Anime Expo Report!
It's time for Xpyne's long awaited Anime Expo 2007 Con Report!!! <--whut? Haha, well! Even if you haven't been waiting on the edge of your computer seat for this, i'm pretty excited to share it with y'all. :D Making last minute cosplay stuff created a high energy, stressful all-night prelude to the first day of the con (that we attended) which was Saturday. The con itself was held at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California. The venue was on the small side, which unfortunately necessitated the dealers' room, game room, video viewing rooms, and registration area to all be rather spread out from each other. There was lots of fun things to buy, and tons of great cosplayers to oogle. However, oddly enough, at least a third of the cosplayers I saw weren't dressed as anything anime. There was a Xena, Warrior Princess, the Mooninites from AquaTeen Hunger Force, a few Star Wars-esque ppl, comic book characters, and other really strange random costumes like this one guy who was dressed up as a ten foot tall can of Monster, the energy drink. (?) The majority of anime cosplayers hailed from Naruto or Bleach, and there was a surprisingly good showing of Avatar cosplayers. I saw a Mai, a few Aangs, a few Katara's, two Sokas, a Toph, two Appas, Momo, and an absolutely gorgeous Azula. <--Azula, hold my hand!!
There wasn't too much in the way of videos playing we were actually interested in seeing, so we mostly shopped, browsed, and posed for/took pictures. Soli bought a whole bunch of 39 doujinshi, haha, and I got a t-shirt, the next Vampire Hunter D novel I've been craving ((tho i cant start reading it until at least August, since it's a two-parter this time and i dont want to torture myslef by reading it now and not getting to know what happens until September when the next one comes out!!!)), a Pokey, the orange ghost from Pacman, plushie, and some other stuff. Soli and I have an official mascot now for the Dirty Old Ladies Club! Heehee we both fell in love with this Monkey King Voodoo Baby keychain and bought him. He is supposedly enchanted to boost his owner's creativity and ingenuity, so we'll see, haha. ♥ He has a little nyoi-bo, diadem and everything! We cosplayed as me = Demon form Goku, Soli = Sanzo, little sis = Hakkai, littler bro = Gojyo, my friend = Dr. Ni, lil' sis' friend = Yaone. We were in costume Sat. & Sun., except for our Ni who only dressed up on Sat. We also went on Mon, all out of costume, which is when i got most of my actual shopping done, lol, cuz there weren't ppl stopping us every 5 minutes for pics. =D Ooh, and we also got to meet
kis4me2 , which was pretty cool! We went to the Saiyuki gathering on Sat, too, but I dont think we knew anyone there. We just posed for some photos, Sanzo almost beat a cute Lirin with her fan for trying to glomp her, haha, and then escaped inside out of the heat. Did I mention it was a very hot weekend? Beach weather, not dress-up-in-a-million-layers-cosplaying weather. lol
Hammer time! Picture time! I took tons of pix, but I made most of them pretty small, so hopefully this won't deter my fellow dial-up internet users from checking out the photos. These are all worksafe, if not quite geeky. XD I've tried to organize them a bit. If you only wanna see a few, check out the "Group" pix. They are the funniest, imo.
Those are his real eyelashes, ladies. XD
It took some convincing to get our brother into the shiny black pants. He's such a little trooper! ♥
He's only 15, and already thinks he's God's gift to Hakkai women. Heehee. And, the boy behind the cosplay.
Our other sister. In a few years, she'll be officially inducted into the Dirty Old Ladies' Club. >:D She's already an honorary member.
She lost her monocle I made for her, so I made her another one. She lost that one, too. I'll keel her. >:E
Her infamous "duh face". Makes us all crack up!
This is Xpyne, the props/acessories, make-up, and hair department of our costume making duo.
I guess Demon Goku doesn't put up with fan pwns. XD Look out, Sanzo!
OMG, RAPE!!!! Hahaha, when we asked this Homura cosplayer to pose with me, she was like, "Okay!" and stood there dramatically. Then I got on my knees and crawled under her chain and she was like, " O.O ..... All right!" lol I wish we'd gotten a group shot with her, but her friends were in somewhat of a hurry, it seemed, so it was a no go. :'<
This pic is actually from last year, so no wig, but it's the best shot I have of nyoi bo.
This is Solitaire, the sewing & primary financing unit of our cosplay duo. She also is a great motivator, i.e. she bullies me into actually working! ♥
Here's a nice shot of the sutra. It's running grass script Chinese, and is made of patchwork excerpts from the Heart Sutra. Sanzo is so dainty!
Sanzo got tentacled by monsters. No joke.
Here's our friends, helping us indulge our cosplay obsession!
Ni broods.
I love this chick! She was funny. This Gyoukumen(sp?) was with some cute guys dressed as Final Fantasy, but one of them told me he was going to the Saiyuki gathering as Kougaiji. He wasn't there, but I really wish I could see his costume. His FF one was fantastic, and he was really cute, so I bet he made a great Kou.
Yaone was tuckered out by all the battling Sanzo's party walking around. :D
This shot was taken by
ayonoi at the Saiyuki gathering. Why don't I have any shots of all of us myself?!?!
What's this? Hakkai and Yaone are flirting?
Gojyo quickly puts an end to that.
Goku and Gojyo are all tuckered out.
