Con Report. Sorry, my English fails.
[This entry is PUBLIC so people can link to the pics and stuff]
So yeah. A Con Report.
Gah... Con Reports are terrible things to do ><
I went to Anime North with people. By the way, people, the hotel gave me back my deposit on my credit card so the rooms were okay.
People were... Anne-So (ultrasushi), Stef (stefy-coool), Vincent B. (bououou), Vincent D., Monika (moni45) and Julie (shishoku)
~During this post, Vincent B. will be called "Vincent" while Vincent D. will be called "My personal uke"~
[There is a reason why Vincent D. is my personal uke, and it is NOT because we had sex. It is because Monika once asked him if he was seme or uke. He answered something in the lines of "I'm seme. But not with Sophie... I'm uke with Sophie..."]
FRIDAY
Anne-So and Stef came to my house at 5:30 in the morning and my mother gave us a lift to Dorval, for us to take a bus and the subway, to get to Concordia, because we were going to use the bus the university rented to get to Toronto. There, we met with Julie, Monika and my personal uke.
I hadn't slept the night before because I was doing schoolwork and thus slept during the entire trip using my personal uke as a pillow. He makes a good pillow, by the way.
We arrived around 2 o'clock and waited for our rooms to get ready - Émilie (yue_ix), Carol (cabayuki) and Snorri (fukkafyla) joined us to wait with us and OMG THE CROWNE PLAZA IS THE BEST HOTEL EVER. Everyone was nice with me and the rooms were great and they only blocked money on my credit card for two days and WE HAVE TO GO BACK THERE PLZ GUYS? [So yeah, no complains against Toronto or the hotel like last year].
Basically, I was sleeping with my personal uke in the same room as Vincent and Émilie.
Stef was sleeping with Monika in the same room as Anne-So and Julie.
Snorri, Carol and two other people I don't know slept in the third room.
I was wearing my yaoi shirt with cargo pants. Stef was wearing pretty much the same thing. Anne-So was wearing the same cargo pants with a black NaruSai shirt. I can't remember when exactly the others started to wear their cosplay, but it's safe to say Julie was Asuka all weekend, my personal uke was Shikamaru all weekend, Monika was Haku all weekend and Vincent was Edgar all weekend. :D
So yeah, we waited in line to get our badges and got them. At the time, I still had 18+ pictures on my yaoi shirt. When I got in the Congress Center, someone warned me I would be warned XD Then, when I got my badge, the guy who gave it to me made a joke about my pics. Then, we met fanfare's group and talked and a security op was watching me weirdly.
She finally went to see me and Stef and told us our shirts were illegal. So I took off my 18+ pics to replace them (I HAD brought other pics in case that happened) but she just said the entire shirt was illegal because it had "yaoi" written on it and it was a sign.
...
So I asked her where that came from and if I could speak with someone else who had more influence than her because I was pretty sure she didn't have any decisional power. She told me "If you don't want to listen to me, then just wear your shirt and you'll get kicked out." Very professional.
I found Marc from Otakuthon shortly after and told him my story. He was flabberghasted too and actually told me where to go to speak to someone important. We went there, we spoke. The woman was an imbecile and our shirts were fine. :D
So we didn't have anything planned before 7 o'clock (we were going to see the 404's <3) and went in the Arists's Alley.
I took some pictures. I will NOT comment them all.
Lol, Medabots.
That cosplayer was actually from Montreal.
They were French and gave us ads to a con in Gatineau.
Best. Godot. Ever. And he was French too. <3
Someone did the ROBOT!
When you find a Dragon Ball cosplayer, you take his pic.
Frenchies.
That is seriously AWESOME.
I have no idea if this is a character or just some random unicorn, but this is a GUY crossplaying. O_O I want his hips.
Then, we went to the 404's show which is always awesome. I gave them the first Finders for the game where they have to read every other line froma manga. It was HILLARIOUS.
Before the show, I went to Mark to ask him about a couple of things and he recognized me and remembered my name <3
Tim wasn't there though :(
More pics.
The guys in white are not part of the 404's - they are another improv group.
