I was one of the organisers, so I'm curious how you guys took it- as you guys won't bullshit if something was dreadful.

Ai-honey, did I spy you on stage? I was working in the photo area, but I nipped out quickly to see who was belting out 'melodies of life'.

>>1451435
Is that borgmanjoyce at the left of that photo.....

>>1451548
That guy gives me the creeps.
>>1451529
sort out the fucking security, they were wankers

I enjoyed it in general - no complaints from an organisational point of view.

Some twat in a red costume ran into the table I was sitting at at one point in the evening and spilled a pint of beer all down my costume, then kept running. If I ever find out who that twat was, I will force-feed them their own reproductive organs.

>>1451529
keep the bar open all night or open earlier. I had my midnight waltz, and spent the rest of the night spitting feathers. What the hell?

me like. It was fun, loads of nice costumes!

AWESOME.
>>1451529
So you're the guy in the military coat or the RSPoD Tycho? (I TOTALLY recognized him!! i wanted a pic but i just too shy to ask ^^;;

Wait, where the hell was this thing held?

It rocked, but next time, do something about location and/or accommodation.

I ended up staying with my grandparents, despite leaving early, the subways were shut and none of the taxi's would take me and my friend because we didn't have enough money to pay up front.

tl;dr Actual ball was good, everything else in my day sucked.

>>1451721
Oh definitely- we're never using that place again. Jess and Emily reckon the bloomsbury ballroom might be good if there is a next time, as it's in central london there'll be more hotels nearby. (Those cabbies outside do try to rip you off though- one cheeky bastard tried to charge £55 to ship Trixie Malicious, Johnny Lazer and their plus +1s to brixton. Yeah, I don't think so mate. I got it to £25.)
>>1451720
The Clapham Grand, in the middle of bumfuck nowhere.
>>1451596
>>1451567
We were not told how problematic the staff were going to be- the doormen weren't briefed on ANYTHING Jess and Emily had discussed with their organizer. We were not told the bar would close before the ball did, either- another reason a different location would be ideal.

It was brilliant.

>>1451749
Aggh those doormen were useless. They wanted to do everything totally wrong, and weren't willing to change to OUR PLANS. But otherwise, it went fantastically.

The venue was fab architecturally, but from a logistical point of view, and an organisational point of view, it was a nightmare. Not enough facilities for workers, and awful choice of lighting in the non-main areas.

I wanted to go until I found out where it was. Clapham? Fuck that right off. May as well have it in Glasgow.

Wow, I see the OP's pic and I started to imagine the stench from all those people. XP

>>1451839
You'd be surprised. Not many people smelled bad that night.

>>1451839

Surprisingly, considering how small that dance floor was and how cramped it was around the bar, I didn't notice any otaku stench at all. But then I was wearing a face mask for most of the evening.

Actually, here's one thing that did bug me - where the hell was Yaya? I saw her on stage doing her singing bit, but it seemed like after she'd done that she just buggered off to the VIP room or something and wasn't seen again for the rest of the ball. I would have liked to have had my picture taken with her, and I don't think it's all that unreasonable to actually want to interact a bit with the "guest of honour".

>>1451857
Actually I saw her standing around right inbetween the dancefloor and bar talking to ai-honey about half an hour after she was on stage. I told her that I loved the character and song and thought she did a really good performance, she kept thanking me and was really grateful, she seemed like she really was very worried about messing it up. Definitely thought she was a really nice person, I'm glad I got to chat with her.

Surely you must realize that a cosplay celebrity of her stature wouldn't expect to have to associate with the norms, she wants your adoration but not your conversation....

>>1451875

Hey, I'm not saying she should have made herself available for deep-and-meaningfuls with every pleb who wanted a natter, but it would have been nice to have, say, a "Get your photo taken with Yaya!" setup so those of us who wanted photos could get them, instead of just hoping to spot her around the bar. You wouldn't even need to run it for the whole evening, just do it for an hour or two after her performance or something.

Who will be the guest of honor next year?

I got a polaroid with Yaya at the promo thing on saturday and got to stick around for a chat. She convinced me into buying some purple cat ears I'm never going to wear.
>>1451875
You've obviously never met her. Face-to-face she's a complete sweetheart.

>>1451882
She was very available, someone got their picture taken with her just before I spoke to her, and I saw her hanging around for quite a while after I finished speaking to her.
>>1451875
Again, you've obviously never met her, I'd heard from a more hardcore /cgl/er than myself that there was a lot of drama around her or something, but I thought she was fantastically nice, she was all holding my arm and super appreciative when I told her I liked her performance. Couldn't have been nicer.

