While I had several people ask to take my picture on Saturday (and not a single one of those made it to Instagram or Facebook - I have spent many hours looking through the #KamiCon tag…), I only had one ask on Sunday, and she was super sweet about it.Īgain, we spent all of Sunday in the vendor room, only stepping out for a few minutes to get a signature and a picture with ProZD, the same YouTuber from the previous night. I named my cat Kiki after the main character from the movie, and she wasn’t super happy that I decided to pick her up to pose with her. I spent all of Saturday as Sophie from Howl’s Moving Castle (petticoats and all!), but on Sunday I went as Kiki from Kiki’s Delivery Service. I thought of someone to submit too late, and just sat and watched. (He’s one of the main reasons one of our friends went to the con.) People lined up to defend their waifu in front of him, and they were rated from 1 to 5 stars, depending on age (and/or how old the character looked, which is important), looks, and personality. We attended one panel on Saturday, and it was a “Live-Rate Your Waifu/Husbando” panel, starring everyone’s favorite YouTuber Prozd. (Like, if I were to get it framed at Hobby Lobby, it’d be around $120 for the frame itself.) It doesn’t even fit the specifications of posters from other countries, so I can’t even buy a frame online for it. It was still $80, and I’m going to have to spend a lot of money to get it framed, since it’s 20.25″ by 28.75″. I bought the Nausicaa poster, because I’d never seen one before (it’s one of the more obscure Ghibli films, since it was technically made before the studio was established). (They also had original Ghibli film cells, but those were like $2,500, so way out of my range for the weekend). And it was there that I knew I was about to drop a lot of money, because they had original promotional movie posters for Ghibli films. The second purchase was a set of Ghibli pins (I got four of them - Nausicaa, Kiki, and Jiji for myself, and a Calcifer one for Steven) from another artist, before we wandered around to the actual vendor side of the room. My very first buy was actually from someone our friends knew from college, and it was a wooden Jiji lamp box. I’d brought $200 in cash, so that was my budget for the weekend. There were so many things to see and to buy, and we spent the vast majority of the day in the vendor room. We got to Kami around 11 on Saturday, just after the vendor room opened for the day. We spent the vast majority of our time in the vendor room/artist alley, only leaving to get food, one autograph, and attend one panel. (I’ll get to that in a minute, though.) I feel like next year we need to actually participate in panels more. This makes three years in a row that I’ve attended Kami-Con, and we only did one panel this year, too. We didn’t go Friday night, but we were there for a good chunk of Saturday and several hours on Sunday. Long story short, though, last weekend in February was Kami-Con, Birmingham’s anime convention! Steven and I bought the three-day pass back in September (when the pass was going for $35 walk-in price this past weekend was $55). (Also, can we switch to a four-day work week? A two-day weekend is not enough time to recover.) I’m still not exactly sure what happened to my time last week (or this weekend), but it seems like I’m running out of time everywhere in my life.
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