I also have a video of one of their skit that you can find there :
Err... I don't remember what we did after. More Artists' and Dealers' ?...
More pictures!
That is my favorite cosplay of the convention. I never imagined that someone could cosplay the Twilight Princess and LOOK like it. It's gorgeous!
Oh! We went to a Harry Potter Slash panel which was not very good. Pretty neutral. Yeah.
Then we went back to the hotel and took a shower. And slept.
SATURDAY
So uh... Saturday I put on my Bible Black cosplay. I think Anne-So was a regular person. The others were wearing the same thing,
We went to the Artists' and Dealers' again.
I informed my personal uke that my birthday had passed recently and lured him into buying me a gift. He got me a yaoi manga with vampires :P
At the end of the report, I'll post pictures of all the stuff I bought.
So um... PICTURES AGAIN 'cause I don't know what to write.
This was made of cardboard.
Girl on the right = very sexy cosplay.
Monika and my personal uke.
We met a Bible Black!group and I took a picture with them.
That was Snorri's awesome Kakashi <3
fanfare's group!
Again.
Ace Attorney.
My only Kingdom Hearts picture. Because I loved their cosplay.
Can't go to a convention without leaving with a pic of a Pyramid Head.
It was getting hot so fanfare's group again, but from The Beach.
Okay, so, then we went to a couple of bad panels.
Waiting for 8 o'clock to come, a guy came to me and said something along "A friend of mine wants to know if you're wearing a Bible Black cosplay." A friend of yours. Sure.
From 8 o'clock to 10 o'clock we watched the first 4 episodes of Junjo Romantica which is the best yaoi anime I've ever seen. It has a story. It is good. WATCH IT.
And during Junjo Romantica... Simon walks in on us! So when he left I followed him outside the room and attacked him. We talked. His hotel had a CURFEW WTF? I'll send him an email when I'll be planing the next AN and he'll come with us.
He was cosplaying Shiki, who is like, an ultimate seme, so he took a seme look when I photographed him, which is the funniest thing ever XD
After Junjo Romantica, a guy stopped near us, staring at me, and nearly screamed :
"OH MY GOD! Is that Bible Black?
-Yeah, it IS Bible Black.
-Well, you know what they say... Once you Bible Black, you can't come back."
We missed Gay Sex 101 to go to the 404's late night show which was even better than the other one. And Tim was there.
Then we went to sleep. And showered. Showering is a good thing during conventions.
Apparently, Gay Sex 101 was still awesome. I hope they won't be at the same time as the 404's next year :S
SUNDAY
Sunday being Sunday, we didn't do much. I wore the yaoi shirt and cargo pants again because I wanted to be confortable on the way back in the bus.
Huh... We went to the AMVs contest which was very so-so. :( Sad.
Then we went to the Dealers' one last time. We had one hour. I spent 45 minutes staring to an Apocalyptica DVD that was playing and talking to a selling guy about Apocalyptica (he had seen a show recently too, only, not in Montreal).
Then, Julie and I started walking towards the exit to leave... And I saw Kyo Kara Maou's second season DVDs. These as Geneon's DVDs, people! XD I bought three of them because that was all I could buy with the money I had. I doubled the amount I had spent during the weekend in the last 5 minutes before leaving... How good am I? Really? ><
Oh yeah, Best Anko ever (and only Sunday picture) :
I read the book I had to read to do my final Literature project during the night and hand it in on Monday.
I slept too, still using my personal uke as a pillow.
I was back home at midnight, and didn't sleep to work on my mémoire. It's done. I slept more than 12 hours last night and the night before.
OKAY, THINGS I BOUGHT!
Axel chain. I had a smaller one. It died. The artist wasn't making any small ones anymore. So I now have a big one.
Zoro keychain. Damn expensive for what it is, but it's Zoro.
The entire Junjo Romantica series (the 5 volumes that are out in English anyway)
More yaoi manga - Little Butterfly 2 and 3, Necroholic (the one with gay vampires), Say Please and the first Love Pistols.
The only reason I bought the first Love Pistols is because of Ioana... Now I want its sequel.
The first 3 DVDs of the 2nd season of Kyo Kara Maoh.
