Fandom is a weird disease that you catch like a cold. You don't realize you have it, and once you do, it's already too late. I'm not a big comic person, and even less of an anime person now, unless I know who the person is affliated to what pop culture reference, I'm very much out of the loop.
There were only two times I could say this was true or just very surreal. Seeing Wylie Dufresne, owner of
WD-50, and seeing Sebastian Masuda, founder of
%6 Doki Doki and the
Might Harajuku Project. Attending the Food and Comics panel made me realize how much of a food fanatic I really am. Discovering Masuda had been attending for the sake of attending was beyond surreal.
(Okay, a third surreal thing was meeting a blog reader I had never met in person.)
He apparently also knew about the tiny New York portion Mighty Harajuku Project I helped
organize at Sakura Matsuri! I shouldn't have been surprised, but it was probably still awe-struck seeing him in person.
However that was literally the ending moment of the convention for me. See more pictures of what happened earlier that day.
Note: If you'd like to use these pictures for your own reference, all that I ask is for credit of some kind. No one likes when their stuff is stolen, even if it's a picture.
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Yang Cosplay. Quite a lot of Street Fighter cosplay thanks to giant Capcom booth. |
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Sailor Moon necklaces from Pretty Pop. |
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Just Dance 3 booth. |
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Marvel Booth |
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Scarlet Witch cosplay |
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h. Naoto had a booth but it was way in the back. |
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IGN Theater |
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Simone Legno, Tokidoki creator |
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Giant CiaoCiao at Tokidoki Booth |
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Meet the Maids |
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NYAF Anime Stage area |
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Outside the Javits. |
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Thor and Loki |
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Rin Okumura from Blue Exorcist and Link |
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Geek family that stays together. |
Pictures taken from the "Little Pink House on the Prairie." It was an introduction panel to
natural-kei by Martha from
Moss Garden.
So that was my NYCC 2011 experience, what was yours? Did you have any surreal moments meeting people or seeing things?
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