I’ve recovered! Halfway.
Sorry about the delay in the final post kids, I’ve been under the weather and spending most of my time asleep. But now I’m awake and here to fill you in.
This blog might come up a little short because day 4 itself is a little short. There wasn’t much left to do but hit the exhibitors hall for last minute sales and wander around to catch the remaining cosplays. We did however manage to catch the How to Build a Mecha panel that was going on around noon. It was amazing! We all sat enraptured as the guys up front talked about all the details of an in the process Mecha that they were building (having started last year), going over flaws they had run into, and different methods of corrections. I think one of my favorite aspects of what they’re doing in this project is that they’re not looking for military sales (unlike in most animes) but to actually have these machines serve as a functional part of our daily worklives. Imagine, using a machine for the job of several types of construction jobs with only one pilot.
We even managed to give them our information of hopes of helping out! Be it through recruiting or whatever, we want to see this dream come to fruition.
After that, it was catching some last minute pictures of random cosplays that we’d see here and there, chat up friends that we made, bid our fairwells, and head on home.
In all, it was a great year at Anime Expo and I’m glad we got to attend. I can’t wait for next years convention which will, thankfully be back in LA! As much as I loved 06 and 07 in Anahiem (and thank god we’re not back in Long Beach) the convention center itself is so much more accommodating for cosplayer needs.
I’ll be posting again soon with further updates as to planned conventions, cosplays, and other such wonderful goodies!
~Raven
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