I can't even begin to describe the con, unless you know the fandoms. Every year it's a place to watch new anime, check out people wearing costumes, shop in the dealers' room for commercial anime and manga-related stuff, shop in Artists' Alley for amateur and semiprofessional artwork, comics, jewelry, bookmarks and other stuff and go to panels with titles like "Hetalia Mock UN" (I missed that one, sadly) and "Feminism, Fanfiction and Fanservice")
Oh, and get together with friends and meet other anime and manga fans with similar interests.
One picture being a thousand words, here's an album-full of them.
A few highlights:
-The CLAMP photo shoot. I've noted which one that is in the pictures above. I was Yuuko from Xxxholic (she's also in other stories by CLAMP, primarily Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle). I had such a blast playing at being Yuuko and meeting other fans.
-Visiting my friends' Kevin & Sarah's booth, and buying a copy of Ensign Sue Must Die! by Kevin and his friend Clare.
-The Yoshida Brothers concert. Amazing shamisen players who perform with rock bands and on their own in a range of traditional Japanese to rock with other genres mixed in. They did a wonderful blues-influenced number.
-Playing with my roommates' ball-jointed dolls. One of them, Andrea (second from left in the last photo in my album) actually makes the dolls from molds. She also makes some of the clothes, and paints the faces (she has a lovely hand with makeup, tattoos and so on).
-Sunday Brunch with my roommates--see that last photo.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
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