| Con Report: FuyuCon | ||||
| Oct. 22nd, 2007 | 03:11 pm | ||||
    Note that this report is sadly photo-less, because I don't have a camera at the moment and Rin's not sent me the pictures she took. I'll post those when I get hold of them. As a virgin anime congoer (and believe me, there is a BIG difference between Doctor Who cons and anime cons...) I wasn't entirely sure what to expect. How many people would be cosplaying? What would the panels be like? How many glomps could I expect in a two-day event? Ooooh, boy. My back is so sore right now, you have no idea. I think that answers the last question. XD SO. Let's start from the beginning. Maya came home on the bus with me on Friday, and Robin showed up a couple of hours after. We watched Amadeus (because it's fucking brilliant, okay? And we'd all seen Spirited Away and the only other anime I had on DVD with me was Elfen Lied, which is too long to watch in one night). Only then I had to finish my Kou-san cosplay - mooouuu, that was haaaard, because there aren't any colour pictures of him other than this one and that's only a torso shot. Sheesh. - which ended up taking me 'til like 1:30 in the freaking morning. BAH. ANYWAY. So, we got up at 5:30 on Saturday morning - oh dear GODS, NEVER AGAIN - and Maya and Robin had to shower, and then we ran around like crazy things getting into cosplay. I was intending to use a combination of a two-sizes-too-small sports bra and a lumbar support belt to bind, because the bandages everyone says to use aren't available in the UK, but the lumbar support belt's velcro just wasn't up to the task, so I ended up with sort of A-cup boobs, which worked alright - the top was quite baggy, anyway. Maya went as Yotsuba from Yotsuba&! (I had to shorten her shorts the night before, because they were too long. Damn, everyone comes to the textiles student for this sort of stuff. D=) and Robin ended up not cosplaying the first day because he's a lazy sonofabitch. XD So, we head out the door at 7:10, catch the 7:16 bus into Nottingham, get there at 8, and have NO IDEA where the Brittania hotel was. We had the vague idea it was somewhere near Forbidden Planet, so we headed in that direction, and...spent half-an-hour wandering around in circles, basically. It was FREEZING, Maya was wearing SHORTS and I was in a very thin cheong-sam, so you can guess just how enjoyagble that was. Plus I had flip-flops on, and I'd forgotten just how torturous those are on your legs. Ugh. And we found Rin-chan! Yaaay! She was at the top of the road and there were lots of hugs and squees and whatnot. Awewsomesauce. <3 So, anyway, we find the place by looking through a window and seeing a sign saying "Britannia Hotel". Woohoo! So we register - Robin had to wait a bit, 'cause he had to pay at the site and the treasurer wasn't there yet - got our conbadges and conpacks - omg, free manga! Half of us got Tokyopop Sneaks 2007, half the Rising Stars of Manga book - and a fucking adorable little Hello Kitty charm, plus the conbook - aaaargh. TYPOS EVERYWHERE - and the schedule and so on. We sat for a little bit on the window outside VR3, checking out the stuff in the conbags, then we went into the lobby and met up with Tommah. TOMMAH IS AWESOME. He'd never believe me if he read this but he is so sweet, and so lovely, and so kickass. But he also has absoluately zero self-esteem, and so needs lots of hugs, which I provided. And preferably a boyfriend, too. We squeed over the yaoi together. And oh, believe me, there was a lot of it. O_O =D I kept - in fact, KEEP - having this weird compulsion to call Tommah Mookie. It's not that he bears any resemblance whatsoever to the Mookie of Dominic Deegan, because he doesn't; the name just somehow seems to suit him. WTF? So, anyway, we went to get breakfast - we'd not had any, and neither had Tommah - at Costa. Mmmmm, pain au chocolat and coke, haha. Back at the hotel, we stuck our heads round the door to VR3 and, lo and behold (and contradictory to the schedule, I might add), Noir was showing! So we watched a bit of that, then