#Fanime 2019 Lineup

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(I’ve already announced it on my twitter last night, but this is my final lineup for Fanime 2019! I am attending this con with Kat and some friends of ours on May 24-26th. I will also be returning once again with my Fire Emblem cosplays this year!

On May 24th, I will be Female Robin from Fire Emblem Awakening. 

And on May 25-26th, I will be Female Corrin from Fire Emblem Fates.

If you’re going to this con, don’t be shy about approaching me! And feel free to namedrop my rp blog or twitter name if you ever want to call out to me.)

[sakurawitch13]

Finalized Fanime 2019 Cosplay List

Unless Fanime decides to change the gathering list one last time before the actual con, the line up has been finalized! Note: 2B for Day Zero is dependent on how much I want to get the badge.

Thursday: 2B from Nier Automata

Friday: Shoto Todoroki from My Hero Academia

Saturday: Kairi from Kingdom Hearts 3 and Ann Takamaki from Persona 5

Sunday:Lunafreya Nox Fleuret and Noctis Lucis Caelum from Final Fantasy XV

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I don’t have time to do a lineup video for Fanime so here it is

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Good luck to everyone with Fanime hotel blocks opening today! I can't wait to see some people I haven't physically seen in years! I don't even know what to do for a lineup since there's several cosplays I've made but not worn yet. Whatever I choose, it'll be fun to make matching masks to go over a KN95 😅 Photo by @wwcosplay.photo in 2019 #finalfantasy #ffxv #finalfantasycosplay #ffxvcosplay #lunafreya #cosplay #whitedress #finalfantasygirls #oracle https://www.instagram.com/p/CY64b-rLDV_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Fanime 2019 lineup!

Friday: Peter Pan from the Disney movie

Saturday: Roxas from Kingdom Hearts

Sunday: Dirk Strider from Homestuck

Monday: Bakura Ryou/Yami Bakura from Yu-gi-oh!/Yugioh!

