2010 Fanime Con Report

Okay my turn! Fanime Con Report!

As some of you might know I have been writing reports a lot lately but I've decided only to write reports for the conventions, no more gathering reports because it just burns me out to write so much detail nearly every week. Besides it usually just ends up to be 5 stars each time since I enjoy them so much.

With that being said let me get to the Fanime 2010 Con Report!

Day Zero: Jon and I left the apartment around 1pm to get to the convention around 4. So we rode the bus, bart and cal-train. It was a really nice commute I watched Jon play Patapon it's very cute. But when we got to San Jose, my camera fell out of my pocket, which I didn't realize till we got to the dash. I nearly flipped out and I said it had to be in one of the bags. Well we got to the convention center and realized it was gone, it had fallen out on the cal-train. I wanted to cry by that point but we decided to call the lost and found- it was just a recording... So we decided to just check in at the Fairmont; which we did rather quickly and then headed off back to the Calstation to check for my camera. Amazingly as son as we walked in a guy was turning it in. I was nearly in tears and squealed out it was my camera. He teased me a little but finally gave me the camera. With relief we returned to the convention and met up with Mel and her boyfriend then went off to wait in prereg line which took us 2hrs to get through.

I took several photos while we were in line and met a very nice indian couple they were very sweet. When we got to the end of the line a staffer said that "there will be cake" and Jon and I both were thinking PORTAL. Funny thing was when we were done the couple's mother was like "they said that there would be cake", lol I said "The cake is a lie" and she was like "It really is isn't it?" not knowing anything about Portal. It was funny. We then went to the Swap Meet for a little, parted ways with our new friends and Natalie, Maria and a few others... We went to dinner, Jon and I at an amazing restaurant. McCormick and Schmickt Seafood (sorry for the shitty spelling). I got Kobe Beef Carpaccio, which is a very thin kobe beef served with virgin olive oil and some weird salad. It's lightly seared but it might as well be tare-tare. Never the less it was an amazing dish. I also had bbq red potatoes that were delish. The mac was something we could have skipped. Jon got a Salmon Quesidia and we went back to the hotel... Which I must say was amazing. We then wandered back to the Swap Meet and got some amazing deals. Met up with Mel, EBK and Jessica. Once we were done we headed back to the hotel and enjoyed a well deserved sleep.

Day One: Friday we cosplayed from Avatar the Last Airbender, it took us a while to get ready but we were soon out the door and enjoying the convention. Not as small as Thursday but not as busy as Saturday Friday was a lot of fun. We had an avatar meetup and met several awesome people and hung out a little with Natalie and her friends. We switched out into our Black Rock Shooter cosplays after lunch, did a small photoshoot with EBK and hung around the convention a little before going to the Vocaloid gathering... Which imo was a bust. Jon and I, and another Black Rock Shooter (Rin) were pretty much shunned at the gathering and we were yelled at by some annoying Miko when we needed to stand to shift poses. Craig, also got shunned even though he was cosplaying a vocaloid. After this we were pretty irritated and overall troubled so we decided to switch into Scouts because our feet were killing us. Having switched costumes, my headpiece for Scout wanted to act up after we wandered around the con. Met up with Jessica and had dinner at the Loft... It wasn't as good as I was hoping but eh... Whatever I had beef Capacio I wanted to see if it was as good as the seafood place, it wasn't. We then went to the rave for a little after changing into my kitty rave gear. It was okay we weren't really impressed and left- we met up with my friend who was cosplaying from Basara; Date. We hung out a little then went to the second day of the swap meet... Got even more deals, played some airhocky and we left only to return an hour later and got even better deals- manga for 50cents. After this was done we went back to our hotel room and slept.

Day Two: Saturday we cosplayed solely Avatar the Last Airbender, I was Toph. The meetup was amazing and was SOOO much fun! Many many photos and talked with several awesome people. Met up with Max and Nana, then we parted ways and I had lunch with Kris and Jon. We then returned for the Dodgeball event hosted by Jason (HappyHeretic) and played a bit before wandering around, had a photoshoot with Jorge and had dinner with Natalie (Thank you so much for driving us to wingstop!!). We then went to Whose Line Fanime which was amazing. Dante (Reuban) couldn't keep his shirt on. After we were done we pretty much enjoyed the rest of the day, that being said we were slammed for photos ALL DAY LONG. It was really hard to get anywhere but it was worth it. Went back to the hotel after enjoying the rest of the evening.

Day Three: Sunday; we cosplayed from Soul Eater. I cosplayed Dr. Stein Jon cosplayed Papa. We hung out with Taryn/Hatsune Yuna for a bit and wandered the con most of the day checked out the AA and DH mainly this day as we weren't slammed for photos. Had our photoshoot at 2pm with WinterWish and Vanessa. It was a fun photoshoot, but we had to blow off a group of Soul Eater cosplayers I felt so bad for it and later on I apologized when I saw them again. After that we went to McDonalds and Quicklys for lunch. It was hot as fire in Stein but we dealt with it. We went to the DH and registered for Yaoi-con, I won two posters while I was there. Went back to McCormick and Schmickt's Seafood with Vanessa, Kris and Jon and again I had my Kobe Beef plate. Afterwards we did a photoshoot with Kris and Taryn which we thought we weren't going to be able to do. Jon went to the Gong Show and was a bouncer for the panel which was funny. I hung out with Kris, Julie and Celina, and Taryn till Jon was done with the Gong show. We then packed and got ready for the last day and passed out.

Day Four: Monday; Woke up early made sure we had everything and then returned to the convention which is really depressing I feel... Everyone was really out of it and quiet and just it was a sad day. Jon's gi ended up popping on Sunday so I couldn't do a photoshoot with Max and Nana like I was hoping so we cosplayed scouts. We got several pics along the way. Checked the DH and AA one last time got our last bit of items and went to lunch at Jack in the Box... Returned to our room cleaned up a bit more and soon we were our way home. Somehow by some strange coincidence we ran into Craig and his friends and we were really happy because we didn't have to commute alone. We then parted ways at the BART and returned home... On the bart a real weirdo started screaming on the bart and yeah that was about it... Then had dinner at Gerry's.

Pros: +Awesome Avatar Meetup on Saturday
+Hung out with friends
+Found camera

Cons: -Vocaloid meetup sucked
-Heat on Saturday
-Lost camera

Overall & Stars: ***** AMAZING CONVENTION! My best convention thus far.

Shout Outs: Shoutouts to everyone I did not mention! I love you guys~!!