Anime North 2005

This is the first convention of any kind I've ever been to. It won't be the last!
I had a ball. I even cosplayed - I'll be doing that again too. Anyway, here's
a little gallery of the pictures I took.

First, here's my costume, Kite from .hack. I picked it for a few reasons: I like .hack, it wasn't too hard to make, and it comes with a backpack
so I can lug my stuff around (that came in handy). I got a lot of compliments and photo-ops out of it, so I guess it turned out OK :)

And here's my friend Mary, who made the whole thing possible by inviting us to share a hotel room.
On the left as Allan Shezar from Escaflowne (not Fushigi Yuugi as I had written before. My bad.),
and on the right in a Vietnamese traditional outfit.

And here's the whole gang.

Oddly, there weren't that many .hack characters running around. I spotted exactly three:
another Kite, a Tsukasa, and a Mistral.

There was a .hack panel where they were discussing rumors about .hack//G.U. which was just announced
and the novel that's finally being translated. It was fun being "Kite" in a .hack panel; "Tsukasa" was there too,
and they called on us by character name ^_^

The most represented series was Naruto, but most of the costumes weren't anything to write home about.
Maybe people do them because they're easy? I dunno. This is the only one I thought was worth taking a picture of.