Otakon 2009 con report!

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Well! This is epically late, but there you go. I'm honestly really dragging my feet on this... so I don't have much to say but please enjoy my annual Otakon con report! It's crappy this year because I was rushing to get it done because it's super late and so please don't think ill of my captioning abilities... I promise I can do better and have done better in previous years ;

And yes, my lj-cut text is really lame this year but I totally can't think of anything else. XD;

Otakon 2009 Con Report!

So, on Friday morning we all woke up at the crack of dawn to do makeup and whatnot. I hopped into Mokuba and chiachiaamichan hopped into Noa and yomimashou hopped into Lirin and redkittychan hopped into Lal Mirch, and we stumbled around all sleepily and ran into people for a while (and I had to tease my hair... god Mokuba, y such crazy hair) before jumping in the car and heading off to Baltimore.

After a bit of a little detour, we made it there around 10 (because, as I've said many times, we're always fashionably late XD). However, by the time we made it to the hotel, the hotel parking lot was filled. So we had to find a new parking garage... but we found one right around the corner so it was all good. We got a nice spot right by the elevator, then jumped out of the car and headed to the con.

Unfortunately, redkittychan hadn't pre-registered, so we said goodbye to her before hopping in the pre-reg line. We got in in around half an hour, and after I bound myself and we got ourselves all settled, we wandered down the hallway of the video rooms to see if there was anything good to do before the Yuugiou gathering at 12:30. We didn't find anything, however, so we just sat around and took pictures. XD;;;


It's that girl from the 5th Element. XD;


These were really awesome Katamari people, but we couldn't get a good picture...


This Fye and Kuro pair was so cute! And Sakura was nice too :D


Captain Falcon XD;


The first of many Hetalia... more about that later. XD;



chiachiaamichan was really amused by the Pokemon in suits. XD;



chiachiaamichan is in love with Jin, too, so...


I always love the epic Sue cosplays. omg those wings, srsly *____*


HAZEL. HAZEL HAZEL HAZEL HAZEL HAZEL. ♥

So then we went along to the Yuugiou gathering. There, we met up with britkit27! We cuddled for a while, then went to see the other cosplayers at the gathering. There were a lot of people and not a lot of organization... sadness. XD; So we have a bunch of random pictures...





There was an epic Dark Magic group... it's the guy from Battle City... you know who I mean, right? XD;




Meanwhile, yomimashou, who had the camera, found an awesome FMA group!


KURAMA! ♥


Lots of Isis cosplays :D










The whole group elsewise.








+Dark Magicians

So... the gathering kind of didn't last, because there was no organization at all and we didn't have redkittychan
Aww... happy family... or not. XD;


I GOT TO HOLD THE BRIEFCASE! *____* MY DREAMS HAVE BEEN REALIZED.


After that, we found some really amazing Mew Mews in their waitress uniforms! They were cute. I remember being young and in cosplay...


Some Reborn people :D

So... with a lack of anything else to do, we headed to the dealer's room. On the way there, we ran into some more good cosplayers...


Boxes of Pocky!! Also the Mens' Pocky has a pimp cane XD;;;


58! They were actually guys, too... amazing, that. XD;


And they took a picture with our lovely Lirin~


In the dealer's room, we found a cute Midori...


A cute Kiki...


And a cute Ryoma!


Also, Otogi is bringing sexyback ♥

In the dealers' room, we met up with redkittychan! She, unfortunately had to wait in line for two hours, but we finally got back together! After wandering around a bit more, we headed back to the hotel (and got lost for a long time...) to change only to find out that, despite it being our check-in time, the hotel did not have rooms for us. They said they'd take our stuff, so we went to the car, changed costumes there (chiachiaamichan became Nils from Fire Emblem, yomimashou and I became White and Black Mokona Modoki, and redkittychan changed out of her cosplay because it had been falling apart, poor thing. *pets* After that, we headed back to the hotel to find out that they had gotten a room for us in the interim, and so we hopped into the elevator and got into our room!

Apparently, though, they got out room ready in a hurry, because there was two bags of trash, a mystery novel, and an oxygen machine and 4 tanks of compressed oxygen there. We took a picture to commemorate them... but we also got them taken away. Seriously, who leaves behind compressed oxygen.


Tasty.



Back at the convention centre, we ran into a Sanada Yukimura (my OTP~) and two other Sengoku Basara characters :D


We also found the first of many Ciels, which made redkittychan squeal, because she's in love with Kuroshitsuji.


Ami found another Fire Emblem person :D Being unfamiliar with the game myself... I have no idea who it is XD;;;

Soon, it was time for Ami's Fire Emblem gathering! Unfortunately, yomimashou and I were tied up in the Artist Alley, so I wasn't there, but I hear it was awesome :D



















And redkittychan was very happy to find...

A Princess Marth XD;







An awesome D Gray Man group :D



Kaidoh! Fushhhhhu~


Pink storm trooper XD;



Another Allen :D

So, redkittychan took a lot of pictures of people with whom I'm not familiar, but here are the pictures :D




So... sorry about that. ^^;





More Kuroshitsuji :D

So, then we all met up again and just sort of hung out taking pictures for a while... we do that a lot XD;


Digimon! IT'S KARI, YOU IDIOTS!


