Anime Evolution 2007 Day 1
Yay, AE! After having a blast on Thursday night’s masquerade ball, I was pumped for the actual con. Since my sister is a staff member, she’s actually staying at the townhouses in the convention grounds. I forgot to mention that, again, the con is held in Simon Fraser University.
So on Friday morning, my brother and I drove up to SFU at around 10 am. Since it’s the first day, nothing much is really going on before the opening ceremonies. I actually tried to see my thesis supervisor but he wasn’t in his office. There goes killing two birds with one stone.
Anyway, I saw lots of cosplayers throughout the day. I had more time to walk around since the first day didn’t have many events that I wanted to go to. My highlights of the day include seeing Rei and Asuka in their sexy plugsuits. I actually saw them first while they were adding bits and pieces to their plugsuits, so I didn’t want to bother them. Unfortunately, I thought I’d catch them when they’re done but I missed them. Dammit. The second time, I only saw Asuka. I decided to seize the opportunity and try to get a picture. By this time, I already took some pictures, so by the time I got to Asuka, it figures that my camera would run out of batteries. Dammit again. Fortunately, she said that she and Rei are going to be attending for the whole weekend so I’ll have plenty of opportunity to take a picture. Later that day, I finally caught the vivacious pair and took a photo of them. Yesss… I was flying to the moon after that.
The other big highlight is seeing a Kamina and Yoko pair. Holy shit! That was one awesome cape on Kamina! The Gurren-dan symbol was well done and the cape was bright red. The Yoko cosplayer is sexy (Thank god!) and her costume was well done too. I took a photo of them together. But surprise! Kamina said that we get a bonus. He turned to Yoko and kissed her. I was fumbling with my camera (which I borrowed from my sister), but fortunately and impressively, the two locked lips until I finished taking the shot. Thanking them profusely and being giddy from taking that shot, I took my leave.
As for what I did the rest of that day, one of them was entering the Soul Calibur 3 tournament. Entering was pretty much it, as my Raphael was raped by Kilik’s long hard stick, literally and figuratively. I was 3-0′d to oblivion in a best-of-5 match. T_T
I made my way to the anime music videos room with my head hung low. I watched some funny trailer parodies. Afterward, there was an AMV gameshow. I tried out to be a contestant but man, the questions were hard. You have to answer two questions in a row just to become a contestant. Questions like "What color was the thing in this scene?" or "How many somethings are in the shot with someone?". Two people actually managed to answer correctly, and I somehow limped in as the third and final contestant. Each contestant was assigned a music video per round and the contest was two rounds. After watching, the contestant answers 10 questions in one minute. Without getting into specifics, I was dead last and behind by quite a number of points going into the second round. The second round had an interesting rule like the Daily Double question in Jeopardy where you can bet any amount of money you can. I nailed that question after betting the maximum amount I can bet so I actually made it interesting. Unfortunately, I still came up short. I was tied with someone for 2nd place so a tiebreaker was needed. Since I suck, I promptly lost that and wound up 3rd place out of 3 people. Woot… T_T As a consolation, I got two posters: a Blood: the Last Vampire poster and a bigger, cooler poster from Dragoneer’s Aria (I don’t know what this one is, actually).
Wow, I’m 0 for 2 for the day, striking out swinging at my first at-bat, and launching a ball to deep center, only to be caught by the center fielder.
