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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
artgalgenius	3:35p	Cosplay, lolitas, and shenanigans... Sadly, I could not attend the full four days of Anime Expo this year (stupid work!) but for the two days that I attended, I had a wonderful time. I had to miss the Moi dix Mois concert and panel as well as the Trigun and Gurren Lagann panels on Thursday and Friday but I heard the concert was amazing and the panels were very informative, well as informative as Mana feels. On Saturday, I put on my costume and headed over to the LA Convention Center. Its not hard to miss with a plethora of costume clad cosplayers gathered around. Registration, like last year, was remarkably easy this year and we were off! Cosplaying as Yuuko from xxxHolic is fun. I love her hair, her clothes, her pipe, and her attitude! The only issue I had was keeping my wig in place. I did not have a wig cap on as the one I have cuts into my scalp and gives me a headache after a few hours. But that was a minor inconvenience. the_fall_season  cosplayed with me as Watanuki. As for panels, most of the good ones were held on the first two days of the convention. But there appeared to be fewer panels offered this year compared to last year. So we headed to the video viewing room to watch some anime. First up was something called The Big Windup, a sports oriented anime about a baseball team with a very funny scene hinting at boys love between the pitcher and the catcher of the team! This was followed by Full Metal Panic, which cleared much of the room. We stuck around for one more anime, Asataro The Onion Samurai which was a cute and obviously kids oriented anime about an onion leaving home to seek adventure. The dealers hall was large as usual but there were definately fewer vendors and prices were not as good as in previous years. I did not buy a single manga. However I finally purchased Kamikaze Girls and the xxxHolic movies on DVD. Dream Shoppe was having a good sale and purchased my first Victorian Maiden dress! While on the topic of lolita, I am constantly dismayed by the large number of sweet lolitas and almost no gothic or classic loltias or even Elegant Gothic Aristocrats. I love the sweet look, but i also love the other styles of lolita. I am thinking that for the Cand Land event at Royal T on August first I will wear classic lolita just to shake things up a bit! Now the best part of any convention are the costumes. This year, the cosplays were much more detailed and accurate than in years past. I feel energized to come up with amazing outfits for my next events and conventions. Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler) had the most beautiful costumes, complete with real cakes on silver platters! Its such a beautiful anime I would love to cosplay as Sebastian Micheals from that series next. For dinner, we ate at Curry House in Little Tokyo. I had never eaten there before but I found it to be very good and must return to write a review of that place. Little Tokyo (and Curry House) was full of cosplayers as well. I really enjoy having the convention at the LA Convention Center for this reason! We took the shuttle to the Westin Bonaventure where we attended the dance there. I found the DJ was horrible playing the worse techno music. But maybe it was me. I'm an indie and gothic music fan. And this was not my scene. Now if Carlos D of Interpol was DJ-ing... The last day of the convention is always the saddest for me because I know it will all come to an end very soon. Sadly, there usually is nothing to look forward to on the last day of Anime Expo. Anime Los Angeles scheduled the lolita fashion show on the last day giving attendees something to look forward to. Perhaps AX should think of something similar... But the last day was the most magical for me. Dressed in my favorite Baby The Stars Shine Bright dress, we found out that Mana was going to be signing autographs! Quickly we purchased Moi dix Mois posters and ran over to the registration hall were they had us waiting in the sun for a while and none of us lolitas had brought our parasols! Thankfully we did not melt and were soon let into the hall. I have to say that Mana was beautiful wearing a blue Moite blouse and with large hair. Each band member signed our posters and shook hands with us. I shook Mana's hand. I only wished I had owned some Moite clothing and would have worn that instead of the black Baby The Stars Shine Bright dress I was wearing. I also got autographs from the adorable Yun Kouga, manga-ka of Loveless, Yasuhiro Nightgow manga-ka of Trigun, and Satoshi Nishimura, director of the 2009 Trigun movie.  Sadly, as the day ended another convention was over. But I wasn't too sad. There were more events coming up soon... If anyone is interested, you can view photos of my cosplay, lolita, and Anime Expo on my flickr... Current Mood: tired Current Music: dead silence (Comment on this)
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
soccer_mom56	2:04p	This is where the party ends I can't stand here listening to your racist friend ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) (4 Comments |Comment on this)