Kilts at the Science Fiction Convention....

[Zardoz]

A couple fairies..


Some of the Costuming winners.


Here I am presenting the awards for the trivia contest. I stepped behind the podium, but a bunch of ladies hollered for me to come back out! sorry about the quality, but the harsh spotlight was messing up my little camera settings.


Here's one of the trivia winners with her Rocketship award.


And afterwards, we had a dance party!

[OC Richard]

So very timely for you to post this, because I'm taking my daughter, who is 15 and really into anime, to the LA Anime Expo for her birthday this Saturday.

It's the first time either of us has been to an anime convention, and it will be the first time my daughter has participated in cosplay. (She'll be dressed as Sanji from One Piece.)

I'm going to wear Highland Dress. I'll bring my camera and see if I spot any other kilties. If anyone asks me what character I am I might reply Sukoji which I'm guessing, if not some nasty word, might be close to "a Scot".

Cosplay is huge in Japan. When I was over there a few years back I came upon a three-story shopping mall in Tokyo that's mostly devoted to anime etc. There was a shop called Robot Robot that was nothing but robots (as one might guess) and a shop as large as one of our Old Navy clothing stores but was entirely cosplay costumes.

[Zardoz]

OC, Way to dive in! The LA AnimeExpo is the largest anime con in the US. The cool thing about anime cons is that it seems like more than half of the attendees are in costume all the time, and at LAAX that might be a few thousand people! Get some photos!

[OC Richard]

Thanks! I'll take photos for sure!

There was a local TV news feature on LA Anime Expo yesterday afternoon and they said that 109,000 people attended the 2009 convention.

That's amazing.

Well I looked it up and sukoji means "small".

Sukottorando is "Scotland" and Sukottorandojin is "Scottish thing" or "Scottish person".

[OC Richard]

Just back from the LA Anime Expo.

First the kilts! Here I am with a guy in full Samurai armour:



My daugher as Sanji from One Piece:



I don't know what these costumes are all about but they were the most amazing things we saw: