July 6th, 2015
Anime Expo 2015 (First time)
Anime Relations: Umineko no Naku Koro ni, Little Busters!, Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu, Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works 2nd Season
Okay first off I would just like to say that I had tons of fun, even during the times that I was waiting in long lines, and what not didn't feel boring. Also the main purpose of this is so I can remember the event better, my spelling and grammar is quite bad and I haven't edited it at all.
Okay day 1 lucky for me the time zones really helped me out, 2 hours going back into time is very helpful, because of that I was able to land in the airport fairly early in the morning, we (my bro and I) just took the train straight to the con from the airport, I packed light. When I got there we waited in the badge line, it was so short I was just really stunned.... but then... wtf is that line over there for? We see this massive confusing poorly constructed thing that resembles a line? We wait in it for quite some time... I played smash 4 with some people so the time flew by very fast but about 2 hours into it we notice strange things, well the line at first glance was kind of strange.... Once we got close to the door we noticed something very odd, all these fucking cutter lines where just sticking into the main line like it was some sort of delta or tree roots. so the people we were waiting with went off to find a better place to go and wait.... luckily they came back and got us when they were almost at the door, The badge pickup with really super fast so why was it a train wreck getting in? well it looked like there was like 1 fucking door opened... finally after awhile they opened more and people started to cheer lol, I saw tons of people just randomly sneak in, it was like assassins creed, if the guard saw you all you had to do was pretend to be apart of some near by crowd lol, of course even if the sneaker got caught while inside they simple just had to blend in with the indoors crowd. so once we got in, it was only around noon, so first thing was first I go to the dealers room (or exhibit hall is what they call it) I go straight to the key booth and buy rindou na-ga's artbook I got number 4. After that I headed over to manga gamers booth to see how I get ryukishi's signguture they said all I had to do was buy $30 of stuff to get a ticket, and I was thinking, wow.... really? I looked around most of the ryukishi stuff they were selling I already owned or was higurashi which I am waiting for the newer releases of that, so I just randomly bought ef a fairy tail of the two, it looks pretty nice, I wasn't really planning on buying it and it was well over 30 but I thought heck why not? so they give me a ticket and I was just thinking, wow that is it? Bam? I have his signature? (I got ticket number 26 (or around there)) So after that the last booth I wanted to visit was the sekai project booth, They said they were selling some garisia poster or something so I went there but they were already sold out. oh well that was the lowest priority. Then I messed around just doing pointless shit for awhile until it was time for the good smile panel. They talked about how they make the figures and showed some nendoroids it was very interesting. Then THEY SHOWED PROTOTYPE MM NENDOROID LINK ! That was pretty hype as somebody who loves zelda and nendoroids, I had known they hadn't shown it before so I was super excited. They also said there will be more female fan type character (male nendoroids) After that my bro wanted to go to the ann panel so I felt since I dragged him all over the place that isn't much to ask. After that we just ate, found the subway and went to the hotel, The hotel we were staying at wasn't super close cause we planned sort of late, but it was a nice place, too hipster for me but still nice. So we go to sleep there is like a shit ton of random noise, the damn fire alarm went off like 3 times during the night, many fireworks were being shot off 2-3 woke me, and sirens 4-5... I didn't sleep worth shit that night.
