Monday, May 8, 2006

   Back from ACen!
I definitely had a lot of fun ^_^

Friday
I went and stayed with urd-chan, kojika, himeko, Moonlit--Shadow, Cavatini (You can find all of them on deviantART) and a couple others. First off, when a few of us went to go up to our hotel room, we had trouble finding it. urd-chan told us the room number, but all any of us heard 4-something-4. (It turned out ot be 404) We proceeded to try the keycard on doors that were 4-something-4, and at door 414, a guy in cosplay opened the door when we tried it, so we explained what we were doing, he didn't care, and went on to ask us if we had a fork he could have...appearently he had ramen but no way to eat it XD I had a couple in my bag so we went to the car to get our bags and I made it my mission to bring him one. He was quite pleased, heh.
Things were not overly exciting for the most part that night. I went to the Fushigi Yuugi cosplay shoot. I got there early, and I talked to our Nuriko, who just happened to be [u=cammi]! ^_^
Unfortunatey, we had a very small turnout for the FY group. There was me(Hotohori), [u=cammi](Nuriko), a Tasuki, and four Miakas! (Yes, FOUR. We had two in their regular school uniforms, one in the miko outfit, and, one of the coolest, a dark Miaka, which wore the school uniform, but in black. We got some good pictures, but I didn't have a camera. As soon as I can find someone who has put them online, I'll link to them, because they were just too good. I got some nice shots with [u=cammi] and they worked out very well, because I'm pretty short(I was chibi Hotohori, lol!!) but as it turns out she is even shorter that I am, so it worked out great!
One creepy thing happened though...at one point I was standing there, and I felt something tug my hair as if it were being played with, and I turn to see this random blond girl, who I didn't know, touching my hair...worst part of it was that she didn't even know who I was cosplayed as...
Anyway....
After that I went to go see the rest of Anime Hell and Midnight Madness.

Saturday
Saturday I got into cosplay, and the first thing I did was go to the dealers room with :devmoonlit--shadow: and another. I FINALLY got a Fushigi Yuugi artbook ^_^. I also picked up FY volume 18(I would have bought it when It came out a few weeks ago, but I knew I could get it cheaper at the con) an FY wallscroll with Soi, Yui, and Nakago(As much as I have expressed distaste for him in the past, I do have to admit that he may be one of my favourite characters), and I got an 8" really detailed figure of Vincent Valentine <3
Funny thing happened when I was at the one booth buying the wallscroll...A random guy, not in cosplay, pledges his allegiance to me as Tamahome of the Suzaku Shichiseishi. XDD It was too good.
My hopes of getting the LOZ:OoT manga were destroyed though, since I couldn't find it anywhere. The one place selling any manga in Japanese was highly overpriced, so I didn't get anything there.
Later on moonlit--shadow, another friend and myself chilled in our room for a while, and ordered some food from a nearby restaurant. (I couldn't resist getting something to eat out there...I really miss how good the food is, Indiana food is awful...)
I hung out with my friend Bri-chan for a bit, and a few people took some really cool pictures of the two of us down in the game room. (Our characters are a very strange combination, being Hotohori and a character from Bible Black XD ) We went down by the ballroom, and watched the Spoony Bards, a group who plays anime and game music. She wanted me to go up there and dance with her but I don't dance...well that was until they did "Eyes on Me", then I agreed and had her teach me a two-step ^^; What can I say, I can't resist that song.
After that she ran off to see what was going on in the ballroom, and I stayed and listened to the Spoony Bards for awhile. They did "One Winged Angel" and had volunteers from the audience come up to be the Sephiroth choir, and of course I had to go and be a part of that!! It was really cool actually, a Cloud cosplayer did this cool dance scene thing with her sword and a random cosplayer. We were missing a Sephiroth though, until just at the perfect time in the song one came out of the crowd and joined in! It was all too great.
They played the FFVII boss battle theme a bit later, and Cloud and Sephiroth got up and did this fight thing, it was really awesome, but some of the ACen staff made them stop :(
Anyway, I left that and wandered around a bit trying to find one of my friends, with not too much luck. I sat in on an episode of Hajime no Ippo and one of Vampire Princess Miyu, wandered around a bit more, found and talked with a Genbu no Miko(who I wished could have been at the cosplay shoot. Her costume was amazing!!) Then I decided I was going to go back to the hotel room to see if anyone was there. On my way I ran into my roomies coming back toward the con, so we ended up walking around for a while doing a train type thing, holding onto the person infront of us. Eventually we went back to the room and went to bed. It was nice to get out of my cosplay costume. Although it's actually really comfortable, there was one part I was all too glad to get rid of. Lets just say since I'm female there is a certain feature that must be dealt with for crossplay, and dealing with this restricted my breathing a bit, lol.

Sunday
I didn't cosplay this day. Too much of a hassle, you know?
moonlit--shadow wanted to head back down to the dealers room, so I went with her and another of our friends. I didn't want to really spend any more money, since after ordering food I was down to about $10...buuuuuut I couldn't resist and I got a Nuriko keychain, which is hooked to my shirt right now ^^. Unfortunately all I ever see at cons in the way of the keychains is just Miaka, Tamahome and Nuriko. So of course of those three I would get Nuriko ^^. It just gave Kojika more ammunition. She's insists on the HotohorixNuriko thing, and refered to me as the gay emperor all weekend, even when I wasn't in my costume XD
We went back to the main part of the con and as soon as we entered a random girl was giving out giant pixie stix to whoever wanted them, as a last con day sugar rush ^^
moonlit--shadow and myself went off and found kojika and went to her MAR panel. We pretty much spent the time during the panel trying to kidnap people to come and join in, heh. But I pretty much just sat and mentioned the greatness of Alviss for the most part ^^
After the panel we went and sat by the indoor fountain, and the three of us snacked on some things moonlit--shadow brought, and we all drew a bit(it was a bit hard for me though, since I was using two manga propped on my leg under the paper. But it turned out that for the whole time we sat there, one of the two guys sitting just to the right of us was someone I knew from back in middle school. Jimmy and I had ran into each other last ACen, and I had given him my number, but it got smeared since I wrote it on him, lol. So we hadn't talked since then, but hopefully now we can stay in touch. He was one of the very very few people in middle school I could have called a friend.
After that we headed home, and that's the end of this tale!!

I'd have to say I had a lot of fun. It was a bit disappointing though, because while cosplaying, I had far too many people ask who my character was. I mean, I know Fushigi Yuugi is not as popular as anime such as Naruto, Bleach, etc, mostly since it is an older anime, but still, it's a staple for any anime fan to see.
But I cannot deny the great feeling that I got when I would hear someone call out "Hotohori-sama!" and want to talk or take a picture. ^_^

Wow, this has to be my longest entry ever...!
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