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Listed in order of appearance...

6:00pm - 6:30pm

  • Contestant: Yaten Kou
    AKA: Danielle Cafferty

  • Song Entry:
    • Nagareboshi he
      Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon (The Three Lights' Image)

Any relation to Diana Kou? :b j/k

A dancing Doraemon!

  • Contestant: Doraemon
    AKA: Jaimy Dixon

  • Song Entry:
    • Run All the Way
      Slayers Return (ED)

  • Contestant: Contestant #3

  • Song Entry:
    • Mihata no moto ni
      Sakura Taisen 3 (OP)


Predicting the future? ^^

  • Contestant: Diana Tolin

  • Song Entry:
    • Stay Away
      L'arc~en~Ciel Video Game (Insert)

  • Contestant: Nick Balleza

  • Song Entry:
    • Rainy Day and Day
      Virus (OP)

Gangsta-boy...
6:30pm - 7:00pm

If you don't recognized this pose, you NEED to watch Excel Saga :P

  • Contestant: Got Wings
    AKA: Janice Marcus & Lindsey Newman

  • Song Entry:
    • Yoru no uta
      Card Captor Sakura (ED)

This is a reason why you should move during a performance...


  • Contestant: Contestant #8

  • Song Entry:
    • Aitsu
      Super Gals! Kotobuki Ran (OP)

  • Contestant: Victoria Erica Espejo

  • Song Entry:
    • Idol Talk
      Macross Plus (Insert)

This was such a good costume for the song...

Er.....

  • Contestant: Kinki
    AKA: Claudia Tako

  • Song Entry:
    • Sobakasu
      Rurouni Kenshin (1st OP)
7:00pm - 7:30pm

  • Contestant: Jhonny
    AKA: Tomoki Karashima

  • Song Entry:
    • For Real
      Gensomaden Saiyuki (1st OP)

If he stopped smiling, he'd be the perfect Sanzo...

That's right I'm biased

Cute girls group with cool glittery "Ice Blue" eye shadow gets extra screen captures ^_^

  • Contestant: Fushigi Yume
    consisting of: Shampoo (top left), Misao (top right), Megumi (bottom left), Jo-chan (bottom right)

  • Song Entry:
    • Ice Blue Eyes
      Rurouni Kenshin (Misao's Image)

  • Contestant: Alice Chiao

  • Song Entry:
    • Kiseki no umi
      Record of the Lodoss War (TV OP)

ooooOOOOO (and that's with the mic way away from her ^_^)

Proof that a lil mis-step is okay if you've got the grace to laugh about it :)

  • Contestant: Mandy Lee

  • Song Entry:
    • Star
      Fushigi Yuugi (OVA OP)

  • Contestant: Alex Caliber
    AKA: Jared Meyers

  • Song Entry:
    • Give a Reason
      Slayers Next (OP)

Lovely hair... but we can't see your face (((.o"
7:30pm - 8:00pm

I want a Puchiko hat too :(

  • Contestant: Connie Chen

  • Song Entry:
    • In the Night
      Key: The Metal Idol (OP)

  • Contestant: Stephanie Yanez

  • Song Entry:
    • Duvet
      Serial Experiment Lain (OP)

Is the hat from some anime? Why can't I place it?


  • Contestant: Contestant #18

  • Song Entry:
    • 1/2
      Rurouni Kenshin (2nd OP)
8:00pm - 8:30pm

  • Contestant: Anrui Ukimi
    AKA: Elizabeth Morgan

  • Song Entry:
    • Kaze no nemuru shinma de
      NeoRanga (1st OP)

Mima of NeoRanga... yes this is different from the Ushio of NeoRanga she wears later ^^;;

I don't remember this note being that high...

  • Contestant: Aya

  • Song Entry:
    • Going History
      Slayers (OP)

  • Contestant: Otaku Generation
    consisting of (from top left to bottom right): Van Nguyen, Yuhki Fukusumi, John Shin, Philip Kim, Roger Chuang

  • Song Entry:
    • Successful Mission
      Saber Marionette J (OP)

A bit more photo shop touch up and this could be a "boy-band" poster

This is why I need a wide angle lense...

