This weekend has indeed been a busy one! I will start
briefly with a friend of mine Jenna and her fiancé Mike. They opened up their own
comic book shop and we went down at on Saturday. It is a really beautiful shop
and it was rammed in there! I really hope they do amazing! They had some guest
there too and I got my photo with a Dalek!
Then on Sunday we had tickets for Hyper Japan. We’ve never
been before and talked about going last year but didn’t. This year however Matt
has really gotten in to Japanese stuff and Manga and Anime, so we went. It was
only £24 for 2 day tickets which I thought was pretty cheap. For all the other
conventions I go to, I know to get there as early as possible as the queues can
wrap around the building so we planned to get there for 8:30ish and the doors
opened at 9:30.
I got up at 6am!! Which is a crazy time for a Sunday morning
and got ready. We didn’t actually have to leave until 7:15 at the latest but I
ended up being ready by about 6:30am oops. After being late for comic con I took
no chances but I was ill then so I think they had a big part to play in my lateness.
We stopped of course at Clapham for our pretzel and got to
the venue for 8:30am. The queue however was tiny!! I think next time we can get
up a little later and get there for about 9:30-10am!
We got in pretty much bang on 9:30, they had a much better
system than LFCC and it was much smoother. The hall was fab there were many
stalls but there was tones of room to walk in-between them. The first thing I spotted
upon entering was TOTORO! So I ran over like an excited school girl and got my
photo taken with him!
We then ended up going to 3 talks in a row. The first was a
little strange and was a Secret Ninja, the next was a pretty cool robot talk
and then the third was a software called Vocaloid which meant they could make
music with human voices with humans! They mixed this with a traditional puppet performance
and previewed an exclusive 30minute film using it. I will admit I did not know
what was going on but it was really cool!
We then literally ran for food as we were so hungry! We had
NO IDEA what we were ordering and joined a queue that were selling noodles as
we knew what noodles were! We picked noodles that came with dough ball things
and prawns. I have to admit that the price was pretty steep for the amount you
got £14 for two. Then it didn’t help that we did not like the noodles very much
at all, but we were so hungry we ate it all!
Next we just went round and had a look at all the stalls. I
have to say I was a little disappointed (although don’t take that as it made
the day any less enjoyable!) there weren’t as many stalls as I thought and not
that may manga stalls for Matt. I thought it would be a little more like comic
con stalls. They had lots of individual sellers too but the stuff was very ‘cute’
and pink and a little too cute for my taste!
However I did have a great time, and the atmosphere was
great and we stayed from 9:30 till 5pm and the time flew by! I also got some pictures with other cute
characters! No for a picture spam!!
Domo came out to say hi! and had a photo opportunity which of course I got excited over
This Panda was sooo cute and I wanted to take him home.
You can see how excited I was by him haha!
I wore my space dress (it actually fits perfectly now)
I got Matt to snap a picture of it!
Me and Matt waiting for the talks to start!
I had a great day out and I think will go again next year. I
think MCM is going to be the bigger one for us this autumn for Matt to get his
Manga stuff, but I would say it is definitely worth going to Hyper Japan! There
were a lot of traditional culture bits than I thought and I really enjoyed that
too! There were also some BEAUTIFUL cosplayers… less than I thought but there
were some amazing dresses and wigs!
We were home by 6pm and got a Dominos on the way home which
was a bargain (any size £6.99) and that was just delicious! Now much to my
dismay it’s Monday and now I have a quiet August
Nothing much now until September/October!
27th September is Euro Gamer 29th September
off to France 18th October is LFCC Winter and 25th October
is MCM! So that is a busy month to look forward to!
Hope this week goes quickly so I can sleep all weekend as
today I am KNACKERED!
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