I feel silly creating a separate topic for this, but Lamuness seems to have deleted the other topic. I’m sure the constructive direction the discussion was taking gave him pause though.
Anyway, getting back to the topic…I arranged to meet bishounen_blue in front of the dealer’s room on Friday at 8:00PM (the convention runs from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon). We had previously exchanged physical descriptions, and we both agreed to wear nametags with our screennames on them. My friends and I ended up standing there in front of the dealer’s room for half an hour, but he didn’t show (I’ll leave the excuses to bishounen_blue ). I didn’t see him the entire night, and I came home fully expecting that we had missed our only hope of finding each other in that overcrowded convention. As a last-ditch effort, I sent him an e-mail and posted on this board, on the off-chance that maybe he had or could get to a computer with an Internet connection.
There was no reply when I woke up that morning. Sighing inwardly, I returned to the convention and tried to enjoy myself despite the disappointment. As it turned out, the morning’s activities didn’t live up to my expectations, and one of my friends and I found ourselves sitting down to watch a random dubbed anime, of all things. The show was just about to start when a guy came up to me and said hello. By complete and utter random chance, I’d found bishounen_blue (or rather, he’d found me). And I mean really random. As it turned out, he hadn’t realized that all anime shown in that particular room was dubbed, or he wouldn’t have even been there. If I had arrived just a little later, he would have already left…
Anyway, we had a lot of fun after that. We immediately left the dub for the greener pastures of doujinshi reading and ridiculing his roommates (he was staying at an on-site hotel). Feeling a little more confident with him around, I was able to “come out of the closet” and tell my friend about this mutual interest of ours. My friend was okay with it, as it turned out. I’ll have to see if I can get him into it too. Too bad I lent my best goods to bishounen_blue. Oh well.
Anyway, after a while bishounen_blue and I parted with my friend and went back to my place. Luckily my roommate was gone. I showed him Hitomi among other things, though my roommate’s return interrupted our fun. I then force-fed the entire 13-episode series of Elfen Lied to him…in one sitting. He says he liked it, though implicit threats of bodily harm if he said otherwise might’ve influenced his opinion.
[This message has been edited by Dark_Shiki (edited 01-17-2005).]