Day 2 - Got to the Music Video line around 9 and got the tickets.  We then went to the Tsukasa Hojo Panel.  I have never read or seen the City Hunter manga/anime, or any other mangas of his, but I still wanted to see at least one of the Guest of Honor's Panels.  Accompanying him in the panel was his editor and president of Raijin Comics and a voice actor for City Hunter.  In the panel, somehow Dragon Ball came up.  The president explained that Dragon Ball was not a very popular manga until Akira Toriyama started the Tenkaichi Budoukai.  Normally, the manga would have been axed immediately when they knew it wasn't selling, but because he had made a very popular manga before(Dr. Slump), they let him have more time to try to get it more popular.  After the panel, I spent more time in the exhibit hall.  I then went to the Yoko Ishida concert.  It was kick ass.  Now that I think of it, I probably should have bought her box set of Parapara CDs.  After the concert, I wasted many hours in line for the Music Video contest.  Seating was supposed to begin at 7:00 P.M.  It didn't and the crowd was obviously angry.  Someone actually played a few music videos for us on his laptop, but only a few people were actually able to hear them.  Another person got his laptop and tried to tell the AX staff to 'Let us in!' By the time they let us in, they told us that the contest would be delayed until tomorrow morning.  That announcement got an enormous amount of 'boos.'  The final plans for the MVC was that the contest would be tomorrow morning, but a reshowing would be done on Sunday as well.  To entertain the people that were left, they showed Metropolis(sp?).  This was the first time I saw the movie.  It's not bad, but I didn't like either.  I could have gone to the Nobuhiro Watsuki Panel or the Anime Challenge thing than waste my fucking time.  For those of you who don't know, Nobuhiro Watsuki is the man who created the Rurouni Kenshin manga!!!

Day 3 - I tried going there around 8:00 A.M. to get Masquerade tickets, but they ran out long before we were anywhere near the people who were passing them out.  We went to the Pioneer Panel next.  Here, they showed us all the anime they licensed.  Among them were Ai Yori Aoshi and Chobits.  There were mad pops for Chobits when they showed the opening, even though the quality of the opening sucked.  At the end of the panel, they raffled off a few items.  My friend won an anime version of a Chobits Promo poster.  To him, I give you this: <^>(O_o)<^>  Immediately after the panel, was a Pioneer Music Panel.  This panel included Yoko Ishida.  When one of the panel guys asked who's music we would like to hear, Ayumi was mentioned among others.  Too bad none of the mentioned names were with Pioneer Japan.  After that, I believe I watched all of Read or Die.  My friend had already seen it, but I hadn't.  I liked it, even though they showed it raw.  After that, I went by myself to the Toshiharu Murata Panel.  He is the character designer for Hellsing, and since my friend hasn't seen Hellsing yet, he opted to go to the Bandai Panel instead.  Here, I learned that there might be a sequel to Hellsing after the manga has finished.   14 SOBs got Hellsing coffin sets.  11 were the American pre-orders, and the other 3 were some special Japanese realease versions.  After that I met up with my friend in the Console gaming room, and went to go wait in the standby line for the Masquerade.  We were two of the first ten people in line so we were able to get floor seats.  By the time we got in, the first half of the first act was already over.  My favorites of the night were: the guys who did YMCA(mad props to the guy in the Gundam suit for falling over!), the girls who cosplayed Sephiroth and Kuja, the guy who cosplayed Alucard from Hellsing, and the Fruits Basket skit.  After the Masquerade, we were treated to the winners of the Music Video Contest.  I totally love the 'A total waste of 6min 35 seconds' comedy music video.  The other winners were okay.

Day 4 - Arrived to watch the Music Videos around 8:00 A.M.  Only real reasons I came were to watch the 'Dragon Bebop Z' video and rewatch 'A total waste of 6min 35 seconds' video.  After, I went to the exhibit hall one last time.  I came and bought some stuff, and picked up a fan-made watercolor picture of Ayu Tsukimiya at the silent auction.  As I was waiting for the auction to end, I took a look around and found that there was a big fan-made art piece of Lulu.  It was a kick ass picture.  It had no bids and I would have bought it too, but I had only around $19 left.  I was a little depressed.  After, I went to the Auctions.  Here, I became super depressed when an original art piece of Ayu came up.  It only sold for $90/$190(I forgot how much it sold for.)  All I know is I would have paid up to $1,000 for it. >.<  The very last piece auctioned off was a Kenshin piece drawn by Nobuhiro Watsuki.  It sold for around $6,000 I think.  I'm not really sure.  After that was an award Ceremony that wasn't really good.  Then Closing Ceremony started.  As the Guest of Honor were giving their last comments, Hiroaki Goda, told the audience that next year, Onegai Teacher will not lose to Read or Die.  Then one of the guys, who worked on RoD, told the audience Read or Die will never loose to Onegai Teacher.  Toshiharu Murata told the audience he never expected to meet someone who helped make Onegai Teacher, and he also said that the audience didn't have to watch Onegai Teacher or Read or Die, they only had to watch Hellsing.  Nobuhiro Watsuki told everyone that they should all watch Onegai Teacher, Read or Die, and Hellsing, and they should enjoy his next manga he is working on.  Then they announced that Anime Expo would be going to Japan in 2004, and next year's AX would be returning to Anaheim.

List of what I bought:

Katana
'Campers Suck' t-shirt
Kisaragi Nimomai figure
A few laminated cards of Shishio, Satsuki, Kisaragi, and Tohru
Kanon art book
Vandread art book
Tales of Eternia art book
Peorth pin
Onegai Teacher clear poster
Ayu Tsukimiya fan-made watercolor picture

What I wanted to buy:

Alucard's gloves (I don't think there were any there.)
Ayu Tsukimiya original art piece
Ayu Tsukimiya plush doll (I don't think there were any there.)
Satsuki Gokajou figure
Dun...eh, I forgot how to spell it.  It's a huge ass model of a Cannon with a Gundam in it.
Shinobu Maehara bust
Lulu fan-made picture
Yoko Ishida Parapara CDs
Evangelion Perfect Collection DVD Box Set
Hellsing t-shirt