Anime Con

Ach! Long time, no post!! Sorry about that. >///< Well, the Kaito Append has finally been released! Yay! But that's not what I want to talk about right now. What I want to talk about is the amazing world of Anime Cons. I've only been to one, and that was last August, so I'm still pretty new to this whole concept, but when I was there, I noticed something. It seemed like every booth I went to did not have one item that was not overpriced! It honestly was driving me crazy. I went with a little less than $100 in my pocket ( I wish I could say I still had that money today.....) and left with two items and about $3 left. Crazy, right? But, even though it was overpriced, it was still fun. There are tons of people walking around dressed as characters you've never seen before and a lot of them are very friendly and don't mind walking up to you, a complete stranger, and holding a full conversation. Now, I made the mistake of going as a Pikachu and had about 4 people dressed as trainers throw PokeBalls at me and one person even stopped me for a PokeBattle (staged for a picture of course.) Its very easy to feel as though too much just got thrown at you at once, but once you get over the initial shock, it really is a lot of fun! I decided that when I go this year, I will take a safer (and cheaper) route in costume by making my own Ishizu Istar (from Yu-Gi-Oh) costume and being a veiled priestess instead of a small animal prone to have things thrown at it. Oh well, I guess it really is a pitiful life of an obsessive otaku~

Vocaloid Rantation

As an otaku that goes a little, oh who am I kidding, a lot over the edge when it comes to anything even baring the smallest trace of anime, I can be very particular. There are small things that annoy me to no end that wouldn't annoy most anime lovers. One of these pet peeves was that I love music (I mean, who doesn't?) and anime theme music was always the best in my eyes, but I also love musicals, like the ones Disney has to offer. I had been wondering for what felt like forever if there were any anime musicals that I would just fall in love with. I searched, but to no avail. I had heard about Vocaloid and looked them up, thinking it was an anime, and became thoroughly confused when all I got were music videos and no actual episodes. Well, when something confuses me, I tend to become curious; so I looked up this thing called "Vocaloid" and with the help of the amazingness known as Google (with some help from Wikipedia as well) I soon had learned almost everything I could about Vocaloid. After listening to a few of their songs, I fell in love. This was what I had been looking for! I soon became obsessed (like I do with every new anime) and filled a folder with all of my favorite pictures. I mean, what can I say? I was head over heels for this program and I still am. I downloaded a MikuMiku Dance software and began teaching myself to master it, and even considered making a Miku Desktop Buddy Application. I know, I go crazy over these sort of things. But hey, it's a pitiful life of a insane otaku!