Show of hands, how many of you dress up as your favorite anime characters for conventions like this one?
I spent some time today hanging outside by the convention center and getting people to pose for pictures. I got a Mario, a couple Links, an awesome Viewtiful Joe, a group straight out of Final Fantasy, a few girls dressed in full dog costume, two dudes who looked like sissy versions of the Blues Brothers and a couple others.
It\'s just camera phone pics so I can\'t share any, but the kid who looked like Viewtiful Joe was spot on.
There are all kinds of kids with spiky blue hair and fishnet stockings. Pirates, a Pikachu, a couple Indiana Jones, vampires, chainsaw killers, all kinds of cardboard broad swords, heh.
The convention lasts all weekend. A kid dressed as someone from Castlevania told me its the second biggest one in the U.S. Cali has the, I don\'t know, most ridiculous.