Anime Expo 2008

[icebitten]

Best. Year. Ever.

Thank you to Micheal and Matt for paying their share of the hotel and for hanging out with us. :)

With love,

Takeru Takaishi.



First, the outfits.




As you may, or may not have read during the last few journal entries I have written; our group can be pretty ugly.

And our cosplays can be pretty uglier.

So we thought are digimon cosplays were good. But not like, SUPER AMAZING.

But omg.

We didn't even step five feet into AX the first day when we got hoarded with cameras. Seriously, we got so many pictures taken and so many compliments. It was insane.

Thank you so much to the people who supported us during our FIRST GROUP cosplay at AX.

It was REALLY stressful to put these outfits together and we are so thankful for everyone who complimented us. ;___;

People We Met




We met soooo many people at AX. Just to name a few:

. Pakkun (Whom we met in 07)
. Pit (Or Steven? I don't know BUT he was SOOOO nice and SOOOO cool. :D)
. Summer (One of the best fangirls EVER.)
. Izzy Lover (She glomped Izzy on the first day lol.)
. BECKKYYY (OMG LOVE YOU.)
. Tai's fangirls (haha...)
. FUTURE MIMI AND SORA (Omg, you guys were sooo cool. Thank you for hanging out with us)
. FINNI (Thank you for drawing in our notebook! You made such a cool Daisuke!)
. Future T.K. (Lol. You were such a cute T.K.)
. Hans (HOMG.)
. Naruto (Lol. You were in the fangirl contest. Don't worry we rooted for you.)
. COOKIE (HOMG. Thank you SO SO SO much for the cookies you gave us. Twice! We were sooo happy and glad to have met you. Thank you for trying to get us into masquerade!)

And...

THEFUZZYHAT!!!!!

HO SHYIET. I GOT TO MEET YOU! :D Seriously for the first two days of AX I was walking around Artist Alley going like, "Fuzzyy hat... where are you???"

I was so grateful to have met you :) Thank you so much for the pins! I'm glad you made so much money X)

I also got to see Raku_gosha, kuroi_rubyheart, and cruzle!!!
Raku gave me a free Ryouhei cut out to go with my Chrome key chain that I bought from her ;__; I seriously love it Kim, I checked like every time we sat down to make sure it was still there. I also saw Kelcie too so that was fun :)




AND AND AND




We met.

SOOO many people.

It was insane. To the point where we closed our eyes all of us could see cameras.

Thank you for giving us apple pies, cookies, and free stuff X) We were SO caught of guard and SO flattered.

I also got a hug from the sonic gang!!! We met them but then Yamato wanted to see Knuckles again to give him a rose. It wasn't until like, the third day we got to see them again @_@ Yamato gave Knuckles the Rose and it was just me and Sonic standing there and I figured SINCE HE WAS SO FREAKING COOL, I'll just give him Pocky. So I did. And I got a hug.

AX makes us feel loved. ;__;

UGH I MISS IT.

Anyways.

We took pictures with a really nice Pokemon group. They were so sweet and SUCH good sports. :) And we met an ASH who we started high fiving every where we went kind of lol.

OMG Our Yamato started a fight with an Ash. No one was really around to see but there was yelling. Our Yamato was so confused because all she said was like, "WHAT?!" As a joke. But that Ash was scary. XD

And... hmmm...

OMG. Nice AX people.

After Chibi like, on three different times did AX staff members personally come to compliment us. We got to go back stage and sign up for the masquerade for next year. <333 So happy!

And I also saw Chibi Masquerade twice ;)

Dances We Danced

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Chibi Masquerade was the BOMB. We all messed up so horribly and omg XDDD None of us could hear the music because the crowd was yelling.

Then afterwards we did the dance again... and again...

The girl at the ticket booth let us have tickets for AMV contests in exchange for a picture. XDDD We forgot our hotel papers so we HAD to agree. (Not that we minded.)

OMG. And then the girl at the ticket booth SET ASIDE tickets for seats in the Masquerade. She even labeled it "for the digidestined".

All in exchange for a dance.

Seriously, people could be so sweet.

Kankles?

. Joe is black.
. Mimi has Kankles.
. TK's hair has the volume of a Herbal Essence Girl.

Nuff said.

Backstage?




So. A lot of things happened BEHIND THE SCENES of the digidestined. Besides the drama which split up our group...

. Tai, Tk, Mimi, Kari, and Izzy go off on a little adventure in the lobby late at night.
. "Amber ran off and we're spending the night at Charlies'. -Love, Jizzy" <<---- I don't expect anyone to understand this.
. Mimi and TK falling asleep with a smile on their face from laughing at Black Joe.
. Ramen.
. Mothers visiting us.
. Watching "Witches of Waverly Place" every. Day.
. Waking everyone up. =_=
. "Can you see my do rag?"
. "FEBREEZE ME!!! / Do the Febreeze dance!"
. TK doing Kari's make up and curling Mimi's hair. Yup.
. "I am not fat, TEE KAY."
. "I saw chibi masquerade twice. ;)"
. "I WAS NOT NAKED."
. Putting wigs under the bed.
. Doing sexy poses on the escalator even when no one was taking pictured.
. TK and Izzy having sweaty pits from BOTH long sleeves and back packs.
. Tai losing his digivice.
. Talking Japanese to the Japanese girls (YOU GO, J3!)
. Velcro. And lot's of it.
. Matt having to tie down his/her boobs.
. Dancing late at night in regular clothes. Yes, outside the hotel.
. Lectures and then some.
. Tai, Mimi, Kari, Izzy, and TK working out in the gym.
. Matt and Sora hiding from a guy.
. Taking pictures with the angry pin.
. Practicing our dance in front of a beer machine with the beer guy watching us. (We had to borrow this plug lol.)

And too many things to count.

It was a fun AX.




Love interests

When asked in a recorded interview if ANY of the Taroboy cosplayers dated each other...

Well.

We said, "It's a secret!"

<3

Stuff TK bought

Surprisingly I didn't waste all my money this year!!! <3333 Last year I easily spent around 300 or less dollars. But I BARELY went over a hundred this year. And half the money I spent was for food and paying Izzy back for Pizza.

OH and the ticket guy let Izzy off without paying for the car valet. OH HO HO HO HO.




^^^ Three Doujins, PINS, and some other stuff. I lost a Sasuke pin that I bought with my Sakura one. :( So sad!!!




I was pretty happy they had a Patamon key chain :) Then while Joe, Sora, and Matt were away the rest of us got matching poop key chains XDDD




^^^ THIS PRINT WAS MANDATORY. We were asked to pose like this print too lol.




And even though I'm not into this anime as much, I couldn't stop staring at this print so finally I just bought it.

I also got the Chrome keychain from raku_gosha <33333 But it's on my back pack so I'm too lazy to get a picture of it right now LOL.

Random Pictures

Exactly what it says.













I swear, sometimes we would just be sitting or eating and people would take pictures of us ^_^;;;






Just... don't ask. Lol.










I still have a LOT more pictures but I'll upload the rest either later, or I'll put up a photobucket link later.




The catch: No one is in that bed.