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+title:  "Animecon 2014"
+date:   2014-07-09 15:03:00
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+Besides being a programmer I'm also a fan of anime and in lesser extent the Japanese culture.
+However I never actually visited one of the animeconferences in the Netherlands. There are two; Animecon and Abunai.
+So I decided (about a year beforehand) that I wanted to go to one, but I didn't want to go without cosplaying something.
+So me and my mother who is pretty good with so called needle and thread set out to make ourselves a costume.
+We spent several weekends over the course of a year to make the military costume of "Zechs Marquise" of the series "Mobile Suit: Gundam Wing". 
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+So me and a friend of mine went to animecon 2014 in The Hague.
+We drove there with one of the stewards who help setup and run the event.
+This resulted in being set to work as soon as we arrived at the venue.
+We had to screw together some stanchions for the crowd control lines that had to be setup.
+But this off-course is but a fraction of the work that these stewards put in during the weekend.
+Besides because we helped we were allowed to cut in line and enter the venue as one of the first people.
+Which cuts the time spend in the ticket-line considerately.
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+With my friend as a guide we planned where we wanted to go during the event.
+We visited most of the cosplay competitions, some of the Japanese culture workshops.
+We also spent considerable time in the dealer and game room. 
+The game-room was filled with wacky games and wacky controllers for games. 
+On of the wackier controllers was a giant Nes controller, and by giant image a meter wide Nes controller large. 
+Another was a space hopper controller for "Katamari Damacy" and if you don't know what that is Google it you'll understand.
+On the wacky game side there was a "Taiko" game, A guitar hero-esque drum game with traditional Japanse drums.
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+There were also some interesting Q&A panels, one of which was a cosplay armor making panel by "[Kamui Cosplay]".
+She showed us how she makes her armor cosplays and answered all of our questions with a nice approach to try. 
+I was especially interested because my cosplay missed a sort of mask/helmet hybrid and I wanted to make it myself. 
+It also introduced me to a new cosplay armor making material called worbla and I'm interested to start using it.
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+All-in-all I had a fun weekend with lots of lovely cosplay and events. I even bought a souvenir model kit of the mech my cosplay piloted in the series. I will probably post the finished model but that will take my some time. 
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+[Kamui Cosplay]: http://www.kamuicosplay.com/