Thoughts on Anime Vegas, Morning Of Day One

First off, I'm going to expose less of what I do each day via the daily recaps and most of you will be surprised of what actually happened at the con and not at the con once I post the full review; but, if you've read some of my Facebook and Twitter posts you know what's going down. Let's just say that I couldn't ask for a better Day Zero, and I'll leave it at that.

Things to look forward today: Hetalia, Ouran, the guests of honor, the Convention War Stories panel, and the heat (100+ today).

Thoughts on Anime Vegas, Day Zero

First off, if you read my Twitter post there is no Anime Vegas 2010 Vlog from Sacramento International Airport and that I either need a new laptop and/or webcam because I'm getting some serious lag when I try to record off of my webcam.

In a couple of hours I'll be in LA with Ryan, Erica, and Jared on the road trip from LA to Las Vegas.

I am really looking forward to seeing everyone again and to having a ton of fun during the weekend. In between the sightseeing, the con itself and gambling as Junpei at two in the morning I don't know if I'll want to leave Las Vegas come Monday evening.

Anyways, my fight's in about an hour and soon enough we'll get this party started.

Kroze vs LittleKuriboh - Live @ Anime Vegas

I had to embed this on the site because this could be VERY entertaining over the weekend.

A Pictorial History of Persona 3...Through Fry's Ads

Back at Sac State, I have access to a huge library that includes archives of newspapers via microfilm. Everything is copied...including the ads. Given the fact that I cosplay from Persona 3, I decided to dig back into these archives to see what it was like in 2007 and 2008 when the game first came out.

This is an actual Fry's ad from August 17th, 2007, the Friday of the week that "vanilla" Persona 3 was released.

And this is from April 25th, 2008, the Friday of the week that Persona 3 FES was released.

Notice the pricing: in 2007 "vanilla" P3 retailed for $44.99, while in 2008 FES retailed for $24.99. I wish I had a scan of the P3 Portable, which in 2010 retailed for $39.99, in a Fry's adbut their archives only go to a certain date.

If I can find the Sacramento Bee's review of Persona 3, I'll post it here. If not, I'll post their Persona 4 review from January 2009 because they actually did one, plus the Fry's ad from the week of the release.

Conventions Gone Wrong: Fan Expo Canada 2010

And you thought Anime Expo's "problems" were bad...try a convention that had to "lock out" PAID ATTENDEES because of overcapacity at the convention center.



Now that's just pretty awful if you ask me. If that ever happened to me, I'd be demanding my refund as well.

Anime Vegas 2010 Program Posted

The complete program for Anime Vegas 2010 including the entire schedule has been posted. Go go go!

SoCal Host Club @ Anime Expo 2010

I finally got the videos up to my YouTube account, so here it is! The full 2nd session of the SoCal Host Club at Anime Expo 2010!

Thoughts on Anime Vegas, One Week Out

First things first though: school. On Monday, I go back to school at Sacramento State, signaling the end of Summer 2010...for four days. That Friday, I leave for Las Vegas for the Labor Day weekend and Anime Vegas, my last chance at summer freedom before going back to the grind of school life.

I am really looking forward to this well-needed trip and adding another convention to my visited list. My only issue so far is trying to get all the cosplay gatherings together. Seriously, most of these gathering times and places should be set at least a week prior to the convention date. We're still figuring out a couple of time slots for some of the gatherings, and for the most part we're trying to figure out where to hold these gatherings. I'm looking at holding my SMT/Persona Gathering (assuming it's just not me and Ryan as Junpei) near one of the pool areas where it appears to be a gazebo. I also hope that they release a schedule soon so that we can finally figure out a time for the Hetalia Gathering; we don't want to overlap with the panel that is scheduled.

By this time next week I will be on the I-15 on my way to Vegas. See you all in a week!

Speaking of Hetalia on the side, I found that the Hetalia Philippines LiveJournal has photos that Erica posted from Anime Expo 2010 of Ryan shortly after the convention and also has a link back to the FanimeCon 2010 Sunday portion of the report; I only found out after looking through my referrers and recent hits on my counter today. Props to Erica posting that on their LiveJournal!

What's Wrong With Anime - Death Note

New video going up!

TravelCast 2.0 Pilot Episode

The podcast is finally up! While it's not up yet on Scarlet Rhapsody due to an error in the flash player, I have put it on my website The audio player on her page is fixed. Still, take a listen on the sidebar then respond with feedback!