Ahahahaha,
wooow.This year's Kumoricon is the first anime convention I've ever been to, even though I've been watching anime since I was 13. I had a BLAST today, even though I didn't get to see everything I had planned (Hey, at least there's another plushie tutorial/workshop tomorrow! BTW, how was the Phil Foglio/Girl Genius panel? What did Phil and Kaja talk about?)
EDIT: (P.S.: Mainly minor gripe---I was waiting in line for 2 hours for my pre-registered badge.
)
This is the most fun I've had in years! I never got to do anything like this back in Florida.
Memorable events for me:
-Sucking badly at "Busy Child" on DDR (to give you an idea of how bad the suck was, I was racking up
MISS COMBOS.
-The Bleach cosplayer (dunno the character's name) with the GINORMOUS mallet. Where does she keep that thing when the con's not in session?
-The two guys cosplaying as Rio and Salem from Army of Two. Tough hombres!
-The guy cosplaying as the Demoman from Team Fortress 2, with secret crotch-mounted message.
-The guy cosplaying as the Weighted Companion Cube from Portal. All hail!
-The spin-the-bobble game/glomp pit out on the greens.
-A little kid in a Shinji Ikari outfit (which is perversely hilarious in its own way, the kid couldn't have been older than 10) joining in the bottle-glomp game, making a spin, walking over to someone and hugging them, which was quite possibly the most adorable thing to happen anywhere at the con today.
-One particular Shino cosplayer being singled out repeatedly for mass bum-rush glomping at said game.
-Finding Waldo. Several times. Once I found him cornered in the park by TONS of people with prop blades/guns/etc. Best photo I got all day, I think.
-Someone walks up to a clone trooper cosplayer and asks, "Found the droids yet?" The reply is, "Not the ones I'm looking for."
-Various people trying to practice the dance from the opening of Lucky Star.
-All the awesome stuff in the Dealer's Room.
-The Seras Victoria cosplayer toting a
HUGE rifle. We're talking vampire-portable artillery here. Chances are you saw it yourself---it's kinda hard to miss.
-Having dinner at the Lloyd Center and watching as people barely bat an eye at people wearing outfits brightly colored enough to hail aircraft waltzing through the mall.
-Gladly obliging people wearing "GLOMP ME" shirts/signs.
-"My Zaku is talking to me!"
-The kid cosplaying as Yotsuba. Awwwwwww...
-Seeing multiple instances of girls dressed as Zelos Wilder from Tales of Symphonia (who is ironically a womanizer).
-The Joker pimp-walking around with Snow White and Harley Quinn latched onto him.
-EDIT: Goku on a skateboard. On an awesomeness scale of 1 to 10, I'd rate it OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAND!!!1one
-Finding out that one of the pawns in Monday's cosplay chess is going to be LEEEEROOOOOOOOOY JEEEEENKIIIIIIIINSSSS!!
There are more, but there's so many I can't remember them all.
Hahaha, I think I probably might try my hand at cosplay next year. My thoughts are...:
-Albert Wesker, Leon S. Kennedy, the ill-fated Brad Vickers, Hunk, or another Resident Evil character
-King Leonidas from
300 (I can think of few ways to be annoying than wearing little more than a loin cloth and yelling "THIS! IS! PORTLAAAAND!" at the top of my lungs.
)
-Baird from Gears of War (He's the only character from the game that's built like me, everyone else is a brick)
-The space marine from the original DooM. BERSERKER-PACKING MAN AND A HALF! (You win pastries and some aspirin if you get that reference.)
-Combine MetroCop/Soldier/Elite from Half Life 2 (hilarious if I do volunteer duty).
-Bridget from Guilty Gear!
I saw another guy dressed as "her" and the silliness of the idea is tempting. I'd be the deepest-voiced Bridget in the world, though...
-Emil Castiglione(sp?) from Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World (I know that game isn't out yet, I don't care, it looks awesome
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-Colonel Kilgore from Apocalypse Now (Not anime, don't care, 'cause I still love the smell of napalm in the morning)
-EDIT: Rorsarch(sp?) from Alan Moore's "Watchmen"
I regret I didn't get to stay for the Slants concert---by 6:30 PM I was feeling dead and deader.
Maybe next year I can get a room at the hotel.
Man, I feel...At
home here. I know that sounds weird, but back in Florida...I didn't really have anything like this. But here I can be the extravagant goofball I am at heart and actually be LOVED for it.
Best. Labor Day weekend. EVER.
Arigato/Sayanora until tomorrow!
~Charlatan
