Sakura Con 2008 Report

I was going through my old pictures and I was like... what the, I didn't post about Sakura Con! Sadly, I'm not one with good memory so recalling it will be a biotch.

Point form time!

- We (Shi2, Dave and me) left Vancouver early Thursday morning of March 27 via Greyhound and got there sometime early afternoon.

- We did a lot of shopping in the area rather than actually hanging around the con (uh, it was kinda boring <_<;)

- I went to Kikuta Hiroki's panel, guy who composed Secret of Mana. He mentioned Concerto Gate as his latest. I wanted to get into beta real bad just for his music.. speaking of which, what happened to that game?

- For the second half of his panel, he remixed a bunch of Secret of Mana tracks on a fast bpm. He requested people to feel free to dance, but it was way too awkward for the audience so most people did stand up... and... stand there. AWKWARD AS HELL but I felt so bad for him, yet I couldn't do anything to help.

- Went to his signing as well... sadly I brought nothing for him to sign (I wouldn't know where my SoM game is anyways) and he requested every attendee for their favourite track. I told him the forest one (humed the song to him) but when I got home to listen again.. MY FAVOURITE IS NOT THAT ONE but it sure was the most memorable one. He signed my badge instead.

- Met up with Nekura briefly there. Had him bring us to some places... though I only remember going to the very first Starbucks location ever built.

- Did shopping... was deciding whether to get Ignis in her wedding gown or Kaleido Ruby (Rin) or this unexpectedly hot Rei with the lance of Longinus. I'm actually not a fan of Rei (I prefer Asuka) but I really liked the figure so I went with that one. Kaleido Ruby disappeared on the last day when I was deciding on one of the three.

- I remember we spent a lot of time at the dealer's room but that's not really news.

- When I was lining up for Kawamoto Toshihiro's signature, I played a few rounds of Tetris DS whoop-ass against Nekura. I haven't lost my touch ;D

- Kawamoto Toshihiro (Wolf's Rain, Cowboy Bebop illustrator) was a nice guy.

- I don't think I went to any concerts. Not even ALI PROJECT.

- Speaking of ALI PROJECT, we've decided to boycott Sakura Con after this particular incident: After being to so many conventions, if one wants a popular guests' autograph, one must be prompt because I realize that guests have a tight schedule. I lined up for ALI PROJECT's scheduled autograph block.. however their line was actually kind of missing. I went to ask a staff member what was going on and they informed me that they pushed it to two hours later. I thought oh okay, so we decided to head off to do something else in the meanwhile. When we got back, I find out that the lineup for ALI PROJECT JUST finished, and I JUST MISSED IT. I ended up getting extremely pissed and find some staff to spazz at. They didn't have much to say about it except apologize rather insincerely. It was extremely unfair and just completely retarded. Just thinking about it now makes my blood boil.

I realize I probably shouldn't stop going because of this but, they weren't so great to begin with so screw them. I'll go to PAX instead - done.