Friday 25th May 2007
Superbinge
After the events of the previous night I was a little understandably wary in heading downstairs in the morning. Sarah and Jen had got into their Bleach outfits already, Mark was dressed as Cid and Liz was adorned with a purple set of cat ears and tail as Ritsuka when I was waking up, so the familiarity with cosplayers hit pretty quickly. I was a bit shaky walking through the lobby but knowing that the con had now officially started managed to keep some sort of composure.
We went to the Boston Pizza outside the Park Plaza hotel, this one is part of the trio of hotels which house the AN attendees (the other 2 being the Doubletree and Yaoi North location the Renaissance) but seemingly has nothing to do with the convention except for the massive spike in business the con brings. The pizza was nice, even though me and George were the only ones to actually have pizza.
We went to the Boston Pizza outside the Park Plaza hotel, this one is part of the trio of hotels which house the AN attendees (the other 2 being the Doubletree and Yaoi North location the Renaissance) but seemingly has nothing to do with the convention except for the massive spike in business the con brings. The pizza was nice, even though me and George were the only ones to actually have pizza.
Then we got to the dealer's room in the TCC and everything changed, suddenly I snapped into London Expo mode. Everything was fine and I was ready to get into there, cosplayers or no cosplayers (there were shitloads).
about 2 hours and $400 later we emerged, having missed the VG Cats panel I'd wanted to see we headed back to the hotel room to dump the stuff (getting halted on the way back for an impromptu photoshoot, seemingly every Final Fantasy cosplayer decided to cross that same road at the same time) and then I wanted to go to the Renaissance for a panel.
This was my first proper panel, How Not To Write Badfic. It was a very interesting and entertaining panel which pretty quickly turned from a educational panel with examples using a pair of stereotype characters to a simple bitch-fest about bad fanfics and the people who write them. It wasn't the last time I was going to see the girl heading the panel, or hear her (disturbingly endearing) lisp.
Eventually though I had to leave the room with Nelly in tow and head back to the hotel room for some sleep, tomorrow was the big day.
Swag Obtained
Bleach Chibi poster
Tsubasa Chronicle poster
Angelic Layer manga 1-4
Cardcaptor Sakura manga 1-4
Loveless manga 1-4
Fake manga 1+2
Alone In My King's Harem manga
Tsubasa Chronicle Sakura plushie
Tsubasa Chronicle Fai plushie
Bleach bag
Kick. Fucking. Ass. Blue Dragon shirt (seriously, you have to see it)
Cardcaptor Sakura Uncut DVD boxset 1 (episodes 1-35)
Cardcaptors TCG boosters (3)
Anime North 2007 t-shirt
Cardcaptor Sakura statue (from under Nelly's nose)
Tomorrow
Bring On The Hollows!
This was my first proper panel, How Not To Write Badfic. It was a very interesting and entertaining panel which pretty quickly turned from a educational panel with examples using a pair of stereotype characters to a simple bitch-fest about bad fanfics and the people who write them. It wasn't the last time I was going to see the girl heading the panel, or hear her (disturbingly endearing) lisp.
Eventually though I had to leave the room with Nelly in tow and head back to the hotel room for some sleep, tomorrow was the big day.
Swag Obtained
Bleach Chibi poster
Tsubasa Chronicle poster
Angelic Layer manga 1-4
Cardcaptor Sakura manga 1-4
Loveless manga 1-4
Fake manga 1+2
Alone In My King's Harem manga
Tsubasa Chronicle Sakura plushie
Tsubasa Chronicle Fai plushie
Bleach bag
Kick. Fucking. Ass. Blue Dragon shirt (seriously, you have to see it)
Cardcaptor Sakura Uncut DVD boxset 1 (episodes 1-35)
Cardcaptors TCG boosters (3)
Anime North 2007 t-shirt
Cardcaptor Sakura statue (from under Nelly's nose)
Tomorrow
Bring On The Hollows!
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