August 11 2003
My friend and I went to the Baltimore Convention Center to attend an annual event-- a 3-day event--------Otakon! WE heard about this anime convention a few months ago and were so excited to see American cosplay and doujin! Some of the cosplay costumes were awesome. We saw a lot of Kenshin and Kaoru, Trigun, FFVX, Inuyasha, and angels! But the doujins in the artist alley were disappointing... I was looking forward to seeing more talented-work...anyway... We also went into the Dealers' Room and it was HUGE! We bought a lot of anime accessories=== here is what I got:
| Get backers | letter set |
| Saiyuki | letter set |
| Sprial | letter set |
| X | letter set |
| Get backers | postcard set |
| Get backers | mechanical pencil |
| Get backers | pouch |
| Spiral | pouch |
| Spiral | mechanical pencil |
| Clamp's south side | art bk |
| WeiB-Omi | can badge |
| prince of tennis | fastener |
| petit charat | fastener X 2 |
| petit charat | lucky charm |
| Hikaru no go-Sai | mirror |
The 2nd day, I went to see the Japanese rock band--TM Revolution concert at Otakon. I can say it was one of the best moment that I would never forget in my life!! TMR sang very good@@ He dressed in Japanese Kimono and sang about 10 songs, including my favorite songs---> heart of sword (rurouni kenshin), invoke and meteor (gundam seed)!!
June 12 2003
Just read Clamp's newest series running on "Ace" called "TSUBASA", it's an exotic manga with many characters cross over from clamp's other famous manga. Mostly importanly, it's mainly related to "XXX holics" which is still running in Japan. I just finished reading ch1 to ch3 of "Tsubasa" and really can't wait to read it in chinese version! Though the characters are drawn roughly with simple features, the story itself is undoubtly facinating! If you got a time, you should check it out too!
