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!!