The really long AWA re-cap and photo post Part 1.
Last weekend we went to the beautiful city of Atlanta which is actually experiencing a little-known phenominon in Florida: Autumn. The weather was cool (mid to lower seventies) and crisp. The fans were...well...stinky, but that's to be expected.
I had a great time and these are the highlights of the event.
We went up Thursday night and stayed with Glenn in Madison, FL. At 6:30 th enext morning we left his house, and even with eating breakfast at Shoneys (a first for me) we still made it to Atlanta by 11 am. So did everyone else, apparently, so we waited in line (aka I waited and the boys got our luggage and checked into the hotel, etc.) for about an hour. This was the shortest wait for preregistration all weekend.
While we were in line I was happy to see Luigi and he had a really high-pitched voice. ^____^
I also saw two Disney maidens, Aurora and Esmerelda respectively.
The goat was really cute. It was a puppet!! ^^
We got registered and went to experience the funness of the con. I actually didn't go into any of the video rooms this year, since they weren't showing things that I wanted to see (or they were showing them dubbed with the voice actors there and it was a melee).
Friday afternoon we went to a little-known Japanese bookstore and its neighboring market Tomato. I asked for Kitchen Princess or Princess Sara manga but nobody in the entire area had any (including the dealer's room).
We ate dinner at the Yakitori place (and were annoyed/molested by a fellow con goer who wanted to tlak about how she was a writer). I ate onigiri!! ^^ And since it's a yakitori place I had some of that too.
We came back and sat through the Totally insane anime deaths panel (where I was completely spoiled to Minky Momo's ending) and the Lame/crazy JPop panel. This included a girl's group doing a Japanese cover of Jengis Khan, The gayest video ever (The Spiderman song), Fish Fight!!!!, and The other gayest video ever which I should have TOTALLY seen coming: Hard Gay singing YMCA. Oh, dear.
I scooted my boots to the karaoke panel and was rewarded to see a fan with a Kermit puppet singing a duet between Kermit and Brack of Billy Joel's "She's Always a Woman to Me." It was phenominal.
Let me just take a break here to tell you that singing karaoke with no words is hard enough, but when you have ADHD and Domo-kun is dancing on the side and stealing your show you tend to inter-mix your words. Which is exactly what I did when I sang "Rinbu Revolution." At one point I yelled "Yeah, I messed up! At least I have the chutspah to admit it!!!!!!" The crowd cheered. Not to be passed up and outstaged by Domo-kun, I invited her to dance with me during the interlude and changed the last line to "Watashi wa Domo-kun o kaeru" so I would change the Domo-kun instead of the world. XD
Totally Lame Anime and Anime Hell were awesome, showing Angel's Egg, the Dracula movie, and two videos by lonely sausage productions: "Dr. Tran" and "Roy Bertito's." I actually STAYED UP TO MIDNIGHT for once. Then it was bed for me.
Saturday got off to a slow start since the cosplay panel was filled with people and I didn't feel inspired to be smashed in with them. I've got a rant about cosplay later. I went to the dealer room and found a Great Fairy.
Her laugh was awesome. I was also dressed out. A whole two people recognised me!! WOOOOT! ^^
I mean, Mermaid Melody is a few years old AND it's kind of obscure AND I was doing a street clothes cosplay. I got several compliments on the brooch so I pimped out the tsuki_sales .
In the dealer's room I found many other cool things:
Artemis carrying Venus, Tamago carrying tamago, and knitted sushi. ^^
I also found the best Zelda shirt ever.
I took many other pictues, including someone who is totally not a spy, Santa, and Boy-type and Girl-type Ranma who fought over the water. This last picture is going to be where I'll end for now.
Part 2 will include the remainder of the con! See you then!