My favourite moments from Funimation Con 2020 - day two
"Todoroki could offset climate change if he was strong enough"
"I've got a whole buffet of hair to eat"
(ONS spoilers) Justin Briner finding out that Mika was coming back later despite having just died horribly and reacting like "WHAT HOW"
Brina Palencia admitting that "there have been many times I've smacked myself in the face, or hit my microphone, or knocked my headphones off, I get violent" in the booth
Her story that she got into voice acting because she asked how to audition while on a tour and a head popped up from a cubicle and said "I don't know" so they went round every cubicle until they found the right person to ask...
...and her one about watching Tokyo Ghoul to get into the role of Touka and her husband walking in, staring at the screen for a few seconds and saying "are you the one with purple hair" "yeah" "makes sense"
Clifford Chapin (Bakugo's VA) acting tough at the MHA Gameshow while his dog is asleep on the sofa behind him
The conversation suddenly veering into Animal Crossing.... Caitlin Glass "I have a 5 star island, thank you" Justin Briner "Woah, Caitlin!" C: "You can come and visit it sometime" J: "My animals have given up on me"
"Look at all this cheese you wasted, you could have just used a post-it note"
Some of the incredible guesses in the gameshow... "Heroes Rising and that other one" "Thug A" "Todoroki, Deku and Tatum" "Tokoyami on sax" "Wolverine, Superman, Ricco (Fajardo, VA of Mirio)" "Bread, soup machine, dragon lady"
"I misheard the questiooooooon.... UNACCEPTABLEEEEEE"
Attempting to play along at home but doing dreadfully because I've seen two episodes and read one manga (also I know nothing about instruments so I put guitar instead of bass and was like "they're pretty much the same right? Do I get that point?")
A summary of the Endeavour vs Nomu fight in One's Justice 2: 'Uh oh I'm stuck in a building"
"Once you got in close you just melted my face"
Watching a Q and A with Chris Wehkamp, Sonny Strait, Monica Rial and Kara Edwards (who I was especially excited to see as I know her for Sakura Nanamine but she wasn't at the TBHK panel)
"You have to do weird things to get those noises out of your face"
"I wonder if sound waves are vegetarian"
Matt Mercer telling us that the weirdest sound effect he's ever had to make was a 'slightly aroused cat hit sound'...
...And the story about giving a game's NPCs heavy Scottish accents so that this little moe cat girl at a café would say "HEY THERE WOULD YA LIKE SOME COFFEH" (no offence to Scottish people we literally live right next to each other- I just needed to write it like that to show how strong it was)
Trying to not dance too aggressively to Silhouette by Kanaboon (because I was on the couch with my parents) or cry because con was nearly over (because I was tired and emotional)
Alicia Marie in the Cosplay Showdown wearing leggings with troll faces all over them (I want some now-)
"These people are so cool and fun and sexy and I am none of these things"
"I'm busting out the toilet paper rolls, y'all are in trouble now"
The cosplay horror stories we were told... Phil "halfmooned an entire cafeteria" because his kilt got stuck in his pants, Riki's crotch seam split when she was squatting for a photo, Alicia had sharp horns on her shoulders and had to try not to stab people all day and Lauren's armour had to be safety-pinned to her because it kept falling off
Phil finishing two or three minutes early (they had an hour to make a jetpack) while everyone else was rushing "You're taking a water break? Now?" "Ah, delicious"
Proof that the internet is made for cats... Alicia sacrificed her fizzy drinks for the 4th of July for her jetpack... Lauren used some fabric rags to make flames, which was really clever... Riki did some awesome wings with LEDs in them... Phil made a Nyan Cat jetpack which he put on his cat and won (no offence to him, it was absolutely adorable and they all did amazingly)
"We've had 700 votes in" "Wow, 700 witnesses to this hot mess"
Thank you so much to everyone involved with the con, I had the time of my life and everything was incredible... and now we wait until the next con!
