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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

Convention Haul

Just got back from a convention and I am happy. Why? Because I managed to not break the bank but come out with some choice items, such as:

Salty Dog V *drool*

Salty Dog IV *more drool*

An Ichimaru Gin figurine (to match my Kira Izuru figure. :D)

and, *rolls drums*

A Gungrave OD (Overdose) poster. Seriously. We found a Gungrave OD poster. *squeals* That’s almost as good as finally getting my hands on Salty Dog. XD

Now…to browse and pet my goods. *skips off happily*

So it was a month…

Hey, I’m back. It’s amazing how easy it is to get out of the swing of things when you’ve been more or less computer-less for three weeks. I didn’t get nearly the things done I wanted to, but that just means I’ll have to work harder. But it was worth it – because at the end of the break I went to Otakon with Nimblnymph and Ares-Black. (And came out of it with Vic Mignogna’s autograph, two death note key chain latches of Light & Misa, two doujinshi, 4 Naruto doujinshi anthologies, Paradise on the Hill Manga & Volume 3 of Category Freaks – not to mention Volume 3 of Arcana (Zerosum)!! So all in all it was a great haul).

And then in the fanfiction department – I mananged to write a Kiba drabble (go give some entires to that section on Fanfiction.net!! Kiba’s awesome and deserves some lovin’) and finish up Keeping Face. The only downfall is I’ve now finished off all my Saiyuki fics save for the Tag fic. It feels weird – going to need to start a new one. XD

Anyway, enough rambling out of me. Gotta get back to work!