Animation on Display 2011

Found an Angel Beats! cosplay group. I found out that they are actually from an anime club from my old high school. Was surprised by that fact because back when I was in high school I heard that the anime club wasn't too great. I'm impressed with how my old high school's anime club has improved.

This was the weather on Sunday the 20th, the second day on the con. It was raining like cats and dogs the day before. The hotel's garden area mimics Japanese garden of course. There were some cosplayers taking pictures out in this area, but not too much as there wasn't much space.

At AOD I volunteered for four hours on the first day of the con. I basically helped out in the game room by supervising and watching the game room itself and switched out with another fellow volunteer to check badges of people who want to enter the game room. No work too hard, perfect for me who was attending his first anime con. I got some compensation back of my registration fees but not all of it, I think only half because 8 hours of volunteering gets you everything back from reg fees, but I didn't want to waste all of my time working at the con so I did 4 hours only.

An overview photo of the game room. Most of the official staff working in here is actually from my AnimeFX club from SFSU. They were the ones who actually started the game room at AOD. I feel a bit proud working with people who are actually involved in the con as staff.

All of the game consoles that were being used for the game room are owned by the staff members themselves who bring their own consoles for the game room. Some of there include PS2, PS3, XBox 360, SNES, a computer for Touhou, and one for some DJ game thing. The games range from Super Street Fighter 4, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Blazblue, Marval vs. Capcom, Rock Band, Touhou, retro games, and more. We had a few tournaments for the more popular fighting games.

Board games, boring for me.

Here are some tables that were selling fan-arts by fan artists. Some of these are really good.

Shelf of manga, nothing special really.

In the Dealer's room there was plenty of stuff to buy, figures, nendroids, and more are no exception.

More from the Dealer's Room.

More from the Dealer's Room.

This was the weather on the first day of AOD, Saturday the 19th.

Cosplay Photos. I don't know what everyone is cosplaying as so you can help by tagging them as you see them.

These two are cosplaying as the two from the Vocaloid Luka music video "Just Be Friends".

Miku Hatsune and Black Rock Shooter.

L from Death Note.

M. Bison and Dan from Street Fighter 4.

I was mentioning about game room tournaments earlier, I was in the Super Smash Bros. Brawl Tournament that was on Sunday. I joined for fun because I knew I wasn't good when compared to hardcore gamers who usually come to these kind of events. The setup of the tournament was this, each match is 1 vs 1, with best 2 out of 3 games. You win you more forward in the tournament. I wanted to win at least one match, but failed. I used Mario(1) and Kirby(2). The guy I was playing against was good and after-wards we became friends (on Facebook of course). I didn't stick around to see the final match but I heard about who won. The night before I was practicing in the game room late at night for the next day's tourney against 3 other level 9 computers because there was no one else around. A guy came around and joined the battle, and he was good. He used Samus and his combos are timed pretty well. I had a good game battle with him only a couple of times and it was sort of close, but he always had the upper hand. At the tournement he was there, and I heard that he was the winner. I wasn't surprised at all, congrats to him. I found watching the battles to be far more fun than playing, I felt kind of bad and a bit embarrassed because I didn't put up much of a fight, only took out one of my opponents stock in my second game. Well overall I had fun.

Some late night Karaoke.

There was panels for both Vocaloid and Touhou, and I got to say they were both interesting. I already knew what they were but it helped to elaborate on the history of both and how they became popular.

Here is a photo of the Vocaloid panel. The funnest moment was when the panel host showed us this. It was the most I laughed at AOD because it was funny to me.

Christina Vee was present for AOD, she sang some songs and also was part of many other panels and events. My friend got her to sign a DVD of an anime series that she helped dub, don't know what it was though.

Hideo concert was great. I was falling asleep during the opera singing part, final part with the mega man music woke me up, the sudden drums did anyways.

Another photo of the Japanese gardens at the Kabuki Hotel.

I felt I had to include this photo in for some reason.

Alright! TK and Mario dance DDR style.

This pretty much ends my post of AOD. Hope you guys enjoyed it and look forward to more posts from me about anything I find interesting enough to be worthy of posting to Figure.fm

You'll find this post at my blog Topic "Otaku" @ Animation on Display 2011. It's slightly different and has some more details than this post has, so you might want to check it out.