Anime North 2008 - Part 1
This past weekend was probably the most effort I've put into anything.
There was anxiety, stress, excitement, it was all very intense and
completely worth every bit of it.
And it was all for an anime convention ~____~; lol
It was hard to see it all come together until now
because in the moment, there was just so much going on, there
wasn't a time to think.
The week before, Chu and I were slaving away on making miniature
cake rings and things, finishing my touches on my dresses,
while watching the rest of my friends panic to finish off their
costumes.
2 costumes, artists alley, panels, tea party, and 2 photo shoots
were my responsibilities for this weekend.
Friday was supposed to start off early, but like the entire weekend
most of what was planned was spontaneous and random but
all still ended up working out.
Chu & I practiced setting up our table together while watching
old episodes of student bodies. Nostalgia with Chu is my favorite
kind of nostalgia.
OMG WERE GROSS AND DE-MAKEUPED!
pre-beauty.
It took a bit of time to meet up with everyone, and then we headed
into Toronto to check in our hotel.
Some people weren't finished their costumes on time ~____~: so they
were left at the hotel while Chu & I set up shop; Cake shop that is.
Rows & rows of white conformists.
This picture makes me smile so wide XD
Chu and I swapped the tables all of Friday.
Only getting a quick sneak peak of what there was to buy.
And chatting to our neighbor table Nicole who's
Chu's friend. Nicole was a really nice lolita ^_^
After we closed up shop, we headed back for the hotel for some
sleeps, but me and Chu had some last bit of energy to go cam crazy.
"Want to take action photos of us jumping up and down?"
"ya"
"Whooooo, we sold a lot!"
"Whoooo, we are crazy!"
Chu.
Saturday, Brian of FOS studio's that I had worked with previous shoot,
took some pix of me and my friend's in our costumes.
Chu didn't get a chance to come a long because she had
to watch our table. But I took some pix before we parted.
This is my fav pic of Chu.
True EGL.
Am I hime?
Only my 3 bears and I could make it to the photoshoot, but it made for an awesome,
fun, crazy photoshoot in his studio that I will be putting up
in a later post.
That took a lot of the day so we got back to the Con as soon as possible.
Of course me with 3 giant bears it took another 45 minutes just to walk
30 feet.
Gloomy - Moody
Kanye West Bear - Jamie
Panda Apple - Mike
I didn't get a chance to shop Saturday either, mostly snapping photos
of favorite eye candy. It was yummy times. And I love meeting new people
with same interests as myself... Anime con is so awesome to meet
crazy fun people!
This girl was one of my fav's. She spent a lot of time and effort
in this rabbit's head, and damn do I ever feel like I'm in wonderland.
Some of my fav "lolita's"
The girl on the far right is Robin.
She's a good loli and one I hope to keep in touch with.
Gloomy got all the loli action.
Well, Gloomy got all the action from EVERYONE.
The con was obsessed with giant Gloomy, it was fun.
This pic of Panda Apple and girl is
also a fav pic of mine. They match so well ^_^
Besides the wigs, this is fancy.
This is the first skankloli I've seen.
But she pulls it off well.
This girl is sooooo cute.
And she bought the hat I made ^___^
When younger people cosplay, it looks so much more authentic.
Baby cosplay lol
From Invader Zim.
This kid has very kool parents.
I have a lot of favorites but this girl is definitely
one of the top.
I think she's from soul caliber but let me know if I'm wrong.
This was the best cross play I saw the whole weekend.
Phoenix write
Digimon, Digital Monsters
I'm not sure what this is from
but it's made very well!
Gloomy with Kirby and King Dedede.
Me hard @ work!
After we closed up shop, we headed back to the hotel for comfy
clothes and then go back to the Con for more fun.
Chu fell asleep but we ended up meeting up with Zach!
And I was happy because I got my picture taken with Ash Ketchum!
There wasn't much going on late at night besides hentai
and all night yaoi, so we just goofed off for a bit,
found Kevin, walked around, and wrote our friends names
that didn't come to the con on some random white board.
It's funny to us.
After that we headed back to the hotes for much needed Z's
where we became sleep starved and had a slumber party
light show full of non stop laughing, non stop punches from sleeping
chu's. It was grand!
But overall I think Sunday was by far the best out of the
Con days. But that will be next post.