Climbing up the grassy hillock towards a sushi bar that faces another sushi bar across the street is a young adult sporting fox ears and a bushy tail. Beyond him, waiting to cross the street, is a man dressed as Cloud from Final Fantasy VII, complete with unnaturally yellow spiked hair and the impractically large →
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 In the downstairs of the Doubletree Hotel, an exceedingly nice woman provides us with press tags and Anime North booklets5 and we make our way back to the lobby. A few booths hawk gimmicky merch and beverages across from the Orchid Cafe, where the waitresses are dressed as stereotypical →
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 3:00pm: AH, KF, and I are making our way to the Renaissance Hotel, whose programming is divided into two halls, yaoi/hentai-related panels in the north wing and all types of gaming in the south, and a lobby with a bar20 that’s as orderly and clean as the Doubletree. AH is set on →
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 It’s about 7:30pm and the Pokémon Sealed Deck Tournament has just finished25. On my way I see the most realistic furry I’ve ever seen, complete with a fake putty nose with whiskers and everything, watching the LARP table and looking like she doesn’t want to be talked to. I also meet an →
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Toronto Congress Center, 9pm: another crossdresser, and another that KF tells me I missed for my tally. Back where I heard Crystal Castles at the beginning of the day is what appears to be the j-pop dance off. KF and I dub it, “when the antisocial socialize.” The J-pop is mostly Rotterdam beats →