Sunday, August 21, 2005

Bye Bye, Strange Chameleon
Bigu nyuuzu! I bleached my hair for Otakon! Kyaa! It looks so weird. >_< But we're dying it back tonight, I think... Since orientation is tomorrow. o.o

WOW. There's so much to tell. Firstly, I am a little sad because I didn't get Vic Mignogna's (Ed's VA) autograph, because there were sooooo many people waiting in line that there wouldn't have been time for us. That's okay though, because we got to see him at a panel called Full Metal Fantasy. Small Spoiler Warning: There we got to see a brand new short film Vic wrote himself, about him turning into Ed and having to fight off the FMA villains--but it was all a dream... or was it? Anyway, this short may end up on one of the FMA DVDs--os you might have to go to a con to see it. We were all very privileged to get to see it though... End Spoiler Warning We also got to see the next FMA eppy before it's released! And not the ones you can get with the games... the one after that. That was all so much fun, and some really enthusiastic cosplayers behind us were quoting lines and I got a picture of Hughes proposing to Mustang. Hee hee.

And we bought stuff! Lots of stuff! I got two Ed plushies )one movie and one show), a Kumagorou plushie (finally! yay!), a shirt with a big Totoro face on it, 3 pins--Ginji, Yohji, and Ed, a complete set of FMA figurines (the kind where you can't tell which one you're getting because it doesn't say on the box) plus two extras, a wrking imitation state alchmist pocket watch, complete with the engraving from Ed's, a very nice FMA necklace that came with the watch, some dot tones (Deleter had a booth! wheeeee! Deleter!), a Shigure hat like the Kyou and Yuki ones you see around sometimes, a nice big woven hat to keep the sun off, the 2nd volume of Selfish Love, and 3 CDs: Best of L'Arc~En~Ciel '94-'98, Howl's Moving Castle soundtrack, and the pillows Please Mr. Lostman, from which I got my lil' quote in the title. My mom also got a Kyou hat, a black silk "kung fu" outfit, and a pretty vintage haori from the 70s. We sent far too much money, but it was so much fun!

Ah, the cosplayers! The wonderful cosplayers! There were some really good ones this year. I'll be posting pictures in the next few days when my mom gets them off the camera and onto the computer. There was an absolutely adorable pair of Kaibas, one full-grown and one a little kid. It was so cute! One picture I'm sad I didn't get was of a very authentic-looking Lady Eboshi with an incredibly detailed stuffed forest god's head under her arm... That was, as my mom put it, "the most amazing stuffed thing you've ever seen".

In between all the shopping and people-watching and Vic-drooling, we went and watched funny things. Namely, Cromertie High, Hare Guu (Jungle Wa Itsumo Hare Nochi Guu) which isn't available yet T_T, and of course Sat. Night Fan Parodies. I also caught the tail end of something called "Spring and Chaos" and it was the weirdest acid-trip anime I've ever seen. Anyone got any hints? Cuz I'm stumped. And of course there was Full Metal Fantasy. You have no idea how much it touched me to hear an entire huge room of people singing "Ready Steady Go" together. Wow. I almost cried.

That's all that comes to mind immediately. I'll add things later if I think of them. Oh yes, it was the greatest hotel stay I've ever had in my life. Nice people, pretty and spacious rooms, a working air conditioner, hot water, good breakfast, no noise... Very nice. I recommend the Hampton to anyone and everyone looking for a good hotel. I'm free advertising!
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