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Happy Birthday to Me
Well, life has been interesting so far. Here's my spiel on Otakon and my birthday so far. ^_~
Heat Index: 115 degrees
Well, we got to Baltimore on Thurs, and they didn't start doing badges until 5:00, so we hung out and waited for the lines to lighten. We ended up getting our badges at like 7 or so, and actually only spent 20-25 minutes out in the heat. Which was good because, uh, there was a heat index of 115. That's hot.
So then we just kinda hung out in the room for the rest of the night, and got up and went to the convention as soon as it opened at 10. Course, we couldn't get into the dealer's room until 1:30 because of the long-assed line, but that's okay, because then we got in and spent...a helluva lot of money. *grins* Though I am proud to say I didn't pay full price of any manga at all.
Sasuke Says Please Stop the Faggotry
Then there were the panels. Oh, the lovely, lovely panels. We went to the DramaQueen panel, then the History of Yaoi panel, and then the Yaoi Lovers panel. Gods, the first one had the craziest woman ever, she was so funny and started her own yaoi manga company. But the last panel? Was freaking awesome.
It had some of the most hi-larious quotes, including: "Sasuke says please stop the faggotry" because poor Sasuke from Naruto always gets stuck in S&M relationships, lol. And also one of the panelists, a very pretty Asian girl with long dark hair, going, "It's not true that yaoi is directed at girls, for girls, by girls. Boys read yaoi too. Like me" and pulled off 'her' hair and revealed a really pretty blond Asian boy.
What Do You Do When You're Lonely and Dead Inside? ...I masturbate.
Oh, the cosplay. Not as good as usual, but it was all made worth it by the woman behind us, who was the funniest woman ever. She was such a hilarious bitch, lol. There were five different performances of people just wearing costumes and playing instruments, and she kept trying to steal Doug's sword to commit seppaku and calling him greedy for not letting her kill herself.
And then there was the guy who was trying to play his violin and failing and he went into a spiel about life and "Anime changed my life. I mean, what do you do when you're lonely and ead inside?" and all of a sudden we hear behind us the woman deadpan, "I masturbate." God, she was hilarious. We about died laughing.
There were a few awesome performances. The overall winner was amazing. These four people had coreographed a battle to music, and they were doing backflips and flying kicks and it was gorgeous.
Long-Assed List of Manga
I bought manga. A lot of it. As in I went there with $300 and came back with $60. But still, here is a list of all the manga I bought.
Arcana v. 4
Baby & Me v. 1-2
Banana Fish v. 13-14
Blazin' Barrels v. 3-5
Dragon Head v. 1-3
Guru-Guru Pon-chan v. 4-5
Imperfect Hero. v. 3
Liling-Po v. 4
My Cat Loki v. 1
Nodame Cantabile v. 5-6
One Piece v. 10-11
Return to the Labyrinth v. 1
Roadsong v. 1
Samurai Deeper Kyo v. 19
Scrapped Princess v. 3
Shaman King v. 9
Shaolin Sisters Reborn v. 4
Tough v. 4-6
You wanna be an Air Force Ranger, you wanna live a life of danger, you dun wanna be raped by strangers.... AKA Happy Birthday to Me
So I got to stay over at Chrissy's one more night, and we watched part of "Ghost Stories" which is a freaking hilarious anime where it was so horrible that the Japanese handed it over and were all, "Do what you want with it." So the voice actors pretty much got to dub it any way they wanted, which meant a girl's mom got to be a lesbian, there was a religious freak girl who keeps telling everyone they're going to hell, and quotes like the main guy singing to the little 'retarded' kid who cries all the time, 'You wanna be an Air Force Ranger, you wanna live a life of danger, you dun wanna be raped by strangers.'
Good times, good times.
Heat Index: 115 degrees
Well, we got to Baltimore on Thurs, and they didn't start doing badges until 5:00, so we hung out and waited for the lines to lighten. We ended up getting our badges at like 7 or so, and actually only spent 20-25 minutes out in the heat. Which was good because, uh, there was a heat index of 115. That's hot.
So then we just kinda hung out in the room for the rest of the night, and got up and went to the convention as soon as it opened at 10. Course, we couldn't get into the dealer's room until 1:30 because of the long-assed line, but that's okay, because then we got in and spent...a helluva lot of money. *grins* Though I am proud to say I didn't pay full price of any manga at all.
Sasuke Says Please Stop the Faggotry
Then there were the panels. Oh, the lovely, lovely panels. We went to the DramaQueen panel, then the History of Yaoi panel, and then the Yaoi Lovers panel. Gods, the first one had the craziest woman ever, she was so funny and started her own yaoi manga company. But the last panel? Was freaking awesome.
It had some of the most hi-larious quotes, including: "Sasuke says please stop the faggotry" because poor Sasuke from Naruto always gets stuck in S&M relationships, lol. And also one of the panelists, a very pretty Asian girl with long dark hair, going, "It's not true that yaoi is directed at girls, for girls, by girls. Boys read yaoi too. Like me" and pulled off 'her' hair and revealed a really pretty blond Asian boy.
What Do You Do When You're Lonely and Dead Inside? ...I masturbate.
Oh, the cosplay. Not as good as usual, but it was all made worth it by the woman behind us, who was the funniest woman ever. She was such a hilarious bitch, lol. There were five different performances of people just wearing costumes and playing instruments, and she kept trying to steal Doug's sword to commit seppaku and calling him greedy for not letting her kill herself.
And then there was the guy who was trying to play his violin and failing and he went into a spiel about life and "Anime changed my life. I mean, what do you do when you're lonely and ead inside?" and all of a sudden we hear behind us the woman deadpan, "I masturbate." God, she was hilarious. We about died laughing.
There were a few awesome performances. The overall winner was amazing. These four people had coreographed a battle to music, and they were doing backflips and flying kicks and it was gorgeous.
Long-Assed List of Manga
I bought manga. A lot of it. As in I went there with $300 and came back with $60. But still, here is a list of all the manga I bought.
Arcana v. 4
Baby & Me v. 1-2
Banana Fish v. 13-14
Blazin' Barrels v. 3-5
Dragon Head v. 1-3
Guru-Guru Pon-chan v. 4-5
Imperfect Hero. v. 3
Liling-Po v. 4
My Cat Loki v. 1
Nodame Cantabile v. 5-6
One Piece v. 10-11
Return to the Labyrinth v. 1
Roadsong v. 1
Samurai Deeper Kyo v. 19
Scrapped Princess v. 3
Shaman King v. 9
Shaolin Sisters Reborn v. 4
Tough v. 4-6
You wanna be an Air Force Ranger, you wanna live a life of danger, you dun wanna be raped by strangers.... AKA Happy Birthday to Me
So I got to stay over at Chrissy's one more night, and we watched part of "Ghost Stories" which is a freaking hilarious anime where it was so horrible that the Japanese handed it over and were all, "Do what you want with it." So the voice actors pretty much got to dub it any way they wanted, which meant a girl's mom got to be a lesbian, there was a religious freak girl who keeps telling everyone they're going to hell, and quotes like the main guy singing to the little 'retarded' kid who cries all the time, 'You wanna be an Air Force Ranger, you wanna live a life of danger, you dun wanna be raped by strangers.'
Good times, good times.