#the adventures of mio-mio and the keychain

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By - myong8_0

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Youmacon 2017 Trip Report!

tl;dr version: An excellent con in which we had no real problems, and met/hung out with some really really great people. Thanks for the lovely weekend, Youmacon. 💖

Overall: Hoo boy, let's see. On the one hand, Team Four Star wasn't here this year, and the toku panelists couldn't get any panels, sooo it was a very freeform con for us this year. On the other hand, this might have been the most fun I've had at a con in a while! So, breaking it into my day-by-day highlights...

Day One:

Cosplay: Josuke Higashikata (with an Okuyasu and a Jotaro!) # of peoples’ days made: SO MANY. Events:

Chill chill day! Which is good because oh god I need to stop having problems getting to sleep the night before conventions. I think I got more sleep this year than I did in 2015, buuut I also was feeling a bit more under the weather all day. Sigh.

We were P4 Jojo's for our new cosplays this year -- mostly -- which, man, being JosuYasu is fun, but uh. Screw that wig. A little tempted to yell "NEVER AGAIN." Anyway, arrived at around 8AM, as usual.

Played some vidyagames in the arcade to eat up our morning, also as per usual. Taiko machine is so much fuuuun <3 Though we couldn't seem to find WBX in the song list this year. Probably I was too sleepy.

We got lots of recognition as Jojos, as an aside. Feels weird cosplaying something well-known, lol.

FIRST TIME VISITING THE TABLETOP ROOM. Holy hell it's a good way to kill time! We shoulda done this years ago. Anyway, then we went and had some soup for lunch, to kill time before...

Visiting the dealer's room, of course! As mentioned in the con loot post, we had an interesting time realizing that all the toku merch was in the VERY BACK.

Also, ran into c-chan! 💖 aaaa i’m sorry that i was super sleepy and didn’t realize you were saying “chace” and definitely not thinking I was cosplaying Chase for some reason XD I was slooow. But it was so nice to see you ;w;

Also met a cool toku merch guy and once more saw a lovely artist alley lady. (Bought a Ghost keychain from her last year. She always recognizes our cosplays and is so sweet~) Probably bought too much merch. No regrets.

But sadly, I really wasn't feeling well by 8PM, so I went and slept instead of going to MST4K. Still didn't get GREAT sleep, mind, but it was at least enough for...

Day Two!:

Cosplay: Urataros (with the main Imagin crew!) # of peoples’ days made: Enough~ Events: 

DEN-O CREW!! I'm glad we didn't retire the costumes this year like we were half-thinking to. Admittedly, we didn't get recognized very much, but as always, those who do get SO excited. And it was such fun for later.

Anyway, first real event of the day: Dealer's Room TRIP TWO! Did not buy very much this time though, just some stuff for friends.

But then on the way out to the ATM: Spotted by the Toku Panelist ToQgers (or some of them, anyway)!! Aaa!! Sadly, we couldn't get a COMPLETE ToQ/Den-O crossover, but understandable issues arose and all that. Still! So cool! And I’m glad I got a picture of Mio before she had to leave at least <3

And oh hey here’s my first ACTUAL attended panel of the con: Linkara! Live reviewing My Hero Academia! It was great, he was hilarious as usual and it's kinda fun to just see him enjoy a comic. I was a little sad that he didn’t have a new episode for us to watch, buuut I wasn’t really EXPECTING one either since he’s been overloaded with work schedules lately. And the Q&A bit he did instead was kinda fun too~

AFTER THAT, TOQGERS AND GAMES AND AAAA~ ... By which I mean some Toku Panelists (I know their names now and this feels surreal??) found us again, then we hit the Tabletop Room to play Ticket to Ride and Superfight. Which were both AMAZINGLY FUN. 💖

We also had an impromptu Unofficial Anti-Panel over dinner, which again was so cool but really like I said a bit surreal, just... casually gushing over tokusatsu with the people who got us into it & whose opinions we've been distantly respecting for years. XD Is that ‘surreal’ feeling weird? Maybe a little weird. I'd like to think I kept myself semi-cool though. Eheh.

Anywho, after dinner they had to go home, so we just chilled until MST4K. The Adventures of Panda Warrior is made of Nightmares and Frame Drops. That's. that's all i'm gonna say about it. I'm still not convinced that wasn't a fever dream. What the hell. I mean, the riffs were funny! But! That movie! What the hell!

(But also, one of the MST4K guys was super hyped to see our Den-O crew <3 and I love when they make occasional Kamen Rider references in their riffs, even if only some of us get them~)

Day Three:

Cosplay: Phillip (with a Shotaro!) # of peoples’ days made: SURPRISINGLY MANY Events:

sunday chillday hell yeah, time to be the TWO-IN-ONE DETECTIVE (Plus Eiji, plus Haruto :V)

Got waaay more recognition though! Weird! Maybe all the toku fans were mostly out on Sunday? Or maybe just running off to Tabletop with the ToQgers on Saturday limited our visibility, eheh

Anywho, after checking out and checking our bags, we just kinda chilled out until DEALER'S ROOM! LAST ONE!! Jamie had a couple more things he wanted to buy, aaand we wanted to see the nice art lady’s booth again ;w;

But also! We saw the toku panelists again! No DiEnd/Ankh though, I think, sadly. Ah well. So we just amorphous-blobbed through the dealer's room for a bit, which was fun~

Buuuut eventually we had to eat lunch, and then we just kinda chilled out for the brief time there was until we had to leave. Weirdly enough, I was less wiped out at this point than I normally am at the end of Youma... Weird.

Sooo yeah! Definitely had more fun on Saturday than usual, and a good chill con otherwise, which is extra good considering I was wiped out for much of it, oops XD;; There were a couple people I missed out on seeing, sadly, but other than that... yeah, no real problems or regrets this year.

Thanks, Youmacon~!