Anime Central 2010 marks my return to Rosemont after skipping out on Anime Central 2009. Due to the recession, there were only was a certain amount of traveling I could financially handle. During Anime Los Angeles 2010, the Scarlet Rhapsody team interviewed the MidWest music group, The Spoony Bards. After getting to know front man, Stephen Poon, a little bit more, I was persuaded to return to Anime Central in 2010. After Anime Los Angeles was over, I booked my flight to Chicago for another year at my favorite anime convention.

I took an early morning flight from LAX to ORD on Thursday. I made last minute photo shoot arrangements with Fullerton (Consplayers) for my Mistress Nine (Sailor Moon) cosplay. I took a very long nap on the three hour flight to ORD. I arrived early in the afternoon. My hotel party also had to wait on another person to arrive at the airport. We decided to grab a late lunch at Giordano's. I always look forward eating at Giordano's for their epic deep dish pizza. You cannot find anything like this in California.

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After dinner, we went to the local Dominick's to grab hotel room supplies. Right around 6PM, we checked into our room at the Hyatt Regency. I met a few people in the lobby getting ready for the convention before heading to our room. Fullerton was running late for the photo shoot, so I decided to take it easy. I went the Asian Ball Joint Doll gathering in the lobby where I met some really cool doll owners.

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I only brought one doll to the con. I brought my unnamed Dollfie Dream girl, Marian. Marian also got rather friendly with a Williams (Kuroshitsuji) dollfie. It was great meeting all of the MidWest doll people. Unfortunately, this was the only doll event I went to through the course of the weekend. I would have loved to show up to more, but my schedule was all over the place.

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Day Zero had its share of cosplayers.

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One of most interesting findings at Anime Central 2010 was a life sized Chii (Chobits) doll. The owner had purchased her through a Japanese dealer. It was pretty cool to see a persocom in the flesh (well, not really flesh, but you get the idea).

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Fullerton was still running late for the photo shoot. So, I did some exploring of my own. While I was getting a good grasp of the lay of the land, I ran into Shinichi Watanabe, the director of Excel Saga. I told him that I was planning to cosplay as Fujiko Mine (Lupin III) and I told him to stop by the Lupin III gathering on Sunday.

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At around 11PM, I had my photoshoot with Fullerton. We had some cool night shots of of the Sailor Moon villainess. Fullerton took a few sample shots of the shoot with my camera. It was getting close to 1AM, and I was running on four hours of sleep through most of the day. I went back to my hotel room and called it a night.

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