Last weekend I went to Aki Con, an anime and manga convention. (Japanese animation and graphic novels). There were two different movie rooms, one dubbed and one subtitled in English. There were artist booths and a big room with vendors and a sword fighting arena. They also had a game room that had a lot of Nintendo systems in it. There was a Guitar Hero contest and a Mario Kart contest and another contest that I don't remember. There were sword fighting matches from 11:00 to 2:00ish and the person that won the most matches won a weapon of their choice. (I think). There was also a Main Stage area where there was a Question and Answer forum with people from the English dubbing of FullMetal Alchemist, a TV show that was playing in the dubbed movie room. Almost everyone there was in a costume of some sort, and a lot of them were actually quite strange. This is the first convention I have ever been to so I had a lot of fun finding out about this and conventions in general. There is another anime/manga convention in Seattle later and I am thinking about going to it. I am making a story myself (or trying to at least) but I cant think of a plot so there are some problems with it. However I already have the main character drawn and some background so it's not completely un-started.