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The other big thing that was happening at the convention was a concert, featuring the Japanese Cosplay band, Uchuu Sentai NOIZ. Essentially they were like a bargain basement version of Psycho Le Cemu, one of my first loves as far as Japanese Music is concerned. This was also a huge deal because NOIZ was probably one of the …”biggest” name bands that Animazement has gotten to come over to the US and play music for a bunch of sweaty retards dressed up like Cartoon characters. However, considering that Uchuu Sentai NOIZ was comprised of the equivalent of sweaty asian men masquerading as super heros, they probably felt right at home amongst the people at Animazement.
Despite the fact that Psycho Le Cemu is way better than Uchuu Sentai NOIZ, I still enjoyed their highly choreographed stage performance, and the fact that their little guitar player could actually play fairly well, assuming they actually played all of their songs. I think the best part of the concert was arguably when NOIZ wasn’t playing music, and their singer, Angel Taka was trying to address the crowd in english. Also, my other favorite parts of the concert included when Angel Taka told everyone in the crowd he was “HORNY” and then in a move that the lonely nerds in the audience were all too familiar with. proceeded to jerk off the microphone to further illustrate his point.

This isn’t Uchuu Sentai NOIZ. I couldn’t find a good picture of them on Google. Just know, Uchuu Sentai NOIZ doesn’t look as cool as Psycho Le Cemu.

Now, the concert was great, the dealers room was humongous and getting to see a bunch of my old friends from previous cons was fantastic, but without a doubt the best part of the convention was playing an awfully intrusive game that we here at WeBo* like to call command ball. As far as the Weeaboobies are concerned, and as far as I myself am concerned, the tradition of playing command ball at Animazement was started when I met all of them, and every year it’s one of the highlights of my con experience, despite the fact that a lot of jealous turds who have their own command balls like to steal, hide, or even pop our command ball. I’ll speak more on that in a minute though.
Command ball is played like this. You take a ball, as big as you can get, and write commands all over it. The ball is then thrown to a complete stranger, and they are asked to catch it, after which they have to perform the command that their index finger of their right hand landed on. The commands are light hearted, but still kind of… irritating to experience and that’s what makes the game fun. At it’s core, Command Ball is an icebreaking game on crack. This year, given the size of our group, and the size of the convention center, our game of command ball was especially awesome. My favorite commands were probably the command we called “Correct Pronunciation.” When that command was selected, the participant of our game had to find another stranger, ask them what their favorite anime was, and then correct them on the pronunciation of it, and no matter what the other person said, even if they were saying the series’ name correctly, they were wrong. It goes something like this:

“Hey, what’s your favorite anime?”
“Me? Uh.. probably Bleach I guess.”
“ACTUALLY IT IS PRONOUNCED BLIATCH”

So, you can see how much fun that was at an anime convention. The other command that holds a special place in my heart is another one of my invention called “Group Repeat.” This command requires someone to find a complete stranger, and strike up a conversation with them. Then, the rest of our group follows behind the player, and repeats everything that the stranger says in response. Four times. So like this:

“Hi, how are you doing?”
“I’m doing fine, thanks.”
“I’M DOING FINE THANKS.”
“I’M DOING FINE THANKS.”
“I’M DOING FINE THANKS.”
“I’M DOING FINE THANKS.”

We were actually doing that command to a guy, and his friends were around him and I think we must have pissed them off, because they then decided to do something really dumb. Another command required the player to Gyrate, while holding a conversation with another person, as if nothing was wrong. Our friend was actually doing that command, when one of the douchefaggots who was friends with the same guy we did group repeat to decided to steal our command ball. This is how that went down.

AZ 09 Command Ball

As you can see from the video, he tries to steal our ball, and then gets his dumb ass tackled to the fucking ground by another pal of ours. Good show. Luckily, no one had the knife we’d been carrying around all day, for various reasons, or I might have tried to stab that guy over a $1.50 beach ball. (which actually popped later that evening, in a completely unrelated event.)

I’m going to leave you all on that note, and say that this year’s convention was a blast, and I remained the champion of Mount Knight Carry, along with Travis for another year. (That’s a lie, because some random girl beat me, but since I don’t even know her name, I going to keep telling people I’m still the champion.)