Anime Weekend Atlanta 2006

So, as a cop out, I don't have a real con report so much as my LJ post, copied and pasted...

I could talk about con but I'm really not in the mood to do a con report. Con wasn't bad, it's just ... oh. my. fucking. GOD. Kill yaoi fangirls. We went to try and watch the second Naruto movie? Screaming Gaara fangirls. I wouldn't hate Gaara if it weren't for his fucking fangirls, but I'm really loathing him by association right now. That, and the way if you mention you don't like Gaara, someone within hearing range of this statement will go 'BUT I LOVE GAAAAAARA!'

We attempted to watch Ouran Host Club. I really wanted to subject Fraggle to it cause it's fucking funny. Unfortunately, 'subject' is the right verb. Because the room was full of fangirls who would creetch, yowl, scream, shriek, etc etc every 15-30 seconds. I swear, that probably damaged my ears more than going to the Peelander-Z concert did. After the first episode, there was a mass exodus from the room. I am pretty sure it wasn't because people didn't like the show, but because the goddamn fucking fangirls wouldn't shut up. Even after several people (of course, including me) started trying to shout them down with stuff like 'I CAME TO WATCH THE ANIME NOT HEAR YOU SCREAM' and 'SHUT THE FUCK UP I CAN'T HEAR'. It's kind of sad how most of the fangirls don't even seem to realise that the anime is pretty much mocking yaoi fangirls, either (not even after the episode with the comment about 'homo characters').

Speaking of the Peelander-Z concert... that was not so much a concert as joyful stupidity set to noise. Amusing, but, uh... I think they managed to get through maybe 4 songs in 1 1/2 hours. Heh. But still fun. The other band was total crap, though. They sounded like Puffy AmiYumi except off-key.

I got run-tackle-glomped by a chick in a Nabeshin cosplay on Saturday. -_- Not fucking cool. Now, the girl who asked if she could hug me before doing so? Yeah, I can deal with that. Don't fucking take running leaps at me while squealing 'OMG KIIIIIIIIIIIIBA', it makes me twitchy. Our costumes came out pretty decent for being kinda lazy and on short notice, though. I look freaky with a fake beard drawn on. I had at least 2 people (that I know of) mistake me for a dude (one guy called me 'sir' and when I went into the bathroom a girl in there had an 'OMG YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE IN HERE' moment before realising my boobs were kinda too big for a guy).

Where were all the jrock cosplayers/fans? I think we saw less than 10. But there was a PLC Love is Dead group with an Aya, Yura-sama, and seek.

Saw far too many catgirls, catboys, boys on leashes, and final fantasy movie cosplayers. I know it's weird that the ubiquity of final fantasy cosplayers annoys me when, say, the number of naruto cosplayers doesn't. I think part of it is that at least with Naruto, you have more than 4-5 characters to chose from, whereas the final fantasy ones, it's like, 'Oh, look, it's the redhead dude, 3 of the silver-haired dude (chick?), and the bald dude, again' (no I don't know the characters' names and I don't fucking care).

We saw a guy doing a Reno911 cosplay. OF DANGLE. That was awesome.

Lame Anime, Anime Hell, and Midnight Madness = fun, yay. The german industrial safety video that turns into a horror-movie style bloodbath was awesome. And the creepiness that is Heino. I really don't know why the call it 'anime hell' when they just show random shit, though.

Oh yeah, and like I said before, I now have a Magical Box. WITH A MAJIKARU PENRAITO AND A MAJIKARU TAOORU OH RABURIII. They also had Kyo's second poem book, which I really want because the artwork/pictures in it are fucking amazing, but not for $80.