2007 Fanime Con Day Three

Fanime Con'07 Day Three: Finally, Cosplayers

I woke up at 9am to eat breakfast and cosplayed as Edward Elric from Full Metal Alchemist for the 10am gathering. There were two Full Metal Alchemist gatherings because some of the people couldn't attend the Sunday gathering. I arrived at 10am. The turnout was respectable. Popular cosplay photographers Bart Boy and Eurobeat King took group shots. Amelia also came to take pictures. theRealHohenheim, Silver_Unicorn, and Edward Elric attended in their cosplays. Audioventchick didn't attend. I took some cosplay pics.

After the Full Metal Alchemist gathering, I saw BuntOfGovt and her Saiyuuki gathering. We talked for a little bit. I then headed to my room to prepare for the Bleach gathering at noon.

Two for One Gathering

I arrived at 11:55am for the noon Bleach gathering. Unfortunately, I wasn't really in the cosplay spirit. For instance, I didn't take any Bleach gathering photos *sniff, sniff* And the rope part whatever it's called came apart from the sword. I removed the peacebond from the sword for action pics. I could re-peacebond after the gathering.

We met at noon in front of the water fountains at the main entrance to the convention center. We took group shots including captains, lieutenants, Ichigos, and other groups. We also did the Don Kanonji bua-ha-ha-ha shot. At 12:15pm, we headed to Cesar Chavez Park for additional pictures. Bart Boy and I help escorted the group to the park. We arrived at the park and took pictures at the rock statue. I thought it was planned to take pictures at the statue. I found out later on when a group of people stayed at the rock, the rest followed. Next year, Yukari Kaiba, the organizer, plans to move the group to the center of the park near the water fountains. Also, I take Bleach gathering pictures. h-chan and Ski_Kitti made a brief appearance at the gathering.

After the organized and successful Bleach gathering with a few craziness and Yaoi shots, some of us Bleach cosplayers attended the Shonen Jump gathering at 1pm. I saw Hellangel and her Ouran High School Host Club group. I stayed for about an hour at the Shonen gathering. We took group shots and I participated in a Naruto vs. Bleach shot.

At 2pm, I went to Rovers to get my Hitsugaya sword re-peacebonded. I saw Chloe and Oshu near the Rovers. I went to my Hotel room to cool down and drink water. On my way to the hotel room, I saw Jennifer's group. She stayed on the same floor and three doors down.

The next gathering was the Fanime BBS gathering at the Hilton lobby. Attendence was good. Some of us already there called others to come over and hang out. Gmontem and I took pictures. Everyone separated around 2:45pm. Gmontem, shortpachoo, and I went to Peggy Sue's for lunch. We saw h-chan and her friends. We took our lunches back to Tabletop Gaming where we hung out for a while. Shortpachoo left to check out the arcade. After I ate, I walked around to take more cosplay pictures. Again, I ask the question, where are the cosplayers? At 5:10pm, I went back to my hotel room to cool down and drink water. In the elevator, I saw a depressed congoer and his friend. His friend tried to convince him to take his medication. Good luck.

Do Something Or Else

The Fanimaid café was successful. Some of us were involved in the Fanimaid café. Congratulations to those involved; although there were some hidden conflicts that affected a few of my friends ;__; The café closed at 6pm where some of us met to hang out. The café staff and volunteers treated themselves and their friends to a first year anniversary cake. After 6:30pm, most of us took off to do something. VictimX and I were bored and didn't know what to do. The only event was the masquerade at 7pm. The masquerade is the most popular event. When the masquerade takes place in a con, it's considered con dead time. VictimX and I choose to watch the masquerade.

The masquerade started on time. We arrived at the third skit. Hellangel's skit was number 3. Her Ouran High School Host School comedy skit won first prize ^__^ I got a call from Amol and Last Exlir for an UNO game. I said no problem. I left the masquerade after the skit number 23.

Saved By Chun

I arrived at TableTop Gaming around 8:30pm. We played super UNO for a long time using the in-house friends rules. Spirit, mDuo13, Amol, Last Exlir, Chun, Vinnie (a poker player), BP, and Minagi-Chan played. After the first game, I went to my car to get bottle water for everyone. Victim X came around 9pm. He left the masquerade after the 43rd skit. He says the masquerade was long and lots of dance skits.

The highlight of the con and the saver for me was the Chun, Chun, Chun, Chun . . . . For the past three days of the con up to the UNO game, I was tired, so emo, just being out of it. Fortunately, the UNO game saved the con for me. First, let me explain the in-house friends rules. There were three established rules which were the Jump rule meaning if a player has the same exact card someone played, the player immediately takes a turn by playing the same exact card and play again; the second rule is the Zero Card meaning play a zero and exchange your set of cards with another player; and the third rule which was established when Spirit won three games in a row was the player must say an anime expression before or after the group of sentences. If the player failed to say the anime expression, the player must draw one card. A temporary rule becomes permanent when the player wins three games in a row.

The temporary rule mDuo13 created was if a player says the name of another player, the player must draw one card. Chun had a ton of cards except yellow. Chun had to take a ton of cards before a yellow appeared, and when it was his turn for the next two times, he kept drawing and drawing and drawing. When Chun got the zero card, the other players said Chun's name to draw cards and prevent Chun from exchanging hands. ZOMG. LMAO. Very, very funny. The Chun, Chun, Chun was so funny all of us couldn't play for five minutes. We just laughed our asses off.

Around 9:45pm, Ryu, Babytealeaf, Babytealeaf's boyfriend, Gmontem, Shortpachoo, and I went to grab dinner. Gmontem, Shortpachoo, and I went to Hydration which was closed when we arrived. We then grab something at McDonalds. I ordered three McChickens and Gmontem and Shortpachoo ordered McFlurries. We met with Ryu's group at Jack-In-The-Box and headed back to Tabletop Gaming. Shortpachoo and Ryu went on their own. I think Shortpachoo checked out the console games and Ryu went to pack because he was going back home for the night. Gmontem went to his room to show us his Optimus Prime. I ate dinner with Babytealeaf and her boyfriend.

The last event of the night was I started packing. I brought my Edward Elric and Toshiro cosplays and board games to the car. The initial packing helped out for the checkout rush. When I checkout, all I needed to bring was my backpack containing my clothes and bare necessities, laptop, and box of chips from Costco. I finished the initial packing, took a shower, and went to sleep at 3am. I plan to do some initial packing for AX should the opportunity come to me.