AX '06 summary

[lucathia]

My super long con report is here.

Here's the summary:
-set at at 5 A.M. the first day without sleeping and still missed the D.Gray-man gathering
-got transferred hotels to one that was super far away
-waiting in line and more waiting in line
-missed all the panels. Did not see Paku Romi. Did not see CLAMP.
-artist alley=cramped
-badges kept falling off
-Dealer's room=HUGE
-got sick on day of PoT gathering
-met disutansu (yay!)
-masquerade=smooth operation, line=BOO, fever=DIZZY
-could not see a darn thing during masquerade because was sitting behind sound system
-liked the FF6, Yakitate Japan, and Nintendo skits the best.
-did not see most of the AMVs
-had to leave early on Tuesday
-took very little pictures

But I still took a few pics. Mostly of the PoT gathering, because I didn't have gloves then! Having gloves makes a camera hard to manage. I only chased after two cosplayers (yay for restraint ^^;;), the Niou one and the Kaitou Kid one. ^_^


Prince of Tennis

I chased after Niou on Sunday. ^_^ Good that I did that, since Niou didn't appear at the PoT gathering!

(Perhaps Yagyuu's glasses were stolen?!)

Woke up with a sore throat on Monday, but I managed to drag myself out of bed to go to the PoT gathering. It was worth it, though none of the people in my group went with me, so I had to ask other people to take pics for me, which didn't work out too well. In the end, I took pictures of other cosplayers for myself~ I just wasn't in the photos. :3


Teh gathering. I'm the only pre-regular Ryoma.


Undercover!Inui. ^_^ The camera and everything fit so well! I was hesitant to approach her in case I was wrong about who she was~ Awesome Inui, no? (Teehee. 'tis disutansu)


Kikumaru and Tezuka.


Fear Inui's Juice!


Hyotei. :DD




Awwww.


Australian formation!


En garde!


Hyotei vs. St. Rudolph.


Yay, St. Rudolph!


Akazawa ♥ ♥


The new team.


The non-blue-and-white Seigaku members.


double Ryoma. :DD I kind of tagged along with the other Ryoma because I was so alone~


Tezuka and the huge racket.


You don't want to know what's going on.


Nor here, either. =P


Inui with Death Note.

Inui writes: Kaidoh will die from getting kicked by Tezuka.


And it happens.


Kaidoh dies. ^^;;;


More of the entire group minus me.



Other cosplayers




Kaitou Kid!!!




Saw them at Fanime too. =)



The Suikoden gathering was tiny. But there were two Lucs.








D.gray-man cosplayers:








Me


My D.Gray-man cosplay group. Linalee wasn't dressed as Linalee that day. XD;; And gasps, we went from 2 Rhodes, to 0 Rhodes?! I missed ranier. My personal Rhode. D= I had an urge to take pics with random Rhodes, but I was too tired to do that. I'm the one on the very right.

Fun with Pacman. :)





My props

Karupin + Tennis ball with Ryoma's face for my Ryoma cosplay (since I didn't want to bring a racket:


I didn't have a red racket, only a blue one. My brother's is purple. But perhaps, I could have brought our wooden one just to look cool. It'd have been like the time Ryoma was forced to play with that horrible racket in one of the beginning episodes.

My time record and suitcase for Miranda:




My loot


I bought three t-shirts (two Disgaea of the prinnies, one Fruits Basket of Kyo) and two Disgaea cellphone straps. Came along with a Disgaea 2 promo disc. One of the Disgaea shirts is for my brother's friend.


My plushies included Puu from YYH, Chopper, Kon, Sena, and that scarecrow guy from Howl's moving castle. I couldn't not buy Sena! I saw so little ES21 merchandise there. They even had the Devil Bat, but I didn't buy him. ^^;;


Buying Harry Potter pins at an anime convention makes me feel weird. XD;;


And, just because it's Hanatarou. Negima for my brother.



I wish I took more pics. -_-;; gem2niki has our D.Gray-man group pics (from both Fanime and AX linked here.

