Monday, July 11, 2005

To end all updates..

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Ethan- Psh, it's my style.

Mimmi- I wish you had used another word instead of "touch"..

Shin- Man Faye has his pride, though. If you ask, he will stand.

..I sure as hell would never do that, though.

Alex- *gives him a hand*

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There's not as much to say about Monday. I had been saving most of my cash for the last day in hopes of special discount sales, but they weren't as abundant as I had anticipated. There were a few here and there, but for the most part they were all the same prices.

In the end, I bought Saikano manga volume four for ten bucks (despite the Parental Advisory warning. I'm such a little criminal) and the slim-case Noir box set for $70, both without tax. We didn't stick around for the closing ceremonies or con gripes or anything.. My dad wanted to get home, and we were pretty done by noon anyway. On the way home we ritualistically stopped at that McDonalds, and I read Saikano on the way home. Ethan and my brother watched the Geneon preview DVD, which I must say was a pretty lackluster set. Last year they had some good shows on there, but this year it just plain sucked. Not one show caught my interest. Well.. Spare that one Gonzo show, but even then that trailer was pretty poorly put together.

On to the pictures now; I'm tired.

Nothing beats Anaheim Convention Center early in the morning. Honestly, I could do without a lot of the jackasses though.

A couple of Snakes and those army dudes Shin mentioned. I only saw one Naked Snake in the entire con.. He wasn't very good, either. I was hoping to see a good one.

Ahahaha. I knew this was going to happen sooner or later.. See, this is what I was talking about last year, when they were filming upskirt cosplay porn a little to the right of here.

Woot. I don't recall ever seeing a Dante.

He kind of stayed in that pose for five minutes.. I feel bad for his back.

I didn't know there were this many Asians with maid outfits in all of Southern California.. Well, I was wrong.

The trenchcoat looked nice upclose, but the orange tips on all of the guns kind of killed it for me. Sadness.

The ever-elusive Narutard ritual. For the uninformed, Narutards is when a bunch of Naruto fans make complete jackasses of themselves, and do so on a continuously elevating level until one person is doing something so absolutely retarded that nobody else can top it. I refused to get close to them.

I got one of Waldo as a human shield, but I seem to have lost it.

This guy was awesome. He had a sticky ball, and you could stick whatever kind of trash you wanted onto it. Ethan offered his ferret, but apparently the guy already had one. Now that I look at this picture, he kind of reminds me of the Fear Factor dude, only a little more chunky.

"COME ON, ANGELA, YOU ONLY HAVE TO ROLL UP TEN MORE CENTIMETERS OF MAGGOTS TO WIN 25,000 DOLLARS!!!"

The best I got of Waldo. Sadly, he's not very hard to find in this picture.

Ah, the Floor Food. There were people in the Marriott who spent two straight days sitting across from some food they set on the ground. They'd beg you to eat it as you passed by. First day it was pizza, then salad, then candy. I don't know if anyone ever really ate anything.. Ethan took one of the candies, but it was strawberry so he didn't eat it.

Ethan's sign. The writing was technically my idea.. Though it was his idea to take a pizza box out of the trash. o_O

Though if you recall, the Deathsmilies were also my own creation.

We all felt this way, but few of us actually expressed in such a dramatic manner.

The blue's a little bright, and their sword was crappy, but it was still a rather solid costume.

Jet Set Radio girl again. Ethan gave her his AIM screen name.. She never contacted you, did she? :P

I find some sort of artistic value in this. I don't know what, though.

Our seats for the masquerade. Pretty good, for flat seating.. The screen was just far enough away.

They had a Majora's Mask skit.. It was crappy, but it's nice to see some Majora lovin'.

The flippin' awesome Katamari skit. I took so many other pictures of this one (they were blurry beyond recognition) that my batteries did and I couldn't take pictures of anything else for the rest of the con. Sadness.

Here's the big one though: My categorized swag chart that I made when I was really, really bored. You can find it here on DeviantArt.. It was too big to upload to 250free.

And thus concludes my Anime Expo ventures. I'll try to take less cosplay pictures next time, and more worthwhile ones. :P

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In other news.. Only one more week of summer school. Huzzah. I beat Katamari Damacy today. The moon level was awesome, though I got stuck for like half a minute between some trees. The credits were odd, and I thought it was strange that they would throw an environmental world unity message in that late in the game, but whatever. The second game came out this week in Japan.. Only so long before it gets localized, reportedly for $30 instead of 20.

I need sleep.
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