^^ I kept giving the same stupid pose, except for the Excel Saga cosplayer who demanded I give a cute pose! lol

I was also randomly glomped by the most OOC chibi Gaara, EVER! xD This small girl, with a red wig falling off and her blonde hair showing, dressed as Gaara was all day running up to random cosplayers and glomping them! She ran up to me as we went outside and tackled me, "OMG!NARUTO!HUG!" I would have gladly given her a proper hug had I known wtf was going on! xD

We kept going in that damned Display Room so many times, it's amazing they didn't start recognizing us! lol, infact, I think they may have! We liked one booth, a lot. They had tons of Jrock CDs and DVDs from Kaggra, to Gackt, L'Arc~en~Ciel, Miyavi, to Dir en grey. I also got my wallscrolls there, we even saw the Hitsugi cosplayer purchasing a Gackt wallscroll... I dunno, but for some reason, to us, that was funny.

We later saw the funny Vash Cosplayer chasing his friend who was carrying a box of donuts, lmao! Lots of people had Dunkin' Donut boxes and were teasing the Vash cosplayers with them. x3

We watched a few AMV's or Anime Music Videos made by fans. The funny ones were great. There was one Lupin to the song "Smooth Criminal" and the beginning the photoshopped Lupin's head to Michale Jackson! xD There was also a great Slayer's video to the song, "She Makes Me go... BOOM!"

But the funniest was the Revolutionary Girl Utena video, where it made the girly-guys look like they were lip-syching to this heavy metal, male-singing version of Britney Spears's "Hit Me Baby One More Time" and at those lyrics, the showed him slapping the girls. We were all dying in our seats.

But the serious ones sucked. This Kikyo one was so long and boring... We were glad she died finally just to know it ended. One video sucked, but the opening rocked. Instead of that lion popping it's head out of the circle and growling, like in cartoons, it was a cute purple haired chibi girl that growled. xD

I saw someone who looked like Gackt in MoonChild... I took a closer look... saw the rattails and went, "IT IS! Shanna, look!" We chased them down; they were dedicated, even had sunglasses, boque of roses and ciggarette! x3 I just had to get a pic; it was too funny! They were good, actually!

We waited outside the judging room exit for a long time for one cosplayer; a Gardiena Mana. We saw her go in and she looked fantastic and really wanted her picture, so we waited, hoping like hell seats would still be left. Shanna kept a look down the hall, she saw the Kyo and told me and said, "I'm not even looking." when he walked past us, we burst into giggles, them, not too long after, the Gardenia Mana came out and kindly posed for us both. She was very Mana-like; never spoke, but bowed and nodded her head polietly.

The main reason we wanted to go back later was for the Cosplay Display. It was the best part! First, while they were judging, we waited down the hall watching the Karaoke; some of it was so painful... like the guy singing the Sailor Moon theme song, but Vash was funny, as usual, and the Yuna from Final Fantasy game singing the game's song was rather cute. ;3

Thank God we were right down the hall and Shanna's mom called us to get there early! Because it became so full and such a fire hazard, that some people couldn't come in to watch. We had great seats... right behind a dude that was dressed like a punk and kinda looked like Miyavi and his friend with the exact same pants on as Shanna and I, lol.

If cosplayers won by loudness of screams... the Jrocker cast; which were the Gackt-Mana Illuminati duo, the Kyo and a Gardiena Mana with a MoonChild Gackt, that went as a group, would have won. I screamed and cheered so fucking loud, my throat STILL hurts! And you know it's bad when other crazy, screaming people stare at you! xD

But dammit, I yelled! I even hollered, "DIR EN GREY!!" xD And they posed, the Mana-Gackts doing poses together, the Kyo in the middle alone, and all the fangirlies squealed! Some girls yelled, "WE LOVE YOU, GACKT!" lol

Everyone loved the Naruto square-rock-box; how could you not!? And when a Hinata came on stage, she was playing the part down-pact so well, that when shy shyly came on stage, we all went, "AWWWW!" together, lol. x3

Oh, the guys LOVED the chick dressed up as a hot and skimpy blue-eyes/white-dragon. Her buttcheeks were hanging out! She was cute, though. Some guy that kept yelling in an Arnold Swartzeneiger voice, yelled, "TAKE IT OFF!" and when he yelled a bit too loudly for a very young Ichigo Tokyo Mew Mew girl, a guy behind us went, "Yeah... I think that's illegal" xD

The scariest cosplayer was "Man-Rei". o.O Know Rei from Neo Genisis Evangelion? There was a guy dressed as a very scary and disturbing version of her... so much so, I can't remember who his femal counter part was. LOL. There was also a guy dressed as a school girl... If you didn't pay attention closely, see his hairly legs or hear his voice, yoi'd mistake him for a real girl. xD An ugly girl, but a girl, lol.

There was a girl that dressed as L from Death Note and she was in the contest and at first no one clapped; one guy behind me said it's too simple of a cosplay, but then all us L-fangirls were like, screw that! We love L! and started cheering and yelling, "WE LOVE YOU L!" and she held up the Death Notebook and I screamed, "Kill us all!" xD

There were TONS of hot, Asian guys that we were soooo dissapointed weren't in cosplay! But we did manage to find one in a group of Final Fantasy cosplayers and a Sasuke, too. ^_^v I saw one boy, he looked EXACTLY like Kyohei from FLAME. He was soooo cute! ^^ The FF cosplayers I mentioned were in the Cosplay Display and girls kept yelling to the one guy dressed as Cloud, "You're hot!" lol

Another great cos that sadly wasn't in the Display was an Envy and Wrath from FullMetal Alchemist who looked every bit the part. They were one of my top favorite anime-cosplayers. They should have been in the contest; they were great.

The Gardenia-Mana didn't win or place at all, but she did get honorable mention. and 4th place was this adorable pink Chi and I was mad because they were both way better that the people who placed ahead of them! The winner was a couple dressed as Beauty and The Beast. But Belle was hilarious; I liked her.

When they were giving us warning to stay out of the ailes for the costume participants, the big guy said, "They need LOTS of room... Some outfits ate 3 feet wide; like Belle. She's a princess, but she swears. Don't piss her off." xD

And when she was coming down the aisle, the announcer said, "What is your partner's name, I don't seem to have it?"
She answered, "Prop." xDDD Best answer EVER! -dies- Her prize was a quote one "yaoi-licious Gravitation DVD" and other things, a girl behind us screamed, "YAY YAOI!" lol.

But it was so much fun and so wonderful to be around people like us, who got the jokes and thought this was cool and to be around such beautiful costumes, it's a shame we ever had to leave. We found people like us, some of the nicest, coolest people and we didn't want to leave! But sadly, we did.

There is so much more that happened, but I would never be able to express it all and how we felt, all I can say was it was truly the greatest expirence I have had so far. It was even worth me losing all my AOL Favorites! I will never forget it and we look foward to the next one... and next convention... we're going as Jrockers. x3 And we will enter the costume contest! lol


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