There was a Nico-only doujin event in UDX yesterday which was basically the day after her birthday. Naturally we celebrated the birthday there too. Nicotan basically was written as にこ誕, which was short for ニコの誕生日 which means Nico's birthday. This is actually the first time the puniket guys held this event so it was bound to be awesome. Also because of its impeccable timing.
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Doujin Overload again! This year I was much less of a stalker and more of a seller, and only thanks to a trusty sidekick was I able to run around with a knifecamera and find more gold for myself!
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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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Kagami saw something I really didn't want her to see. But it was clearly HER fault messing with someone else's phone. I mean, why do you mess with someone else's private belongings, its not like gave permission or anything... >.>
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Suuankou yakuman! \o/. The last tile that made the grade was from a kan on the left. But since its a yakuman the rinshan is useless since we're already a the point limit.
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.
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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