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1. This savagely manly poster Randall and I found at Otakon: Honestly, with a poster like this, how can you deny the quality of this show?
2. The opening: God, fucking disco dude. So great. It literally smells like good pulp.
3. This goddamn shirt: How can you not like this shirt? I mean, if someone came up to me wearing this shirt, I just wouldn’t be able to argue with them. Know why? Because it’s a shirt that has a guy with gun-arm on it. A smoking gun-arm. And know what he’s saying? “Who is trying to make my babies cry?” You just can’t argue with that.

I think once I get to watching this and Hokuto no Ken, I’ll have my fill of manly ’80s anime for a while.

Sequel to this post. People who know me well enough will know I live in two places– Boston during the school year, and Washington DC during the summer. This is my room in DC. While reading this post, please listen to the Galaxy Express 999 theme.

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Needed a sub because there were too many words that I couldn’t understand.

As far as hilarity goes, this one was probably back down to the level of episode 1. This is mostly because I don’t find Kaede all that funny. The whole split personality gag doesn’t really click with me. She’s amusing enough though. Not really a fan of blond hair, however.  I liked Tarou though. What made me laugh at the first two episodes were how they took very serious issues, such as stalkers, and didn’t take them seriously at all. Tarou is an illegal immigrant girl living in Japan under a fake name (clearly fake, because I believe Tarou is a boy’s name?) with a bunch of other illegal immigrants. The level to which this issue is mocked is almost offensive, and thusly incredibly hilarious. Tarou also worked as a hilariously sarcastic commentary on Japanese society. She was saying everyone in the country is so nice, because they call people cute even when they aren’t, and that certain kinds of people are “nice” to little children. God, that last part killed me.

Direction wise it was the standard Shinbo fare. By now I’ve gotten used to the style of the show, so none of its stylistic eccentricity really wows me, but it’s all good. I didn’t really like how the opening scene in the class room lasted so long, but it did produce some nice shots. Overall it was the same as always, but good.

Just copying colours from the official images right now. Will adjust them later to my own tastes.

Photo because I don’t feel like scanning this monster yet. Going to fix some things post scan. Things such as Yoko’s body (oh god the curves are all wrong), fix Rossiu’s eyes and probably nix Leeron all together to make more room for Kamina. Probably going to have to fix the robot, too.

Original Post

Here is the Otakon comic. Report is now posted to the site, and can be viewed on the blog. Podcasts sometime next week if I can divine audible audio from the recording. Pictures whenever. Someone tell me a good place where I can bulk upload. Flickr?

Don’t really have much to say now. Hayate is good. Nagi is so cute. I think I may like a tsundereko, help. Need speedier Gurren Lagann subs. That’s it.

So this thing called Otakon happened, and I figured it’d be good to go to, so I did. It was pretty fun. Better than previous years, probably because I wasn’t stuck in the trenches and actually got to walk around and have some fun. This was my fourth year there (and sixth convention ever) so by now the shinny glow of being surrounded by anime and its fans has worn away, and I’ve began to approach each of these events with a very cynical attitude. Another thing which has happened as a result of this is that I don’t remember cons that well at all (I could only remember my first few cons event by event.) Now they just come off as giant blurs. I can pick out key points though, which is what I intend to do here!

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The SA banning thing was fun for about a day, but the glow is slowly wearing off. I’m sure the same could be said of the nogoodnicks who made attacks on my various online dwellings, too. So, to quote my hero, “it was fun, but now it’s done.” Makes a good story for the kids, though.

Anyway, moving on. Otakon is basically tomorrow, and I think I am more or less prepared. Gotta pack a few things up, then just leave at the right time tomorrow and hope for the best. The only problem is I may have to hold back on my spending, as it seems I’ve spent a good portion of my income already! These damn pillowcases don’t come cheap*. I’ll have to limit myself to $300, or maybe even $200. It’ll be tough.

Well, that’s it. See you all after the con!

Random Moon Knives pic to close the post~

*yes, I really did order all of those

Thanks, SA. You’ve made my life so much better.

I’m serious.

Hey guys! Remember this?

Well, it didn’t take ‘em very long!

Kinda sad because I won’t be able to post in ADTRW anymore, but whatever. It was fun while it lasted!

I feel this song best characterizes this event, except for that I won’t be meeting anyone again. Because I am