Cosplayers - two versions of Reika from RahXephon.
I think it was predetermined that this year’s Otakon would be great, or at the very least, pleasant. For the first time in so many years, Baltimore had beautiful, temperate weather. It was bright and sunny, but not overly hot and/or humid. It was a sign of good things, I tell you.
And good things were aplenty. Got to hang out with Ten a whole bunch, briefly met the anime blogger guys who came to the con (*waves hello to Omo, Moy, Link, Ogiue Maniax, and Os* — I coudn’t remember the other guys at the Otacafe; it was too loud, sorry -_-;;), got to go to both Yamaguchi Kappei panels, and even get an autographed Jo Chen print.
I didn’t get to go to a lot of the industry panels, mostly because I don’t really care about new licenses, to be honest (all of the titles that I really have enjoyed over the past few years are ALREADY licensed), and the panel rooms for those would usually be terribly crowded. Plus, hey, I’m already dating the ANN events/conventions correspondent who tells me all the stuff that went on at the panel anyway. There were several fan-run panels that seemed interesting from their descriptions on the book, but really weren’t that interesting in reality.
In any case, despite those little not-so awesome things, I really thought that this Otakon set a new personal bar for me for an anime con. I felt like I was able to see and do enough things, without really feeling overwhelmed and exhausted at the end.
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