MCM Expo!

Yesterday went to the MCM Expo as a club trip with other members of the SAM society

Woke up at 6.30am - thankfully at midnight the clocks went backwards so I had an extra hour of sleep

But I was still ridiculously tired but ended up getting ready on time and met up with them in front of the tube station

Met a new guy whom I haven't met before and also the leader and skateboard guy

Whilst waiting for the tube to come I asked whether the leader knew what to take to get there and he didn't sound very certain so I started to worry XD

We pretty much chatted and got to know each other more whilst on the tube

When we were nearly there (had to change once more before we got there) we finally saw some cosplayers and there were quite a few of them!

We met up with a girl who was wearing sharingans which looked really cool! :D

And then we went to get in and along the way saw so many awesome cosplayers

And when we got to the bit to line up....geez there were so many people!

There were two lines: one for getting tickets and another for the ones already with tickets

Thankfully we already got our tickets online (thanks to leader) but the line was still amazingly long

Although the wait wasn't that long and we soon went back out again - which really confused us first-timers (me, skateboarder and sharigan) but the expo was just in another part

We finally entered and pretty much started looking at the stalls and there were so many plushies

I saw some album but they were mostly anime CDs and quite a lot of GACKT and Miyavi (and more GACKT XD)

We were pretty much just looking around

We arrived pretty early so there weren't so many people but it soon got very full!

The group started getting hungry so the great leader bought us some Takoyaki which was so nice!♥

As we were looking around I spotted a tablet playing The Gazette (strange that I recognised them right away even though I'm technically not really a fan) and....there was kpop CDs!

I saw G.Na first and then 4minute then looked through a box and found Cube United (this stall was cube-biased XD) and then....I found B2ST's "Fiction and Fact"

Picked it up straight away and knew that I had to buy it but they didn't accept card and I only had £5 on me so I had to go to the cash machine

Two others needed to go to the cash machine as well so we went and after I got some cash out the dude them decided to get cash out which meant I had to wait for him and the line for the cash machine had suddenly increased

Then I started thinking selfishly for him to hurry up or else my beloved album will be gone :X

Once he finished we went - I pretty much power-walked and me and leader ended up losing the others...(I'm sorry for my selfishness...)

Bought the album in the end and then I found other kpop stalls and one even had 2NE1 playing :O

tbh they were pretty much SM biased (and YG biased) with the odd Inifinite and B2ST - they all had Exo-K but no other groups (not BAP or BTOB or Nu'est) so I'm saying they're SM biased XD

I swear I was looking for J-rock album - preferably SID, YUI or even UVERworld but i couldn't find any at all and there were only K-Pop and GACKT XD

Although I did spot AYABIE's single "Merry Go Round" and a few Hikki and a Ayumi Hamasaki album but that's it :(

We did some drawing and origami (which failed badly XD) and watched a Taiko drum performance

Also ended up buying to phone charms since I felt bad for going on an Anime and Manga club trip and ending up buying something kpop XD

So I had to buy something related to anime or just something Japanese

Ate some more takoyaki (paid by the dude) and then decided to go out and sit by the entrance

Saw Jack Sparrow saw I had to take a picture with him XD

Also whilst we were sitting down I saw a robot thing and decided to wave at it

It then decided to come over (I was still waving) and stand really close to me whilst pointing it's gun at me

At that time I still laughing and waving at him still and then decided to take a picture of him (he still didn't move)

He soon left though...

We then went outside (same thing happened again but with a different cosplayer - we pretty much had a staring competition XD)

and we saw a lot of cosplayers and there were so many amazing ones that I really don't know how they can pull it off so well!

I then spotted No-Face sitting by himself so I took a picture of that as well XD

Near the end there was a massive horde of people coming outside and straight away I recognised the music they were dancing to...GANGNAM STYLE!

Dance a bit along with them (it was mental) and then it finished and they started dancing to Caramel Dansen and went back inside

Then we left

That's pretty much it XD

It was a great experience, just looking at all the cosplays was enough

It was lively the people were really friendly, you could go crazy and no one would bat an eyelid

There's a Hyper Japan at the end of November

I want to go

XD