Saturday morning we jumped over to the Ohayoncon 2004 convention in the convention center across the street. As we arrived we saw many great cosplay outfits. We quickly began looking around for the pass booth where we could get our press passes. It took about 15 minutes and a little coersion because they didn't keep proper records, but we finally got our passes.

Almost instantly I headed over to the artist alley. One of my favorite places to be because of the awesome art. You'll see some pictures in the gallery below. There were quite a few artists present and most of them were 'really' good. Some even had some Apple laptops. Pictures of those are below as well.

We were hungry so we stopped down at the food court in the convention center. The Thai and Chinese were really yummy. We met a cute girl, think her name was Emily. We had lunch with her and a friend of hers, and followed her down to the dealers room for some pocky and Anime funness.

We didn't attend any workshops during our stay at Ohayocon. However we did attend some panels. First was the Inuyasha voice panel. It was loads of fun. We were able to hear some of the voices and such. I feel sorry for the voice personalities on that show. They had a line for autographs from 2pm until 8 or 9pm that evening. signing the entire time.

Toshda and I eventually found the game rooms. Funk was strong. We ventured in only once, and left quickly. Looked like loads of DDR funness, and some cool fighter games and stuff. Not totally MY thing, but hey it's all gravy baby!

Later we found ourselves staring at some beautiful costumes. Some very elaborate. Others very simple, but every one of them was gorgeous. See the pictures in the gallery below.

And then there was Blood. Blood is a fantastic Japanese heavy rock band. They put on a great show, with some awesome effects and screen images. They also had some really horrible English thrown in on their screens. That didn't drag the effect of their show down any though.

Toshda and I did attempt to setup an interview with the Inuyasha voice crew as well as with Blood. The Inuyasha voice crew's agent said he'd setup a time for us to interview them and would call us (we traded numbers). The interview never materialized.

Blood was a bit tired from having to fly all the way from Japan, put on a show, and sign autographs... all this pretty much non-stop. It's ok guys, we understand.

Next was the Saturday night dance. Normally these dances are something which I look forward to. Toshda doesn't like to dance... bummer cause the girls would flock to him that way, he's a good raver though.

We attended the dance briefly, and I had some fun there, but quickly grew tired of this dance. I still can't explain why. Maybe it was that someone tried to steal my coat.

Sunday was a short day for us. The snow from Friday's blizzard hadn't started melting yet, and there was threat of another blizzard looming above most of Ohio and Indiana.

We went and took some pictures of Blood signing autographs. They seemed a bit more relaxed, which was good. If Ohayocon had been more organized for the press, perhaps you'd have an interview with them here, instead no such luck, we didn't even get a poster.

All in all the con was good. The atmosphere mostly friendly. And I just LOVE that they has a Thai place in the convention center.

Saturday night we'd gone out to a hibachi grill, it was FANTASTIC. It's not too far from the Columbus Convention Center, if you're in the area go eat at the Japanese Steakhouse.