Friday
I spent the morning hanging out a bit with some friends. Particularly since the breakfast line was very long.
During breakfast people were out and about in cosplay and there was a girl in these crazy planked sandals.
How did she walk?
I think I spent some of my morning blitzing manga.
In the afternoon I had lunch with some of my university anime club members and more people showed up then I thought. It was a lot of fun, and we geared up for the beginning of the convention in the after noon.
First I went to the Greg Ayers Greg Ayers is a voice actor but he also works on educating people on boot leg merchandise, how it can be dangerous and how it can fund organized crime. Beyond anything if a person does not care about any of those things, care about getting ripped off. He also demonstrated much of his knowledge of Canada (Greg Ayers is an American).
After helping my friends get set up for the flea market, I went to the Helen McCarthy panel about European anime fandom. She talked about how anime spread through France, Spain and Italy starting through the 70’s and how fandom developed in the UK. She even talked about the importance of Star Trek. Above all I think it demonstrates the importance of having animation on television (like in France) and how it does not just make fans happy, it helps people who sell Anime DVDs and manga feel secure in the products they sell, since the local market has been familiarized with it. (I think France is one of the top countries for manga sales after Japan.)
I then went to the last half of the skit show. The best skit I saw was a Kurostuji skit, on how the first season should have ended. (If anyone wants to see it message me, it’s available to view on FB.)
I then went to flea market area and some of my stuff sold. I did some walking around and bought the Argonath bookends (I bargained down to ten bucks each).
Since I didn’t have much to sell, I helped one of my roomies sell their stuff. I sold off his 5 years of Shounen Jump monthly anthologies (no one wanted to drag it back to the hotel), and I sold his 12 volumes of Bleach. Because of that, my roomie treated those of us who helped him sell stuff, to a free breakfast on Saturday. Yays!!
Late that night I went down to the video rooms, where I hung out at the karaoke and read manga on my ipod. For one person since there was no music for the song he wanted to do so he just sung it into the mic acapella.It was good|!! He sung the ending theme for Monster.
Spent the rest of the night blitzing manga. I had finished Tsubasa and I was going through xxxholic.