November tends to mean Thanksgiving, and Thanksgiving means...giving thanks.
Well, this November I got to go back to Anime NYC, my first big con since, well, the last one in 2019.
It was good to be home. Just hundreds of weebs out weebing it up.
And before I go any further, yes, someone going here tested positive for the new Omicron variant of Covid. I got myself tested, and I was negative. Frankly, it's been almost two weeks, if I was gonna get sick, I would've been already.
It was hard for me to GET sick, thanks to bringing back my cosplay of The Crawler from My Hero Academia: Vigilantes. Think about it: almost every surface of my body was covered, I almost never took off my mask, I stay away from people as much as possible, sanitized and washed my hands whenever I touched anything, the whole nine. I was most likely one of the safest people at that con.
It helps that there was a LOT more open space this time. Mostly. Artist's Alley was still stacked together, and I'm not even talking about the lines to get in to anything. I wasn't there for the horror show that was the line situation on Friday, but it was still pretty cramped at times. It's a miracle that there was only ONE public covid case out of this, and not several.
With that out of the way, here's some highlights!
There were a LOT of people cosplaying as Hawks from My Hero Academia this year, especially since his English voice actor Zeno Robinson was there. You could find most of them in his line. I counted no less than six on line at once on Saturday.
This pic was taken on Sunday while I was standing on said line. With several people cosplaying the same thing (ESPECIALLY if it was from Demon Slayer), the "Spider-Man pointing at each other" pose was inevitable, and I was able to snap this one with four of them doing it at once.
Since he's also the voice of Hunter (aka the Golden Guard) on The Owl House, I HAD to get something from that signed by him. He's a really cool guy.
Was there, too, and I had to pick those up. You can find his work here.
I also got to meet one of my all time favorite voice actors, Richard Epcar. If you watched Fox Kids in the 90s, you most likely heard his voice. He voiced a ton of monsters on the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series, most notably my favorite one Shellshock:
I've talked about him before, but how awesome is this dude? Turtle with a traffic like sticking out of its back.
I also had to mention that he voiced one of my favorite anime characters, the lead in a lesser known one called Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo. I could post a pic of that, but why don't I just show you a clip?
I would say that it makes as much sense in context, but I don't think there ever was context in that show. In any case, he was more than happy to do a few lines in that voice, which really made my day.
He was there with the rest of the Lupin III dub cast (from L to R: Lex Lang, Tony Oliver, Michelle Ruff, Doug Erholtz, and Richard Epcar), and I managed to meet all of them, too. All of them were great and aside from Michelle Ruff (since she has several notable roles aside from Fujiko), none of them had any lines so you could hold actual conversations with them. Well, all of the other celebs liked to talk, too, and that's why their lines were so long.
She called them Steamed Hams but they were obviously dog toys. These pictures are some of my favorites I've ever taken at a con and she was nothing but nice. I even got this great print:
True story, I kept getting lost trying to track her down that day, so the first thing I told her was "Well, I made it, despite your directions." We had a good laugh over it.
I got this figure of Shinobu from Demon Slayer, plus a sweet Nezuko charm.
Anime might be a mistake, but it's a fun mistake. And an expensive one.
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