Because I like to be relevant and in the now, I'm going to give you a long ass summary on what happened the second day of AnimeCentral. Just a mere 2 weeks after the event happened. I may not remember it exactly since it's been so long. No worries though, I'll fill in the blank with complete fabrication if I can't remember. You'll never notice the real from the fantastical during my wanderings through the merry land of schoolgirls and ninjas (complete with spiky multicolored hair and oversized weapons).
As you undoubtedly remember from last time, we last left our hero (that's me!) in the evil clutches of Dr. Blood, moments away from being dipped into a vat of molten lead. Luckly our hero escaped at the last second with a plan so brilliant I cannot repeat it here in case it falls into the wrong hands. Let's just say I was amazing. I quickly showered away the battle stink from my weary bones and headed back to Rosemont. I made it around 12:30ish and called up Lisette to see if she was ready for another day of merriment. She wasn't. She and her room buddies had ordered a pizza and were waiting for it to arrive. Fine then, I'm a big boy, I'll go wander around on my own. First I need to visit a cash machine. I go to the one upstairs near the bathroom. Empty. I go to the one on the bottom floor. Out of Order. I walk over to one of the other hotels connected to the convention center by the skyway maze (which, by the way, reeked of b.o.). Their cash machine is out of order. I head back to the hyatt and ask one of the workers at the desk where the closest cash machine is that might be working. He tells me a Hotel about 6 blocks away might have a working cash machine. Hahaha, 6 blocks? Fuck that.
Defeated by the quest for cash I walk over the main convention area. First thing I notice about Saturday is I am part of the minority who didn't dress in costume. There are costumed people everywhere, even more then on Friday. The second thing I notice is a working cash machine. Hooray! There's a long line, but that's ok. I end up talking to this girl in front of me who's dressed up like some evil demon thing. She even had these cool contacts in that made her eyes look like cats eyes, except they were red instead of yellow. She was obsessed with vampires and goth/black metal, and I'd be afraid for my life if I was her boyfriend
. Anyways, the person in front of us makes it to the cash machine and.....out of order. The damned thing ran out of money!! I swear the whole world is out to get me. Fine, I have, uh *checks pocket* 11 dollars. That should be plenty to buy lunch with at least.
I walk around some. Artist alley is packed with even more artists this time. A bunch of them suck and I still can't figure out how they got a spot. I check out all the booths to see if anything catches my eye today. I was on a mission to buy a backpack bag thingy like I see so many people walking around with. After some browsing I find a nice one. Its army green, has some Samurai Champloo graphics on it. Cool. It was at the same table I bought the anime from the day before so i knew they took credit cards. 20 bucks is a nice price too. Bag purchased. I can finally take the apple and water bottles out of my pockets. They were making my pants fall down more then they normally do >_<. That was all I really wanted from the show so I browsed some of the booths I didn't get a close look at on Friday. I found this little booth I never even noticed before, and it was jam packed with asian cinema. Not anime, but live action movies from all over the area. If I had less willpower I would have ended up buying half of his display. He had some seriously scary looking horror movies that I never heard of before, and one movie that reminded me a lot of MirrorMask and the Dark Crystal. That one was all in Japanese though. According to the dvd box, it had one some awards at Cannes, so I'm sure we'll see at least a subbed version of the film eventually. Luckly for me, I was able to resist the little devil whispering in my ear and just picked up a copy of Battle Royale. If you want to see what they have go to www.cine-east.com.
It's now lunch time. I grab 2 slices of pizza and head to the counter to pay. The lady sees me pull out my small wad of cash and tells me not to worry, she'll only charge me for one slice. Very cool ^_^. That pizza cost 4.50 a piece. Pizza inside me, I head back over to the hotel area while happily munching on my apple. Well, not happily munching. More like taking a bite and chewing on one of the most disgusting apples I had ever eaten. Golden Delicious, you may be golden, but you certainly weren't delicious. I'm going back to the loving embrace of your red cousins. My plan at this point was to kill time until Lisette was done with whatever she was doing. None of the programs interested me much. There was some anime shows playing in the room on the bottom floor I could check out. With that thought, I was on my way to watch some anime. My plan was diverted though when I met up with Chris and Kyle, who were walking towards the convention area. They said they were there to do some uick shopping and eat ice cream. The mention of icecream was enough of an incentive to go with them.
