IT STARTS TODAY. (le gasp)
Whose all going?
I'll try to post pictures from it on Monday.
I'm going to record everything that happened on each day, partly for you, but partly just for myself to remember ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING. Kumai is here too at the moment so she'll be telling what was going on at other places while I was there.
Friday:
(Friday Quote: "OMG VIC. SQUEE.")
People I met and/or recognized on (listed for all three days)(either from previous experience or just by costume, I can't remember them all):
Kumai/Kairi (who came running to glomp me at the gate)
Abbie/Geisha/Kagome (who also came running to glomp me at the gate, the force of the two nearly knocked me over!)
Lisa/Namine/Purple Ninja (I knew her already from the first NE con)
Lawliet/as himself/Pyramid Head (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE)
Jada/Sora (KH)/Fran (XII)
Justin/Riku (KH!!! SQUEE!) (I got to give him a crazy running glomp!!!!)
Sean/Lelouch (Code Geass) (HE WAS AWESOME AND SUPER TALL AND UBER CUTE!)
Matt/Kaito Sinbad (Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne) ( we know him too well)
Kisame (He was a awesome dancer, and his sword weighed a TON. He gave me a random ninja scroll! SQUEE)
Sami/Tohru (She was just super nice)
Renamon (who made an AWESOME costume the DAY BEFORE THE CON. TAKE THAT TO HEART EVERYBODY. MAKE YOUR COSTUME.)
Pyramid Head (who gave out free hugs
rapes.)
RYUK!
Tifa
Rikku (FFX-2 WARRIOR COSTUME 0_0)
Roxas (bigger in organization jacket)
Roxas (11 year old in organization jacket)
Deidara, Itachi, and the girl who always does Garaa switched to some Akasuki member that I didn't recognize.
Gaara, Temari, Sasuke
Kagome
Yuna (X-2 gunner)
Cassie/Neji (so kawii!)
Kristen/Garaa (except the lack of red hair was odd...)
Brenda/Lady Tsunade
Tamaki (another one of neji's friends.)
RANDOM NINJAS.
Before I got there- Kumai was was listening to Jada (aka Sora (from KH) who made her own panel about what to do and what not to do at a con. Super funny.
AND THEN I came in. And I was attacked. By two fangirls. XD
I went through the Dealer's Room, and looked at all the STUFF! IT WAS BEAUTIFUL! However, I didn't buy anything...yet.
It was there that I glomped "L"(perfect costume), Light (perfect costume, they were handcuffed),and Cloud Strife (smexy).
The opening cerimonies started, involving really funny speaches by Vic Mignogna and Spike Spencer! (SQUEEE!) More on Vic later.
Kumai and Namine both went to a "how to draw manga" session while Abbie and I worked on getting her out of that freaking complicated kimono. (it was waay too hot) Then we wandered the hallways, glomping people. We went into the food room and ate ramen while talking to Kisame, who let me TRY to pick up his sword. It was waaay to heavy, as it was entirelly made out of wood. He then gave me a (dundundun) NINJA SCROLL! WHOO!
We then met up with Kumai and Namine, where we got SUPER GLOMPED by the best glomper ever that we totally forgot his name. But hey, he was cute, and he gave the best glomps.
I then had to give a running (flying) glomp onto Riku.
We went upstairs and went to the HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY. VIC. SEXY VIC. HE DID A CONCERT.
Yes, believe it or not Vic has been writing music longer than he's been a voice actor. (Note, he voices Ed (FMA) and Dark (DNangel)) HE SANG LIVE FOR US!!!! And he STARED at our group (myself, Kumai, and Abbie), he called us "his girls". >////< SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
And kudos to Lawleit who went ahead and did the first slow dance with MICKY MOUSE.
He sanged directly at Kumai, (all of us really) but he gave her a HUG. More squeeeeee.
Afterwords, we bought his CDs (nice price: 10$), and he signed them for us. He said Kumai's real name was beautiful. SQUEEEE.
He talked to me about my Kaleido Star costume (I did Anna today) and about Kaleido star in general, because he voiced Master Lin. He just said he'd see me tomorrow, but hell, I'll take it.
We then asked him to sing Happy Birthday to Namine, who's birthday was the day before. He cuddled her and sang... IN HER EAR. SQEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
After that we talked to Lelouch, who quickly realized how big of fangirls we were. I think we all hugged him at least... 8 times. HE WAS CUTE GOSH DARN IT.
AND then. The dance. Our extended group was pretty much the only ones who were dancing at the moment, and we were going crazy about it. Lawleit did the worm. (KUDOS!!!X3) Kisame was doing all sorts of dance moves like the running man. (He was SO GOOD!) Kumai slow danced twice with Lelouch! SQUEE. We happened to force him to dance on multiple occasions. (He had no beat!)But we forced him. Which was FUN.
