2012 Aki Con

Quick Posting about my observations of Cosplay and Con of AkiCon 2012

Welcome to AkiCon, Anime convention in Bellevue WA, this year on Halloween weekend.

Final Fantasy, look at the details

Panty and Stocking. I can't imagine wearing that much body paint.  

Ok this was disturbing.  Artist Alley was in the garage.  A leaky garage.  I just wanted to cry at the thought that an artist at any time could get their merchandise ruined.

Shiro Lolita, oddly I really like the parking lot background to this photo, it provides such a contrast.

Pocky Stacking Competition, fun!

K, I don't know who they are, but their colour pallet really stands out and their outfits are really fascinating.  Although based on what they are holding, I'm wondering if they are Pokemon trainers

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Lorax, LOL

Sailor Moon Cut out.  Instant Cosplay pictures?

Nyan Cat

Kingdom Hearts - Christmas Theme?

Dr. Slump, such a cutie

One thing I do like about Aki Con is the backdrop room in which you can take pictures with lots of themed backdrops.  They say due to crowd controls, these are really hard to put on in larger cons.

Such elegant outfits.  with those elegant snacks of hot dogs and Nacho Cheese.

Trophies for the competitions.  I love the pumpkins for Halloween.

Brave, Dea Star booth in Artist Alley

Crossplay is always fun.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica, her pose and expression are precise.  I just want rifles to fall out of her skirt now.

Some cosplay props made available to anyone to play with

Halloween Creepiness can be found

Xmen, I love her outfit

Batman, very well done

Pumpkin patch of different animes. 

Vocaloid, first time I've seen a plush version of the headphones

Hobbits!

2010 Aki Con - Cosplay Report

This year I attended AkiCon in early November.  It's a Anime Convention in Bellevue WA.  It's still a bit of a baby so a little small, but still filled with cosplayers and anime fans. 


Here we've got the AkiCon Mascots



Here we've got Taichi and Yamato from the first Digimon series.  Don't forget their Agumon Digimon with them.


Big person Kiki cosplayer with little person Kiki Cosplayer, the little girl was trying to run away from the stranger


There were some wonderful non japanese cosplays this year.  Here we've got Phoneix (Jean Grey) from XMen, and Lilo and Stitch.  There were also a great original Alice in Wonderland and original Harley Quinn from Batman



What was cool about AkiCon that I've never seen at any other cons yet was they had a dedicated Cosplay Hall room which was a bunch of sets in which people could go take pictures in a awesome background.  Here I'm in a Japanese garden, there was also a Casio, Winter Wonderland, and an Alley with grafitti. 



Ramen Eating Context.  The trophy was pretty sweet.  It's topped with a bowl of Ramen with Chopsticks, and sits the king of Ramen eating -> Narato


So Aki-Con staff was going around telling us to go get pictures with Johnny Yong Bosh (The GREEN POWER RANGER from the second series).  But I was so confused becuase this guy looks WAY too old to be him.  So when I got home I looked up the guest.  This is actually Robert Axelrod who played Lord Zedd and Finster, two main bad guys from the first series of Power Rangers.  That's actually way more cooler to me because I only watched the first series.  Oh the guy on the floor is my friend Chris, if you recognize him, um I"ll leave it at that.


Later on in the Con I was sitting in my Rozen Maiden Box (see below) and Robert Axelrod walked past me, Pat me on the Head, said "Your cute" and walked off.  LOL

Here is me with my friend Charlotte.  It's Kero from CardCaptorSarkua sharing space with Hinaichigo from RozenMaiden.

Hina likes to draw pictures.

So she got to draw pictures for some SailorScouts, L and Light from DeathNote, and for some Hogwart students.

For those who want to see the rest of my pictures from the con you can check them out here. http://picasaweb.google.com/smallrinilady.sakuracon2/2010AkiCon#