okay, so as usual i come home from work the other night at about 12:30am and my sister and her girlfriend are watching some dumb mtv reality show called “OMG I CAN’T BELIEVE SHE’S DATING HIM” or something equally stupid. and i’m watching with no interest and slight anger like… “really? can we watch something that doesn’t make me lose brain cells?”

   so my sister responds, “no no no we have to wait until the next show, it’s hilarious” — it turns out the next show is called “Silent Library” a show hosted by some stern-faced chinky japanese dude in which six players have to perform crazy stunts for money while remaining completely quiet. luckily for me my memory served me well, and i remembered watching a youtube clip with tasukete travis and shota sp33n about a japanese show in which it had the same rules. one of the stunts was “old man bites tenderly” … just… just watch:

   and then i had the luck of seeing that exact same scene on the american version of the show, which was JUST as hilarious.

   but then, and as is always my mistake, i read the comments on the youtube video which consisted of utmost weeaboo bullshit.

“complete bullshit.. bad acting, dont fuck with japan, they are the original. bunch of fuckin hired actors… stupid lame and mainstream brain melting retardedness, so obvious that this is rehearsed . FUCK MTV AND THERE BULLSHIT.”

this show is a sucky remake of true comedy made famous in japan. funny how often this happens. oh wait, no it’s not funny

awesome show

   my favorite has to be “don’t fuck with japan” – and i only included the bottom quote “awesome show” because of all the comments, that was the only one with a thumbs down. all the ones saying “this show sucks, remakes suck, japan’s was better” had 2 to 5 thumbs ups, and any that supported the american remake or said anything about the show being funny at all got thumbs downs. DON’T FUCKING SUPPORT AMERICA.
   okay okay okay. so the japanese version is the original, i agree with that – but really. no matter what, american or japanese, this is HILARIOUS to watch. i was laughing so hard when i was watching this the other night on mtv. the show definitely looks like easy money, and i’m thinking about trying to weasel some of the weeaboobies into going onto this show with me … >w>

This will be a brief entry, really. I was just lurking the wide world of cyberspace tonight and happened upon one too many reminders that, thanks to the Internet, people like us (as in nerds, geeks, weeaboos, etc.) are able to have a pathetic chance at a social life!

It started when I was browsing and came upon an advertisement for a site called GamerNook. Apparently, it’s Myspace… for gamers, of course. It’s actually in beta right now, so if you want to sign up, go ahead. I took a peek at the first page of members and was almost surprised to see that a lot of them are ladies. I just hope they aren’t ladies who think that “rockin’ out on Rock Band” counts as being a video game nerd…

If you feel as though you are in need of a video game nerd’s social paradise, I think you’ll find GamerNook pretty helpful in that area. Just don’t come crying to me when the girl of your dreams you meet on there turns out to be the average Bella of your dreams. *shot*

The next example of social pariahs slowly taking over the world would be the infamous Cosplay Deviants. If you haven’t visited this site, yet, I am disappoint. I remember lurking it when the site was just starting, and they had a few pictures out on public display. Unfortunately, what remember of the models they had then was that they were largely of the butterfaced variety—but HONESTLY who’s lookin’ at their face, anyway?! Am I right or am I right, fellas? ;D

Regardless, they’ve gotten a lot better with that, mostly through the use of Photoshop, I guess, because I’m looking at some of their first members’ newer “cosplays” and they’re looking a bit cuter (and more obviously blend/smudge tool’d o_o; ). As with most porn sites, this one requires a membership in order to see the nudie pix, but you can see a bunch of previews on their Myspace, which is where I swiped these screenshots from.

If you’re interested in seeing these girls IRL, the ladies of Cosplay Deviant DID help out at Supercon, held in Florida, doing a spin-off of your usual maid/cosplay cafe called the Hentai Cafe. “Hosted by The Cosplay Deviants, The Hentai Café will screen Hentai all night, with snacks being served by the girls of Cosplay Deviants,” says Supercon’s events section. This sounds like something I could get into…

Wait. Is that supposed to be Goku? >_> All right, I am done with you professionally, Cosplay Deviants. DONE. Just… Give me the Naruko picture set and leave. Now. >:|

I’ll move on to my next and final example (although there are plenty more in the dirty crevices of the Interwebs): OtakuBooty. Shouldn’t take too much thought to figure out just what this site is all about, huh? It’s essentially the same as GamerNook, except older and it has its own convention (aptly, and hilariously in my opinion, named Bootycon). While GamerNook may be just a social networking site for some, OtakuBooty is more like a singles site for nearly everyone on there. I mean, it has the word BOOTY in its name, so that really should not have been a surprise to anyone there.

