... a local anime convention gets cancelled, so you have to go to one that's farther away and takes place in an inferior hotel/convention center complex :/

Meh, it's still an anime con, so as long as I don't fall victim to bedbugs and mold, I should have fun anyways. Still, why can't this event take place at a decent, name brand hotel?

It's next weekend in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is the largest anime convention I'll be going to this year. If any fellow PCers are also attending the con, let me know!

This, of course, refers to the fact that I debuted my Hanamaru Kunikida (from Love Live Sunshine) cosplay at an anime con this past weekend. The outfit is actually quite warm (it's her winter school uniform) and I might actually have a suitable cosplay for cold-weather photo shoots (as you know, both Leaf and Serena have sleeveless tops; great for summer but not so much when the temps struggle to reach 50 degrees F.) So yeah, I'm pretty excited to have Zuramaru in my cosplay lineup :)
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Not sure how many of you are into AMV's, and probably even fewer are avid fans of this series, but here ya go:



Also, next weekend is KANTAICON in beautiful Charleston/Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina! I'll be spending the weekend at the equally beautiful Quality Inn & Suites Patriots Point :)

I must say that the Get-Together was perfectly timed. If it were a week later, I would be slammed with anime convention preparation. I'm doing two in a row, this weekend and next, which is something I haven't done since 2010, and since one of the cons involved is the beast known as Otakon (30,000+ people last year)...

Didn't care for the Olympic theme, or that teams were forced upon us and that there was little actual teamwork, but I still count it a success since (a) I did more events...