There was another hidden surprise this year called Lost Universe. It's about a few mercenaries for hire, and a space ship with an attitude. What I liked about it most though, was that it uses a style of 3-D animation I've never seen before, and it turned out looking really good. Gunnm is my favorite manga. Here kitty kitty.
Video games are popular themes at anime conventions.
Which makes perfect sense considering where most of them come from these days. I believe this little feline character is from a video game called Dark Stalkers. And no, she didn't go crawling around on all fours. Otherwise I would have did nothing else all weekend but follow her around. Every time I saw her she was wearing something different.