Anime Con

Posted by Castypher on Oct. 24, 2011, 8:27 p.m.

My second one now.

So this weekend there was a convention of sorts being hosted near me again. I didn't plan on going, but a few friends asked me to, so I gave in. It was a blast. Wish I could say everything about it, but we must all make sacrifices for the purpose of tl;dr.

Nothing reeeeally out of the ordinary happened. But it was fun regardless. It seemed like the themes this year were:

- Soul Eater

- Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

- Pokemon (fuck)

- Naruto (doublefuck)

- Ouran Host Club

Most of the costumes were from these groups, though I did see some really great ones such as:

- League of Legends (Mordekaiser, Nocturne, Janna, and Hillbilly Gragas)

- Touhou (Flandre, Remilia, Patchouli)

And on the note of Touhou, there was a girl geeking out about how this guy modded Touhou songs onto some PC port of DDR (probably another title I'm not aware of). I never thought I'd get sick of hearing U.N.Owen Was Her?, but she played that, along with a few other songs, very excessively. So yeah, I found someone who likes Touhou more than I do (is it possible?).

Also started a few new shows including:

- Kanon (Puri told me to)

- K-On (Puri and Rob (kind of) told me to)

- Yuru Yuri (Rob and Puri told me to)

All are quite lulzy, the last being more so at the moment, the second being the typical KyoAni female-focused show, and the first having that Key style of sudden sadness after a lot of calmness.

And watched the film that goes with the Haruhi series. I don't know what to say. Thoroughly impressive.

School's keeping me tied down, so the status of my competition entry is iffy right now. I've got a lot of work to do, and I just finished a rather large homework assignment, so maybe I'll get a chance to sit with it a while. No screens or previews or anything, mostly so I can focus, but I will say this:

Genre: Stealth TDS

Scary-Four Category: Halloween (light horror elements)

Great focus on the characters and some dynamic interaction. Should be fun if I can finish it.

Comments

Castypher 12 years, 12 months ago

Why's Soul Eater suddenly popular? Is it because they recently announced they're doing another season? I mean, it had several of its own panels, for god's sake, and one of the English voice actors made an appearance, too.

Rob 12 years, 12 months ago

Quote:
Don't tell me you actually like it. =|

I meant I feel sorry for your suffering by having to deal with what I can only imagine as annoying weeaboos with ADHD eating pockey dressed up as Naruto characters. I do not like the show nor do I like its fans.

pounce4evur 12 years, 12 months ago

That's pretty much all there is at the cons down where i live. Naruto, Pokemon, Soul Eater, the occasional Kuroshitsuji or Bleach. It's horrible. Especially because I hate Naruto, Pokemon is overdone, and I used to like Soul Eater until everyone made such a big deal about it.

That's why for the last con, I said fuck it and went as American McGee's Alice.

Some nerd cosplaying as Alice

JuurianChi 12 years, 12 months ago

Pocky is cool though.