Day 2
Since we didn't come super early and had to pickup our badge and what not on day 1, I had to get Itarus signature on day 2. Since we didn't sleep well at all we woke up super ultra early, plus cause we are from texas, waking up at 4 is only really waking up at 6, so we got up really early but my bro didn't want to go super early so we sort of messed around and ate and what not, then we went and got there around 6:45 (I think?(we could have gotten there way earlier though)) and wait in line, the line was really long so I was a bit worried I would not get the ticket...... I found another guy to play smash against, so the time burned by pretty fast, we had fun doing Gannon dittos, I always love those. My bro waited in line with me I told him he didn't have to but he did anyways... he was going to try to get the spice and wolf person's signature. Then we get there, they ask you to know you time of the session to keep the line moving, I walk tell them the time, grab my ticket look at the number.......... 75!!!!!!!!!!!!! My heart sort of skipped a beat or something lol. Then my bro walks up to me and I told him I got the last ticket, and he said no you didn't I did.... ?????? He had ticket 30 something it was ripped though, he told me they ripped one by accident and weren't going to use it but ended up using it anyways. He then told me he didn't want to hold up the line cause he didn't know what time the spice and wolf person was at so he said the same thing as me because he heard me say that I had the last ticket, so he thought he wouldn't get one... I still kind of wonder why he just didn't say a random time and say oops wrong time... lol I would of done that! I am an asshole though. So then after that it is only a little pass 8:30 or so.... we are just kind of messing around not doing anything and we are just sort of chilling by this side door of the exhibit hall and I see some people going in, so I just sort of assume they are dealer or whatever, so since I was bored or whatever I asked the guard guy "you won't let me in yet?" and he replies, "no you're cool you got the 4 day pass..." I am like ??????? <walks in> the hall was basically empty.... There was only really staff, nothing was open or anything so we just hang out for awhile, I actually left before the thing even opened lol was in there for about 40 mins tho. My bro stayed in there because I told him since he had a signature ticket he should try to get the white clover art book so he has something to get signed. So I leave to go to the fate/stay panel, it wasn't bad but I will just say it got overshadowed by the Day 3 ticketed event, I will say one thing about it though, at the end, they gave out some stuff and had the crowd play rock paper scissors I saw this one guy that was ultra cheating lol. Also as far as questions go, there is always those people who ask those fail "can you announce or give us details on anything you haven't or can't announced yet?" Type question lol. So after I got out of that I check on my bro he said he got the book so he brought it we waited in line for the Itaru autograph, and really for me it was a pretty fun line waiting with all of the key fans, I even met somebody I knew online, I didn't figure it out until later though. She signed my little busters ME here There wasn't much to do after that, my bro wanted to go to a panel but we just dicked around too much and at the end got lost cause it was in some weird room (workshop room?) so we just gave up and went back really early and slept around 5 or 6 lol (which is like 7 or 8 for us still early but no THAT early). Before we left we did stop by the parasyte promo stall we got a picture with this bozo dressed up as a parasyte and they gave us a free icy treat. During the night we slept pretty well it wasn't hardly noisy at all the other nights.
Day 3
On this day we just had to get there at 9:45 for the itaru's panel, we got in line early cause why not? The panel had me very excited, we were also surprised that ryukishi randomly showed up to that panel because he was a fan of key as well, he made it a lot more entertaining, Itaru seems quite shy so his liveliness was welcomed. She drew a picture of nagisa from clannad, for more detail see this. (skip to day 3 for the event, you might as well read it all if you are a key fan though.) After that there is a huge gap of time but I don't remember what I did lol. Next thing I remeber was I went to the ticketed fate/stay night event. They gave us as we entered this picture of saber, it was made just for this event, pretty cool if you ask me. The fate/stay night even was tons of fun, I enjoyed the 3 songs by Mashiro Ayano, the production staffs QA (it was picked questions so it wasn't crap like the usual Q&A) the live drawing and the closing songs were great too, I won't go into much detail if you want the news go here. I was very impressed with the whole thing, I would say as raw quality it was the best event I went to. After that we were going to go to the sekai project and manga gamer panels but I lost track of time, because I used my DS's clock which was still in old timezone lol. I still got there 30 mins early about but it filled up because they put it in a small panel room for some dumb reason.
Day 4
Honestly that whole day all I did was wait in line for ryukishi's, and ryukishi's panel and go back home, I again had so much fun just waiting in line with all the ryukishi fans to talk to. The first line was for signing, really I didn't have to wait much once he started, because I was so far up in the line. I got the PC epi 8 of umineko signed by him. The second line I waited in was for his panel. While in line I asked somebody about the manga gamer panel I missed and they said they announced umineko, I believe the releases will be like the current higurashi one coming out and it will use WH's TL. Then his panel started, it was great he is a very fun and he is a very energetic person. I got really close seats to him, 2nd to the front row in the middle. You can find more details here.
Well that is all, it is a lot to read if you click all the links lol. here is all the loot I got
Its hard to see in this picture cause it is small but I got the Little Busters signed and the Umineko signed I brought them.
Oh yeah at some point my bro didn't really want the signed white clover so I just bought it from him lol. I am sure there is poor grammar and misspelled words all over the place I don't really care, but if you can't understand something I'll fix it.
