Ohayocon 2011

[katchan]

hey everyone!! t'was great to see everyone at Ohayocon, and I know that I'm sad it's over like everyone else. Anywhos, anyone have any great con stories to share??? any epic cosplayers that were seen??? I guess it was crazy how I was only in the con for about two seconds before getting glomped on Saturday ^_^ Also, epic shout out to the AA fandom for making the photoshoot epic and funny and doing the elevator photos!!

[inchwyrm]

Ohayocon was so epic! But, it made me hate schoolwork. It's a very good thing that we had a Snow/blackout day today (plus I had no class on Tuesday) so I could get caught up on stuff. I really wanted to go home and show my family the awesome geek stuff I got.

Plans for the future:
1. learn to make bento boxes so I can eat out of mine (with my matching utensils! )
2. find more Ohio conventions, preferably in the summer
3. find my darn camera cord so I can upload my pictures!

I personally would love to find a picture of the people who cosplayed as the catbus from Totoro. I saw it at a distance, and could no get close or take a picture because I was entering the Avatar panel. Actually, the Katara and Yue cosplayers there were really good, too. I am actually super excited about almost all of the cosplayers I saw, though I wish I had taken more pictures.

Taking a page out of your book, Kate, I shall post a mini con-by-the-numbers.
0: The number of Gary Oak cosplayers I saw. Weird, with all the Ash Ketchems!
1: The number of panels I had to leave due to ridiculousness (How to Survive the Apocalypse. They took it too seriously).
2: The number of times I was hugged from behind ( somewhat D: the second time, that Grell cosplayer was creepy!). Also, the number of "made in Korea" stickers stuck on me.
3: The number of Belarus cosplayers I ran into. (One was really persistent!)
4: The number of Mr. Anonymous cosplayers I saw.
5: The number of people it takes to make sthingying into a "sthingy drawer." I have to thank Austin for that term!
7: The number of hours of sleep I got per night. Not too shabby!
12: I had at least this many hugs.
Too many: The number of Edward Elric cosplayers.

[katchan]

I know that there is at least one other Ohio Convention, which is Colossalcon. Oh, and it takes place in the summer ^_^ First weekend in June. It's more near my neck of the woods, though, since it is at Kalahari Waterpark in Sandusky. And it is apparently MUCH smaller than Ohayocon. Unfortunately I know that it's not gonna happen for me, since I'll still be in Germany ^_^

[inchwyrm]

Want to know what I did yesterday? Looked up all conventions in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia. Also Maryland, because my aunt lives there and I visit during the summer (not much other than Otakon, color me surprised). My awesomely amazing discovery: there is a Cincinnati convention during the last three days of Kenyon's spring break. ( aandgohio.com/ ) Which means wonderfully wonderful things. It's much smaller, but it's also much cheaper. $25 for registering before March. I kind of have to go to this.

Let me just leave this here for all people outside (or even inside) of Ohio... >__> animecons.com/events/

[katchan]

epic!! we could have a lot of people make it to Otakon this summer.... Ill actually be kinda close (well, VA close) so this might have to happen. Then again, I said the same thing last year.... and leaving for Baltimore around noon on Saturday and having to be back in Leesburg at noon on Sunday is not so probable. But, for reals, I'M GOING TO OTAKON ONE OF THESE YEARS!!!! It will happen!

Ahh.... I have epic AMVs from the AMV contest at Ohayocon that I want to share with people, but I can't seem to find them. Anyway... I should probably also mention to everyone that I have pics on facebook, and that one of the people I met made a video with pictures from the Ace Attorney shoot if anyone wants to see it ^_^ That and I wish I had crazy stories.... but maybe it's a good thing that the craziest thing was the epic delay getting down there. NEVER trust Greyhound....

oh, and now time for more con by the numbers (sorry mine is not in as nice of an order as Lauren's)

Number of hours my bus was delayed- 3 1/2

Number of hours slept- 8-10

Cans of Diet Coke drunk- 10

Number of pictures taken- 200

Number of panels attended- 2 1/2

Number of things I lost.- two. one drumstick and one copy of golden sun

Number of times that I forgot to eat- too many

Number of AMVs watched- 24

Amount of time spent in lines- probably somewhere around four hours? (probably more like six or seven if I include at the Greyhound Station)

Number of times I was hit on at the formal ball- one

Number of times Ben and I got rickrolled Friday night (in a row)- two

Number of times I almost lost my voice on Saturday- five

Masquerade skits without names- six or seven out of around 14

Number of times that I wanted to facepalm during some of said skits- six or seven

Amount of time spent at con on saturday before getting randomly glomped- two seconds

People who recognized my kim/ritsu cosplays- one each

Number of times I was glomped as haruhi- around 10, with one memorable flying glomp from behind in Artist Alley.

Number of times I was called god as Haruhi- three

Number of times I saw a certain doctor who cosplayer- at LEAST 20. (I blame my Haruhi powers)

Number of Hobo Nicks I saw- five. practically all at once, as well.

Number of Hetalia/Black Butler cosplays seen.... WAY TOO MANY (still love your Russia, Lauren ^_^)

Number of cosplay ideas spawned by this weened- at LEAST two, probably more like three or four. One that I REALLY want to do ^_^

[inchwyrm]

Ahahaha! I know there were way too many Hetalia cosplayers, let alone other Russias! I'm planning less common things for later cons. I have to say, seeing all the cool cosplays has given me ideas of my own, too.

Also, I just noticed the WTF typo in my first post on this thread...I typed "sthingy." Twice. What the heck, self? That was supposed to be sthingy.

EDIT: No wait, it's a word filter or something. S P O O N.

[katchan]

Feb 2, 2011 22:07:56 GMT -5 inchwyrm said:

I personally would love to find a picture of the people who cosplayed as the catbus from Totoro.

Dear Lauren,



Kate ^_^
(who can not claim credit for taking this photo, only for finding it...)

[inchwyrm]

This is so awesome. I kind of want to do this with a group of people. We could all do other cosplays inside of the Catbus cosplay! I can see it now, three to five random and unrelated anime characters (or possibly some kids in normal clothes (Inception like parentheses to say I'm looking at you, BEN!)) riding in a Catbus...magical!