Alright, here we go! Another year's passed for AX and I have to admit, things seemed a bit better this time around than last years. Looked a bit better organized I guess, although I probably didn't attend too many panels this time around. Not too bad for the 20 year anniversary. I did miss a few panels I wanted to check out, both b/c I already had already made plans (missed the Danny Choo 8pm panel) and regretting checking for available tickets (Mikunopolis T_T). All in all, it was pretty fun this year!

Enough of that, Here are a few of my pictures:

 

 

 

 Liked this picture as they were crossing the street, showing the contrast of the cosplayers against the crowd behind them. Insinuating the nature of the event.

 Here's the Culture Japan booth, complete with 2 Itasha decorated cars (that termed right?). The dashboards were riddled with Mirai Figmas.

 Poster of Mirai Millenium. Never imagined Mirai in such a genre...

 The lovely Maridah cosplaying as Mirai. Must be popular as ever ever since Otacool 2. Great Job!

 Just got into League of Legends and I would've missed this if my cousin didn't point it out.

 Om nom nom nom!!!

I don't think the ghillie suit's working here...

 Lovely!

 I think the best cosplay this year! I just loved it!

Just awesome! Was being sold in the Exhibit hall but for an immense price ><

 Strike Freedom PG is just awesome! I'd like to get this, but, talking about immense prices, this ended up being $100 more than what I previously thought. Sometime later down the line...

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Danny!!!! I ran into him in the Exhibit hall while he was browsing. Just walked up behind me and looked at the same display case and in my mind I was like "Woah hey it's Danny!!!!!". Chatted for a min or 2 (didn't want to keep him from his browsing) and took this photo! Thanks for coming out again Danny!

 Incidentally, these were in the display when Danny walked up next to me.

 Finally, pics of a few of my treasures this year! Noteworthy in this one is the Mikunopolis program on the left, Miku keychain to the right of that, and a mini ocarina bottom center.

 Prints from a popular artist. I get his prints every year!

Finally, 2 large Mirai banners. These are awesome because it's not fragile paper-like material. pretty durable!

Ok....more captions than I thought I would put down. Next post will feature pics from the Meet and Greet with Danny.

After Day 2.

Since I wasn't able to go to the Mikunopolis (Hatsune Miku Concert (T_T), I got me In-N-Out instead...^^

I'll save my post comments, if at all after the entire event. In the meantime I cross off the cosplays I've seen/taken pics of this year in my previous post. Kinda surprised on some I thought I wouldn't find. Plus, I've decided to fiiiinally cosplay for next year's con. My idea's going to be simple. Another plus, I ran into Danny Choo while he was browsing around (Awesome!!).

Nooo!!! why did i wait sooo stupidly long!!!!

Man I'm an idiot! only now, less than a week from AX I decided to look into the Hatsune Miku concert tickets.... hopefully I could somehow obtain tickets while I am over there.....baka baka baka baka baka!!!

2011 AX Cosplay list/Scavenger Hunt Pt. 2

Here's the second list I've mentioned in the previous post. This one is rather costumes that aren't difficult to do yet I haven't really seen yet. Most are pretty recent since last year's con:

• Panty & Stocking [Together](Panty & Stocking w/ Garterbelt)
• Scanty & Kneesocks [Together] (Panty & Stocking w/ Garterbelt)
• Kirino Kousaka (Ore no Imouto...)
• Chell (Portal)
• Frank West & Chuck Greene [Together] (Dead Rising)
• Deadmaster (BRS)
• Green Lantern (Green Lantern)
• Akira Takizawa (Eden of the East)
• A mutant from "X-Men 1st Class"
• Kuroha (Eden of the East)
• Lily (Vocaloid)
• Trish [Good Looking] (Devil May Cry/Marvel v Capcom 3)
• Lind (Ah! My Goddess)
• Mirai Suenaga - done by none other than Maridah, who was Saber last year and was featured in Otacool 2
• Jun (K-ON!)
• Yukio Okumura (Blue Exorcist)
• Rin Okumura (Blue Exorcist)
• League of Legend Champion (League of Legends) - this was an idea thought up on day 0 and was the first one crossed off. lol ><

2011 AX Cosplay List/Scavenger Hunt

Once again only a few weeks till AX. Keeping it short, making up the list now (See my similar-made list archived back in June 2010.
Although I'll pull ideas from my previous last years list, I've made lists of plain new ideas. I'm kinda surprised I had so many in thought, I might not even pull previous ideas! And i've split it into two different lists: (1) Cosplays that are rare and difficult/ingenious to make, and (2) Cosplays that are new and current but not too difficult to conjure up. I'll show that list in a following post:

Rare/Uncommon:

