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!

Wow! What a day! …Since I was late a day, all my panels from got moved into today and so yeah…it was pretty busy! Did a DMC panel and autograph session but the highlight of the day was the Street Fighter charity auction event where folks bid to play a few rounds with me as Ken Masters. For the most part i got my ass kicked but I did have my moments and either way it was all for-the-cause! …hmmm, where have I heard that before? (www.for-the-cause.com) sorry had to do it! but no seriously something like $600 was raised for the Breast Cancer Foundation. Yeah! Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about!

I was pleasantly surprised when fellow voice actor Keith Burgess who voices Akuma in SF: Alpha came into challenge me! He played as Akuma and of course you know who I was. I was able to hold up winning 2 out of 3 against him but the other NoCal guys…well let’s just say that I need a little more practice! Just wait ’till next year guys! …Bring it on!

The event went down at Stage Zero, as I was leaving I heard the B-Fighter Kabuto theme song…Nice touch guys!

Had quite the turn out!!!

This was the one time I actually won! As you can see I was very excited! The crowd too!

Ken Masters (me) vs Akuma (Keith Burgess) …good times!

(pics curiosity of Tony Chu photography http://www.myspace.com/tonyzg)

Hope to see everyone there!

for a detailed schedule of the panels and events that I will be involved in click here: http://www.fanime.com/schedule.html