Also, if you want to see bigger versions of the picture, just click on it.

Finally, there are several image sections:

• Cosplay
• Panels
• Baltimore Convention Center
• Dealer’s Room
• The bounty I collected at Otakon
• City of Baltimore
• Arundel Mills, a mall close to my hotel
• Other

Cosplay Pictures

I didn’t take as many cosplay pictures as I thought – only a dozen. Remind me to take more next time. Also, there is one which I don’t know who it is. If you figure it out, let me know.

Miss Yukari, Sakaki, Tomo, & Osaka from Azumanga Daioh	I’m actually not too sure. Very pink, though.
Even though this is an anime convention, you still find Stormtroopers here	Shadow Link from the Legend of Zelda game series
A pair of Haruhis from Ouran High School Host Club	Usagi from Sailor Moon and Sakura from Cardcaptor Sakura
Sora Naegino from Kaleido Star	Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist
Tohru Honda from Fruits Basket	Chii from Chobits and Hikaru from Angelic Layer
Kaname Chidori from Full Metal Panic	The box of Pocky

Panel Pictures

Only 5 of these. I took more, but not many turned out well. Apparently the flash on my camera only makes things worse…Oh well.

Waiting for the Vic and Steve show	Voice actors Vic Mignogna & Steven Blum (with some Otakon guy between them)
More Vic and Steve	A blurry Mamiko Noto with her translator
Tomokazu Seki (right) with his translater

Baltimore Convention Center Pictures

Again, only 6, but these are overall pictures of the BCC

The Charles Street Lobby from the Charles Street Entrance	The not-so-working escalators in the Charles Street Lobby
The Charles Street Lobby from the 2nd floor	The Charles Street Lobby from the 2nd floor, again
The 2nd floor from the 3rd floor	The 2nd floor from the 3rd floor, again

Dealer’s Room Pictures

Pictures of the Dealer’s Room at Otakon, deep in the depths of the BCC. 14 Pictures here.

Fullmetal Alchemist display at the Funimation booth	The Funimation booth
Hellsing display at the Geneon booth	The back of the Geneon booth
The ADV Films booth	Sgt. Frog display at the ADV Films booth (with worker!)
The Bandai Entertainment booth	Haruhi Suzumiya at the Bandai Entertainment booth
Bandai Visual display (not to be confused with Bandai Entertainment)	HD showing of Freedom at the Bandai Visual booth
fye selling stuff in the dealer’s room	Media Blasters booth
Gaia Online booth (I’ve never done that)	J-List booth, for all of your “H” needs

Josh’s Bounty Pictures

The bounty I collected at Otakon. 9 Pictures.

The complete Collection (I estimate at around $230 before tax)	Neon Genesis Evangelion thinpack boxset
Midori Days manga volumes 7 and 8	Oh! My Goddess manga volume 5
Infinite Ryvius box set	Kashimashi DVD volume 1
His and Her Circumstances box set	Magic Knight Rayearth DVD volume 1
Buttons for The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (left) and Azumanga Daioh (right)

Baltimore Pictures

Here are pictures of the City of Baltimore. 22 pictures in this set.

Burke’s Resturant, about a block from the BCC	The M&T Bank building
A big black building	Some fountains and artwork in the Harbor area
More artwork and water	The Inner Harbor
The bow of the USS Constellation	The stern of the USS Constellation
The back of the USS Constellation	The aquarium from a distance
Some shops next to the harbor	The aquarium closer up
Some ship next to the aquarium	The Power Plant (with ESPN Zone, Barnes & Noble, and the Hard Rock)
Some dolphin art in a poll in the harbor area	I actually forget what this is
Camden Yards (from the light rail)	M&T Bank Stadium from a distance (again, from the light rail)
M&T Bank Stadium, up close	More of the Harbor
The light rail	More of the light rail

Arundel Mills Pictures

Arundel Mills is a huge mall near my hotel. I actaully took more pictures than this, but I thought it was overkill. 10 pictures of this.

The 24-screen theater from outside the mall	More theater, and the Books-A-Million, where my copy of Harry Potter 7 came from
Inside the mall	Who has seen a Burlington Coat Factory inside a mall before?
A Medieval Times, apparently the first one enclosed in a mall	Best Buy! Yeah!
Again, who sees Outdoor Worlds in malls?	The Baltimore Sun display
The huge fye (with an automatic ticket thing for the theater in the way)	You may not be ablet to tell it from the picture, but this is he biggest ice cream cone I’ve ever seen.