went into what I tend to think of as the Room O' Otakus - the room sort-of in the center of everything, with the bar to one side and VR1 and VR2 to the other side. And in this room was what was known as the Scribble Scroll - a huge-ass roll of paper and some markers and pencils, on which people drew stuff. So I drew a crappy head-shot saying "MOOSE DISAPPROVES. NEEDS MOAR YURI" and a Cyanide and Happiness tribute of the last panel of this comic. There was a Reno cosplayer - OMG <333333 - there who drew the most amazing headshot of Cloud EVER. The bastard. D= (He was actually really nice, and let us take his photo. He was a bloody brillant cosplayer, too. XD) SO ANYWAY we slipped into VH2 and watched the second episode of Escaflowne - heee XD) - and then we went for lunch. Mmmm, lunch. It was really amusing seeing all these cosplayers - largely Naruto and Inuyasha - wandering out into the square, not to mention the reactions of the normal people, haha! Also, I got up the courage to tell the Ritsuka (Eeeee! <33333) cosplayer I loved his outfit, and he let us take a photo of him, too. He was wearing a shirt that said "Uke seeking Seme. Apply within.", which made us roll around in hysterics for a bit. XD Then Robin and Rin went off for lunch and Tommah, Maya and I went to Primark. Yes, Primark. Maya needed a white shirt for her L cosplay the next day (yay!) so I put up with it, just about. Then we got the bus to Maya's house - ugh, I hate Nottingham buses, I really do - so we could get some stuff, like Maya's cloak that she made in year 9 Textiles which I needed for my Uriel cosplay the next day (also yay!). We watched some weird shit on YouTube, like this Death Note video set to a Songs To Wear Pants To Song, this brilliant Death Note video synched to Monty Python's Argument Clinic sketch, this also brilliant Death Note video synched to the Monty Python and the Holy Grail Camelot song, and this Rowan Atkinson Hell skit. Also Skammich.com, which is full of incredibly random awesomeness. ANYWAY. So we got the bus back to Nottingham - did I mention I hate Nottingham buses? - and got some lunch at Greggs - ohhh, I love Greggs so much - and headed back to the con just in time for the Ah! my Goddess movie. AAAAHAHAH. This led to the running joke of just how fucking hilarious the name Belldandy is, especially with the intonation Robin uses. Also, Skulldoom of Skulldonia! and Urdu, the only black woman in the world, apparently. Ohh, I love injokes. XD We hung around in the bar for the next hour 'cause two of the video rooms were closed on account of setting up the Maquerade, and none of us wanted to watch New Fist of the North Star. Next was the Masquerade. HAH. I love masquerades and this one was sodding brilliant. There was, let's see, a Kagome/Inuyasha/Miroku/Sesshoumaru orgy, some Naruto/Sasuke, a guy in a brilliant Record of Lodos Wars cosplay (and I must remember to send that to Lain, 'cause he used to adore that show), a lovely Ed cosplayer (to whom I shouted "Drink more milk!" and made Reno laugh. Yay!), an AMAZING Red XIII, and two Team Rocket Grunts, who were pressured into reciting the Team Rocket song. Haha. <33 Rin got loads of photos of that, so I'll upload full coverage when I get my grubby mitts on 'em. We left after that, 'cause the next thing was the Charity Auction and then the J-pop Party and the AMV Disco, which...nahh. We were tired, anyway. XD So Maya and Robin and I got the bus back, and watched C.R.A.Z.Y (which is WONDERFUL and a movie everyone should watch <33) and Cello, which was so fucking clichéd it was hysterical, and led to another injoke - "Do you know this woman?" "...I didn't kill her!", and we had jacket potatos and fun. <3 We got up quite a bit later the next day, 'cause the first bloody bus was at 9:16 - fuck you, Pathfinder, fuck you - so we got to the con about 10-ish. I was cosplaying Uriel, complete with black jeans, shirt, waistcoat, boots, cloak and neck-scars, plus a white mask to serve as Persona. Maya was L from Death Note - and a BRILLIANT L, at that - Robin was