Friday, May 18, 2007

ACen Report-Friday-Continued
So come to find out, while we were having a blast on Friday, Shanny's parents' house burnt down. I was in total shock. Go visit her and lend her your support if you haven't already (her user name is Dark_Phoenix for those that don't know Shanny).

ACen Report Part III (of IV, hopefully)

Just a note on where fellow MyO’ers were at the time of these events: Katana couldn’t come on Friday, MsKeller had a booth in artist alley and then later went the Yaoi track, I didn’t know Bellpickle was even present on Friday, but I think I read at her blog that she was there and went to the concerts and J-rock events. I was more interested in the Japanese track and Schultzie was more interested in the English track, but we still did end up in several panels together. I'll be linking the others' journals soon just so you can have lots of perspectives on ACen...

Friday-Part II-Shinkiro the Panel Geek

To catch you up, we were escorted to Opening ceremonies (which for some reason started almost one hour late). During the middle, some one announced that we were to evacuate due to a fire. We stayed evacuated for about twenty minutes or so. We eventually filed back in and opening ceremonies continued on. There was nothing unusual after that but I was ecstatic that I was a stone’s throw away from the awesome Japanese guests (I even made eye contact and smiled at one as we were taking our seats after the evacuation, squee). I also think that one of the bands (Spiral Spiders, I am pretty sure) came over and sat RIGHT behind us. I just know that there were several Asian hotties a couple of rows back speaking Japanese.

We stayed put and watched a few videos for the AMV contest just because there wasn’t anything else better to do. Schultzie wanted to check out the Mock Combat for Cosplay panel, so we scooted on over to peek in. We both lost interest fast and ended up at the Inside the Voice Actor studio panel. Apparently, all the voice actors slated forgot that they had a panel XD. One eventually showed up and then another. I don’t know much about English VA’s so I’ve already forgotten their names, gomen. One called himself Zero something-or-other and the other was in the last two eps of Eva. That’s all I got x_x

We left the VA panel early to check out the Evangelion panel (all Schultzie there too, hehe). It was actually pretty entertaining considering I didn’t care for the anime at all. I got my first glimpse at Spike Spencer and I saw Tiffany Grant, who was at MTAC though I only saw her at opening ceremonies. She is SO tiny and cute. They had some hilarious stories to tell and yes, the panel prompted me to want to rent the first couple of volumes of Eva just so that I could hear some of Spike Spencer and Tiffany Grant’s work.

Next Schultzie and I split up. I think he went to the Making Video Games panel and I tried to attend the To Japan and Back panel. I got a text from MsKeller saying that she was going to the Japanese Ghost Stories panel at that time. My panel got canceled (or maybe I just couldn’t find it, I can’t remember!) so I tried to head over to the Japanese Ghost Stories panel, but couldn’t find the McCarran room where it was held (damn my poor sense of direction).

For some reason, I got really confused and thought that the Trigun panel was being held in the Main Events room at 5pm, so I went and waited patiently in line. Remember the guy in the suit who thought we were VIPs? Well, I felt a hand on my shoulder and it was him! He was merely there to inform me that special guests did not have to wait in line and that I could bypass the line! I politely declined the offer and kept my place in the line. A staffer came by some time after that asking if we all had tickets. He told us where we could get them if we didn’t. So off to the ticket counter I went, asking for tickets to the Trigun panel. They looked at me like I was on crack, prompting me to excuse myself and recheck my schedule. Trigun wasn’t until six and I had apparently been in line for the Spiral Spiders concert! (Tough choice, btw because I wanted to see them, but I knew I could see their show Saturday afternoon, but I’d never have a chance to see Yasuhiro Nightow again). With more than a half hour to kill, I found some pay phones and called some people until time drew near for the Trigun panel.

Schultzie and I met up and made our way to the Trigun panel. It was basically a Q&A session with Yasuhiro Nightow (creator of Trigun) and Noriyuki Zinguji (graphic designer for Trigun and many other series and games). It was pretty informative and very entertaining. Japanese guests always crack me up to no end. Plus Noriyuki Zinguji was kind of hot, tehehe. Sorry Schultz! I tried not to unleash my fangirl too much with Schultz so he had NO IDEA that I was silently drooling beside him.

After the Trigun panel ended, we went over to try to see if they were still playing at the Wii Would Like to Play panel, but I guess they ended it early because it was finishing up when we got there. It was supposed to last another thirty minutes after the Trigun panel ended >_<. Schultzie and I went our separate ways again after walking around for a while. I walked around by myself and after determining that nothing of interest was going on, I found my way back to the room that had previously hosted the Wii panel. There was nothing going on in the room so I decided to just take a load off and text Katana since she had texted me earlier in the day.

Who came strolling in as I was texting Katana? Find out in the next installment of the ACen Report!

To be continued…

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