Other Pictures

Ok, the other pictures section actually only has one picture, and that is of the Potomic River driving home. Pretty good for a random shot out my window while driving down a bridge…

July 24, 2007
Black Cat – Volume 6
Black Lagoon – Volume 2
Ergo Proxy – Volume 5
Green Green – Box Set
Noein – Volume 4
The Prince of Tennis – Box 2
Suzuka – Volume 2
Utawarerumono – Volume 4

July 31, 2007
Aoi & Mutsuki: A Pair of Queens – Box Set (sub)
Bleach – Volume 5
El Hazard – The Magnificent World – Volume 2
Hikaru no Go – Volume 9
Mushishi – Volume 1
Naruto – Volume 14 (dub)
The Third: The Girl With the Blue Eye – Volume 1

Manga

July 25, 2007
Berserk – Volume 18
Space Pinchy

July 29, 2007
High School Girls – Box Set
Key Princess Story: Eternal Alice Rondo – Volume 4

July 31, 2007
After School Nightmare – Volume 4
Air Gear – Volume 5
Alive – Volume 1
Blame! – Volume 9
Boys Be… – Volume 14
Buddha – Volume 2
Canon – Volume 2
Cantarella – Volume 8
Cipher – Volume 8
The Embalmer – Volume 4
Free Collars Kingdom – Volume 3
Genju No Seiza – Volume 4
Gon – Volume 1
Grenadier – Volume 4
Guru Guru Pon-chan – Volume 9
Hikkatsu! – Volume 1
I Hate You More than Anyone – Volume 1
Initial D – Volume 27
Kamiyadori – Volume 3
Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl – Volume 3
Kitchen Princess – Volume 3
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny – Volume 4
Mushishi – Volume 2
Night of the Beasts – Volume 4
Nodame Cantabile – Volume 10
Nosatsu Junkie – Volume 3
Penguin Revolution – Volume 4
Pichi Pichi Pitch – Volume 6
The Recipe for Gertrude – Volume 5
School Rumble – Volume 6
Shout out Loud – Volume 5
Someday’s Dreamers: Spellbound – Volume 3
Sugar Sugar Rune – Volume 6
Tenshi Ja Nai!! – Volume 8
TRAIN+TRAIN – Volume 3
Tsubasa, RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE – Volume 14
VS – Volume 6
Yubisaki Milk Tea – Volume 5

August 1, 2007
Eden: It’s an Endless World – Volume 8
Enchanter – Volume 5
Little Crybaby
Old Boy – Volume 7

It appears some time has passed since the last episode, and Mei-Mei and Tohno decide that they’re going to live in the water mill next to the river and near Suzu’s house after having camped in the nothern forest for a while. Suzu remarks that it’s a good place since Kappa’s need water, but Ikuto just thinks that Tohno is a turtle, to which Tohno takes offense.

Suzu asks Mei-Mei how she and Tohno came to travel together. Mei-Mei says that one day on her travels, she took shelter under a bridge when it started raining. There she sees an enchated statue and smashes it with a hammer, releasing Tohno, who had been sealed by a monk ages ago. However, the river that Tohno was used to was now unlivable due to pollution, so Mei-Mei invited him along to find a new river to live at.

Next, Mei-Mei thinks of more things she’d like to have for her house, and so she goes with Suzu and Ikuto to get some stuff. First, it’s off to Rin’s house. Mei-Mei, after much struggling, thanks her for fixing up the watermill so she can live with it, and Rin gives Mei-Mei some pans of questionable quality that she made. Next they run into Yukino while walking home. To say hi to her, Mei-Mei dressed up in…a giant bear costume (I guess because she thinks Yukino likes animals?) This causes Yukino to run away in terror (but not before getting a face-full of drool on her).

Next they run into Chikage fishing by the river. Mei-Mei gets nervous again, but Ikuto erroneously advisers her that Chikage is just fine. However, in no time, Chikage’s curiosity about Mei-Mei’s China dress takes over, leaving Mei-Mei soon to be clothless, and Ikuto soon to be hemorrhaging from the nose once again.

Meanwhile, at the temple, Ayane is just now finding out from Machi that the island has some new residents (remember, she slept during the search for the food thief in the last episode), so Ayane goes out to meet Mei-Mei for the first time. Ayane then overhears Mei-Mei telling Suzu and Ikuto that she hates how she is now and wants to change herself. Ayane then pops up and tells her that instead of trying to change how she is, she should try to like herself instead.

