Oktakon - "Cosplay Invaders"

Hey look!! It's Inuyasha...


Getting animated about cartoons - baltimoresun.com: "Dez Fitch showed up as Lei-Lei, a blue-skinned zombie who is controlled by her sister.

Connor Albers was No Face, a mute who wears a black robe and has the power to transform air into gold.

And Brandon Connolly came dressed as the martial-arts expert Rygoa Hibiki.

Fitch, Albers and Connolly were among thousands of fans of Japanese animated characters who arrived yesterday for the 12th annual Otakon, a three-day event at the Baltimore Convention Center. Otakon is expected to draw more than 20,000 people.

Fitch, Albers and Connolly came dressed as their favorite characters who appear in Japanese films, comic books, video games and TV cartoon series. The characters have spawned a genre known as Japanese anime, which has spread from Japan to the United States and other parts of the globe.

Yesterday, people dressed as animated characters spilled onto the streets around the convention center. Traffic on Pratt Street came to a crawl as some motorists slowed down to gawk and others honked their horns and stopped to snap pictures with their cell phones. Some pedestrians seemed stunned as they were approached by the assortment of strangely costumed characters."

Otakon is ON!!

Mark Alderwood
The Anime Times

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