And here are Sunday's photos, which are less in number than Saturday's, by far. Let's get started!
Day Three, Part OneI got up early again, since the bus ride to the convention takes me about 45 minutes. I had to make it at 9am to the Takarazuka panel I missed last year. I made it just in time, and it was a good panel, though I had to leave early to make it to the Sailor Moon 20th Anniversary panel.
On my way to that line, I encountered another magical girl, Mew Ichigo!
Unsurprisingly, there were quite a few Sailor Moon cosplayers in the Sailor Moon line.
Prince Demando, also in line.
Sailor Jupiter. At this point, I walked right into some kind of trivia contest ("What was the only one of the exam battle stories that was animated?") and won almost immediately ("Ami's First Love.") I received a cute ribbon as a reward. :3c
I don't actually read comic books, so is there a proper name for female Robin?
Super Sailor Moon. I think I ran into her on Friday.
Then I got into the line, which was enormous. Unfortunately, I didn't get in. It was a PACKED panel. As disappointing as that was, I now had two hours of time in my schedule I hadn't expected to have, so I decided I'd at least put that to good use.
Took this one of Super Sailor Moon, Ciel Phantomhive, and Sailor Jupiter, as I headed out of the atrium.
Captain Shunsui Kyoraku from Bleach. At this point, Murasa was sneaking up on my right, and I pretended not to notice her.
The Ouran High School host club.
After this, I went to the cafe to chill with Murasa (who was Sakuya the day before) while she ate a muffin. After agreeing that we'd find each other later for a photoshoot by the fountain right outside the main doors, I headed off to try and find Suwako, who was also supposed to be around on Friday. (And also Komachi, but that search proved fruitless.)
Rise from Persona 4.
Phoenix Wright with an :objection!: sign.
At this point, I ran into Yukari and Randy again. I invited them to join me on my search for Suwako; Randy decided to hang out with his Brony friends, but Yukari decided she would accompany me. (I should mention, she decided to wear her pajamas all day Sunday instead of her Yukari outfit, but I don't really like calling cosplayers by their real names unless they give me explicit permission to do so.)
We found Suwako rather quickly, since she was in the Artist's Alley, which was about two meters away from us. Yukari and I went to kidnap her from her friends, and she quite happily went along with us to the fountain.
Now presenting: Suwako of the adorable smile.
While I enjoyed these photos, I wanted to do something else while I had Suwako around. But I couldn't walk two blocks away to the big fountains when I hadn't asked her beforehand. Besides, she needed to get back to her friends, so I wanted to stay on the hotel grounds. Hmm, what to do...
Well, there are some reeds around the front entrance of the hotel, so let's give those a shot.
Yes perfect.
I think the reeds serve well enough as a background. (In fact, I liked them so much that I ended up returning to them later on Sunday.)
On our way back to the doors of the hotel, I found some pretty red flowers in a hanging flowerpot from a series of poles that had a fair resemblance to torii shrine gates. I figured they'd be worth a try to use as a backdrop.
I think they worked quite well!
And back to my favourite kind of backdrop: flowers.
After this, me and Yukari went back inside with Suwako and returned her to her friends, and bade her farewell. We went back to the atrium where Randy was hanging out with his Brony friends. I didn't have much to do, so I decided to hang out with them for a while. Plus, I was coming down with a headache and didn't want to get up and walk around the entire hotel again.
Makise Kurisu from Steins;Gate.
Gendo Ikari from Eva.
Alucard from Hellsing.
I don't believe this is any particular cosplay.
I have no idea what series these two are from, unfortunately.
Princess Uranus and Princess Neptune from Sailor Moon!
Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop.
Queen Beryl, also from Sailor Moon! Later on I would see her posing with Sailor Jupiter (attacking her) but I had taken enough photos of poor Jupiter by this time.
Spain from Hetalia.
In between this photo and the next, there's about a two-hour gap. I accompanied Yukari and Randy and the rest of the Bronies to the Pizza Hut, where we had lunch. It was a big relief, and my headache began to go away. It was pretty great getting to hang out with those two all weekend, they are wonderful people to know and chat with.
When we came back, we decided to get in line for the dealers' room, since it was a long line, and Yukari needed to catch her flight back to Chicago, so we wanted to get our buying done sooner rather than later.
We ran into this cute Pokemon trainer, a bit ahead of us in line.
Then we headed into the huge crush that was the Dealers' Room, where we found a grand total of two Touhou artbooks in the entire dealers' room. I've said it before, but NDK dealers are really lacking in Touhou merch. (Which is good, or my wallet wouldn't hear the end of it.) We actually ran into Murasa while we were there, which was good because I had wanted to find her again for a photoshoot.
After we were done finally getting through all the booths, one of Yukari and Randy's friends wanted to go back in to try and get more candies and a Sailor Moon wallscroll. I declined this go-around, and instead stayed right outside the dealers' room, in a small alcove with Murasa and her new soft plushie cat. We decided that her plushie alpaca (which had pink fur) should be named Satori, and that she should make a Third Eye and a heart headband for her.
Sango from Inuyasha.
Two superheroines! Sailor Moon in her school uniform from Stars, and Supergirl.
Hello Kitty Samurai! Awesome.
A young man we didn't know then came over. Apparently he was a big fan of plushies and wanted to see Murasa's cat.
At some point, I had borrowed Murasa's cap and put it over my tokin hat, and while they had all their plushies in one place, I decided I would pile them onto my head.
Adding a pony to the tower of plushies.
External bonus: the Squishy photographer came over, and added his signature octopus plushie to the pile.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmgice/7997541546/in/set-72157631531626233
Protoman! Not Protoman.EXE, he doesn't have a sword.
At this point, Yukari came out and Murasa surprise attacked her with her plush cat. It was great fun.
After that, we decided it was time for the Murasa photoshoot and so we started to make our way out to the fountain again.
Lord Death from Soul Eater.
I don't know if this is from any particular series, unfortunately.
I
think this is Fumika from Shigofumi.
Coming up next: Captain Murasa's Pin-up Calendar! Complete with posing on cars and the baring of midriffs, and the launch of a new ship:
And the rest of Sunday's photos.
