OMG I've got like a million messages to write and all but I had to put together a bunch from the AMAZING weekend that me and my buddies had going down to LA and attending Anime Expo for the very first time. It was an amazing line up of days on end of endless handshaking, picture taking and autograph signing. I still can't believe how suprised everyone can be when I appear in front of them to say hi. I have so many people to thank and I will not be where I am if it weren't for the fans.

I sincerely apologize for not being at my table on Thurs or Fri. I had work on Thurs and could only leave for the con to start on Fri. And on Fri my prints didn't get delivered til later in the afternoon. I had no idea that there would be so many people when I arrived in the alley and was told that there were people looking for me. Let alone to an empty table. I didn't have many prints, and when those enevitably ran out. Free high fives!!

I catologued as much as I could, but I was wholely not prepared for the endless explosion that was this weekend. My friends and I constantly reciting to ourselves. "OMG this weekend is awesome and we've barely even started!!!!"


Faye Mata who dug up an old design of mine. I was comepletely blown away that anyone remembered it. Also Dustin De Leon AKA ~TheLinKueiNinja as Ryu hayabusa (he's a devoted ninja guy and very cool to hang with) at the official Dead Fantasy Gathering @ 9am Friday.


~Rinoa07 with and excellent pair of wings handmade out of paper (so cool!) as well as the weapons Silent Tear and Vanishing Star with belt. Such a sweet Rinoa, she looks like her too!


Yaay for Angels!!


~A--y--a as Kasumi. She's soo cool too hang with. Can't wait to meetup again next year!


Surrounded By Awesomness


Must have my coffee


Also add Lady Tenkage (Samantha) and XTifa Lockheart (Melissa) from Cosplay.com I must thank Samantha personally for arranging the DF shoot and gathering so many people.


Happy Customers


Faye Again as girl Vaporeon (As you can tell she likes blue)


A Big Fan


Tenkage as Cissnei


Another fan


Dudes from Fanime who recorded and have the current YT vids up. Many high-fives were had.


Nice & smart dude


This girl was soooo cuute!!! SHe was too shy to come to my table herself so she had her friend come up to get my autograph for her. I wrote for her to come and say hi. She's like a real life Hinata, sooo adorable! Please come by again next year! I don't bite!


Awesome RUDE. In charge and in spirit!


Ross Douglas from Gamer Tonight. Awesome Aussie! Stop killing Kangaroos!!!!! (PS hope you're feeling better) Seriously tho, keep up the great work, and we both have got a long way to go! Let's both do our best!


Very Happy Naruto Cosplaying fan


More dudes & more High fives


Another fan on Day 3


Ooh Cute Dress!


The very talented =orange-lotus


Stark and Ichigo are big fans LOL


Meredith Sweet ~the-sweet interviewd me for the gaming blog [link] It was awesome. She is an excellent journalist!


Another happy customer, asked alot of good questions


Me and my buddy Dar with the infamous Markman of Tekken SD. He later bought us all dinner. Awesome guy,


I met ~Erina in Anime Boston. She does some great work!


More Fans, and a tired me


Cute Tifa


I had fun talking to these two, lots of smart questions!


Tenkage again this time as Ayame from Tenchu. Game needs more respect!


It's great to meet all sorts of people!


I very enthusiastic fan, gave us lots of feedback.


Cool Dude


She was so happy to see me!


I spent a lot of time with ~ShaneNewville sharing techniques. It was a blast. He's got a lot of promise so keep an eye out!


The other agent from gamingdead.com. Came by to say hi.


Melissa again and her uber cool boyfriend. Best Zack Evar!! He should've been in the shoot.


She was very cool


So was he


The guy from above who was dress as BOTH master chief AND Old Snake. Genious Idea!!


This is Brandon who helped with the pre premiere at AB. He was also here and will be at Otakon


The Talented ~Orenji-kun sans his girlfriend. Ultra cool dude. We can never find time to hang both being uberly buisy and all. I'd wish we coulda spent some time chilling since his energy is just plain contagious


I spent FOREVER coming the crowds with with my baggy old eyes for these two!! DA Superstars =Akusesu and ~the-sushi-monster SOOOOOOOOOOO COOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!! And Aku especially! OMG, a living anime character! Like wow! One day she'll be a character in my original series to come. How can't she be? I mean how often do you meet someone so enrgetic! Day 4 of the CON where everyone else is down and out Aku is still going hard! Also ~the-sushi-monster was such a sweetheart! Has the sweetest smile! Also could so easily translate into a character for one of my movies.


She was very inquisitive and had a lot of good questions/theories


Dude was suped!


Sweet girls


Outside at the FF gathering


Bad Dudes


Sunday there was a Final Fantasy Gathering which I went to take pictures of and then someone shouted for a group of Dead Fantasy. Half the crowd had confused looks on their faces, then after somone said "WHERE"S MONTY OUM!" and I walked up and joined them. Even more people were confused! LOL. Also the particular Tifa directly to my left was uber sweet. And afterwards when I gave her my last remaining print that I kept aside she got even cuter when thanking me!

I wasn't able to get a pic myself since as you can see I'm holding my camera, but thanks to ~swtazngal I can now cherish this one.


These are only some of the pics, and there were many more at the con, so many that some slipped my camera. But again I extend my thanks to everyone who came by or stopped me in the middle of a hallway to say hi.


And closed off the trip with a visit to MTV Studios to sit in on invisible walls airing this friday. The three of us in the middle is myself and crew Dara Hoy and Ron Soeum. Far Right is The great Shane Satterfield and the HIGHLY entertaining and truly honorable Marcus Beer of Gametrailers and AnnoyedGamer.com. If only I could've spent more time, for there were so many conversaions to be had. But alas the magic had to end as I had work the next morning.

We headed back to Santa clara and at 2:00 in the morning decided we need to play some more tekken 6 at my studio.

After it all I'm a tad sad. I don't get out much, and diving back into my hole again to get these promised videos done is harder than ever. It's something my friends got used to years ago. I would just dissapear and not hang out anymore, but come back fierce months later with something new. It gets harder the more people I meet, even more so now with all the great firends I've made. I have to do it tho otherwise I wouldn't be able to live with myself.