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one of them was "blood on fire" by AAA
i was so excited when i heard it  ;D

I WANT GAINAX AGAIN TOO~~
argh, I totally missed them this year.   >:(

i stayed at the marriott
I'd probably give it a 8/10

I really was hoping to check in early before 3, but we didn't get to.  We didn't actually check in until 4 or 4:30 =__= 
But this was my first hotel stay, and even if it wasn't perfect, I had a lot of fun because of my friends.
We had to wait for the elevator quite a bit, even that was fun.  We actually met pretty cool/funny people inside the elevator too while waiting for the elevator to go down floor, by floor starting from the 20 something floor.  And when we didn't feel like waiting for the elevator, we raced each other up and down the stairs.
My friend and I justu stayed up late looking outside our window.  (yea, we're romantics ^__^ )The view from the window at night was soooo beautiful~~
Even though we had to look out on that new building under construction, but it was still nice. *___________*
We swam in the pool at 11 pm at night which was cool~~. But I'm highly suspicious of the water though.  >.>  It was a lot...saltier and murkier than I recall pool waters generally were.  >.<
I also liked that it was connected to the con.  Always a plus.  We got to walk back and forth late at night.
I wouldn't mind staying at marriott again, but I'll probably try hilton next year and see how it goes.

wow
i didn't expect 1000 no kotoba.  that seemed pretty old

man, i really wanna try singing next year instead of just watching
you don't have to actually be good at singing to participate right?  ???

AAA~~~~~~~~~~~~~
they went to otakon, i don't see why they can't come here
heck, it's a shorter distance from japan to here across the pacific
maybe since they're not really popular, they'll be cheaper?  hm...

I'd like to see Ayaka too.  I'd like to hear her perform "Why" from the crisis core ost  :D

As much as I share your view about wanting to be able to cosplay and have people be open minded to it, I'd have to say it's true that cosplay is strange.  Not that strange is a bad thing, but it is strange because it's not what people do on a daily basis.  I think a lot of the time people ridicule and laugh because they're not exposed to it and don't understand it.  I can understand that, but at the same time I'm almost as puzzled as you are.  Like this one time my friend dressed up for school, and my other friend said something along the lines of "That's horrendous, take it off."  I really wondered why she would say that.  Sure she may not have liked it, but what does it matter to her what other people wear?  What did it have anything to do with her?  I figured people who consider themselves "normal" feel that anything "strange" would tip off the balance of their world that they would like to keep normal.  But I'm not sure.  It may be a far-fetched theory for all I know. 

I think some of it has to do with age too.  I get the feeling that it's more acceptable for kids to dress up because people associate 'dressing up' with 'being a kid'.  Like if a 5 year old kid maybe dressed up as nauto, then the responses would be more along the lines of "that's cute" because they'd think kids watching cartoons is approrpiate.

Cosplay isn't that normal in Japan.  Maybe Akihabara, but not everyone is an anime lover in Japan.  I'm sure there's probably as many people in Japan thinking "those teens are weird" as is in America.

I think I know how you feel.  If I could I would totally randomly cosplay anyday I felt like cosplaying.  But I'm not that confident and rather self-conscience though I try not to act it.  I let people's ridicule get to me pretty easily and that would ruin my day even if I was proud of my cosplay.  *sigh* I'd love it if there really was a place where people could cosplay whenever they liked and no one would think much of it.  But you can't change the opinion of or please everyone.  I'm sure there's somethings that you wouldn't agree to and maybe think are weird.  And there's probably people out there complaining about people like you who can't accept their strange interests.  Maybe the main concern is not complete acceptance of everything different, but just polite human behavior and teaching people to show some common courtesy, not rudeness?

i saw someone dress as the Mongoose from Nodame Cantabile.  I never thought I'd see someone do that.  It was WAY too awesome.
Hard Gay and Jesus were cool as well xD

i'd like to request the japanese pokemon opening song 1

as seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBH-sssMFR0

Does anyone know this person?

http://images2.cosplay.com/photos/69/697568.jpg
(picture borrowed from Eurobeat king's gallery ^-^)

I saw him around but didn't get a chance to tell him how cool his outfit was. T_T