Ma, kanojo wa genki da ne...

  • Contestant: Sherry Weng

  • Song Entry:
    • Egao ni aitai
      Marmalade Boy (OP)

  • Contestant: Contestant #23

  • Song Entry:
    • Zankoku na tenshi no Thesis
      Shin Seiki Evangelion (OP)



  • Here are Otaku Generation again posing for photo ops during the break. For all you screaming fangirls out there, I sell high quality prints of this picture for your walls $_$''
8:30pm - 9:00pm

  • Contestant: Ayashi
    AKA: Christie Wong & Laura Chase

  • Song Entry:
    • Kiseki no hana
      Initial D (OP)

Beautiful costumes... coincidentally, FFX was shipped today, 12/18/2001...

"All Right!"

  • Contestant: Sakura Shinguji
    AKA: May Llaguno

  • Song Entry:
    • Koi no hassha All Right
      Sakura Taisen (Tsubaki/Kasumi/Yuri Image)

  • Contestant: Lina
    AKA: Tiffany Nours

  • Song Entry:
    • Only One Number One
      Digi Charat (OP)

I'm still partial to Puchiko-nyo
The Judges


Hong...


Dom!


Tanzy

  • Hong introduces the judges:

  • "Dom from MegaTokyo..."

  • "Tanzy..." of Strange Candy

  • "Evelyn is going to sing a very high note because Evelyn's an opera singer..."
  • "If I sing a high note, then I don't need a mic" *crowd cheering*
  • "I want my glasses to shatter..." - Hong
  • "I want my contacts to shatter..." - audience

  • "The ever loveable and identifiable 'Card Captor Tommy'...
  • "it [the costume] was shexshee..."

  • "... and finally one half of the Silver Night, 'Naveed'"


Evelyn...


'Card Captor' Tommy


Tiffiny of Silver Night

And with time to spare... so begins the traditional judges entertainment...

And that's Aileen(?)... who was drafted to 'dance like Morning Musume'... well you can see the result
  • "Dom! We want Dom! We want Dom! We want Dom! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!"
  • "Ar... c'mon *exasperation*"

  • "First up, we're gonna have Tommy..."
  • "Aww... er... yeah! Tommy!"
  • "Yeah we want Tommy AND Dom!" (such a fickle crowd it was :b)

  • "They're gonna sing Boku de aru tame ni the opening to Taiho Shichauzo..."
  • "Well, they're not going to sing [that], but instead from DNA^2, Single Bed [ED]..."
  • "Err okay, they're not going to do Single Bed, they're going to sing Happy Summer Wedding by Morning Musume"

Fact of the day: Hong was the lead guitarist of 5XL... "was" T.T"

  • Apparently there was more time so Hong and Tommy started Boku de aru tame ni. This time they really did sing it :b And don't you hate guitarist doing air guitars? They look like they actually know what they're doing...
9:00pm - 9:30pm

  • Contestant: Quesadilla
    AKA: Amber Padilla

  • Song Entry:
    • Phantom World
      Armitage III (Insert)

What kinda quesadilla are u? :P~~

Don't keep a goddess waitin ^^;

  • Contestant: Evil Goddess Althena
    AKA: Heather Fenderson

  • Song Entry:
    • Don't Stop! Suteki ni meguri aitai
      Idol Project

  • Contestant: Karen Guerrero

  • Song Entry:
    • Give a Reason
      Slayers Next (OP)

To answer her question: You didn't even botch half a once ^_^

A-re? Sore wa ai ja nai...

  • Contestant: Kara-Ohki's
    AKA: Serena El-Farra & Dan Schwartzler

  • Song Entry:
    • Ai (chuu seishin)
      Excel Saga (OP)

  • Contestant: Otaku in Crime
    AKA: Trisha Hopkins & Allison Gibbons

  • Song Entry:
    • Rinbu Revolution
      Shoujo Kakumei Utena (OP)

You don't need to have complex choreography, if you're in sync, you just look cool ^_^

Kinda a gothic Miaka, ne?

