NYCC 2015 Report: Sunday October 11, 2015 Report

Day 4: Sunday October 11, 2015

Its shopping day for all!! Except I. My friend and I did plan Sunday as a shopping day - but we ended up spending the day at the Viz Media booth to play on the roulette event most of the day.

Viz Media Roulette Event - Each participant spins the roulette once during their turn. The higher the number the more gifts you can get. They have the numbers raging from 1-4. I keep getting 3. Both times I participated in this, I keep getting the same number, lol its not a bad number, but I guess I was just greedy. I wasn't planning to keep any of these items that I won anyway. I planned to give them away to the people I knew who didn't get the chance to go to NYCC.

Later that day, I took my friends to complete their Naruto Ninja Missions. lol Funny that we are a three-man cell, we did pretty well - less than 10 min! Got our Naruto coins (I participated again) before they ran out; staff started giving out Naruto posters when the coins ran out.


Something else happened, there was another autographing line up for the newly announced Legend of Korra comic book's artist, Brittney Williams! I, of course, lined up to meet her! We talked a bit, she said my name is nice~! *happy* She's a very nice lady, I love her Korra sketches, I wish you all the best Brittney!

Then we went to the KONAMI booth - Basically, they take a picture of you [awkwardly posing] and photoshop on to a YU-GI-OH card template and print it out and glue it onto a cardboard backing. The turn out was similar to a YU-GI-OH card quality, but with your picture instead of a monster in it. You get to choose which kind of card/ background they can print your picture on.  Mine turned out weird, so I am not going to post a picture of it...

In the end, I was able to grab a few souvenirs for some friends. Mini shopping mission - success!

My NYCC 2015 loot. Mostly Naruto merchandise.

FYI: I only kept the shirt, signed posters, Naruto manga, and Naruto coins. Other posters and freebies (not pictured) from NYCC were given away to friends and coworkers. I do biweekly purges, so who knows how long I will keep the stuff - but definitely keeping the signed posters and shirt - will normally use - may be used for Summer wardrobe.

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NYCC 2015 Rating: 8/10 (would have been a 10 if I got Kishimoto's autograph OTL)

Comments: I can't deny this year was the better NYCC year ever I had. Still can't top my NYAF years though, nor my ANext experiences. But still good enough. More so now I have had the opportunities to meet people and experience things that I have not done before.

As a cosplayer, in the past I have had only concerned myself with the cosplay community, more so closely with the friends that I had made during that time. Never actually made time to participate in any panels nor autographing sessions. My cosplay friends would always focus on walking around the convention center to showcase their cosplays - I was not too comfortable with that, however. My introvert self was surfacing more and more as demands from cosplay friends made the hobby feel like a baggage and ultimately a bigger expense. Well, I was a student back then, and living alone. Then I decided to take a break from it all.

During two years after I stopped cosplaying, I still attended conventions. I wanted to experience it from a noncosplayer point of view - I was a noob when it comes to convention going, I was till making mistakes - still missing out on things like meeting people, panels, autographing session, etc.

This year, I was able to experience the convention going culture with old friends and college friends. I am glad that I was able to feel happy going to a convention, not stressed about cosplay, make-up, pictures, drama, etc. And that happiness is what every person should feel when attending a convention, grab a friend and experience what the event offers!

Thanks for reading! ( ´͈ ◡ `͈ )