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AX Report

A thousand and one words to describe how incredible of an experience this years, and our first, Anime Expo was. That's right, this was our first Expo and it was amazing! We were so excited and anxious for this convention, and we were happily surprised when it turned out to be so much better than we could have even imagined. We don't even know where to start!

Thursday

This was a great day, not as good as the others (little did we know), but still wonderful. After some difficulty with Fang's lance, we managed to start the day off right by debuting Sylar's Hiccup cosplay(note – we don't have any pictures of this, if you have on let us know!) from How To Train Your Dragon.

Our only picture of Sylar's Hiccup -- getting ready in the hotel.

Sheila met up with a friend of ours, John McWilliams who was cosplaying as Hope Estheim from FFXIII.

John to the right, Sheila on the left

John on the far left and Sheila on the far right.

We got so many pictures taken and even got to take part in a mini gathering where coscom’s own EBK made two female cosplayers transform into the Shiva Sisters Motorcycle from FFXIII.

Can you see Sheila giggling in the background?

More pictures were taken there and then we retired back to the room for the evening. We went got ready for bed and prepared for the day to follow (we were gonna need it)...

Friday

Ulquiorra Cifer and Orihime Inoue from Bleach were our cosplays... We spent roughly an hour and a half preparing and getting ready that morning. New white makeup for Sylar's face and body, and a rejuvenated wig for Sheila played a big part in Friday's success.

Sheila doing Sylar's makeup in her wig cap -- Sylar looks like stone!

We left, took the shuttle, and upon arriving at Expo, were ASSAULTED by camera's and fans (it was super overbearing). Posing for immensely long amounts of time (2 hours stuck in the lobby!) became something we were more than skilled at by the end of the day. One picture pose turned into a traffic jam on more than one occasion.

This little Yachiru was so adorable! Her favorite character is Orihime, but she cried when she saw Sylar's 'scary' face D;

Caught on the escalator!

Whoo Fanservice!

We also met up with the Bleach Gathering.

Sylar fighting Ichigo!

Personally one of our favorite days!

Saturday

Debuting his Shinra Cosplay alongside Sheila's “oh-so-sexy” Celty, Sylar had a blast directing the two of us all day long.

Look at that face!

We got stopped just as much (if not more) on Saturday as we did the day before. Sheila had a little trouble with her helmet hurting her head, but she fixed that shortly upon arriving. She couldn't see much, so Sylar pretty much had freedom to do whatever he wanted in pictures!

Us with our favorite Ciel ~dahowbbit

Kisses in the artist alley!

We laughed and spent a wonderful day together as one of our favorite anime couples! There was a short DRRR Gathering where we met a few other cosplayers – including a male Celty!

Sheila's in the middle -- but that Celty on the left is a man! See Sylar's face for our reaction.

Sunday
Out of cosplay and comfortably casual, enjoying time with friends and buying everything we wanted from the Vendor’s hall!

Its Sheila's dream to own a figure of every character she cosplays -- and we found Shirley!

Sheila & Sheila :3

We bought an print of one of our favorite characters Ulquiorra, from a favorite artist of Sheila's ~tobiee You can see the original Deviation here: [link]

Another print we bought -- but who drew it!? We don't remember -- if you know, tell us so we can say a big thank you!

We also bought Project Diva for the psp :3

We took pictures and then packed everything up to leave. One last meal with friends and then heading up to long beach to end our Expo weekend! We loved seeing everyone and making new friends -- seeing great cosplays and enjoying each other. We are sure to try and make it again next year! Thanks everyone!

Other News

Sheila is hard at work putting together a Vocaloid Cafe at Saboten 2010 in October, and getting ready a new rush of Vocaloid cosplays for us -- but be sure to expect some here and there photoshoots and new cosplays between then! A few Code Geass, some Bleach, and some...Naruto!?

Don't forget about our new Kiriban! Screenshot that 5,000 and get a custome cosplay deviation!

Featured Cosplayers

We met so many people at AX that we can't list everyone one, and we've been to busy to notice great work on DA -- so we're just gonna list all our favorite cosplays from AX weeked!

Jet Set Radio Future!!

John Marston from Red Dead Redemption!

Lady Gaga from Paparazzi!

The Dai Li!

Okami!

Castlevania! Aeon has always been a dream cosplay for Sylar.

See ya next year!