Setsuna (I did the cheek-barcode and cross tattoo on him in marker pen. XD), and when we met up with Rin she was cosplaying Kira. Funfun. <33 Apparenty Tommah had been to the Hentai panel. I wanted to got the Yaoi and Yuri one, but they were both at sort of 1 in the morning, so...yeah, maybe not. XD We went into VR2 for the second half of the AMVs - mostly set to GODAWFUL music, and there was an awful lot of Kingdom Hearts for some reason. O_O. Then we watched a bit of the Ah! My Goddess dub, which was...lol, wut? Urd was white. XD I wasn't going to watch the Ranma film, 'cause I wanted to go to the cosplay panel which started half-way through, but I ended up watching the whole movie. D'ohhh. It made me laugh loads, though. I'd forgotten how silly Ranma can get. XD Oooh, it was at about this point that I saw the Ritsuka cosplayer again. Except that on Sunday he was Ritsuka in RESTRAINTS. *fans self* I mean, seriously, for a guy? Wowie. Also. Ritsuka. Eeeeeee <3333333! Rin and Robin went off to the Chinese Supermarket for pocky at this point, and we couldn't find them again until the Omake ages after. XD We watched the first two episodes of Full Metal Panic!, which is also quite amusing, if sort of excruciating at times. I really like Kurz - he makes me think of Gojyo, which is very endearing. =D Then Tommah and Maya and I hung around in the bar for a bit, me with my "WILL GIVE HUGS FOR YURI" sign. I got hugs, but no yuri. Maybe it was because I was in competition with the Naruto Free Hugs guy. Aww. D= We also went up to Floor 10 in the Lift o' Doom - haha, Tommah <3 - and I got Loveless 6 and Wild Adpter 3 and - YAAAAAY - the first Kazuka Minekura artbook, Salty Dog 1. EEE. It's so beautiful! I need to find a translation of it, though, 'cause there are loads of words. D= And we were hungry, so we bought some food - a bowl o' chips and some cheesy garlic bread - and drew stuff and fangirled the cosplayers, who were - YET AGAIN - acting out yaoi threesomes. =D Inuyasha/Miroku/Sesshoumaru OTP yes/yes? It helped that most of the cosplayers were hot chicks. =D We found a couple of Naruto cosplayers having buttsecks in an alcove, too. XD And then there was the Omake! Well, uh, sort of. It was really short - only four skits, in fact. That said, one of them was Gaara singing the Lumberjack Song - HAAAAHAHA - another was Lulu from Final Fantasy X and Ed, which was hysterical. I was witness to the girl who cosplayed Ed taking off the silver gaffer tape she'd used as an automail later, and...the screams! The terrible screams! D= So we hung around for a while 'cause they were setting up for the closing ceremony, and decided our cosplays for next time (if there is one. D=): I'm gonna be Ukoku Sanzo (in full Sanzo robes, pluss bunny plushie), Tommah is gonna be Hughes (eee! <33) and Maya'll be Ryuichi from Gravitation. Yaaay! The ceremony itself was okay, by the standards of closing ceremonies, which a small cons are never exactly spectacular. But we got Pucca charms thrown into the audience - and I caught one! - and all in all it was pretty fun. That was short, too, though, so we had to wait around for half an hour or so until my mum got there. During that time, the Yuri Sign got, um, yuri-fied? Take a look. Umm, yes. So, eventually, my mother showed up - and so did Rin's uncle Nick, who is just lovely <33 - and we bid our goodbyes to Tommah and set off home. Maya lent me 1-4 of Yotsuba&! - yay! - and Rin gave me Maurice back, and I gave her Elfen Lied back, so WE'RE ALL HAPPY. And we made it home just in time for West Wing, too. <3 Just for kicks, here's a list of all the cosplayers I can remember: Naruto x 2 Sasuke x 2 Inuyasha Gaara Miroku Kagome Sesshoumaru L x 3 (one of which was Maya) Yotsuba (also Maya) Uriel (me!) Setsuna (Robin) Kira (Rin) Kou-san (uh, also me) Reno Rude Tifa x 3 Red XIII Rocket Grunt F Rocket Grunt M Ritsuka Lulu Ed x 4 Roy Count D Plus....misc cosplayers from Naruto, Bleach, Ouran High School Host Club, and other fandoms I'm not in. XD |
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