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rachelmanija finally comes clean about hoe she mortally offended Saiyuki voice actor Greg Ayres. The bit where she says what happened at the table afterwrds? I was there. I saw him. Not exaggerated one bit.

Anyway, other things we did:

Went to the Enormous Half-Price Bookstore, where Rachel bought so many books that I actually have to ship them to her.

Ate at Love and War in Texas, a kitschy Texas restaurant that features food from the five cuisine areas of Texas.

Watched episode 1 of QI, the British quiz show hosted by Stephen Fry.

Watched episodes 1 and 2 of the first season of Doctor Who, thus neatly addicting Rachel to it.

Ate gourmet pizza.

Did the rounds of the dealers' room, where Rachel shook every last box that contained a Bleach figuring, in the hopes of being able to magically divine which ones contained Renji and which ones contained Rukia.

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Got both! OK, she got Rukia because the dealer had a box that was already open, so he sold it for $2 more than the unopened boxes*, but she managed to get Renji by weghing the box, I think. :D

* For those who are not fmailiar with this sort of thing, these are boxes that do not indicate what character is in it, so you have to buy them and hope you get the one you want. Which is why an open box where you can see the figurine is more expensive.

That's awesome! Well, it's good she got what she wanted!

What kind of loot did you get (if any?)? I don't think I saw it mentioned anywhere.

About the only loot I get at cons is doujinshi and artbooks, and there was a serious lack of decent examples of both at this con, so I ended up not getting anything. Good for my pocketbook, at elast.

I cherrypicked a Renji from one set just by comparing the weight of the figures. First try, haha! And it was so worth it.

The one she got is really nice - he looks pissed off from one angle, and sad from another one. XD

He's such a dog!

If Rachel makes it to A-kon next year, I'll have to hook her up with one of the Renji keychains.

She's seriously thinking about it. :D

I call that the "woobie" Renji. I was in a puddle of squee when I first saw the doll and they how they based it from eps. 32 (its rare to see a doll of him with his hair down like that).

I was lucky last yr at Afest when I bought my Renji and Rukia dolls. I asked the guy that I was looking to buy the Renji one and if he knew which one might have had him in it. So he was shaking the boxes but he actually opened some of them for me. Since he went through that task of opening the boxes (since no one really does), I told him I'd also buy the Rukia one since he was so nice to do that.

Oh god, happy fun box game.

*had to play it this year with the Star Ocean/Radiata Stories set* I got everything I wanted within four boxes, but a friend of mine ended up having to buy about ten before she FINALLY got what she wanted?

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