A-kon 17

[ghostdrive]

To put it briefly (since I'm more interested in showing cosplay pictures), A-Kon was awesome. ♥ Went with Gina and Santos, met Katherine and Sara there (my apologies to you guys for being unsocial), bought some cool things (though I spent far less compared to last year), and had an all around good time. Can't want until next year!


Before I get to the cosplay pictures, here's a little story about how Gina became super excited over a Count Cain cosplayer. She's soooo going to kill me for making fun of her. XDDD

Despite having read not one volume of Count Cain (I've shown her pictures and scanlations, and rambled on about it to her though, which is how she knows about it), Gina is IN LOVE with Cain. She just thinks he's the most adorable thing ever and will spaz out about him at any given opportunity. So before we even started on the car ride up to Dallas, I told her, " You know, I know of at least one Cain cosplayer being at A-Kon since someone on the Count Cain comm posted that they were going as him. Should I keep a look out for her?" To say she was excited over this would be an understatement; she was seriously squealing as much as when she found that Jack Skellington lunch box at Hot Topic. XD

Anyway, we didn't spot a Cain cosplayer the entire time we were wandering around the convention center on Saturday...that is, until we were making our way back to our room. Passing by a small group of people sitting near the lobby, I suddenly spotted a silver-gray mop of hair. "Riff?", I thought. And sitting next to this silver-haired person is a familiar figure in a top hat and black suit. Fuck yeah, its Cain.

At this point we've just passed by them and I don't want to make a total dork of myself by screaming out,"ZOMG, its Cain!", so I turn to Gina (Ahahaha, I'll let her do all the dirty work) and let her know we've just passed by the person she's been looking for. XD She literally spun around and made a beeline towards where they were sitting. XDD After taking a couple of photos and chatting with them a bit, as we were walking away me and Gina were totally high-fiving each other. We're such dorks.

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Also, when we first started taking pictures, me and Gina got so excited we kept on circling around the same area for like 20 minutes. XD Then my brother was like, "Ummm...Can't we, you know, go somewhere else now?" Ahahaha, I'm surprised he didn't hide out in the hotel room.

1. Red Power Ranger and Zord


2. Vash the Stampede (Trigun)


3. I know, this is a crappy shot of Link, but check out the detail in her costume!


4. Pyramid Head (from Silent Hill)! And he(?) lurched around the convention center too! I love in character cosplayers. ♥And no, I did not add any effects to this picture. I'd been screwing around with my camera beforehand, and I don't know what I did to it.


5. Aeris and Tifa (FF7)


6. ??? I DON'T REMEMBER WHO THIS IS. Please, if someone knows, tell me.


7. Wah! It's Princess Peach! Her pose was so cute. ♥


8. Random girl with a pretty costume + some Naruto character


9. Arucard and ??? (Hellsing)


10. Zangief (Street Fighter). I ♥ his pose. For a brief moment, we mistook him for Mr. T. I don't know why. XD


11. Vash the Stampede and some girl from Tenje Tenjou


12. Hellsing crew


13. Skull kid (I think) from Legend of Zelda


14. Space Ghost


15. Link (Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess). This was the most AWESOME Link cosplayer there. I throw ♥s at her sheer greatness.


16. Vincent Valentine (FF7/Dirge of Cerberus/Advent Children). This girl was so beautiful as Vincent (also the water gun cracks me up). On Sunday she dressed up as Turk!Vincent, but I didn't get a chance to take a picture of her then.


17. Rita Repulsa (Power Rangers)


18. Gir (Invader Zim). This cosplayer attempted to run away at one point, and boy, it was the most adorable thing ever. XD


19. Trinity Blood trio


20. Gum and Beat (Jet Set Radio). By far, these two were one of my favorite cosplayers there. They're so colorful! ♥ And besides, I love anything to do with Jet Set Radio.


21. Stormtrooper (Star Wars). Gina went crazy over this guy. XD


22. Zelda and Link (Twilight Princess)


23. Riff and Cain (Count Cain).


24. Another of Riff and Cain They offered to give us a fanservice shot, but Gina declined. I WANT ME A FANSERVICE SHOT. Nevermind, my prayers have been answered. Check HERE for fanservice. :D Also, please excuse the red-eye.


