Anime North 2009 
Cheerful
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This convention featuring...
Death Note and Tales of Symphonia
Lisa as Light and Martel the Goddess
Lindy as Mello and Lloyd Irving
Erin as Near and Zelos Wilder
Nicole as Misa-Misa and Sheena FujibayashiThursday
All of us can agree that the preparations for Anime North this year were the most last-minute they have ever been. We managed to finish the majority of the outfits late Wednesday night/early Thursday morning. As soon as packing was finished, we headed to town to visit our old high school (earlier this month we had promised to visit our old art teacher again to see how their Art Club project was coming along). Unfortunately, we couldn't stay for long, because we still had packing to do.
And with two cosplays this year, we had a hard time bringing up eight pre-styled/long wigs. @_@;
Because of construction, it took us an hour and a half to get to our hotel when it usually takes under an hour. To make up for that though, we were hit with a huge stroke of luck. Somehow, instead of getting a normal room, we were given an executive room on the business class floors! :0
The Radisson definitely did not let us down this year.
After unpacking, our first major failure hit us. Somehow, amidst all of us running in and out of the house trying to load all the wigs... we forgot one of the most important things at Erin's house...
Lisa's Martel outfit.
Her jacket, mantle and Sheena's bow were still hanging on a clotheshanger in the doorway of Erin's library. Fortunately, Erin's dad was able to bring it to us the next day.
That night we went to Jack Astor's for supper. Although restaurants that let us draw on the tables are awesome... they also bring about a... CRAYON MASSACRE.
Bow your heads for the crayon graveyard.
We might mention that all of those crayons were destroyed by one person... Nicole the Crayon Raepist.
After dinner we registered for the weekend and registered our weapons. It was a pretty relaxing night; finishing up the final touches and getting ready for the next couple of days.
Friday
Friday is always our day to sleep in, since the con doesn't start until later in the day. Getting up around 10:30, we lounged in the hotel, slowly getting into our Death Note cosplay, until Erin's dad dropped off our forgotten cosplay around noon.
Lisa always seems to be the first ready.
We finally got out of the hotel room, and headed towards the Dealer's Room line.
While standing in line, we ran into some awesome cosplayers.
Heroes in a half-shell, Turtle Power!
Silent Hill nurses, so awesome!
An amazing Baron from The Cat Returns!
Still in line...
Mello takes on Light!
But Near gets the kill. Poke of Doom
Finally in the Dealer's Room (we forgot to take a picture of it again *fail* ), we met some more amazing cosplayers!
Sonic the Hedgehog!
Misa-Misa posing with Pikachu.
Bandit Keith... IN AMERICA!
Shia from Pita-Ten. So cute!
Posing with merchadise of ourselves!
Then we found an army of Kirbies! >w<
And one Domo-kun amongst them...
We left the Dealer's Room after buying our fill, and headed back to the hotel for supper.
Misa headed back in style~!
Once back, we each decided where we wanted to eat. Misa, however, felt it was time to save the world from evil...?
Supergirl Misa-Misa!
Lindy and Erin ran into another cosplayer on their way back up to the hotel with food.
Athrun Zala; Lisa's favourite character. Unfortunately Lisa wasn't with them at the time to take a picture with him.
We vowed to find him again... Back in the hotel, it was time for...
Misa-Misa's Cooking Corner!
Stir... cook...
And serve! To the unlucky victim...
"Remind me why I haven't killed her..."
While eating we enjoyed the view from our executive room!
We headed back out to get some icecream, an anual treat at AN. While chilling in the DoubleTree, we ran into some more cosplayers.
Ghost Busters!
Captain Fabulous wins!
Marth and Ike were both amazing!
We were so happy when Skye and ~Bumblebee-team found us! It was so awesome hanging out with you guys again!
Host Club FTW! You guys were kick-ass as Host Club! <3
as Nekozawa
as Tamaki
as Hikaru
Oh noes! Nekozawa is after Tamaki!
And Tamaki has been cornered!!
With all of us together, we had to take a picture for a dearly missed fifth member!
We missed you Jackie!
Wish you had been there!After saying goodbye to everyone, we wandered the DoubleTree for awhile. The Ball was starting, and we saw a very beautiful elf playing music for it.
Our picture doesn't really do her outfit justice.
On the way to the Ball, we saw... GASP Athrun again! This time we decided to get Lisa in the picture with him, but she chickened out. So we do what every good friends do in a situation like this... drag her to him!