And then we left, singing "Soldier A" all the way home.
Quote from Vic: Soldier A, soldier A, the unsung hero of anime! Hiphip hooray, for Soldier A, he only has one line but saves the day. (Singing about the background guys who just randomly die in explosions and such.)
More tomarrow, its 12:33 am right now....
Saturday:
(Saturday Quote:"So how about that naruto?" I'll explain later! X3)
I didn't come for a LOOONGGGG time, cuz I had to go to the stupid parade (avec la band). So I missed some junk. I'll have Kumai explain, oh and Namine. (we're all sleeping over at the same house)
(By Kumai
First was Q&A with Vic. People just asked how he got into the business, and then he gave away two hats. He also gave away his gospel CDs. He signed them, and then we got our pictures taken, and then he surprised me with a glomp! SQUEEE!
He showed us his video of the dodgeball song (I have the CD). He also called us his "best girls". YAY. Then the panel ended sadly. Then we went to the Lolita Panel, where they just talked about the different kinds, and the basics. After that, we learned the japanese numa numa para para dance. (Cheriko:TEACH ME!) Katy and Jada taught it, and it was really fun.
After that was the J-pop/J-rock panel that was really just talking and eating and just being random. I got my first Ramune!
Then we went upstairs in the main area and they just happened to be playing Simple and Clean and Sanctuary, so me and Namine, we HAD TO SING ALONG, at the front enterance.
After that we went to the dealer's room. Then we went to the "library" for the free ramen. Which is when Cheriko called, and so we ran upstairs to glomp.
(Back to Cheriko!)
I was then attacked by Kumai,Namine, and Kagome (Abbie). Namine gives glomps that are almost painful they're so increadibly: Run Jump HUG. My parents decided to search the dealer's room (as they always do for Otaku to find me a b-day present... XD) I'm used to it by now... I then saw Neji, Garaa, Tsunade, and Tamaki. I was glomped by all. >.< Neji bought me an early b-day present: A Roy Mustang plushie!!! Squeee.
AND THEN I SAW IT. LAWLIET IN THE MOST KICK ASS AWESOME PYRAMID COSTUME EVER. (LAWLIET YOU ROCK.) GLOMPS AND PICTURES.
In the dealer's room, we just took (or at least I did) tons of pictures, including some featuring LULU! (Lulu is my nickname for Lelouch)
After pictures we went to the voice actor's panel, featuring Vic, Spike, and Keith. YAYAYAYAYAYAY! It was sooo cool! They gave tons of neat insite into voice acting. P.S. Spike said his hardest character was Shinji(eva). I was kinda surprised, since thats his most famous one.
After the voice actor panel, we went to Perkins to eat din. There, we found a usher who was totally hitting on ALL OF US. Which was fun. >.< And food. Food is good too.
We came back, we kinda seperated. Namine went to the dealer's room, and then she went to the dating auction. (Dating Auction: in a nutshell, pay money to buy a person for a day.) The rest of us just talked. A lot.
Then. What you've all been waiting for. THE MASQUERADE.
Aka, the cosplay competition. I'll just say some fun stuff (since I can't remember all of them, like awards and fun Lulu stuff.) The walk ons were amazing. Lawliet did a super creepy walk that I think scared the majority of the crowd although EVERYBODY was cheering. Then Lelouch took the stage. My whole row of fangirls got up and screamed: "LULU!" It was really funny, since he was trying to strike a serious pose but then he tried to hide laughter which made it funnier.
The skits: The first skit was "The men in black" which was about four akasuki members, acheiving world peace by killing everyone else. The second skit involved Gai sensei and a muffin ninja. The third skit was um... Kakashi becoming a man... via that little orange book. The fourth was King Micky verses Marluxia disney song style! (Anything you can do...ect) The fifth skit was Neji, Tsunade, Garaa, and Tamaki in "Konoha's next top model!" The six skit was Momo FINALLY taking revenge against Captin Aizen. THAT WAS SWEET. The seventh skit was Japanese Numa Numa Para Para Dance. Kumai, Namine, and Abbie joined in. (Pretty much, the people on stage started, and then half of the crowd (that attended advanced Para Para)joined in and then ran to the stage. This is where Lulu came and sat next to me. SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! When Para Para ended, they started the Caramell Dansen, inn which the ENTIRE CROWD JOINED IN. I forced Lulu to dance. >.< Then the last group did the Haruhi dance, but it wasn't very good. They all looked...angry, a dancing nono. Then Vash came up and took up time. Then, more fun, they had EVERONE come up to the stage to do the Caramell Dansen, which was AWESOME. And then they announced the winners. The important ones were:
Lawliet won... the judges choice! They said it was scary...but awesome!