OMG SHE SMILED AT ME AND NOW WE ARE SUPA KAWAII BEST FRENDFOREVERST!

>>1451887
>>Face-to-face she's a complete sweetheart.

Aren't we all.

>>1451914
Umm, no.
What a stupid thing to say.

What series is Yaya's cosplay from?

>>1452018
Macross? Is that some Sheryl Nome?

>>1452018

for some reason it reminds me of that chick that can't sing for shit. stephanie yawhatever.

>>1452031

Since she was singing a Macross Frontier song, that would make sense.

>>1451882
And I'm sure if they had a "get your photo taken with yaya" someone else would have been complaining that she was so full of herself for having it.

are you people really this stupid? like shed be mean to your face or something when shes paid to be there? it doesnt change that every a-list cosplayer in america hates her because shes fucked them over

I do hope they invite real cosplayers next time

Dont worry england, the rest of us are just laughing at you for being duped by Yaya, the cosplay worlds con-artist

>>1452081
An artist of conventions? Sounds good.

>>1452081
Actually America that isnt the case as there are some of us who didnt think it was a good idea. I for one dont want us to go down the route of "cosplay guests" because it exlucdes a countries own cosplayers.

Well it does help that no one in the UK bar one or two exceptions are conceited enough to consider themselves a cosplay celebrity.

I'd love to see some photos.

Oh lawl here we go again. From someone who really doesn't give a crap about cosplay 'celebrities', I can say that Yaya was pleasant in person and she sang well, therefore I don't care. She was actually dancing with a large group of people for ages later on the evening, so she wasn't hidden away. i preferred the fire performer though!

The event was nice, lovely outfits and everyone I spoke to was up for a really good night - looking forward to seeing photos (although dreading how drunk I looked)

Why didn't they invite me. >:(

I can waltz. I would've danced with every girl that night. Would've made everyone feel like a winner. Or a princess. >:/ Unfair.

>>1452099 I for one dont want us to go down the route of "cosplay guests"

I work for a con and the conchair is already opposed to cosplay guest but I will do everything in my power to make sure it stays that way.


It's one thing to have a panel with a seasoned costumer but to make them into a guest like cosplay is some sort of industry is bound to turn messy and is really silly when you think about it.

The location was a bit meh for hotels and travel, but it was lovely for a first time event, so no huge complaints, but would be good to see somewhere new next time.

Yaya seemed quite pleasant. She was dancing on the floor for quite some time. Granted she's personal friends with one of the people she was dancing with, but not many people want to be stuck on a dance floor with a group of complete strangers.

If you want to pick holes at guests, then why was Sonia Leong a VIP? She didn't even do anything, not even promo art, so I don't see why she should be a special guest???

The security were a bit lame. They made VIPS stand outside in the rain/cold for a few minutes while ticket holders walked straight in. Something smells of not quite right there.

Also people were walking into the boxes and thought they were for public use. I think there should have at least been a sign on the doors of the boxes to identify that they had been prehired.

The entertainment was really good imo.
Good mix of Japanese music, general dancey stuff, actual set dance stuff and some good performances.

Really enjoyed Trixie, but I think some people were a bit... stunned.

I'm searching a cosplayer in a black historic dress with green and white details. This girl was friendly and comes from german? (I'm not sure)
someone knows something about this girl?

Someone high-five the DJ for playing Halcali, that was fucking awesome.

>>1452165
Thank the lord someone with an ounce of sense if left. This is good to hear. Very good.

>>1451529

Ai-honey and Chococat.

>>1451857

Yaya was dancing for most of DJ Piloru's set, out on the dancefloor with everyone else.

>>1452240
Both of them were absolutely superb, I got a little teary and everything.
Cameraxel has some photos on DA but they're not brilliant.

Anyone got any videos?

For the price that tickets went for that room looks fucking tiny.

>>1452018
Oh lawd, she's cosplaying from another series she's never seen or maybe watched one episode of.

Don't you know? She only cosplays characters that are /cgl/ popular or ones that her friends recommend.

>>1451529
>>1452240
>>1452331
Yeah it was me and Choco. :D thank you. I was in Belle for the rest of the night. I woulda said hi if I recognised you, sorry. ;__;

>>1451882
The meet and great was on Saturday at TokyoToys (where you could get a photo easier) she did pose for anyone who asked but obviously it wasn't so easy. We were there from 12-7 on Saturday. *__*;;

>>1451887
.. Mark ployed a lot of people into buying those damned cat ears lol, I had to keep jabbing him to stop it.

