Finally have a few minutes to relax back in the hotel and try to summarize my experiences at Otakon thus far.

I know Omo will have a great post on all the JAM Project related events sooner or later, but in the meantime I can say a few things as a teaser. First off I should say I’m not really a BIG JAM Project fan unlike JP but after attending their various Q&A sessions, autograph session, and being at their concert that will most likely change ^^;;

On the concert, I don’t think there are enough words to describe how truly EPIC AND PURE WIN it was. I’ll easily admit I’m not those types that gets all into the music and starts jumping up and down, pumping their fists with glow sticks at hand but even I was doing all that towards the end; that’s just how frickin’ awesome they were! It’s crazy how energetic they were more or less singing for two hours straight while giving the fans what they want… heck I think the only time they had a “break” was when each of them did a solo song (BTW live version of Masami Okui’s Rinbu Revolution was FTW) and before the encore songs. Honestly it truly was a great concert and now I can understand why their fans are so into it; it’s just a totally different experience live compared to just hearing them on media. Well, I should note it does help if you have front row seats thanks to someone’s intel that seems second to none

On the Q&A sessions, pretty straight forward stuff that others will no doubt have transcripts of. Really news wise, the two biggest announcements were probably JAM Project doing this and the OP/ED for the next Super Robot Wars game coming out in September.

Autograph session(s), well I talked about previously. Although I should note there was a 2nd “secret” autograph session right after the first at the Bandai booth that only folks who got tickets from Bandai earlier that day could attend. It seems like they were only getting JAM Project to sign a Scrapped Princess poster but depending on your luck/charm, could get them to sign one of their other related merchandises instead; Omo got 3 separate items while Momotato got 2 signed. Me, didn’t know about the Bandai session but no big lost since I really didn’t have anything “special” to sign. I count myself lucky as is for getting what I got beforehand ^^

Beside fanboying about JAM Project for the past 3 days, honestly haven’t checked out much else. The Metal Gear panel I attended on Friday morning was alright but nothing special. Missed both Bandai panels, although I did hear from Omo whom heard from others that at Bandai’s “Bandai Surprise” panel JAM Project came out wearing Lucky Star t-shirts, giving out free Bandai stuff, and doing a reverse Q&A (asking the audience questions instead). Checked out the Artists and Dealers’ rooms and while nothing really peaked my interest, plan to check them out again tomorrow before the Sunday concerts.

… and of course, I was at the karaoke cafe for a few hours due to Omo and his crew laughing it up at everyone’s various attempts at singing (clarify: that’s me laughing internally at everyone. I wouldn’t be alive if I did out loud). Also met a lot of anime bloggers there and at other places today as well, but I’ll have a separate post about them along with my closing thoughts on Otakon tomorrow. For now, enjoy the random crappy photo I took at JAM Project’s concert, which unfortunately the anibloggers couldn’t re-create at karaoke: