NYCC 2016: Thursday

Ta-da! Here you go, full body shot of the airbender nomad costume I made awhile back. I intended to cosplay Jinora, sure the hair is not perfect, but it's close enough! Though everyone kept calling me Aang - how frustrating...

Before I get into details on my experiences this year during NYCC - I will have to point out that I was only able to obtain the Thursday ticket. Though I followed the provided instructions, I fan-registered and followed my specific link at the sale time - I still was not able to buy the weekend pass. I was disappointed. But they offered a second ticket/pass sale again, in which I was able to purchase the Thursday pass.

NYCC 2016 was over months ago - apologies, life happened and I wasn't able to blog much. Before the convention, my friends and I, knowing that we only had one day to raid through the convention - we wanted to get the most out of it, so we decided we should cosplay this year. I was ready - as I have already finished a costume (see prior post). 

My friends, luckily, managed to put something together nicely! One of my friends decided to do an awesome teenage punk version of Kiki (from Studio Ghibli;s 'Kiki's Deliver Service' movie), and I offered to make her bow - I always wanted to cosplay Kiki myself, but this time I needed to debut my airbeder cosplay. It was a chance for me to dust out my sewing machine and review on how to make an awesomely huge and cute bow. It turned out better than I expected and I was so happy she liked it~ I made it with velcro, so that it can attach and detach from a headband ^_~  My other friend decided to comfortably be a Pikachu for the day. 

Courtesy of Ryan Chong at (http://www.rchong3d.com/nycc-2016)
 - Please excuse my unruly caplet... -

We were very happy with how the costume turned out and convention goers recognized the characters we were cosplaying... Well, except, I was mainly confused with my character's grandfather, Avatar Aang. Like, ugh, where do you see arrow tattoos? my head was full of HAIR! *in despair* ;^; Ever heard of other air nomads from the show?!.... Ahem! Anyway, my friend who cosplayed Kiki was very popular :3 she was so aduuuraburuuu as Kiki!! 

While on our rounds in the showfloor, we found a Sokka cosplayer and Aang cosplayer - you can check those photos at IG - same handlename as here.

I wanted to be a princess too, so I put on my tiara and stood next to Sailormoon

We tried to do the most we could, though we mainly went to areas of our interests, which is the show floor (for anime related stuff like Bandai, Viz media, Konami, etc.) and the visited the autographing floor (basement) for a bit. We all agreed not to attend any panels because those mostly require time to line up early to secure a spot - so we did without - and we still had an awesome time during the convention. It was great, even for only one day. I didn't expect to have enjoyed much more than I originally thought because I am so used to attending the entire weekend.

Cosplaying played a huge role in us enjoying the convention this year. So guys, if you are planning to go to any comic-con or anime convention, consider cosplaying something! It will enhance your con-going experience! It definitely did for me. It reminded me the good old days when I used to be more into the hobby.

See you next year NYCC.

That is it, hasta la vista! 

NYCC 2015 Report: Saturday October 10, 2015 Report

Day 3: Saturday, October 11, 2015

You (probably) have no idea how down I was feeling that morning. Reality crashed - I will never get Kishimoto's autograph... It was so hard to accept, my morning was just not great. Plus, my friend/roomie was especially helpful by leaving her cellphone at home. Yep, made my morning!

Anyways, enough with the sad vibes. My resourceful friend came to the rescue, she told me about Takeuchi Junko's autographing session! I was able to meet her and get her autograph. That made my weekend a bit better.

Takeuchi Junko autographing a Naruto poster @ NYCC 2015

Saturday ended well.

NYCC 2015 Report: Friday October 9, 2015 Report

Day 2: Friday, October 9, 2015

I had this plan that day: I would check out the show floor again, and then go home, take a nap, and come back before 9pm to start lining up for Masashi Kishimoto's autograph.

The day started very energetically, I mean, just look at this group of cosplayers!!!

