Get it hot like Papa John
Saturday was my big day to shine! I ended up wearing a new cosplay I made, Ranma Satome from Ranma ½: The Movie 2, Nihao My Concubine. What I didn’t know was this. I was cosplaying as a redhead in a ponytail with a huge bow in a blue flowy dress. “Omg! It’s Ariel!” “Hi Ariel Barbie!” I felt bad I had to disappoint folks with well meaning compliments. I’m no mermaid from 1989. I’m a martial artist born as a boy who fell into a springs and now can transform into a girl from 1989.
Most of my friends showed up on Saturday. Saturday is THE big day at comic con. Marvel had their announcement panel. Folks lined up at Hall H in hopes to be among the first to get the news. In a post-Endgame era, would there be any hope for Marvel to live their glory days again? The announcement of Robert Downey Jr. coming back as Dr. Doom was abuzz all over the convention center in the evening.
And our “Anime Fandom at the Turn of the Millennium” was right above Hall H at the same time as the Marvel panel. This panel was featured in Room 29 seating about 150 or so attendees. This was the same presentation I gave at Sakura Con earlier this year. I had my best buddies, Ramses and Geki co-presenting talking about their experience as elder millennial otaku growing up watching anime in Tijuana and in South Korea to reminiscing about Toonami and marked up prices at Suncoast Video.
I then made my announcement. My book – almost 20 years in the making, written while I spent a week in a remote cottage in the lakes in the middle of a forest where I could have tea with a holstein cat – was officially announced. Pre-orders for “The Fangirl Diaries” were now up!
I admit, as an elder millennial, my body and stamina wishes it could handle after parties, but sometimes the best after parties are the most intimate ones with a group of friends. We celebrated out last night at San Diego Comic Con at the Spaghetti Factory. We only waited less than 20 minutes on a busy evening and even less of a wait for our three course meal. We all cleaned up our plates; we were starving by the end of the day.
Written by Cosplay Ancestor Eri
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