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O what lovely eyes you have

Ok, I know there are a lot of strange things in Japan and this is one of the stranger one’s in my opinion.   Here’s what you do, you buy the dvd with a picture of a cute girl on the cover and you learn there are 49 more of these girls that you can stare at, you plop the dvd into your dvd player and commence the show, then what you get is this…

HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS….

Apparently a new Final Fantasy is coming out and I didn’t even know about it, though I can conclude I didn’t know because it’s for the psp which I not only don’t have but don’t read up on the games as well xD.  So apparently the game is called FINAL FANTASY DISSIDIA and it looks to be a combination of Final Fantasy characters throughout it’s history that fight it out, good vs. evil style.  It looks like it will follow Kingdom Hearts game play where you get to move around during fights and need to have real time strategy to play the game.  The graphics are sweet, we are talking about Square Enix here ;P.  So I’m now debating whether or not to buy a psp just for this game, as a FF fanboy I feel compelled to buy this xD.  Maybe they’ll make a “limited edition psp” just for the game, we’ll see :P.  I found out about the game through a friends website, I believe she knows I’m talking about her if I mention LJ and h-p ^^.

Otaku News Part 1

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The picture above has almost no connection to what I’m going to talk about, I just thought it looked funny xD.

I’m sure many of you know that some crazy stuff has been happening in the world of otaku as of late. But I wonder if you’re up to date with some of the other interesting stuff that’s been happening in Akihabara as of late?

Disneyland 08

Disney 08

Look closely at the picture and you will know why I made it the way it is ;p.

Disneyland was pretty fun, for I was able to hang out with my girlfriend the whole time ^^. We were able to go on practically all the rides that were up in both Disneyland and California Adventure Park (part of Disneyland). Some of the rides like Screamin’ (best at night ^^), Grizzly River Run (good during the day when you can dry off after the ride), Indiana Jones Adventure (anytime), and Space Mountain (anytime) were so much fun that we went on each ride at least six times xD. We were able to get fast passes to each so we stood in line for each ride between 10-30 minutes (usually in between), compared to the usual wait time of 30 minutes to an hour (2 hours for Grizzly O_O). The food was good, but expensive, it is Disneyland after all xD. The shows were pretty good, I liked Aladdin, the fireworks show, and Fantasmic.

Fanime 2008 swag

Fanime loot

I like the neck strap, it was very comfortable xD

Although I was only at Fanime for one day, actually 5 hours and 2 of those hours were spent in lines to get into the convention ^^;;, I was able to enjoy the dealers room and artist alley where I managed to acquire some swag. There were lots of dealers and artists, you can take a look at the rooms here. The dealers room looked like it consisted mostly of figure sellers that took half the room (they were spread out throughout the whole room), lolita clothing/clothing took 1/4 of the room, and the other 1/4 consisted of people selling Japanese snacks, bags, games, manga, cells, etc. Read on to see all the swag I bought.

Fanime 2008

Fanime 2008

Well I took a very long vacation (8 days away from my computer xD) though it felt longer than 8 days ^^. One thing I visited while in California was Fanime in San Jose. I’ve never been to another anime convention besides the local anime convention where I live so this was going to be interesting. It was a different experience being a “con-goer” rather than a “volunteer.” As a volunteer, I would need to keep “moving around to make sure things get done” so just “moving around” was nice. There were lots of different things I noticed while I was there, even if I was only there for five hours total :P.