Reportedly, a lot of the members have nudes as their friends only pictures (yes, it’s allowed), so if you’re into lurking strangers’ junk, I can safely say this site is for you.

I really don’t have much to say about this site other than it’s pretty plainly decorated, which isn’t necessarily a BAD thing. It’s better than the thing drowning with naked catgirls wearing thick glasses and bikinis + armor while drawn in that Kyoto Animation moe-blob style— no, stop, never mind. It’d be SO MUCH BETTER. Either way, if the Normals find out about this place, we’re going to get sooo much shit for it. :| Come on, do they have dating sites called BaseballBooty, ChanelBooty, or BeachBooty? Probably not, although now I kind of WISH they did because ending anything in “booty” is the most brilliant idea ever.

So much so that Weeaboobies is now Weeabooty.

This is part two of two. To go to part one click here.

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.)

So here’s a rundown of Animazement 2009, and.. Yes, I do realize how late this is. However, those of you that have issues with my tardiness can suck it. (That’ll be the most anyone’s done for me in months.)

Aaaanyway.

This AZ was a fairly big deal for two reasons. Number one, the brand spanking new Raleigh Convention center would be hosting the convention, as opposed to the Sheraton Imperial in Durham, NC where the convention had been hosted since 2001. The other reason that this year’s convention was such a huge deal is that this year was the first time  The Sheraton was the spot where I had my con cherry popped, and the lobby of the Sheraton is where I ran into the assholes that I currently call my closest friends. In the 12 years that the con has been held, it spent 8 of those years in the Sheraton. Needless to say, there was a bit of trepidation at idea of a venue change, and the Raleigh Convention Center had huge shoes to fill.
My first reaction upon getting out of the car on Thursday afternoon was being so incredibly stoked on how absolutely HUMONGOUS the Raleigh Convention Center was. The building itself was very nice, waaaaay too nice for a group of obnoxious Japanophiles to be defiling it with their presence, and I couldn’t stop thinking that the staff at the Raleigh Convention Center had no fucking clue what they had gotten themselves into. Despite this, the convention center staff apparently said that we were the most well behaved group of people to set foot in the convention center, which is slightly alarming to say the least.

Holy. Shit. Really?

There wasn’t a whole lot of stuff happening on Thursday, so the majority of us just hung around outside of the convention center, talking to anyone that wanted to chat. At least 6 of the 15 people with us that weekend were outside until 4:30 the next morning, at which time I and the 5 others with me decided to go and take a dip in the hotel’s salt water swimming pool, which opened at 4:30. On Friday, we just kind of screwed around all day, and we were there pretty much all night.

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Oh yeah, I forgot to mention something. The Kigurumi. For the majority of the convention, starting on Thursday, most of our crew was decked out in Kigurumi. Kigurumi are ull-body animal pajama with hoods or hats styled after animals. They are worn non-commercially and are another form of Japanese street fashion. (Thanks for that wikipedia.) Our group had 2 foxes, 1 tiger, 1 blue beaver, 1 skunk, and a dragon. What that all boils down to is this: there were 6 morons running around the convention dressed like animals and fairy tale creatures. The first time we walked up to the convention center in the day light, a couple of big tough /b/tards started calling us furries from what they assumed was the relative safety of the patio. Oh how wrong they were.

Call us a furfags one more time. See what happens.

Guys, we are so mind-numbingly fucking cool.

I had a sick death hawk. Hell yes.

On Saturday, the WeBo* camp also took the opportunity to promote the website. The Weeaboobies decided to use Leis to promote, because collectively they have the maturity level of a 12 year old, and could make a bunch of stupid puns about “lei”-ing everyone who was unfortunate enough to receive one of their leis.

This right here? This is the danger-zone and you’re in it. Prepare to be lei’d. 80 times. consecutively.

This concludes part one of the The Extremely Belated Animazement 2009 Post-con Wrapup. Part two of this fantastic voyage will be up some time tomorrow. Don’t crap your pants in anticipation or anything. (Do it, crap your pants. You ain’t real.)