AX Day 2
I was going to meet up with my twitter acquaintance @cowboybibimbop to get a leftover ticket he had for Yuu Asakawa. I didn’t have anything going on until the May’n concert at 1. I unfortunately could not locate him. And, they also closed the line. My luck continues with autographs, yey!
I sent out a tweet with the anime expo hash tags about giving out some free candy as a pervy, old man. I got a couple funny responses.
I wondered around the Exhibit hall looking for anything that caught my eye. Saw this at the NIS booth.
I also noticed a new sign up. Apparently, Yui Horie and Eri Kitamura were going to have additional signing sessions at the NIS booth. I noticed one was coming up at 12:30 PM and there was already a line forming for it. I thought this was my chance. The first session at 12:30 was just for Yui Horie. There was another one at 2:00 for both Horie and Kitamura. I figured this was my best chance at the Horie’s autograph without having to deal with the panel and official autograph session.
I didn’t have anything with me for Horie so I bought the first volume of Toradora at the booth. I waited for an hour or so. Hocchan started a little late and she was chatting with everyone so the line progressed slowly. Well, after one hour, the line was going to be cut off. The nice gentlemen at the booth was going to let us get the people in line around me go ahead and get Horie. We asked if we could just start the second line since the next session was less than 30 minutes away and we could also get Kitamura’s too. He went ahead and let us stay in line and let a couple others behind us go. This was an awesome chance, because now I was 4th in line for both autographs!
I was reluctant at first because it was already past 1:30 by this point. The May’n/Nakajima concert was due to start. From my experience with the previous day, I figured it was going to start late anyways. I decided to stick with my line and get Horie’s and Kitamura’s autograph. After a few minutes, I managed to snag both autographs. i was so happy, haha. Unfortunately, I didn’t dilly dally much after obtaining them. I immediately made a beeline for Nakia Theatre, so I could watch the concert.
By the time I got to the theatre, May’n was already on the stage singing. I don’t think I missed too many songs. After a while, Nakajima came out on stage and sang a duet with May’n. May’n left the stage and Nakajima went solo for a while. Eventually, Nakajima announced the secret guest as Yoko Kanno. I was surprised it was her, because I was expecting someone else. Nakajima was doing her famous Kira and Yoko Kanno joined in with her. Kanno played the piano a short while for Nakajima. Needless to say, the rest of the concert was awesome.
The concert ran a little late. I was going to try and snag RSP’s autographs, but it was already about 30 minutes into their session. The next two hours were also free now because I didn’t need to go to Horie’s panel or autograph session now.
I went back to the hotel. My freaking sandals broke on the way there. It was fun walking back to the hotel nearly barefoot on one foot.
After resting for a bit, I went back to the Exhibit hall to mess around a little before MELL’s concert. There was a live performance at the MangaGamer booth.
CooRie
UR@N
Minami Kuribayashi
MELL’s concert was coming up so I headed there.
I have to say MELL’s concert was probably my favorite out of all of them. She is an amazing woman. She was very cool on stage. I also enjoyed the little magic shows they performed in between sets. Her keyboardist was freaking me out too. He was definitely an interesting character.
After the spectacular concert, I headed back to the hotel. I wanted to go to the hardcore synergy event, but I was pooped. I didn’t want to stay up until 2 AM for it.
Once I got back to the hotel, I found out that the Funimation panel was starting soon. For some reason, I decided to go to it. I accidentally went to the JW Mariott, but that was for the panel that was replaced. It ended up being in Petree hall. So, I hurried over there.
All I have to say is Funimation owned Anime Expo. There were a ton of epic announcements. Many shows that I am very happy to see being licensed such as Shakugan no Shana season 2, To Aru Kagaku no Railgun/To Aru Majutsu no Index, and the list goes on.
Crashed at the hotel again afterwards.
Glorious autograph!
So long to you Day 2. Awesome concerts and got some great autographs. This day was good :3