>>1451857
As >>1451866 >>1452173 >>1452330 said she was dancing a LOT. Hell, even me and Mark had to stop after a while and join Brian (who refused to dance!). I won't bother whiteknighting her (what's the point?) but she was lovely. I just came back from sight-seeing with her, Brian and Emily where we dragged her to PUBS and did silly British crap. I mean, I understand the people who spent like five minutes talking to her may not be credible but from someone who spent the last three days with her solid, sharing a changing room whilst I watched her do all this tiring crap without complaining once, you know, I was surprised (I woulda complained a whole lot more myself..).

>>1452703 continued
If you want to look towards guests who were a complaining pain in the backside and didn't appear for more than five minutes you should be looking towards the French, OH GOD were they hard work. I can understand the shit time they had; they missed their train, they were late, they're foreign but they complained about their dressing room (it was small and shit but it was the same as Yaya's and Brians and we were sharing that WITH them and they didn't care, I should mention I was SUPPOSED to be sharing with them but they just stuck my suitcase in the hallway! anyone coulda nicked my shit, they tried to suggest I get changed in the bathroom I was like wtf shit off I'm a performer too and by that time Yaya and Brian had made room for us without even asking bless 'em), the lack of food (yet again most of us found our own food; we got some fish and chips but by the time we got it was cold).I felt so bad for them, me and Yaya tried to help the French girl with the brokem Gwendolyn wings but she was so upset there was no use. :/ And there was no exclusive VIP area, the boxes were somewhat of a joke since everyone kept using them (we didn't mind really.. though we would've liked a glass of our champagne ;__;) so none of us really had anywhere to hide.

>>1452617
lol, except her and Mark are huge Macross fans so I had to stop them both from spoiling shit (I haven't watched Frontier yet), besides it's not the staple outfit, you'd really have to have watched the series to know about that dress/performance/transformation sequence. So um, try again. >:O

Overall I had a fucking AWESOME time, I loved singing, I loved dancing, the venue was great. There are a few things that need to be sorted for next time (like making sure the bloody cleaners go in first and telling the security people to STFU), but for a first time event it was AMAZING. :D

Oh Lord, I just realised that's me and Mark on the stage in the OP pic. The floor was packed and the waltz is the only song I know so I was like, fuck this shit, let's dance on the stage. ;D

I lol'ed when GNR was played at the end.

Oh and Trixie Malicous was HOOOOTTTTT.

eah that's enough, time for bed. FFFFFFFF

My experience with Yaya was that while perfectly nice and polite, she does the bare minimum of what was expected for her. And while she doesn't demand attention, she'll ask for it and if you deny it she looses interest. I had her at an event and her enthusiasim for it went out after I told her for the 3rd time we had no plans that evening to put her on stage. While she wasn't a jerk about she seemed to stop caring.

>>1452706
You only need to watch the first episode to see a dance and transformation sequence.

The outfit she made is one of the most easy to find via google. Lol.

>>1452703

Settle down, love. I didn't accuse Yaya of being rude or stand-offish or any of that; I simply said that I didn't see her at all apart from when she was on stage. It's nice that other people saw her on the dance floor; I didn't, and I simply suggested that having a dedicated area for photos for an hour or two would have been nice, especially since not all of us could make it to the Tokyotoys event. Frankly, even if I did see her on the dance floor I wouldn't have felt particularly inclined to ask her for a photo - I don't like intruding on people's personal time.

By the way, you have a lovely singing voice, but try to loosen up a bit when you're performing. You looked stiff and uncomfortable up there.

>>1452165
Why would anyone ask a non-cosplay guest to a COSPLAY EVENT. Stupid yourself ¬_¬

And your all extraordinarily jelous!! What, cant accept that someone can be hawt and sweet at the same time? Yaya is totally lovely as well as being intelligent and peppy. I know form the organisers, she was only paid minimal expenses to attend so you can ditch the 'Diva' comments. And even if she is just like that to peoples faces, at least she was doing it to be professional. Speaking of professional, anyone see the French cosplayer's anywhere near the dancefloor or out of the VIP area?

Please prioritise your bitching.

>>1452808 she seemed to stop caring

Would you have expected any different from anyone else?

>>1453336 By the way, you have a lovely singing voice, but try to loosen up a bit when you're performing. You looked stiff and uncomfortable up there.


what about the other girl?

>>1453434 what about the other girl?

Fuck her. Bitch can't sing for shit.

>>1453434

She was very good as well, and looked a lot less uncomfortable up there than ai-honey did.

