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#301
Nothing but old school / vintage anime cosplay from me.

Friday I was Ryo Saeba along with my wife as Kaori Makimura from City Hunter.  We hosted the Old School Cosplay Gathering (official gathering photos here - https://fanimecon.slickpic.com/albums/FanimeCon-Friday-4pm-7pm/?wallpaper - unofficial photos on the way)  Yes, I know I'm a total idiot when I cosplay as Ryo.

Saturday I was Kiichi Goto along with my wife as Shinobu Nagumo from Mobile Police Patlabor.

Sunday I was Motoki Furuhata along with my wife as Makoto Kino from Sailor Moon. We were also at the awesome Sailor Moon gathering.

Wonderful Fanime this year, all around.
#302
More of a placeholder and a quick posting for those anxious for pictures from the gathering.

Official FanimeCon pictures can be found here -

Tye / Imperal, FanimeCon Friday, 4pm - 7pm Gatherings Gallery -
https://fanimecon.slickpic.com/albums/FanimeCon-Friday-4pm-7pm/?wallpaper
(scroll down to see an awesome set of official pictures from the gathering)

Unofficial photos from your gathering hosts will be up mid-week.  If anyone has pictures from this gathering, please post them in this thread!  During the middle of this week I will begin to assemble a gallery index listing as pictures surface after Fanime wraps up.

Thank you again to all who attended or showed interest in this gathering!
#303
Big thank you to the Yu-Gi-Oh! cosplayers who also came out to the Old School Cosplay Gathering earlier in the day!
#304
Thank you! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU to all who attended or showed interest in this gathering!!

Thank you to the awesome Cosplay Gatherings Department for all the support they provide to allow us to host these gatherings!!!

Unofficial photos from the gathering co-host will be up within the week at facebook.com/mokkoricosplay - when that gallery goes live I will also add it to the first post here, as well as post it on the Facebook event page (although Facebook likes to hide events after they happen).

As other gathering albums surface after con, I will post their links in the first post here as well!

If you have photos from this gathering, PLEASE post a link to your gallery as a reply and I will collect them for a photo index on the first post!

We will absolutely be back for 2018 to host this gathering on Friday evening!!  Bigger and better every year!
#305
Okay old schoolers!!

Just about 24 hours to go until the gathering.  We should be in the gathering area around this time tomorrow, getting checked in at the gathering's table and so forth.  (and probably running props back and forth to the car)

I've updated the second post with some visual aides for those who may be unfamiliar with the new gathering location, Gatherings G2.

See you all tomorrow evening!
#306
Quote from: Love Sign Master Spark on May 25, 2017, 01:03:26 AM
There's an outside chance I'll show for this.  I'm one pair of yellow baggy pants away from having a complete enough Secret of Mana cosplay (it looks like a darker yellow on the spritesheet anyways; this character is so minor I can't find even a fanart reference)

Alternate option is pulling Final Fantasy 8 Laguna out of the closet.

That would be outstanding!
#307
In and out, badges in hand, allergies are far more manageable than last year at this time - Weekend is off to a solid start so far!
#308
Quote from: JaimeKetchum on May 25, 2017, 02:32:03 PM
also if i bring a 2nd cosplay do i need to get props checked when i get my props checked for cosplay im wearing or can i get my prop check when i switch cosplays

You have to be in the cosplay that matches the prop you are having peacebonded.
#309
Registration / Re: Tiny QR code
May 24, 2017, 07:55:24 PM
In the three years they've used QR codes (2014, 2015, and this year) the e-mailed code and the log-in and reprint code have looked different.  Both in 2014 and 2015 I presented the larger original code and had no issue.  Although, as has been said above, I also had the smaller later sent one with me just in case.
#310
Hotel and Facilities / Re: Over night parking?
May 23, 2017, 02:54:48 PM
Quote from: echoshadow on May 23, 2017, 11:06:11 AM
As far as I know the parking garage next to Vons

Ahahaha, SoCal, SoCal, SoCal! *points* Just kidding - I do that whenever my wife says the same.
#311
This isn't an official response by any means, but it seems the answer has always been "All props must be small enough to fit through a standard doorway without effort."

http://www.fanime.com/rules/weapons-policy/

Essentially if you can get through a door smoothly then you should be fine.
#312
Registration / Re: Fan Name Issue?
May 21, 2017, 02:38:41 PM
Quote from: kookiekween99 on May 21, 2017, 11:53:11 AM
My boyfriend also had this issue, and he was able to fix it by taking the apostrophe out of his fan name.

No non-standard characters in my fan name and it's correctly displayed when I log in but I still got the garbage e-mail.  Fanime has confirmed to multiple people (who have generally posted in the unofficial fan group on Facebook) that this was simply an e-mail issue, isn't a problem and a corrected e-mail should be forthcoming.

