Anime Boston!

My, I've really been neglecting this poor blog. Buuuut.... I have an exciting entry for today!

So today I went to Anime Boston - my first anime con ever, and I had a blast. I didn't dress up as anything, but it was really great to see all the people in their costumes. I felt a little weird because I recognized a good deal of them, and Amy and Vivian were with me, and didn't know half of them. It was cool - I got pictures of Subaru and Tsukasa. Both of them had great costumes (and no, they weren't together - they were in different groups). We counted at least ten Inu-Yashas... That had to be the most popular costume by far. Some other cosplaying highlights include: Yuri from Alien 9 complete with roller blades, several Kenshins (Rurouni Kenshin), numerous Ryogas (Ranma 1/2), just about every Final Fantasy character possible (including an FFX2 Yuna), a big guy in a yellow Kero suit (scary!), Alucard (in tranforming many-eyed dog form - the eyes on his jacket even lit up), also the priesty dude from Hellsing - is he called Judas Priest or something? He bopped me on the head with his spade-shaped knife thingy. :P Okay, there were also lots of Dejikos and Puchikos (from Digi Charat - veeery popular, oh yes!), a Xelloss or two (no other Slayers characters though, boo hoo), Touga from Revolutionary Girl Utena, and probably lots of random stuff that I've forgotten. My personal fave? Probably the Tsukasa outfit. It looked really good.

Hem hem, so there was a music video competition going on - there were some really good ones. There was a funny one with the Mortal Kombat song and Hello Kitty - a very strange/amusing combination to be sure. There was also a great one with Kenshin - people love to make fighting Kenshin anime vids... There was also a really nice Cowboy Bebop one featuring Faye and Spike to that "Somewhere out there" song by Our Lady Peace. After we got out of the novice range though, then the videos started getting dark and weird and I didn't like them much - we left soon after. We watched "A Chinese Ghost Story," which was cute, but odd because it mixed 2-d characters with 3-d backgrounds. The backgrounds were fine, but there were also 3-d objects (usually transportation objects) and 3-d effects which looked really strange mixed together. It was a cute love story though, but as Amy pointed out, it could be interpreted to have a really sad and depressing ending. Depends on how you look at it, I guess.

Ooooh.... I finally bought the first volume of the MegaTokyo manga! It was on sale (got a dollar off :P) and I even found a dollar today! I feel so lucky. The artwork is so beautiful. *sighs happily* I couldn't get any CDs though - they were all imports so they cost a lot (more than $30 each). Too bad though - there was such a nice selection... Well, I'm happy with my MegaTokyo. I read it already, and it's a very nice compilation - lots of cool extra notes and stuff. Gah, I wish I could draw like that... <_<;

So yeah, I'm too tired to write any more right now, but let it be known that I had a great time, and I'd love to do it again! 'Night everyone. ^_^

- Flykyr Skysong

Current song: Digi Charat - Tenteko Maimai
Current mood: Couldn't be happier... ^_^