Um... this guy from Bleach that we talked to :D;


This Syaoran had a really awesome stick! We were impressed :D

So, then we headed to the Johnny's panel because we had nothing better to be doing and we like looking at pretty boys :D While waiting, we sat outside and played Gekokujyou (aka Social Revolution XD) and then ran into these FABULOUS twins who were ACTUALLY TWINS.


THEY'RE SO COOL.

So, after the Johnny's pannel (which involved the PedoBear... AWSOME) we went home for the night. We actually found the hotel this time, and hung out. I reviewed my purchases for the day: 30.5, some gashapon, and two awesome Pillar Pair doujin, then we pretty much just crashed in bed. XD;

Saturday morning we woke up bright and early and hopped into our Prince of Tennis cosplay ( redkittychan was Lal Mirch again... this time, thank goodness, her costume stayed together :D;). We made it to the convention centre around 11 and dashed off to the dealer's room first thing, because britkit27 found some awesome TeniPuri stuff. On the way, we got a few pictures, however.


Awesome xxxHOLiC and Tsubasa group!



Another Ciel :D


Kaiba brothers!!


It's time to d-d-d-d-d-duel!


Companion cube :D

And then we met two of the most beautiful and wonderful people in the world: genicheerios and jackalackala! I love them both oh so so much, and we got some of their pictures before the gathering :D





Unfortunately, for the time being, we had to part from these lovely ladies, because britkit27 was waiting for us in the dealer's room, and so we jumped on over. I got myself a beauteous Atobe figure, and we also ran into some more good cosplays :D



Another Ciel; a crossdressing one this time~



Aaaand someone else I don't know


Lucas and Ness~


Yakitatte! Japan


And Eyeshield 21~


This really, really awesome Gundam~


Yet another Ciel... there were a lot there XD;



More people I don't know...


A Pit!


More Kuroshitsuji~



Hetalia with awesome glasses! XD;;



Don't know who this is...


The Dad/Panda from Ranma 1/2!


Aaaaand ANOTHER Ciel.



I don't know who this is either... apparently I fail ;


More Hetalia~



And another Reborn person, I think?







The most awesome Mew Mews I have ever seen~

While we were down there (we went to Artist Alley after that...) a Japanese TV crew came and asked us for an interview for some program they were doing on Otakon... very strange. XD;;; but we told them we had go soon, and so, since they were running late, we didn't get to get filmed. But we were hungry, so... whatevr. XD;;; So then we headed to dinner... we had the TeniPuri gathering at 4, after all, so we had to eat around 2:30.


On the way there, we saw an awesome Purin, too!



And while we were at dinner, we totally saw Hoho-papa and Ed! It was so cute XD;


It's the Syaoran again~ He got a Mokona, too!

Back at the con, we just sat around until our gathering. XD; We were pretty tired, I guess. XD;;; But we did get some nice pictures in the meanwhile~



Again, don't know who this is...



Some adorable Links~ The Dark Link was really impressive!


Magic Knight Rayearth cosplays are always the most impressive ever. This was an artbook picture cosplay... and it was really good!



And more Kuroshitsuji!

Then came the Prince of Tennis gathering! It was beautiful and wonderful and the most amazing thing ever! We met up with jackalackala and genicheerios again, as well as digital_blitz and onewhomust, and it was just the best thing ever. This gathering started at 4 and ended around 11 that night, and then continued the next day. Seriously, we all love one another. Pictures from our shoots will come in another post, but we spend forever together. XD;; After our gathering, we went to the dealers room and bought more Tennis things (I got 20.5!!) and then watched L: Change the World, which spawned genicheerios and my own new OTP: L/Gakuto! After that, we did another photoshoot filled with crack pairings and then went back to the hotel and crashed once more.

Before that, however, we got a few more pictures!



Yet another Ciel.



Kaitou Kid from Detective Conan~


Tohma and Ryuichi!


Aww. XD;

Also during that period was redkittychan's Reborn gathering! I don't know anything about Reborn, so please check out her con report! Sorry that I fail, guys...


Also, Thrill Pair~

Sunday morning, we met up with our new bffls and then went out to lunch! We were in Ouran, which was really inconvenient because we always got stopped for pictures, genicheerios was in Yuuko (xxxHOLiC), and onewhomust was someone from NEWS, though I'm sorry, I forget who, because I'm not familiar with NEWS TT____TT;; I feel bad.

Anyway, we went to this Subway which had no tables, then ate on the steps of part of Johns Hopkins. It was nice enough... though the Subway people gave us weird looks XD;

There are some stalker pictures to document this. XD; I don't know why.






While we were out, redkittychan took a lot of pictures of onewhomust... because she's awesome~ ♥




♥


Unrelatedly, genicheerios is super adorable~

Back at the con, we were in the Atrium for the Ouran gathering and happened to catch some other good cosplays while we were there~

This was a cutely funny Gravi cosplay... it made me giggle.


Oh, and did I mention that genicheerios is super sexy, too~? ♥

After that was the Ouran gathering, in which the cake was not a lie! And then homeward bound; it was sad to have to say goodbye to everyone, but we tore ourselves apart and then found our way back to the car and back home. I had terrible blisters from my ouran shoes and everyone was hot and tired, but it was worth it, as always... especially this year because of all the awesome people we met~!

And, as an omake, once we got home, this happened:

OISHI?!

That's all for now! Sometime later will come out two shoots, but for now I'm really tired and this is a really crappy post... sorry!! TT_____TT;; Hope you can bring yourself to read it anyway...