Our second day of A-Kon started at approximately the same time -- we got up at 8:00 am. I went downstairs and no one was up, so I finally got to wake up the four guys XD (Because this is the first time they didn't get up before us =w=;;)...
Somehow, despite getting up at the same time, knowing what to do for our costumes, and not having to do as much makeup as yesterday, we left the house about half an hour later... I think it was the bagels for breakfast. But that was fun, so it's okay~
Actually, we didn't get as many stares as i thought lol
One lady just asked us if we were going to some kind of convention. We told her we were going to an anime convention that was going on this weekend, and she pointed to her husband(?) and told us that he also dressed in costume, but for a sci-fi show (I think). I thought we should go to Walmart and have a picture of Rachel and Noel shopping, but we forgot to by the end because we were so tired >__<;
we got to the convention at 12:30 and true to the christine's jacket observation, the second we got her cape on, we got spammed by cameras =/ headed straight to the dealers room since we only made it through a quarter of it the day before. since the paparazzi frenzy died down, we managed to get through all of it before our blazblue photoshoot at 3pm. got cute hats as well :D christine got kitty and panda ones and i got one with ounk bunny ears!
Red punk bunnny ears XD Not ounk bunny ears I almost thought you wrote "oink" or "pink" o_o
BB photoshoot was very fun :) never thought i'd ever be part of the large photoshoots i always see online but it was nice to get all the characters together: taokaka (x4), bang (x1), jin (x1), noel (x2, including Tiffy), rachel (x3, including me), arakune (x2), hazama (x2) and ragna (x1). makes me kind of sad that our group never completely finished, but i think we could manage it for future cons :P despite that fact, christine and i did get lots of attention--from hardcore BB fans and creepy otaku and chinese food counter boys--as just rachel and noel. personally, i think we did really well for our first cosplay costumes and I can't wait to do more! being at the con is so inspiring...i have like 209520934803 ideas in mind :P
So the first day, we went to a Chinese food place in Plaza of the Americas (a neighboring hotel) to eat lunch. Today we went to the same place just because (Tiffy, Jordan, and Daniel were in line and bought food there), and apparently the food counter boy recognized us and mentioned so today. Tiffy and I think we should go there again tomorrow to eat and see if he still recognizes us without our costumes, haha~
Cosplay competition was fun. in a nutshell--
1. the japanese wannabes have no idea what kpop is lol which was apparent by the silence in the room when Lollipop by Big Bang started playing
2. Men with big bellies like to shake it....
3. Men with big bellies shaking it are really really scary....
4. AWESOME COSTUMES
5. cosplay skit 2 = ???
In the room where the contest is, they have a stage at the front, a big TV to the left, and, for some inane reason, a huge raised platform where the control center is right in the middle. And they, for some equally inane reason, decided to put chairs behind the control center anyways. So we, by great misfortune, ended up sitting practically right behind the control center, but a little to the right so that the control center blocked both the stage and the TV (what wasn't blocked by the center was blocked by people's heads QQ)... A lot of people around us ended up leaving because you really can't see anything.
After some talking and awkward-looking dancing by the hosts and random people they pulled from the crowd, the show got started -- with Lollipop by 2NE1 feat. Big Bang. They played the whole music video and everything. It was really weird, because, well, it's an anime convention, and everyone there knows J-Pop and anime songs sure enough, but K-Pop?? I think only Tiffy, Jordan, and I really knew it, and we were kind of singing along. Daniel, who went separately from us and sat a few rows behind us, said that one girl in front of him knew it also. I thought that if they played Nobody we should dance along XD Rachel and Noel dancing Nobody?
