A week late, but it's here. ^_^;; Sorry to anyone who read the last post. Tekko 1/2 was NOTHING like what I expected.
For going by myself and being stuck in the same room all day with a bunch of people I only vaugely knew, it was pretty fun. I can't say that they were complete strangers, cause I'd seen most of them at the convention before.
Got there around 10:20 or so. The first thing on the schedule was the Appleseed movie. Eh... I mean, it was entertaining but it was a standard plot. Briareos "died", and I maybe would've liked that part, but the dialogue was so STANDARD! God, can we think of something besides "Don't talk", "Leave me, you have to save the world", "I'm not leaving you", etc. I was kind of glad when he finally "died". Course, then he didn't really die because he's half machine or something. Then they go and kill all the giant machines, preach about how even if humanity sucks, they're going to keep living anyway *cough*Nausicaä*cough* and kill all the bad guys. But still, it was entertaining. Action and whatnot. Could've done without the fanservice, though.
While watching the movie, I looked through my trivia packet that I picked up when I came in. I'll post the questions later, but even the ones from animes I knew were HARD! What's the EXACT DATE on Ed's watch was the closest I came to knowing an answer. ^_^;; Oct. 12, I'm pretty sure, but I forget the year. 1911? Out of 40 questions, the highest score was 16. Yeah.
During the end of the movie, the fruits basket group sat next to me, and Kagura introduced herself as the girl who's going to be cosplaying as Yugi! ^__^ Yay, we have a Yugi! She's trying to get a friend to join the group, too, and they want to be an Abridged Duke Devlin and walk around with a boombox playing "Sexy Back". So I had someone to talk to for a while. Right while we were talking, people finally started noticing I was dressed as Jounouchi, and I had a bunch of people ask for my picture. Luckily I had my wig with me, and put it on for the pics.
After the movie was Guitar Hero tournament. I've never played Guitar Hero (sad to say) so after watching a few warm-ups and getting pictures of cosplyers, I headed over to the library for lunch. While I was in there, I picked up the first volumes of Whistle, Tokyo Mew Mew a la Mode, and Wish. I read them a little while ago, actually. Whistle was... kinda odd, but not too bad. (skip school for two weeks to practice soccer?) Not as good as Eyeshield, though.
Tokyo Mew Mew was okay, but I really don't like the new Mew. At all. I was even happy when Ichigo showed up, and I don't really like Ichigo either. Zakuro was always my favorite, even in the god-awful dub. The worst part of it, though, was the ad for 4kids on the back of the volume. >_<>_< ) It was fun at least, and I didn't know anyone there, so it wasn't embarassing or anything.
Watched some more SSBM and listened to the karaoke (and watched some people's hilarious backup dancers XD) and finally left around 4:20. It was ending at 4:30, and I had to catch a couple buses to get home.
On the way out, I wound up walking next to one of the staff. (You guys remember the staff woman dressed as White Mage? That was her.) She asked me how I liked the 1/2, and then she told me about how the staff is kind of transitioning this year since people are leaving this and next year. I said I was going to be a minion (guess I have to now ^_^;;) and doing a panel again. Then I had to go get my bus, and she was nice enough to direct me to the nearest bus stop. ^_^;; Never taken a bus out of Oakland before... I caught one, though, and after some transfering and long bus riding, got home without any trouble. All in all, it was a pretty fun day, and I can't wait for Tekko!! ^____^
Registration forms are available now at www.tekkoshocon.com. Group reg is also availabe. Discounts are $2 off everyon in a group of 5-9, $5 off in a group of 10 or more. Without the discount, registration is $35 for all three days if yo pre-reg by Dec. 31. That's 3 days for the price of just Saturday, so I would reccommend pre-registering now! ^__^