As we dragged and dragged, this guy decided to help us out...
LOL! Thanks for all the help! XD
Unfortunately we were too slow and never found Athrun before he got to the Ball (is this sounding like some strange Cinderella story...?). But the journey there was pretty priceless.
Saturday
And Saturday morning arrived! Which meant: Tales of Symphonia!
Like always, Saturday is an eaaaaarly morning for us. This saturday took us longer than usual to get ready. And sadly we weren't out until noon-ish.
Getting ready in the morning...
LOL BUTTS! WTF?!
When we finally got outside we were happy to be welcomed into the con with many pictures and hugs. <3 It really makes a cosplayer feel great when other fans compliment our outfits. Thanks to everyone who appreciated our hard work and liked our cosplay!
For a good majority of the morning we were stuck in a corner of the Congress Centre. Every time we tried to move, more people wanted our pictures! (Not that we're complaining at all <3 ).
While being in that corner, we met another TOS group!
It was awesome meeting and posing with you guys!!
Two Zelos' = Twice the fun
Two Sheena's = Twice the boo-- *slapped*
When we finally got out of the corner, we met an AMAZING Soul and Maka!
You guys were AWESOME!!
In Artists' Alley.
Picture was found on [link]
We also got to meet Emil!
Lloyd vs Emil: FIGHT!
It was awesome hanging out with you! We'll have to find each other again at the next con!
On our way outside again, we ran into a Gurren Laggan photoshoot.
Viral vs Kamina... and a confused looking Yoko in the background XD;
We got asked for a couple more pictures on our way back for lunch.
Sheena... but wait..
Zelos makes his move! *slapped again*
Back in the hotel...
Let's play "Where's Martel?"!
Meanwhile...
What started out as fun...
Turned into...
RAEP TIEM!
"YOSH!"
Lloyd was actually trying to take off Zelos' Cruxis Crystal, we swear! Why this happened while they were in boxers, we can't explain...
After eating lunch, we went back to the Dealer's Room. While wandering, we were asked for our picture, and taken to a white-backdrop in the middle of the Dealer's Room!
He took group pictures and indivdual shots of us. He said he's creating a cosplay magazine and wants to put our pictures in it!
He also mentioned that we might be able to have an article featured on us! If this all happened it would be amazing. 
Droo working with Sheena on the first poses.
Epic main character shot.
We were lucky to run into ~Bumblebee-team again!
You guys looked so great!! >w<
Group picture!!
We saw the Power Rangers too!
Epic pose.
Lisa ran into her friends from college, who got this adorable picture of her.
Picture from Kayla Somers on [link]
We also found some more TOS cosplayers!
Lindy got to pose with Kratos, Raine and the Lloyd we had met before.
Sheena summoning the Goddess Martel.
Picture from Ackson Lee on [link]
"Cuz we're best friends, right?"
Picture from Emily Adair on [link]
We headed outside again and saw the first Cooro we've ever seen!
SO adorable!! Cooro from +Anima! You did a great job! <3
We also saw this hilarious scene...
A security guard explaining Anime North to two muggles!
More pictures of us...
Picture found on Facebook from James L.
Picture from [link]
Picture from [link]
We met Chantal and got to hang out with her for a bit. Thankfully she captured all the pictures that are to follow. Thanks so much! <3
Soon after we ran into Skye again! You definitely made our afternoon.
"Chrona, your hair is uneven... I MUST CUT IT!" LOL!
Now let's all try it!
Death the Kid x Tales of Symphonia time!
It's harder than it looks!
Photobombed by ninjas!
Here comes Kid to show us how it's done.
We all topple over!Later, Skye showed us how very similar to Kid she actually is...
So crazy flexible!
And she could walk like that too!
We also got to see Nikki! You looked so cute!!
It was great seeing you again!
One of the best part of conventions was hanging out with friends who you only get to see at cons.
A couple more pictures of us...
Back to back.
Sheena, ready to fight!
Picture from Ackson Lee on [link]
Looking so graceful.
We finally got the chance to take a picture of this Chocobo! The head even moved!
Rorschach! Amazing costume!
Domo-kun!
Adorable little Gaara! <3
Unfortunately we missed the AMV contest and the Masquerade. We had a late dinner, and uncosplayed ourselves so that Lindy, Lisa and Nicole could head over to the J-Pop dance.
It was a late night, full of packing and very little sleep.