First we went around everywhere looking for a present for Chris's girlfriend. He wanted to buy some japanese robe or kimono or whatever. In the end he found what he was looking for at this one booth that had this little creepy salesperson. Lisette might remember it. It was the booth that sold the Trogdor and Strongbad stuff. The dude started talking to me and Kyle while Chris was looking around. He was telling us about how he loves working these shows because he loves helping all the girls try on clothes. Especially the ones who aren't wearing much. Now I'm as normally pervy as the next dude, but this little guy was practically drooling over the thought of putting his hands on the girl flesh. This dude had to be in his 50's, a little creepy if you ask me.
Chris taken care of, we walk around looking for toys for Kyle. He is an anime addict. He bought a hat, some movies, a figure or 2, these chibi (big head, little body, cutsey style of anime) keychains, and was contiplating going back for a Gundam model. Speaking of Gundam, there was a program about to start on all the various Gundam series. First, though, some ice cream. We make it to the hotel and walk in the room for the program just in time. Now, I'm passably familier with Gundams (I finshed gundam wing!), but compared to some of the people in that room, I was a novice of the lowest caliber. The panel itself was kind of a letdown. It was a program about the gundam series, but it was more one mans opinion of which series were good and which ones sucked. I was hoping for more of a history of the series and maybe more facts and less opinion. Lisette called at this time and she couldn't have timed it better. i was getting bored. I stuck around with the guys for about 30 more minutes, then headed out. They followed me out so I guess they didn't like the program much either. I turn around to call Lisette and when I look back to tell the guys whats up, they were gone (like ninjas!).
Fine then. I meet up with Lisette and her friends, we detour over to their room for a few, then head out to wait for the Masquerade. The line by this time is out the door and around the block. The costume masquerade is the big program for Saturday. This is what a lot of people look forward to the most when the come to acen. Since we didn't want to wait out in the cold we hung around inside and watched a band called the spoony bards (bonus points if you get the reference). They most played anime and video game songs, and they weren't that bad either. They played one winged angel which is the really cool sephiroth theme song. They played some song that the dude singing was really really getting into singing. He was cracking up our group. Oh yeah, while the music is playing, this girl in a slutty schoolgirl outfit starts doing these ballet like dance moves over to the side. She was bending over and moving around and giving a show to everyone who was interested. I, of course, was completely appalled by her behavior and only stared with my mouth agape for a few minutes. Ok fine! I was staring most of the time until I heard Lisette and her Ukranian friend talking about her. Then they both turned around and gave me The Look(tm). A double look! Man, they didn't even check to see if I was staring first. They had The Look(tm) unleashed from the moment they turned around. *sigh*
The doors open, it's time for us to head in. I'm told one of Lisette's friends saved us seats on the inside. Yay for us! There's four of us and she only saved three seats. Boo for me! Luckly there was an empty seat across the isle. I got to sit next to a dude dressed like link, complete with a really nice looking masters sword and shield. And on my left was a little asian girl dressed like a member of the dresdon dolls. I have no idea what anime she was supposed to be from, but she had her face painted up all white and she had the bowlers hat on. She seriously looked like how the drummer dresses from the Dresdon Dolls.
Anywho, masquerade starts. First was the costume show. There was some very impressive costumes for this. I especially liked the guy who dressed like a big gundam robot. I was lucky enough to sit in front of a group of girls who would shout for the costume players to do a backflip everytime one came on stage. Once the costume show was over, now it was time for the prepared skits to start. I won't describe them all, mostly because that would take too long and I'm getting tired of typing. I'll just give you a few highlights, like the husky raphael from soul calibur 2 who channeled the spirit of the Star Wars kid of internet fame in order to do doinga sword routine . Or the night at the roxbury skit starring Mario and Luigi. The girls behind me were nice enough to only scream demands for yaoi most of the time instead of all the time. For those of you who don't know, yaoi is guy on guy anime porn. Yaoi for guy on guy, yuri for girl on girl, and hentai is the name for animated porn of any genre. The more you know (queue the star flying accross your screen).
Funny little side. I was going to buy Brian a yaoi shirt or something and tell him it was a cool new anime. Just to see if he would wear it out in public before finding out what it meant. I didn't though, my nice side prevailed, but the thought of him wearing that on casual day at work makes the evil laughter gurgle up from deep within.
Back to screaming people and the masquerade. Yaoi fans are crazy obsessed. Apparently dudes making out is the new hot lesbians making out. Whatever, the skits were over, now all that was left was the judging. By this time Lisette and miss U to the K to the raine wanted out of there and away from the shrilling girls. It wasn't helping much that some of the girls were mispronouncing yaoi as Yahweh. There's nothing like getting animated gay porn confused with God. We headed back to their hotel room and talked for a little bit, packed up Lisettes gear and made our way back home.
The end
*bows*
Talk to y'all later, I'm off to watch zombie movies and pass out on the couch.
