Travel Blog - Dokomi 2026 - Saturday or: Where did the time go
Second day of Dokomi started with me going to a local store to aquire a lunchbox replacement to not throw my food into the bag at random.
After that I got to the parking lot again and asked the staff if there was a bag found. And there was INDEED a bag found, the called the staff member who did find it and ... turned out it was just a small bag and already given back to the owner.
So well I did ready for the Con, put make up on and painted the curse the wrong side and was just trying to keep myself somewhat grounded.
I was already on my way as I noticed I didn't put on the boots and had to return to the car another time. So forgetfulness was a theme for me this weekend. But to spoil it: it luckily got better.
As I was in I went to the big lost & found and there wasn't my bag either. I checked several times even shortly before I got back to the car and still nothing. They told me to come back tomorrow as they collect everything from the different info points in the evenings. So little hope left but not much.
I then decided to rebuy at least the D.Gray-man things and asked the artist I had a huge preorder from if anyone got back to them as they shared the post but sadly none so far.
Luckily Faber Castell had a booth there too and I got a new drawing pad that I could draw a bit at least. After I got my DGM stuff I even found some fellow cosplayers!
And decided to finish what I didn't manage to finish of the artist alley that day, I was a bit miffed and wasn't sure if I wanted to invest more money but I told myself I would be sad when i dwell on the lost things and decide against buying new things. As I had been looking forward to just have a fun time in the alley.
As the Hall 3 was done for me I went to Hall 1 and got through the vendors there, more roughly than anything as there were so many booths and a lot of figures and the music in there was really giving me a hard time. As my earphones are in the lost bag there was nothing I could do about it.
Other than getting myself the daily Bubble Tea.
I then went outside into the park for a stroll, I knew some of my friends would be there but I wasn't in the mood for "hunting" down people I would be either come across them or would not meet them.
As said the bag just tainted everything a bit and I wasn't fully through with my last episode either.
A big shout out to the people who recognized me as Allen and gave me very nice feedback and also to my friends who were in for a chat. And I learned I wasn't the only one with a mental breakdown this weekend :')
I decided to go back inside afterwards as I also got told there was another artist with D.Gray-man stuff and went to them (first I confused the halls and was like huh were is the booth?), I actually went by the booth earlier and it was just so crowded I didn't see and missed the Allen Keychain sadly but got some nice stickers and a print. And explored the rest of hall 1 in before.
After that I went backt o Hall 4 that I started exploring it further (sorry if the photos are in weird order it's just me confusing things but better than overall forgetting everything).
And wrote with someone from the anniversary Discord to meet up later on.
As I was done with Hall 4 I went to the giant food court and got myself the first food after breakfast which was a frozen Yogurt.
While I was waiting I got approached by someone who turned out to be a member of our former local bjd board and it was so SO nice to have a face to you now. I hope you had a great weekend :) and tell me your tumblr handle.
Then I headed to the meet up point and actually ran into a friend and we took some photos and had a little chat. The Meetup was mainly me showing them the artists who had DGM Stuff and we parted after that as we both needed some food.
I got myself a rice bowl (oh wow yes I can eat something else than oats and bubble tea OTL) and sat down with my friends who I know from the HanaCon for a bit <3
It was super late already and after checking the Lost & Found for a last time I only got myself a soft serve Macha Ice Cream Cone and went back to the car.
To be honest I walked around the car several times to check if I didn't forget a thing this time and nothing was forgotten x_x
For day 3 I aim to at least try to check the missing halls, but I might skip on the Seijin hall as I felt incredible uncomfortable in it last year. Plus I have to travel back and I feel like time will be running fast again.
Haul for Saturday which included some rebought items and gifts i got. Seriously I feel so blessed to be able to know so many kind people, like Deidudu whom I met at the bookfair who cheered me up and we had a great talk or just people from the past appearing. I felt so loved during the whole weekend.
