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Pheww.. Naruto North 2005.. Err.. Anime North 2005 is finally over.. 3 days of torture of watching 100 Narutos, 50 Sasukes, 200 ANBU members, etc.. Due to the selection of guests lots of people also dressed up as Inu Yasha characters..

And now it’s time for the Anime North 2005 pictures!!!

Note: once again we have a proof that I suck big time at taking pictures.. ;p

Normally I’d spend most of my time in the dealers or art areas.. But this year I’ve decided to check out more pannels than in the past.

Friday lineups for the tickets were pretty crazy.

On the contest stage at the TCC there were some people doing ParaPara:

In the gaming part they had DDR Extreme machine and In The Groove game on the big screen (sponsored by Red Octane).

The dealers room was full but not packed.

Some pannels I went to:

Yaoi pannel:


The scarry part is.. I probably knew more about yaoi than most of the people in the audience.. The girls who were running it were pretty knowledgeable about all the boy-on-boy stuff..

Anime Improv:


Pretty funny stuff..

Dubs vs Subs in 10 rounds:


With the guest appearance from Carl Macek.

Q&A with Sanada Asami:





What’s up with me taking like every picture when she had her eyes closed?!?!?!

Mystery Otaku Dating Game:








It was probably the funniest pannel I’ve seen.

FullMetal Fantasy by Vic Mignogna

Highly recomended for any con goer. Kind of got into trouble while taking this pix.. I took it right at the same time they were talking about no recording of the screening.. I got ‘.. and no flash photography either’

Create Your Own Anime


Do you recognize the guy from somewhere else?

Guest Slam 3 – Dobsons Gone Wild (Paul Dobson, Michael Dobson, Brian Dobson)



Most of the talk came from Paul and Michael..

Guest Slam 4 – Veterans (Michael Dobson, Scott McNeil, Cathy Weseluck, Carl Macek, and the others)


Scott and Cathy = r0×0rZ.. Scott was just eating his hotdog for like half of the meeting..

Authographs.. Before the con all I wanted was to get Pauls and Scotts signatures.. But after meeting Susan they kind of got pushed a little bit down on my ‘to meet again’ list..

Line-ups for Paul Dobson, Scott McNeil, Susan Aceron, Cathy Weseluck, Vic Mignogna and Sam Vincent

Scott McNeil in action

Hi Vic..

Paul ‘The Matrix’ Dobson with my ReBoot DVD and The Matrix action figure

Susan Aceron after I showed up in her line for the second time (tee-hee)

In the end I didn’t get Scott’s signature.. I know, I know.. He’s a friendly guy and shit.. But 5 min per person if they are a female is bit too much when there is like 300 people in the line.. Oh, well.. I only wanted my ReBoot DVD signed.. Maybe next time (?)..

Group of Naruto cosplayers has organized a little show of their own where they posed to some of the scenes from the show:

Here are some of the other costumes