Anime Expo 2015
My son and his fiance visited from Michigan and we spent two days at Anime Expo. I must admit it’s a pretty wild ride.
The banner for Anime Expo
There were a lot of people there:
The floor of the main exhibition hall
A very short video of the Taiko drumming at the start – they had drummers set up on both sides of the entry:
[youtube 7K8FWB3PmJQ Short bit of Taiko drumming at start of Anime Expo 2015]
You only get this at a convention like this one:
A weapons check
Lots of interesting costumes:
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- Wonder Woman
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- I hope that’s a bodysuit
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- Dan Board
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- Cool costumes
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- Cool costumes
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- Cool costumes
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- The headpiece was amazing
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- Even a cosplayer needs to phone home
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- Da Bear
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- The cosplay corgi
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- Rilakkuma
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- Cool costumes
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- Some cool costumes
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- Some cool costumes
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- Bunny costumes
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- Wheelchair Costume
On Saturday we went to the concert – IA performed. She’s an animation, the voice is called a vocaloid, a synthetic voice that can be edited and used with music. She ‘performs’ on a transparent screen in front of the band. I had to laugh a few times, it seemed odd to have that animation in front of the band. The music was interesting and good:
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- The line, from above, waiting to get into the theater
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- A shot of IA
A couple short videos of the IA concert:
[youtube Wbga8UpLGbU The sequence at the start of the concert]
[youtube a7kg1xnetF8 A very short clip of the IA show at Anime Expo 2015]
July 7th, 2015 by alephnaught