P#1 SMASH! Report – Summary
Hey guys! SMASH! (‘Smash’ from this point forward xD;) was really something special this year, I didn’t think it could top last year’s event by much but I was gladly proven wrong ;D
Warning, post is pretty long =o
I’ll start off with the trip to the venue, met up with Nina (Rikku from the Smash forum) and two of her friends to catch the train together. She was dressed up as Yuki with the witch costume, she looked really cute~ Unfortunately as I figured I’d see her again later, I didn’t quite manage to take a proper photo orz. Sent her a message, see below for photo she sent~
Ahh~ so cool x3 Poor thing was freezing ’cause of her short skirt, lent her my jacket while we waited for the train :3
Anyhow, got separated as her friend was late so she got off at the next stop with one friend, but Amy decided to go on ahead with me. Spent the trip talking about anime and jdorama so time went by really fast! (Trip takes one hour to city, felt like 20mins xD).
Amy and I got separated on arrival (around 10:05) as she hadn’t pre-registered u_u~, didn’t get a very good shot of the line, but…
Then another line started forming… o.O;
What bugged me in the morning was that the pre-reg line took longer to get in than the other line, when I finally got in I had lost Amy ;_;
View from upstairs~
Anyhow, first thing~ Kidchan~! Omigoshlikewatthe! She so much cuter in real life x3 She was still unpacking some of her goodies when I got to the art area but bought her artbook straight away >=D I even got her to sign it for me <3~! She had a lot of trouble finding a pen that worked though, must have been the cold weather, sorry for troubling you!! I couldn’t even look at her other items as I wasn’t going to be able to buy anything else anyways orz… please donate so I can spend more next year? xD;;
Either click on her name for her homepage or check out her deviantart page: kidchan@da. I’ll post some more on her later… am planning something special for the artists that were at SMASH, kukuku~ Leave a message if you’re an artist and wish to be involved! (Australia only please, preferably Sydney, exceptions for specials guests like Kidchan =3)
Made my way down to the Karaoke room after, I had to change my song choices as I forgot to bring my music u_u~ song list was missing so I couldn’t sing just yet (freeplay, no heats just yet!) so I went back upstairs to the art area to add to the Travelling Artbook. Forgot to take a picture of my entry orz… but here’s the cover instead, hehe~
Illustrated by the lovely Kimiko~ (also known as “Dev Kimiko” on the forum). It was an incredible compilation of works from very talented artists from around Australia, I had a flip through it before I started on mine *o*. Heard from Arutea later on in the evening that it went for just over $200 at the auction, proceeds were donated to the Fred Hollows foundation.
Took some photos of the stalls in the artists circle upstairs, more on that next week I reckon. A few cosplay ones too, most of the time I caught them as they posed for other people, ehehe~ ^^;; Also took 1 or 2 photos of the vendors downstairs.
Back to the Karaoke room! Found my brother outside~ <3 (I left early as he wasn't ready yet) Sang a few songs, then the heats started, I was so nervous, lol. My song was one of the many that had disappeared u_u~ no worries, chose to sing 'Passion' by Utada Hikaru from the game Kingdom hearts II =3. As my song wasn't on the list even though it had been time-stamped and everything, I had to look at the lyrics every so often but I was told I wasn't going to be penalised too much for that. Made it to the finals~! Omigosh, shock! Sang Alumina from Death Note before leaving the room again, fun fun~. Oh yeah, ran into Fonzler (& his little sis, waii~ she was so cute!) from Dannychoo.com =D not sure when exactly, but it was in the Karaoke room.
More walking, eating (forgot to take photo orz), checking out the vendors downstairs again with Shin (my bro David, I call him Shin xD). Bought some stuff which I’ll post about later, good stuff including Shana and Tony Taka artbooks along with a Haruhi figure.
Optic mentions on his blog that there were bootleg figures at the con, I wouldn’t know if they were myself, but I now suspect my Haruhi is one orz…
Karaoke finals was a very, very long and nerve wrecking wait orz. Our song order kept changing, had directions from a few different people lol. We did have a lot of support from the judges and other finalists (2 guys and 1 other girl). Everyone was really nice =D
No I didn’t win, that honour went to Janet Yuen =D. Forgot the name of the song though u_u~ By this time a lot of people had left already =o
Which is a shame because they missed out on a great performance by Kross Junkie!
Click to see their names =o
They covered a few anime songs and also performed an original “Sunshine of my Life” you can find their videos and more of Smash on the forum, I’ve linked the thread directly so you don’t have to go searching ;3
Keep an eye out this week or next as I’ll be posting a special entry for these guys =D, I got in touch with Patrick (Spongebob, hehe~) for some exclusive info ;D
To finish off I’ll leave you guys with Gundam!
P.S any question and comments etc are welcome! <3
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Nice review. Looks like u had fun more than me. ^^
I’m not really the type of person into fanart but that’s just me. Everybody have different interest in different areas.
U may need to check haruhi face closely to see if it’s glossy and the paint job. It looks fake judging by the price and the pieces are out of order. Maybe the packaging was poor that’s all as I didn’t do a closer check.
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Hehe, maybe ’cause I consider myself a bit of an artist too? I especially love Shin’s drawings, one of them pops up in the random banner (the maid ;D).
Haruhi’s in Shin’s room atm, he put her together for me… he said that she falls apart easily u_u~ as she was only $20, I thought she might have been a demo/display. I’ll take photos eventually ^^;
Can you believe it’s my first review ever? xD;; I’ve never attempted to review anything before =o you can tell I got lazy near the end though, lol.
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Optic and I attended Smash!. We plan to visit Animania, too. You gonna go =D?
Indeed, a lot of them were bootleg.
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Bootlegs, I wouldn’t have a clue as to how to pick them out orz…
That’s great, I’ll keep an eye out for you guys, hopefully I’ll be able to recognise you in the crowd ^^;;
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Well you don’t know what we look like do you XD?
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There’s a photo of Optic on his site no? =o With ‘his’ maid xD
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nice review!
haha koshiko on our photo, im not vocal, im a guitarist ^^
and terry is the one eho takes a part as vocalist ^-^
anyway great job!!
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Looks like I’m a little late to the party >.>
Now that’s a shock – I was so sure you’d win too, Koshiko….maybe I jinxed it…sorry! :[
I’ll tell my sister you called her cute…I’d love to see her reaction…
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@Patrick: thanks for dropping by~ sorry about the mixup! orz… I’ll never work on another review so late (or early in the morning, depending on how you look at it).
Glad you liked ^_^
@Fonzler: better late than never I say xD;; Yeah, I was bummed, but it’s cool, there’s always next year ;3
Lol, tell me how she reacts~!
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Hi, I hope there is Anime Smash on 2009. I was dressing as Cloud there and I am the one who paid 200$ for that book xD.
See you in next Anime Smash
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