cons?

Yes, pre-registering before the end of June is $35, the con lasts from 5am Thursday to 5pm Sunday. And it does cover the whole four days. I want to skip school Friday to go, but my parents won't let me, and since I can't drive it's not like I can go there myself...

You don't have to pick a character that looks like you to dress up as, you know. Most people don't look at all like the characters they cosplay as if they dress normally. To help, I normally carry a picture of who I'm supposed to be to show to people who ask (because so few people know what Shuffle! is...)

well i'd like to look somewhat like them. i have the same eye color as Yzak as well as he's kinda pale like me. Kira is tanned but my hair can easily look like his plus he's my favorite character of all time. i look almost exactly like Lockon [cept i'm not tall like him TT.TT] so thats easy. Fayt is another i could dress as easily because of the hair, i just would need to wash-in dye mine blue.

Albel Would be a real challenge, i look nothing like him but i love his outfit so i want to try it as him.

i wanna look good as my character as well as be able to act a little like them, so i'm trying to find characters i resemble a little or like a lot.

gen's right jd, you dont have to look exactly like your characters. im just lazy and i choose the easy ones like kanda and itachi ^_^ 'cept kanda is much taller than i am.

something ive noticed with myself and some of my other friends who havent really done cosplay before and are doing it for the first time, their expectations for themselves are to high. sure its great to get your cosplay as close as possible, but no need to get obsessive about it. ive cosplayed as itachi so many times that i dont care as long as i have my cloak XD im a bad itachi ;p but i like being snj or crossdressing itachi, tis fun indeed. :3

im doing rin kagamine and i look nothing like her. i dont have her body structure, her voice, her blue eyes and theres no way in anime hell i am dying my hair blonde and cutting it. but its still going to be fun as hell cosplaying as her ^_^ im so excited!

i wish i could skip school on friday, i dont think my mom would let me though either. im gonna try to go on thursday from 3 (basically right after school) to 7 or 8. thats a good 5 hours now ^_^
ah, i totally forgot about thursday being included in the 3-day pass. dont worry jd, once the youma con site updates (which probably wont be till march or may) we'll make sure everything is set immidently. i think i registered in like may or something.

yeah, i know i don't have to look much like them, but i want to. thats why i'm choosing easy ones for me to look like.

i can just get a wig for Albel [like i am for Yzak] and i might not ever get around to getting violet contacts, so i might be blue-grey eyed Kira, but i wanna at least try.

i'm not too obessed, i just don't wanna phone it in either. i at least want to look pretty for my first time, i want it to be special... i can make it more spontanious, sloppy, messy, and probably fun afterwords.

right Neko? ^.~-♥

I normally choose characters that have a hair color that matches my eyebrows...There's really nothing like wearing around a blond wig with brown eyebrows...

See, Neko, when Genten goes to Youmacon she is staying at Youmacon. I couldn't handle actually leaving for a day and then going back the next day...Stay up late and wake up early! There is no need for sleep or meals at a convention!

My first ever cosplay was Yamato from Loveless. It looked so bad, but I still had a lot of fun.

yeah, i have no idea how things will turn out for me. if my costumes will look good, what my first con will be like... all that stuff.

i'm pretty excited about this! i always wanted to go to cons and now it seems like i finally will be able to, and that makes me really happy.

now i just have to save up and start assembling my costumes!

Yep, first con is always an experience. Good thing you plan on going to Youmacon, one of the smaller conventions. Anime North is not a good first con.

Neko wrote:

so i made a topic where people can talk about cons they plan on going to in 2009 so we can find other people going to the same con or something like that.

this year i plan on going to....
comic con
JAFAX
and youma con

anyone else going to those?

when are the con? coming up soon mainly JAFAX plz

comic con; may 15,16,17

jafax; june 27,28

youma con; oct 29, 30, 31 and nov 1

well hopefully with my new found sources of wealth i'll be able to buy my costumes and maybe even drive myself there if no one, including my family will take me.

things are really looking up right now!

Meeph I'm not going to any cons this year. And that's because I want to save up all o fmy money for 2010. So screw anybody who disagrees with me.

what's big in 2010?

i think she said something about volenteering for youma con in 2010...and some other perks that goes along with that or something.
i dunno.
maybe when im 18 ill volenteer for the maid cafe. maybe. dunno.

im in the same boat as JD, ill have a job soon enough and car before jafax, so ill be able to drive myself and save up a nice sum of moo-la to waste on somewhat cheap anime stuff.
and cosplay, waste alooooot of money on cosplay

wow, i just figured out teh true meaning of being an otaku.
save up alll your money just so you can blow it on cons, cosplay, cheap anime gear and hotel rooms for cons

haha i love my lifestyle

come on, no one can deny it!

any otaku here who attends cons (or is planning to) has to admit they waste any money they come across on something anime related and they plan on getting a job so they can waste more money on anime stuff

yeah, pretty much all my money goes to anime stuff, it has for a long time. i'm getting a job so i can get more anime stuff.

think i can bumb a ride with you Neko if i need [or just want ^.~-♥] to?

depends.
im bumming my rides off people too. i could technically drive myself to jafax and youma con, but jafax isnt even a full month after i get my level 2, i dont think ill be able to drive all the way to grandrapids by myself.
i can talk to the people im riding with, though, and that will be sai, hannah, jessie or sasuke if i ride with her.
so, we'll have to see. just let me know if you really do need a ride and ill ask them.

speaking of which, do you know what your going to do for youma con? get a hotel room? get a ride to and from each day?

i gotta find that out, if you guys are all getting rooms i'll get one as well, it'd be fun to party all night and stuff!

i'll most likely have the money and i have the freedom so why not stay there. what're the nightly rates like?

i think its like 99 or 97$ a night. its much easier to stay with multiple people and split the cost. hm... i dont know, maybe sai hannah and jessie would let you stay with us? i dont know, its up to them.

i'll sleep on the floor in the corner... i won't do anything bad, i promise!

ill talk to sai about it tomorrow i have to ask her what we're going to do for jafax anyway.

sai seems to like you and i cant see how hannah and jessie wouldnt like you either so maybe it will work out

you'll have to help pay, of course

YAY! i'm likable!

Cons really suck. I save up all of my money for a few months, which means not buying manga, only to blow it at the dealer's room and artists alley.

i guess that's true, but i'm just looking forward to the environment, cosplayers and other types of geeks everywhere!

i have reached my homeland at last! its native people will surely accept me.

haha thats what sai hannah and me feel too.
we got to youma con and we were like "we're home... "
it was sad leaving home. very very sad.

yeah, i know that feeling Neko, you finally find a place you feel like ypu belong, and before you know it you have to leave again!

but oh well, i still look forward to the experience and the chance to spend tons of time with you and other anime fans!

and i shall have money to do things whilst there!