Saturday -- Day 2!
It was a really chill day overall today -- not that I really minded much!
I got up slightly earlier than expected and decided to do eyeliner-only for my makeup -- a decision which I definitely don't regret! I was out of the door a bit earlier than expected and parked at Safeway again...which, I now realized afterwards, was a mistake -- the parking lot across the street is cheaper, both on weekdays and weekends! I probably realized this on previous years too but just totally forgot about it. So I'm making (another?) note to myself here that I should park in that lot instead.
Anyhoo, I headed to con and met up with Angela, whom I ended up hanging out with for basically the entire day! :D We ate lunch at this Malaysian place which was not half bad at all, then while I was photographing this Merida cosplayer (yay Merida!) this super random lady came up and said something about the Malaysian food and that we should go again something something she's there something something (????). And she asked us if we were from Malaysia (uhhh, no?), and where we were from (uhh...here?). Very odd. I basically said "okay okay okay sure okay okay whatever" and that was that. Our best guess is that she worked at the place we had just come from and ....saw me there or something? but had left, and then recognized me again on the street from my distinctive costume. ... or something. We were quite confused.
After that we spent a good deal of the day just wandering around and doing random things, including skimming through the dealers hall a bit, and going through the first two rows of artist alley (which I had skipped yesterday). We also spent some time in the gaming hall, where I played some more Tetris, including a pretty good master run where I topped out somewhere in the 800s or 900s and got an M1 (M2?) rank. Nice! We didn't get to play Bishi Bashi, but I did hop onto the 3rd strike machine and beat two other people pretty handily (heheh), despite my execution being pretty off (I'm going to blame the sticks, as fighting game players are prone to....but for good reason, stick differences REALLY do throw you off a lot, especially when it's a different type of gate or stick than you like to use). We also had a run on Beatmania 3 (not IIDX, sadly -- there was no IIDX cab this year due to some issue or another), which was kind of fun.
We spent some time wandering back and forth -- also I ran into a record number of people from MZ today for some reason O_o -- and also at one point stopped by Stage Zero to watch the B&W ball staff perform some random dance stuff (we said hi to Russell at this point too). After that we plopped ourselves down on the floor to the right of stage zero where I sprawled out my dress (every year I try and make some time to just sit on the floor with my dress laid out in a circle), and we chatted, people-watched, and had people take photos of me. Jeremy also said hi to us at this point, having just made it into the final bracket for smash 4 (go Jeremy!), though he would end up getting knocked out thereafter.
We met up with Nate and he wanted to check out the tail end of the AMV contest, so we went into that and got to see the last few, which were on the comedy side. We split off from Nate and I met up with Lann, Alex and co in the Gaming Hall, got a photo and chatted a bit, and then it was time to start thinking about dinner! We briefly said hi to the RWBY cosplay group before venturing off on our own to dinner...which we decided to get at Safeway! It was not only convenient since it was right where I had parked, but also ended up being pretty tasty too -- I got myself a toasted sandwich with salami, cheese, veggies, and pepperoncinis -- which I had literally the hardest time communicating to the guy on the other side of the counter, "pepperoncinis" partly because this was the first time I realized how that word was actually spelled (seems that it's also spelled "peperoncino" sometimes too!), and partly because the other guy thought I was talking about pepperjack cheese or something. I also didn't realize he was going to ask whether he should toast it and then ask for toppings afterwards. The end result was that he eventually understood what I wanted but put the pepperoncinis (peperoncinos?) on before he toasted the sandwich, which was...I guess unusual. Communication is hard, lol. Fortunately the sandwich tasted great anyways, and I got to pair it with a Naked juice smoothie -- my favorite treat, Orange Mango! (which I still have not seen a large size of....)
That was it for Fanime today! After that we drove off to the Art Boutiki where Aivi & Surasshu were going to perform. Turns out we were wayyyy early and nobody else was there and they weren't ready to start checking people in either, so we just hung out outside at some tables and ate our dinner while chatting some more. We went in, waited around, and surprise -- ran into Vu and Rose, who were there for the concert too! We caught up a bunch, chatted, and then enjoyed the concert, which opened up with Noah Hafford (very fun, good stage energy), Omniboy (great music, pretty progressive sound, but also really hit the spot with some sweet rhythms and stabs and such), and Slime Girls (I wasn't as big of a fan, but they seemed fun!). And then it was onto our beloved Aivi & Surasshu (whom I had gotten to say hi to earlier before they went on)!
Aivisura had a great set and I was so happy for their performance! They played a handful of stuff, including Lonely Rolling Star (ahhhhh!! *squeal*), Here's How! (very fun, very groovy, a song that I didn't realize was so great to listen to while standing up), a cover of Yuri on Ice (which holy crap, gave me chills -- just...the emotion...wow), a song from their new album (so cool!), and a final song from Steven Universe for all the SU fans. Lonely Rolling Star (I keep typing "Love Everlasting", haha) was great as always...the song from their new album was super interesting and you can tell that their musical style has really developed since The Black Box and all the work they've done for SU. And they really did great in terms of performance this time too! It was super fun and surasshu's jammin was less awkward-adorable and more just plain fun and awesome :D The highlight was Yuri on Ice though, wow, I really felt that in a big way. I haven't even seen most of the anime, and have only heard that song like once before, but man...
And that was it! I stayed behind for a bit to say hi to aivisura, give them my shiny new business cards, as well as two special ones with the Love Everlasting art on them. It really makes me happy to know that they are still thankful for Love Everlasting, but even more happy to see them still making great things that I can connect with, as a musical artist. It made me smile, too, to see another fan telling them that their music helped bring him through difficult times in his life. Looks like I'm not the only one, heh.
Photos from today:
That's it for today!
As for tomorrow...I didn't get contacted regarding speed dating so I'm assuming that's off the menu (shrug...). First things first, I gotta get up and drive all the way over to SF in the morning to play chauffeur for some people (zzzzzz). But then I'll be relatively free for the rest of the day -- technically I'm supposed to have more private instruction time from 12:30-1:30 at the B&W ball place but I'm not even too concerned about that to be honest, I might just let them know I had my share already. B&W ball itself is tomorrow night, but aside from that I'm mainly just hoping to hang out with Lann, finally get to play Melee with Eddie, hang out at con for the last day that I can, and play some more games of TGM3.
Things have been pretty good so far. Let's keep it up!
Sunday, May 28, 2017
Fanime 2017 Day 2 - Hanging Out
Dragon Maid. I don't know anything about Dragon Maid, but this costume was so pretty, wah!
A random assortment of characters, lol!
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