Ani-Magic 2001

by Pan-chan

Saturday 10-6-01

Our toilet started bubbling at 7:00am so we were awake even though we had not gone to bed until 2am. We sat around and watched cartoons until 10am. Then we went and walked around the dealers room a bit before heading out to poolside for the Tomoko Tamiguchi panel. She was very sweet and did her best to understand and answer all of our questions. I had John go to the room and grab my graphic novel of Call Me Princess and we headed off to her autograph signing. We got there, she took a pic with me and when she went to do my autograph, she remembered my name from the night before, She even drew me a sketch of the main character in the manga right next to her signature which was awesome because she did not do a pic for ANYONE else. When I left the room, I was crying because I was so overwhelmed and excited. Then I went to the female VA panel where we got to hear from Tiffany Grant, Amanda Wynn-Lee, Diana Kou and Wendee Lee (my VA hero... she is the best)! When that ended, all the ladies were signing autographs and I was first to get Wendees. I got to tell her how much I dug her work and that she was the reason I had even gone to the convention. She was very sweet and took a pic with me. When I left the room after that, I was so excited that I was screaming! (Can you say fan girl?) Afterwards, I hung out by poolside and listened to Kenichi Koshio again. Then I headed to the meet Wendee Lee panel where I learned lots about her and her various roles in the VA world. She did a lot of her voices for us (Including Umi from Rayearth, Faye from Cowboy Bebop and TK from Digimon) From there I went straight to the Breaking into Voice Acting Panel w/ Scott McNeil and a bunch of other VAs. The we went to the Meet Scott McNeil panel which was really fun and informative until his little fan girls starting asking questions towards the end like: How old are you? (39 but looks 25) Are you married? (Yes, 12 years) What kind of motorcycle do you drive? (Harley) What kind of car do you drive? (99 corvette convertible - Metallic Pewter) Then we followed his heard of fan girls to find an empty room to do a signing. We got in line and had him do 2 autographs from us... One for Tim (Kami of this site) and one for us personally. We spoke to him about his marriage and he wished us the best with ours! (He even wrote congrats in the autograph...LOL) Then later that night we went poolside again to watch the masquerade.

I have got to say that Saturday was one of the best days of my life!

Top 2 Ani-Magic Quotes

Scott McNeil is Hot!
Hot Yaoi Action!

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