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Finishing Fanime: some more random stories and discussions
May 30th
A comparatively peaceful and relaxing weekend…
Just some random notes on Fanime 2008. Inside, a look over on some of the cosplays (although, no pictures yet), the dealer’s room, my elitist side at Fanime, some random games, and the video rooms.
I wonder if writing a blunt, short, dull preview while mentally dead will help drive more people to read the actual article. It’s an experiment. Or something.
Man, I miss KimiKiss at times like this … although my rewatch of it has stalled out.
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Fanime’s Finest (2008) – A rave on Touhou, English visual novels, and zawa zawa
May 28th
It’s been two days since quite possibly the most hectic weekend of my life, and I think I’ve finally shaken off all the sleep deprivation and worn off that tasty mix of adrenaline and insanity, that anime conventions tend to impart upon an otherwise normal person.
As such it’s time to immortalize my first Fanime (do note that the phrase “my first time” has been beaten to death at the convention already) in literary form by going over some of the more entertaining events that made my weekend and my $55 worth it.
Additionally, in the next few days I plan to make a broader coverage of the convention as a whole with more general info and more griping, but until then I’ll stick with the starry-eyed wonder that makes all the seasoned, hardened anibloggers jealous.
It might be perhaps a bit self-indulging in a sense to brag about all the cool stuff that happened, but on the other hand, I hope I can inspire and encourage future entertaining events like this in the future.
OK, yeah, it’s just wankery. But it’s entertaining and hilarious wankery. Trust me. It’s apparently not just a coincidence I was wearing a Cirno shirt around. I make a lot of idiotically awesome stories.
[Fanime] Friday Five Minute Report
May 23rd
Spent fifteen minutes at Fanime, have five minutes to write on it. Didn’t have much time other than to be overwhelmed by all the stuff, so here’s the only thing I remembered, cosplay highlights.
- Hatsune Miku; obscure enough to surprise me.
- A very well done Haruhi / Mikuru pair. Sadly missing Nagato.
- Meganekko Konata. Not the best job but still cute.
- A Wii remote. XD
- EIRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN and Kaguya. Yay, I’m a Touhoutard now.
- Guy wearing a ‘I’m not cosplaying shirt’.
- Mudkip. I herd people liek him.
- AMU HINAMORI! I think. I really hope so.
And other highlights:
- Walked around Artist’s Alley, vowed to buy first thing with Kanon on it. It might take a while.
- Ran around Dealer’s Room, saw a lot of exciting things. Kare Kano DVDs 2 and 5 for $5 a piece but missing rest of the set.
- Ran into Video Room #4 for 10 seconds before deciding I was too lazy to hunt down lk, since I was leaving in 5 minutes.
- Fanime registration took 2 minutes. Picking up my prom tux took 2 hours. Fanime, 1, prom, 0. Being nerdy is awesome!
For tomorrow, I’m going to be at Fanime at 8 AM, so lk and etc., if you want to meet pick a place accordingly. Planning to wear one of my three iron-on ‘cheap nerdy shirts’ – depicting either an outline of Chihiro from ef, the “quiet unsociable person” tagline (Hisui, from Tsukihime), or Cirno’s nine-ball. Hope to see some of you there.
-CCY