Sunday
Sunday morning was a rush. Finish packing, get into our outfits, clean the room, double-check that we have everything, move everything downstairs and pack it all into the truck. @_@;
With all that done, we made our way outside around noon again. Erin and Lisa roamed the Dealer's Room while Nicole and Lindy got Nobuyuki Hiyama's (the voice of Hiei from Yu Yu Hakusho and Viral from Gurren Laggan) autograph.
In Artists' Alley we saw this Yuna...
She was really amazing! Gives us hope for when we cosplay Final Fantasy.
Later on we ran into =kaiser-mony again! (Lindy and Erin saw her on Saturday but were so bombarded by pictures that they never got the chance to take a picture of her >_<; ).
Her costume and her two friends' costumes were INCREDIBLE. The detail, the wings and the outfits in general! You guys did such an amazing job!
We wish we had got the chance to take a picture with you but everytime we saw you guys we were always asked for pictures! For what was left of the day, we wandered the con, sad that it was over.
Our final group shot before leaving.
Like we said before, thank you to everyone who made this con great for us. Everyone who gave us a compliment, took our picture, gave us a hug; all of that makes a cosplayer feel awesome. It was great seeing our friends again, and we can't wait til the next con to see you all again!
Future Plans
As we've mentioned in previous journals, we really REALLY want to do a number of photoshoots this summer. Tales of Symphonia is a given, but we also want to do a Death Note photoshoot when we get Jackie back into our group (and get her an L outfit). We've come up with some ideas and plans, but nothing is set yet. Hopefully, now that AN is over, we'll be able to figure out exact locations for these photoshoots and when we'll be able to have them (Work schedules are difficult to plan around this summer...).
Besides TOS and Death Note, we're also hoping to have another Host Club photoshoot this summer. There are a couple more scenes we'd like to capture, and some more characters we feel need to be portrayed in our gallery. This photoshoot may be pushed off until we exploit our new cosplays, but we're still hoping it happens.
Finally, as to future cosplays, we know that we want to redo one of our first cosplays: Azumanga Daioh. It's a show that definitely fits us best, and it's a blast to cosplay. For our second and main cosplay for next year, we're still discussing what it could be. Since we haven't narrowed it down (and we're missing Jackie's opinion) we'll leave it out of this journal for now. As soon as we know, we'll be sure to update everyone.
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Spread the DA love around! (you can copy and paste this message on their userpage!)
RULES:
1- You can hug the person who hugged you!
2- You -MUST- hug 6 other people, at least!
3- You should hug them in public! Paste it on their user page!
4- Random hugs are perfectly okay! (and sweet)
5- You should most definitely get started hugging right away
Send This To All Your Friends, And Me If I Am 1.
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If you receive this back 1 time, open up! Find more friends, enemies, or enemies pretending to be friends
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YOU'VE BEEN HUGGED!
Spread the DA love around! (you can copy and paste this message on their userpage!)
RULES:
1- You can hug the person who hugged you!
2- You -MUST- hug 6 other people, at least!
3- You should hug them in public! Paste it on their user page!
4- Random hugs are perfectly okay! (and sweet)
5- You should most definitely get started hugging right away
Send This To All Your Friends, And Me If I Am 1.
If You Get 7 Back You Are Loved!
1-3: you're a bad friend
4-6: you're an ok friend
7-9: you're a good friend
10-& Up: you're a great friend
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that pic was just priceles xD
thanks dudee =]
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- these aren't the breasts your looking for. move along -
The Group -> [link]
The pic of just Zelos and Lloyd is in my gallery somewhere...
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"Can I have a kiss Axel?" -------- My Roxas
"THROW ME THE KEYBLADE!!!" -------- My Sora
"This smile means you're going to be eaten..." -------- My Neuro
I've said these things while cosplaying. What are YOUR random cosplay quotes?!
Figured you'd want to see it. And they have pizza at their feet!
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"Can I have a kiss Axel?" -------- My Roxas
"THROW ME THE KEYBLADE!!!" -------- My Sora
"This smile means you're going to be eaten..." -------- My Neuro
I've said these things while cosplaying. What are YOUR random cosplay quotes?!
Thank you so much!! <3
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"Can I have a kiss Axel?" -------- My Roxas
"THROW ME THE KEYBLADE!!!" -------- My Sora
"This smile means you're going to be eaten..." -------- My Neuro
I've said these things while cosplaying. What are YOUR random cosplay quotes?!
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