The closest thing to 53 we're willing to do, lol.
Sanzo may act blase, but we know he loves his m♥nkey.
Some 58 luuurve. =D
♥
fan pwn!
Ni took this photo.
Sanzo and Goku's happy adopted family! Fluffy white flying cloud, fluffy white flying bison--close enough. :D
Here are some shots of random people that are either really funny or really good, or really weird, haha.
DBZ Gokus & FMA Al!
Sadly, I know the autobots. >.> They go to my old high school and run xc with my bro.
The moon rulz #1!!!!!
Soli & Xpyne with a giant voodoo doll.
SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!
There wasn't too much in the way of videos playing we were actually interested in seeing, so we mostly shopped, browsed, and posed for/took pictures. Soli bought a whole bunch of 39 doujinshi, haha, and I got a t-shirt, the next Vampire Hunter D novel I've been craving ((tho i cant start reading it until at least August, since it's a two-parter this time and i dont want to torture myslef by reading it now and not getting to know what happens until September when the next one comes out!!!)), a Pokey, the orange ghost from Pacman, plushie, and some other stuff. Soli and I have an official mascot now for the Dirty Old Ladies Club! Heehee we both fell in love with this Monkey King Voodoo Baby keychain and bought him. He is supposedly enchanted to boost his owner's creativity and ingenuity, so we'll see, haha. ♥ He has a little nyoi-bo, diadem and everything! We cosplayed as me = Demon form Goku, Soli = Sanzo, little sis = Hakkai, littler bro = Gojyo, my friend = Dr. Ni, lil' sis' friend = Yaone. We were in costume Sat. & Sun., except for our Ni who only dressed up on Sat. We also went on Mon, all out of costume, which is when i got most of my actual shopping done, lol, cuz there weren't ppl stopping us every 5 minutes for pics. =D Ooh, and we also got to meet
kis4me2 , which was pretty cool! We went to the Saiyuki gathering on Sat, too, but I dont think we knew anyone there. We just posed for some photos, Sanzo almost beat a cute Lirin with her fan for trying to glomp her, haha, and then escaped inside out of the heat. Did I mention it was a very hot weekend? Beach weather, not dress-up-in-a-million-layers-cosplaying weather. lol
Hammer time! Picture time! I took tons of pix, but I made most of them pretty small, so hopefully this won't deter my fellow dial-up internet users from checking out the photos. These are all worksafe, if not quite geeky. XD I've tried to organize them a bit. If you only wanna see a few, check out the "Group" pix. They are the funniest, imo.
Those are his real eyelashes, ladies. XD
It took some convincing to get our brother into the shiny black pants. He's such a little trooper! ♥
He's only 15, and already thinks he's God's gift to Hakkai women. Heehee. And, the boy behind the cosplay.
Our other sister. In a few years, she'll be officially inducted into the Dirty Old Ladies' Club. >:D She's already an honorary member.
She lost her monocle I made for her, so I made her another one. She lost that one, too. I'll keel her. >:E
Her infamous "duh face". Makes us all crack up!
This is Xpyne, the props/acessories, make-up, and hair department of our costume making duo.
I guess Demon Goku doesn't put up with fan pwns. XD Look out, Sanzo!
OMG, RAPE!!!! Hahaha, when we asked this Homura cosplayer to pose with me, she was like, "Okay!" and stood there dramatically. Then I got on my knees and crawled under her chain and she was like, " O.O ..... All right!" lol I wish we'd gotten a group shot with her, but her friends were in somewhat of a hurry, it seemed, so it was a no go. :'<
This pic is actually from last year, so no wig, but it's the best shot I have of nyoi bo.
This is Solitaire, the sewing & primary financing unit of our cosplay duo. She also is a great motivator, i.e. she bullies me into actually working! ♥
Here's a nice shot of the sutra. It's running grass script Chinese, and is made of patchwork excerpts from the Heart Sutra. Sanzo is so dainty!
Sanzo got tentacled by monsters. No joke.
Here's our friends, helping us indulge our cosplay obsession!
Ni broods.
I love this chick! She was funny. This Gyoukumen(sp?) was with some cute guys dressed as Final Fantasy, but one of them told me he was going to the Saiyuki gathering as Kougaiji. He wasn't there, but I really wish I could see his costume. His FF one was fantastic, and he was really cute, so I bet he made a great Kou.
Yaone was tuckered out by all the battling Sanzo's party walking around. :D
This shot was taken by
ayonoi at the Saiyuki gathering. Why don't I have any shots of all of us myself?!?!
What's this? Hakkai and Yaone are flirting?
Gojyo quickly puts an end to that.
Goku and Gojyo are all tuckered out.
The closest thing to 53 we're willing to do, lol.
Sanzo may act blase, but we know he loves his m♥nkey.
Some 58 luuurve. =D
♥
fan pwn!
Ni took this photo.
Sanzo and Goku's happy adopted family! Fluffy white flying cloud, fluffy white flying bison--close enough. :D
Here are some shots of random people that are either really funny or really good, or really weird, haha.
DBZ Gokus & FMA Al!
Sadly, I know the autobots. >.> They go to my old high school and run xc with my bro.
The moon rulz #1!!!!!
Soli & Xpyne with a giant voodoo doll.
SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!