I ended up not wearing Misa Misa on Friday – the temperature was nice for it, but the wind and the skirt really weren’t agreeing with each other – so I wore my Gothic Lolita dress instead. My friend Austin (my ride to the train station) was running late, so we didn’t leave campus ’till close to four. Austin, her sister Kristina (sorry if I spelled that wrong!), and her sister’s girlfriend, Nikki were all cosplaying characters from Vocaloid (Megan, their other friend from home, didn’t cosplay on Friday).
Once at the Metro North, we had an encounter with a nice “norm”. We were buying our tickets, and this guy asks is if we’re going to “that anime convention in the city”, to which we reply “Yeah!”. He tells us that he heard about it, and that his 13-year-old daughter is really into anime, and asked if the con was still going happening on Sunday because he really wanted to take his daughter now =D. We didn’t see him around on Sunday (not that means much, since there’s a loooot of people at a con lol), but I hope he did take her despite the yucky weather. Got the standard looks/questions from the norms on the train and the Shuttle, but nothing rude or nasty.
We came up from the subway in one of the sections where Times Square is a plaza-like place, and there’s someone in a SpongeBob Squarepants suit (Elmo was across the street). Our collective reaction was “We don’t look so odd now!”.
<– gotta love the faces the norms are making
We didn’t get lost like last year, even though we were walking off hunches. And we ended up passing the Sanrio store on the way to the Javits Center, so a plan was made to visit there the next day. I managed to trip and semi-wipe out on the way, only proving even more that I walk worse in flip-flops than I do in heels (I was wearing flip-flops so my feet wouldn’t die in my Lolita shoes). Got to the con around 6:30, which gave us enough time to still get a good seat for ichiP!’s performance. My friend Venus is one of the members, and I had told her I would be taking pictures. Ends up my friends Keri and Olua were sitting front row =D. The black curtains made it hard for me to get good pictures during part of their set, since the ichiP! changed into black shirts at one point, but I did get some nifty shots.
<– Hooray for bubblewrap!
<– crowd dancing along
Chatted with Keri and Olua for a bit after ichiP!’s performance, then wandered away. Not too long afterwards, this random guy comes up to me and says “I know this might sound wierd, but you look really familiar. Were you involved in a robotics team from Uniondale a few years ago?” Small friggin’ world! I reply “OMG, yeah, I was the knight that one year. What team were you from?”
Guy: The Quantum Samurai
Me: You guys were one of our favorites! (Seriosly, they had the coolest buttons and I still have a bunch on my messenger bag)
So me and the guy had a chat about how we both missed Robotics, and how we’d like to go to the Long Island regional this year. All the good people who were involved in the the original team have graduated, so who knows how they’ll do. According to my old roommate from Roosevelt that went last year (and I was pissed she didn’t tell me, wench =P) said Uniondale didn’t do well.
<– I’m the knight
<– the Quantum Samurai
Okay, slight off-topicness over ^^. Nothing much else was going on, and the Dealer’s Room was closed – but the Artist’s Alley was open so we wandered around there a bit. Looked around in the program book a bit, and I noticed that the original voice actresses for Ash (Veronica Taylor), Misty, and Jessie (Rachel Lillis) were guests and would be doing autographs on Sunday (we’d missed the Friday session). I’ve been on a big Pokemon kick again, so I decided to break my rule of not wearing one costume for more than one day and decided I had to cosplay Flareon on Sunday and get my Pokemon DVD box set signed – because I’m that level of dork. Didn’t stay too long on Friday, and we had dinner at this McDonalds that had a snazzy lit-up awning outside (but was nowhere near as cool as the ’50s McDonalds from Sitacon) on the way home.
The rest of the weekend will be up later today, as I should be sleeping now ^^;
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