Everyone is tired.

This guy was a panda for most of the weekend, and only spoke via his whiteboard. Here it complains that he has been dumped for FF8 pretty boys.

Whilst I wait for things to heat up around the con, I made my way back to the Puzzle Guy's table and played around some more with the Donkey Puzzle. The objective is to get the red block from the top to the bottom. It's very difficult!

Oh no, these guys are from Battle Royale. In the background you can see Puzzle Guy doing something which probably involves him being stressed or tired.

Not sure of the character, but look, a giant Totoro plushy!

Ginji and Akabane duke it out. Akabane, by the way, is the same guy who was Sanzo earlier. I spoke to him for a while during the masquerade. He is cool.

Alucard as Alucard.

Arwyn update: I found Arwyn wandering the streets unable to comprehend human language any more. Apparently he'd downed a bottle of mouthwatch and tried to eat a bar of soap.

Ginji eats a sandwich. Amazing.

This was Alucard again, if I remember rightly. He was Kakashi this time, and let me tell you, that was one filthy book. I checked.

There are at least two ninjas in the picture this time.

Monica Rial talks about this funky soap at the signing. Not really the most interesting movie but it's hard to capture specifically interesting bits before they happen. The soap had a toy in the middle to encourage convention atendees to wash.

I'd just like to say that Monica Rial was a way better guest than Piro of Megatokyo was at Ayacon. He just hid in his room all the time and came out occasionally for a few clinically tested signings. Ms Rial wandered around the convention pretty much all weekend and was amazingly easy to approach and talk to even if you didn't want anything signed. At one point, Mangamad was starting near her having a panic attack as she was chatting to the chairman. I did what I could by grabbing him and pulling him over and then he got over his initial fears. He was obviously a big fan, though, as he had her sign about five different things. So... yeah, Monica Rial > Piro.

Yey, it's Kazuki. In the anime, Kazuki was a guy but everyone thought was a girl. So it only seems right that a girl should be cosplaying him.

This is best ever. Two street fighter cosplayers acted out a real fight for me... slappers only.

There was a picnic thing in the park which I largely missed.

Awesome. Kenshin plays the reverse stringed (or not) guitar, and then proceeds not to kill anyone with it.

Hunter drew this in biro. I'm pretty impressed.

There was a strange bug.

Greg said he could possibly try and eat the six remaining biscuits which were tied together with sugar shoelaces. Not just eat, either, eat in one go! Will he suceed? Watch the movie to find out.

The bottle lamp is really cool but I don't think many people got it. I got it instantly, of course, and eventually tracked down this BR cosplayer for a picture.

Lucyjin gets her hands on some filth. Gay warning.

Sannosuke looks around for something. Possibly not a fourteen foot lance.

After sealing the nen ability of Kuroro Lucifer, Kurapica relaxes in the pub with a pint. By the way, awesome.

Arwyn update; Arwyn is not dead at this point, and has also discovered that his hapiness is directly proportional to the number of hats he is wearing.

I only caught a pic of these two as they were signing out. I believe the game is called Fatal Frame 2, where you have to take pictures of these spooky twins or something. I don't need to play the game anyway, because I've experienced the real version.

Oh, the people in the rooms next to me. Turkeh was the dude's name. I can't remember the girl's name because my brain is full of stuff already.

Hooray. Just as the disco was starting I photographed the last remaining BR cosplayer. Presumably he went to the disco to kill as many of his friends as possible.

The Aftermath

Turkeh is still alive!

Paul Cosgrove is still alive! I talked to him for the majority of the time of the disco because the disco was horridly sweaty.

Hunter and Kenshin survived! Hunter looks completely knackered.

Ruminoid (or something) Knight is... kind of... alive! A bit!

Somehow the Chairman survived. I'm amazed.

Arwyn is actually dead here. That's the only explanation I can think of.

After all that nonsense I got on a train and went to rjpageuk's for the first Ikaruga Meet! Woot.

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