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Anime North 2000
This was originally written on June 19st, 2000, right after the con ended (well, right after the three hour drive home from Toronto). It was posted to alt.fan.sailor-moon (a USENET newsground and my second home), so some of the stuff is only relevant to people who post there. ::waves to afsmers::
With the influx of posts lately, this will probably get lost in the crowd, but oh well. ^_- It's Andrea's Anime North Report, so everyone will read, right? :P It all started on Friday. My (then) boyfriend Sunil came over at about 12 pm, as Scott and the Ottawa gang were coming at around 1:00. They actually showed up at 12:30, but that was okay, 'cause we got an early start. ^_^ James didn't come in a dress. I was very disappointed (actually, we were teasing him all weekend, poor boy! ^_~). We got to the Hotel around quarter after four. Lauren Michelle was there to greet us along with Rob Fraiser. ^_^ We had a little trouble checking in and registering for the con (-_-;;;; mou...dealer's room ikitai yo...). But it all worked out, and pretty soon we were in the huge line up for the dealer's room (full list of what I bought later). Um...let's see...on Friday, I went to the Sailormoon State of the Union panel. We talked a lot about the new dubbed eps... (>_<). Then I went to the Masquerade vs. Cosplay panel, which was mostly interesting. Then I went to dinner with Sunil to Pizza Pizza. ^^; After that were the fanfic contest awards. I couldn't stay for the whole thing, but I got to hear Scott and Greg read (I got pictures, too!). It was then time for the music videos. I dunno, I found a lot of them boring, but two really stood out! And both were by the same person. AFSM's own Tim Park (okay, he doesn't post much, but he's been lurking here for over three years) made a *hilarious* one in which Kenny of South Park was getting killed to an EVA Death and Rebirth commercial (er, the one to the tune of "Drink Milk Love Life" ^^;;; Gomen, I'm don't know much about classical music). It was entitled Kenny: Death and More Death. ^o^ His other video was to Weird Al's rendition of "One Week" by the Bearnaked Ladies. "Too Much Jerry Springer" or something like that to Sailormoon clips. Hee hee! It got the Judge's "Special Something" award. ^_^ After that, I was tired, so I went to bed. -_-zzzzzz Saturday! I won one of the Anime Name That Tune games! Yay!!! Unfortunately, they didn't have a final for it. ;_; You Don't Know Anime was fun, but one of the questions was just plain wrong. They didn't think Haruka looked anything like Kakeru. O_o;;; Then it was off to the infamous Panel That Would Not Die!!! It was so much fun, like always. In fact, it was so much fun, that I didn't even realise the entire hour had gone by. ^^ But we continued the panel in Ken Wolfe-san's hotel room. Yay! More fun!!! ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ Ooh, I have to do an aside now. Guess who was there!! Tim Nolan!! How exciting is *that*!? He has *the best* Sailormoon fanfiction. I was too afraid to talk to him, though. At least I didn't run away from him, like I did with Greenbeans last year. ^_- Ooh, and John Carp was there, too! Subarashii desu wa!! ^_^ Anyhoo, back on track. I had to go to the masquerade green room for 6:30. I had worn my costume all day. ^^ There were so many CCS characters! At least four Sakura, a Tomoyo, and two Syaoran. ^_^v Now, I was just wearing the natsufuku, but three Sakura were wearing battle costumes. They were *so* good! Especially the girl with the dress from the first OP (pink and frilly). There were a lot of other good costumes, too. There was a *very* *very* well done Galaxia. She's like an expert cosplayer or something. ^^;;; She danced and sang (lip-synched?) to "Galaxia Gorgeous" from Seremyu. It was really well done. I didn't see all the masquerade, though. I had to go to the "Anime's Gay Old Time" panel. It was pretty good. ^_^ *Lots* of people! They showed Kaze to ki no uta beforehand and Zetsuai afterwards. At this point, I hadn't really eaten since breakfast, so I was hungry. ^^ Chris Schack, my friend Craig, Sunil, and I went to Harvey's for a quick bite. Then it was time for the J-pop dance party! Waaa~~~ii!! I had so much fun at the dance party. It was awesome. ^_^ Sunday! Eek! I saw some dubbed Gundamwing (uncut promo video from Bandai). I don't remember what episode numbers, but they were they ones when Heero stole parts from Duo's Gundam and Trowa and Quatre make music together (hee hee hee! Pun!). Even though I'm not crazy about GW (except for the fact that I'm obsessed with GW fanfics), I'm glad I had recently seen these eps subbed. Tenshi ni narumon! is insane. That's all I have to say about that. I went to one more panel, then saw some contest finals (I thought the video game one would never end...). Unfortunately, the closing ceremonies came next. It was all really quite sad. ;_; BTW, does anyone know what the premiere was? I didn't stay long enough to see... Again, probably the best part about the con was meeting people! ^_^ Let's see if I can list all the afsmer's I met (in no specific order, I swear!)...Scott D., James, Tim, Alex, Greg, Lauren Michelle, Rob (he mostly lurks, I think), gbeans, Ysabet (she called me famous O.o;;;;;), Chris, Dave, and probably some other people I'm forgetting. ^^;;;; Gomen, it's just it's 1:16 am, and my brain is a little fried. *_* Hee, I met real life yaoi fans! Wa~~i!! ^_^ I actually met Miko no da and Chichiri no da (they have several yaoi fanfic pages). Funny story here. I had actually met them both over a year ago at Queen's University's anime club, but didn't connect them as the same people. It wasn't until later on that I was like, "ohhhh! God, how could I have been so stupid?" :P I was also sharing a hotel room with yaoi fans. We didn't know each other before, though, so we didn't find this out until later. ^^ We had the best conversation in the van and at the restaurant on the way back to Kingston/Ottawa. They're gonna tell me where I can find some TasukixKouji fics. Hee. :D I think we scared James, though. >_> I have found a mission in life. Well, two, actually. Never do I want to see the Cardcaptors dub, nor do I want to see the SMS dub. Too many horror stories (at the con alone). It won't be too hard, though. Canadians don't get CN or the WB, so no worries. Also, when I go back to school in September, I can't get cable in res, so no Teletoon or YTV. Aw, that's a shame. I think I'm tearing up. Oh, no, wait. It's just an eyelash. :P Okay, stuff I bought!: CCS Cheerio! anime artbook CCS Cheerio! 2 anime artbook CCS Sakura Card series manga artbook (TouyaxYukito!!!!!!) CCS OST 4 CLAMP Campus Detectives VHS box set (^_^) Catbus plushie! Wai wai! Tonari no Totoro no NEKOBASU! ^_^v Sakamoto Maaya Dive CD (Maaya-sama!) Hayashibara Megumi Bertamu CD Pierrot CD (guys who did Haruka... KKJ ED) Geez, is that it? You'd think I'd have more to show for blowing $500. ^^;;; Um, that's about all I can think of at the moment. I'm sure I'm forgetting lots of stuff, though. I'll just add it later when my brain isn't completely gone. -_-;; ~~Andrea Doolan -_-zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
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