And to make matters worse, the other events were a cheerleading convention and a Christian youth group convention. I mean, not necessarily antagonistic if physically separated… but apparently the Witchblade cosplayers kept walking into the youth group talks, and that’s just not going to end well….
She’s also been posting singable translations of the songs from the Natsume Yujinchou series. If I understand what she’s doing correctly, these are paraphrases of English translations she’s found.
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I’ve been doing everything but watching anime lately. I’ll get back to it — I’ve got Tokyo Godfathers sitting next to the computer, and I want to watch the rest of at least the first season of Natsume Yujinchou — but right now there are other priorities. In the meantime, here’s a curiosity: a piano version of a tune you might recognize.
Gotta love convention hall sharing. AWA was sharing the venue with a baby convention last year, so I imagine that all the mothers present were ferociously hoping that their children didn’t end up crazy cosplayers. Thankfully, AWA has the whole damn hotel and convention center this year.
The tune is very pretty! But I can’t place it. What is it?
It’s “Kinjirareta Asobi.” The recording by Ali Project was the opening to Rozen Maiden. Here is the tune in context.
All the conventions I go to are rather boring academic affairs, but I very much enjoyed the year that the American Musicological Society meeting in Los Angeles was in the same hotel as a minor awards show. Women in evening gowns and men in tuxedos…meet women in appliqué sweaters and men in tweedy, leather-elbow-patch jackets. It was funny to see all the musicology geeks craning their necks around the corner to catch glimpses of celebrities walking the red carpet. The only one I recognized was Clint Eastwood.
MidsouthCon’s usual hotel (they’re in a different one this year) rents one of their confrence rooms to a group of hard-core Pentacostal holy-rollers each Sunday. One year their service let out and a bunch of church ladies CRAWLED out of their meeting room waving their arms and speaking in tounges. Several guys in full Klingon regalia were seen backing away in abject horror.