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arionhunter) wrote2009-10-08 12:25 am
arionhunter) wrote2009-10-08 12:25 am
Anime Weekend Atlanta
One of the things I love about my stress management tactics my ability to continuously create absolutely asinine projects that will please only me in utterly pointless ways. In example, stress means lots of making myself 9 p.m. cocktails and thinking thoughts like, "Hmm, Amp and Everclear. The hangover would be beautiful. And vomitous."
(I will be trying this Lethal Electroshock Injection Friday night, because I am really curious.)
This year I didn’t actually do a very large amount In terms of panel and video room attendance. But instead I got to hang out with a lot more people, and that made the panels I did attend much better.
As always, the hentai room was a must on Friday – the local they get to moderate is highly experienced and personable, and the whole atmosphere is very conducive for ensuring fun is had by all. It helps that the moderator’s taste runs toward the “Consensual sex is fun, let’s have lots of it in a very silly manner!” end of the hentai spectrum. This year’s choice was animated (instead of live action) Ogenki Clinic – less ejaculating on crucifixes, but more psychic sex battles with the Doctor’s talking mustachioed bespectacled penis. A fair trade-off, I think.
Saturday started with the weekend toku block, which is inevitably every year the same ten people huddling together in a room being terribly geeky and fannish at each other. Otherwise there was lots of sitting around and hanging out Saturday, and then seeing about five hours of absolutely horrid anime. In order: Najica Blitz Tactics, Aria Zero, To Aro Some Shit Whatever It’s a Bad Harem Anime, To Love Ru, and the cherry…Queen’s Blade.
Aria Zero was a surprise highlight – the hallmark of its quality being that by the end of Episode 1, we’d counted 213 pantyshots. Aria Zero also has the honor of being the first anime I can say has animated, well, the relaxing of the rectum. This can be explained in context, but the context would only make it worse.
Again repeating last year’s pattern, Saturday’s “Erotic Art Auction” and hentai showing was far less impressive. They ran at least 45 minutes behind, subjected us to thirty minutes of no one bidding on very average porn prints (really, where exactly are you going to hang that $60 framed bondage elf lineart?) and very bad hentai choices. Professor Pain was nearly unbearable – BDSM fetish porn with much unnecessary misogyny and even more unnecessary pseudo-pretentious philosophical and emotional bullshit. Darling helped cleanse the palate a bit, but by then (2:30 a.m.) I was in the mood to sleep.
(Darling also led to the room-wide Hyper Erection Mode dance. Again, this can only be explained in context, and it does not make a whole hell of a lot of sense then. It is, however, absolutely hilarious.)
In the realm of free shit, there wasn’t too much this year. Since the parents are coming in Novermber, I was on the lookout for free posters to cover up my Gay Pride posters. Funimation did have two Spice and Wolf mini-posters, which was nice. Except for the part where the only vertically aligned poster they had was a quite naked Horo…which would probably only make things more awkward.
In the realm of “I wish this was parody”:
Yes, that’s a real flier they really had at the con. I wish I could make this shit up.
But since cons are really about stimulating the economy, I did spend money. I’m normally conservative (anything over $25 total in the dealer’s room has to be justified), but since this year was my last at AWA I saved up and let myself splurge, dropping about $80 in total. However, subtracting my one large purchase ($24), I got quite a bit for $60.
I’m actually rather proud of how well I managed. I budget shop at cons – I never pay full price for an item unless I absolutely have to, or won’t be able to get it elsewhere. It baffles me that people will pay store price for manga available at major booksellers, but cons are like that. They’re a money black hole.
The Haul:
- Manga:
* Astro Boy Vols. 17-19
*Eagle Vols: 6, 8, 9
* Beck Vol. 1
* Utena Vol. 1
* Two random issues of 风云, which merely go to prove that I really can’t read traditional hanzi.
* Full sets of Venus Wars II,Legend of Mother Sarah, and its “sequel” City of Angels, all of which were from the era when Viz printed everything in pamphlets and thus never got TPBs.
*Three volumes of the out-of-print and fairly hard to find The Wonderful World of Sazae-San. Sazae-San is a real treasure, and a great window into post-WWII Japan.
- Misc:
* My-Hime Hime mark keychain
* Guncannon Keychain
* Hibiki symbol decal. I am still debating if this will go on my car or not.
Figures:
Everything in this shot but GaoKing (Wal-Mart clearance), Zanki (bought from HLJ on clearance), Computa, and Darth Potato Vader are AWA purchases. The figures on the left are Wind, Cloud, Conquer, and Nameless from 风云 - I think I scared the guy selling them by the mere fact I recognized the series rather...enthusiastically.
And as alluded to earlier, the only large purchase was a 10-inch soft vinyl Hibiki statue. It’s not, say, the $200 high-grade Medicom figure I had my eye on for years, but the price was right and it was Hibiki something at a con, so I felt obligated to get it.