A Phoenix Wright print.
That con report was really long.
So yeah. A Con Report.
Gah... Con Reports are terrible things to do ><
I went to Anime North with people. By the way, people, the hotel gave me back my deposit on my credit card so the rooms were okay.
People were... Anne-So (ultrasushi), Stef (stefy-coool), Vincent B. (bououou), Vincent D., Monika (moni45) and Julie (shishoku)
~During this post, Vincent B. will be called "Vincent" while Vincent D. will be called "My personal uke"~
[There is a reason why Vincent D. is my personal uke, and it is NOT because we had sex. It is because Monika once asked him if he was seme or uke. He answered something in the lines of "I'm seme. But not with Sophie... I'm uke with Sophie..."]
FRIDAY
Anne-So and Stef came to my house at 5:30 in the morning and my mother gave us a lift to Dorval, for us to take a bus and the subway, to get to Concordia, because we were going to use the bus the university rented to get to Toronto. There, we met with Julie, Monika and my personal uke.
I hadn't slept the night before because I was doing schoolwork and thus slept during the entire trip using my personal uke as a pillow. He makes a good pillow, by the way.
We arrived around 2 o'clock and waited for our rooms to get ready - Émilie (yue_ix), Carol (cabayuki) and Snorri (fukkafyla) joined us to wait with us and OMG THE CROWNE PLAZA IS THE BEST HOTEL EVER. Everyone was nice with me and the rooms were great and they only blocked money on my credit card for two days and WE HAVE TO GO BACK THERE PLZ GUYS? [So yeah, no complains against Toronto or the hotel like last year].
Basically, I was sleeping with my personal uke in the same room as Vincent and Émilie.
Stef was sleeping with Monika in the same room as Anne-So and Julie.
Snorri, Carol and two other people I don't know slept in the third room.
I was wearing my yaoi shirt with cargo pants. Stef was wearing pretty much the same thing. Anne-So was wearing the same cargo pants with a black NaruSai shirt. I can't remember when exactly the others started to wear their cosplay, but it's safe to say Julie was Asuka all weekend, my personal uke was Shikamaru all weekend, Monika was Haku all weekend and Vincent was Edgar all weekend. :D
So yeah, we waited in line to get our badges and got them. At the time, I still had 18+ pictures on my yaoi shirt. When I got in the Congress Center, someone warned me I would be warned XD Then, when I got my badge, the guy who gave it to me made a joke about my pics. Then, we met fanfare's group and talked and a security op was watching me weirdly.
She finally went to see me and Stef and told us our shirts were illegal. So I took off my 18+ pics to replace them (I HAD brought other pics in case that happened) but she just said the entire shirt was illegal because it had "yaoi" written on it and it was a sign.
...
So I asked her where that came from and if I could speak with someone else who had more influence than her because I was pretty sure she didn't have any decisional power. She told me "If you don't want to listen to me, then just wear your shirt and you'll get kicked out." Very professional.
I found Marc from Otakuthon shortly after and told him my story. He was flabberghasted too and actually told me where to go to speak to someone important. We went there, we spoke. The woman was an imbecile and our shirts were fine. :D
So we didn't have anything planned before 7 o'clock (we were going to see the 404's <3) and went in the Arists's Alley.
I took some pictures. I will NOT comment them all.
Lol, Medabots.
That cosplayer was actually from Montreal.
They were French and gave us ads to a con in Gatineau.
Best. Godot. Ever. And he was French too. <3
Someone did the ROBOT!
When you find a Dragon Ball cosplayer, you take his pic.
Frenchies.
That is seriously AWESOME.
I have no idea if this is a character or just some random unicorn, but this is a GUY crossplaying. O_O I want his hips.
Then, we went to the 404's show which is always awesome. I gave them the first Finders for the game where they have to read every other line froma manga. It was HILLARIOUS.
Before the show, I went to Mark to ask him about a couple of things and he recognized me and remembered my name <3
Tim wasn't there though :(
More pics.
The guys in white are not part of the 404's - they are another improv group.
I also have a video of one of their skit that you can find there :
Click to viewErr... I don't remember what we did after. More Artists' and Dealers' ?...
