I got back from AnimeNEXT and it was pure awesome! i caught a glimpse of Kyle Herbert!(narrator and teen Gohan for DBZ, Vato Falman from FMA, AIZEN FROM BLEACH, and Kiba Inuzuka from Naruto!!)

I was in the dealers room for the most part, I bought a 4-tailed Naruto plushie, a Minato Uzamaki (4th Hokage) plushie, a red parasol, Itachi Uchiha ring and POKY!!!!!

unfortunately i only got to be there for ... lets see... got there at 8:45 am... opened the gates at 9:00 am... so i was at the con making friends as soon as i arrived, being greeted by a friendly Chuunin exam Sasuke(who followed my group around and her mom was dressed as Orochimaru which was funny)then we met with a lolita girl and her boyfriend who also followed us around. my group then consisted of me(Itachi Uchiha, full costume, no wig needed), my BFF Cristina who was Deidara(full costume, no wig needed), lolita girl(full 18th century style dress), her boyfriend(normal dude clothing lolz), and Sasuke Uchiha(full chuunin exam-fighting Gaara and Itachi costume) aka my Otouto.

Plus i ran into my friends Andrew and Alex(who was dressed in all white with L's(from Death Note) fancy L on his shirt. he was cosplaying as L's compter screen.

I ran into like... 5 other Itachis, 2 Hidans, 2 Inuyasha's, 4 Light Yagamii(i said"I'm A Gay" to all 4), 6 Ls, A FURRY SUIT KYUUBI, a furry suit Houndoom, a person in a box that said DeathNote on it, yes, they cosplayed as the death note... 3 UKs from Hetalia Axis Powers, 2 Germanys from HAP.. um.. 3 Ichigos, one Hichigo(hollow Ichigo), a Vizard Ichigo, a group of random Arrancar, 1 Grimmjow, a Renji and Rukia, 2 Kabuto's, an anthro Okami, 4 Edward Elrics, 2 Alphonses, a Roy Mustang, 12 Narutos(not joking), 7 Sasukes, 3 Sakuras, a Sai, a Kakashi a Kakuzu, 2 Peins, 4 Allen Walkers, a Lavi, 3 Kanda's, the head of the scientific department from D.Gray-Man... um... thats all i can remember for now... if i remember more ill add them. there were HUNDREDS of people there! it was crowded as hell! even outside! and the humidity was AWFULL!!!

but i had a great time and thats what counts!!!

and as im writing this..all of my frieds who got to stay past 3:30pm are going to a rave in the concert room... im so jealous... but i get to go to MangaNEXT and next years AnimeNEXT!

BTW!!! FTW im going to try and make an anthro cosplay for Liger Zero from ZOIDS: New Century Zero/Fuzors.as seen here [link] and here [link]

im going to try to make something similar to this though [link] and this [link]

only difference, im going to be more human. im going to do the slit parallelogram shaped eyes as a white and red pair of glasses. the tail will be either a black cat tail like in the picture, or ill make my own from wire cotton stuffing and cloth and add a gun shaped thing to the end. Ill dress in all black, have Wolverine claws on a gauntlet for the front paws, and ill put the bottom paws over a pair of shoes. plus im going to do the shoulders and hips with the hollow diamond armor along with the armor for the knees and forearms. the "ears" and "Mane" will be in a similar helmet style to the antro picture shown above.

so i need some help, what are some cheap ways to do this, like cheap paint, plastic, maybe balsa wood for the claws and perhaps some stretch fabric for the clothes i put underneath... any other ideas, or ways to improve mine?