Fanime is always my favorite time of year. It's a place that is a universe all of its own and for that weekend, you can go ahead and forget you live anywhere else. It's hard to describe. This Fanime was especially awesome, since I was able to present to the world the Mami cosplay I made for Megan. It turned out pretty good! There are some little bits I'd like to touch up on it, but it was really well received - lots of people asked for pictures. It's awesome when a big ring of people would form up and take pictures! The Sunday was especially awesome, as there were a lot of cosplayers at the Madoka Magica meetup. I was at Fanime this year with Ian and the other Shane, and somehow the other Shane was able to set up a private photoshoot (since he has a very nice camera) with a Madoka and Homura cosplayer. Both of them were super awesome, and we took some cool pictures with them and Megan as Mami. We got both of them as friends on Facebook, and more pictures keep getting put up on their walls with them in their costumes. I keep seeing the two in various Fanime galleries that I see around the internet. They both did really good jobs!

I got a bunch of figures from Fanime, like over a dozen. And a case of Ramune! I'm sort of running out of room for figures, but I was advised to look into getting a big display case from Ikea. Apparently that's where Candice got hers, so that could be a good idea! I also have a clapper that I haven't made any use of yet - if the display case had some nice lights I could attach it to that. Would be cool. I also got the new issue of Megami magazine in the mail - it's tricky figuring out what posters I want to keep up and which to take down. It seems like I have all the Madoka posters I have currently up. Pretty much all of the posters in my main room are either Madoka or K-On at the moment. I wasn't able to figure out too many posters to take down, so the poster density in the room may have increased slightly.

Next up, however, is Anime Expo! I'll finally be able to go with Kristen since she wasn't able to come to Fanime. She'll be able to rock the Recette costume, which I hope gets a few pictures. Megan will come too, so she can use the Mami costume some more. I'll need to touch up some parts of it here and there. There are some bits of the boots I want to touch up, as well as a bit of the corset and a lot of the hair. Megan said she was going to go a bit more blonde, so I will need to add that layer of blonde hair to the curls. I'll have a bit more time to make it better, so it'll be cool! Megan said she would get the skirt and the shirt dry cleaned, so I'll let her make those things happen. I haven't really cleaned parts of the costumes I've done before, since I'm afraid they'd just fall apart. I'm not too familiar with what dry cleaning does, but hopefully it'll work alright.

I also acquired a Sony NEX5A camera for taking pictures at AX. Since the other Shane and his nice camera won't be in attendance, I'll need to step it up and take pictures. This camera isn't a huge DSLR, but the quality of pictures is comparable. It makes a legit shutter sound like the DSLRs, has various settings like them, can take lots of pictures very quickly like them, and has interchangeable lenses like them, so it should be a very cool camera. I'm also going to try to put together a Gendo Ikari cosplay for myself for AX, since I was advised that I could pull it off pretty well. It's fairly simple to do. I'll need to find a red turtleneck sweater, which hopefully won't be too hard to find. I'll need to get a jacket to modify - I acquired some shiny green stuff and gold trim that I'll need to do it. I'll also need to get some sweet orange sunglasses and let my beard grow out a little so I can shave it properly. I'll need to shave off the mustache though in order to make it look like Gendo... I really hope I don't look terrible after doing so. I keep it the way it is because I know it works.

Anime Expo will also have the Kalafina and Hatsune Miku concerts, which are the primary reasons that I'm going. Which means that we're probably going to end up waiting in line for a long time. But since I haven't been able to see Kristen in a long time or show her a lot of the new anime series', I acquired an iPad 2 that I'll put a lot of the shows on. We can then watch a bunch while in the line. Getting the iPad has a secondary purpose as well - later down the line I'm going to trade it for the other Shane's iPad 1, and I'll eventually port Mahjong Sky to iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone and stuff. I just need to soon put some focus onto Mahjong Sky like I was putting into the Mami cosplay.

What else... there's an nVidia SC2 tournament that I signed up for. I'm going to need to practice quite a bit to stand a fighting chance. After watching some of the Fanime masquerade skits, I thought of a cool Madoka/Evangelion skit that I'd like to put on. I'd just need to reprise this here Gendo cosplay, Megan as Mami, and get the other 4 Madoka girls and some sort of Kyuubey plushie. And props. It'll be cool though! I ran the idea by Candice and Jonathan and they are both stoked. I think that's all I got for right now.


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