Twas another fun time at a con. This week, I attended Anime Next in New Jersey and goddamn was this a fun time.
Although in my last entry I said for costume choices I'd be either Saix, Bandit Keith, or someone from Team Fortress 2, well...yeah, those didn't happen. Instead I had what technically amounted to three awesome costumes that weekend.
Instead of chronologically, I'm gonna name them in terms of awesomeness.
Low ranked on the awesome scale was what I wore for the majority of Saturday (I was there Friday and Saturday). This was just a simple Village Hidden in the Sand headband from Naruto. I got it to emulate Gaara of the Funk. Don't know who that is? Watch Naruto the Abridged Series.

Next, which I wore for about three hours on Saturday having purchased it that day, was my Zero suit. To clarify, Zero is the masked alter ego of Lelouch vi Brittania from the series Code Geass. Haven't watched it? DO SO! It's fucking awesome. I got a lot of pictures in that getup, especially since without my glasses I look exactly like him.
And now the winner. I wore this only on Friday and if I had a picture ready (still waiting on my friends to get them to me), I'd show you how awesome it was. For most of Friday I was...Kefka from Final Fantasy VI. While Jill may have won in terms of people asking for pictures at ABoston, that Friday, I won. I was stopped all the time for pics, usually preceded by an "OMG! It's Kefka!" I think I was the only person there who dressed like him. Now why didn't I do dress like him on Saturday? Well, it took a while to apply the makeup and get my hair done for it and then there was no place to change out and get all my makeup off on Saturday, as we checked out of our hotel, so I did the other costume choices.

As for things that went on, ho ho ho! There was a lot of fun stuff!
First on Friday, there was the repeated pictures taken of me, which was awesome. I also found it cool towards the end outside when there was a bit of dance party and, while in Kefka gear, standing between a guy dressed as Luxord and another dressed as Light Yagami, we Carmeldansed. Hells yes.
I did the dance again in my Zero suit, this time with some girl just up like Hani from Ouran High School Host Club. Fun times, fun times.
What really made my day on Friday was when I caught a glimpse of the crew of Sailor Moon Abridged in costume. I didn't approach them for a picture, even though I should have. It was especially awesome the next day when I saw them again and this time all three of them were in costume, including the one guy of the crew who was dressed like Sailor Jupiter. If you saw the series, you'd understand. I literally squeed like a fangirl when I saw them on Friday. So yeah...

As for cool Saturday events, well, there was all the pics I got taken of me as Zero and the 2nd round of Carmelldansen. Later in the night I attended a panal on Abridged Series (yes, I'm obsessed with them, they're so fucking funny). It was mostly on the king of the series, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series and my night was made when we had a direct line to the series creator, Little Kuriboh. It was amazing. Particuarly when he did the voices and answered some questions and did some comments in character. Of course, nothing could top when he first addressed us by saying "ATTENTION DUELISTS!" The room exploded in a fanish wave of excitement. Again, watch the series and it becomes more relevant.
Then I sat with other fans and watch a few episodes of Ouran High School Host Club. Good series, a little girly, but a good series nonetheless.
I ended the night by watching some Shin Chan.
Course, by ending the night, that was at about 1:30 am. Kyle, Jill, and John wanted to stay for a dance that started at 11 pm. I stayed in another panal and watched some shows while they danced. We finally left Jersey at about 2 am and I didn't get back home until 5 am, which sucked as I had to go to work at noon. I've been feeling dead all day.
Once again for Matt and Khaos, here were my compatriots costumes, for Friday at least. John was the only one who went in costume on Saturday. Johnny-boy went as the BLU Engineer from Team Fortress 2. There weren't too many TF2 people here this year and most people thought that he was Bob the Builder which pissed him off. Kyle went as James from Team Rocket, and once again he flew under the radar in terms of pics. Jill went as a female Ash Ketchum and she was second behind me in terms of pictures taken.

As for my purchases this time:
1. A PS1 memory card. Mostly just because I didn't feel like ordering one over the internet and I need it to play FFVIII on my PS2, as I lost my original PS1 card.
2. Village of Sand headband. Yeah, I already talked about this one.
3. Zero costume. Ditto.
4. Some art. And it was really cool art. From one stand I bought three pictures: One of Lelouch standing in the foreground, with Kallen and C.C. behind him (makes more sense if you've watched Code Geass); A four spread of Aang, Katara, Toph and Zuko from Avatar which using their elements. It looks pretty badass. And finally, a picture of Haruhi Suzimiya in a bunny suit holding a guitar. It's not fan speculation, that actually happened in one of the episodes. The last piece of art I bought was a picture of Zexion as a kitty. The artist had all the Organization members (except for Larxene which pissed me off) as cats and all were adorable. The Zexion one was just the cutest of them all and I got the last print. Ha Ha!

A fun time was had and I have to figure out if I still want to go to Otacon in July.