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Anime Boston report
Mar. 26th, 2008 12:39 amGot home from Anime Boston late Sunday night. The con had its awesome moments but there were definitely some bumps along the way. Hi to those of you I saw, sorry I missed some of you, and congratulations to those who got awards!
The Awesome stuff
-Petshop of Horrors group!![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
novaraven, doorknocker_dog, alias_kino, you guys were great and definitely one of the highlights of the con for me! ^_^
-photoshoots withlionboogy for the PSOH group and Sarah (Thanks, Lionel! ^_^)
-dancing withngmaster at the ball even though neither of us really knew what we were doing ^_^;
-tristencitrine’s party (Thanks for inviting me, Char, and good luck with everything! ^_^)
-hanging out with novaraven at her artist’s alley table; it was nice for those times when my feet needed a rest (wandering through random shops together on Thursday was fun, too)
-finally seeing some friends again after a few months (I’ve been a hermit lately!)
-won 1st Place Craftsman/Masters in the hall costume contest with Sarah ^_^
-got a ribbon for 19th Century D in the staff vote hall contest
-some people actually recognized my new costume as being from Kaleido Star despite it being an outfit that only appeared for a couple of minutes in the series
-priority seating for the masquerade for being in the hall contest (yay, no line!)
The not-so-awesome stuff
-forgot to pack D’s underskirt and had to rush back for it; luckily, we hadn’t gotten on the highway to go into the city yet and still caught our bus!
-my brother’s friends missed their bus and didn’t make it into Boston until around 1AM Friday so we had to stay up to let them into the hotel room. -_-
-my brother’s friends also did not pre-register and ended up waiting on line from about 11AM until 7:30PM on Friday O_O;;;; (I’d never heard of such an insane line at any con and it certainly wasn’t like this last year!)
-one of my brother’s friends lost his new phone Friday night (he got it back after checking the lost and found a second time on Saturday morning)
-Found out Friday that the netting at the bottom of Sarah’s underskirt eats stockings. ._.; I need to get boots to go with that costume before I wear it again.
-Painful costume shoes (my feet are still recovering from the blisters and scrapes!)
-Not circulating nearly as much as usual due to the painful shoes. I wish I’d brought something I could wear with more comfortable shoes since I ended up not seeing much of the con and didn’t run into friends much.
-I never got to use my frilly fake cake in cosplay chess because we ran out of time! T_T
-The bus home got caught in slow traffic so the trip home took over 5 hours instead of the usual 4
Despite the problems with the con (most of which didn’t affect me directly), I had a decent time. Not as great as last year but still good.
Cosplaying solo most of the time, I was really happy to have the PSOH group even if it was only for an hour and a half on Saturday and for chess. I liked wearing the Kaleido Star costume and was glad to discover being too hot wasn’t really a problem; I was a bit worried I’d get overheated with both a wig and that huge ball of fluff on my head. ^_^; There are a few little things I’d like to improve on it but I was pleased with how it came out. The photoshoots were great (expect to get spammed with Petshop and Kaleido Star pictures!). And, of course, I’m happy about the awards.
The biggest disappointment of the con for me was not getting to do my scene in cosplay chess after all the plotting through e-mail and building a fake cake on relatively short notice. :-( I got cast as Count D again with novaraven opposite me as D’s father (to fit the Kids vs. Grownups theme). I was scripted to accidentally kill Hunny from Ouran by giving him the poisoned cake I got from D’s father during character intros and then be arrested by Leon for murder so someone else could take my place on the board. And I found out when I showed up for rehearsal that Ada had also arranged forblackmarth to come on as Phoenix Wright, offer to be my attorney and do a little dialogue with Godot.
I was really looking forward to it after all the planning and it should have been pretty funny if we had gotten to do it. I also felt kind of bad for the Darcia from Wolf’s Rain who was supposed to replace me since he never got a chance to go onstage. :-/ I was hoping I’d be off the board relatively quickly since the 4” heels under that costume hurt a lot after a while but I ended up not getting moved at all and wasn’t prepared to still be onstage for that complicated finale.
I’m glad that D’s father and P-Chan got to fight at least. The Bird of Paradise borrowing Zack’s sword was rather amusing. XD Walking around with the fake cake was also kind of funny. When I walked into the con center, the con center staffer who was sitting at the desk off to the side asked if he could have some cake and did an exaggerated disappointed reaction when I told him, “Sorry, it’s not a real cake.” And other congoers kept saying to me, “The cake is a lie!” which I assumed was some joke that I didn’t get. ^_^; (My brother told me later it was from a game called Portal. Yes, I live under a rock when it comes to these things!)
