Recently I had the opportunity to take a vacation from work and attend an anime convention, and I took it! I was notified two months before the event, so I took my time to request off two months ahead of time! The whole experience in general felt like a success for my first ever anime convention. Even though I felt a little out of place in the sense that I know little next to nothing about the current anime (My mind is still stuck on the era of Moon princesses, dragon balls, Pokeballs, and digital monsters!), I felt like that if there was ever a time I could be like a total dork, this convention was that time for it!
So instead of me expanding on six whole paragraphs of my time there, I'll just list down all the highlights of my trip!
- Attending the H.NAOTO fashion show, in which my friend Ivy happened to be one of the models. H.Naoto, is the guy behind many of the visual kei artists clothing (Gackt, Psycho le Cemu, Hangry & ANGRY to name a few).
- Watching Yoshiki and Sugizo of X JAPAN performing a mini-acoustic instrumental set.
- Attending a HOME MADE 家族 (Kazoku) concert!
The only dissapointment I had was that I didn't really meet any new people. There was only basically the four of us that I already knew (Ivy, John, Lorenz. and me), but I did meet 3 people and I got to know one of them for a day! She was really cool! But anyway, I felt like it would've been fun if a whole lot of us had went together as a group!
Anwyay, other smaller highlights were:
- Riding those dragon boats.
- Going to the "Power Plant" Barnes & Nobles.
- Eating really expensive sea food at multiply restaurants!
- My alcoholic self drinking alcoholic drinks in every restaurant we went to! ^_^
- Taking pictures of random cosplayers even though I didn't know what characters they were!
- FAT Lulu's, Yuna's, Morrigan's, Sailor Scouts/Senshi's, Dante's... shall I go on?
- Lorenz thinking he had a good fake British accent.
Oh yah, totally random, but I bought a sword!
-Perseus! ✯
PS. Pictures are located at the gallery!