Vicious88
01-08-2012, 09:39 PM
Last night, Rita and I returned from an eventful day at Sukoshicon 2012.
I just wanted to share with you something rather cool cosplaying that took place yesterday:
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Rita's cosplay went well. Mine nearly fell apart all day but still looked decent in pictures... Against my better judgement (and will), we'll both be appearing on the emeraldcostcosplay.com gallery for the event - which violates my "no pictures of me online" rule - but I figure it's alright as my hair is green, I have no glasses, and I'm shaved as opposed to my normal facial hair - so the ability to spoof the picture in some form of fraud is, essentially, non-existent.
Oh, also, I got to wrap an asian guy in cardboard, call him a Mecha and send him to fight against another Mecha in a variety of challenges from phyiscal combat, dancing, hitting on girls, arm wrestling, limbo, and even self destructing.
Unfortunately I have no footage of that event, but hopefully some will appear on youtube before too long (My team's name was "Live Crickets" (as that's what was printed on most of our cardboard boxes) or "Cricketbot" and we battled "Sex Bot").
There was also a decently cosplayed Vagetta and Nappa with equally decent impressions of the Team Four star voices.
Other events included a Console Gaming Room with Tournaments (and, akwardly enough, because they never got so much as touched, even during their Tournament, "BeyBlade"), Manga Library, Table Top Gaming Room with Tournaments, Live Action Screening Room, Anime Screening Room, Godzilla Movies, MERCHANDISE GALORE, a ton of slightly-off little girls selling their drawings of their favorite male characters being exceedingly OUT of character with some of their OTHER favorite male characters (I could tolerate Sonic and Knuckles, since those games for the past 10 years have all been rubbish -- but someone crossed a line with Deadpool and Spiderman. I don't care if "that's exactly the sort of thing deadpool would say"!!! Not cool!), there was also a cosplay contest, in which I recieved mention, but no prize as my costume was held together by stitch-witchery and safety pins (also, there was a rather well-done Jessica Rabbit there and a guy from bleach with a GIGANTIC (nearly parade-float worth) prop of his sword's attack/monster/beast/thing, so I mean, what the hell chance did anyone else stand?), events that were schedueled to take place after we left included a "Dub your own Hentai" panel, which promised hilarity, but Rita and I were tired, so that was better left to Vagetta and Nappa.
All in all, it was a pretty great, though headache indusing (at least a times) day. Save the fact that most of the cosplayers were from shows I'd never seen before (Newer anime... Pah!) and the people who actually recognized Spike Speigel and didn't say "Where are you from again" were either little girls chasing me down because they wanted a picture and I'm apparently hard to get a hold of, or people who so perfectly fit the google image search result for "Otaku" that I was ashamed to know I'll be ending up on their Deviant Art pages (And I'm not guessing at this fact, most people told me I'll "be on my main profile page!" *squee* "OH! Do you have the gun?" "No." "Aww. Oh well!" *scurry away*).
It's a culture I don't think I'll ever fully understand, but there are FAR worse ones to spend a day among.
I just wanted to share with you something rather cool cosplaying that took place yesterday:
5LbzMtEFOx4
Rita's cosplay went well. Mine nearly fell apart all day but still looked decent in pictures... Against my better judgement (and will), we'll both be appearing on the emeraldcostcosplay.com gallery for the event - which violates my "no pictures of me online" rule - but I figure it's alright as my hair is green, I have no glasses, and I'm shaved as opposed to my normal facial hair - so the ability to spoof the picture in some form of fraud is, essentially, non-existent.
Oh, also, I got to wrap an asian guy in cardboard, call him a Mecha and send him to fight against another Mecha in a variety of challenges from phyiscal combat, dancing, hitting on girls, arm wrestling, limbo, and even self destructing.
Unfortunately I have no footage of that event, but hopefully some will appear on youtube before too long (My team's name was "Live Crickets" (as that's what was printed on most of our cardboard boxes) or "Cricketbot" and we battled "Sex Bot").
There was also a decently cosplayed Vagetta and Nappa with equally decent impressions of the Team Four star voices.
Other events included a Console Gaming Room with Tournaments (and, akwardly enough, because they never got so much as touched, even during their Tournament, "BeyBlade"), Manga Library, Table Top Gaming Room with Tournaments, Live Action Screening Room, Anime Screening Room, Godzilla Movies, MERCHANDISE GALORE, a ton of slightly-off little girls selling their drawings of their favorite male characters being exceedingly OUT of character with some of their OTHER favorite male characters (I could tolerate Sonic and Knuckles, since those games for the past 10 years have all been rubbish -- but someone crossed a line with Deadpool and Spiderman. I don't care if "that's exactly the sort of thing deadpool would say"!!! Not cool!), there was also a cosplay contest, in which I recieved mention, but no prize as my costume was held together by stitch-witchery and safety pins (also, there was a rather well-done Jessica Rabbit there and a guy from bleach with a GIGANTIC (nearly parade-float worth) prop of his sword's attack/monster/beast/thing, so I mean, what the hell chance did anyone else stand?), events that were schedueled to take place after we left included a "Dub your own Hentai" panel, which promised hilarity, but Rita and I were tired, so that was better left to Vagetta and Nappa.
All in all, it was a pretty great, though headache indusing (at least a times) day. Save the fact that most of the cosplayers were from shows I'd never seen before (Newer anime... Pah!) and the people who actually recognized Spike Speigel and didn't say "Where are you from again" were either little girls chasing me down because they wanted a picture and I'm apparently hard to get a hold of, or people who so perfectly fit the google image search result for "Otaku" that I was ashamed to know I'll be ending up on their Deviant Art pages (And I'm not guessing at this fact, most people told me I'll "be on my main profile page!" *squee* "OH! Do you have the gun?" "No." "Aww. Oh well!" *scurry away*).
It's a culture I don't think I'll ever fully understand, but there are FAR worse ones to spend a day among.