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Sakuracon 2005

PostPosted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 10:38 pm
by dolphinius_rex
Some pics from my vacation so far...

PostPosted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 10:44 pm
by dolphinius_rex
And a few MORE pics, just for the heck of it....

PostPosted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 10:46 pm
by dolphinius_rex
anyways, I'm still on vacation technically until Thursday.... but I'm back in my home country again, with computer access. I might poke back in again once or twice, but no guarentees :wink:

PostPosted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 11:06 pm
by Ian
You check out the Robotech Shadow Chronicles stuff?

PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:14 am
by Boba_Fett
Yikes, and I thought a Trekkie convention was the ultimate virgin hangout. Seriously, nothing against anime (or naruto in general, kickass show there) but cosplay is just sad... Glad to hear you are enjoying your well earned time off from looking at a CRT all day though :wink:

PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 8:02 am
by Ian
So Dolph.. who'd you dress up as? :D

PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 11:40 am
by Alejandra
Ian wrote:So Dolph.. who'd you dress up as? :D


A marine mammal? :P

PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 6:49 pm
by hoxlund
yeah those girls have to be at least 12, very nice [-X

PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 7:58 pm
by Ian
hoxlund wrote:yeah those girls have to be at least 12, very nice [-X


Come on.. they look at least 14.

PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 1:30 am
by dolphinius_rex
Ian wrote:You check out the Robotech Shadow Chronicles stuff?


Of course!! I got to watch some newly finished stuff, including a public service announcement for the UK, done with animation from the new OAV "Shadow Chronicles". I also met with one of the voice actors for it (he played Roy Folker previously).

Right now they have all the recording done for it, and are just working on the pre-animation before they edit and go into full animation and post production. It'll be out later this year, with the full intention to go into a full new series. The SDF-4 is a serious beast! :D

Boba_Fett wrote:Yikes, and I thought a Trekkie convention was the ultimate virgin hangout. Seriously, nothing against anime (or naruto in general, kickass show there) but cosplay is just sad... Glad to hear you are enjoying your well earned time off from looking at a CRT all day though


Ultimate virgin hangout? You seriously misunderstand anime fanatics :wink: As for Cosplay, I would say about half of the 5,000 people or so who attended were in costumes... maybe slightly less. It was pretty amazing. Probably the most crazed costume I saw was the tentacle beast... that one was nuts!!

Sadly, my own costume did not come together properly in time, so I was one of the non-cosplayers :(

I'm quite looking forward to going to my next anime convention, which will be in late August. It's amazing to see how much anime has become a big thing both here in Vancouver and also in Seattle.

PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 9:54 am
by JamieW
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

"At sakuramonacon I am super powared!"

No.

PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:10 am
by Ian
dolphinius_rex wrote:I'm quite looking forward to going to my next anime convention, which will be in late August. It's amazing to see how much anime has become a big thing both here in Vancouver and also in Seattle.


Probably because the Japanese own a good portion of it? I still remember the first time I went to Vancouver. A lot of the signs were in Japanese first, then English. Sometimes French before English.

PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 2:10 pm
by dolphinius_rex
Ian wrote:
dolphinius_rex wrote:I'm quite looking forward to going to my next anime convention, which will be in late August. It's amazing to see how much anime has become a big thing both here in Vancouver and also in Seattle.


Probably because the Japanese own a good portion of it? I still remember the first time I went to Vancouver. A lot of the signs were in Japanese first, then English. Sometimes French before English.


Actually, it's Chinese, and then English. The Japanese sections of Vancouver are very small and limited... and most Japanese stores and centres are actually run by Chinese people :o They love getting in on the Japanese Anime bootleg market :evil: (I *DON'T* like bootlegged anime). As for French before English... that's unusual. It happens, but it is VERY VERY rare on this side of Canada. In Toronto, or in Quebec that would be more normal. In some places in Vancouver, there *IS* no english on signs... only Chinese. Makes me wish I could understand chinese... :roll:

PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 2:22 pm
by Ian
I was found it funny how Japan's department of tourism has those vans full of people, driving all over. I always imagined they're looking for realestate.