Links
Itaru panel https://forum.kazamatsuri.org/t/anime-expo-2015/1269/60
Fate/stay event https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/3c67fc/my_summary_of_the_fsn_special_event_at_ax_2015/
ryukishi panel https://seaoffragments.wordpress.com/2015/07/07/anime-expo-2015-panel-the-world-of-ryukishi07/#more-304
Okay day 1 lucky for me the time zones really helped me out, 2 hours going back into time is very helpful, because of that I was able to land in the airport fairly early in the morning, we (my bro and I) just took the train straight to the con from the airport, I packed light. When I got there we waited in the badge line, it was so short I was just really stunned.... but then... wtf is that line over there for? We see this massive confusing poorly constructed thing that resembles a line? We wait in it for quite some time... I played smash 4 with some people so the time flew by very fast but about 2 hours into it we notice strange things, well the line at first glance was kind of strange.... Once we got close to the door we noticed something very odd, all these fucking cutter lines where just sticking into the main line like it was some sort of delta or tree roots. so the people we were waiting with went off to find a better place to go and wait.... luckily they came back and got us when they were almost at the door, The badge pickup with really super fast so why was it a train wreck getting in? well it looked like there was like 1 fucking door opened... finally after awhile they opened more and people started to cheer lol, I saw tons of people just randomly sneak in, it was like assassins creed, if the guard saw you all you had to do was pretend to be apart of some near by crowd lol, of course even if the sneaker got caught while inside they simple just had to blend in with the indoors crowd. so once we got in, it was only around noon, so first thing was first I go to the dealers room (or exhibit hall is what they call it) I go straight to the key booth and buy rindou na-ga's artbook I got number 4. After that I headed over to manga gamers booth to see how I get ryukishi's signguture they said all I had to do was buy $30 of stuff to get a ticket, and I was thinking, wow.... really? I looked around most of the ryukishi stuff they were selling I already owned or was higurashi which I am waiting for the newer releases of that, so I just randomly bought ef a fairy tail of the two, it looks pretty nice, I wasn't really planning on buying it and it was well over 30 but I thought heck why not? so they give me a ticket and I was just thinking, wow that is it? Bam? I have his signature? (I got ticket number 26 (or around there)) So after that the last booth I wanted to visit was the sekai project booth, They said they were selling some garisia poster or something so I went there but they were already sold out. oh well that was the lowest priority. Then I messed around just doing pointless shit for awhile until it was time for the good smile panel. They talked about how they make the figures and showed some nendoroids it was very interesting. Then THEY SHOWED PROTOTYPE MM NENDOROID LINK ! That was pretty hype as somebody who loves zelda and nendoroids, I had known they hadn't shown it before so I was super excited. They also said there will be more female fan type character (male nendoroids) After that my bro wanted to go to the ann panel so I felt since I dragged him all over the place that isn't much to ask. After that we just ate, found the subway and went to the hotel, The hotel we were staying at wasn't super close cause we planned sort of late, but it was a nice place, too hipster for me but still nice. So we go to sleep there is like a shit ton of random noise, the damn fire alarm went off like 3 times during the night, many fireworks were being shot off 2-3 woke me, and sirens 4-5... I didn't sleep worth shit that night.
