Reuben Langdon Blog

We laughed, we cried, laughed some more then watched Yaoi and just felt kinda weird…but in the end Fanime 2009 was a blast…and we were all satisfied! Thanks to all the folks who put it together and especially to all the fans who came out! Couldn’t have been the success it was without all you guys.

We some bad mo-fro’s!!! Go team RE:5! …Yeah!!!

The whole gang at the RE5 panel! We did the panel and some signings! The line for the signings ended up wrapping around the hallway and some folks had to wait 2 and half hours…sorry guys!

Dinner with Hiroyuki Yamaga: Tough brief, I got to say hi to Mr. Yamaga, president of Gainax animation studio. I first met him back at Fanime 2007 and drooled over him like the crazy Otaku I am. This time I had him sign my Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise soundtrack that I bought way back in high school…drool… I also had him sign my Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi box set…more drool!

Charity auction: In addition to the Street Fighter 4 tournament charity auction (see earlier blog post) there was another auction on Sunday that Ric Meyers headed up. Last year we did it together but this year I got swept away by a bunch of fans, got hammered at the bar (sorry Ric) but was barely able to make it in time with a last minute addition of an original Ken Masters print courtesy of Jo Chen!  It went for $90! Woohoo!!!

Free hug line: The whole free hug thing that was taken to a new level with this! A line of people going all the way down the hall.

Free peanut butter and jelly: the RE5 girls enjoy a midnight snack!

Hot Yaoi Nights: I experienced my first viewing of Yaoi Anime this year. I don’t think I could have done it alone…luckily Karen Dyer (Sheva) accompanied me and I didn’t have to go it alone (whew!). It was late and we only stayed for the first show which was from what I hear pretty mild. Still it had it’s awkward moments and the climax at the end was…nuff said.

After a little Yaoi, Karen and I headed to the Hentai room. Though I have had my share of Hentai (oops did I say that?)…it was new to Karen. For the brief time we were there they were showing some raunchy AMV’s that were actually really good! Every couple of minutes someone would yell hand check and everyone had to put their hands in the air, if not you got kicked out! …Keeping it clean! As clean as Hentai can be anyway, Yeah!

Whose Line is it Anime? aka-Fanime Improv: The RE5 team as well as Ric Meyers, Keith Burgess, and Jason Ebner all got together for a round of crazy improv MC’d by Jonathan Osborne. To be honest I was dreading this panel. Hadn’t done improv for a while so was kinda nervous…not to mention the big audience turnout. In the end it was a blast! Some really good stuff from everyone nearly had me pissing my pants. I was even able to discover my soon to be patented Yeah man! …with Ken’s help of course!

Oh…Did I mention Cosplay!?

Of course one of the major highlights was all the cool cosplay. Because of my hectic panel schedule, I could only see so much but there was everything from the complete Resident Evil cast to Bumble Bee!

…more cool cosplay!

…till next year!