I am currently on what is fast becoming an annual trip to Auckland to attend Doujin Overload. This year instead of TragicComedy, I will be manning the Collateral Damage Studios booth in Doujin Overload. However, the event is tomorrow. Today I just came to Auckland to chill.

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written by astrobunny \\ auckland, city, doujin, glitter, hotel, hyatt, louis vuitton, night, office, overload, sky tower, trip

Yesterday I went sightseeing around Auckland again, and this time in the Parnell suburb. Since this was my first time doing anything big outside of the central city, I decided to simply walk my way down and around to find interesting things to photograph.

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written by astrobunny \\ apple, art, artillery, auckland, bbq, broccoli, char siew, chinese, coral, dinosaur, district, duck, esprit, exhibition, flower, food, gallery, japan, kagami, lauren, memorial, mitsubishi, monument, mouse raep, museum, orchids, parnell, ralph, rice, roast, shopping, tsukasa, war, world war, zero

Yes folks, I iz in AKL infiltratingz ur armegedonz. Armaggeddon Auckland was quite a bit bigger than Armaggeddon Christchurch, but contrary to my expectations, apparent anime fandom is not directly proportional to the size of the event. Here's my scoop on this event that I was actually heavily anticipating.

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written by astrobunny \\ 2009, akita, armaggeddon, asb, assasins creed, auckland, auu, beatles, cosplay, ddr, event, fail len, failplay, ff8, figma, figures, furude, gundam, hanyuu, harlock, hatsune, heart, hiiragi, kagami, l4d, left for dead, len, long, long queue is long, lucky, meido, miku, negi, neru, park, queue, rena, ribbon, rin, seifer, shakugan no shana, showgrounds, star, suou, tamaki, telescope, theme, to, tsukasa, wrestling, ^.^

Because I felt bored, I decided to run around Auckland a bit and take some photos of places that I've always wanted to go to. So Kagami and Tsukasa packed up and came with me.

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written by astrobunny \\ 2009, altophobia, auckland, concrete, curry, film, glass, ice, kagami, movie, ramen, sky, steak, tower, tsukasa, win

I didn't expect my last blog post to be embraced with such a warm response, and I would like to thank Tadano Suki, Nakano Azusa, Katherine Williams, Tuna, Kimura Reiko, Tiara, Suna, Sylvia, Kate, Rita and Sancta for posting all those constructive comments from the same IP address.

I'd like to say that I really enjoyed the event, and the cosplayers were a lot of fun too. I'm not sure why the spammer got so hot and bothered about what I said about the cosplayers because its true, but I'll let it say what it must to get over it. For those of you who were awesome, kudos. To those of you who failed, just try harder and earn a place of praise in my future posts.

And to the one I bought posters from, you're awesome ;). See you at Armaggeddon.

written by astrobunny \\ 2009, auckland, doujin, kagamine, len, nz, overload, rin, rofl, spam, spammers fail more than failplays, troll, vocaloid

This weekend I made a trip up to Auckland to have a look at Doujin Overload, an attempt made by a small anime shop and aspiring anime artists to cultivate a culture of doujin creation similar to the one in Japan, where the Comic Market comes to mind.

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written by astrobunny \\ artists, auckland, collateral damage, creative, dola-nz, doujin, epic, event, fail, failgato, failkuru, failruhi, fan, fanboy, figures, miki, mugi, overload, shugo chara, su, suiseiseki, talent, to heart, win, yukata