The Awesome stuff
-Petshop of Horrors group!
novaraven, doorknocker_dog, alias_kino, you guys were great and definitely one of the highlights of the con for me! ^_^ -photoshoots with
lionboogy for the PSOH group and Sarah (Thanks, Lionel! ^_^)-dancing with
ngmaster at the ball even though neither of us really knew what we were doing ^_^;-
tristencitrine’s party (Thanks for inviting me, Char, and good luck with everything! ^_^)-hanging out with novaraven at her artist’s alley table; it was nice for those times when my feet needed a rest (wandering through random shops together on Thursday was fun, too)
-finally seeing some friends again after a few months (I’ve been a hermit lately!)
-won 1st Place Craftsman/Masters in the hall costume contest with Sarah ^_^
-got a ribbon for 19th Century D in the staff vote hall contest
-some people actually recognized my new costume as being from Kaleido Star despite it being an outfit that only appeared for a couple of minutes in the series
-priority seating for the masquerade for being in the hall contest (yay, no line!)
The not-so-awesome stuff
-forgot to pack D’s underskirt and had to rush back for it; luckily, we hadn’t gotten on the highway to go into the city yet and still caught our bus!
-my brother’s friends missed their bus and didn’t make it into Boston until around 1AM Friday so we had to stay up to let them into the hotel room. -_-
-my brother’s friends also did not pre-register and ended up waiting on line from about 11AM until 7:30PM on Friday O_O;;;; (I’d never heard of such an insane line at any con and it certainly wasn’t like this last year!)
-one of my brother’s friends lost his new phone Friday night (he got it back after checking the lost and found a second time on Saturday morning)
-Found out Friday that the netting at the bottom of Sarah’s underskirt eats stockings. ._.; I need to get boots to go with that costume before I wear it again.
-Painful costume shoes (my feet are still recovering from the blisters and scrapes!)
-Not circulating nearly as much as usual due to the painful shoes. I wish I’d brought something I could wear with more comfortable shoes since I ended up not seeing much of the con and didn’t run into friends much.
-I never got to use my frilly fake cake in cosplay chess because we ran out of time! T_T
-The bus home got caught in slow traffic so the trip home took over 5 hours instead of the usual 4
Despite the problems with the con (most of which didn’t affect me directly), I had a decent time. Not as great as last year but still good.
Cosplaying solo most of the time, I was really happy to have the PSOH group even if it was only for an hour and a half on Saturday and for chess. I liked wearing the Kaleido Star costume and was glad to discover being too hot wasn’t really a problem; I was a bit worried I’d get overheated with both a wig and that huge ball of fluff on my head. ^_^; There are a few little things I’d like to improve on it but I was pleased with how it came out. The photoshoots were great (expect to get spammed with Petshop and Kaleido Star pictures!). And, of course, I’m happy about the awards.
The biggest disappointment of the con for me was not getting to do my scene in cosplay chess after all the plotting through e-mail and building a fake cake on relatively short notice. :-( I got cast as Count D again with novaraven opposite me as D’s father (to fit the Kids vs. Grownups theme). I was scripted to accidentally kill Hunny from Ouran by giving him the poisoned cake I got from D’s father during character intros and then be arrested by Leon for murder so someone else could take my place on the board. And I found out when I showed up for rehearsal that Ada had also arranged for
blackmarth to come on as Phoenix Wright, offer to be my attorney and do a little dialogue with Godot. I was really looking forward to it after all the planning and it should have been pretty funny if we had gotten to do it. I also felt kind of bad for the Darcia from Wolf’s Rain who was supposed to replace me since he never got a chance to go onstage. :-/ I was hoping I’d be off the board relatively quickly since the 4” heels under that costume hurt a lot after a while but I ended up not getting moved at all and wasn’t prepared to still be onstage for that complicated finale.
I’m glad that D’s father and P-Chan got to fight at least. The Bird of Paradise borrowing Zack’s sword was rather amusing. XD Walking around with the fake cake was also kind of funny. When I walked into the con center, the con center staffer who was sitting at the desk off to the side asked if he could have some cake and did an exaggerated disappointed reaction when I told him, “Sorry, it’s not a real cake.” And other congoers kept saying to me, “The cake is a lie!” which I assumed was some joke that I didn’t get. ^_^; (My brother told me later it was from a game called Portal. Yes, I live under a rock when it comes to these things!)