The rest of the figures are various con and clearance purchases over the years. Mandarin Spawn is an especial favorite of mine – it’s absolutely gorgeous up close.
(I will be trying this Lethal Electroshock Injection Friday night, because I am really curious.)
This year I didn’t actually do a very large amount In terms of panel and video room attendance. But instead I got to hang out with a lot more people, and that made the panels I did attend much better.
As always, the hentai room was a must on Friday – the local they get to moderate is highly experienced and personable, and the whole atmosphere is very conducive for ensuring fun is had by all. It helps that the moderator’s taste runs toward the “Consensual sex is fun, let’s have lots of it in a very silly manner!” end of the hentai spectrum. This year’s choice was animated (instead of live action) Ogenki Clinic – less ejaculating on crucifixes, but more psychic sex battles with the Doctor’s talking mustachioed bespectacled penis. A fair trade-off, I think.
Saturday started with the weekend toku block, which is inevitably every year the same ten people huddling together in a room being terribly geeky and fannish at each other. Otherwise there was lots of sitting around and hanging out Saturday, and then seeing about five hours of absolutely horrid anime. In order: Najica Blitz Tactics, Aria Zero, To Aro Some Shit Whatever It’s a Bad Harem Anime, To Love Ru, and the cherry…Queen’s Blade.
Aria Zero was a surprise highlight – the hallmark of its quality being that by the end of Episode 1, we’d counted 213 pantyshots. Aria Zero also has the honor of being the first anime I can say has animated, well, the relaxing of the rectum. This can be explained in context, but the context would only make it worse.
Again repeating last year’s pattern, Saturday’s “Erotic Art Auction” and hentai showing was far less impressive. They ran at least 45 minutes behind, subjected us to thirty minutes of no one bidding on very average porn prints (really, where exactly are you going to hang that $60 framed bondage elf lineart?) and very bad hentai choices. Professor Pain was nearly unbearable – BDSM fetish porn with much unnecessary misogyny and even more unnecessary pseudo-pretentious philosophical and emotional bullshit. Darling helped cleanse the palate a bit, but by then (2:30 a.m.) I was in the mood to sleep.
(Darling also led to the room-wide Hyper Erection Mode dance. Again, this can only be explained in context, and it does not make a whole hell of a lot of sense then. It is, however, absolutely hilarious.)
In the realm of free shit, there wasn’t too much this year. Since the parents are coming in Novermber, I was on the lookout for free posters to cover up my Gay Pride posters. Funimation did have two Spice and Wolf mini-posters, which was nice. Except for the part where the only vertically aligned poster they had was a quite naked Horo…which would probably only make things more awkward.
In the realm of “I wish this was parody”:
Yes, that’s a real flier they really had at the con. I wish I could make this shit up.
But since cons are really about stimulating the economy, I did spend money. I’m normally conservative (anything over $25 total in the dealer’s room has to be justified), but since this year was my last at AWA I saved up and let myself splurge, dropping about $80 in total. However, subtracting my one large purchase ($24), I got quite a bit for $60.
I’m actually rather proud of how well I managed. I budget shop at cons – I never pay full price for an item unless I absolutely have to, or won’t be able to get it elsewhere. It baffles me that people will pay store price for manga available at major booksellers, but cons are like that. They’re a money black hole.
The Haul:
- Manga:
* Astro Boy Vols. 17-19
*Eagle Vols: 6, 8, 9
* Beck Vol. 1
* Utena Vol. 1
* Two random issues of 风云, which merely go to prove that I really can’t read traditional hanzi.
* Full sets of Venus Wars II,Legend of Mother Sarah, and its “sequel” City of Angels, all of which were from the era when Viz printed everything in pamphlets and thus never got TPBs.
*Three volumes of the out-of-print and fairly hard to find The Wonderful World of Sazae-San. Sazae-San is a real treasure, and a great window into post-WWII Japan.
- Misc:
* My-Hime Hime mark keychain
* Guncannon Keychain
* Hibiki symbol decal. I am still debating if this will go on my car or not.
Figures:
Everything in this shot but GaoKing (Wal-Mart clearance), Zanki (bought from HLJ on clearance), Computa, and Darth Potato Vader are AWA purchases. The figures on the left are Wind, Cloud, Conquer, and Nameless from 风云 - I think I scared the guy selling them by the mere fact I recognized the series rather...enthusiastically.
And as alluded to earlier, the only large purchase was a 10-inch soft vinyl Hibiki statue. It’s not, say, the $200 high-grade Medicom figure I had my eye on for years, but the price was right and it was Hibiki something at a con, so I felt obligated to get it.
The rest of the figures are various con and clearance purchases over the years. Mandarin Spawn is an especial favorite of mine – it’s absolutely gorgeous up close.