I wanted to post some pictures from my Japan trip.  So here's a small portion of them...  There's about 40 pictures here.  I have a lot more, but I don't want to post too many at once.

I recently stumbled upon a thread on Crunchyroll that discussed the controversy behind anime fansubs.  The OP is against uploading any anime illegally.  I understand completely.  No companies are directly benefiting from fansubs.  They get no money from it.  Now this thread starts spiraling towards pro-fansub vs. anti-fansub.  Instead of simply posting in that thread, I figured I would post here in my blog about my opinion on this matter.  (Especially since the OP is so upset that he refuses to respond to more people.)

I went to Japan with my girlfriend at the end of March through mid-April.  Here are some of the goodies that I brought back from Japan.  I'll probably have another post with generic Japan pictures too.

One of my other hobbies is cosplaying.  I really only cosplay to conventions and on Halloween though.  You can actually check out my cosplay.com profile for all my past costumes. (http://www.cosplay.com/member/159504/)

I guess I started cosplaying back during Halloween of 2004.  Naruto's popularity was in its infancy and I really liked Sasuke at the time.  So guess what my first cosplay was?  Sasuke, of course.  With the help of my mom, I made my first (fairly crappy, but still recognizable) cosplay.  There's a picture of it on my cosplay.com profile.

I've done several costumes since then for various cons like Anime Expo, Fanime, PMX, Anime LA, and MikomoCon.

Right now I've been working on my Junpei cosplay.  It's not for an specific con, but since I decided to cut my hair shorter, I wanted to finish the cosplay before I cut it.  Junpei has longish brown hair.  I didn't have to make much for this cosplay, only the puffy vest that he wears.