Feeling bummed, I went to the panel I was looking forward to that day, and that was the panel with Dr. Uwe Boll. I only watched one movie of his before and that was Alone in the Dark, and only because I won free tickets. I thought it was a pile of **** and so did my dad, brother and sister whom I decided to share the tickets with. Yeah, they did not appreciate wasting valuable hours of their life. I actually told this story to some of my IRC buddies so I’ll just post the log below:
> i got a bunch of stuff about uwe-kun to report
> 
<Regret> …
<Regret> oh god lol
<Regret> ChaosShadow, i think you can become un-bored from this
> hehe
> where to start? hmm
> how about the fact that no wonder that guy beat up his critics in boxing
<Regret> lmao…
> he’s pretty ripped with his old man muscle
> *muscles
> i was late to the panel though
> but he was talking about the "fucking bible" and "fucking religion" when i got there
> "bullshit" was said a lot of time
> *times
<Regret> rofl
> "fuck" was said a lot of times
> basically he’s an atheist
> and he contradicts himself
> "i have nothing against religion…"
> a few minutes later
> "religion is responsible for the majority of wars and shit"
> anyway, interestingly canadians are a pretty courteous bunch
> i didn’t hear any boos or heckling
> D:
> i was disappointed
> anyway
<Regret> 
> later
<Regret> later :O
> someone asked the question i’ve been waiting for
> "what do you feel/think about the people who say your movie are bad"
> *movies
> the guy asked that with a straight face
> i was grinning inside
> i saw the two emcees look at each other and grin as well
> rofl
> duuuude, you know what uwe said?
> basically he said that he’s being treated unfairly by hollywood
<Regret> …
> to quote: "people say that bloodrayne was the same as ultraviolet and elektra, but those movies got 4 in imdb while bloodrayne only got 1.5"
> ROFL
<Regret> …
<Regret> LOL
> that was fucking funny!
> i dunno if he was serious or not
> anyway, the rest of what he said in the panel actually made some sense 
<Regret> …made sense? ~~
> well, he was asked about his opinions regarding censorship
> and he said screw censorship
<Regret> lol
> people 18 and over have a right to what they wanna watch
> ratings shouldn’t be decided on the number of swear words but rather on the content
> THAT made sense to me O_o
> i was pretty taken back
<Regret> lol
<Regret> Well, content is a matter of opinion too. :O
> well that shows that he’s a person after all *gasp*
<Regret> unpossible D:
> i know
> and here’s the kicker
> someone asked what his 3 top horror movies are
> he listed 1) Rosemary’s Baby, 2) The Shining, 3) Halloween
> those are damn good choices for top 3
<Regret> pssh… to popular. >_>
> dude, again
> it shows he’s human
<Regret> uwe boll knwos pop culture?!
<Regret> ~shokku~
> not the abomination of a human that i imagined him to be
> anyway at the end
<Regret> did anyone ask about his stuff w/wired?
> hmm i don’t think so
<Regret> oh maaan
> basically people also asked about dungeon siege and farcry
> since he’s doing those too
<Regret> o D:
> anyway
> i managed to shake his hand and get his autograph
> :O
<rhyein> …
<rhyein> did you kill him?
> at the end, i was thinking "this guy is just a normal guy"
> …
> i’m shocked at myself
* Kaneda15 has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 240 seconds)
> but i looked at his signature… what a pile
> looks like chicken scratches
<Regret> …
<Regret> LOL
> no wonder his movies are the same
> again, canadians are too nice
> is the lesson learned here
<ChaosShadow> actually
<ChaosShadow> canada like uwe
<ChaosShadow> ;o
<ChaosShadow> and..
<ChaosShadow> ima shamed of you
<ChaosShadow> YOU TOUCHED HIS HAND
<ChaosShadow> AND DIDNT KILL HIM
<ChaosShadow> i guess ill get caught up on rxj.. since i hear 17 gets decent D:
> chaos, i’m ashamed of myself too
> i don’t get it
<ChaosShadow> you choked
<ChaosShadow> ;o
> i’m only a naturalized canadian D:
<ChaosShadow> YOU WERE RIGHT THERE
> but i acted like a real one
…And there you have it. The only downside is I had to miss the Anime Idol contest that my sister is a contestant in. Choosing between listening to Uwe-kun and listening to amateurs sing was really tough. On one hand, my sister is a contestant and on the other, there’s Uwe. I chose to go to Uwe’s panel because I honestly thought that my sister had the voice to make it to the next round. But, I was sadly mistaken as I learned later that she was eliminated.
The final stuff that I did was watching some more AMV’s with my brother. This time, it was the best of Anime Evolution so they showed all the videos from when the con started to the ones from last year’s con. Pretty epic, really, ranging from serious stuff to comedy.
Day 1 End!
