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.

AX 2010 Day 4 - Final day T_T

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...

AX 2010 Day 3

Wow! I had so much fun today, It's only making me sad that tomorrow's the last day until another 359 days till AX 11. Well, here's today's summary:

• Again, in the exhibit hall line early. Hearing of the ones in front and behind me about the Yui Horie autograph sigining. Didn't go as how they expected it to go and essentially they felt pretty screwed. They were having another autograph signing at the opening of the exhibit hall, and although I wasn't in line for that, I wished them luck on getting those autographs.
• Attended the final portion of a panel explaining that manga and anime are forms of art and shouldn't be looked down upon, especially from those that aren't inclined to manga and anime. A 2nd part of the panel is to be shown tomorrow, but I'm having conflicts with what I want/need to do tomorrow. I'll have it figured out before I leave home.
• Was debating whether to go to Danny Choo/FAKKU's meetup at the ESPNzone, but after seeing Danny at the event prior to that, I commited to going. 
• And as a bonus, I brought my dakimakura pillow cover of Mirai for him to sign, and It Went Superbly!!! I was within 5-10 min. after he finished his talks and all those prior to me getting to him were only displaying their badges for him to sign, I was the first to bring up the pillow cover! Sweet! I loved his reactions on seeing it: amazement, jokingly smelling it, showing off the other side to everyone else hee hee! Took a few pictures and saw others too taking pictures so I am glad that I went through with it! I only wished I had more time to speak to him rather than 'Hi-A pleasure to meet you-can you sign this---Thank you very much!' but he was pretty much being mobbed by everyone around. Thank you Danny for coming to AX!!!! You're the BEST!!!
• um ok moving on. Of course this being Saturday, this was the most crowded of the days, so there were a heap load of people dressing up and I got some very good and very funny pictures of cosplayers! All great!
• I stayed a while after the exhibit hall closed to take more pictures and checked out the goings on back and forth between the convention center and Nokia Plaza. ended up staying there 2 hours post-exhibit hall closing. Really, It went by so fast!!!!
• I'm actually finding myself restraining from overbuying in the exhibit hall. that's pretty good! I still got to get some gifts for others tomorrow. I hope I can make time with the panels I want to see tomorrow...

Spoils:

• 2 more prints (1 of C.C., 1 of K-ON girls in 'Listen!' attire)
• 1 Hentai game from J-List (Family Project)
• gifts for 2 people so far (1 AX kids shirt for my nephew, and 1 Naruto themed bag for my cousin's girlfriend, the one that went to last year's AX)
• 9 more Hentai Doujin (Gold Rush, P-FOREST, and Kohakutei)

Lets hope for the best that tomorrow was just as enjoyable as it was today! The last days are always rather disappointing since come the days end, it's back to normal usual life. But I am keeping in mind what Danny has continued to say at the end of his speeches this AX (more or less his words): "Anime Fandom is not something to be embarrased or ashamed of, but rather one should be proud of it."

AX 2010 Day 2

Ok, so my other cousin's invited me to dinner yesterday, and I didn't bet back until like 11, so I wasn't able to update. Here it is:

• Lined up early for the exhibit hall. Although wait was 2 hours, the time flew by while I was playing Lumines ><
• Main part of day was for the first panel of AX to feature Danny Choo. So, did early exhibit hall runs then went to the panel. Sat through the previous panel that featuring RSP, and was able to get an end seat 2nd from front. IMO probably one of the best spots to observe Danny during the panel. Many pictures of Danny and many of his 'daugther' Saber. Think that was the best it could get?...
• After the panel, I was able to quickly move up and greet him personally! I also took a picture of him and me and also an autograph, impromptly, in my sketch book! uber-awesome!!!!!! I never thought that it could get any better! I actually found myself in some of his pictures he featured on his site about the event ^^.
• Cosplayers galore. Got pics of some good ones, and some not so good ones (sorry to say) but still worth taking a picture of.
• Got a few plays in on Blaz Blue Continuum Shift with formally Nu-13. Won 2-3 matches against others, but the times that I did lose were against the ones that have been constantly playing. I haven't played in a while so I was rusty ><

K, That was what I've remembered at the moment. Here are the day's treasures:

• 2 more Nendoroid Petit Noel's. One of which I have dedicated as one of my travel photo pal (I have already set up the picture for the 6 inches weekly theme).
• 2 shirts from J-Link (1 Touhou featuring Marisa parodying Final Fantasy, 1 Haruhi themed one, supposedly, saying on front 'I don't have interest in ordinary humans')
• 2 prints featuring Noel and Taokaka, looks worthy of being framed up!
• 9 Hentai doujin, varying from Gold Rush and P-FOREST doujins
• And of course, my photo and autograph of Danny Choo!