Day 2
Since we didn't come super early and had to pickup our badge and what not on day 1, I had to get Itarus signature on day 2. Since we didn't sleep well at all we woke up super ultra early, plus cause we are from texas, waking up at 4 is only really waking up at 6, so we got up really early but my bro didn't want to go super early so we sort of messed around and ate and what not, then we went and got there around 6:45 (I think?(we could have gotten there way earlier though)) and wait in line, the line was really long so I was a bit worried I would not get the ticket...... I found another guy to play smash against, so the time burned by pretty fast, we had fun doing Gannon dittos, I always love those. My bro waited in line with me I told him he didn't have to but he did anyways... he was going to try to get the spice and wolf person's signature. Then we get there, they ask you to know you time of the session to keep the line moving, I walk tell them the time, grab my ticket look at the number.......... 75!!!!!!!!!!!!! My heart sort of skipped a beat or something lol. Then my bro walks up to me and I told him I got the last ticket, and he said no you didn't I did.... ?????? He had ticket 30 something it was ripped though, he told me they ripped one by accident and weren't going to use it but ended up using it anyways. He then told me he didn't want to hold up the line cause he didn't know what time the spice and wolf person was at so he said the same thing as me because he heard me say that I had the last ticket, so he thought he wouldn't get one... I still kind of wonder why he just didn't say a random time and say oops wrong time... lol I would of done that! I am an asshole though. So then after that it is only a little pass 8:30 or so.... we are just kind of messing around not doing anything and we are just sort of chilling by this side door of the exhibit hall and I see some people going in, so I just sort of assume they are dealer or whatever, so since I was bored or whatever I asked the guard guy "you won't let me in yet?" and he replies, "no you're cool you got the 4 day pass..." I am like ??????? <walks in> the hall was basically empty.... There was only really staff, nothing was open or anything so we just hang out for awhile, I actually left before the thing even opened lol was in there for about 40 mins tho. My bro stayed in there because I told him since he had a signature ticket he should try to get the white clover art book so he has something to get signed. So I leave to go to the fate/stay panel, it wasn't bad but I will just say it got overshadowed by the Day 3 ticketed event, I will say one thing about it though, at the end, they gave out some stuff and had the crowd play rock paper scissors I saw this one guy that was ultra cheating lol. Also as far as questions go, there is always those people who ask those fail "can you announce or give us details on anything you haven't or can't announced yet?" Type question lol. So after I got out of that I check on my bro he said he got the book so he brought it we waited in line for the Itaru autograph, and really for me it was a pretty fun line waiting with all of the key fans, I even met somebody I knew online, I didn't figure it out until later though. She signed my little busters ME here There wasn't much to do after that, my bro wanted to go to a panel but we just dicked around too much and at the end got lost cause it was in some weird room (workshop room?) so we just gave up and went back really early and slept around 5 or 6 lol (which is like 7 or 8 for us still early but no THAT early). Before we left we did stop by the parasyte promo stall we got a picture with this bozo dressed up as a parasyte and they gave us a free icy treat. During the night we slept pretty well it wasn't hardly noisy at all the other nights.
Day 3
On this day we just had to get there at 9:45 for the itaru's panel, we got in line early cause why not? The panel had me very excited, we were also surprised that ryukishi randomly showed up to that panel because he was a fan of key as well, he made it a lot more entertaining, Itaru seems quite shy so his liveliness was welcomed. She drew a picture of nagisa from clannad, for more detail see this. (skip to day 3 for the event, you might as well read it all if you are a key fan though.) After that there is a huge gap of time but I don't remember what I did lol. Next thing I remeber was I went to the ticketed fate/stay night event. They gave us as we entered this picture of saber, it was made just for this event, pretty cool if you ask me. The fate/stay night even was tons of fun, I enjoyed the 3 songs by Mashiro Ayano, the production staffs QA (it was picked questions so it wasn't crap like the usual Q&A) the live drawing and the closing songs were great too, I won't go into much detail if you want the news go here. I was very impressed with the whole thing, I would say as raw quality it was the best event I went to. After that we were going to go to the sekai project and manga gamer panels but I lost track of time, because I used my DS's clock which was still in old timezone lol. I still got there 30 mins early about but it filled up because they put it in a small panel room for some dumb reason.
Day 4
Honestly that whole day all I did was wait in line for ryukishi's, and ryukishi's panel and go back home, I again had so much fun just waiting in line with all the ryukishi fans to talk to. The first line was for signing, really I didn't have to wait much once he started, because I was so far up in the line. I got the PC epi 8 of umineko signed by him. The second line I waited in was for his panel. While in line I asked somebody about the manga gamer panel I missed and they said they announced umineko, I believe the releases will be like the current higurashi one coming out and it will use WH's TL. Then his panel started, it was great he is a very fun and he is a very energetic person. I got really close seats to him, 2nd to the front row in the middle. You can find more details here.
Well that is all, it is a lot to read if you click all the links lol. here is all the loot I got
Its hard to see in this picture cause it is small but I got the Little Busters signed and the Umineko signed I brought them.
Oh yeah at some point my bro didn't really want the signed white clover so I just bought it from him lol. I am sure there is poor grammar and misspelled words all over the place I don't really care, but if you can't understand something I'll fix it.
Links
Itaru panel https://forum.kazamatsuri.org/t/anime-expo-2015/1269/60
Fate/stay event https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/3c67fc/my_summary_of_the_fsn_special_event_at_ax_2015/
ryukishi panel https://seaoffragments.wordpress.com/2015/07/07/anime-expo-2015-panel-the-world-of-ryukishi07/#more-304
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