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November 1, 2009 Sunday 10:29 PM

Sennyo,

Yesterday and this very early morning were as amazing as Saturday Sugoicons always are. I'm very glad that we arrived early in order to see the Takatori panel because there were maybe fifteen people at maximum in there at the greatest time and we all had a fair chance to win free stuff! When they walked in, Nobu-san waved at us! He must have remembered us from the day before. Either that, or he was just being nice to fans. In the end we played rock-paper-scissors against Nobu-san and in like the third or fourth give-away of things, a shirt this time of an anime they had once done a song for, Veil won! And, their translator said, because she was dressed so cute she also got a fan, the plastic somewhat ovular type, of this Sailor-Moon like show that I believe they said that they had done a song for. The show's not available in the U.S., but the fact that she got it, *squee* so awesome! I never won anything but that's fine, because in the end they passed out those black stickers of theirs and Hideki-san them out to my row and he was so within glomping distance (like right in front of me) since I was sitting in the second-to-last seat in the second row to the right when he was passing them to some people to the left of Veil. Then Nobu-san came by offering us some, we said we already had some but I asked for a hug and he allowed it.
On our way out of the panel a Jiraiya asked for my picture and I posed for him, then giving him a hug. Alucard may have also asked for my picture, but I do remember him saying how there weren't that many good Bleach cosplayers. I just told him it was because it's early in the day. We went into the Dealer's Room and did some stuff. Bought some Pocky and Ramune, looked at some things, gave some hugs, etc.
To be updated later. 10:38 PM

November 3, 2009 10:27 PM

A very long day it was, and so I shall now tell you what had happened, some of it in chronological order.
Some short time after the Takatori we saw a person dressed as Domo (it was like a large box painted brown with Domo's features. We were coming in from the left side of the Dealers room and I knocked on his back and asked for a hug. He stepped a few feet forward and I tried to put my arms around him without knocking him over. Later I was on the right side looking at some of those keychains near the snack-food, plushie, and cute bag and lunch-box vendors when I saw Domo sitting on the floor next to me. I asked him something like if he was looking at something and I was in his way. He shook his box. I could see him fiddling with something inside his suit.
I remember that right after the Dealer's Room (when we came across Domo right after the Takatori panel?) we went down to the vendor's room. The woman working at the Peach Studios vendor remembered us and as we were looking at the things a (female) Kaoru Nagisa and Shinji Ikari came by! Kaoru was incredibly ecstatic about how wonderful the items smelled after she noted how cute they were and the young lady worker told her that they smelled really good too. Kaoru was hilarious though. She would say in a very high, squeaky, enthusiastic voice, "I just wanna stuff them up my nose!" She would sniff one really strongly and then set it right before Shinji's nose who would nod in agreement and laugh a bit. Kaoru was pretty cool though. She had the white hair and even small, white angel wings. Then she said how she just wanted to eat them up, as she was holding one of those cupcakes with a bunnies on them. The lady said that she couldn't eat them because "The bunny is looking at you!" Kaoru said though that that she would feel happy because the bunnies are smiling, or something like that.
A while later before we visited any panels we bought some Ramune, pocky, etc. Pocky, the normal kind and size was only $1.25! I also bought a Totoro bag sometime that day before any of the panels. There were two ***** shirts, one saying on a black T-shirt in brown ink "I have candy" with ***** peaking out of the left side of the shirt (left when seen). I cannot recall the other ***** shirt. Two Twilight T-shirts saying 'Vampires don't sparkle' and 'That's so Twilight.' Oh, and a furry shirt saying 'Kill it with fire'. Megan bought some more 'happy rings', and I bought an icecream-scoop ring with chocolate syrup glaze (it really did smell like chocolate) and a cupcake charm with a bunny on top (smelling really quite good). I remember once when I was retying the bow on Veil's sleevie she said she could smell it and was at first wondering what that smell was. I also bought a Moogle cell-phone charm. It had a very nice-sounding bell on it. As soon as I stepped out of the vendor room and looked at it with my hands the string fell off. Luckily before the rave I fixed it with some thread I had and a needle of Veil's.
The two really beautiful, amazing, handsome, hot, and sexy young men in the black and red-oriental print outfits were back again as was Zack. I first saw him when we were sitting in the corner of the room to the left in the room where they were doing the sword-fighting tournaments. I waved at him, and he waved back, but that was it more or less. I later saw him sign up for karaoke. We hung around the noise room for a long while just relaxing, taking pictures, and giving hugs/getting hugs. The really nice, and cute guy with the full-length dress was sitting near Veil! The noise-room moderator called out Zack's name, but not to go up and sing but to tell him that they didn't have some song he wanted. Zack had his jacket on and all but not shirt on underneath, just black duct tape that said 'DEAD BORN' on his abdomen. It was pretty awesome though. After the hot guy and his friend had left and before Zack and his male friend karaoke'ed this metal visual-kei song (to many's humor, since most were doing pop and catchy songs), a group of mostly Organization XIII cosplayers were doing the Pokemon theme song ('again' as said by the DJ).I It was so awesome though, because everyone was singing along and even dancing! They were singing OKAY until they got to the part 'You teach me and I teach you! PokeMON' the 'mon part being terribly squeaky and high-pitched. During this song there was this girl in a tan uniform that I had already given a hug or two to, so when she put up her sign again I made my way towards her, around some chairs and tables. As she was making her way through the legs on the floor this other guy behind/next to me made a hug gesture so I hugged him first.
Veil bought Ben a full-hollow Ichigo mask after we came across an Ichigo wearing a mask, for we were in quite a discrepencey before since we didn't know what his full-hollow mask looked like, and nor did the vendor. I bought Shadow her cat-ears, they had green as the ear color and then pink for the ear-fur.
I asked for a picture of this Soifon. She was white with short, wavy brunette hair but the cosplay was on mark and she even had a sword. Her pose was her about to draw out the sword. She then asked for a picture with me she handed her camera to her friend, and I did so as well and we posed together. My pose was kind of lame though. Next year I think I'll pose the same way but with my right leg all the way bent so my heel is close or touching my bottom.
At 3:00 PM we went to go see a panel called 'Be Social, Not a Creep'. It was indeed very funny and informative though since we both experienced creepers later on in the day. It was run by this awesome Asian guy who kept pointing out that he was Asian.
"Lots of horny people, and lots of horny gay people."

