Saturday at Anime North 2010 (part 3): To the Line!

Krystal, Madeline, and I decided to check on the registration line to see if it was shorter. On our way to the line, we captured more images of cosplayers.



(I was attracted by the design on the back.)


(Yeah! Rare Sailor Moon character cosplayers!)


(Master Roshi!)


(!)


(There were many Zelda characters, but these ones take the ice-cream.)


(I knew where she's from. OBJECTION!)


(A blue gun!)


(*pew pew*)


(Free Dr. Pepper.)




(Pokéball GO!)


(What's going on?)

The line was still long when we got to the end, so we decided to go walk around the building once more to find more cosplayers to take pictures of.

Saturday at Anime North 2010 (part 2): Walking under the Sun

Part two of the Saturday at Anime North 2010 series starts now! Note: you can view a larger version of the images in this post by clicking on them.



After line crusading and bothering people at their cars, we decided to walk around the building to capture more cosplayers. I spotted a Professor Layton like-hat and an orange shirt and ran towards them. I only recognized the two characters from the many Professor Layton fan art on Deviant Art. I wonder if a rabbit can fit in the Layton hat...


(Cool hats, people! Cool hats.)

We later passed by a few people who had nice cosplays, but I honestly don't know who they're dressed as and from where:


(... Pokémon?)


(I dub this group 'The Lovely Trio.')

Then I saw costumes that I recognized! I was high on happiness with my camera in hand, asking people for pictures and giving them my big creepy smiles of happiness. I believe Madeline and Krystal were giving off brilliant smiles as well. Many of the cosplays looked pro.


(Team Aqua challenges you to a battle!
*insert Pokémon battle theme song here*)


(Kingdom Hearts characters and a Chocobo! They totally match!
I should have got them together to dance for a minute.)


(.hack// characters! Yup.)


(I'm not familiar with the Final Fantasy story lines,
but I can tell that they're from Final Fantasy from what they wear.)


(It's that dude from Spirited Away!)


(If that was a real suit made of gold,
I would have done something to acquire it. :D)


(More Final Fantasy!
There were a lot of people dressed as the characters from that FF game.)


(Two creatures of the light.
Their brightness nearly gave me a nosebleed.
Seriously.)


(Air Gear! AIR GEAR!!$@!)


(Code Geasse! Notice the cool sunglasses and expressions they put on.)


(Avatar: the Last Air Bender characters.
I remember seeing blue alien Avatars somewhere that day too.
If only I got an Avatar vs. Avatar picture. @_@)


(I found a wild pikachu!
Too bad I didn't bring any pokéballs with me. :( )


(... ?!)


(Random cosplay!)


(We asked the carboard bush to be an accessory.)


(Found a pokéball to capture pikachu! :D )


(Usopp and his baby in a carriage. I didn't check if there was actually a baby in there, but he was definetly taking care of something at the time.)

Saturday at Anime North 2010 (part 1): Line Crusading

My story of Saturday, May 29, 2010 at Anime North will be seperated into 5 parts, just because. I will make a conclusion of my time at Anime North 2010 at the end of part 5. This will take 5 posts and 5 days to report. *insert evil laugh here*

Oh yeah, be sure to read the captions under the images (which will be in brackets like this is). You can view the full size of the images by clicking on them. Many of the images had very bad lighting, so I used photoshop to try to make them look more pleasing.



Madeline, Krystal, and I arrived at the back of Toronto Congress Centre around 11 am. There, we saw the long Saturday registration line stretched around the building. We decided not to wait 2 hours in line and proceeded to take pictures of cosplayers lined-up from the back of the line to the side entrance of the building instead. This activity of course, caused the line to move slowly. I noticed it made a few people frustrated too. Oh well. I now call this activity, line crusading!

Our first capture was a Cardcaptor Sakura cosplayer. There were many more Sakura cosplayers, but I didn't have the guts to take their pictures.

(Thank you pointing girl
for pointing at Cardcaptor Sakura in my angle.)

As we were following the line, we spotted a few Waldos, but couldn't tell who was the real Waldo. I captured one Waldo in cellphone-line action! After capturing Waldo, we proceeded to take pictures of people in and out of the line.

("Where's Waldo?")

(Could someone please tell me who this guy is playing as?)

(Characters that I'd probably use
in a RPG cosplay game.)

(Final Fantasy, yeah!)

(An Armless Spongebob! I was not expecting him.)

At one point in our line crusade, my father suggested we go to people's cars as they are preparing their cosplays. Great people and cosplays were captured from this idea, which will now be dubbed as Cosplayer's Car Seeking! We approached one car and got pictures of nice cosplay:

(Wind power.)

(He's baaack! Notice their car is on the right.)

(I give him kudos.)

(I give him kudos too!)

Line crusading was fun. Many people gave dirty looks, others funny or serene. Cosplayer's car seeking makes me nervous though.