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Katsucon 16 – The Haul

Whoo hoo~ If you’ve been paying attention over at WaM – you know I’ve been at Katsucon 16 all weekend! Huzzah!

So here’s your report & it’s a long one!

Friday –

Arrived around one o’clock due to a late start and traffic. Got registered & caught up with my bro. We hit the dealer’s room before meeting up with the rest of our crew. Caught the end of the AMV’s and then got some grub. Around 9 my brother and I went to stand in line for the Formal Dance and had fun in the line game. (I got to Salute Cobra Commander in a suit! :D And he saluted back! *Squee*). Dance itself was a bust. Got a free hug from a girl in a very cute Lolita outfit but otherwise didn’t stay long b/c I ended up being a wallflower. Spent the rest of the night reading & Introducing Hetalia to my unsuspecting buddy KGJ (Cagey Jay). I think I killed her brain with that one.

Saturday –

More dealers room, more AMV’s and went to Artists’ Alley. Spent too much money. XD Later that evening we went to catch the AMV & Masquerade Awards.

The Awesome? Tiffany & her guy Anthony (My roomies for the Con & friends from college( won best upbeat Video!! :D It’s called Boom, Boom, BOOM! And features various anime. Go check it out – it’s awesome.

And her friend also got an award for costume (JournyMan’s award I believe. But Tiff ended up modeling. Good stuff.)

Spent Saturday night looking for food and watching more Hetalia. :D

Well, after a very long Photoshoot with the costume winners and myself & KGJ (We were cosplaying as Mordred and Wiglaf. Expect pics of that to show up over at WaM XD)

Sunday –

Slept in…packed up. Checked out after one more romp in the dealer’s room. Hurrah! :D Long drive home and then procrastination.

But here’s what you really care about:

The Haul

Below are all the big items. I also got a bunch of little bleach charms and stuff in a mixed bag but I didn’t feel like photographing all of those. XD

I bought it…

JPQueen is a dangerous place. But oh how I love them. They’ve provided me with everything from the entire 13 Volume set of Haunted Junction (Which I highly recommend by the way if you can read Japanese…if not, buy the English Subtitled version of the anime from Bandai. Not as good, but still highly entertaining.) to doujinshi and my copy of Omishi Rei’s Artbook “Positive Girls.”

Today’s current purchase was a copy of the Haunted Junction Drama CD. I’ll have to report back if it’s any good. From what I understand it has a different vocal cast from the anime, which should be interesting.

That and I’ve also aquired a copy of a Loveless doujinshi (You and Me.) by Kouga Yun, herself. It looks so adorable. I can’t wait for it to show up in the mail.

Lesson: I can never own too many Japanese books. (Well, it probably has more to do with money and the value of a dollar, but…it’s manga. Gorgeous artwork, writing and plot. How can I not cave?)