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Crunchyroll Expo 2019

This is mainly in response to the things I heard at the feedback panel. 1. I have so much sympathy for the staff who were the panelists. I also hope they don't give too much weight to the criticisms they heard there. The panel seems to self-select for the most obnoxious tone-deaf non-central attendees, given that the vast majority of attendees were enjoying themselves elsewhere, instead of bombarding the staff with their hare-brained suggestions. 2. From what I experienced, Crunchyroll Expo has a distinct identity as a large anime convention: succeeding strongly where Japan Expo USA failed, as a convention centered around professional guests, and even moreso around guests from Japan. I'd say all of the panels were associated with people working in the entertainment industry in some form. Thanks to the Crunchyroll origins, they had the connections to be credible to the Japan guests, the clout and name recognition to attract attendees early on, the capital to fund the production value, and very importantly, the local expertise to much better handle location logistics than JXUSA could. I quite like this distinct identity, and CRX shouldn't stray too far from that. It's not Fanime, PAX, or SacAnime, and it shouldn't try to be. There were lots of suggestions at the feedback panel for more community events, and I wouldn't want the con to go too far in that direction. Keep gaming centered on Japanese arcade stuff, with maybe some Japanese game E-sports, but don't go full LAN party with any games allowed. Add a tabletop room, but don't let just any American/US game be there, try to introduce attendees to specific Japan-associated games, like hanafuda, kabufuda, or karuta-based games, and the few translated Japan TTRPGs. The point is, CRX is a con where attendees are funneled towards learning new things about Japan's entertainment industry, through industry professionals, and to experience new anime. Don't let things non-central to that take up too much air. Again, the vast majority of people weren't attending that feedback panel exactly because they were enjoying all of the central content of the con, so the people complaining about the con not being about other stuff, trying to turn CRX into other cons, were atypical attendees. 3. On that note, I was very impressed by the breadth of industry aspects showcased. Previous cons tended to be actor-focused, both in guests and in which panels were popular with attendees. Thanks to work by sakuga enthusiasts, especially the folks behind Sakugabooru, lots of people are paying more attention to technical staff. CRX, too, did a great job making the case to prospective panel attendees why they should be excited to see these guests. The moderators would give the audience context, and the guests themselves would often be just as excited to see the clips of their own work, giving them inspiration for commentary to make, and the live drawings, of course, were just great. Major kudos to the moderators, in general. You could tell that they were all passionate about their guests, had thought really in-depth about the questions to ask, and they often had a nice chemistry with the guests, which helped bring out some less stiff answers than might be expected. (Translator quality varied as usual, but I know that the guests are usually bringing their own, and not something CRX can control. And there were certainly some stellar translators there, too.) But yeah, breadth. There were directors, producers, animators/storyboarders/character designers, mangaka, all sharing their special insights, and I was very pleased by how much music content there was, as someone who tends towards that part of the industry. The only aspect that was arguably underrepresented would be writers (script writing/series composition for shows, or LN authors). 4. I was also very impressed by the scheduling. Guests were almost all slotted for 2-3 events, and events overlapped so that if I missed a particular guest on one day, I could catch them at another event at least once on another day. As with the previous point, the way the breadth was overlapped was that even if I attended all of the music-related panels, I was still attending panels for all of the other aspects of the anime creation process throughout the day. Very excellent scheduling. The only panels that I missed (weeping for missing Junji Ito's kitties) were because I let my guard down after Friday, and didn't camp for some events that ended up full room. And even then, those few panels probably didn't need insane amounts of camping, either, just 15-30 mins. That's a heavenly amount of camping, when I'm used to having to block in 2 hours before anything I want to attend, at other cons. Thanks very much for the large capacities afforded to every panel. 5. Criticism: screenings, of all things, should not ever go off schedule. Panels, I can understand, because panellists might run late, but there's no reason for a screening to start late, unless there was technical difficulties. I had scheduled a particular screening which would end 15 minutes before the next panel I would attend. Instead, the screening started over 15 minutes late, and I missed a good chunk of the end because I had to leave for that other panel. Luckily this screening was for something already released in the US, so I'll be able to finish the movie, but there were a few unique premiere screenings at the con, and that room being off schedule could have soured other attendees' experiences a lot more than it did mine. 6. Minor criticism: The app wasn't accessible on my phone. I was able to get by with internet, as new schedule content was added on the website as well (and thank you for that!), but I wouldn't get updated time stamps as the app users did. Please don't assume that everyone has the newest OSes when writing the app in the future. My phone isn't even that old, only a couple of years. On that note, I wasn't thrilled with the format of the schedule. With the way everything overlapped in offset intervals, sometimes it wasn't obvious where events in different locations were in relation to each other, and I did miss some panel content once because I had misread the time, due to how the single-column scrolling obscured the amount of overlapping. The location filters do nothing to help with that. I understand that a traditional spreadsheet timetable (location columns, timestamp rows) isn't sexy aesthetics, and has very unsexy horizontal scrolling in a smartphone context, but that's actually where the oversized newspaper con guide could shine, or in a traditional booklet, a foldout insert. (Btw, I thought that the newpaper con guide was fine. It gives more space and bigger font size for reading accessibility, and was likely cheaper to print and assemble than a booklet, which needs glossy paper, more pages, stiffer folding, and required stapling.) 7. Very minor criticism that CRX may not be to control: as said before, I tended towards the music content of the con, but only Flow had their music on sale at the con. So there would be all of these artists promoting their work, and I'd be fired up about them after their panels...but there would be nowhere in the con for me to throw money at them. I understand that bringing stuff to sell is on the artists, but maybe coordinate some sort of "music guest merch" table somewhere, so that the logistics burden for selling products is lowered for all of them? Anime NYC did it for their Anisong Matsuri lineup last year, where there was a single merch table, manned by a few cashiers for all of the artists there, so that each artist didn't have to provide their own sales staff, and shipping costs of importing the stuff was also reduced because of consolidation. Even for artists who don't have physical CDs, they could do something like sell a code to redeem the purchase later. But yeah, overall, I had a great time at the con! I learned a lot, laughed a lot, danced a lot, and what more can you ask for?

[vasyenka]

My Fanime 2019 lineup! :D I’m only wearing Sombra for the OW gathering and Homura to the B&W Ball, and may bring another 2hu if I have room~;y

[schwaycosplay]

Here is my official ALA 2019 lineup!

Since it’s changed quite a bit. Sadly I’m no longer able to attend Thursday so Ginormica is technically cut from line up now. However, because it is expected to rain and be fairly cold I am bringing her as an alternative in case any of my other costumes get too chilly for me. If I don’t wear her this weekend she’ll be making an appearance either at Titan Con or Fanime!!

Alright with that said on to the actual line up!

FRIDAY: Lottie (Snotgirl)

SATURDAY: Pixie Bob with the rest of the Wild Wild Pussycats (BNHA)

SUNDAY: Princess Bean (Disenchantment)

Hope to see it meet some of you there!

