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Gift from Anime Expo 2008 – Aina Kase & Cy-Rim rev. Live at Anime Expo 2008 (20080706)

dovac — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:39:27 +0000

A little gift from AX, turns out a friend of mine got the last Circus concert recorded.

The audio quality isn’t the best but its well worth it.

Anyways you can spot me in at 6:30 in the black Da Capo t-shirt doing part of the wotagei

OTL

Anyways enough talk, you can download the torrent. Poke me on irc if you know where to find me, I have it on my web server as well but its 800mb, and I don’t want the url to be shared.

Looking back at Anime Expo 2008

dovac — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:04:24 +0000

It was one of the better years. Some nice news about various things, but I wont be covering it since there’s other sites that do a much better job then I do.

Some people knew that I was working for hendane this year. Instead of being a con attendee, I was doing sales to people who were unfamiliar with doujin games and eroges. The nice thing about it is that I was able to help sell almost all Touhou and Higurashi stuff by day 2, even the sound novels sold! Simply amazing…

Another great improvement over the past few years, almost everything started on time except opening ceremonies.

Also Circus attended this year again, which made me really happy since I got another signature from Yuka Kayura (she is the character designer for Otome in Da Capo II) on my body pillow as well as another quick sketch from her on a sign board. To top it off I also got signatures from Takehito Harada (Disgaea artist) and Cy-Rim rev. (Moe music band, momo-i part 2 as someone would say). Unfortunately I missed out on getting a signature from Shokotan and Aina Kase (artist who performed the opening and ending songs to Sora wo Tobu, Mittsu no Houhou [空を飛ぶ、３つの方法。], an upcoming game).

There was also THREE mini-concerts at the Circus booth and each time that I attended, I did the wotagei, luckily a few others knew how to do the dance so we were able to lead the crowd to do stuff otaku would do in Japan. What made me feel especially happy was during the last day of the con Cy-Rim rev. and Aina Kase both said that they’re so happy that everyone was enjoying themselves and that the crowds were doing the same things Japanese fans would be doing.

And Anime Expo Pics.. [Updated]

dovac — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:47:12 +0000

Busy busy busy here’s some pics

Try to find me :3

Update:

Circus artists signing my pillow below

And Anime Expo is over…

dovac — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:33:37 +0000

Where to start where to start…well hmm I think I’ll go with a different route since most people are complaining about the overall crappiness of the whole con… I’m going to say that this year was the best year ever. You can read all about the complaints of waiting in line and such, but luckily I did not bother with those. If you bothered to ask the ticketing office or read ax’s site more closely about the nice shiny premier tickets you bought…
IT CLEARLY STATED THERE WAS ASSIGNED SEATING FOR PREMIER TICKETS

Now if you waited like a IDIOT for hours in the sun to watch a concert where you have assigned seating well you sir are a IDIOT. Also while people were waiting in line the staffers CLEARLY said there were bag searches, so what does that mean? THEY SEARCH YOUR BAG! BIG HINT LEAVE THE BAGS IN YOUR CAR OR HOTEL THANK YOU. It would of speed up the process of getting in. MANY MANY MANY times while people waited the staff ran around telling people NO WATER NO FOOD NO CAMERAS NO CAMS, etc. Yet people don’t get the hint. So you can thank them for holding up the line as they get searched get food/water pulled out and they dump it in the trash can.

Lets see more ranting… the signatures.. during the panel the staffers CLEARLY said an autograph from the sos-dan was not guaranteed. So.. there you have it, now expect people to camp out, for the 1st day I was there at 5:00 am. They canceled it. Ok..no problem but how about telling us earlier instead of exactly at 10am. Anyways communication problems I wont even go there others already complained about it. Now then the 2nd day, what time did I get there? 11pm I didn’t sleep at all and in the end I ended up staying awake for 44hours, but what did I get? I have their signature on a poster. Too bad I wasn’t able to get it personalized or give them gifts.

Now what was good? The Savage Genius concert, Halko Momoi Concert, and Chiaki Ishikawa concert. Now why was the “no names” would have a better concert then sos-dan? maa…The people who ran tech 2..3..4..??? days to fix the sound system before ax started, but I bet they didn’t start to do that till SKIN showed up, and what happens? The concert was crap I personally didn’t go but I heard at some point the audio was in mono or the mics cracked..etc..sos-dan had the same problems as SKIN…but then…when I went to Chiaki’s concert…everything was mysteriously fixed…why the hell did it take them so long to fix it? Anyways thats my rant ~_~ I’ll have some photos and crap in the coming days.