Cats at Anime North
Last month Hanna and I took an almost vacation with some of our fellow Shadowcats and spent the weekend at the Anime North convention.
We started out on Friday. After our late night/early morning shadow casting performance of Repo! the Genetic Opera finished sometime past 1 am we piled into our cat-mobiles (disclaimer: may not necessarily be any different from a normal car) and drove from the Bloor Cinema directly to our hotel near the convention. After a few hours of unsuccessful attempts to attain food and some amusing hotel shenanigans we all passed out. NEXT.
Saturday morning (AKA nearly noon) we all dressed as our Repo! characters and headed over to the main convention center to check out the artist's alley and the vendors section. Initially we were pretty nervous about what the general reaction would be to us dressing as repo characters for an anime convention, since repo is clearly not an anime, but we were almost immediately approached by a number of people who were really excited to see us there and we spotted alot of costumes that weren't based in anime either so it worked out quite fine. We embraced the opportunity and handed out some nifty business cards and buttons to anyone who recognized our costumes, asked for our pictures or simply expressed their interest by yelling "YAY REPO!!!" at our group. It definitely turned into a great opportunity to promote our show. However, my favourite activity to partake in at any convention is the people watching. Onwards to a whole lot of cosplay pictures and more...
Shadowcats in the Crowne Plaza lobby...
We are rabid lemurs, sometimes?
Blind Mag and Blonde Mag pose for a shot...
...meanwhile, Luigi is put on holding purse duty.
When there are power rangers AND bunny girls, life is good.
Mandi with Slash and etc...
By far the best rorschach at the convention...
Awesomeness...
We dig the hat...
Sexy Irene as Nana and myself.
Jack and I...
Jack being coy... d'aww.
Jaws having a fanboy moment with Logan...
Hanna as a kitty gentern and some lovely ladies...
10 out of 9 Shadowcats agree Adam Smith had the coolest vendors booth at AN...
I have been looking everywhere for a vintage style pilot cap, this one by Adam Smith was incredible. I am saving my monies for it...
Our friend Misty (far right) designed and created these three outfits and they were beyond wicked...
It was ridiculously hot all day so we went for a swim at the end of the afternoon and then in the evening we endured an epic hour wait for a table at boston pizza and then another hour wait once seated for our food to arrive. This is a lesson you learn at conventions. Although (actually, probably because) we were delirious with hunger we managed to have some pretty fun conversation while waiting and thankfully discovered that the alcoholic beverages came fairly fast. After we went to a late night screening of totally lame anime which was, as promised, totally lame.
Sunday was a bit more slow paced. We slept in a bit, dressed, packed, then checkout.
Mandi found the cool aid man!!! EPIC.
Kirsten joined us on sunday as a dead japanese girl and looked quite terrifying and wicked in a gorgeous kimono.
Did I mention the maid service was pretty sweet?
Here we have a deleted scene from Dr. Horrible in which he kidnaps Shilo Wallace...
Must be true, there is a smiley face....
Some pretty awesome metal heads...
I don't know what is happening here, but I'm pretty sure it is highly sexual...
And thus concludes this blog.
We started out on Friday. After our late night/early morning shadow casting performance of Repo! the Genetic Opera finished sometime past 1 am we piled into our cat-mobiles (disclaimer: may not necessarily be any different from a normal car) and drove from the Bloor Cinema directly to our hotel near the convention. After a few hours of unsuccessful attempts to attain food and some amusing hotel shenanigans we all passed out. NEXT.
Saturday morning (AKA nearly noon) we all dressed as our Repo! characters and headed over to the main convention center to check out the artist's alley and the vendors section. Initially we were pretty nervous about what the general reaction would be to us dressing as repo characters for an anime convention, since repo is clearly not an anime, but we were almost immediately approached by a number of people who were really excited to see us there and we spotted alot of costumes that weren't based in anime either so it worked out quite fine. We embraced the opportunity and handed out some nifty business cards and buttons to anyone who recognized our costumes, asked for our pictures or simply expressed their interest by yelling "YAY REPO!!!" at our group. It definitely turned into a great opportunity to promote our show. However, my favourite activity to partake in at any convention is the people watching. Onwards to a whole lot of cosplay pictures and more...
Shadowcats in the Crowne Plaza lobby...
We are rabid lemurs, sometimes?
Blind Mag and Blonde Mag pose for a shot...
...meanwhile, Luigi is put on holding purse duty.
When there are power rangers AND bunny girls, life is good.
Mandi with Slash and etc...
By far the best rorschach at the convention...
Awesomeness...
We dig the hat...
Sexy Irene as Nana and myself.
Jack and I...
Jack being coy... d'aww.
Jaws having a fanboy moment with Logan...
Hanna as a kitty gentern and some lovely ladies...
10 out of 9 Shadowcats agree Adam Smith had the coolest vendors booth at AN...
I have been looking everywhere for a vintage style pilot cap, this one by Adam Smith was incredible. I am saving my monies for it...
Our friend Misty (far right) designed and created these three outfits and they were beyond wicked...
It was ridiculously hot all day so we went for a swim at the end of the afternoon and then in the evening we endured an epic hour wait for a table at boston pizza and then another hour wait once seated for our food to arrive. This is a lesson you learn at conventions. Although (actually, probably because) we were delirious with hunger we managed to have some pretty fun conversation while waiting and thankfully discovered that the alcoholic beverages came fairly fast. After we went to a late night screening of totally lame anime which was, as promised, totally lame.
Sunday was a bit more slow paced. We slept in a bit, dressed, packed, then checkout.
Mandi found the cool aid man!!! EPIC.
Kirsten joined us on sunday as a dead japanese girl and looked quite terrifying and wicked in a gorgeous kimono.
Did I mention the maid service was pretty sweet?
Here we have a deleted scene from Dr. Horrible in which he kidnaps Shilo Wallace...
Must be true, there is a smiley face....
Some pretty awesome metal heads...
I don't know what is happening here, but I'm pretty sure it is highly sexual...
And thus concludes this blog.