After two and a half weeks of work of converting and capturing videos, I finally added my home videos to “My Anime Expo Memorial Page.” These are “edited” videos that me and various friends took from Anime Expo 1994 to Anime Expo 2007 with my camcorder. There are some years where I didn’t take any videos because of camcorder problems or just plain laziness. Most of these video are 45 minutes to about 3 hours long. So downloading would be a bitch of you don’t have broadband.

I’ve also added videos to the “Other Conventions” pages. Check’em out too.

For anyone viewing these videos in front of young children, I tried to makes these Rated G. But it’s almost impossible. So they’re more like PG13. There is some strong language, some voyeurism, some fan service and some sexual euphemisms used. So if you don’t want your young children watching them, DON’T let them! Be a responsible parent. There’s not too many of those anymore. You otaku parents watch enough anime to know better.

All the videos are all Apple Quicktime™ movies set to low bandwidth 11 FPS. Why Quicktime™? Because Wintel formats are proprietary, meaning only Windows™ machines could play them. You know, like the selfish bully on the block that wants you to use their stuff and not others. Quicktime™ is available for FREE download for all systems (OSX, Windows and Linux) at apple.com. So what’s better? You decide...... They are also downloadable, only if you have the full version of Quicktime™. Or if you could find another way on your own.

The next day, Sunday, 17 Feb, we only had 4 hours until we have to leave for Oakland Airport. Luckily a “homey” hooked us up with a small limo to the airport the night before. It was same price as an airport shuttle, but with style and no stops.

After we got ready, we left the Kabuki to search for Hotel Tomo, the much rumored “anime hotel” we keep hearing about. Eventually we found it after walking 4 blocks. It was cool inside. As you walk into the hotel lobby, there’s anime, live action and dramas playing on flatscreen TVs to the right. In front of the entrance is a wooly sitting things. To the left is the front desk. The lobby was really small. And the wall paintings were like the Corralians from Eureka 7. We asked the front desk clerk where the restaurant was. It was on the next floor.

The restaurant was all cool looking. There were more frescos of Corralians on one wall. The menus had anime characters one them!!! What more can an otaku want! Right? The guys had regular “Western” breakfasts and I had the Japanese-style breakfast. It was grilled Salmon, rice, radishes, nori, and some fermented daikon with salmon roe. After we ate, Tim asked the waitress for one of those menus as a keepsake. We only got a photocopied page.

We headed back to Japantown to take more pictures. Nothing opened until about 11AM. So at that time everything was closed. We did find a shop that serve taiyaki. We had some. We were killing time until lunch. There was this place called “Over the Bridge.” It was a restaurant that served curry and catered to otaku. An emergency came up. We did not have enough room in our luggage to carry the stuff we bought. We walked all over Japantown Mall to look for a carry-on bag. We settled for a smaller-type hand sack that cost us 6 bucks.

Over the Bridge finally opened at 11:30AM. We had 45 minutes to eat. The restaurant was so damn cool. There was wall-to-wall manga. All vintage stuff. The owner must’ve been a manga collector. We all ordered curry...all different of course. Tim, Lawrence and I had a morning cocktail. We took pictures of them. While we were waiting for our orders, we were looking around browsing the manga. The curry was equally good. It wasn’t like the box curry I usually eat. This curry was from scratch!.

So after lunch, we hightailed it back to the Kabuki. Our limo was already waiting. We got our stuff and off we went in luxury to Oakland Airport.

Check out the pictures by clicking on the Cosplay & Convention above and the clicking on Other Conventions.