03/22/08 - Anime Boston - Day 1-3, pictures of the convention itself! Cosplay, masquerade, lots of fun

There was an uncontrollable mob in the video room at 8am on the first day of the con

Travis Touchdown from No More Heroes!

Snake from Metal Gear Solid 3!

These guys wouldn't let me take their picture till they fixed their question mark.. surprise!

A flash picture of the MGS3 group

Poor Snake, what will he do now?

Bryce checks out the schedule

The infamous "white supremecist" bottles. The bottle people printed the file NAME instead of the contents! I'm just bummed I didn't get one!

Dave on the computer

Domo-kun loves his Companion Cube

Chilling around Tech Ops in the afternoon

Bulma and Piccolo!

A storm trooper!

An awesome Bowser!

Bowser with a little more perspective

James loves Anime Boston

James and some cosplayers in line for pizza

I love watching the interaction of cosplayers with normal people.. but it's hard to convey in a picture

Chrono makes his way through the food court

Card Captor Sakura gets some coffee

Even anime characters need to use the ATM now and then

My people!

The registration line was epic

I heard that at one point there was a three hour wait just to get in the line!

This guy stole Snake's box from Smash Brothers Brawl

Asahina poses in her bunny-girl outfit!

So I heard...

This guy had a working monitor playing DDR on his head!

People milling around the dealer's room

Dealer's room!

Hey, you've got red on you

That's right, it's Shaun from Shaun of the Dead

Mr. Game and Watch!

An incredible Ursula from The Little Mermaid

The same shot, but with flash

I ran into Venus again, the cool musical Link cosplayer I met at ConnectiCon 2006

Venus Link again with flash

TF2 cosplayers! We've got spy vs spy.. vs scout

And the scout is after the intelligence!

I'm not sure how Waldo got dragged into all of this

Red spy and blue spy!

Venus again! This time she's gotten herself into a fight with some Final Fantasy characters

Go Links!

Mudkip has made it onto an official sign!

The crowd packs in for the AMV contest

Bryce is having the time of his life

Yes, the guy in the lobster suit is the same guy who was in the banana suit last year. You can apparently tell by the shoes..

Hmm, there seems to be a crowd outside of main events

That is a lot of anime fans

Holy crap! Look how far back it goes!!

I'm not sure who this is, but neat costume!

I can't remember the last time I've seen an ad this direct

This year's theme was under water, so.. here's a giant crab

Me at my finest

I just saw these guys posing and jumped in to take a picture

A creepy nurse from Resident Evil, and an incredible costume of a citizen of Rapture, from Bioshock

A somewhat creepy Mr. Popo

I kept running into the Metal Gear Solid 3 guys

Chell from Portal! Well done!

That Vegeta guy is back again!

Sadly this was the only Haibane cosplayer I saw all weekend. Great Reki!

Chell finally found her Companion Cube

Tifa, Aeris, and Squall on a chocobo!

B-kun and the new A-chan working on a video

This guy was just too funny. For those who can't read it, the symbol on his shirt says "su"

This was my view for much of the convention.. keeping the microphone levels correctly set at panels

These guys didn't ask tech ahead of time if they could hook up their camera so we had to improvise.. We hooked up the video and just used a microphone next to the camera's speaker

I saw Reki again at one of the panels I staffed

The turnout for The Pillows concert was.. impressive

Something like 5000 people came to see it

Bryce staffed the event, keeping people from using photography

Another incredible Metal Gear Solid 3 team!

I see Sokolov, Eva, The End, The Boss, Revolver Ocelot, Snake, and ..Snake

A long exposure of the Masquerade's lights!

Lights!

Attendees getting seated

Lauren Goodnight, the Masquerade Emcee injured her eye and had an eyepatch on

Anime Boston 2008!

Captain Jack Sparrow kicked things off with "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything"

A skit involving the ongoing conflict between pirates and ninjas

I can only assume these guys are from Kingdom Hearts due to the keyblades

Duck!

Impressive weapons

Some more impressive weapons

Don't you point that thing at me

A very impressive J-E-N-O-V-A costume. Note the light-up eye

And off she goes

A strangely flamboyant Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro

Temari shows off her flag

Some kind of FMA skit

The entire room was PACKED

Link and Navi

Look at all the Links!

So many links

A fight ensues!

The fight.. seems to have ended

What's over there?

Fighting again!

Black Link gets his head smashed in with a hammer

Navi doesn't seem all that concerned.. little did she know that she was next

Damn I love my telephoto lens

Inuyasha sure can dance

Inuyasha and.. Inuyasha!

He likes to be scratched behind the ear

The Haruhi Thriller zombies

Haruhi was a mess

That guy from Ouran high everyone likes

These guys were pretty hilarious. This was a fake ad for hair spray

Well done, guys

Someone, Winry, and Tifa!

The skit continues

Dancing!

