Japan Expo report!
Okay a detailed report with pictures:
Thursday:
I got picked up at 11:45 by Danny, and then we traveled to Breda, to pick up the others (Gonnie, Diana and Eefje) We all had 3 costumes with us, except Eefje, but she had Abel and a BIG dress wit her (although, Diana and Gonnie also had one) so it was pretty stuffed.... We traveled alllll the way to Paris, and dropped our stuff at the Hotel, then we TRIED to go to the city center but in stead.... we just went out for dinner. Which was great! Then we went to sleep.
Friday:
We woke up at 6:30 (GOD KNOWS WHY) mostly for the other three girls, because I was finished pretty quickly, and I've been sitting (half sleeping) in a corner of the room, while hoopskirts and wings and the stuff were tossed around. (HALP!) We had our breakfast and went to Parc d'Expostition..... except we went to the WRONG Parc d'Exposition! XD Luckily some dude in his car wanted to help us out and showed us the way to the right one! ^_^
JAPAN EXPO IS HUGE! And so many people, or so we thought, because Saturday the amount of people were three times the amount of people on Friday. We've been asked for a photo SO many times! I wore Sakura, Diana wore Sakura, Eefje had her own vision on Yuuko, but it was pretty cool, and Gonnie had her TC Chii... ^_^ Diana entered the single competition, and she won best craftman ship (though I still think she shouldn't because she entered with a version of Sakura which has no wings, and she added the wings. But I guess the judges didn't know!) Although her dress was cool of course, I've seen many other talented people, and especially the Samurai Warriors chick I met in London should've won it! But hey!
Either way, we settled for a pizzeria that day, and went to sleep pretty fast again!
Saturday:
We woke up at 7:00 (or atleast... I did) waited another half hour, and then put on my Fran, and we went to the convention. (Diana and Gonnie were Saya and Diva, and Eefje had her Yuuko again) I CAN'T tell you how much photo's there were taken... REALLY...TOOOO MANY... like, please stop-I-REALLY-need-to-go-to-the-toilet-now-many. Gonnie and I decided to walk together over the convention, (although... walking... I mean, step step, photo, step step...) and at 15:30 we decided to change, she in her small Diva dress, and me in normal clothes (because the heels were killing me, and we wanted to see the convention, which was not possible if you had to pose every 10 cm! XD) But before that two things happened:
- I had a picture taken in the Square Enix stand with ALL of the European Square Enix staff. (and some Japanese)
- I won the Hall Cosplay contest! *does a boogy*
Gonnie bought a broken Cloud resin statue (for 80 euros, instead of 199, and she got an moogle plushie for me!) which I fixed, and we searched Diana and Eefje (and Danny, but he tagged along with Diana wherever she went, so that was easy) and we got ourselves pizza, (again) and went to bed again pretty early.
Sunday:
Another epic ego blast day! XD
We went up pretty early, except I felt pretty sick, so I stayed in bed till 8:15, then within 30 minutes I had my Seth on, and I had packed my stuff the evening before, so I was ready, and I still had to wait on Diana and Eefje! XD We packed the car and left the hotel. When we arrived at Japan Expo, Diana confirmed our act at the cosplay booth, dropped our stuff in the cosplay vestaire, and practiced our act. By now I should mention, that it's more of a show-off of your costumes instead of an act! But ok. We did our stuff, (a moulin rouge song while we all pestered poor little Eef as Abel, we meaning me as Seth, Gonnie as Kaya, and Diana as Astaroshe) and we got major applause and all that, but we wouldn't be able to stay till the results, and I'm pretty sure all those other people did better! (mainly because at the end, my hat nearly fell off, because Eefje stood on my trail, all is well I guess, because I really had a great time doing it!
But then, when we stood on convention ground, doing our stuff, a japanese woman approached me.... ME... and she had ONE question, if she and her coworker could take a picture... for Cosmode! O_O MOI~! Well I asked her if my friends could be in it as well, (social as I am) but Diana was TOO busy posing for other photographers... I nearly felt like, whatever... because she's been dropping us whenever someone with a big camera asked her to take a shoot, but, hey... we were all in this together right?
So I dragged her out of it, and she was like HEY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING! And I told her I thought she may like it more to be in Cosmode! And she grinned... still kinda pisses me off, but hey, we took SEVERAL pictures, and WOW, I still feel so GODDAMN AWESOME! XD
I mean... I'll be in Cosmode! MOI! The tall idiot cosplayer from Holland! Who'd ever thought that?!
Anyway, pretty quick after that we went home, and when I got home, I just dropped near dead on my bed! and tadaaaa~! Here I am!
Photos:
Me and Gonnie
Just a silly pic, where I look... well more childish (which is IN character! XD)
Gonnie's Kaya
Awesome Sakura and Syaoran, and they were very friendly as well!
Grimmjow! But this person kinda knew how to fight, and did some neat stuff!