*braaaaaaainnnnzzz*
As you undoubtedly remember from last time, we last left our hero (that's me!) in the evil clutches of Dr. Blood, moments away from being dipped into a vat of molten lead. Luckly our hero escaped at the last second with a plan so brilliant I cannot repeat it here in case it falls into the wrong hands. Let's just say I was amazing. I quickly showered away the battle stink from my weary bones and headed back to Rosemont. I made it around 12:30ish and called up Lisette to see if she was ready for another day of merriment. She wasn't. She and her room buddies had ordered a pizza and were waiting for it to arrive. Fine then, I'm a big boy, I'll go wander around on my own. First I need to visit a cash machine. I go to the one upstairs near the bathroom. Empty. I go to the one on the bottom floor. Out of Order. I walk over to one of the other hotels connected to the convention center by the skyway maze (which, by the way, reeked of b.o.). Their cash machine is out of order. I head back to the hyatt and ask one of the workers at the desk where the closest cash machine is that might be working. He tells me a Hotel about 6 blocks away might have a working cash machine. Hahaha, 6 blocks? Fuck that.
Defeated by the quest for cash I walk over the main convention area. First thing I notice about Saturday is I am part of the minority who didn't dress in costume. There are costumed people everywhere, even more then on Friday. The second thing I notice is a working cash machine. Hooray! There's a long line, but that's ok. I end up talking to this girl in front of me who's dressed up like some evil demon thing. She even had these cool contacts in that made her eyes look like cats eyes, except they were red instead of yellow. She was obsessed with vampires and goth/black metal, and I'd be afraid for my life if I was her boyfriend
. Anyways, the person in front of us makes it to the cash machine and.....out of order. The damned thing ran out of money!! I swear the whole world is out to get me. Fine, I have, uh *checks pocket* 11 dollars. That should be plenty to buy lunch with at least.
I walk around some. Artist alley is packed with even more artists this time. A bunch of them suck and I still can't figure out how they got a spot. I check out all the booths to see if anything catches my eye today. I was on a mission to buy a backpack bag thingy like I see so many people walking around with. After some browsing I find a nice one. Its army green, has some Samurai Champloo graphics on it. Cool. It was at the same table I bought the anime from the day before so i knew they took credit cards. 20 bucks is a nice price too. Bag purchased. I can finally take the apple and water bottles out of my pockets. They were making my pants fall down more then they normally do >_<. That was all I really wanted from the show so I browsed some of the booths I didn't get a close look at on Friday. I found this little booth I never even noticed before, and it was jam packed with asian cinema. Not anime, but live action movies from all over the area. If I had less willpower I would have ended up buying half of his display. He had some seriously scary looking horror movies that I never heard of before, and one movie that reminded me a lot of MirrorMask and the Dark Crystal. That one was all in Japanese though. According to the dvd box, it had one some awards at Cannes, so I'm sure we'll see at least a subbed version of the film eventually. Luckly for me, I was able to resist the little devil whispering in my ear and just picked up a copy of Battle Royale. If you want to see what they have go to www.cine-east.com.
It's now lunch time. I grab 2 slices of pizza and head to the counter to pay. The lady sees me pull out my small wad of cash and tells me not to worry, she'll only charge me for one slice. Very cool ^_^. That pizza cost 4.50 a piece. Pizza inside me, I head back over to the hotel area while happily munching on my apple. Well, not happily munching. More like taking a bite and chewing on one of the most disgusting apples I had ever eaten. Golden Delicious, you may be golden, but you certainly weren't delicious. I'm going back to the loving embrace of your red cousins. My plan at this point was to kill time until Lisette was done with whatever she was doing. None of the programs interested me much. There was some anime shows playing in the room on the bottom floor I could check out. With that thought, I was on my way to watch some anime. My plan was diverted though when I met up with Chris and Kyle, who were walking towards the convention area. They said they were there to do some uick shopping and eat ice cream. The mention of icecream was enough of an incentive to go with them.
First we went around everywhere looking for a present for Chris's girlfriend. He wanted to buy some japanese robe or kimono or whatever. In the end he found what he was looking for at this one booth that had this little creepy salesperson. Lisette might remember it. It was the booth that sold the Trogdor and Strongbad stuff. The dude started talking to me and Kyle while Chris was looking around. He was telling us about how he loves working these shows because he loves helping all the girls try on clothes. Especially the ones who aren't wearing much. Now I'm as normally pervy as the next dude, but this little guy was practically drooling over the thought of putting his hands on the girl flesh. This dude had to be in his 50's, a little creepy if you ask me.
