21. “A day from nerd hell”

Oh man! Myself and a few friends occasionally go to local cons just to hang out, drink, and buy some merch. But I’ll never forget a local con in early fall of 2008.

We usually never went in cosplay but Gurren Lagann was still in a fever pitch of popularity at the time and one of my friends was really big on it and went dressed as Kamina while the rest of us still went in regular clothes. (It is worth noting that said particular friend is a decent looking 6 foot 4 fellow and was training for marathon running at the time so he pulled off a pretty damn good Kamina.)

It turned into a day from nerd hell! From the moment we walked into the main hall he was assault in nearly every manor by girl and guy alike. Tons of people wanted pictures with him or of him posing. Endless pictures. And countless times random girls (and a couple guys) would run out of nowhere and jump onto him. Which resulted more often then not him nearly dragged to the ground by these random attackers. I can actually still to this day remember one girl screaming “Kamina-san! I love you!” as she flung herself at my friend.

He did his damnedest to be nice/friendly for pictures while the rest of us spent more time acting as impromptu body guards for him then enjoying the convention.

Needless to say he doesn’t care much to cosplay these days.