Unfortunately, all good things.....well you know the rest. It was the last day and I guess it didn't disappoint:
- Day started off waiting in line for Danny Choo's final panel. Was like 5th in line, with an hour wait (didn't open the hall until 8). had some BRS Cosplayers there, pretty nice. Danny came up early and was pretty amazed with the line already there, and took a picture of it. I think I'll be shown on his site in various spots.
- Come the panel, somewhat the same deal as his previous panel. I got my exact same spot as before. Saber was sitting up again, and more people were ready and brought their daughters up as well, as compared to the first panel (I think some forgot to bring their daughters). Showed 2 exclusive trailers of BRS, and I totally regret that I didn't take a video of both of them! Showed a good portion of the Culture:Japan episode. Same one shown earlier but more extended.
- And for his giveaway, I was in awe when he showed a BRS Figma on the screen and thought "Holy crap! is he gonna give that away here? now?". But it's actually more a contest on his site. Basically, find yourself in the photo, photo mark where you are and Danny will pick 2 of the many, and they will win. Seems that I'll need to be more active on figure.fm and dannychoo.com for this!
- Exhibit hall was 10-3. and the time flew very fast. oh before that, I was able to get an autograph from Katsuyuki Konishi, voice of Kamina. Short story on him, he flew into LAX on Saturday, straight to AX for the sat. night panel, straight into autographs the next morning and heard he had to fly out on Sun. quite a hectic schedule he has...
- K back to Ex hall. Buying day! got my gifts, got my stuff, but it was crazy rushing around. I actually ended up pacing myself this year pretty well. I actually retained a whole day's worth of what I thought I would spend. And with all that, I bought stuff that I wanted and I don't think there was anything there that I didn't regret not getting. If anything, there's next year.
- I sometimes feel sad hearing when they announce that the exhibit hall closed, so I left the room 5 min. before. I ended up doing the same thing as I did on Sat and stuck around to take more pictures. Again, there were some very nice ones and some funny ones.
- And with that, thus marks the end of my experience with Anime Expo 2010.
Final Day purchases (may be quite a bit):
- CD of May'n, singing voice of Sheryl Nome (I listened through the whole thing and I can't help but imagine Sheryl as the one singing these ><)
- Aksys Xbox 360 Shoot-em-up (shmup, and they call it) Deathsmiles
- Kotobukiya figure of Dizzy, Guilty Gear figure with the Queens Gate version.
- 2 Japanese umbrellas (Gifts for my cousins)
- Shinai (Gift for my other cousin)
- 13 prints from the Artist Alley (2 landscape prints, gift for my friend; 3 Naruto prints; 2 Samus Aran, 1 Momohime; 1 Yui; 2 BRS; 1 Mio; 1 Rei&Asuka)
- 15 Hentai Doujin.
So now another year has to pass until AX 2011, the 20'th anniversary! Wonder how that one will go (with all the negative things I've been hearing about these last few years). And something I thought even on Day 0 as I came across the first Cosplayers: I am committing to cosplaying for next year's Anime Expo! The one that I have not seen yet was Ryu Hayabusa so I am going to dedicate some time this day, the day after AX 2010 up until Day 0 of AX 2011 to get myself fit so that I won't look like just some fat ninja. Hey now there's motivation to get more exersise in my routine! Either ryu or Strider Hiryu. I am contemplating...
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