On 4/29, after leaving the house with a stack of 1000yens and 7000yen 
worth of 100 and 500yen coins, I came home that day with only 158yen... 
The money all disapeared into Fujishima world... (A very dangerous event 
for Fujishima Fan... you feel like buying out the whole place ^_^;)
 Anyway, I asked around a bunch of people by e-mail if anyone wanted to 
come, and Richard Kim was the only one who actually came with me. (Well, 
most of the subscribers to AMG ML lives over-seas anyway, so I guess no 
one would show up anyway...)
 
 Did lots of Dojinshi shopping, bought tons of Dojin-soft ware, took at 
least 5 rolls of film (all cosplay ^_^;... I was holding back. Can't 
afford too get too many rolls of film developed...), and some pictures 
drawn by my favorite dojinshi circles.

 Anyway, here's some info. that I got at the event. (feel free to tell 
your friends, I guess... but not to some anime magazine editors 
over-seas (out side of Japan), OK?)

 1)There should be an official announcement of next AMG production. They 
are pretty sure now, that it's a movie. (I'll explain the "possible" 
contents of the movie in another posting; don't want to flood this posting)

 2)The next AMG Tanko-bon (comic book, vol.15) won't come out until 
around fall. The reason is, the can't get the front cover printed on 
time... (They can get the inside printed, but since the cover's plastic 
like, and color, they need time.)

 I hope this info. interested some of you guys.

(Extra stuff---cosplay)

 There was a cosplay contest, and my favorite was Urd... (got to take a 
picture with Urd... Richard and I decided to get one comical shot, so we 
had Urd beating up Shimizu; I'm flat on the floor, with Urd stepping on 
me victoriously... ^_^;;;)
 All this changed when the three goddess (Belldandy, Urd, Skuld) changed 
their costume and were now wearing swiming-suit (bathing suit?) from the 
OVA... That was quite popular... You usually don't see that kind of 
cosplay these days... (Richard and I were quite happy, and so were the 
rest of the crowd, including the judge of the contest... ^_^;)
 Another favorite character-cosplay was Belldandy, done by one of the 
circles I know. (when richard took a snap-shot with bell-chan and me, 
this thought came into my mind... "Lucky Keiichi! What a big difference 
between us and him!"... (Chiba-san in the past mentioned "now I can die 
in peace" after he had a shot taken with her... (Some of the people 
I know are the strangest people...) 
 The Sakura Taisen Cosplay was the most popular, though... (strike Otoko 
was the funniest...)

 As usual, there was the bingo contest... and this year, once again, I got 
a poster ;_;. This time, it was the Sakura Taisen "not for sale" poster 
that comes along when you place a reservations for the Strategy video... 
(Richard was luckier and got something better... I can't remeber...)

 I'm planning to set up a homepage... hopefully... soon... I hope... (I 
promissed to make a Tokyo Game sho homepage, buty still haven't got that 
up yet... so, instead, I've introduced my friend's homepage. He went to 
the game show with me and my brother. It's at;

 http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/6070

 (That's TimesSquare with capital T and S, and Alley wioth capital A.) he 
says he doesn't want his real name out... his pen name is Henry... 
Unfortunatelt, I did the cosplay, and Bishojo stuff... he went after the 
Combat game stuff, so if you are interested, take a look there. (1000 
visitors came in about 20 days, so expect some traffic there...)

 My homepage is still disasterous... (need lots of organization... takes 
like 20-30 mins. to load-up... too many images, and not enough words...^_^; 
(too lazy and busy... ^_^;;;) (better thank Skuld@eskimo.com for letting 
me use some fo his extra space. ^_^) The Geocities page is a bit 
faster... about 10 mins. or so to load up... (still trying to decide if I 
should publicize my homepage address or not...)

						Kenji Shimizu