Suddenly Tohna shows up after swimming in the river. Ayane asks what it is, and Suzu tells her that it’s a Kappa. Ayane suddenly runs away in terror, and Suzu remembers that Ayane hates Kappas. Back at Mei-Mei’s house, Machi tells everyone (but Ayane who is still freaking out outside) that she used to dress up as a Kappa as a kid and scared her, and that’s why Ayane hates them.

This was a pretty funny episode, with a lot of Mei-Mei character development, and of course now adds the extra element that Ayane will probably be horrified whenever Tohno comes around. Also, this time the end of the episode after the credits is used to forshadow what is coming up instead of just adding a little humorous thing at the end. It appears that the giant panda, the Lord of the East, has crossed the boundary into the land controlled by the cats and the Lord of the South.

Name: Scrapped Princess
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-fi
Episodes: 24
Released: April 8, 2003 – October 7, 2003
Based On: Scrapped Princess light novel series by Ichiro Sakaki
Director: Tsutomu Mizushima
Produced By: BONES
US Distribution By: Bandai Entertainment

Major Japanese Cast

Pacifica Casull: Fumiko Orikasa
Shannon Casull: Shinichiro Miki
Raquel Casull: Sayaka Ohara
Leopolde Scorpse: Takashi Kondo
Zepheris: Kaori Mizuhashi
Christopher Armalite: Takahiro Mizushima
Winia Chester: Ayako Kawasumi
Seness Lulu Giat: Yuki Matsuoka
Prince Forsyth: Junji Majima
Fulle: Katsuyuki Konishi
Kidaf: Daisuke Ono
Baroness Bilach: Yukari Nozawa
General Peters-Stahl: Hiroshi Takahashi
Steyr: Michiko Neya
Socom: Kazuya Nakai

Major English Cast

Pacifica Casull: Bridget Hoffman
Shannon Casull: Crispin Freeman
Raquel Casull: Bridget Hoffman
Leopolde Scorpse: Yuri Lowenthal
Zepheris: Kate Higgins
Christopher Armalite: Steve Staley
Winia Chester: Michelle Ruff
Seness Lulu Giat: Wendee Lee
Prince Forsyth: Dave Wittenberg
Fulle: Liam O’Brien
Kidaf: Doug Erholtz
General Peters-Stahl: Dave Mallow
Steyr: Karen Strassman
Socom: Lex Lang

Scores

Animation: 8/10 (x 4 = 32 pts)
Story: 9/10 (x 4 = 36 pts)
Music: 9/10 (x 4 = 36 pts)
Coherence/Story Arc: 9/10 (x 2 = 18 pts)
English Dubs: 9/10 (x 1 = 9 pts)
Gut Score: 8/10 (x 5 = 40 pts)

Total: 171/200 (85.5%)

Review

Scrapped Princess is about a girl named Pacifica who, according to a prophecy handed down by the god of the world she lives in, will bring about the end of the world on her 16th birthday. As a result of this prophecy, her father, the King, ordered her to be killed immediately after birth and thus she was tossed from a cliff side.

However, Pacifica was not killed. Instead, she was saved and then adopted by the Casull family as their daughter. Later, her two older adopted siblings – Shannon and Raquel – protect her when it is discovered that she, the Scrapped Princess, is still alive and is now less than a year from turning 16.

Along their travels, Pacifica and her siblings have to fight off those who wish to kill them, and end up learning about the past of the world they live in – Leinwan – and discover that the “poison that will destroy the world” which Pacifica is prophesied to be isn’t all that it appears to be.

I have to admit, I really liked this series. It seemed to have a fairly unique fantasy world which kept getting deeper and deeper as the story progressed. It also raises up the question of what one should do if given the choice between saving someone close to you, and saving many people whom you know nothing about, as Pacifica’s protectors must decide. Of course, even that choice isn’t everything that it seems to be.

The story can drag on in some episodes, but overall it is excellent, with the story holding up well through all 24 episodes. The animation of the series is also excellent, and the CG special effects blend in with the 2D animation virtually seamlessly. The music is also pretty good. Perhaps the weakest thing about the series is the English dub, and even that is pretty good.

Overall, if you like a good fantasy or action anime series, you’ll probably enjoy Scrapped Princess.

First Watched: March – May 2007
Do I Own: No
Do I Recommend: Yes

This week’s Podcast Stats:
Time: 27:06
Download Size: 18.6 MB

This week’s opening theme:
“Rhythm Emotion” by TWO-MIX
Second opening theme to Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

This week’s ending theme:
“Yume no Naka e” by Enomoto Atsuko and Suzuki Chihiro
Ending theme to His and Her Circumstances

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