25. Rukia (Bleach). She was adorable~.


26. Mario and Luigi


Cosplayers I missed out on taking pics of:

Dan (Street Fighter) -- His pink gi was fabulous. XD

Bender (Futurama) -- This cosplayer completely stopped traffic where ever he(?) went. Everyone would just crowd around Bender.

Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid) -- He snuck away before I had a chance to even take out my camera. Damn, he was the master of stealth.

Typing of the Dead guys -- As much as I love "Typing of the Dead", I totally failed to recognize these guys until my brother whispered to me,"Hey! Check out those Dreamcasts strapped to their backs. It's those Typing of the Dead guys." Right after he said that, they disappeared. Damn.

Turk!Vincent -- Oh my god, she was so beautiful. ♥

Terry Bogard (Fatal Fury)

Little Prince (Katamari Damacy)

Iori (King of Fighters) -- This guy was so tall! I was a bit too intimidated to approach him. ^^;

some random cute guy in a nice, victorian suit. (Perhaps he was Riff?)

Kira (Gundam Seed)

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In comparison to last year, there were less Naruto and Bleach cosplayers, but there were a TON of Kingdom Hearts ones.

If anyone is interested, more cosplay pics from this event can be found in the galleries HERE.

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Things I bought:

blanc et noir -- Takeshi Obata artbook. At first I balked at the $70 price on this, but holy crap, the artwork is BEAUTIFUL. ♥

salty-dog IV -- Kazuya Minekura artboook

Final Fantasy VII soundtrack

Final Fantasy VIII soundtrack

Mars -- Gackt Alas, I could not find "Rebirth".

2 The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap mini-figurines. One is of Link with the Gust Jar, and the other is a Minish/Picori. So cute~! ♥

snacks: Men's Pocky, Almond Crush Pocky, Mousse Pocky, Hello Panda (strawberry and milk cream), random small boxes of japanese candy

Bought for others:

Luigi plushie for Santos

Dracula Voodoobaby for Gina

I was kind of disappointed by the lack of interesting artbooks at the Sasuga Books booth this year. ...Or maybe I just didn't find many I wanted since I bought like a bajillion of them so many of them last year. XD

Things I wished I had bought:
--Nanae Chrono artbook
--Totoro coin purse
--HIGH and MIGHTHY COLOR cds
--other various JRock and JPop cds
--more Minish Cap figurines (and the Mario Kart ones for Santos)
--Cactuar plushie. I CAN NOT RESIST CACTUAR.

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Gina found out, vaguely anyway, what "yaoi" and "yuri" mean. Ahahaha, her first con and she's already being corrupted. XD Also, can you believe she didn't know what "emo" meant? Man, she really has been away from the internet far too long , or perhaps I'm just online way too much XD. On the way back from A-kon, Gina was already making plans for next year. XD.

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Favorite cosplay skits:

Duel of Snake vs. Revolver Ocelot (Metal Gear Solid 3). -- Snake won and proceeded to shake out Ocelot's dog tags (actually, it turned out to be the other person's convention badge). Man, I loved this skit.

Organization XIII crew talking. -- Axel's repeated askings of "Where's Roxas?" had me cracking up. Favorite line? When Xemnas says," Its ESpresso, not EXpresso. Not everything has to have an "X" in it you know." I was like dying of laughter here. XDD

FF7 skit that alluded to Vincent/Cloud and Vincent/Cid pairings. Too bad I can't remember any lines from this one. XP

"A Date with Zelda" -- When it comes to the dating game, Twilight Princess!Link and Wind Waker!Link lose when it comes to 8-bit Link.

Oh yeah, and someone proposed to their girlfriend on stage too. Lucklily, she said yes.

THIS POST TOOK ME 2 HOURS TO TYPE OUT. ~goes off to rest hands~

Comments

[ryutsuki.livejournal.com]

HEARTS for Link and Vincent! And the Riff and Cain cosplayers were bittereloquence and dreamsincyanide respectively :D

Would they happen to have the cosplay skits available for download/streaming? :D

[ryutsuki.livejournal.com]

2 The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap mini-figurines. One is of Link with the Gust Jar, and the other is a Minish/Picori. So cute~! ♥

I just noticed that now. You MUST take pictures of the Minish/Picori! Seeing that would just make my life. :D

[ghostdrive.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, I had a feeling you'd be interested in the Minish/Picori mini-figurine. :3 I'll try and post a picture of it for you later today. ♥ It's so tiny! Like less than an inch tall.

