LA Anime Expo 2011

[OC Richard]

Took my daughter to LA Anime Expo yesterday for her 17th birthday.
She's a chip of the ol' block: she draws all the time (I'm an artist by trade) and she's REALLY into anime and manga, the Japanese style of drawing.

A big thing with anime fans is "cosplay", dressing up as characters from anime, manga, electronic gaming, etc. I know next to nothing about all this, but enough to know that I should dress my finest, so I wore quasi Edwardian dress.

Here we arrive, sukoturandoji and my daughter dressed as Sanji (a character from the classic anime One Piece).



Here she is as Sanji, with a guy dressed as Lufie, both from One Piece. (Sanji is a male character; in "cosplay" it's common for girls to dress as male characters.)



Here I am posed with... well I don't know what it is. Cool-looking for sure. It was the first time out for the castellated "triced" hose I recently got from Skye Highland Outfitters:



Here is... well once again I'm at a loss but I'll call her Devil Girl:



Not surprisingly, a large proportion of the people attending Anime Expo are nihonji. Here is a group of them, all posed and dressed as... I don't know what.



And there are plenty of gaijin too!