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College – 2008
I had an excellent time at Ohayocon!!
I would definitely go again next year, pending my schedule and money situation. This year, I got lucky. My room and Ohayocon pass was already paid for by one of my friends who opted out at the last minute. As far as food money, my friends took care of that. Thanks guys!
What I Did At Ohayocon
In all honesty, I didn’t really do that much at Ohayocon. I came with the intention of learning how bigger conventions work, not so much catching special events and all that. Besides a lot of wandering around aimlessly, I caught several voice actor panels. I was at the FMA panel, the Tiffany Grant panel, the Aaron Dismuke panel, the Ouran High School Host Club panel (best panel evAr!), the Beck panel, and the anime improv (seconded only by the Ouran panel). After watching these panels, Vic Mignogna is now my new hero! And yes, he did “the line” (Col. Mustang is dead sexy…in a miniskirt!).
Speaking of Vic, on Sunday as we were checking out of the hotel, I saw him coming out of the elevator with some voice actress whose name escapes me. I wanted to take a picture with him, but he appeared to be in a hurry so I let him be.
What I Will Do Different At Next Year’s Ohayocon
After looking over the schedule again, I found a TON of stuff that I wanted to see. The big thing that’ll be done differently next year is to have a gameplan. Now that I have an idea of where things are in the hotel (the place is MASSIVE!), I can go from one event to the next with less Ryoga moments (getting horribly lost).
The next thing that I’ll do different is get autographs/pictures of people. I did take a couple pics of the weekend, but most of them were cityscape shots from out of our hotel window. They’re beautiful yes, but I want to take more pictures relevent to the con. There were several voice actors whose autographs I really wanted to get (Tiffany Grant, Mike McFarland, and Vic Mignogna to name a few), but I missed out on the autograph sessions.
In addition to more pics and autographs, I’ll also record some video clips for YouTube. I didn’t record any, although I tried to record a vlog entry with little success.
I’ll also be waking up earlier for food next time around. The lines were CRAZY-long from 11-1 and didn’t die down til around 3-ish.
The final and most obvious thing that I’ll do differently at next year’s Ohayocon is to bring money. There was such a good selection of items in the dealer’s room that I wanted.
Well, I’m gonna watch College so I’ll see you guys later!
TheAndySan
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