It's been a long time since the last time I wrote something here... well, a bit late, here's my Ryujin Concomics Santiago review.
Concomics is a comics, manga & anime convention held in the city of Valparaiso since 2001, and this is the first year that this convention was here in Santiago too. The place chosen was the "Plaza de los Comics" (something like "Comic Square"), in San Miguel district. This place is very cool and special, the first one in the country with statues of our local comics heros, like Condorito and Ogú & Mampato.
The main guests were Humberto Vélez & Gabriel Chávez, two mexican "seiyuu" (voice actors), most known by their work on "The Simpsons" latinamerican version, as Homer Simpson & Mr. Burns, respectively.
I was lucky to be able to meet Mr. Chávez, but Humberto Vélez was traveling to ValparaÃso at that moment, so I couldn't meet him.
I went with a simple Nana Oosaki costume, the one with the Black Stones ripped shirt, from an Artbook illustration. I meet there with another Nana cosplayer (who's thin, not like me!), and her Hachi. They asked me to do a skit together, and I agreed. They are very nice.
Few cosplayers, but very interesting ones. A big Batman group (comics version) where the most showy. My favorites, The Joker, Scarecrow, and beautiful Rydia from Final Fantasy IV. The Joker won 1° place, Tsukasa from .hack/sign won 2° place and Rydia the 3° place. Scarecrow won an honorable mention.
Check out the cosplayers here: http://s94.photobucket.com/albums/l104/Bulma_Shannaro/Ryujin%20Concomics/
A cool thing about this con, is that every registered cosplayer recieved 2 manga books as gifts, just for participate. I've got a Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle one, and a Karekano one.
I had fun, and this convention was different from the typical anime ones, that's something fresh and good ^^
