
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 |