Well Im back from my 3rd Animazement and my 6th con overall. It was a great con this year cramed full of exciting animes to watch, great and very entertaining panels, and a dealer's room chalk full of anime and Japanese related items to buy!
Well my bro and I got there at about 9:45 am on Friday and got a good parking space under the shade of a tree. We got our 3 day passes and then went back out to the car to change into our costumes. My brother dressed up as a Zaft officer (red uniform) and I went as Keitaro! :D
At around 10:00 am i went and watched the newest Lupin the 3rd movie: Operation Retun the Treasure! After that i went and looked around Artist Ally for a while until about Noon when i went and saw an Inuyasha Q & A panel. There we got to ask Toshfumi Yoshida and Michihiko Suwa some questions about Inuyasha and then as a special treat Toshfumi showed us one of the most recent episodes they have just dubbed not yet out on CN or DVD. i think it was called "The great Lake God" or something along thoes lines. He also told us that the 4th Inuyasha Movie will be comming out in August! SWEET! And get this! Sango and Miroku.... are engaged! Michihiko told us that it's possible that a 5th and a 6th Inuyasha Movie would be done in the near future but they were tring to come up with a good story plot not involving Inuyasha and Sesshomaru again. After the panel ended i got permission to suggest a couple of ideas for the next Inuyasha movies. My main suggestion was that why not have a 2nd Shecowin Jewel appear and Inuyasha And Friends along with the origanl S.J. fight another powerful deamon who has gotten possession of it. Michihiko told me he liked the idea and would concider it.
After the panel I went to the dealer's room to do some shopping! Man this years dealer's room was jam packed with people compared with last year's. See some of the dealers that come to Animazement are located in Florida and Florida was still realling from the 3 Hurricanes that had devistated the state the previous year so the Dealer's room had many bare tables. But not this year. man there was ALOT to buy! Everything from Japanese translated Star Wars comics to Tenchi Muyo GXP clocks, to Sailor Moon bottle caps, to Pockey! to DVD's and manga, to Figures and Figureines! And let's not forget about all those swords! Well after looking around a bit i finally bought Stellvia volumes 2 and 3, 3 Love Hina soundtracks, and my best buy a Love Hina Again Swimsuit Shinobu Figure!
After looking around a bit more i looked at my watch a realized it was 1:35, time for the Negima Dub to premiere but it took me a while to get out of the crowed dealer's room so i was a few minutes late for the starting. there i watch episodes 1 and 2. and if you are wondering no they didn't change the opening and ending songs either.
After Negima was over i went strait to another Video room to watch SHUFFLE! episodes 1, 5, 19, and 20. (I love SHUFFLE!) After SHUFFLE! was over i went strait to yet another video room to watch the dubbed version of Gundam Seed Destiny which was very nicly done BTW. Alot better dubbed than the 1st Gundam Seed. And after that was over i went full circle back to the 1st Video room to watch the rest of the Silent Mobius Movie 1 and then the Tsubasa Chonicales Movie. (which was running a few minutes behind)
After the TC movie was over i went to go watch the AMV Contest! There were plenty of funny and very action packed AMVs to watch however there were also too many poorly made AMV's that used the new Final Fantacy movie and Kingdom hearts 1 and 2. which BTW NONE OF THEM WON ANY PRIZES!
After the AMV Contest i walked around for a little while until i made my way back to one of the video rooms to watch Combustible Campus Guardress 1-4. This anime i have to say was cool but would have been cooler if they hadn't put in so many humoristic parts at the most inopritune times. I stayed there in the Video room to watch Perfect Blue. By then it was going on 12:30 Saturday morning; time for the over night animes to be shown! I stayed in the same video room all night until 6:00 am watching Maria-sama ga Miteru ~Haru~ 1-13 (the 2nd season of Maria-sama). I had watch all the 1st season the pervious year and wanted to see how the 2nd season went. I liked it!
At 6:00 AM i made my way back out to my car to sleep for a while.
Saturday 9:00 am I woke up and made my way back into the con. There i went to watch the rerunning of the AMV Contest. I only stayed there long enough to watch the 1st few minutes of it I had missed the previous day becasue of the Tsubasa Chronicals movie running a bit late.
Soon afterward the dealer's room opened back up and so i went and walked around in there for a little while until i made my way to a chair to sit down a rest. I unfortuantly dozed off and missed the anime Green Green i wanted to watch. needless to say i was more than upset about missing it! :evil:
So i just wondered around until 1:00 when the English VA's from Funimation had a Q & A panel and then an Autograph session. After that i went on to watch Ah! My Goddess - Sorezore no Tsubasa OVA 1-3.
It was now about 3:00pm and i made my way back to the dealer's room where i picked up my shooping. But i only bought 1 thing that day. i bought the Stellvia girls complete Figureine set. got it for $15. It would have been $20 if the guy selling it hadn't accidently pealed some paint off of them. Thankfully the paint that did get pealed off was on the bottom of the feet so you can't really see it.
From there i went onto Artist alley and looked at the art there for a while before going to get something to eat. After that i came back and hung around for a little while untill i went back to one of the Video rooms to watch Fanboy Bebop. (FUNNY!!!!) After it was over i went to another video room to watch Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu 1-4! (I LOVE THIS ANIME FOR SOME REASON!)
After it was over I then quickly made my way to yet another one of the video rooms to watch Plastic Little (BOOBIES HOOOO!!!!!!) Needless to say i wasn't paying attention to the subtitiles for a good portion of the show! laugh.gif anime-sweat.gif
After Plastic Little i made my way back to the 1st video room and watched Witchblade 1 and 2 and Black Lagoon 1 and 2. (If there is one anime i recomend getting when it comes out it's Black Lagoon. It will have you laughing and cheering in alot of places!)