Fanimecon 2013
Fanime of 2013 was.... It was something alright. I went with my sister, Leonore, that year. We ended up attending all of the days, including day 0.
Thursday: Day 0
Thursday was a fairly simple day. Day 0 is always meant as badge pick-up, so nothing really goes on. But me at Leonore still enjoyed dressing in cosplay, though I don't have any picture of us for that day. She went as Boo Gijinka (Super Mario) and I went as Fem! Link (The Legend of Zelda.) Normally badge pick-up runs pretty smoothly, but this year the convention center was under construction, so it was being held at the Fairmont hotel only a couple blocks away. Normally the extra walk wouldn't bother me, but I don't know what Fanime was thinking that year. My sister and I waited in line for six hours. No joke. She came to my work and waited for met to get off at 4:45 pm, then we took light rail and went to get into line immediately. The worst part? The line got even longer after we showed up. Which means that it could've been worse. I felt so bad because my sister ended up getting sick from having to wait outside in the cold for the line to move and she couldn't attend Friday with me.
Friday: day 1
After having to have waited through Thursday's "Line-Con," as the con-goers had started calling it, Friday felt so nice to be there in cosplay and relax. Since my sister was unable to attend and I had work that day, I didn't stay very long, but I had a gathering to attend, so I went for that. It was the Vocaloid gathering, and I was the only person in the Neru Akita cosplay, so it was fun, (Even if I did show up a little late.) I did find out that Lulu attended the same gathering as maid outfit Miku Hatsune with her friend Sasu as servant Len Kagamine. Though I don't have any pictures of myself here, they are in a few.
After the Vocaloid Gathering, I went to enter into the Dance Central contest, along with getting some great pictures of some other cosplayers.
Saturday: day 2
Saturday was a longer day. We were there all day. I had two cosplays for two different gathering, where as my sister only had one. We attended the con with our mom (Because she likes seeing all the cosplayers too) and Catty. After the first gathering, my mom left, but we had Catty with us the rest of the time to be our photographer for parts of the second gathering.
The first gathering started almost as soon as we got there. It got me started for the day as Fem! Lord Death Gijinka (Soul Eater.) I know, probably a little confusing, but since Leonore was there to take pictures, there will actually be some of me, and since I was the only of technical Lord Death there, it's kinda hard to miss. There are a lot of pictures from this gathering, so I'll post a few and leave a link for the rest of them so you can find them if you like.
The first gathering started almost as soon as we got there. It got me started for the day as Fem! Lord Death Gijinka (Soul Eater.) I know, probably a little confusing, but since Leonore was there to take pictures, there will actually be some of me, and since I was the only of technical Lord Death there, it's kinda hard to miss. There are a lot of pictures from this gathering, so I'll post a few and leave a link for the rest of them so you can find them if you like.
The rest of the Soul Eater gathering pictures -->
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After the Soul Eater gathering, I got to find a nice little hallway so that I could get ready into the next cosplay (which was rather nice since it was only a change in props, not clothes.) Catty had joined up with us at that point, so she took over wearing my Lord Death mask and gloves. Next up was the Pokémon gathering, so I was Umbreon Gijinka and Leonore was Meowth Gijinka. Again, there's a lot of pictures from this gathering, so I'll do the same as I did for the Soul Eater gathering. Lulu ran the Pokémon gathering as she does every year, so she was there as Espeon Gijinka with Sasu as Shiny Umbreon Gijinka (and no, us being the same Pokémon wasn't planned.)
The rest of the Pokémon gathering pictures -->
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For the rest of the day, we roamed around the dealers hall and the artist ally, taking pictures of lots of cosplayers and looking around at what everyone had to offer.
sunday: day 3
Sunday didn't exactly go as planned. Me and Leonore had planned to cosplay as Finnian and Ciel Phantomive (Black Butler) then switching into Momiji and Rin Sohma (Fruits Basket.) We ended up waking up late, so I did Fem! Sasori (Naruto,) Leonore didn't cosplay that day, and Catty decided on Belle (Beauty and the Beast.) We went on our own to the convention center and decided we wanted Psycho Doughnuts, which was simply AMAZING!!! We got a discount for having Fanime badges, and they had to bring out doughnuts since they had just opened. They were soooooo good!
Monday: day 4
Monday was a nice easy day. Fanime ended at 4pm, so Me and Leonore wandered around by ourselves. Catty had to go home that morning. I was Fem! Sasori again and Leonore decided she didn't want to cosplay. So we finished up our Fanime happily and went home satisfied and excited to see all the improvements the next year.