More pictures!
That is my favorite cosplay of the convention. I never imagined that someone could cosplay the Twilight Princess and LOOK like it. It's gorgeous!
Oh! We went to a Harry Potter Slash panel which was not very good. Pretty neutral. Yeah.
Then we went back to the hotel and took a shower. And slept.
SATURDAY
So uh... Saturday I put on my Bible Black cosplay. I think Anne-So was a regular person. The others were wearing the same thing,
We went to the Artists' and Dealers' again.
I informed my personal uke that my birthday had passed recently and lured him into buying me a gift. He got me a yaoi manga with vampires :P
At the end of the report, I'll post pictures of all the stuff I bought.
So um... PICTURES AGAIN 'cause I don't know what to write.
This was made of cardboard.
Girl on the right = very sexy cosplay.
Monika and my personal uke.
We met a Bible Black!group and I took a picture with them.
That was Snorri's awesome Kakashi <3
fanfare's group!
Again.
Ace Attorney.
My only Kingdom Hearts picture. Because I loved their cosplay.
Can't go to a convention without leaving with a pic of a Pyramid Head.
It was getting hot so fanfare's group again, but from The Beach.
Okay, so, then we went to a couple of bad panels.
Waiting for 8 o'clock to come, a guy came to me and said something along "A friend of mine wants to know if you're wearing a Bible Black cosplay." A friend of yours. Sure.
From 8 o'clock to 10 o'clock we watched the first 4 episodes of Junjo Romantica which is the best yaoi anime I've ever seen. It has a story. It is good. WATCH IT.
And during Junjo Romantica... Simon walks in on us! So when he left I followed him outside the room and attacked him. We talked. His hotel had a CURFEW WTF? I'll send him an email when I'll be planing the next AN and he'll come with us.
He was cosplaying Shiki, who is like, an ultimate seme, so he took a seme look when I photographed him, which is the funniest thing ever XD
After Junjo Romantica, a guy stopped near us, staring at me, and nearly screamed :
"OH MY GOD! Is that Bible Black?
-Yeah, it IS Bible Black.
-Well, you know what they say... Once you Bible Black, you can't come back."
We missed Gay Sex 101 to go to the 404's late night show which was even better than the other one. And Tim was there.
Then we went to sleep. And showered. Showering is a good thing during conventions.
Apparently, Gay Sex 101 was still awesome. I hope they won't be at the same time as the 404's next year :S
SUNDAY
Sunday being Sunday, we didn't do much. I wore the yaoi shirt and cargo pants again because I wanted to be confortable on the way back in the bus.
Huh... We went to the AMVs contest which was very so-so. :( Sad.
Then we went to the Dealers' one last time. We had one hour. I spent 45 minutes staring to an Apocalyptica DVD that was playing and talking to a selling guy about Apocalyptica (he had seen a show recently too, only, not in Montreal).
Then, Julie and I started walking towards the exit to leave... And I saw Kyo Kara Maou's second season DVDs. These as Geneon's DVDs, people! XD I bought three of them because that was all I could buy with the money I had. I doubled the amount I had spent during the weekend in the last 5 minutes before leaving... How good am I? Really? ><
Oh yeah, Best Anko ever (and only Sunday picture) :
I read the book I had to read to do my final Literature project during the night and hand it in on Monday.
I slept too, still using my personal uke as a pillow.
I was back home at midnight, and didn't sleep to work on my mémoire. It's done. I slept more than 12 hours last night and the night before.
OKAY, THINGS I BOUGHT!
Axel chain. I had a smaller one. It died. The artist wasn't making any small ones anymore. So I now have a big one.
Zoro keychain. Damn expensive for what it is, but it's Zoro.
The entire Junjo Romantica series (the 5 volumes that are out in English anyway)
More yaoi manga - Little Butterfly 2 and 3, Necroholic (the one with gay vampires), Say Please and the first Love Pistols.
The only reason I bought the first Love Pistols is because of Ioana... Now I want its sequel.
The first 3 DVDs of the 2nd season of Kyo Kara Maoh.
A Phoenix Wright print.
That con report was really long.