[SSJup81]

I've only been to two in my life, and I did seem "out of place", especially since, for the most part, I don't keep up with much of anything "new", but that's pretty much the only way I was, and am, "out of the loop". Most of the cosplayers I came across, I didn't know what they were from, aside from the obvious mainstream stuff, but if they looked cool, I took a pic of 'em anyway. As for me, I don't cosplay, and probably never will so in that regard I'm also "out of the loop".

The main reason I went, aside from visiting my friends who are into manga/anime who live in the area, was to buy stuff, like plushies (I don't care how old I get, I'll always like stuffed animals), cds, manga, Japanese snacks and drinks (yay Ramune! lol), and sometimes extra things, like I bought necklaces for my entire family one year; each had his or her own Chinese Zodiac symbol on it. My ultimate favorite activity at the convention I went to was pretty much all of the retro gaming.