Yes, Japan is still mine. But that's beside the point.

I just returned from Otakon, my latest attempt to be recognized in the United States as an obscure character from an already obscure manga/anime series, and I was actually marginally successful - but only in the Artists' Alley, where the few people who drew Oofuri were somewhat pleased to know ( Read more... )

...didn't work. Oofuri is a tiny fandom in the United States still (whilst in the meantime the world is freakishly obsessed with Gurren Lagann, apparently), and Katsucon is not a very big convention. In my school uniform on Friday night a girl asked me if I was from Death Note, so I had to politely explain that I was from a different series, and on ( Read more... )

Tomorrow (well, later today, really), I depart for Arlington, VA, in order to begin a social experiment entitled How Many Otaku in the Greater Washington D.C. Area Recognize Junta?

In short, it's Katsucon weekend and I am a camera whore.