The show itself was pretty good. There were some amazing costumes like Tiffy said: Princess Ai (three furies and the really tall girl with red wings and a short pink dress), Jet from Cowboy Bebop (because he totally had the Jet feel), a few animal(-esque) cosplays, and some really nice fancy dresses. I don't remember all of them. Then there were the skits, most of which were pretty bad (or just random). The first one had a website called Ilikenonexistentgirls.com, which apparently takes what you want in a girl and spits out an anime girl for you. It was pretty funny~ XD The second one was definitely wtf like Tiffy said, they had really weird and nonsensical dialogue that was made worse by the fact that they sort conglomerated in one corner of the stage... behind the podium, where the announcer was. So not only could we not understand them, we couldn't see what they were doing. There was a cute one from Castle... crashers? of these four characters doing a little dance. One had Faye Valentine doing a dance, musical-style, to a song from Lady Luck, "Cowboy." What else... there were lots of weird singing/dancing ones. Oh, but the absolute best one was last -- they had a bunch of props, and they did a skit to "Tick Tock" with Roy Mustang and his assistant, a girl. They had Roy singing over the song and changed the words to fit, and then at one part, Ed shows up and dives in on his knees with his arms raised just as the song goes "The party don't start 'til I walk in~" It was so good~
i was definitely disappointed in the quality of the skits though...i thought they'd all be a little more entertaining? some of them were so random and the funny thing is...you have to submit your skit ideas in advance. i demand to know who was screening these skits :P
I had some ideas for skits that we could do~ One is a BB skit in which there are two gamers who try to play the game, but the characters just ignore all the commands they try to do XD For instance, Bang versus Litchi, and using Rachel (who doesn't feel like fighting and just sits down for tea). Then at the end, we line up and do the Haruhi dance XP
Or we could do one in which two guys start fighting over a girl (literally, fighting), and then somewhere in the fight they begin bantering back and forth. The insults turn into "I bet I can ___ better than you," which then turns into a dance competition that isn't even about the girl anymore, and they pull a second girl in and start doing the waltz from FF8. And at the very end, they both do an extravagant dip XD
While the judges were deciding, there were random shows involving big men lifting their shirt and... bouncing up and down. It was pretty gross. But there was one funny part in which the announcer told us how someone told him to order his food at McDonald's in his narrator/announcer voice, and he and another guy demonstrated to us how a conversation would go in a drive-through:
Cashier: May I take your order?
Announcer: (in booming voice) Yes, I'd like a number 3!
Cashier: Uh, I'm sorry, I don't know the numbers... what would you like?
Announcer: I said, a number 3!
Cashier: Sir, are you threatening me? You sound like you're threatening me.
Announcer: No. Have you ever seen Dragonball Z?
Cashier: Yes, I've watched some...
Announcer: Well then, I want a number 3 -- and super saiyan it!
Afterwards, we just headed home. Wei, his brother, Scott L, and Faruk went to the bath house again for some reason, and then came over later when they were done to drop off Faruk. Ran came back around the same time (as Jordan, Daniel, Tiffy and I were finishing up dinner).
like i said before, it's strange how much they like the bathhouse and getting scrubbed down o_O tee hee hee i kid i kid
Ran: When we won, the punishment game was for them to do jumping jacks! And we won twice! (in a squeaky, excited voice) And when they did it, the ruffles just come up like this, and you can see... the ruffles just come up like this! *waves hand in a flapping motion by his thigh to demonstrate*
Scott: I'm depressed just knowing him.Tiffy: (to Wei) You know that when you go to Japan, you're just going to be spending all your time in maid cafes, right?
Ran: No, but I'm sad that we can't talk to the maids in Japan though. I'll just be like... *takes Wei's hand and stares into his eyes, breathing heavily* ... I just... my KOKORO... my feelings are hard to express, but right here... *touches chest over heart* ...It's just DOKI DOKI."
oh Ran....for those of you that don't know Ran, he has sort of a maid fetish haha it has something to do the with the frills and ruffles and general cuteness of it all...sigh.........lol
Yep >__< I also think we should do a maid cafe skit with Ran as the main guy and a bunch of cosplay girls from different series that are roughly lolita-ish. Ran should toss in that line at the end to one girl with a lot of frills and curls and such... and then the maid speaks with a man's voice XD (We think that Wei should play that maid~~)
christine, we need to look up revenge of the vampire bunnies! Oh right, so apparently one guy thought I was Mina from Revenge of the Vampire Bunnies... talk about random...
Haha, Ran's expression was great~
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