Sorry this is a day late.
Animazement 2005 Report
Animazement was successful yet again this year! Although they did have some scheduling problems that led to alot of troble.
1st off the group that i was supposed to go with to get in free NEVER SHOWED UP! So my bro had to spot me a few bucks to pay for my own 3 day pass. After getting my pass we went back out to our car and i changed into my Inuyasha costume, complete with transformed Titsuigia (spelling!). Unfortunatly after about an hour some dude came up and tried to take it away from me really quickly. "Oh Titsuigia! Let me see!" he grabed it by the hadle and tried to take it off my lap and then "snap!" the handle broke right off! (the sword is stiroform!) Afterward he felt so guilty for brakeing it he let me by something from the dealer's room on him. I'm a pretty forgiving guy so i only got something worth about $5. :)Thankfully someone had brought their glue gun with them so i glued the handel back on, after cutting off some of the feathered boa i had on there. Unfortunatly again when my brother moved it while it was in the car to make room to sleep he broke the hadel off of it once again Crying or Very sad . After this i have decided to retire my Inuyasha costume and titsuigia.
After this, this was where the scheduleing mishaps happend. The 1st 2 autograph setions were bumped up by an hour. So instead of it being at 3 and 4 o'clock it was at 2 and 3 o'clock. Less than a 4th of the people at the con knew this happend. Including me because i was watching "Macross Plus" in 1 of the movie rooms! I missed getting Aya Hisakawa'a Voice of Skuld from Ah! My Goddess and Ami from Sailor Moon (I wanted her autograph the most!!!!!!!!!!), Akira Kamiya's The guy who did the Japanese voice for alot of the James Bond Movies as James Bond, and Kieiko Han's who did Lala Sun from the Origanl Mobil Suit Gundam and Prof. Uchikido (Prof. Oak) from Poket Monsters, but thankfully Keiko had another autograph section the next day and i got her to sign 2 of my Pokemon movies! (i bet i was the only one with Pokemon stuff to have signed......)
I also got Kyoko Hikami's auto graph voice of Masako from Blue Seed and Hikari from Pretty Sammy, and i also got Chika Sakamoto's autograph voice of Sailor Star Healer from Sailor Moon and Nuriko from Fushigi Yuugi.
Kyle Hebert voice of (english) Teen Gohan from DBZ was supposed to be there but had to cancel because he came down with the stomach flu on Thursday.
I wasn't able to enter the Costume contest because they changed the rules this year so only a max of 60 people were able to enter this year, instead of the 150 that were able to enter last year. They got so many complaints about this that they will be going back to the old rules next year. I was cut off about 5 people back when then couldn't take any more!
The AMV contest had plenty that were shown at Nekocon last year (Little Tortea Boy!) and had alot of new ones. But sadly there were only 2 funny ones. I didn't see who the winners were sorry.
I didn't see the Cosplay contest either. For some reason i don't like watching them.....go fig.
Artist Alley had plenty of aspiring artists there. Some i have seen aot and some new people! I even was able to start my own little Rave at one of the tables with one of the artists who had his computer and speckers there. We played alot of our AMVs that we had collected. I let him download a few of my AMVs in exchange for a funny picture that he made in Photoshop of Su from Love Hina kicking Sadam in the head.
Dealer's room was packed almost all day long! But i managed to get a few things.
One of the things there that floped was the Evangailon the Musical special some people preformed. It sucked!
Anime I watched while there were (not in order):
Lupin the 3rd Island of the Assassins
Burn Up
Macross Plus
Iczer One
Narutaru
Macross 0
Bleach (last episode)
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles
Maria-sama ga Miteru 1-13 (all nighter)
the last 15 minutes of Digimon X-evolution (was on just before Angelic Layer)
Agelic Layer (dubbed)
Futakoi Alernative
Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu
Xenosaga 8- 12 (I fell asleep in a chair and missed the 1st 7 episodes!)
Stellvia
Speed Grapher
There was one other one but i can't seen to find it on the scheduale...
Things I bought in Dealer's Room:
Love Hina Spring Movie (nooone had LH Again!)
a Sailor Moon and Chibi-Moon finger puppet for my Niece
Figure 17 Pencil Board (Rare find! i had only seen 2 in exsistance and both of them were going for $50! I got mine at $4!)
Shinobu lepel Pen
Shinobu Button
Motoko swim suit figureine for my bro as a present for helping me get my 3 day pass.
Sailor Saturn lepel pen for my niece (came free with Love Hina DVD)
And the Coupe de grande: A Love Hina Again Shinobu Ping Pong Figure. $14 and was the ONLY Shinobu figure in the entire Dealer's Room! I looked for a whole hour for another one but there wasn't even a figureine of her so i bought this one.
I wanted this Shinobu figure: (middle one) One i wanted
But this is was the only one i could find: The only one i could find
All in all this year's Animazment, while alot of fun, was rather weak. With all the schedualing mishaps, and some animes that were shown in the movie rooms that sucked (Like Yu-gi-oh the movie) it really killed it this year. I'm hoping that next year's will be better.