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Xellos update 2.
May. 23rd, 2009 02:39 amWell. I guess now I have the "real" cosplaying experience: staying up late the night before the big day to finish the costume? D:
I wish the tea cozy had turned out right in more ways. For what it is, it looks really good. But it's too short (even though I patterned the length so meticulously), the yellow is uneven, the red rectangles are jaggedy and different sizes (just like in the anime! 9_9), and the pieces don't join quite right. I've put a buttload of work into it, so if those things had worked out, it would have been so awesome. For my level of skill, it's on the high end of what one would expect, so I'm not going to bemoan it too much. It's just too bad.
Fanime today was surprisingly good. I hit not one but two excellent panels (one on how the industry takes manga from Japanese tankoubon to in-store graphic novel and one on amazingly bad J-music videos), did some good scouting work in the dealer's room (which I will undoubtedly go through again tomorrow with my sister), and got to see some good AMVs. No Slayers characters were sighted, sadly, and we do not get a scheduled gathering. And I missed the Ouran gathering, damnit! I mean, all Ouran people look the same anyway except with different hair colors, but still. (Though there was a Hani in a karate gi walking around with a black-haired Ouran guy, and it took me a long time to figure out who he was.)
I guess there are enough good series out there now -- or more series generally known to American fans -- so there's no longer the one series from which there are just too many people. I remember when it was Trigun, Fullmetal Alchemist, Advent Children. This year I see them all, but all in moderate numbers. But it's too bad Slayers isn't one of those old series that are still hanging around -- like Ranma and Sailor Moon. I am too young to even know how those relate to each other timewise -- maybe Slayers is way older? -- but I'd like to think it's just because the Slayers costumes are a little harder to put together than a red gi or even a sailor fuku. Anyway, I will represent!
Okay, I should go to bed now. Tomorrow will be a loooooong day. And I suspect the shoes will kill me and Sunday will see a Xellos with white shoes instead of white gloves. But it will be good while it lasts...
I wish the tea cozy had turned out right in more ways. For what it is, it looks really good. But it's too short (even though I patterned the length so meticulously), the yellow is uneven, the red rectangles are jaggedy and different sizes (just like in the anime! 9_9), and the pieces don't join quite right. I've put a buttload of work into it, so if those things had worked out, it would have been so awesome. For my level of skill, it's on the high end of what one would expect, so I'm not going to bemoan it too much. It's just too bad.
Fanime today was surprisingly good. I hit not one but two excellent panels (one on how the industry takes manga from Japanese tankoubon to in-store graphic novel and one on amazingly bad J-music videos), did some good scouting work in the dealer's room (which I will undoubtedly go through again tomorrow with my sister), and got to see some good AMVs. No Slayers characters were sighted, sadly, and we do not get a scheduled gathering. And I missed the Ouran gathering, damnit! I mean, all Ouran people look the same anyway except with different hair colors, but still. (Though there was a Hani in a karate gi walking around with a black-haired Ouran guy, and it took me a long time to figure out who he was.)
I guess there are enough good series out there now -- or more series generally known to American fans -- so there's no longer the one series from which there are just too many people. I remember when it was Trigun, Fullmetal Alchemist, Advent Children. This year I see them all, but all in moderate numbers. But it's too bad Slayers isn't one of those old series that are still hanging around -- like Ranma and Sailor Moon. I am too young to even know how those relate to each other timewise -- maybe Slayers is way older? -- but I'd like to think it's just because the Slayers costumes are a little harder to put together than a red gi or even a sailor fuku. Anyway, I will represent!
Okay, I should go to bed now. Tomorrow will be a loooooong day. And I suspect the shoes will kill me and Sunday will see a Xellos with white shoes instead of white gloves. But it will be good while it lasts...