I have more, but I think this enough to give you an idea! ^_^
Thursday:
I got picked up at 11:45 by Danny, and then we traveled to Breda, to pick up the others (Gonnie, Diana and Eefje) We all had 3 costumes with us, except Eefje, but she had Abel and a BIG dress wit her (although, Diana and Gonnie also had one) so it was pretty stuffed.... We traveled alllll the way to Paris, and dropped our stuff at the Hotel, then we TRIED to go to the city center but in stead.... we just went out for dinner. Which was great! Then we went to sleep.
Friday:
We woke up at 6:30 (GOD KNOWS WHY) mostly for the other three girls, because I was finished pretty quickly, and I've been sitting (half sleeping) in a corner of the room, while hoopskirts and wings and the stuff were tossed around. (HALP!) We had our breakfast and went to Parc d'Expostition..... except we went to the WRONG Parc d'Exposition! XD Luckily some dude in his car wanted to help us out and showed us the way to the right one! ^_^
JAPAN EXPO IS HUGE! And so many people, or so we thought, because Saturday the amount of people were three times the amount of people on Friday. We've been asked for a photo SO many times! I wore Sakura, Diana wore Sakura, Eefje had her own vision on Yuuko, but it was pretty cool, and Gonnie had her TC Chii... ^_^ Diana entered the single competition, and she won best craftman ship (though I still think she shouldn't because she entered with a version of Sakura which has no wings, and she added the wings. But I guess the judges didn't know!) Although her dress was cool of course, I've seen many other talented people, and especially the Samurai Warriors chick I met in London should've won it! But hey!
Either way, we settled for a pizzeria that day, and went to sleep pretty fast again!
Saturday:
We woke up at 7:00 (or atleast... I did) waited another half hour, and then put on my Fran, and we went to the convention. (Diana and Gonnie were Saya and Diva, and Eefje had her Yuuko again) I CAN'T tell you how much photo's there were taken... REALLY...TOOOO MANY... like, please stop-I-REALLY-need-to-go-to-the-toilet-now-many. Gonnie and I decided to walk together over the convention, (although... walking... I mean, step step, photo, step step...) and at 15:30 we decided to change, she in her small Diva dress, and me in normal clothes (because the heels were killing me, and we wanted to see the convention, which was not possible if you had to pose every 10 cm! XD) But before that two things happened:
- I had a picture taken in the Square Enix stand with ALL of the European Square Enix staff. (and some Japanese)
- I won the Hall Cosplay contest! *does a boogy*
Gonnie bought a broken Cloud resin statue (for 80 euros, instead of 199, and she got an moogle plushie for me!) which I fixed, and we searched Diana and Eefje (and Danny, but he tagged along with Diana wherever she went, so that was easy) and we got ourselves pizza, (again) and went to bed again pretty early.
Sunday:
Another epic ego blast day! XD
We went up pretty early, except I felt pretty sick, so I stayed in bed till 8:15, then within 30 minutes I had my Seth on, and I had packed my stuff the evening before, so I was ready, and I still had to wait on Diana and Eefje! XD We packed the car and left the hotel. When we arrived at Japan Expo, Diana confirmed our act at the cosplay booth, dropped our stuff in the cosplay vestaire, and practiced our act. By now I should mention, that it's more of a show-off of your costumes instead of an act! But ok. We did our stuff, (a moulin rouge song while we all pestered poor little Eef as Abel, we meaning me as Seth, Gonnie as Kaya, and Diana as Astaroshe) and we got major applause and all that, but we wouldn't be able to stay till the results, and I'm pretty sure all those other people did better! (mainly because at the end, my hat nearly fell off, because Eefje stood on my trail, all is well I guess, because I really had a great time doing it!
But then, when we stood on convention ground, doing our stuff, a japanese woman approached me.... ME... and she had ONE question, if she and her coworker could take a picture... for Cosmode! O_O MOI~! Well I asked her if my friends could be in it as well, (social as I am) but Diana was TOO busy posing for other photographers... I nearly felt like, whatever... because she's been dropping us whenever someone with a big camera asked her to take a shoot, but, hey... we were all in this together right?
So I dragged her out of it, and she was like HEY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING! And I told her I thought she may like it more to be in Cosmode! And she grinned... still kinda pisses me off, but hey, we took SEVERAL pictures, and WOW, I still feel so GODDAMN AWESOME! XD
I mean... I'll be in Cosmode! MOI! The tall idiot cosplayer from Holland! Who'd ever thought that?!
Anyway, pretty quick after that we went home, and when I got home, I just dropped near dead on my bed! and tadaaaa~! Here I am!
Photos:
Me and Gonnie
Just a silly pic, where I look... well more childish (which is IN character! XD)
Gonnie's Kaya
Awesome Sakura and Syaoran, and they were very friendly as well!
Grimmjow! But this person kinda knew how to fight, and did some neat stuff!
I have more, but I think this enough to give you an idea! ^_^