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Sakura Con is done, and so am I. I dunno when I'll get pictures in. I'm so goddamn tired.

Day 1

I spent too much money.

As expected, Shingeki no Scissor Art Online: Labyrinth of Danganronpa was all the rage cosplaying-wise. Nudist Kirito, Trap Kirigiri, Alliance of the Seven Scouting Legions...wait, I think I'm mixing things up. Anyway. Favorite of day 1 was probably a pair of Rayearth characters for the level they did their outfits and makeup and props, and a parent dressed and messy haired like Mori pushing around a cart with his infant child dressed as Honey from Ouran.

Sara stabbed me with her scissor blade for all the Broncos vs Seahawks jokes I kept making at her expense. I can't help it. It's involuntary. Like Manning interceptions.

No news from Aniplex whether they'll be bringing Mirai Fukuin over stateside. They "announced" SAO2 in July, but anyone paying attention to Japanese conventions and announcements already knew that. They're holding an open audition at AX this year for dub roles in Magi: Kingdom of Magic.

Elisa's autograph get. I usually don't get tongue-tied over celebrity, but when I got up to her all I could say was　”エブリエント・フューチャーはとっても美しい” like a total moron because she is so adorable.


Day 2

I spent too much money.

A full team of Sailor Scouts, from Mercury to Pluto, all of which even had their relative heights about right. Kinda freaky, actually. There was a SnK and KLK photoshoot that I dropped in on completely by accident because they were right near the closest entrance my hotel has to the convention center. Sara was there as Satsuki and Imran was taking pictures, so hopefully will have some of the KLK stuff to show soon. There was also a team of Gaim Beat Riders, which totally made my day. Ran into a couple as Tagaki and Kaya from Bakuman. that really looked the part, a guy in a Hyaku-Shiki suit that had to be carted around by a team that had "Psycho-Frame Mechanic" printed on their jackets, a group of about nine Radiant Dawn party members, a main three + Ryuuguu Komachi + Producer wearing a P for a head from Idolm@ster, quite possibly the best King Thranduil that you can do in cosplay, and yeah, a Nero Saber that was probably just shy of 150 cm.

I mostly wandered day two until later in the afternoon. I got Mami Koyama to sign my copy of Millennium Actress in an autograph line that was depressingly short: it took me about ten minutes to go through, whereas Todd Haberkorn's line was the longest voice actor line I've seen yet to grace Sakura Con after multiple years at this and then it was joined side-by-side with an equally-long SnK line for Mikasa's seiyuu and the producers.

Elisa's concert was the best yet. Doubly so if you have working Japanese, because she is so adorable as she tries to explain things in English and then gets flustered and reverts back to Japanese when she realizes it sounds wrong ("You know me from...anime music, right? But I'm jealous. I don't know you. BUT...that's OKAY. ...違う違う違う、ええと...") She performed ef's ebullient future and euphoric field, Valvrave's Realism, Mahouka's Millenario, and then did an a capella version of the Princess Mononoke song (which was goosebump-level epic), along with a medley of some of her original songs. Her "encore" was not really an encore, she said euphoric field would be her last song, then immediately after finishing said she lied, got the crowd to shout "encore," then walked out of spotlight about five feet then ran back in like she was surprising us with an encore. So. Adorable.

Cosplay Chess this year was kind of lame. You apparently had to be a Supernatural fan to get a lot of the jokes, as one of the Kings and two members of his team were from that show. My favorite was a Yuno and Yuki pair that at one point won their fight as Yuno put a bag down and started tossing out various weapons left and right. There was also a fairly funny Gene Starwind and Jim Hawking that did things completely in-character when nobody was watching them just because. I kept thinking that if I volunteered for a game like I've considered before, that I'd drag Sara along as Saber and then, while sitting on the sidelines waiting for other matches to go on, to pull out a rice cooker and feed her.


Day 3

I spent too much money.

Master Chief with bunny ears. Darth Malgus. An actual male Black Butler cosplayer.

AMV contest winner was as expected, it got like four awards because yeah. I saw it before the con and thought it was perfect.



Will try to find other stuff as it comes up, as well as a swag report and the contest prizes. But I le tired. Have video until then.