I just love AFA, since it's pretty much VERY crowded, I'm sure there'll be one again in the future
Update (03/09/2012)Everything started rather hectic in the morning, I was waiting for mom to get back from cycling and was worried since she's almost late for the promised time to go (8.45am-9.00am). Well, when mom get back
called me in panic, telling me that
is going to come with me since she already left... both of us panicked, really. We went in front of
's house first since she told me that
is going there before I messaged her that we're metting up at the ATM... and luckily, since the ATM is crowded, she got there in time before we go to a different ATM to take money (Hey! I need my money to buy stuff in AFA!)
We arrived at the location around 10am, everyone was waiting [
etc], we had like a silly dramatic reunion together before mom told us to wait so she could get the tickets from one of her worker (free 10 tickets... FREE I TOLD YA! I just love you, mom!). After we got the tickets, we fell into excitement before getting into the venue, we all dressed up for the occasion of course, but I just accompanied
as a butler since she's a maid. We got into the hall and were pretty much amazed by everything, and mom then told me she's staying over at the Bandai booth, so I told everyone the Bandai booth will be our base if we ever got separate and lost.
dashed and bought a Gundam model for her brother before she disappeared (it turns out she wanted to take a picture... somewhere). Some were hungry since they haven't eaten, so they decided to go ahead and queue at the Butler Cafe line and I was pretty doubtful about getting into the cafe since everyone had already lined up... before
appeared after disappearing from somewhere to get the Kurobasu-related things she had pre-ordered. I got curious, so I went over there and decided to buy myself a fan and two cat and dog pins. Afterwards, I went back to see the queue, which were pretty much, frozen.
Went back to the shops and bought myself an A4 print of Kuroko and poscards of Aomine and Midorima... before going back to the queue. We were wondering what kind of food was there before we saw that there was the rules and menu posted in front, so some of us checked while some of us queued... it was pretty expensive for only 4 sets of food... while some were doubtful, I decided to take the risk and got in line with the others before everyone went back in line, saying that it's just a one-time experience and I started fanning one of my friend Ka**, who was wearing the Akatsuki cloak, since he told me to fan him since he's pretty much drenched in sweat. Poor guy. When we finally got in the line, saw all the cute and handsome butlers *insert quiet fangirl squeal here* I realized that they were all MUCH better looking than their profile pictures posted on the website and I felt glad I decided to get in. Head Butler Haru-san took our orders before we were led to our seats, we were pretty excited for everything and saw that some reporters got in from the exit to took videos and ask some questions (they were silly at first though, asking me if these butlers are all artists... I was very confused). Butler Takuya-san came over after our food came out, and he talked with us. Even though he seemed pretty happy we could speak Indonesian (of course we can, we're Indonesian!), his Indonesian got an accent in it, so I guess he must have stayed abroad for very long... Butler Ryo-san was worse though, he looks as if he couldn't understand a thing even though he's Indonesian... I thought there was a butler missing, his name is Kenta-san, but two days afterwards I realized that ALL butlers were there and Butler Kenta-san actually looks MUCH MUCH better than his profile picture, his hair is pretty weird there... And even though we have to pay more, we took pictures with one of the butlers, I took one with Butler Ryo-san. I am still proud that I went to Atelier Royal, thank you so much Ikemen Butler-san tachi!
We went to the Good Smile Company booth afterwards [Spotted Ichiro Mizuki upstairs being interviewed, was star-strucked for a minute], seeing Nendroids (I don't know what they were until
explained it to me). I got away on my own and decided to see if I could spot our other school friend who had also planned to come (R***, She***, etc.) And I got lucky I passed some of our other school friends (there're Ke*, Mel***, She***, etc.) AND I ACTUALLY SAW ICHIRO MIZUKI'S BACK! I DON'T CARE EVEN THOUGH I ONLY SAW HIS BACK, ICHIRO MIZUKI PASSED THROUGH ME!!!
It turns our that R*** and the others were all at the Indosat Booth since there were a lot of demand to take pictures with them, after all, they were all cosplaying and all of their cosplays are SUPERB. R*** was the most demanded one, I guess it's because she's pretty bold as BRS, not wearing the jacket and all, but the others got a lot of demand too. We tried to move, but we got stuck every time since a lot of people wanted to take pictures with R*** it was pretty amusing to see though xD We were thinking of going to the back to get something for R*** and friends to eat, but since it got VERY crowded, we decided to go outside... and then comes the paparazzi (seriously, R*** looks as if she got her debut here as a cosplayer, so many cameras directed at her, before some asked of all of us if they could take a picture of us). After getting a moment of peace, we took pictures of our own before we decided to rest; some of us still took photos of our own though, some were silly some were serious-turned-out-silly and the rest were serious. We talked and talked, and the venue got eve crowder by the second. Few hours later, mom came out after calling me where I am (I was surprised when I saw her holding unto the big fan that was distributed earlier, which ran out pretty quickly I guess) and asked me when I want to go home. I told her maybe soon, she showed me the Hello Kitty plug she bought for me (and herself) and went back inside with me following behind. At that time,
had went home since she had to go to a course while Ka** had to go home after being called NUMEROUS times by his (and mine) friends telling him that they need to exchange the ticket vouchers for the actually tickets for a concert they're going to. While mom stayed to help at the Bandai Booth, I decided to go around once more at the now so crowded market and I help myself to a buy 2 get 1 free A3 prints before walking around to see what goods were left and went back to mom, waited there for a moment before going around again swimming across the sea of humans, went back and bought two Yu-Gi-Oh printed plastic cards near the Bandai Booth (a Kaiba Seto one and one of the Main and Second Main characters of YGO, DX, 5Ds and the 10th years anniversary movie).
Afterwards, I went home, pretty happy with what I've bought. My feet hurt, but it was all worth the pain and sweat. Mom was amazed by the crowd too, as well as the cosplayers there. And she realized that I also hung out with the son of a friend of hers (I went -0- inside, thinking why she had just realize that)
My Japanese teacher and another friend from school went there, but I wonder why I didn't pass them even once... maybe it's because of the crowd, yeah, it must be because of the crowd.
AN:
>Ka** told me today that he could have not gone home earlier since his friends had exchanged his tickets for him, he was pretty pissed
>
got separated quite a lot, she had to go back to the base and ask my mom where I am
>I feel smug for succeeding in getting into Atelier Royale
>I am wished from the bottom of my heart that there will be another AFA next year
>AFA IS THE EPITOME OF AWESOME!!!
In total, I guess I spend around 37USD in total...?