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See this post for the introduction. See this post for background info on Comiket 86 After a relaxing day of cosplay photography came the main event of the trip: Comiket 86 Day 3: doujinshis, doujinshis, doujinshis! King of comic conventions, do you have enough doujinshis in stock? Unlike in day 1 and 2 where we only got a small glimpse of the fight, day 3 was going to be a battlefield. A true test of strategy and preparation. The real deal. Prior to the trip, we (well, mostly me) had spent countless hours at night drawing up the battle plan …

See this post for the introduction. See this post for background info on Comiket 86 After the exhausting first day of Comiket 86 came C86 Day 2: the day of cosplay photography. Hnnnnngggggggggggg! *dies from heart attack* It was also cloudier that morning, so the initial outside waiting for doors to open was much more tolerable than the previous day. Day 2 of Comiket consists mostly of female-oriented BL circles and Touhou circles, so we managed to finish our shopping really early and spend some time wandering around or photographing cosplayers (which was mainly what I ended up doing). Which …

See this post for the introduction. After our last day of visiting Kyoto/Osaka, we took the shinkansen back to Tokyo and took a day break in preparation for the main event of the trip: Comiket 86. The calm before the storm: Waiting in line for Tokyo Big Sight to open it’s doors to Comiket 86 goers… For those who aren’t familiar, Comiket (short for ”Comic Market”) is Japan’s oldest and largest doujinshi convention. It is a 3-day event held bi-annually with Summer Comiket happening in mid August and Winter Comiket happening in late December. It has in recent years been …

See this post for the introduction. While going through photos in Lightroom for my recent Sakura-Con 2015 photo blog post, I realized that I actually never finished uploading and writing the rest of my Japan Trip 2014 blog posts… Oops… So here they are, with whatever commentary I can still remember… Better late than never I guess! On the same day we visited the Art of Gundam exhibition, we explored Nipponbashi and Dotonbori. I had visited both places multiple times in the past, so I didn’t end up taking all that many pictures this time around. We meet again, Giant …

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here (I blame ArcheAge), but last, last week was Sakura-Con 2015. Sakura-con is the largest anime convention in the north west, with over 20,000 attendees and held at the Washington State Convention Center (Seattle, Washington) between April 3-5th. I went last yearand took tons of cosplay photos as an attendee, but this year, I decided to attend not only as volunteer staff, but also as a panelist! Since I spent most of my time helping out in the console gaming room (I was part of tournament gaming staff), I was only able …

Panel Title: Unlimited TYPE-MOON Works (SC-13) Presenter: Philip Peng (Keripo) Location: Sakura-con 2015, Panel 4 (4C-4) Time: Sunday, April 5th 2015, at 1:45PM – 2:30PM Description: Finished watching this season’s Fate/stay night and craving for more? Or ever wondered why there are so many different Sabers and where they did they all come from? And who is this Nasu guy anyway? Join us for a whirlwind tour of TYPE-MOON’s anime adaptations, games, books, visual novels, and spin-offs. Kara no Kyoukai, Tsukihime, Fate, Mahou Tsukai no Yoru, and everything else to do with the Nasuverse. Downloads – Unlimited TYPE-MOON Works V2.pptx …

“The New Dawn” – ArcheAge castle siege video, Kyrios server. Recorded by Pantyhose, lvl 50 tank-spec Blighter Discussion: http://forums.archeagegame.com/showthread.php?171798 ArcheAge: http://www.trionworlds.com/archeage/en/ Kyrios (NA): http://forums.archeagegame.com/forumdisplay.php?56-Kyrios-%28NA%29 Castle siege by Gank Bus against The White Order for Marcala castle. I participated on my west alt, Pantyhose, along with numerous other members of the General Assembly alliance, while TWO’s side consisted of them and many borrowed members from Fairy Tale. The title of this video, “The New Dawn”, is a reference to the forum thread “A red sun sets in the west” written by Sorcerer outlining the near impossibility of winning an attack siege …

“Gentlemen’s Siege” – ArcheAge castle siege video, Kyrios server. Recorded by Pantyhose, lvl 50 tank-spec Blighter Discussion: http://forums.archeagegame.com/showthread.php?169708 ArcheAge: http://www.trionworlds.com/archeage/en/ Kyrios (NA): http://forums.archeagegame.com/forumdisplay.php?56-Kyrios-%28NA%29 Castle siege by The White Order against Refuge for Nuimari’ castle. I participated on my west alt, Pantyhose, along with numerous other members of the General Assembly alliance. I was hoping for an interesting fight but it ended up being a boring spawn camp lasting less than 10 minutes :( Hope there’ll be no siege-blocking next week so I can make a more interesting siege video. The song clip in the intro is “Bullet for Prisoner” by …

“The Guardians” – ArcheAge castle siege video, Kyrios server. Recorded by Pantyhose, lvl 50 tank-spec Blighter Discussion: http://forums.archeagegame.com/showthread.php?164892 ArcheAge: http://www.trionworlds.com/archeage/en/ Kyrios (NA): http://forums.archeagegame.com/forumdisplay.php?56-Kyrios-%28NA%29 Castle siege by The Guardians agains The White Order for Heedmars’ castle. I participated on my west alt, Pantyhose, along with numerous borrowed members from Gank Bus, Chill, Refuge, Catalyst, Lazy Gamers, OPP and many more (I’m not very familiar with the west faction guilds, sorry!). This siege was done using siege tanks only so we were not expecting to win, especially with TWO’s abusive castle design (walls around both the gatehouse, the spawn point, and the …

“Carpe Diem” – ArcheAge 1v1 arenas PvP video, Kyrios server. Recorded by Desiree, lvl 50 tank-spec Blighter Discussion: http://forums.archeagegame.com/showthread.php?163077 ArcheAge: http://www.trionworlds.com/archeage/en/ Kyrios (NA): http://forums.archeagegame.com/forumdisplay.php?56-Kyrios-%28NA%29 Contains various random 1v1 arena PvP footage as a Blighter. I got bored of 5v5s and only recently decided to start doing 1v1 arenas again so my skills are still quite a bit rusty. You’ll notice me missing the Shadowsmite backstab a few times and a few other dumb mistakes, but being in tank gear really helps with that leeway. Now that I’m finally done with Serpentis and have 10-man Dahuta on farm, those on Kyrios …