The Para Para dance won the best skit. AND....
Jada/Fran won best costume overall! She was so happy she was crying. It was so cute.
After that, things got...funny. Lawliet left us... to do something. So Abbie,Kumai, Namine and I wandered the hallways, trying to find a waterfountain, but we just found massive amounts of ice. We then found some random people who asked about our costumes (they were just using the hotel, not related to the con.)They asked a lot of fun questions, and it was then that someone found us. Lulu's friend Will. Lulu had asked us if we wanted to go to his hotel room earlier that day to watch some anime. So we decided to take up his offer and Will took us to their hotel room. This is where we, the fangirls, jumped, flying through the doorway, tackled Lulu and we all fell, onto his bed.
ALRIGHT. THIS IS NOT ANYWORSE THAN PG-13 I SWEAR. DON'T LEAVE YET! I PROMISE ITS NOT BAD...ish.
Then we had to do it, a second time! This is because his roommate Kristina wanted to document everything involving Lulu at his (gasp) first con. Kumai landed on one half of him, I landed on the other. Thats all I'm gonna say about that.
We then all had to give him a kiss on the cheek, but Kumai and I just kissed our hands, attached to his cheek. More for this documentary. (NOTE: We were supposed to be acting like super obsessive fangirls for Lulu.) (Then again, we were. X3)
We then decided to take a group picture (that I may or may not post) that pretty much tried to make Lulu look like a pimp. YURP.
(P.S. It involved the bed again. BUT ITS PG-13! AH!)
We just sat on his bed and talked while watching (and making fun of) various parts of anime. For instance, the blonde haired creepy chick in the new bleach episodes whos just like (quote from Namine in high pitch squeaky voice) "I like rainbows, and unicorns, and death!" Oh, forgot, his roomates were Kristina, Will, and David/Larva (from Vamp Princess Miya) (who was depressed). To skip a lot of usless conversation about bleach/death note and massive amounts of Near, we took turns laying in (guess who's) arms. SQUEE.
So when it hit midnight, we left, sadly. We then figured out our code. Lulu= Naruto. Bed= Video Game. So we could talk about it infront of our parents. So the ride home consisted of: So how about that Naruto? (Squeel) I love Naruto Video Games! (Squeel)I love the action in Naruto Video Games! (Squeel) I love the plotlines in Naruto Video Games! (Squeel) And then we went on a whole faked conversation of Garaa getting kidnapped by Deidara with obscure references.
Thats it for now, as its: 2:22 AM. ^_^
Sunday:
(Sunday Quote: "Me!")
After getting up around 10:39 when we wanted to get there at ten, we were kinda late. We got there at eleven, so we tried to go to the Ramen eating contest, when we realized we weren't hungry at all. At that point, a large amount of people from the "Duct tape, cons and you panel" came up to us. The *head person* (aka Vash) asked us if we were friends and then promptly tied us together with duct tape. Note that walking down hallways while being duct taped together is nearly impossible. Especially going up stairs when we finally ripped apart abruptly as we fell. XD
After that, we decided to find Lulu and try to use his hotel room to get the sticky stuff off our costumes. Instead, we ended up meeting him in the dealers room. With evil grins, Namine (who was cosplaying as a random purple ninja) and I pulled out kitty ears and a collar. For Lulu to wear. Nyahaha. He then ran for it and hid. First, I found him behind a couch because
Kumai was covering for him (RAWR!), but Namine and her items were nowhere to be found so Lulu ran for it. We then wandered the hallways trying to find him when I FINALLY found him hiding underneath the stairs.
Then we just talked until the FMA panel with Vic. That was just fricken sweet. (At this point, Abbie finally came, she had been teaching little kids ballet.) After that, we went to the autograph session where we all got tons upon tons of stuff for various voice actors to sign and take pictures with.
After that, we all just hung out on couches in the lobby until the closing ceremony. The closing ceremony pretty much consisted of thankyous and more (guess what) CARAMELL DANSEN. Hellz yeah.
When it was finally over, we took a final picture of everybody saying "ME!" while pointing to their mouths, and some
Lulu inspirational pictures. Nyahahaha. After multiple tearful glomps goodbye, it was finally over.
Otaku Omaha was totally worth EVERY PENNY. You all missed out.
I'll be inviting some Otaku people here, so if any of them see something I missed, they can add on.
(cries and leaves)
--Last edited by Cheriko on 2008-06-17 18:43:56 --
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