Anyways, my friend and I had to make our NYCC morning short because we were on a ninja mission - to get Kishimoto's autograph! We left around 2:30pm.

At that point I was constantly reviewing the information on the website - they said that their staff won't allow anyone to start queuing up before 9PM (Friday 10/9/15) for the 10:30AM Saturday, October 10, 2015 - Kishimoto's Autographing session. I wanted to reassure myself that things will go alright and as planned.

Sad news was... the staff stopped caring. According to one very resourceful fried of mine, hardcore fanatics lined up at the Hammerstein Ballroom ever since 4:00 PM. Apparently, staff members did try to shoo these fans away, but due to the fans' hardcore nature, they eventually gave up. I can't blame them... Nor I can blame the fans. I would have stayed too. But I was too naive...I left the convention to take a nap so I can camp out the whole night (if needed be) - but OH MY GLOB, that was stupid. At that time I was still at home and didn't know a thing about what was going - URGHHHH!

(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ 

At 7:30 PM, I set foot out of my place, my friends (queuing at that moment) hurried me constantly to come. Another set back was that I lived about 1.5 to 2 hours away from the convention center - fudge me.

I am done.

Good night - hope you have a sweet dream... I will just be under my blankets and recall how my stupid plan failed.... (ಥ⌣ಥ)

NYCC 2015 Report: Thurday October 8, 2015 Report

Hello! I apologize for the overdue NYCC 2015 report - but in any case, you probably won't see this as you are my senpai, thus I will never be noticed. Nope, not a deadline missed. 

Day 1: Thursday, October 8, 2015:

Entering NYCC 2015| Javits Convention Center

As I entered the convention center at Javits, huge crowd welcomed me. On a usual NYCC Thursday, I don't really recall seeing such large crowd - to me, it felt like a NYCC Saturday crowd.

That day, I visited the convention alone, a first for me (no, senpai, I wasn't with any other senpai before - only FRIENDS). TIP - download the NYCC app and try to browse around for events and panels you might be interested in at least the night before so you can plan ahead and go get the wristbands (for main stage panels) first thing you arrive at the convention center! I had planned to attend Masashi Kishimoto's panel, so first thing I did was to go to the queue hall and picked up my wristband. Then I proceeded to walk around the show floor baby! If you are an anime-person like me (I am not that into American cartoons - only watch a few), you would want to walk straight to the Viz Media booth and check out what events they have. Unfortunately for me, I missed the most important - Kishimoto's signing raffle tickets!!! URGH!!! Because I arrived there at noon!

Anyhow, I moved on, can't brood around. They were doing the stamp event! This time they called it the Naruto Ninja Mission - loved that idea! I mean, looking at the crazy crowd on the show floor, it will definitely be a mission (lol). All you have to do is to go to the booths listed on the mission card and collect the stamps, then you would need to return to the Viz Media booth to collect the final stamp and prize. I completed my mission and got the prize - a Naruto coin! They were giving out Naruto (cardboard) Konoha headbands.

Completed Naruto Ninja Mission @ NYCC 2015

Thereafter, it was time to line up for the panel...

View of the line to the Thurday Masashi Kishimoto Main Stage Panel @ NYCC2015

 Line finally moving! Everyone is excited to attend! 

While inside the Main Stage panel with Masashi Kishimoto @ NYCC2015

After the panel, I met up with a friend and helped me take a pic with Naruto~ <3

Me being a derp with Naruto-kun~ <3 hehe

Thursday report - over.

The Downtown Battle: NYCC 2015 Ticket Sale Line Up

Update: Didn't have data to post this while I was queuing up at Midtown Comics. But we got the tickets! It was much faster than last year's. That's a good thing in my opinion, even though they only gave <24 hours notice. In the end, we didn't go with any plans we made, got the 4-day ticket instead - so I can get more chances to see Masashi Kishimoto!

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Getting NYCC 2015 tickets at Midtown Comics' downtown location:

Plan A: 3-days ticket
Plan B: Thursday ticket

Let the games begin!!