Otakon 2008 Wrap-Up: Media Mania, LOL
Last year I did a youtube scan for a week or so, for interesting material that came out of Otakon 2007. This year video blogging has really taken off and I’m not going to sit through hours on end of youtube nonsense (most of it are just slide shows anyways) to bring the good stuff. Still I will try to highlight some.
That was the best in-character cosplay I didn’t see.
Crunchyroll had a panel at Otakon, and I had to miss that, but some interesting things were said there. You can read about it at your usual news sites.
Wildarmsheero has already posted this on niconico, which I thought was funny because it is a karaoke of nico nico kumikyouku. Too bad he basically sings over the girls doing it half the time in the nico version. It’s a bit you-had-to-be-there. Just to note, Otakon karaoke has a time limitation where they will stop a song if it runs on for over 6-7 minutes. That’s why the guy had to let them. Waaaaaah has other crap videos linked that you might want to check, ideally while drunk.
CalAggie a while ago asked me about Caramelldansen at cons and I think this answers the question. The music is courtesy of this Japanese synth dude called seobon who went on with his keyboard at the karaoke room per Otakon’s band night tradition. Yea, he had real speakers. Speaking of which, Cal’s “I wasn’t at the con” con report is worth a glance too.
Gorgeous, delicious, deculture! Link has a picture.
There are more “better” karaoke goodness on youtube from the Otakon idol show that I try not to attend every year.
Bayoab’s con reporting thigmabob is good if you want to read the line-by-line reports of what happens at various industry things. Including the fansubbing panel.
Kappei Yamaguchi is a popular man. As a result I didn’t want to swim against the current of rabid nerdraging fangirls to get to his programming. Have some videos instead. Like the hentai one.
And of course there was JAM Project. You can find some con pics as well with some of the more choice shots of the JAM Project show here.
I think I am just going to link to some random cosplays and call it a day. Like this Ranka with iSlug. Or Toe Hoe cross plays. And that vocaloid thing. I’ve been looking for more pictures of that Aika S. Granzchesta cosplayer flaunted on the Os con report, and I also spotted this very nice Triela cosplay (probably was walking around with this) that I wasn’t able to take a picture of. If you can hook a brother up please help me out.
Most others, you can find a lot of the others right here at these two links. Macross Frontier was well-represented by cosplayers this year, so I was happy. Only saw one Sheryl though.
Have a kitty cat.
I so was planning on posting that Rena pic first, but oh wells.
EPIC Karaoke can be enjoyable to watch as well. :3
I should just zip up all the pictures I collected and make it available for download or something.
>>Too bad he basically sings over the girls doing it half the time in the nico version.
I uploaded your version to nico, too. http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm4273338
First photo scares me like it should. Never watched Higurashi but read it’s pretty freaky and looks like it too.
You can now go watch and AMPLIFY THE EFFECT hohoho
Damn, poor Sheryl! First her CD gets discounted, then no one wants to cosplay as her! Suspenders + hat + hotpants would be a fairly easy costume to put together, too.