ladycrystalline | Jun. 10th, 2013

Third day: (Sunday: Before Black and White Ball)

So its morning and I wake up to my friend Alice saying something really weird (but I completely forgot what she had said xD but i know that it was weird). And I was the last one to wake! Not that it mattered. My friends were already getting dressed in their cosplays, ready to head out. But I just kinda sat there and wondered what I should wear because the day before, not a lot of ppl knew who I cosplayed as even though I was with my group. :( EVEN MY FRIEND DIDN'T KNOW. SHE ASKED, "What are you? OH! WAIT. ARE YOU A SEWING KIT???" D': *CRIES* I was just, ugh. So freaking sad. But when I asked my friends, they said that younger kids (the newer generation) would probably know who I am and not know who they were. Plus they kept repeating how my Arrietty cosplay was way cooler and more rare than my Chihiro cosplay (which was true since I only spotted like three other Arriettys). So with that, I cosplayed as Arrietty xD Dressing up took most of our time because Kiki couldn't seem to get her bow right.

So we head to artist alley together I believe and Kiki kept forgetting to give ppl her croissants! I had to keep reminding her to give it to the next ppl who wanted our picture taken. (we still forgot). When we head back to our hotel, we come across this small art gallery we became curious about. We ask the guy at the front of the door what the gallery was for and he said it was to showcase SJSU student's arts and storyboards along with concept art and completed animation projects. He let us in and made us feel like VIPs xD haha. We get hungry I think and go to subways.

After eating at Subways, we separated. Kiki and I browsed around the artist alley. While we were there, we saw the most cute and cool cosplays! I spotted a Tony stark but I didn't take a very good picture of him :l There were a lot of Tonys this year xD
By the way, Kiki has this gift of spotting the rare Ghibli characters.

She spotted Sheeta,

Ashitaka,

Howl with Sophie,

a Totoro in a cat bus,

and an Umi. She was so adorable! Out of all the Ghibli characters, we didn't think someone who cosplay as her! I should've asked her where was Shun ;D She knew who i was cosplayed as!

On our way back to the hotel (because Kiki couldn't walk in her flats anymore), we waited at this intersection and next to us, I see this girl in a yellow dress and the guy in pink next to her.

I asked if they were Sophie and Howl and they were all like, "Yay! You can tell who we are!!!" I felt so happy pointing them out. It made their day!
There was some Sophie and Howls, but not alot of ppl would cosplay as them with their final outfits in the movie.

(A Sophie and Howl with the first outfits)

(A Sophie and Howl with the second outfits)

(And a stalker pic of the final outfits)

So anyways, at the room Kiki soaked her feet while I wonder if I should change into my Chihiro cosplay or not.

After an hour, I change into my Chihiro cosplay in hopes of finding a Haku to take a picture with since last year I took a picture with a No Face. And I also perfected the flowers that Chihiro holds at the beginning of the movie using the yellow belt from my Arrietty costume as the ribbon.

When we step outside of the hotel building, Kiki spots a group of friends who were cosplaying Miyazaki characters. But get this, THEY WERE COSPLAYING THE EXACT SAME CHARACTERS AS US. SO, I RAN UP TO THEM AND ASKED IF I COULD TAKE A PICTURE OF THEM AND WITH THEM.

At that moment, I had no regrets changing into my Chihiro cosplay. But I wished that our Ashi and Mono was there to take a picture with them.

We said our goodbyes and just 5 seconds later, Kiki spotted our Ashi and Mono from afar, walking towards us. I RAN UP TO ASHI AND DRAGGED HER WHILE EXPLAINING WHAT HAPPENED. THEN I RAN TO FIND THAT DOPPELGANGER GROUP. I approached the other Chihiro and asked if they could take a pic with us again. It was a moment that I still find amazing.

Then we went our separated ways again. Kiki heads to the Dealer Hall to buy her family things and there, I find ppl cosplaying characters from the PS3 game I play - UNCHARTED. I ran up to them and asked if I could take a picture. They were more than happy to and screamed, "WE WERE FINALLY NOTICEDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I was even more happy when I found out I made them happy. :)