Well, the Con took place on September 27-28. Luckily we had nice weather, no rain (for once) and tons of people.
My friend, Risa came to Budapest Friday evening, I picked her up and we spent the evening together cracking up jokes. I put on The Roadkillers and Risa said if she was to ever commit suicie she would do it while the song "Sad Lisa" from 36 Crazyfists was on. And apparently 2 days ago she asked me to send her the song on MSN because she changed her mind and it's such a beautiful song.
It is actually. Anyway, on Saturday we got up at 6:30 to go to the Con venue and figures: that long long loooooong line of people! And they were the ones with their previously reserved ticket. There was a separate line for those who wanted to buy their tickets on the spot. One of my friends, Adri, was out in the pre-order line and she was standing there since 6 in the morning and got in past noon!
The funny *I1m so evil* thing is that I should've been standing in that line even though I'm VIP (as a member of the Hungarian ANime Society) but I took Risa to the backdoor where the staff members were going in. And Rise signed up online to be a helper. So I go there with her and it turns out that a friend of mine, Ginev, was the one listing people. And she said "Hey, come in!". So I got my VIP green (the horror, it used to be silver) wristband and yay I'm in!!! (^∇^)
I realized I will have plenty of free time and Risa said it'll be so lonesome for her as a helper so I signed up as onbe voluntarily. The staff was in need of helpers anyway since a lot of people fell ill and couldn't come. I was really ill myself, but not that ill. A runny nose and a slight fever never kept me away from fun.
So, on Saturday I was helping the cosplayers backstage from 11a.m. till 1p.m. and then I was standing watch for the dressing rooms with all the cosplayers' stuff from 6p.m. till 7p.m.
You should know that all the stands open at 10 so I was rushing around to get all the stuff I wanted. Here's what I got:
- Dark Metro (manga) second book
- Death Note (manga) second book
- NANA (manga) second book
- Hellsing (manga) first and second book
- DARMA (an anthology of young Hungarian wanna-be mangakas) second book - signed
- Ryuk plushie
- Cat hat
- A MARU T-shirt
- JRock pins from Sound Of Japan (Thanks to Case who let Risa and me buy stuff before the rush of fangirls) - I got a new Dir en grey one, Plastic Tree, UnsraW, Kagrra, Teru from Versailles, lynch., a Kisaki for my friend in America, and a Sound Of Japan one
If I have time I will post a pic of my huge pin collection.
All the mangas I bought are in Hungarian. I wanted to buy the manwha "The Bride of the Water God" but I had no money left for that, most unfortunately. It's No. 1. manwha in South Korea and the artwork is really beautiful. I wonder if I can buy it at the huge bookstore in the mall, I shall look around when I have time this week.
So, due to the work I was doing backstage I missed all the competitions for that day and many people missed me around since they couldn't find me anywhere. But backstage with the staff it was so much fun. We joked around, talked all sorts of shit, had wasabi peanuts (I'm such an addict), talked with the cosplayers. It was different, and I rather help out next time again at the SakuraCon then to linger around in the 4000 people crowd with nothing to do.
Apparently, when I was doing hte running around searching for cosplayers and whatnot I got stopped a good few times for a picture or two. So far I only managed to find one single pic of me in my Saturday outfit:
On Sunday I was also helping out, but only when the cosplayers (performance category) were taken to the phototshoot. Other then that I had lost of free time, Risa as well, so we met up with Adri and a couple of our friend and sat outside in the beer tent chatting. And suddenly the GazettE showed up!
I mean Shizu, Ayumi, Rami, and Eve as the GazettE!
Her blog has a piccu I can't link here for some weird reason: Shizu's blog
Sunday even more people took my picture, I was dressed in purple. All the pics I have are way too big to be featured here. -___-#
So that was all, basically.
Aru over and out
PS: Does anybody knwo how I can put music on my profile? I can't find a single song with an "add" button!!!

