Katsucon!
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That's right. Today I went to my first Anime Con! (Convention): Katsucon!!!
It was located at DC's Omni Shoreham Hotel.
It was really fun. I met up with two other friends that had been there Saturday as well, so they showed me around and we just had fun. Couple of highlights:
-Cosplaying: This is pretty much the biggest thing at any Con. People costume play as characters from various anime. The costumes are really detailed and look amazing. (Sorry, Omi, I couldn't find any FF cosplayers.)
Favorite costumes included: Rei and Asuka from Evangelion, lots of Fullmetal Alchemist characters (some really good Envy's there and a really good military person), for those of you who like Naruto there were lots of people wearing Naruto headbands (and probably cosplaying as well), and various cosplayings from anime I haven't even seen.
-Artist's Alley: A big room for artists to show off their work, and some for sale. I bought a pic of a chibi Ed Elric using a transmutation circle (for my friends that couldn't go). Various people even saying they'd anime-ize you! Lots of cool stuff there.
-Merchant's Hall: The biggest room of all, this place had tables upon tables of merchants from everywhere selling stuff. I went crazy. (well, not really). I got three manga for $4 each, and two more for $7 each. I also got some FMA stickers and FMA anime disk 1. Best of all was my "NERV" shirt (from Eva). (I also got another friend a Gundam model).
-Anime!: Well, of course there was anime everywhere! Especially in three rooms specifically for running various anime non-stop.
-Walden Wong: This guy lives in San Fransisco and works for DC and Marvel comics, and Viz Media (a manga company). At the start of his talk it was just my friends and me, and then 4 more people popped in to make a total of 7 people! It was really cool, because he was able to get up close with us and tell us stuff that he probably wouldn't have if there was a big crowd. He was giving us tips on drawing, shadowing, details, (and I'm not an artist!) and cool things about drawing. His favorite character to work with is Superman. He also works from home mostly. One cool thing was that when detailing stuff he can put subliminal messages in the comics. Like toss in a name of him or his friend (like in the grass) and nobody would notice it unless he pointed it out. (He got to do this with a book shelf once. Just started filling in his friend's names) One cool point: The artist of "The Simpsons" put his initials in Homer's head. The M is his hair and the G is his ear!
Game Room: This was actually two rooms. The first had lots of those stand up games similar to the ones found in arcades. But these were old games. The classics such as Asteroids and Pac-Man. Lots of fun there. In the next room were various game systems, from Super Nintendo to the Wii, and everything in between and probable before. I played a couple things and enjoyed it, and it was my first time with a Wii. Interesting....
This con was really fun. Also, the con staff said they would be watching blogs, so even though I doubt they'll see this, I'll comment directly to them:
Good job guys! You know what you need to fix, and it will be sure talked about on the forums. One note: Swap meet! Thank you.
So I can't wait for AnimeUSA in the fall. I might just cosplay, I just don't know who. (my ideas: Dark Mousy, Senri the Bear +Anima, or Shinji Akari) Actually, cosplaying as Shinji might work if my friends decide to do Rei and Asuka.
Well, that was my con, and here's to many many more! :cheers smiley:
-CF 
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