SGMS, Day One

[tsukikage]

SGMS today was a lot of fun. Even the fashion show, which was too long and not really my cup of tea. The lecture on kawaii noir was interesting, and The Non-Yaoi Fan's Yaoi Panel was amazing! I actually managed to win a Gundam Wing VHS (here's to it not being episodes I already have on DVD) for my identification of a random yaoi couple's classification according to the character archetypes presented in the panel and my reasoning, although only three people volunteered their thoughts. (I suggested that the uke-looking one was the "I Don't Usually" (as in "I don't usually let boys make out with me"), since his eyes were all shifty but he wasn't resisting, but I had no guess for the seme-looking one.)

Two interesting characters in attendance:
- the 65-year-old looking man who's seen most of Antique Bakery and at least some of Ebichu, and attended (and seemed to enjoy) the yaoi panel
- the guy my age who doesn't actually like anime; he just paid the $75 to attend because he's heard a lot about this animu stuff and was thinking he might be able to get ideas for a handful of anime to check out by attending; when I asked him what his interests were he said maintaining his 4.0 GPA

I was trying to decide what event I want to go to in the 10-12 block on Sunday (it's between "Lolita in the West: The Evolution of Lolita Outside of Japan" and the four junior scholar paper presentations, but leaning heavily towards the latter, when I realized that the signing session with Abe Yoshitoshi and Crispin Freeman is from 11-12, so I think I'll be going with the paper presentations so I can at least hear the entirety of something. I'm a little disappointed about missing "Unquiet Spirits: A Preliminary Examination of Nationalism and History in Manga". That sounds like it could be really interesting.

Still need to decide what to get signed. >.>

P.S. Ugh, I really wish I had remembered to ask what that song was during the first designer's "run". Like, all I can remember now is a man's voice going "katakatakatakata" and then a woman's voice doing the same. ^^; There were a couple of other interesting songs, but that was the only one where I was like "must download!"

P.P.S. Yoroshiku just released eps. 89-100 of Chi's. Only 4 left. *dies just a little inside* :(

Comments

[lugia222.livejournal.com]

Forgive my ignorance, but what is SGMS?

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits

[lugia222.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I had a feeling it was this event at MCAD but I couldn't remember what the acronym stood for.