Chris taken care of, we walk around looking for toys for Kyle. He is an anime addict. He bought a hat, some movies, a figure or 2, these chibi (big head, little body, cutsey style of anime) keychains, and was contiplating going back for a Gundam model. Speaking of Gundam, there was a program about to start on all the various Gundam series. First, though, some ice cream. We make it to the hotel and walk in the room for the program just in time. Now, I'm passably familier with Gundams (I finshed gundam wing!), but compared to some of the people in that room, I was a novice of the lowest caliber. The panel itself was kind of a letdown. It was a program about the gundam series, but it was more one mans opinion of which series were good and which ones sucked. I was hoping for more of a history of the series and maybe more facts and less opinion. Lisette called at this time and she couldn't have timed it better. i was getting bored. I stuck around with the guys for about 30 more minutes, then headed out. They followed me out so I guess they didn't like the program much either. I turn around to call Lisette and when I look back to tell the guys whats up, they were gone (like ninjas!).
Fine then. I meet up with Lisette and her friends, we detour over to their room for a few, then head out to wait for the Masquerade. The line by this time is out the door and around the block. The costume masquerade is the big program for Saturday. This is what a lot of people look forward to the most when the come to acen. Since we didn't want to wait out in the cold we hung around inside and watched a band called the spoony bards (bonus points if you get the reference). They most played anime and video game songs, and they weren't that bad either. They played one winged angel which is the really cool sephiroth theme song. They played some song that the dude singing was really really getting into singing. He was cracking up our group. Oh yeah, while the music is playing, this girl in a slutty schoolgirl outfit starts doing these ballet like dance moves over to the side. She was bending over and moving around and giving a show to everyone who was interested. I, of course, was completely appalled by her behavior and only stared with my mouth agape for a few minutes. Ok fine! I was staring most of the time until I heard Lisette and her Ukranian friend talking about her. Then they both turned around and gave me The Look(tm). A double look! Man, they didn't even check to see if I was staring first. They had The Look(tm) unleashed from the moment they turned around. *sigh*
The doors open, it's time for us to head in. I'm told one of Lisette's friends saved us seats on the inside. Yay for us! There's four of us and she only saved three seats. Boo for me! Luckly there was an empty seat across the isle. I got to sit next to a dude dressed like link, complete with a really nice looking masters sword and shield. And on my left was a little asian girl dressed like a member of the dresdon dolls. I have no idea what anime she was supposed to be from, but she had her face painted up all white and she had the bowlers hat on. She seriously looked like how the drummer dresses from the Dresdon Dolls.
Anywho, masquerade starts. First was the costume show. There was some very impressive costumes for this. I especially liked the guy who dressed like a big gundam robot. I was lucky enough to sit in front of a group of girls who would shout for the costume players to do a backflip everytime one came on stage. Once the costume show was over, now it was time for the prepared skits to start. I won't describe them all, mostly because that would take too long and I'm getting tired of typing. I'll just give you a few highlights, like the husky raphael from soul calibur 2 who channeled the spirit of the Star Wars kid of internet fame in order to do doinga sword routine . Or the night at the roxbury skit starring Mario and Luigi. The girls behind me were nice enough to only scream demands for yaoi most of the time instead of all the time. For those of you who don't know, yaoi is guy on guy anime porn. Yaoi for guy on guy, yuri for girl on girl, and hentai is the name for animated porn of any genre. The more you know (queue the star flying accross your screen).
Funny little side. I was going to buy Brian a yaoi shirt or something and tell him it was a cool new anime. Just to see if he would wear it out in public before finding out what it meant. I didn't though, my nice side prevailed, but the thought of him wearing that on casual day at work makes the evil laughter gurgle up from deep within.
Back to screaming people and the masquerade. Yaoi fans are crazy obsessed. Apparently dudes making out is the new hot lesbians making out. Whatever, the skits were over, now all that was left was the judging. By this time Lisette and miss U to the K to the raine wanted out of there and away from the shrilling girls. It wasn't helping much that some of the girls were mispronouncing yaoi as Yahweh. There's nothing like getting animated gay porn confused with God. We headed back to their hotel room and talked for a little bit, packed up Lisettes gear and made our way back home.
The end
*bows*
Talk to y'all later, I'm off to watch zombie movies and pass out on the couch.
*braaaaaaainnnnzzz*
VIEW 3 of 3 COMMENTS
jeseryn:
*CHEERS* You write really well 
I loved reading all that.. you sound like so much fun!
I loved reading all that.. you sound like so much fun!
sky:
Thankyou so so so much for the comment on my sonic and tails set. I'm sorry it's taken me a month to get back to you! I was really busy with university commitments. but i love reading through all my comments now. so thankyou xxx