there's no way i'm going to remember everything that happened so let's see what i can recall from this anime con.

Friday: so I started off as dark link, got some pictures taken and then i found some actual bracers for my arms and a pouch, so my cosplay got an upgrade, which made me happy, no more cheep ass looking things made of foam now.

I got the list of official photo shoots and managed to make it to like 5 of them, the first one was a classic nintendo/smash bros brawl photo shoot, so i got to show off dark link some more and i found some of my old friends from last year's zelda photo shoot. the coolest damn thing was this Asian guy that i swear had to be a contortionist because he was able to crouch down and sink into this kirby suit that was maybe 2/3 feet tall and walk around in it. We also had a guy do mr game n watch, and several different marios, one which volenteered to get murdered over and over again (personally i was stabbing him in the crotch).

After this i ran to change into casual Tyki Mikk for the D.grey-man photo shoot. There was a Tyki that had already been around and had a full set of cards from the show, which he must have made himself or had commissoned since i still couldn't find them in the dealer's room. Anyways he was going around and scattering these cards at the D.grey-man photo shoot and handing them out to cosplayers from the show, so that was awesome, i got one of his jokers and use it as the top card for my deck just to make it look nice, but i still want to get a full actual deck. I can't think of any really funny moments from this photo shoot right now i'll edit it if anything comes to me.

wrap up friday night by watching Anime Hell, the line for it was long, but it was worth it. They find the strangest shit to show for this, disturbing cartoons, asian commercials, etc. But there are three audience participation sections they had were a member got to pick one of the mystery numbers for the next showing, and the first guy that did it also proposed to his girlfriend on the stage right there. Of course she said yes but then the cartoon that was shown was titled 'rejected' and the host said 'how ironic would it be if she had said no and then this was shown'

Saturday

3 photo shoots, all an hour apart, god that was a lot of changing. Start with 'the world ends with you' I was the only Sho there at the start and then the other one i'd seen makes it over, he had to paint the tatoo on his hand and he gave me some tips for my costume which i appreciate. By the end of the shoot i think we managed to get most of the cast in. Too bad i never really used my megaphone but that's ok, they called for my Sho picture and i jumped over onto a trashcan and sat on that for my pic, perfectly in character as well as a few other good ones of me, i'll have to go hunting on photobucket/myspace/the ACEN forums for links to all these pics.

Next was the kingdom hearts photo shoot, which actually started early i had to like sneak my way into the main group shot. As expected of kingdom hearts we had mostly a full cast, there was only one Zemnas, and they told him to be in character and give a speech so he's striking a jesus pose and says 'blah blah blah KINGDOM HEARTS! blah blah blah ORGINAZATION, blah blah blah' and he really did say the blah blah blah part, i'm not forgetting what it was. Then another Zexion beat him in the head with her book, yeah she was happy i showed up since there was like me and one other Zexion cosplayer, it gets a little lonely. Overall people liked my zexion cosplay, which is funny since i'm still no satisfied with the wig, i'm going to trim up the ends just to get out the curls i swear it, no one seemed to care about that little detail but it's pissing me off.

Last was the zelda only photo shoot, once agian a great time, there were 4 dark links, i lost count of the regular links, bomb link, red tunic link, zeldas, sarias, a few zants and midnas, we had one link with a megaton hammer that was made from metal and the sucker was heavy too, not just a cheap prop, that guy was bad ass carrying that thing around. Sadly no ganons. One of my local friends was also at this photo shoot as saria so she got a picture with me, saria and dark link, that's a story in the making if it hasn't been done already. We managed to get several good shots, we got a bomb link blowing up the hammer link, hammer link getting his revenge, saria messing with zelda, me killing a navi, i did the 'jump on the sword and stab you' pose to an extent.

I lost track of how many times i switched in and out of cosplays, but i kept going back to dark link, i like it too much, it's fucking epic, but not as awesome as the dark links that even paint up their faces black and get the red contacts, but that's ok, some go that extra mile, some don't. So i ended up having a few drinks with my room mates and playing this game 'the king and his men' it's like truth or dare but you don't know who you're daring, we didn't do anything too bad that couldn't be shown on youtube, but we didn't record that much of it anyways and it'll never be posted anyways or we'll murder each other. I can emberrise myself however. I'll just say one of my dares was confessing my love to a wig head pretending it was an anime girl.....

so then there was the rave. I'll be honest, it was kind of a let down this year. In the past years there's a huge like for the rave and it's gone after an hour and the room is full of people having fun. Well the hotel restricted how many could be inside at a time this year, the platforms to dance on weren't there, and the crowd just wasn't feeling it after we were stuck in line for so long. The cool thing however was that one of my friends that was in line for the rave saw me and we talked for a minute, all i said was 'yeah i'm heading to the back of the line to get into the rave' and he just grabbed me and pulled me into the spot next to him. God i love my friends. And once we got inside the were selling glowsticks and stuff, including a glowstick lightsaber. Dark Link + Rave + Glowstick sword=EPIC WIN. I even got my picture taken in there like that, and a rave is usually the last place you try to get pictures of cosplayers.

I'm gonna end this here, nothing really happened on sunday, mostly pack up and leave. But yeah a pretty good time, now i'm probally gonna pass out, i'm too lazy to even spell check the rest of this journal.