Uma flies before dawn. It is rough waking up that early, but she rises when the rest of the world sleeps so that nobody can see her flight practice. Uma is a witch and not exactly the most adept magical girl. Sometimes Uma finds herself flying upside down, flashing her wears, so she practices alone in the quiet early morning when she’s got the world all to herself. Who knows what sort of thing she’ll need this training for, but I’ll have to wait for the anime come out on region 1 dvd to find out.

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Not another Otakon 2007 post! Last Otakon post, promise. For all the things at the con that could have been run better, I still had a good time and was glad I made the trip. Most of the panels were amusing or interesting in some way and blowing lots of money on useless stuff in the dealer’s room is always fun.

Free mini pencil boards and Paradise Kiss postcard.

Panel Highlights

The most entertaining panels for me each year are the English voice actor panels. Far fewer people this year asked the annoying question about how to get into voice acting, so the panels really stayed fun most of the time. The guests could just tell stories and be funny. There’s always a few creepy questions asked by obsessed fans that earn a collective what the hell, but it’s funny to talk about it afterwards.

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I was a little surprised at the popularity of this Pachira is Vampire figure from Max Factory — a second run was announced before I even received my first run figure (thanks to my cc classing anime girl pvc figures from Japan as suspicious activity). The Magical Pokan anime isn’t the most popular out there and the previous Magical Pokan figure that Max Factory released really didn’t cause a huge wave of figure fandom, so the rapid sell-out for Pachira (or Pakira if you prefer) wasn’t something I thought would happen.

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