Picori figurine

[ghostdrive.livejournal.com]

I managed to take a couple of pics before my camera decided to crap out on me (it was screaming,"CHANGE THE BATTERIES," at me. XD)


I wanted to take a picture of it next to a ruler so you could see how small it really is. Guess that'll have to wait until later.

And just because, here's the one of Link with the Gust Jar:


♥

Re: Picori figurine

[ryutsuki.livejournal.com]

OH-EM-GEE.

They are sooooo cute!! But...Link and the Gust Jar and Ezlo look vaguely wrong...hee ♥

Re: Picori figurine

[ghostdrive.livejournal.com]

...Bwahahahaha! Though I think Ezlo is enjoying it more than Link.

[ghostdrive.livejournal.com]

Aren't they all so awesome looking?! I go crazy over good cosplay, haha. ♥

The Vincent cosplayer stood beside me at the Sasuga Books booth and I was just in awe at the amount of detail she put into the costume. She even had all the rips in Vincent's cape! Must stop now before I start rambling about everybody else. XD

Hmmm...I have no idea if the skits will be available for download/streaming. I'll keep my eye out for them though. :3

[dizzy-anonymity.livejournal.com]

This is the only reason I've never went to an anime convention. I'm afraid I would see that.

And shame on you Kathy! Were are all the schoolgirl pictures!?!?

j/k

Some of the costumes looked really cool.

Val and I want to go to an anime convention. Not sure what we would dress as. Did you or anyone you go with dress up?

[ghostdrive.livejournal.com]

Haha, there are much scarier things than half-naked men at anime conventions. Believe me, nothings worse than seeing an ugly boy in a poofy dress. Though, as long as I don't encounter Man-Faye at one, I think I'll be okay.

Note to self: Take more pictures of schoolgirls at A-Kon next year for Richard. XD

I didn't dress up this year, but I think I'll try to next year. Gina didn't dress up either (though she's already planning what to wear for the next A-Kon, haha). Katherine went as Aerith and Kairi from Kingdom Hearts 2, and Sara went as Olette from KH2 also. As for Santos, he went as Random Lobby Guy. XDDD

[cobra-bruce.livejournal.com]

love the pics kat wheto and I would like to go to one some year haha

look what I found on myspace

a really good tifa lockart cosplayer
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=72663720

[ghostdrive.livejournal.com]

Go to a convention! They're so much fun. :D I know there's going to be a convention in Houston called Onicon in October. I'm trying to decide if I want to go there or not.

Aww, it says I can't view the link since I'm not a MySpace member. :(

[ryutsuki.livejournal.com]

3/6. I thought they were too amazing not to direct link 8DDDDD I'm sure MySpace doesn't mind anyway...

[ghostdrive.livejournal.com]

WOW. She's, quite possibly, the prettiest Tifa cosplayer I've seen just add a pair of jumbo boobs and she'd be the perfect Tifa XD. ♥

Thanks for linking these pics since I probably wouldn't have seen them any other way. :)

[tepidvisions.livejournal.com]

She's so gorgeous.

[michachan.livejournal.com]

A-Kon was so much fun!!!

It's alright that you were unsocialable. I'm usually that way but I was a little too excited. I had my moments though.

I was too lazy to post any of my pictures. XD But I printed them and I have 88 pics of the con. I was like...well dang. I'm especially fond of the KH group shots.

I ♥ that Vincent cosplayer. She was the best one I'd seen.

You didn't find "Rebirth"? That and "Love Letter" were the only ones I saw. I wanted "Diablos" but I never found it.

There weren't good artbook selections. I was disspointed. The only one I really wanted was the RG Veda one and it was ¥50000 so I didn't even bother asking how much it was. Probably like $80? Too much.

I think I need to steal your Rukia picture. I wanted her picture but didn't take it. She took off too fast. She was really good.

I loved the Organization XIII skit. XD I was laughing a lot. I was lovin' the Roxas/Axel ♥ Axel is totally gay for Roxas, totally.

I heard about that proposal! I wish I'd have stayed for it. That's so cute. We stayed long enough for one of the A-Kon staff to shoot off a shirt cannon and break some of a chandelier-thing. It was funny. But some glass fell on some people but I don't think anyone was hurt.


Oh A-KON ♥

I don't think we can go next year. =( But I'm so going the next year! w00t! I want to start planning cosplay now. I ♥ it.




