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Friday the 28th of April - Mucho Calor… no podia resistir, mira el dito!!! |
 First convention day for your reporter.
We get to the convention by our practical 9 seats van, faithful "carro" during our whole Mexican journey, driven by the everlasting Daniel, and, just like real V.I.P.s, we are escorted through a side door to our changing rooms inside the convention.
To our great surprise, Laura and I realize at a glance that the whole conference room (and even the other pavilions!) are covered with posters depicting me as Sailor Pluto and Laura as Lothy from Magna Charta in size bigger than 1:1… we obviously stole these posters and put them in our luggage well knowing that no one was going to believe us without evidence.
We still have some free time before the conference begins, so we take this chance to walk among the stands and, to our great surprise, we are soon recognized and so the take-a-picture-fair starts, while our bodyguards watch over us, methodically ordering to our fans "sin abraciarle" (without hugging them).
The TNT convention is held in a convention center called Tlatelolco and, speaking of the internal arrangement, it looks much like the Italian Lucca Comics & Games; the main difference is that there is a pavilion completely dedicated to fanzines and barely legal copied stuff.
In Italy Fiscal Police would cheer all the day long in a place like this.
In another pavilion stuff more like the one found here in Italy is sold, but in most cases prices are much more affordable.
Now in Mexico, besides well known serials that are famous in Italy too (Full Metal Alchemist, Naruto, Inuyasha, etc.) it's again the time for Knights of the Zodiac, mainly thanks to the new saga that gave the serial an incredible boost in popularity.
We buy something and we stop at the #1 character of the whole convention.
Mr. Gabriel Chàvez, a.k.a. the Mexican voice of Montgomery Burns from The Simpson, who, shouting "excellent Smithers" never lose the chance to wrap around beautiful girls to take any sort of pictures; we are the sacrifice to him.
After the ritual autograph, we willingly pose for some pictures and we will even go back to his stands in the following days… he really was a character!!!
Now it's time to get ready for the conference, so while I become Mew Pam, Laura gets back to being Chii.
I feel really strange sitting on the stage and seeing people queuing to have an autograph from me; I would have never expected anything like this.
And also seeing the warm love of Mexican fans was wonderful.
They came to us carrying T-shirts, any kind of gadget depicting our face and they gave us any kind of cute present, plushes, letters, origami, newspapers, prints, gashapons etc.
At first I was really embarrassed… but I was lucky my mate was not in a better mood… look at her while she awkwardly sign autographs while I laugh out loud ^______________________^.
After the autographs' session, it's pictures' time… and again queues of people waiting for their time to have the chance to take a picture with us!!!
We repeated this script nearly the same way for all the convention days, the main difference being that on this first day we have been introduced also on the stage before the contest (answering the usual embarrassing questions by boys) and I sang again Go Cosplay! |
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