To be updated. 11:38 PM

November 8, 2009 Sunday 5:06 PM

As a side-note, I am now Friends with Zakk on facebook. As well as with Squall, Aaron (from the Jojo panel), and this other woman whom I did not meet but liked her photos from Sunday.
Oh, my, how memories can blur after some time...
I remember that we had bought some Ramune and Veil had one left. We were sitting in the noise room, the table in front of the left door, and she asked me to open it for her. Blue colored, it was. Hawaiian something. Well, after the difficulty that I always go through I opened it, but, alas, the drink went up like a volcano! Perhaps it's because it had been shaken around a bit in her bag, but about half of the drink started to come out of it much alike to how a bottle of soda would, except it did not go up terribly high (it was actually quite cool looking, thinking upon it now) and went onto the table and some onto the floor. Totoro was saved, as well as her bag. I apologized like mad for what seemed to be forever and ran to the bathroom. I came back and as she was helping me clean up she asked me if anyone had hugged me (due to my sign). No, no one. Well, I guess I was looking the otherway or something, probably watching the front of the noise room at some people when she asked me, "Did you see that?"
"What?"
She then said something like, "Some guy just put down his drink." and saying something like 'right here', meaning the table. It was a faded tan/yellow color, clear. I cannot recall the flavor at the moment. I looked around for a second and then Megan looked to her left at a young adult with brown-red (the natural color) curly hair and glasses.
"It's for you. Because yours exploded." he said. This really surprised us. His kindness was astounding. Never would you find someone like that outside of a convention. We/I gave it back. Perhaps I should have let Veil decide what she wanted to do with it. I feel very bad about it now. But, his intentions were pure(?) and it was just the nicest thing I've ever encountered before at a con'. Even that man in the pixie outfit that guided father-person and I my first time could not match up to his kindness.
We walked around, seeking people to give away Veil's Hello Kitty stickers away to. My bargain was that 'hug first, then sticker'. I may have been to assertive/mean about that though with Veil since she didn't do that as much as me. Another regret.

To be updated [5:46 PM]