Con Aftermath

Well I can say that yesterday has been one of the best days of 2016 so far, if not the best.
I attended Castle Point Anime Convention 2016 (or CPAC for short), the first true con I ever attended in my life and from the looks of it will very likely not be my last.

It started off less than average, as considering the location finding a parking spot proved to be difficult, but minutes later after I got my registrations and approached where everyone was selling art, the day instantly turned for the better. Thousands of people were in cosplay, dressing as both well known and mildly obscure characters (which I'd expect from a real con with real anime fans), though sadly I was a bit too cautious to ask anyone for photos since I didn't want to come off as a creep to everyone.

I mostly attended the con primarily to check the art section, and I was amazed at the huge collection of content being sold. It was just a very big moment for me, being able to meet about a dozen or so artists including the likes of SiSero, d13mon-studios, and StamayoStudio, along with their respective OC stories. After about an hour or so of continuously standing up, my legs began to give in and grew sore, so I was only able to spend so much time outside with the cosplayers after leaving the art wing before returning to my car and driving back home. Needless to say I regret not doing pics of or with the cosplayers; since some of them looked really, really well done. But as my legs had other ideas I had routinely no choice. And heck, I can still feel them squirming today; 24 hours after I took my first steps at the con.

I suppose one objective of mine would be to lose some weight and strengthen up my legs; I remember waaaaaaay back in 2010 I was able to endure 10,000 steps at The Museum of National History, but here I could only do about 5,000 before my legs became sore. I also missed out on a few Tomodachi Life Streetpass tags since I didn't bring my 3DS that had the Tomodachi Life save on it thanks to underestimating how many people with 3DSes would show up (the one I brought is a separate 3DS that had the new Mario & Sonic title instead for the purpose of Pocket Marathon).

I you're curious as to what I got from the Con, I posted everything on my blog. superjustintheblog.blogspot.co…
Lots of Kill la Kill, Free!, and Miraculous Ladybug (the latter I got into last January mostly thanks to DanitaSArtCorner) with a bit of One Piece, Jojo, Gurren Lagann, and One Punch man thrown in. unfortunately I spent way too much money- about $300 is my closest estimate, on all these prints plus two figures of Josuke Higashikata and Haruka Nanase (I was THIS close to getting figures of Sebastian Michaelis and Dizzy but I stopped myself since those two combined would've costed $280). Hopefully on the next con I go to I'll be more cautious on how much money I blow on prints and other purchases. v_^;; Who knows maybe I'll encounter some of these artists again.