Otakon '04

[xparrot]

So Otakon was great fun as always. Especially good to see my brother again - first time he's gone since '01, and since he's on the West Coast now I don't see him that much. His Mihawk cosplay was a rousing success - totally pimpin', as he said - and most entertaining to hear the random shouts of "Mihawk!!!", followed by the shouters' acquaintances asking, "...uhh, who??" He and his friend also made a marvelous Tseng and Rude; my sis & I ended up not doing the other Turks after all, but they hooked up with a pretty Reno and spent Saturday evening stalking every Cloud they could find.

Big group gathered for the One Piece photoshoot on Saturday, it's a shame it was so crowded because there wasn't much chance for posing pictures, and with that many Luffys and Zoros and all we could've done some great stuff. If anyone has a good shot of Mihawk slaying all the Zoros, please post it somewhere? We didn't get one! Nice variety of costumes, too - like the whole Arabasta crew, and a fantastic Bon Clay. And I met a few people! *waves hi to lady_karasu, ginnyseta, and dethorats (who now knows that I'm such an idiot that I can't recognize people in different wigs ^^;;; but the Afro-Luffy cosplay was distracting! and so funny!). Sorry I didn't see anyone else - I actually didn't see most of the responses to my last post until just now, I left too early. Maybe next year?

Met sis's beloved Kyoto crew, and she & I tracked down the artist of Schism, fangirled wildly and bought some prints (Ni, looking too sexy for his bunny. Eeee!) I thought Masquerade was funnier last year, but it was all worth it for the final skit...Utena, as realized by the Muppets. Seeing the Goblin King pull a sword from scarlet-dressed Kermit fulfilled a hitherto unknown need in me. And the L'arc concert was fun. ...the FMA dub they showed pre-concert, errr, not so much. Oh, Ed, what have they done to you...

As usual, the most fun I got was just being there, seeing all the crazy costumes and wild fans. I would sometime like to go to a much smaller anime con - Otakon has gotten so big that it doesn't allow for smaller discussion panels and such. Why can't we have an East coast version of Yaoicon? Or a One Piece con, that would be awesome. There were enough of us there...

So, until next year!

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[luxetumbra.livejournal.com]

she & I tracked down the artist of Schism, fangirled wildly and bought some prints

Isn't that a great comic? I love her stuff. Loooove it. :D And hitasura's so cool too. ::looooves the hitasura::

Why can't we have an East coast version of Yaoicon?

::seconds::

[blades-of-ice.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wish I knew that you were going before yesterday...

I was one of the Sanzo's wandering around, on Saturday with Lirin, Yaone, Hakkai, Goku and Gojyo...Happen to see us? There weren't as many Sanzo's as I thought there would be.

Can't wait to see your pics!

[lady-karasu.livejournal.com]

It was great getting to see you~! Ooh, I'm only here for a few minutes before I have to get my friends back out to chicago, so I didn't read the whole post yet - BUT, guess who found someone who had the Mihawk shot? He just emailed them to me, so if you give me an addy to send them to I'll forward them now, or I can post them to my webpage as soon as I get a few minutes to sit down. I'll have to bug you about some I'm missing if you have them, but I have some video of the Bon Clay dancing with Django if you want it.... ^_~ Ah well, more later.... *runs back out the door*

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

if you could upload & post a link when you get a spare sec, that'd be tres cool!
I'll beg the sibs to pass on any good ones, and post 'em when I get 'em!

[lady-karasu.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that'd be cool - most of mine came out crappy. This is what happens when I let other people use my camera. I'll try to get what I have up tonight sometime... maybe. I hope. I'm being optimistic. *laughs* I'll try~

[dethorats]

Don't worry! The wigs did make me look pretty different. I have two pics of the Mihawk thing...they are located here:
http://www.villagephotos.com/pubgallery.asp?id_=680266
in the Otakon 2004 album.

I totally agree with the Yaoicon/OPcon idea. California is so far away, and it's hard to bring cosplay along on a plane.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

wigs are an excellent excuse. ^_^ and thanx for the pics link!

If I knew anything whatsoever about con organization I might look into doing it myself...but as it is, I'm just gonna whine about it. Don't see why we couldn't have one, there's enough of us out here, obviously...

[lady-karasu.livejournal.com]

I'm stuck in an online Tekkoshocon meeting right now and bored out of my skull.... so I decided to post the pics I know you want now, and just sift through the others later. Couldn't help the last one though, just had to add it. Have fun.

http://www.ladykarasu.com/ota04.htm

Also, looking again I have to say, your brothers Mihawk kicked some major ass. ^_^ (And some Zoro ass, as it were)