Today FanimeCon was in full force.

Cosplayer running around all over the place, lots of panels to attend and of course the Cosplay Spectacular (aka the Masquerade)

Today we attended several panels: Female Characters in Anime, How Anime gets Made, Sewing your First Costume and Armor for Beginners. Very nice panels with lots of information,

All around the Convention Center there were gatherings of Cosplayes and a walls of photographers taking pictures and asking for different poses from them.

Kim and I agree that the level of difficulty and detail for the costumes on this convention is up to par with other conventions. FanimeCon's cosplayers holds their own.

The masquerade was held at the San Jose Civic Center, just across the street from the Convention Center.

The majority of the skits were very funny and the costumes were very nice as well.

The only problem with this event were the on going technical problem with both the lighting and the recorded soundtrack for the skits.

It was not until about the middle of the masquerade that the problems went away. I have to say that the fans attending this event were super cool about the problems riddling the performance of the cosplayers.