•  Bender (Futurama)
• Orange (Portal 2)
• Blue (Portal 2)
• GLaDos [actual or a humanized interpretation] (Portal 2)
• Portal Turret (Portal)
• White Rock Shooter (BRS Game)
• Strength w/ arm weapons (BRS)
• Black Rock Shooter w/ scale Rock Cannon (BRS)
• Black Goldsaw w/ sword
• Lightning [FF13-2 version] (FF13-2)
• Odin, or any other summon (FF13)
• Akira Takizawa [Naked w/ white squiggle censoring] (Eden of the East)
• Ironman [Good quality armor] (Ironman)
• Briefs [Formal Version] (Panty & Stocking w/ Garterbelt)
• Zero [any version] (Megaman Series)
• Mwu 12 (BlazBlue CC)
• Lambda 11 (BlazBlue CC)
• Makoto (Blazblue CC)
• Any Mortal Kombat Character [specifically Scorpion or Sub-Zero in latest outfits] (Mortal Kombat) - Sub Zero
• Weighted Companion Cube (Portal 2)
• Cave Johnson (Portal 2)
• Anya [in COG Armor] (Gears of War 3)
• Kuroha w/ Black Wings (Eden of the East)
• Chell w/ good quality portal gun (Portal 2)
• Bahamut w/ weapon (Hard Corps Uprising)
• M.O.D.O.K. (Marvel/MVC3)
• A Claymore (Claymore) - Claire
• Negi [Magical World Adult Ver.] (Negima)
• Starcraft Marine (Starcraft 2)
• Sarah Kerrigan [Ghost version(Pre and or Post Queen) and Queen of Blades version] (Starcraft 2)
• Captain America [Movie ver.] (Captain America)
• Scanty ["Devil" outfit] (Panty and Stocking w/ Garterbelt)
• Kneesocks ["Devil" outfit] (Panty and Stocking w/ Garterbelt)
• Cortana (Halo)
• Spartan, ODST, and Noble 6 [Together] (Halo)

As always, I'll most likely be adding to this (as if this isn't already enough -_-).

Kono Figma go Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai!

This caught me by suprise!! I definitely gotta pre-order a few of these. Gotta sort some stuff out w/ Paypal first though...

(Hope I got this post title right. did a simple copy/paste/edit touch...)

Mirai Fanart!

At the beginning of this month, Danny made a request on his site to fans to submit some fanart of Mirai. Those submitted would then be shown up on Culture:Japan in an upcoming episode; Although I am not sure if all that are submitted would be shown.

I decided to jump in on the bandwagon and do a quick fanart/lineart shown below:

It's one of my more good arts, although not as good as some others I've seen... (I've been quite pessimistic lately, I dunno why). Despite that, I'm not intimidated by that and will shortly post it up on Figure.fm right after this! It'd be nice to see this up in C:J!

I guess I'll also put here the same info requested when posting up a fanart:
Nickname: Maikeru To
Country of Residence: United States
URL: http://purpleandgreen54.blogspot.com/
Hours spent: 3-4 Hours
Software Used: MS Paint (for minor cleanup)

Finally!...

I've finally done my first post on figure.fm and made myself known through the community! I'll still be posting here as normally as I do. It looks like the 4komas that I've shown are starting to be a hit, seeing a lot of people commenting about them already.

I am not sure how much more traffic I will be getting here after making my debut but we'll see how it comes along.

And if you are coming in here from figure.fm, welcome and I hope you enjoy my blog. I have the other 4komas I mentioned already in here so if you would want to see what I will be posting up next.

Because Text-Only is so boring! Part 1

I realize that all my AX coverage in earlier posts were all in text and no pictures to show off so here are some of the more notable ones I got. I'll post in 3 separate posts, first Location and events, 2nd nice cosplayers, and 3rd funny cosplayers:

Nokia Theatre

Danny Choo in the Dancing Stormtrooper Suit to start off the event. Even did some dancing on stage.

1st Day Crowdiness

Danny @ his first panel on Saturday.

Danny's 'daughter' Saber came along as well to attend AX.

Sunday morning. Used this image for the week's photo theme in 6 inches.

Saturday Crowdiness in the Exhibit Hall.

Danny again rallying up his dedicated follwers!

Highlight of Saturday: Meeting Danny @ the meet-and-greet at the ESPN Zone and having him sign my Mirai dakimakura pillow cover. His hand covered up what he wrote but it says "Please Look After Mirai! -Danny Choo 2010.7.3 AX". This is the first image of showing myself on my blog, btw.

More 'daughters' showed up for Danny's sunday panel.

Danny switching to his iPad for showing up on the projector.

One more picture of me and Danny after Sunday's panel.

Finally, a picture of Katsuyuki Konishi for Sunday's autograph signing (looked exhausted b/c of his schedule).

K that's part 1 of my AX images. I was gonna jump straight into parts 2 and 3, but think I'll cover those later this week.