Anime Expo 2007: As a fan, this is one of your best weekends.

Haruhi, the SOS Brigade, the Galaxy Angels, Death Note crew, ORESKABAND, and all the other good fixins packed in one weekend. I'm only in my second year staffing at Anime Expo, and I am very excited to help out the attendees from June 28 to July 2. There will be thousands upon thousands of people who will showing up in Long Beach, California.

I knew that this year was going to be the year of Haruhi Suzumiya, and lo and behold, she is here. Aya Hirano, the voice of Haruhi (as well as the voice of Konata Izumi from Lucky Star-could it be their year next year?), as well as Minori Chihara (the voice of Yuki Nagato) and Yuko Goto (the voice of Mikuru Asahina), are coming down to the Beach to greet their supporters of the SOS Brigade. There will be Haruhi plushies all around. Get to the exhibit halls fast, and get yours...quick!

I am personally hyped about this year's edition, because we have Yuuna Inamura, the voice of Apricot Sakuraba of Galaxy Angel Rune (GA II), rolling over to the Long Beach Convention Center next Friday. Yes, my friend, there are Galaxy Angel supporters here in the USA, and Rico is starting to warm up as a possible contender for Saimoe 2007. All four of them will be doing some autographs. I hope to get one from any one of them.

The ska band ORESKABAND rolls in, and companies like Bandai and Toei are coming down to the Beach as well. Eisaku Inoue, of One Piece fame and other classics, is another Guest of Honor. Tetsuro Araki, the guy behind Death Note, is going to be here, as well as pop sensation Anna Tsuchiya. And Bang Zoom is coming down to help out at AX Idol.

Also, there will be some Otaku Parliamentary Debates. Wonder if this is a alternative to the debates for the presidency. Heheh, this will be fun to watch.

And of course, Masquerade is going to be highly competitive. Oh man, I'm going to have to bring a ROCKSTAR pack with me just to be hyped up about it.