  • Contestant: Yukiko Shiranui

  • Song Entry:
    • Power of Love
      Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon R (Insert)
9:30pm - 10:00pm

  • Insert 1/2 hour of open mic here... why? because we're way ahead of schedule... why? because of a bunch of you no good no shows that's why... grrrr ^^;;

  • Dom takes a whack at open mic with Single Bed. Wait a minute what is that piece of paper he's holding? This is his trademark song!



  • Apparently Luke wakes up when everyone else falls asleep. How could you be so lively after 4 hours of karaoke? Well this is Aileen(?) again with an apparently revived Luke doing Timing by Black Bisquits.

  • Now that Luke's (MC #2) awake, the first preliminary MC, Phil, can take a well deserved break.
10:00pm - 11:00pm (the last hour)

This is an example of pure vocal merit power...

  • Contestant: Hope Sikora

  • Song Entry:
    • Princess Mononoke (English)
      Mononoke Hime (ED)

  • Note: An audio of this file is available on the media page

  • Contestant: Stephanie Siva

  • Song Entry:
    • Duvet
      Serial Experiment Lain (OP)


A-no... lyrics for "Duvet"?

Justin, your accompaniment scares me... it's that good

  • Contestant: Sandra and Justin

  • Song Entry:
    • Tenshi no yubikiri
      Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou (OP)

  • Contestant: Tenshi
    AKA: Kristen Groth

  • Song Entry:
    • Scarlet
      Ayashi no Ceres (OP)

Kirei emi ne...
Button Break!
"Everybody has a button? Anyone in need of a button raise your hand..."

She apparently just got her button :P

  • Contestant: Liz Baraff

  • Song Entry:
    • Rain
      Cowboy Bebop (Insert)

  • Contestant: M Moneurere

  • Song Entry:
    • Toki ni ai wa
      Shoujo Kakumei Utena (Movie Insert)

Can you normally sing that high or was that al falsetto? I can't tell :b

Take #2.. err.. Take #3, we always have one of these every year huh?

  • Contestant: Kathy Harrison

  • Song Entry:
    • Truth
      Shoujo Kakumei Utena (ED)
Luke and Dom presents... Time Killing Entertainment

  • Hong says to kill some time... the audience requests a dance... it's almost 11pm at night... and what do these guys do??
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show!!
  • Be afraid... be very afraid :P

  • "It's just a jump to the left! And then a step to right! Put your hands on your hips! And bend your knees in tight! It's a pelvic thruu-ust"

"It's a pelvic thruu-ust"

This is what late night karaoke is all about...

  • "I can do my German dance... fun and games... la la la..."

  • What the? :P Do I wanna know where that came from?
The very last contestant...

  • Contestant: Contestant #40

  • Song Entry:
    • Shatsu no koi
      Slayers (Insert)

Ladies and gentlemen... Winner of the Fanime2k1 Karaoke Contest... err, I guess you can't see her huh?
Luke and Dom presents... Time Killing Entertainment (part Deux)


  • Shirt Guy Dom's "Stick Figure Day" comes to AX...

  • If you don't know what "Stick Figure Day" is all about, visit MegaTokyo.com (I think I have more MegaTokyo plugs than anything on this whole AX2001 webpage thing)
  • "Do you know any Radiskull songs?" -Dom
  • Luke didn't... but someone in the audience did and sang it from his seat... You just have to hear this. Keep it mind it's quite late...

The Torture List
  • "No one has sung Eyes on Me! We have been free of "Eyes on Me" for FOUR hours!"

  • "And Slayers wins the torture count at FIVE songs..."

  • "Buttons? Last call for buttons?"

If you have any comments, please mail me at:
duo_kun_2000@yahoo.com