>>1453426
Ysabelle (??) had something on her costume break, and as far as I understood she was too upset to even consider going onstage. We were trying to sort out having Damien (who was lovely) perform onstage with a spotlight to her in the boxes, but they weren't having any of it.

I ended up fetching food for the guests AND doorstaff AND runners- pizzas, but they didn't get to the Grand until about 10. As far as we knew, the venue was going to be spotless for us to set up in, and the boxes would be guarded to stop people running into them. However, the staff were totally wank. Apologies to everyone it inconvenienced D:

>>1452863
Well, going by her and Mark yakking about it she has watched the whole thing. I dunno anyone who only watches one episode anyway, especially if you're a fan of the entire series.

>>1453336
The Grand really isn't the place for photos when there is hundreds of people in it; afterall the Alice in Wonderland themed area was tiny, hence the Tokyotoys thing. I know not everybody could go but thems the breaks. She did pose with anyone who wanted a photo though, I wouldn't have worried about that.

As to the loosening up thing; I did talk to the crowd and took my mic off the stand but there's only so much I could do on the stage without moving away from me lyrics. Honestly, though I will literally sing anything I prefer singing to stuff with more energy so I can dance around a bit but with that kind of music I would look stupid. ¬_¬

>>1453445
Rubbish! She is far better than me, she has a beautiful deep tone to her voice. I feel lucky whenever I get to sing with choco.

>>1453460
I really did feel bad for them but they were really making the worst of the situation. :/ I just hope they don't go away thinking bad of us! I had a piece of pizza, thank you! :D

Can you please tell your fellow Germans who YaYa is?

Me and my girlfriend went to this ball dressed as Gareth and Yuko from xxx Holic and had a great time. Was a shame we had to levee early to catch a train.
We also got to meet Yaya and she dance with us and some friends though the night, she was totally lovely.
It was great to meet her in person she really got into the party sprit.

>>1453484
> As to the loosening up thing; I did talk to the crowd and took my mic off the stand but there's only so much I could do on the stage without moving away from me lyrics.

There's "only being able to do so much" and there's standing stock still, with one hand on your hip and using your other hand as a substitute mike stand. Like I say, you have a lovely voice already - put some more passion into things! I know your fella likes Macross 7, I remember his Basara costume from the first Amecon. Get him to show you what I mean.

>>1453594
I get what you're saying, I really do, I just can't say I agree. :/ if it had been a more energy filled set I'd agree and if I hadn't been singing with someone else with two mic stands and a music stand in front of me I woulda moved around more, but as the set up was I just wasn't feeling it. Besides, if we moved too far away from the monitors you couldn't hear shit (Yaya had this problem..) and I didn't want to look like a tool moving around when Choco was standing still using her mic stand.. :< Still, a friend of me recorded some of our song so I'll look back on it again when I get the chance.

I REALLY want to a jpop/rock/anime set for Aya with a proper band and dance around the stage like a lunatic, that'd be awesome. Need to get ahold of a drummer though.

Speaking of Basara and Macross 7 I am thinking of doing Mylene at some point (I hope.. it depends if I like her, I still need to watch it).

>>1453700
> Speaking of Basara and Macross 7 I am thinking of doing Mylene at some point (I hope.. it depends if I like her, I still need to watch it).

You know Choco has said that if anyone cosplays as Mylene before she gets to, she'll force-feed them their own fingers? I hope she really likes you...!

>>1453594
Yeah sorta agree with anon here. I think its something that comes naturally to Choco, when she sings she injects such passion into it and moves around a lot more but everyone is different and thats just her strength.

>>1453727
I know. ;p She said I can haha, though Mark warned me of imminentt rape.

Who are you. >:3 ?

>>1453733

I'm no-one you know. I've known Choco for years though.

>>1453729
.. I'm confused, they didn't say anything about Choco. *__* although I agree, she's a lovely singer. I look forward to a set up and a stuff so I can dance around a bit more. I can't stay I like standing around much either.

>>1453735
Aww. Well, I may end up meeting you one day, so say hi if I do. ;] the whole scene is pretty small afterall.

>>1453739

I already met you once. I was drunk and made a tit of myself. Not happening again!

>>1453737
My mistake for being confusing. I was saying that in regards to what the other person was saying about whether you move around enough or show enough passion its something Choco does so well. I wasn't comparing I was highlighting her strengths. I believe and always have done that the con scene is lucky to have such an incredible singer.

