Anime Expo ‘08 Cosplay
Yesterday was a fun day at the Anime Expo, some really nice cosplay and I also managed to buy some goodies (not as many as I wanted, though)…
This year the Expo was moved from Long Beach to the LA convention center, which gave it a lot more room to breath. I don’t know data un numbers right now, but for a Thursday, the Anime Expo looked pretty packed, but well spread out. Moreover the registration process was easy.
Still, finding a place to park proved to be a bit difficult and the lines at the Starbucks and the ATMs (for all those who wanted to buy more stuff than they thought…) were really long.
At usual great cosplay and statues (more pics of those here)… so lets have a look.
But let’s have a look at the at some Cosplay.
This Ichigo’s sword was really well done… and I thought it would be the biggest around, till later I saw Zabusa…
Something is going on at the Funimation booth.
I don’t know what anime/theme was the most sought after at the show. Since we’re in the US and A, Naruto and Bleach had probably the most cosplay fans, but also Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy had a lot.
This Son Goku was so good I made it available at a higher rez… :) And I mean, the guy was striking serious poses… once I did the pic he relaxed and gasped for like a minute.
Some FF and Naruto fans here… and this Kakashi was the best I saw around even if I later met a good runner up…
Zabusa was tired. I bet, look at the sword he was toting around!
Good old Alphonse…
This Kaneda was so well done I asked him to turn around so I could show the back of jacket detail.
Your beard and hair aren’t the right color, but this guy is a 9 out of 10 Solid Snake for me.
But what about this Link?
I don’t know what character this guy is, can you help me out?
I ended up staying till close looking around for a Range Murata statue I always wanted. Found it just before the show was closing down.
Below I’m adding some morethumbnails, have a look. I’l be updating shortly with more.
(Not enough? Check out more cosplay and Anime Expo at Broken Anime)
OMG that Zabusa is awesome 8)
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Amazing show, I wanna go once in my life but kind of far from me since I live in SF.
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Americajin Reply:
July 8th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Not that far, just a 9 hour drive or so :)
However, it was fun, you should make some time for it next year!
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You duplicated many pictures in thumbs we already see in in post. But still nice pictures, thank you for pictures.
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Americajin Reply:
July 13th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Thanks for pointing that out. I’m still working on my wordpress skills… need to figure out how to remove dupes from galleries.
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