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I'll bring my 360 to Fanime and we can all challenge eachother as the characters we're cosplaying as! : D

So that means you'll cosplay as Kasumi and use her when we play DOA4, I'll use Jann Lee, ChibiSerenachan will use Lei Fang, and Imari-chan will use Hitomi. :)  I wonder between the 4 of us who would get the most # of wins?  :wink:

BTW, Eurobeat King, who'd ya cosplay? I'm not sure if I took a pic of ya....

I wore Jann Lee on Friday afternoon/evening for the small DOA gathering (you saw the pics I took with ChibiSerenachan, and Ayumi) and Saturday (and briefly on Sunday) I wore my Ryosuke Takahashi w/ the FC3S (from Initial D)  Saturday night I teamed up with some guys I met last year who had their "shopping cart" Initial D cars, so this year we had an Initial D gathering (3 shopping cart cars & my foam-board cat) and raced around the SJCC for a while.   8)

Anyone else as excited as I am for DOA4 to come out? ^^ I bet we'll have more people wanting to cosplay once they see the awesomeness of the new game.

I can't wait either!  :o   I hope you are planning to get it so we can play against each other online: Jann Lee vs. Kasumi!  8)  It kinda sucks though that even though the Xbox 360 comes out November 22nd, DOA4 may get delayed until maybe Xmas or later..  :?

Melicat: I promise to take a pictures with you, since we didn't take this year..  :(  So Fanime2006 we shall. :)

Ryu: hehe okay.. I only saw "Angel Cop" via the fan-subbed tape I bought at a con back in 1998.  Not a bad deal to get all 6 episodes on one tape.

For you old-school fans, one of the bloodiest/goriest anime ever was "Megazone 23 Part 2" (1984) I remember watching it in 1987 (the decent dubbed version was the only one available at the time) and it was pretty shocking.  Aside from the sex-scenes (the rare Japanese print is even more explicit) the one gory scene was when the Earth military fleet was sent to fight an invading alien race called the Gorg(?) and even though the fleet had fast ships and cool mecha, they were no match for the aliens.  The command ship was about to fire their main cannon when the aliens used a weapon that infiltrated the bridge and the crewmembers were torn apart by these tentacle-things.  Lots of blood, limbs being torn off, faces ripped in half.. *shudder* It was pretty intense for its time..  :twisted:

During that time of anime, I also recall the Macross movie "Do You Remember Love?" had some gory scenes involving a point-blank-range shot (Max shooting a Zentradi), Myria stomping & crushing the face of a Zentradi, and a human gets decapitated by a falling column.. hehe

Also, "Angel Cop" and "Mad Bull" were extremely graphic in violence.  (Not sure if "Angel Cop" was ever released domestically.)  Besides "Ninja Scroll", the director's previous anime "Wicked City" was pretty graphic too.  :twisted:

I promise to:

-Take more pictures at Fanimecon 2006 : More pictures than at any of the previous 12 Fanimecon's I've attended.  8)
-Cosplay less so that I am able to take more pictures. ;)

That's all that I can think of for now..

My DOA beach Volley Ball Kasumi 1P is still in the drawer somewhere...

Did you ever wear your DOAX Kasumi to Fanime 2005?  You should try to make it out to AnimeExpo since the DOAX (and also DOA) gathering is always a hit on that Sunday morning they have it. ;)  Well, if there's a gathering at Fanime 2006 I'll try to make it to take pictures, since I won't cosplay as DOAX Jann Lee again.. hehehe


Imari-chan: Yayyy! We get to take DOA pictures together as Hitomi & Jann Lee (finally!) at Fanime 2006! :)

heehee okies! as long as the dress doesn't shrink on me between now and fanime it will be allllll ggooooooooooood ahahahah i had fun last time >^.^<

Fanime's still a ways to go, so please take care of that dress (and yourself) until the con arrives. :)  We'll besure to take fighting-poses this time, and I don't mean just the co-operation pictures but the actual ones where we're FIGHTING each other. ;)  After all, J-Lee & L-Fang are rivals.. haha

Melicat: I look forward to cosplaying with you next year! :)

ChibiSerenachan: I hope you wear your LeiFang again so we can take some pair pics together as L-Fang & J-Lee.  8)

Moogleborg: Thanks for liking the pictures!  It's tough when you cosplay & organize gatherings, as you are committed to doing that and you miss cosplayers if you're trying to get their picture.  (For the DOA gathering at AX, I missed 3 other different gatherings ah the same time..)  :oops:  But for Fanimecon next year I probably won't cosplay save for DOA, so that'll let me concentrate on taking more pictures during the weekend. :)

Hey everyone,

I'm new to the forums here since I mainly post on cosplay.com (I'm a moderator there) and I've been organizing the Dead or Alive gatherings in 2005 at cons like AnimeOverdose, Fanimecon, AnimeExpo, Otakon, Nan Desu Kan, and AniMagic.  So I've taken my share of pictures, and had fun cosplaying as Jann Lee alongside a lot of DOA cosplayers throughout the US.  For Fanimecon, here's a few pictures:

http://images.cosplay.com/showphoto.php?photo=349484
http://images.cosplay.com/showphoto.php?photo=349488
Me and ChibiSerenaChan as Lei Fang

http://images.cosplay.com/showphoto.php?photo=349946
http://images.cosplay.com/showphoto.php?photo=349948
Me and my friend Mike as Hayabusa from Ninja Gaiden

http://images.cosplay.com/showphoto.php?photo=351258
Me, Ayumi as Ayane & Ayumi's sister as Hitomi

http://images.cosplay.com/showphoto.php?photo=396788
http://images.cosplay.com/showphoto.php?photo=396786
The awesome DOA gathering at AnimeExpo 2005

http://images.cosplay.com/showphoto.php?photo=493818
http://images.cosplay.com/showphoto.php?photo=493834
The DOA gathering this past weekend at Animagic 2005

If I cosplay Jann Lee again at Fanimecon, it might be a different one than the one I've worn this year, but I'll see what costumes he wears in DOA4 and see if I'll make a new one or just stick to my costume #1 version.

I'll make the thread on cosplay.com for it when Fanimecon draws closer, since there's still lots of time to plan the gathering, but I'll probably be in the one at Fanimecon 2006. :)