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Fanime 2019 Lineup!

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~Fanime 2019 lineup!~

Fri & Sun (AM) - Margaret Mitchell (Bungou Stray Dogs)

Sat - Annibel (my oc)

Sunday (PM) - cirno (touhou [summer vers is a maybe])

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The Tiny One/Bishie's Fanime 2019 lineup

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(Although Fanime 2020 is canceled and moved to 2021, at least it’ll give me time to think about next year’s cosplay lineup for the con. Knowing me, it’ll be Fire Emblem and/or Corrin/Kamuis.)

(Cosplaying as Corrin is one of the best things I’ve experienced, especially since I love her so much. Especially since people would even call out to me, as if I were actually Corrin/Kamui in real life.

Like even the Saturday I first wore F!Corrin in Fanime 2019, I was in line to get my Yato prop peace bonded, and a Joker/Akira/Ren cosplayer accidentally stepped on my cape. Since he was in line as well for his dagger and gun. I told him it was fine, and I said, "Looking cool, Joker!" 

He then replied, "Thanks, my cat tells me that all the time. I like your Kamui, by the way." 

And I said, "Oh, thank you!"

Being called and recognized as the character you are is the absolute best feeling in the world. I just feel more confident when I'm cosplaying, and it’s so wholesome to see people call cosplayers as the character they’re dressed up as.~ As a cosplayer, it makes me immensely happy. ^^)

[dadispo142]

Finished up with my lineups for Fanime 2019. I’m excited not only for the event but I am excited for cosplaying Asta from Black Clover and Midoriya from My Hero Academia 😁😆. #cosplay #cosplaylineups #myheroacademiacosplay #myheroacademia #deku #dekucosplay #midoriyacosplay #blackclover #blackclovercosplay #asta #astacosplay #squallcosplay #ffviii https://www.instagram.com/p/BvhuWtbDyJ8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1n0o1cc9fhjjd

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Spotty activity, May 24th-26th.

(As of today, I am on summer vacation!

Since Fanime is coming closer, activity will be spotty on my blogs, for I will be attending FanimeCon 2019 with @multaxmuses / @cruxofvalla and @golden-eyed-servant along with friends of ours irl! 

I’ve posted my cosplay lineup here, and also on twitter, for those of you who didn’t see it. I’m really excited to finally make this post, for I am finished with finals. 

My cosplay plans are basically the same as last year, but the days have changed a bit. I am going as two female avatars from the Fire Emblem series, just as I did last year. And as usual, I will be attending the Nintendo, Super Smash Bros, and Fire Emblem Cosplay gatherings this year!

On Friday, May 24th, I will be Female Robin from Fire Emblem Awakening. 

And for both Saturday and Sunday, May 25-26th, I will be Female Corrin from Fire Emblem Fates.

Hope you see you all in Fanime if you’re going! I am cool if you decide to drop this blog’s name or my twitter handle, I would love to meet my followers and friends in person! And if not, I will catch you guys after the con!~)

[schwaycosplay]

ALA 2019 Cosplans!!

It’s getting to be that time of year again! Anime Los Angeles con crunch! Seriously, seems like whenever I buy my ticket for Fanime it reminds me to check on my ALA progress. So here is a quick update.

Official Lineup

Princess Bean: Need to style the wig, make buck teeth, make Elfo prop, make Lucy prop.

Ginormica: Make car shoes, Bob prop

TBD

Star Butterfly: wig needs to be washed out and horns readheared but she’s good to go!

Lottie (Snotgirl): Tease the wig a bit, get that contour and highlight on fleek but she’s ready to wear

Miguel (Road to El Dorado): If Sleepy.sheeps is down we will reprise this cosplay and possibly even do the God outfits!

If I wanted to be extra

Riko (FLCL): she’s from the new FLCL season and she’s just so sweet and fun and unmemorable that it would be fun to be her.

The Lorax: I made a hat and have fun/sexy idea to do an OOTD for him

Kim Pine: will only do this if I have a group!!!

Aside from that I’m on track for ALA!

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(Throughout next week, I will be reblogging my cosplay lineup for Fanime 2019, as well as make an announcement post for my absence during FanimeCon weekend. Activity will be spotty during FanimeCon, for I cannot roleplay while I’m at a con with my friends and in cosplay. =w=

If you don’t want to be spammed by such reblogs or posts, please blacklist ;Meg goes to Fanime 2019; 

Other than that, I’m excited for the con, as well as Summer Vacation to begin!~)