Xelebes
Little Blue Alien
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You heard me.
And I had to go to Calgary to figure this out.
Well, to tell you the truth, I did not go to Calgary for this. I went to Calgary to go to a concert/burlesque thingimajigger. It was fun, except for the death metal bands they had there. Well - to be honest, the second band upstairs (the main room) was more to my liking (highly rhythmic grunts and growls with highly rhythmic guitar playing). The other bands were blagh. The girls putting on the show were from Suicide girls so it was cool. The act with the suspended nun killing a pregnant nun was cool. The industrial playing to it was very cool stuff.
But anyways, the anime con.
We stayed the night in Calgary. My friend who came with me, Z-bot (the naming scheme works like this - initials of nickname and orientation - for sake of relativity to this forum - is the name of the game. I would become X-bot) wanted to go meet up with a friend S-bot who was going to attend an anime con - Otafest. Also, we began to have troubles with our engine warning light so we decided to play safe and pay them a visit and hopefully get ourselves on a safer path to Edmonton.
So we go, trying to read a map and figure our way to it, despite the fact that we could have sought the C-train and took it there. Alas, the C-train went right by the hotel and we were right between stops and a stop was at least 10 blocks away. So we drove to it. We stopped at a parking lot in the UofC and regained our bearings to where to go. Didn't have much luck in that regard. So we wandered about and looked for clues.
Clue number 1: A car decorated gregariously with duct tape spelling out OTAFEST creeping along the road following the speed limits.
Clue number 2: Plump, sweaty asian kids wearing cat-ears.
Clue number 3: Plump, sweaty caucasian kids sporting kimonos.
Clue number 4: A kid steam-cooking in his costume I would see more fitting at a furry convention.
So we were there, at last. Of course, we could not instantly spot S-bot. Z-bot paid for me to enter and in we came. We wandered about the vendors area, getting ourselves lost. We then split up once we figured out the vendors area. After an hour or so, we managed to spot C-bot who happens to one who is running the show. He was also at the burlesque concert thingie. He offers some help by trying to find one of his mechanic friends to come look at our vehicle. Of course, we are never able to call him on his cell phone so we never got it looked after until the day after.
We go see an anime in the theatres there. Well, two. The first one draws a real heavy female audience (98% female) but we don't mind. We didn't particularily enjoy the anime, especially myself. It relied too much on Japanese mythology for me to follow along the sensationalist plotlines. The second one, I had heard of the title but had never seen it. It was better and the male audience was better (65% female). It being better, it was still too convoluted for me to follow all that much.
So we decide to wander about the campus a bit and get lost in the arenas (Olympic Oval) and watch some national championship volleyball or something - enjoying the sight of girls bouncing up and down in shorts. Getting tired of that, we go back to the anime convention. We finally meet S-bot and she was with others we also recognised, C-top (C-bot's g/f) and a few others. Of course, she was about to enter the cosplaying judging.
Dear Japanese gods, that was horrible. It was good for a laugh but then there were the too-plump girls in clothes too scarce for them. No offense to the plump girls here, but when you're not prepared for something, it gets frightening. The only good entry was the five decent-looking girls come on dressed as Sailor Moon sailor-girls and poke a little fun of it with them doing a rendition of the song "Yatta" (for those who don't know, Yatta is Japan's version of YMCA.) Of course, they do it in fashion just like the video but instead of gay men, it is lesbian girls with some stripping (donning off of the tops but keeping bras on). So it was enjoyable.
But anyways, after about an hour of that stuff we have to go do something else. So we do.
So, in all fairness, I would have rated it as bad as Fragapalooza if I go to it now. Maybe I'd say Fragapalooza was worse because it is with 2 000 guys who measure their dicks with the power of the computer and there is very few women there - the only women there were to pick up and drop off their boyfriends or mothers dropping off their sons. The anime con is conspicuously female-biased by having between 55-60% females. And there were some cute freckly redheads at the anime con so all is not lost.