Moral of the story - test your systems before you unleash them live.
#313
Time for Saturday OPs - the final Saturday OPs of the year! AAAAAHHHHHHhhhh! Seriously though, hope everyone is enjoying their weekend - the calm before the storm.

I will probably make a final rallying post around Wednesday or so, however I do want to make a note, that unofficial photos from the gathering will be posted at Mokkori Cosplay (facebook.com/mokkoricosplay) within a week of the gathering, just like last year. These will be high resolution, non-watermarked, completely untouched photos that you are free to tag, download, put in your cosplay profiles, whatever. This link will also be provided in the Old School Cosplay Gathering thread on the Fanime.com forums.

As Facebook tends to eat event pages from search after an event takes place, you may want to bookmark the event page, follow Mokkori Cosplay, or keep an eye on the Fanime.com forum thread a week or so after the gathering concludes.

On this last Saturday before the con I want to say again to each and every one of you, thank you all so much for your interest in this gathering. If you know of other pre-2001 series cosplayers, please spread the word - let's eventually build this into a 100+ strong attendee gathering into the future.

Celebrating An Era - 1990's! Serial Experiments Lain (1998)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79MN_w0VMPE


Celebrating An Era - 1960's! Osomatsu-kun (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGjzVewfIAU


Celebrating An Era - 1980's! Hokuto no Ken (1984)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s15JKP_TpIY


Picture this, you're NEC and you recently partnered with Hudson Soft to enter the video game industry as a console manufacturer. The release of your console, the PC Engine, has been extremely successful in Japan, finding a massive mainstream audience. Far too much later, you decide to release it in the United States, as the TurboGrafx-16, and you need to choose what the pack-in title will be. How about The Legendary Axe? That's a great game, and would blow away Sega's Altered Beast (the pack-in with the Genesis at the time, which is having abysmal performance in Japan as the Mega Drive). But no no no, how about we rework a licensed anime game, that's rather underwhelming, and release it as Keith Courage in Alpha Zones? ...wait, what?! Yup, here's the anime series that in an indirect way doomed the PC Engine outside of Japan.

Celebrating An Era - 1980's! Mashin Hero Wataru (1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bimWq6_oUcc


Celebrating An Era - 1990's! Kaitou Saint Tail (1995)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZppUBAPT9w


Ah, the black sheep of a humongous franchise. While Macross II isn't terrible or anything, and in my opinion the good does outweigh the bad, at the end of the day it's just kind of boring. But what do I know?

Celebrating An Era - 1990's! The Super Dimension Fortress Macross II: Lovers Again (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ppTY6EmTeE


Celebrating An Era - 1980's! Dragon Ball Z (1989)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHnfX1RmZX8


And one final OP / ED post for this year! As I stated this morning, I will make a final rallying update post both here and on the forums during the middle of next week. Thank you again everyone! I hope to see you all at the gathering on Friday evening!

For the last video, well, I couldn't resist. Amazing to think this was 30 years ago.

Celebrating An Era - 1980's! City Hunter (1987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84GYa28nZcY [ENDING]
#314
Registration / Re: Fan Name Issue?
May 19, 2017, 09:41:03 PM
Quote from: aetherltd on May 19, 2017, 09:34:47 PM
Yes, "Your Fan Name is @@UDF1".

Also, the QR code is really tiny this year.  It's about 1cm printed, 42 pixels square. That may not scan on ordinary barcode scanners.

Please fix all this and resend, or it's going to be LineCon 2017.  Thanks.

Log in and review your registration and it will have the large QR code to print.
#315
Registration / Re: Fan Name Issue?
May 19, 2017, 05:58:34 PM
Quote from: Jae- on May 19, 2017, 05:51:40 PM
Quote from: InsaneDavid on May 19, 2017, 05:37:51 PM
Yup, same thing here - I'd guess whatever is supposed to be populating the e-mail that was just sent out is pointing to the wrong place to grab the data.  No issues when logging in and printing the confirmation directly so I'm not worried about it.

At least no barcode fiasco like last year!!

Just a side note, the QR code from the e-mail they sent vs the QR code viewed directly in the web registration account are different. So if you prefer the website confirmation, I would probably print the e-mail, too, just to be on the safe side.

Update: Support just responded to my inquiry and said they were aware of the problem and that the error is only reflected in the e-mail and not the system.

It has been like that every year since they moved to QR codes.  I always have both in hand but I have always given them the original confirmation (which will be the one if you reprint or request a re-email) and had zero issue.
#316
Registration / Re: Fan Name Issue?
May 19, 2017, 05:37:51 PM
Yup, same thing here - I'd guess whatever is supposed to be populating the e-mail that was just sent out is pointing to the wrong place to grab the data.  No issues when logging in and printing the confirmation directly so I'm not worried about it.

At least no barcode fiasco like last year!!
#317
Good morning old schoolers! Here we are, one week away from the gathering! Before we get going today I do want to make sure and continue to spread the information that if you are planning on staying at a Fanime hotel that you check your reservation and make sure everything is still in tact. There have a been a reasonably large number of cancellations due to the hotels attempting to place an advance charge, especially with the Fairmont. With that out of the way, back to fun stuff.

I'm going to post a bunch more anime OPs today, and then again tomorrow. Immediately after this post goes live the gathering photography order list will be given its final update. If you attended last year then you know I am not a rigid gathering host in any way, so if there is any kind of grouping, pairing, or whatever you would like a picture of, just let me know at the gathering - requests at the end of the photo list are there for that reason! Hosting this gathering is a way for me to give back just a little to the massively diverse fandoms that created the anime industry in the first place.

Well I had another OP to start out with, but pretty much exactly one week from right this moment I will be settling into the Nostalgia Room at Fanime to watch City Hunter, so I'm leading off with something different. I am so stoked that my wife and I decided to cosplay City Hunter on Friday for the Old School Cosplay Gathering. However I've burned through the City Hunter, City Hunter 3, and City Hunter '91 openings, but hey there's still City Hunter 2. City Hunter 2 easily contains some of the most dramatic story arcs in the entire franchise, more or less culminating with episodes 49 and 50 which are, in my opinion anyway, the pinnacle of the more serious side of Ryo and Kaori's adventures as sweepers in Shinjuku. So here we are, kicking off one week until the gathering.

Celebrating An Era - 1980's! City Hunter 2 (1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE2zdDUydCk


Celebrating An Era - 2000! Android Kikaider: The Animation (2000)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6oSVBKLaoo


Celebrating An Era - 1980's! The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkXzHzUIGA


Here's one I've always really liked, as ridiculous as it can be, that not too many people seem to remember anymore. Also features an early David Hayter voice credit in the dub.

Celebrating An Era - 1990's! Moldiver (1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nasofB06is


Celebrating An Era - 1980's! Aura Battler Dunbine (1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3uaqnP7MzQ


Celebrating An Era - 1960's! Skyers 5 (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DppZEqP6aJ8


Celebrating An Era - 1980's! Magical Emi The Magic Star (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jo-xmOfypA


And to close out the evening -

Celebrating An Era - 1990's! El Hazard (1995)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO0kljcs5Cg

See you all in just about exactly one week!
#318
Good morning old schoolers! Here we are, two weeks out until the gathering! How are everyone's plans coming? I need to finish up painting and sealing a prop and do some wig styling but it's all within the timeline. I'll also be expanding the photography order list later today to try and encompass everything I can think of that may involve this massively diverse gathering. As with last year, my wife (then girlfriend) is planned to be the gathering's unofficial photographer - and as with last year, we will get the pictures online within a week of the gathering's conclusion.

Since we're so close to Fanime, I'm going to do rapid fire OPs for today, beginning with a series that was massively important for a franchise to gaining ground in North America, although it's a series in that franchise I personally don't care for all that much.

Celebrating An Era - 1990's! Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (1995)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBqDyAvv-_M


Here's one that most people that are my age (30's) I meet seem to really enjoy, or at least remember. I recall that when it was in syndication as Ronin Warriors, on the leading edge of the anime boom in the USA, it was easily the most "Japanese" of the shows we got and pretty much left intact.

Celebrating An Era - 1980's! Yoroiden Samurai Troopers (1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cw9AR2R-JI


Got to working on a prop and was distracted, here are a few more for today.

Celebrating An Era - 1970's! Ashita no Joe (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Z8gXOxNQQ


Celebrating An Era - 1980's! Space Runaway Ideon (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AaQbPQ2xEg


Celebrating An Era - 1990's! Future GPX Cyber Formula Double One (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BOHVR9aqIQ


Celebrating An Era - 1960's! Jungle Taitei (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgeBFRjWxiU


Celebrating An Era - 1980's! Hundred Beast King Golion (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtYiOSNEV_Y


Celebrating An Era - 1980's! Genesis Climber MOSPEADA (1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_xhAxuUvGE


And one more to close out the evening.

Celebrating An Era - 1990's! Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmCys68ELpg
#319
Quote from: Sora on May 09, 2017, 12:47:28 AM
One Piece or HunterxHunter.

Cool.  Yup, both are good, 1997 and 1998 respectively.
#320
Quote from: Sora on May 08, 2017, 08:40:16 PM
If a series started pre-2001, but is still ongoing today, does it still count as old school?

Yes, the conclusion date or span of duration of which a series ran doesn't matter, it just has to begin before 2001.  A good example is Sazae-san, for instance.  The manga began in 1946 and the TV series that began in 1969 is still running to this day.

What series were you thinking of?