I’m usually pretty lazy about these write-ups and give up after one post. So let’s aim for getting all this shit done by Friday, otherwise my motivation will disappear.

Key players of this con:

Dark_Sage. As you know, Dark_Sage is Dark_Sage.

SoupRKnowva. He fansubbed like once. I go to a lot of cons with him because I know he’s cool to hang with and is always DTF.

Amber. Soup’s friend. This probably isn’t her real name, but fact-checking would take time.

Will_Smith. He’s in gg and FFF and… well, I guess I don’t really know what other groups he’s in. Never asked. The important thing is that he wears a scarf. More to come on that later.

 

Thursday

4:45 Welcome to Columbia

Yep, shit was just as cold as my homeland of Minnesota. RIP my warm paradise dreams.

 

5:15 Airport -> Hotel with Soup and Amber. We checked in and scored a third-floor room (lowest floors are the best floors).

The room wasn’t Naruto themed, so I was a bit disappointed, but at least the carpeting was nice.

 

6:00 Met up with Will_Smith to watch the Ano Hana movie at 7:00. He was unfortunately not as black as I expected, but that fucking scarf… More on the scarf later, since there’s a superb story behind it.

 

7:00 Ano Hana movie time. There were about 40 people in the audience, which is a completely unnecessary fact.

Goddamn, the movie’s pacing was so fucked I can’t believe anyone with a soul actually greenlit it. Pretty hard to feel any emotions other than boredom when you’re watching a 90-minute recap episode.

Will left for about 15 minutes to get more beer. I’d have followed him, but I was trying to count all the Anaru ass shots in the film and didn’t wanna miss any. (There were 3.)

From post-movie talk, nobody liked it. If you’re hyped and wanna watch this shit, I suggest you temper your expectations, cuz the only tears you’ll be shedding will be over the $16 you just wasted on a ticket.

 

8:30 Cap’n Will took us on a journey to find a Five Guys. Unfortunately, he forgot there was a hockeyball game that night, so we ended up caught in traffic for about an hour. ‘Least we had time to listen to a Bloc Party album, so it wasn’t a complete loss.

 

9:30 Five Guys

 

10:30 Badges

We zipped into the pre-reg line and got ourselves some badges. Only instead of badges we got some shitty wrist bands.

Will had bounced by this point since he hadn’t pre-regged, and nothing was going on, so we decided to head back to the room and get a start on panel planning.

 

11:00 Panel planning

We figured out which panels we wanted to hit up on Friday/Saturday/Sunday (there weren’t many) and then went to sleep. It was uneventful; no one died. Friday had a bit more activity, though. Ain’t saying it’s scarf-related, but…

 

 

More

Day 0 – Thursday: That’s this article.

Day 1 – Friday: http://www.crymore.net/2014/02/03/ohayocon-2014-day-1-friday/

Day 2 – Saturday: http://www.crymore.net/2014/02/04/ohayocon-2014-day-2-saturday/

Day 3 – Sunday: http://www.crymore.net/2014/02/04/ohayocon-2014-day-3-sunday/