wow. my first anime convention . . . memories made, and ready for some more.

well the con started friday, and only getting 2 and a half ours of sleep, i woke up a little after 6:30, got ready and headed out to Hynes Convention Center. i had to work a double that night so i didnt have all day to wait in line. i ended up there a little after 7:30 and was in line till about 9:50. i had to leave by 10:30 so i had a little bit of time to explore. i was mad because i forgot to program 's # in to my phone, so i could see if she was there yet. when i got home from work (10:30 ish) i got on DA to get her #, and saw she posted a journal titled "Anime Boston". i thought it would be some stuff about the con, but it ended up being about how she couldnt attend because of food poisoning. i was so bummed, and i hope she is feeling better.

the next day i got there at like 8:30 because i thought it was best to get an early start. wrong. nothing opened till 10:00 so o had a lot of time on my hands. i ended up walking around, texting some high school friends who i knew were coming and eventually waiting in line to get in to the dealers room. checked that out for a bit, ended up getting wedding peach season 1 & 2 (season 2 also came with the OVA wedding peach DX . . . . SWEET!) met up with and (friends from high school) but they were both in the artists ally the majority of the time. my friend kodo ended up coming, and we went around to some panels. i wanted to take lots of pictures to document my first con but the camera i used is my roommates and it only let me take like 6 pictures and then told me my card was full. ill put the pictures up later after i unload them.

any who. we went to the sailor moon panel, and it amazed me to see how many fans there were. i mean i know they are out there, but in my day to day life its like in the only one. im sure some of you know what im talking about. well there i met who cosplayed as eternal sailor neptune. we exchanged #s and then kodo and i went to the masquerade. i wish people would do more serious performances. i hope to get a group together for next year, maybe to do a sera myu performance.

we met up with heather (neptune) the next day and spent the majority of the day with her and her friends. it was really nice. glad i met some cool people. i bought a self published comic from artist ally which was cute, then we all eventually went to the closing ceremonies. the amvs that won were really good. they got me in the mood to do one. i would actually want to do the animating though. i was thinking of animating a bizenghast video to "here with me" by dido.

all in all it was an okay start to what im hoping is a long life of anime cons. next year im definitely cosplaying, and hopefully i can get in to artist ally. heres hoping!