MallCon? Whatsit?
Jul. 31st, 2004 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sparksolI went to the anime event at Sunrise Mall today (a small mall), arriving about five hours into it. Aside from the standard Saturday crowd of peoples, and occasional group of goths avoiding the rest, there were four square kiosks (which I think is the word) about twenty feet on a side, each from a different store. Each had an asortment of stuff, the only thing they all had in common were wallscrolls and manga. One had every kind of card for collection and/or games, another had statuary and models, another had DVDs, and the last had fanart and sketch-requests. In addition, the store which changes by the season was empty and showing subtitled anime. Unfortunately, I missed the ones I really wanted to see, and didn't have time to stay for the last of them, Lupin III.
There was a minor cosplay event, but they only got to say a line each, due to false time constaints. The bigger factor was that the microphone broke or died by the second entrant (out of 35. Not bad for a tiny mall.) I don't know who they had for judges, but they weren't the best choices. I didn't recognize all of them, but the better ones were Haruko from FLCL, and Cid Highwind from FF7. Me without a camera! T_T Cid's (since I never heard any real names) was very realistic, as in it looked like real clothes, not felt and snaps. He was also the only one whose voice we could hear, as his chosen line was "WHERE THE HELL'S THE GODDAMN TEA?!" at the top of his lungs. There was also excellent likenesses of Vincent, a certain miss Valentine, a very good No-Face (who won second honorary mention), a passable Yohko Readman, and assorted others, including a Monkey D. Luffy who forgot her line (which I think was supposed to be 'Gum-Gum Pistol!' from the motion she used.)
I mention the judges earlier because of the winners... First Place was a guy who played a 'Generic Tentacle Monster'. He also had a sign around his neck that read, "Will Hentai For Food". Second Place went to a pair who were two people from Naruto (don't ask me which, I know nothing about it,) and Third went to four people who were being Mario, Luigi, Wario, and Toad from Mario Party.
Cid and Haruko were robbed, I say.
Is it possible to feel numb, mentally unstable, uncertainly happy, and depressively sad at the same time while wanting the events which caused said feelings to happen again? It must be, because I'm there right now. If this mini-event thingy did this to me, what would a full-blown convention do? I hope I get to find out someday...
Oh yeah. By the time I left, I ended up with two wallscrolls and an orange-flavored-chicken dinner. not bad, for me.
There was a minor cosplay event, but they only got to say a line each, due to false time constaints. The bigger factor was that the microphone broke or died by the second entrant (out of 35. Not bad for a tiny mall.) I don't know who they had for judges, but they weren't the best choices. I didn't recognize all of them, but the better ones were Haruko from FLCL, and Cid Highwind from FF7. Me without a camera! T_T Cid's (since I never heard any real names) was very realistic, as in it looked like real clothes, not felt and snaps. He was also the only one whose voice we could hear, as his chosen line was "WHERE THE HELL'S THE GODDAMN TEA?!" at the top of his lungs. There was also excellent likenesses of Vincent, a certain miss Valentine, a very good No-Face (who won second honorary mention), a passable Yohko Readman, and assorted others, including a Monkey D. Luffy who forgot her line (which I think was supposed to be 'Gum-Gum Pistol!' from the motion she used.)
I mention the judges earlier because of the winners... First Place was a guy who played a 'Generic Tentacle Monster'. He also had a sign around his neck that read, "Will Hentai For Food". Second Place went to a pair who were two people from Naruto (don't ask me which, I know nothing about it,) and Third went to four people who were being Mario, Luigi, Wario, and Toad from Mario Party.
Cid and Haruko were robbed, I say.
Is it possible to feel numb, mentally unstable, uncertainly happy, and depressively sad at the same time while wanting the events which caused said feelings to happen again? It must be, because I'm there right now. If this mini-event thingy did this to me, what would a full-blown convention do? I hope I get to find out someday...
Oh yeah. By the time I left, I ended up with two wallscrolls and an orange-flavored-chicken dinner. not bad, for me.