More dancing!

Swing that bat around

Sora

Sora.. asks a question

Guys with neat props!

Various characters..

Various characters to the caramelldansen!

Scott, I mean B-kun, makes a mad dash across teh stage

Neat costume

Swirling!

This was a pretty crazy prop

It's all spiky

And curvy

These guys were from one of the Dot Hack's

A challenger appears!

Pretty incredible costumes

Something about Romeo and Juliet?

She was doing an audition

This little kid got wicked excited

I dunno, cosplayers! Whooo

Their skit continues

I have no idea who they are

Lauren Goodnight's eyepatch kept getting more elaborate as the night went on

Deedlit from Record of Lodoss War

The guy playing Ghim walked on his knees

These guys were pretty funny, great costumes too!

Deedlit strikes a pose

The Prince from Katamari!

The plan was to roll up Boston..

And off he goes!

Oh no! Cousin Ichigo!

And there was some kind of conclusion..

The Katamari Dance!

Mike Lee makes a brief appearance on stage!

And off he goes!!

That is one big scythe

L hates carrots

Another chocobo girl!

Pretty crazy costume

Putting his weapon in inventory..

Resident Evil, right?

A standoff!

Inevitably, there was dancing

Purple Girl!

Black Girl, Red Girl, and Purple Girl!

These two were pretty neat

They turned around!

Running around..

Look out!

Not sure what's going on here

Lauren's eyepatch grows ever larger

A-chan runs across the stage!

This costume was just too ridiculous

Giant Jigglypuff!

And he's armed wtih a marker!!

These guys were ghosts I guess

Because they played the ghost busters theme and attacked them with this gun!

Ahhhh ghostbusting gun!

The "Life inside your DS" skit

Cooking Mama and Phonix Wright!

I'm not sure who these guys are but the crowd loved them

The DS skit continues

Look at them go

Phoenix Wright really got into the dance

Is that an objection I see?

Everyone gets in on the dancing now!

Great skit, guys!

Lauren didn't seem to care that her eyepatch was slowly taking over her entire face

Some neat cosplayers from a show I don't know

He's got a bunch of credit cards!

Belldandy!

Belldandy.. and friends!

They danced to "Soldier Boy"

I don't know why either, Red Skirt Girl

Sketch finally finished his Canti cosplay! To give you an idea of huge it is, look at the Guitar Hero guitar!

It looks great, Sketch!

He got himself involved in a guitar battle

Sketch looks to his opponent

Guitar battle!

Sketch plays some more

Go, Sketch, go!

The needle is clearly on Sketch's side

He's switched to his Canti-sized guitar

Whoooo

Whoooooo

Mike Lee cut the lights so we could see how his costume glowed!

Awesome job, Sketch

Yes, at this point, Lauren actually had a circuit board attached to her face

The Haruhi skit in the exhibition portion! Sorry I only got one picutre, I wanted to get a video of this group

The Anime Boy Band, or something like that.. if you didn't know about Bridget before, sorry to break the news

I'll give you one guess as to what song they're doing.. I see a Y

I see an M

The dancing continues

What are Goku and Ash doing?

That might be an A

And that's definitely a C

A wider shot of the dancers

See? I was actually just about as far away as possible

I just really like this shot

I'm not sure what's going on here

Some sort of gameshow

Oh no! Fighting!

Bisque and Lauren dance!

Selecting characters for the Smash Brothers skit

Fight!

Link vs Marth

Peach doesn't seem all that intimidated by Mario

Link's leg is exposed!

I think the game was paused at this point

The fight rages on

This guy was keeping track of lives

Mario seems pretty pleased

The incredible Duck Hunt team set up their ridiculous skit

By sitting in the balcony, I ruined the forced perspective.. from the ground all this stuff lined up

It still looks pretty great though

The lights in the front were controlled with custom programmed microcontrollers!

That scoreboard is just begging to have bigger numbers on it

A neat 15-second exposure of the tech area

The Anime Boston technical staff, hard at work to bring you another fine show

Most people bailed out after the AMV awards

Just a few people left for the Masquerade awards

A better shot of the ginormous Nintendo gun used in Duck Hunt

Dick Tripwire oddly pats a voice actor on the head

Dick Tripwire surveys the crowd

Look how many people showed up to Hentai Dubbing!

Yes, that's right. Hentai Dubbing was in Main Events this year!

Dick Tripwire cues up the DVD

Dick picked the guy on the right just cause it was so weird. "I don't even care if it's a chick in there, just get up here"

Dick and the voice actor performed what must be the first ever live music AMV

Mike asked Dick Tripwire to sign some hentai he had produced

Mr. Tripwire was happy to oblige

Quite a souvenir for Mike!

We found Pimp Mario, the guy who saved the day at Hentai Dubbing with his hilarious performance

I guess us anime fans are just a bunch of heathans