Anime Expo 2015!

On Friday, we went to the Los Angeles Convention Center downtown for Anime Expo! We went for a few hours last year, when they opened the exhibit hall to people without badges after 6pm. Seeing that brief glimpse of it, we knew we wanted to come back this year!

We got there around 11am, and there was still a long line to get registered. It moved fairly quickly, though, and then we were in the Expo!

The exhibit hall was huge and filled with a ton of stuff to check out!

It's-a me, Mario, at every con you-a go to-a!

We saw a Squishable booth! I restrained myself and didn't buy any. 

Squishy!

I don't know why there are sweatshirts with corgi butts on them, but I love them!! Why didn't I buy one?!

Butts

So, I have to confess, I don't really watch anime. As a result, I saw a ton of things I couldn't identify. Such as this:

What are this.

Zombie alpacas! With kitty loafs on top. I bought a purple one. And then carried it around with me. Literally at least 25% of everyone there were carrying around a stuffed animal of some kind. I just didn't want to feel left out.

So many alpacas...

A Rilakkuma room!

Giant marbles?

What are this.

There was a wedding chapel? And a guy in a suit? I think this was in the romance anime section.

Why are this.

Action figures in take out boxes! Too cute!

Batman/DC cosplay! Not anime? No matter!

A line of Luigis at an ATM is a thing that I witnessed, and am I ever glad I did.

They had a huge setup of a ton of different kinds of gaming systems, as well as a little museum set up of old machines and a timeline of the history of video games.

What are this.

I literally don't know if this is an anime or what. They could easily just be wearing those heads for fun.

First time I've ever seen Cinderella cosplay from the new movie!

Space alpacas?

Are these guys actually a basketball team, or is this anime cosplay? 

Despite not knowing much about anime, I still managed to find a bunch of stuff to buy! A lot of booths had mystery grab bags, so of course I had to get a couple of those! The group of things on the upper left were in a grab bag, and several of the stuffed animals on the upper right were in another. I also bought some villain Labbits, Inside Out mini mystery Funkos, 

I had a ton of fun at this year's Anime Expo! Maybe by the time next year's rolls around, I'll have watched some anime!