Velvet from Odinsphere photoshoot

K, so I haven't done a lot of photoshoots with my figures lately so here's one with a figure I have been anxiously been waiting for and it just got shipped within this past week! Velvet from the PS2 game Odinsphere! This is a nice figure that will go well with my other Odinsphere figure, Gwendolyn!

W/O further ado, here are my pictures:

I combined photos as to not crowd up the post with so many picture images.

The next few are with Velvet w/o her "skirt" on. A bit on the ecchi side, but the protective plastic sheet was wrapped between her waist/butt area and her skirt, and I had to remove it by removing the skirt off first. I took these pics before I had placed her skirt back on to make the ones above and the detailed ones further down below.
More or less, this is my makeshift studio. Quick and dirty, but did a somewhat decent job with the pics.

Gotta love the effort in detail that was done on this figure. I fell in love with it when I saw it online and again when I saw it for real!

I couldn't resist w/ these two pictures (Hey I am a guy here!). Putting that aside, you still gotta love the details!

Ok, got the overall and the ecchi pics down, now to specific brief details:The face shows off a nice cool stare no matter what angle it's seen from and the accent of her hair adds to the charm of this very cute face! If you want more of my commenting of nice detail, notice her eyebrows not just a simple line. multiple lines!

Like I said, any angle...

The chain is actual links and wraps around her hands (more on the chain 2 pics down). They also include 2 transparent braces to put around her wrist. You can see it there. This holds the chain around Velvet's wrist as to not slip down. Her limbs are very slender and nice and if you can notice, they even get into the wrinkles in her finger knuckles.

The base is as such. The pegs don't super tightly fit into her holes; if I were to pick her up with her base still on it would probably loosen off one leg or drop. Otherwise, it still holds her up very sturdily.

Her chain was a bit of surprise when I had a look at it. It is a chain composed of individual links, not just some long preformed single plastic piece. In addition, It wasn't metal, but also pvc.

Finally, the few last pictures were taken as ideas for computer wallpapers. I currently have the third one as my wp.

And actually, I do have one confession to make: Although I do like this character, probably my favorite one from the game, I have never finished the actual game, let alone, get to the portion where I could play her storyline. I have a tendency of always playing an RPG game yet always stop midway and never get back around to finishing it up....I'm pretty bad at that....

4 Panel Comic Strips

Ah, yesterday I had a good run of ideas for 4 panel comic strips. It took me a lot longer than I thought it would, but I feel it's worth the work ^^. And today I was messing around trying to find a suitable program to lay these out; I think the outcome is very satisfactory! (it's probably not entirely the best out there, but with what I got it's still looks pretty good!). I hope to come up with more ideas for comics which I can dish out that are somewhat unique than other ones that are out there already... In short-I had fun doing this and hope to create more further down the line!

Now w/o further delay, here are 3 comics that are products of my sweat, tears (well not really), and me being up late at night during a weekday when I really shouldn't be... (click on the images to see the strips. it looks too small to try and read them from this page).

#1: Fun Fact Notes: This one's a bit on the Ecchi side. It was originally was just going to be Airi and Nanael, but Alleyne just got shipped in and decided to add her in the strip. ^^

#2: Fun Fact Notes: What's a good sound effect for whiffing with a bat?

#3: Fun Fact Notes: I was able to finally use one of the Star Wars mini-helmets I got from Comicon '08 in a photoshoot! (yay!). I like the sound effect text I added in the 3rd and 4th panels.





















edit: looking @ the pictures once I posted them up, their sizes are a bit smaller than I thought. Well this is a trial and error/lesson learned type of thing so.... when I get around to it I'll think about getting these ones in the expected size. I haven't decided yet..

Hiyori Pixy

Ok, like I said from an earlier post. here's my photo shoot with Hiyori Pixy, from some series or game or something called ChuxChu Idol; I am not familiar with this.

Note: This figure is quite revealing and does have cast-off ability. To be on the safe side, I minimized those pictures so that I won't get in trouble. I am a noob-blogger and I don't want my blog-lifestyle to be shortlived. I apologize for anyone looking for more ecchi pictures, but, again, I'd like to stay on the safe side for now...




Quite a beautiful figure even though it's one with her bare butt sticking out. Not that I'm saying that it's a bad thing...I'm sure that most people would hide this figure when family members or the such are around the house. -_-

Despite that though, nice figure and a nice sexy pose. ^^

Easy on the eyes there. Such a cute facial expression.

The pumpkin hat is a nice addition as well and with a simple yet nice feature added to it. At first glance, I thought how sturdy it would be on the head; if it would slip off easily. yet they came with an ingenious idea of using magnets to keep it attached. Strong enough to keep it set.

Not much pics but that's what I got for Hiyori! Probably would team her up with my Melissa Seraphy figure and combine their pumpkin-ness lol! Although not original since I saw Hiyori with Melissa back in the day on the japanese GSC site.