This was a good Otakon
Cosplayers – two versions of Reika from RahXephon.
I think it was predetermined that this year’s Otakon would be great, or at the very least, pleasant. For the first time in so many years, Baltimore had beautiful, temperate weather. It was bright and sunny, but not overly hot and/or humid. It was a sign of good things, I tell you.
And good things were aplenty. Got to hang out with Ten a whole bunch, briefly met the anime blogger guys who came to the con (*waves hello to Omo, Moy, Link, Ogiue Maniax, and Os* — I coudn’t remember the other guys at the Otacafe; it was too loud, sorry -_-;;), got to go to both Yamaguchi Kappei panels, and even get an autographed Jo Chen print.
I didn’t get to go to a lot of the industry panels, mostly because I don’t really care about new licenses, to be honest (all of the titles that I really have enjoyed over the past few years are ALREADY licensed), and the panel rooms for those would usually be terribly crowded. Plus, hey, I’m already dating the ANN events/conventions correspondent who tells me all the stuff that went on at the panel anyway. There were several fan-run panels that seemed interesting from their descriptions on the book, but really weren’t that interesting in reality.
In any case, despite those little not-so awesome things, I really thought that this Otakon set a new personal bar for me for an anime con. I felt like I was able to see and do enough things, without really feeling overwhelmed and exhausted at the end.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Maybe I saw you…
August 11th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
\o/
too bad I missed your bf but maybe next time o7
August 11th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
@jp_zer0: maybe?
@omo: the boyfriend would usually be at all the industry panels, so i’m sure you’ve seen him before but didn’t know? you’re going to be at nyaf in another few weeks, right?
August 11th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Heh. Fun times! But most of all, I love the snark. =p
August 11th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
@Ten: heh, I know that I promised you a snarky post, but I’ll probably put it on Natsukashii so I can at least have something up there…
August 11th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
It was cool meeting you too Anna, even if it was only for a few minutes. Too bad you and Ten missed the other guys’ er… AWESOME(?!) singing beforehand.
August 11th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
omo actually tried to grab me to say hey to you guys at the Otacafe, but you were gone by the time I got there. ;_;
Oh well.
August 11th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
@moyism: yeah, Ten and I regret missing all the possible blackmail opportunities ^-*
as I asked omo, you’re going to be at NYAF, right? maybe i can hang out for longer than 5 mins next time.
@TheBigN: aww, sorry
another time, i’m sure?
August 11th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Seeing you and Momotato this year was a blast from the past. A very welcome time warp. I hope you come next year!
August 12th, 2008 at 3:42 am
[...] Since I arrived well before the otaku onslaught on Thursday before noon, I had the chance relax before meeting up with my primary con-buddy this year, the awesomely hilarious Anna. [...]
August 12th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
[...] along with astrange and kransom, I sat down and had a grand old time with wildarmsheero, Link, Omo, Anna, among others. You’ll forgive me if I forgot all of your names, but you were many. I sang [...]
August 13th, 2008 at 12:20 am
I’m going to be at NYAF hopefully. Pre-regged and all. I think so will be Moy lest we tempt JP’s wrath some more.