>>1453746
Aww. :/ Still, you didn't spill drink on me, headbutt me and twist my arm like Snap did so I wouldn't worry too much. ;p I suffer far more lol. Were you the girl at Amecon?

>>1453747
Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly. Really, we're so very different it would be pretty hard to make much of a comparison anyway.

C'mon lads and ladies, I didn't get to go - where are all the photos?

Everyone was too busy fawning over Yaya and Ai-honey to have time to take photo's. Tch...

>>1453776
Hear Hear! I'm expecting to see a lot of win too. Fail should be left at the door of such an event.

>>1453790
*Yawn*

>>1453776
>>1453791
It'll probably take a little while for everyone to get them up, it usually does.

>>1453790
Me? lol, no.

>>1453791
If you had attended you would have realised this was sadly not the case...

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall of text.

I wanna see photos

>>1453837
Sigh. If its at least above 50% of win then it did much better than a standard con of 90/10 fail/win

>>1453844

Yes please. Less text, more pics.

>>1453747

Proof or it didn't happen!

Eyes on me - Amecon, she sung this as the ending song at the ball. It's beautiful. There's a lot of background noise but give it ten seconds or so.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bgnU7rHZJ2c

>>1453954
That and Koda Kumi's 'You' pretty much made my night at Ame.
So, what's the overall on the ball then, without going into too much detail? From comments I'm seeing, it sounds like it was enjoyable but needed a better location and less shitty bouncers (but what event doesn't)? What's the over/under on there being a second one?

>>1451697
Ho jesus I only just noticed this.
You should've said something, most of the night I was telling people who I was- I would probably have hugged you. I reckon I convinced 4 people to try the demo though, so Mike and Jerry _will_ be happy.
(no spoiler images on /cgl/? WTF D: Sry guys, nobody really wants to look at me)

>>1453960
It was awesome, I had nearly as much fun as I did at my first convention which is saying something.

I think Emily is still considering next year. She needs a little while to recover from this years I think! She seemed more chilled on Monday though and we were talking about different venues and shit. I loved the Grand, I really did but it was just a little too small for everyone. Something the same on a bigger scale with a bigger dancefloor would be great (and you know CLEAN -__- would be a plus, stupid staff).

>>1453971
AHAH! I recognise you now. :>

Just wanted to post a very quick message to say that I thought the event was pretty damn awesome. Yeah the venue could have been a bit cleaner, and the staff were pretty disorganised and didn't really help Emily out much with the technical preperations. But, overall it was a thoroughly enjoyable night.

I'm disappointed I didn't get to see the fire performer, but the other performers were really good and the most important part was that it was solid fun.

There was a lot of win costumes going around (lots of original designs) and there was no annoying weeaboos!

Not going to bother whiteknighting (I've been informed it is incredibly pointless) but Yaya was nice to everybody she met, never turned a photo down once, and danced/partied along with everybody else.

Definitely hoping there is going to be another one at a better location. I had my reservations at first, but I was extremely happy to have my cynicism misplaced.

tl; dr: Good time. Event was not perfect. Staff didn't sort out some things. Performers awesome.

PS: moar picz pls

Photo-wise there are only 2 big sets up...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bento_dan/sets/72157610589347031/
and
Mark K's
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=184731&l=df8c4&id=740300292

lol fuck off Kelly. You headbutted my goggles. >:O

Snap btw.

>>1454041

FYI, by staff I meant The Grand staff. All the helpers of the actual event were sound. ;)

>>1454088

Ta! I just found these on the facebook group actually. Managed to find two of me and Kelly so I'm happy.

>>1454091
And the rest of it? Good thing we know how hammered you were eh? >;)

The ball was A-MAZING

I have no complaints at all, Emily did an awesome job, I hope she had a fun time!

Yaya was of course delightful, was nice to meet her properly on the Saturday at the Tokyo Toys panel.

The performances at the ball where all ace as well, I loved Kelly and Chocos performances, I was screaming like a mad person at the end of it!

I personally loved the venue, and thought it was very well organised. Everyone looked fantastic and seemed to be having a brilliant night!

Thumbs up from me!

Oh my god, something /cgl/ isn't mindlessly bitching about.

>>1453954

Not bad.

>>1452808
This this this this this this this

>>1454165
Us Britfags are all drama'd-out.

COCKS

Less text, more pics.

PICS

heres the face book group there loads of picture on here

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=42255275505

Cant be bothered with links, pic pics plx

>>1455503

Oh look, I can post links too!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imageboard

>>An imageboard (also chan, which itself is short for channel) is a type of Internet forum that revolves around the posting of images.