Broken Anime

Oh baby.  OOOooOoOoooo baby.

ok, just finished my sandwich.

Sakura-con!

oh that joyous time of year in Seattle, when fat people dress skinny, skinny people don armor, people hug strangers, and large crowds actually make you happy. My pilgrimage, my Carnaval, my bbq ribs laced in honey and sauce.
k, waiting in line is haaaado gei (in a bad way), and it seemed like the pre-reg line was just as long as the at-the-door-reg line. I waited for an hour, and this was partially because their database died for a while….
here’s a 4koma summarizing my struggles:

Highlights:
the Exhibitors area (merchandise place) has been physically expanded to encompass the entire room that it’s been in before (it used to only take up half). Downside: it seems like the selection of mercs has been kinda lame….for me, figure hunting has revealed lame results. Good thing: this time i actually didn’t accidentally stumble upon a heaping pile of yaoi, as happened in the past (long story). Kinokuniya reduced it’s stock there…maybe saturday will be bettah.

AMVs:
what can I say? I mean, even if everything else disappoints you, well, the AMV’s always impress. They crack me up like a…ghost…out of…the shell…(?).
Funny stuff:
Death Note AMV…but to Scar’s theme from Lion King.
Haruhi, gundam guys, and Death Note guys…playing…uh oh…section 9 in Counterstrike! talk about counter-terrorism…
the Death Note takes out criminals? Not today. It takes out bad anime series. There can only be one (Prince of Darkness) anime to rule them all!
And of course Steve and Vlad brought us the best of them all. Too lazy to list them all off.
Wanna see the secret lives of anime characters in real life behind the screen? Too bad, you’ll see something supposedly better tomorrow. They’re not gonna show this stuff again.
GO!: to saturday’s showing of the AMV contest. make sure to get blue tickets for it BEFOREhand to get in/ get good seats.

Manga library: hmmm…lame i can’t pick out books on my own. apparently i’m so untrustworthy with second-rate books that I have to trade in my badge to read a book…

Panels: stopped by an info session on the JET Program (studying in Japan). Get a scholarship to study there! wanna be an animator? goto the website, sheesh, don’t ask me. History of Visual Novels (H and non-H)…cereally? pplz, I pay 45+ dollars for this convention, could you not hire/bring in more capable, less boring speakers? All I learned was that Clannad was the first visual novel to introduce the “Crying story” type of visual novel (storyline: comedy, then romance, separation, then reunion…awwwwww :3). Meidos: hmmm, i never liked them much, but i stopped in and learned that guys like to wear such Victorian era outfits too. btw, they weren’t meant to be sexy looking, and well, they aren’t.

Anime Dating Game: WHO WANTS HARD-GAY!??!?!? also, the cousins in Katamari Damacy were up for love too. Funny stuff. Definitely not PG material. Don’t bring yo’ kids. btw, a guy dressed as a pimp “won” HG.

Sigh…Did not get a chance to see Girugamesh, or more importantly, the enthusiastic fan seen/made fun of in many a video/4chan.

Look forward to more news.

-RHO