♥ katherine

[ghostdrive.livejournal.com]

...Know what I just realized? Of all the pictures I took, not one was of a KH cosplayer (I even forgot to take a picture of you and Sara). ;_; I'm kind of disappointed.

That Vincent cosplayer dressed up as Vincent in his Turk uniform on Sunday. Man, she looked so awesome! Alas, she got caught up in a crowd before I could ask to take a picture. And she even had a Vincent action figure perched on her shoulder. It was kind of cute. XD

I saw tons (and I mean TONS) of "Love Letter", but no "Rebirth". Sucky. But hey, at least I got "Mars" though, so it wasn't a total loss. I'll probably buy "Diabolos" off of YesAsia.

I was also disappointed I couldn't find the Loveless artbook. That's the one I REALLY wanted. I searched all over for it too. There were a couple of artbooks I saw that I sort of wanted, but I decided to pass on those.

Haha, go ahead and snag the Rukia pic. Wasn't she cute? I thought she made the perfect Rukia. ♥

That's crazy about the shirt cannon thing! Haha, I wonder if the Adam's Mark got mad at them for that.

On the way back home, Gina was already making plans to go next and what she wants to cosplay as. Haha, I think we have another A-Kon addict. XDD Also, she was checking out the dates for other anime conventions and saying, "Yeah! We should go to 'blahblah' and 'blahblah' AND, AND, AND...." A-Kon's made her SUPER excited for conventions now. XD

[michachan.livejournal.com]

Wow I have like a BAJILLION KH cosplay photos. XD I was scrapbooking today and was trying to pick which ones to use and almost all of them were in someway related to KH. I have a ton from the big KH photoshoot group.

I never saw her in her Turk wear. Too bad. =(

"Love Letter" is kinda dull. It's all ballads. That's why I wanted "Diablos." I have "Mars" and "Crescent." I ♥ "Mars." Especially "Vanilla." I wanna buy Hikki's new CD on YesAsia. I can't wait to hear her new CD. I own all of hers. Well except "Distance" now...it got lost in my friends yard. I wanted to cry.

I tried buying the first Volume of Loveless but it was sold out everywhere on Sunday.

She was so good! She made an excellent Rukia.

Bwahahaha it was funny. I bet they did. I'm sure they won't ever being using them again.

Conventions RULE. I want to go to AnimeFEST this fall but I'm sure we can't. They're uber addicting. ♥




♥ katherine

[ghostdrive.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember reading comments at some Gackt lj community that Love Letters was kind of bland. I mean, I like ballads and all, but a whole album of them? Sounds dull, dull, dull. XD

Oh yeah! I completely forgot about Hikki's new album. I need to remember to order it too. ♥ And your Distance cd got lost in your friend's yard? What happened, did you misplace it or something? [curious]

Btw, where is AnimeFEST held (and when is it)?

[michachan.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

Woop! Came out yesterday. I'll buy it after I finish checking my e-mail maybe. Haha, yeah we were listening to it on her trampoline and I took it out and set it on her balance beam to put in a new one and somehow forgot about it and when I realized it was gone (like days later) I was like OMG and it had rained recently too. It never showed up. I was so upset and no one has a burned copy of it either I could steal. It's my favorite of her CDs too. =(

It's in Dallas sometime in Sept. The first weekend I think. animefest.com I think it is. It's not too exciting (the site) but last year they had Shinichiro Watanabe there! So I figure it should be good (the con). This year they have the person who did Lain and Niea_7 and such. Something Abe? Can't remember their name......=/ We really wanna go.



♥ katherine

[ghostdrive.livejournal.com]

Something Abe?

Yoshitoshi ABe? I love his character designs. ♥ I especially liked his work on Haibane Renmei (<-----that series made me crrryyyy ;_;).

And Shinichiro Watanabe was there last year?! So cool~! I would have loved to have been there. :D

[michachan.livejournal.com]

XD Haha yeah. I knew it started with a "Y."

Haibane Renmei has pretty art. Never watched it. Want to though. It's only like 12 episodes isn't it?


I know!!! That's pretty freakin' cool. Wish I was there too.


I wanna go this year T_T




♥ katherine

[ghostdrive.livejournal.com]

It's only like 12 episodes isn't it?

Close. It's 13 episodes. :)

[(Anonymous)]

Ohhhhhhhh. =)

OK.


Maybe I'll d/l it one of these days.



♥ katherine