A-Kon 22: Day 2

We made it through our second day of A-Kon, and although we're really tired, we're going to write you a blog post.  (Except not really, we fell asleep, so I'm writing this a couple days later.  Oh well.) 

Day 2 was pretty similar to the first day, except we got to meet up with our other friends!  Most of them didn't dress up this year, but Faruk dressed up as a wonderful Masa-san, and Ran dressed up as Protagonist/Shujinko, a cool-looking character from Persona 4.  (His mom made his amazing costume, just like last year :P)  Sadly we never got a group picture of everyone, but it was nice to have everyone together again for a bit ^w^

Tiffy and I wore our Advent Children costumes again, and Jordan and Daniel wore their Kenshin costumes again also.  Shannon went dressed as a character from Girl Genius, a webcomic turned novel(?), whose creators were at the convention.  Everyone looked really wonderful!  We did manage to get one of the photographer friends in our group to do a photoshoot for the five of us, so hopefully we can post some of those pictures up when he sends it to us.

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Here are some pictures of Tiffy, me, and our friend Ran ^ ^  We'll probably update this entry more as we organize our photos.

Tiffy, as an amazing Tifa ^w^

Me as Aerith.  I only look this good because of our wonderful photographer Huan, who also edited this photo to make me look much better than I actually did :D

Lovely picture of Ran as Protagonist/Shujinko of Persona 4, also taken by Huan :)

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Otherwise, we checked out the Dealer's Room, which was pretty similar to last year, bought a few things, and got to watch the Atelier-Pierrot/Chantilly fashion show in the afternoon, and then the Cosplay Contest in the evening.  We got pretty good seats for both this time, so we had a nice view.  The fashion show had some really pretty lolita dresses that I'd love to wear (although nothing very spectacular, they were just nice "regular" lolita outfits).  The Cosplay Contest had a lot of walk-ons, some pretty good and some that we didn't know much about, and a couple good skits.  I still think the FMA one from last year was the best, but there was a really funny Axis Powers: Hetalia skit this year.

All in all, a pretty good but tiring day.  Good thing we only dress up for two days of the con :P

Next year, we have plans to go to Anime Expo in L.A. instead, since we've already been to A-Kon twice, and it seems to be pretty similar from year to year.  We're thinking of doing a group cosplay from Tales of Symphonia.  The costumes in there are nice and noticeable, and not many people cosplay that anymore since the game is older.  I'm really excited for that :D  We're going to do that as our "pictures day" -- the day we can't walk or look around at all because people keep taking pictures of us (like what happened with BlazBlue).  For our "relaxing day" -- when we're wearing mainstream costumes so we can dress up but still look around -- Tiffy and I are planning to do FFXIII (Lightning and Serah) or Kuroshitsuji (Ciel and Grell, if we can get a couple more people to join us).  Please look forward to our posts about next year :3

It was a lot of fun to see everyone again, dressed up or no, and hopefully we can all make it to next year's con and do a group cosplay♥

A-Kon 22: Day 1

Hi everyone!  It's been a looooooooong time, but we're finally posting something! YAYAYAY!

This weekend is A-Kon 22.  Today was our first day, and also the debut of our Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children cosplays ^ ^  As we mentioned before, Tiffy went as Tifa, and I went as Aerith.

Because of a severe case of procrastination on both our parts, our costumes were cranked out in 2 weeks (for Tifa) and 3 days (for Aerith).  So please keep that in mind when viewing our costumes :P  Although I think that Tiffy's Tifa has been the best I've seen so far!  :D  And most certainly the best I saw at the con today.

Awww thanks christine :D i'm surprised at how well it turned out too lol but christine's pro sewing skills means that her costume is fantastic anyways :D

Since our costumes weren't as elaborate as last time, we didn't get bombarded with pictures, which was a nice change.  After getting ready, we made it to the hotel around noon, where we stood in line for a couple hours for our pre-paid registration badges.  We found out near the end that there was a special "group purchases" line that was MUCH shorter that we could have stood in, though.  Sigh.  But now we know for next time.

yeah so fail on the badges >_< but i'm very glad that we (including our group of friends) had chances to look around because our costumes weren't so outrageous.  

The group today included our friends Shannon, Jordan, and Daniel.  Shannon was dressed as an original steampunk character in a gorgeous blue corset and skirt.  Jordan and Daniel went as two characters from the anime Rurouni Kenshin -- Daniel as Kenshin and Jordan as Sanosuke.  I think we all got our fair share of photos, but it was happily not overwhelming, so we got to see a good deal of the con and walk around freely ^ ^

i'd have to say everyone looked great! i'm so impressed at the effort everyone gave into their costumes and i really hope that we can someday again do a giant group cosplay because i'm sure it'd be awesome :P

Other notable events... we got lunch at China Dragon in the Plaza of the America's food courtyard, like we did last year XD  We also joined a Final Fantasy photoshoot in a nice shaded area outside, where the lighting was really nice and the shade provided some relief from the unrelenting Texas sun (and the sun's resulting heat).  We also got some frozen yogurt at a little place called Chill just inside of the hotel.

We'll update more later with a longer post and specifics on how we made our costumes this time.  But for now, happy first day of A-Kon!  I can't believe it's been a year since we were last here.

Time really has passed by fast.  Although it's hard to explain to those unfamiliar to cosplay the reason why I like to walk around wearing costumes, it's really because it's a chance to see all the friends I care about.  it's good to be back.