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During our Ouran road show we went to Everett, Washington for Akicon during their 1st year taken place at the Holiday Inn hotel on November 7th, 8th, and the 9th. Their website is www.akicon.org.

The convention had wide variety of things such as an artist alley table,  cosplay contests, panels, a manga cafe,  a video game room and much more!

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Guests this year included Vic Mignogna and Chuck Huber as voice actors. A martial arts team called Velocity, NDP comics manga production company, and The Slants and Soul Candy as bands. Then for our 1st year there we put on a show for them: Ouran High School Host Club!

They had many contests around the convention from video games to secret contests.

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During our Ouran road show we went to Salt Lake City, Utah for Anime Banzai during their 4th year taken place at the Sheraton hotel on October 24th and October 25th. Their website is www.animebanzai.org.

The convention spending it’s last year at two days and moving onto a three day con next year jam packed both days with events and panels.  Dances, cosplay contests, video games, and even a cosplay cafe! Even regular areas such as artist alley and the dealer’s room.

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Guests this year included Vic Mignogna, Sonny Strait, Tiffany Grant as voice actors thus far. Then for our third year we returned to put on a new show for them: Ouran High School Host Club!

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The events all around were wonderful and full of energy. From Cosplay Chess to where you act out killing or dying as a character while people play you to a form of Battle Cosplay where you team up and take out your opponents till you reach the top.

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Cosplayers and the traditional cosplay contest were scene and heard throughout the hotel that weekend. Sporting outfits as simple as L from Death Note to complicated as Optimus Prime. The cosplay contest had lovely skits with dancing, singing, pop culture references, and classic fight scenes.

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As hosts we paraded around all weekend helping out in the Cosplay Cafe with another group of cosplayers known as XDCDX who reside with Banzai as their home con. Following the cosplay contest was a special treat given by XDCDX, they would perform a production of their own of Naruto! Though with some minor sound difficulties it went very well and was very entertaining. Following that we got to put our show on.
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All in all we had a great time and hope to be back next year and perform for our audience. The staff was a pleasure and so were the attendee’s and guests. See ya next time!

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Better late then never! Next up is our production of Kingdom Hearts: Master of the Keyblade at Fandemonium in Nampa, ID at the Civic Center on August 7th - August 9th! The convention ranging from Sci Fi, Anime, Video Games, Horror, anything you can think of long as you enjoy it andare a fan! Website can be found at www.fandemonium.org.

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The convention opened early and ran panels, games, and fun activities till it’s Opening Ceremonies at 6pm, hosted by the con chairman Borneo as seen on the far right of the picture above.

They had many lovely Guests to meet such as Jan Scott-Frazier from the Anime Industry, ani-Music Unlimited featuring Carlos, Reed Hawker from Animation, Project Silence as a mime group, Steve Willhite who writes many comics, a Renaissance group known as Order of Ares, Custodians of Otakudom as Inedependant Film and Anime Dating Game event runners, another band known as Brother Wind, and ourselves as the performers for our big production.

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The convention had a lovely atmosphere of people walking around and enjoying themselves. Even a wide variety of cosplays from Light Yagami in Death Note to Jason from Friday the 13th. The convention where you celebrate your fandom of whatever you enjoy.

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A favorite and familiar event in conventions is the cosplay contest! Wide assortment of costumes participated this year, a great turnout! It’s great to see people hard at work doing something they love and showing off a piece of what they enjoy to the convention.

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Saturday we performed our production of Kingdom Hearts: Master of the Keyblade,the third part to our three year play written by Brandon Waite. We find that Sora has lost his memory and skills in fighting so with the help of Doctor Who they must brave worlds to get him back to normal to save the world once again. He meets many faces such as Drizzt from Forgotten Realms and Trinity from the Matrix series. Will Sora regain himself and defeat the evil?

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The party and con not yet over, we all engage in dancing and video games. More panels were done by guests, staff, and others alike. Video rooms were running from a variety of shows and the dealers room filled with surprises of plushies, figures, card games and the like.Photo by Carlos

As the convention comes to a close we will remember the fantastic year once again brought to us here in Idaho. The staff were lovely and helpful in all aspects and the events ran smoothly. Thank you again for providing us with the entertainment and place for people to gather to spend time with friends and meet new ones.

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Ichidan couldn’t attend Anime Oasis this year due to being ’sick’ and invited the Ouran High School Host Club this year to help them perform a show. Events were planned and done on various days to meet and greet with the hosts.

Host Club members holding a tea party for con goers.

For a more quality and entertaining vision of this production please visit this link for the video of the hosts.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7602771482521618713&hl=en

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Anime Oasis 2008 pictures are now going up in the Ichidan Photo Gallery!

We have literally hundreds and hundreds more to come, so check them out!

Questions? Concerns? Kudos? Visit us in the Forums!

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The final task. The final chapter.

Fandemonium is destroyed, the Warriors of the Keyblade are defeated, Sora is broken and time is running out.

A goddess returns, a hero is born. For one year Anti-Sora has ruled Reality and all of Fandom in Darkness. For one year, the Fans have been forced into hiding. But a small thread of hope remains; amidst a forest of Darkness a path is found. And some things, once done, must be redone.

Four creatures of Darkness, three goddesses, two companions and one Master of the Keyblade.

On the first weekend of August, Fandemonium 2008, the final chapter of the keyblade trilogy unfolds and the fate of Sora and all of Fandom will be decided.

Will you be there?

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We all had a great time in the city of Salt Lake. Other than having to pay for parking everywhere, it was nice. The Sheraton cleaned up well and had a lovely place for us to stay in; great place to hold a convention. The hot tub and swimming pool were great pleasures to relax in. The staff was friendly and helpful, as was the security watching out making sure things went alright.

Ichidan ran ’Whose Line Is It Anime?’, Beginners and Advanced Cosplay panels and a Grand Cosplay of Bleach at 10pm the last day. It was the first time we have performed that late at night. The con-goers seemed to enjoy the panels and the Bleach cosplay as well as having a great time with ‘Whose Line Is It Anime?’.

Artbeat was a nice band, other then needing a long time to set up. They performed very well and sounded great. People loved them and were happy to see them play once again the following day. Let’s hope they come again next year.

The cosplay contest had some great entries this year. Optimus Prime was among my favorites as well as the Chobits song and dance.  The AMV contest was pretty interesting (happy to see no Linkin Park songs this time). Video rooms were up and going and playing some good stuff such as Outlaw Star and Lupin the 3rd (which we stopped to watch for a bit).

Orion and myself personally thank you all for playing along and being entertained by our camera and microphones as we asked you questions and taped through the convention center. You were all good sports about it. Video will be up soon.

The guests were great, from who we met. Steven Nunez (Warky), you’re a great guy with experience in playing music, keep it up, they sound great, and you were quite enjoyable to chat with.

Wrapping this short convention report up: We came, we saw, we had a blast. Thank you all for having us and we thank you for being there to spend time with. Hope to see you all again next year and many years to come.

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Fandemonium was a blast!
Many, many thanks to Borneo for giving us such a generous amount of time to rehearse. Thanks to him and our wonderful cast and crew, our performance was a smashing success!

Pictures and videos to come!

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Just a quick announcement, we’ve changed to new forum software, and the new link for the forum is here:
http://www.ichidan.com/newforum

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I’ve been amusing myself watching some of these videos.
Their site is called “eyeVio” and has only been active since this morning. It is already overflowing with videos.

I’m looking forward to getting seeing what comes of this.

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