And I had to go to Calgary to figure this out.
Well, to tell you the truth, I did not go to Calgary for this. I went to Calgary to go to a concert/burlesque thingimajigger. It was fun, except for the death metal bands they had there. Well - to be honest, the second band upstairs (the main room) was more to my liking (highly rhythmic grunts and growls with highly rhythmic guitar playing). The other bands were blagh. The girls putting on the show were from Suicide girls so it was cool. The act with the suspended nun killing a pregnant nun was cool. The industrial playing to it was very cool stuff.
But anyways, the anime con.
We stayed the night in Calgary. My friend who came with me, Z-bot (the naming scheme works like this - initials of nickname and orientation - for sake of relativity to this forum - is the name of the game. I would become X-bot) wanted to go meet up with a friend S-bot who was going to attend an anime con - Otafest. Also, we began to have troubles with our engine warning light so we decided to play safe and pay them a visit and hopefully get ourselves on a safer path to Edmonton.
So we go, trying to read a map and figure our way to it, despite the fact that we could have sought the C-train and took it there. Alas, the C-train went right by the hotel and we were right between stops and a stop was at least 10 blocks away. So we drove to it. We stopped at a parking lot in the UofC and regained our bearings to where to go. Didn't have much luck in that regard. So we wandered about and looked for clues.
Clue number 1: A car decorated gregariously with duct tape spelling out OTAFEST creeping along the road following the speed limits.
Clue number 2: Plump, sweaty asian kids wearing cat-ears.
Clue number 3: Plump, sweaty caucasian kids sporting kimonos.
Clue number 4: A kid steam-cooking in his costume I would see more fitting at a furry convention.
So we were there, at last. Of course, we could not instantly spot S-bot. Z-bot paid for me to enter and in we came. We wandered about the vendors area, getting ourselves lost. We then split up once we figured out the vendors area. After an hour or so, we managed to spot C-bot who happens to one who is running the show. He was also at the burlesque concert thingie. He offers some help by trying to find one of his mechanic friends to come look at our vehicle. Of course, we are never able to call him on his cell phone so we never got it looked after until the day after.
We go see an anime in the theatres there. Well, two. The first one draws a real heavy female audience (98% female) but we don't mind. We didn't particularily enjoy the anime, especially myself. It relied too much on Japanese mythology for me to follow along the sensationalist plotlines. The second one, I had heard of the title but had never seen it. It was better and the male audience was better (65% female). It being better, it was still too convoluted for me to follow all that much.
So we decide to wander about the campus a bit and get lost in the arenas (Olympic Oval) and watch some national championship volleyball or something - enjoying the sight of girls bouncing up and down in shorts. Getting tired of that, we go back to the anime convention. We finally meet S-bot and she was with others we also recognised, C-top (C-bot's g/f) and a few others. Of course, she was about to enter the cosplaying judging.
Dear Japanese gods, that was horrible. It was good for a laugh but then there were the too-plump girls in clothes too scarce for them. No offense to the plump girls here, but when you're not prepared for something, it gets frightening. The only good entry was the five decent-looking girls come on dressed as Sailor Moon sailor-girls and poke a little fun of it with them doing a rendition of the song "Yatta" (for those who don't know, Yatta is Japan's version of YMCA.) Of course, they do it in fashion just like the video but instead of gay men, it is lesbian girls with some stripping (donning off of the tops but keeping bras on). So it was enjoyable.
But anyways, after about an hour of that stuff we have to go do something else. So we do.
So, in all fairness, I would have rated it as bad as Fragapalooza if I go to it now. Maybe I'd say Fragapalooza was worse because it is with 2 000 guys who measure their dicks with the power of the computer and there is very few women there - the only women there were to pick up and drop off their boyfriends or mothers dropping off their sons. The anime con is conspicuously female-biased by having between 55-60% females. And there were some cute freckly redheads at the anime con so all is not lost.