Comments

[lucathia]

Exhibition Hall was huge! (I call it dealer's room. XD;; Got used to it from Fanime, I guess) It made me so tired, looking through everything. I probably should have gone later...there wasn't a line in the afternoon. Only in the morning. D=

I didn't go to AX Idol either. Is that...one of the main events? What actually goes on there?

I tried looking for you during the convention, but alas, too many people. I could only spot you once the PoT gathering got together, and then, you appeared! XD;; Like a real spy!

My friend's sister tied the badges for us later so that they never fell off again. :3 Good thinking. :DD

I'm glad I went chasing after Niou. Had no idea that Niou wouldn't appear at the gathering! I thought at least I'd see some yellow amongst all that blue and white...

Inui + death note = Teh Scary.

What! There was a HIRUMA plushie?? I so did not see it. D= I only saw Sena and the devil bat and a es21 football. =(

[disutansu.livejournal.com]

I hear it in many different ways but I usually call it "Exhibit Hall". Or place where you spend uber lots of money. XD Usually there is a line before it opens, because people want to get in there first. Other than that, they just let people walk it. ^^

And heck there was a lot of people. I did see the male Kaidoh about 8 times while walking around though. XD And yus! *Spy!Inui wins*

There are always some people who can't make it to the gathering. So take all the pics you can! ^^

There was that one parody comic. Oh god, poor Kaidoh why do you always have to die!?

I would go for a Shin plushie if they made one. XD Shiiiiiiiiiiiin~saaaaaaaaaaaan!!!

[lucathia]

Yeah, I wanted to go there in the morning, and then wander around in the afternoon. I guess most people sort of had the same plans. It was the first place I wanted to check out after getting my badge.

Hehe, yeah, I kept seeing that one Kaidoh cosplayer, the one with the out-of-place green bandana.

Mm, I didn't even know that there were such things as cosplay gatherings until this year. And to think that I've been going to anime conventions (well, at least Fanime) for the past 6 years...

A parody comic? Of Death Note x PoT? Or of Kaidoh dying? ^^;;

Oh well, a Sena plushie is enough to satisfy my ES21 fangirling for now. I'd have liked one in a normal school uniform though.

[disutansu.livejournal.com]

I wanted to get in there because I know things sell out really fast, especially with the amount of people. Plus you have to spend time to search for everything.

Ahh, I wish the Kaidoh from last year came. He was the best, even with his lime green bandana. XD;; *would let him borrow mine*

I'm sure Fanime has its own gatherings too. You should check cosplay.com and see. ^^ They usually post in the forums around con time and finalize the list before it begins.

And both. XD;; You probably saw it in the tenipuri comm? http://community.livejournal.com/tenipuri/888061.html

School uniform plushies are hard to find. *squishes them*

[lucathia]

Yeah...there was this one pencil board that I wanted that was already sold out. >_> For the artist alley too. There was something that I wanted...but they only had their own copy on display and the rest was sold out. But eh, for Fanime, I usually wait until the last day to see if they have any sales. >D

Lime green? XD;;

There's much less gatherings at Fanime. The gatherings are smaller too (from what I know of this year), so we even had a "shonen jump" gathering to squeeze everyone into the same gathering. :3 I don't remember if there was a tenipuri gathering though.

No, I think I missed it! OMG, POOR KAIDOH. (but his little ghost/spirit is awfully cute)

I'll just have to keep looking! >D

[disutansu.livejournal.com]

Sou ne... I wanted to spend lots on the artist alley for anything Inui or Kaidoh but woe... I didn't want to spend any more money. XD;;

He was actually pretty good-looking. Ah, I know the scan sucks. XD From a disposable camera and I scanned the pic. I should do a higher quality scan... sometime.

And yes omg!! Inui, how could you!? ;-; *squishes Kaidoh's ghost/spirit* I wonder if he'd scare himself. XD;; Since he's afraid of the paranormal.

Hai!

[lucathia]

Oo, that Kaidoh cosplayer certainly fits the role well!

Say, what camera did you use this year? It was really big! Looked really difficult to use.

[disutansu.livejournal.com]

He was so much *squish* I passed him like 10 times last year. ^o^

It was my dad's digital camera. He HAS to buy big huge ones for some reason. I don't think he trusts the quality of little ones. XD;;