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My Trip to Anime Detour 2008

by JHawkNH.

I decided to go to Anime Detour 2008 as Ginji from GetBackers. The day started pretty well, I was ready to go an hour before I needed to so I was feeling no stress. (Unlike previous year where I was finishing my cosplay the day of the convention.) All I had to do was put on the vest that I had spent twenty hours and color my hair with colored hairspray. Things didn't go as planned…

Green is a good color, but the problem is Ginji’s hair is yellow and so was the hair spray. It turned green when it hit my hair, go figure. The only choice I had was to just go with green hair and hope to fix the problem the next day.

So I arrived at Anime Detour 2008 green hair and all. The line to register wasn't to bad, only over an hour wait! After I was finally registered I finally got down to the business of what I wanted to do at AD 2008, get as many pictures of cosplayers as possible. And now for your enjoyment, my pics…

Image Gallery (Part 1)

Haruhi Suzumiya from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

I believe she is a character from the game Jet Set Radio.

Travis Touchdown from the game No More Heroes.

Sorry. Not sure of the characters or the series.

Characters from the game Metal Gear Solid.

Three girls from video games. I didn't get a picture of the giant anchor that little girl carried.

Check out the missiles on her. Anyone prematurely launch?

Can't remember her name from Chrono Crusade.

Fay from Tsubasa, and I believe Haruko from Air.

Up until this point I have been looking up the names of character and series to make sure I spell them right… Not anymore, I got really lazy.

Image Gallery (Part 2)

Another Chii, Sakura from Tsubasa, and Yuuko from xxxHolic

These Kingdom Hearts bad guys never stop fighting.

Wizard from FF, Desert Punk, and no idea…

Cast from Slayers. I’d name them all, but I am lazy.

Wait she looks familiar, I must have been stalking her.

I knew who she was when I took the picture, but I forgot now.

Princess Peach. Someone said her skirt was not long enough. I say it wasn’t short enough. j/k

Plugsuit Evas. Two of these characters kissed, neither was female.

It’s a Gundum. Just kidding, she is the white armor from Ronin Warriors.

Closeups

All of the pictures that you have seen so far have been reduced in size for easy viewing. But this means you miss some of the stuf in the background. Here are some clips from the pictures at full size.

The images from the following gallery come in pairs - the original image first followed by the closeup with comment.

Yaoi Plushies! Shouldn't these be sold in packs of two?

Dude! I'm taking her picture. You don't need to look at the camera and smile.

The sign reads "Cosplay First-Aid Station". I think they took the sign to literally.

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