Most people probably know by now that UppCon attracts a lot of visitors. But it might be a bit difficult to comprehend the vastness of it without being there yourself. This photo should be able to tell how crowded it was (the red heart indicates our position). Anyway, we had a lot to look forward to the second day. Every member of Yokaj Studio were there (which might hint towards the amount of pictures in this entry), and in addition, Kajfa was to hold a Sumo tournament!

A couple of morning birds gathered around our table to challenge eachother in the Sumo tournament. The winner turned out to be in this picture…

The moment before the fight ensued. The players are extremely focused.

And here they crashed into eachother! The fight was so intense, Kajfa had to hold the table to keep it standing!

The players, tensely observing the fighs, while waiting for their turn to come.

One after another, the players dropped out, losing their fights.

The corner of shame? A couple of players just having lost a moment ago.

The tournament’s most impressing players mayhaps? Most of the participants were twice as big as these two small girls. But they fought bravely against eachother and everyone else! Kudos to you!

The final round of the tournament was really exciting! Unfortunately we only have it captured on video (which will be uploaded on Sumo’s own website later). Winner of the tournament is Daniel! On the picture posing with Kajfa, the creator of Sumo, with his prizes. After this Daniel took on a challenge with Kajfa, who just barely managed to protect the Yokaj Studio honor! Phew!

What did the others in the studio do in the meantime? Well, Yosh was busy speaking to Mikademus, an UppCon organizer, just checking up on our status. DoraJen did her best to introduce a couple of girl to one of our books.

And introduced well, she did! The girls bought Yosh’ book and got it signed.

Foto: Cecilia Melin
Soya played around with some UppConers who wanted to take pictures of her (UppCon had a contest in which the participants were to take pictures of motives based on a list of keywords).

There was a lot of signing throughout the day.

A great number of people bought Yosh’s “Yosh! Teckna manga!”.

The number of Yokaj Studio anthologies we had left when the day began. They were sold out by the end of the day!

By lunch time Yosh stepped up on the big stage to give a lecture that was a bit different from her other ones. Instead of the usual how-to-draw lessons, Yosh shared her experiences and insights on how to step up from being an amateur artist to a professional one. She also revealed a couple of Yokaj Studio’s success-strategies.

The other sice of the stage during Yosh’s lecture.

A couple of our loyal fans (Manda and Elinor often write in our guestbook), had, during the first day, gotten autographs from Yosh, DoraJen and Soya. With Kajfa joining us on the second day, the girls saw their chance to get a complete collection of Yokaj-autographs!

Manga and Elinor, proudly showing their autographs coupled with the Yokaj dolls we had drawn for them.

After that, the girls challenged eachother on a round of Sumo.

And surely the second day could be titled the Sumo day! David and Nina from Science Fiction Bokhandeln having a round of Sumo against eachother.

Even DoraJen got challenged!

Left: Azai, another Yokaj fan who oftens writes messages in our guestbook, holding a school calendar (skoldagbok) signed by everyone in the studio.
Right: Yohio (with the bandana), also a regular in our guestbook! Here pictured trying out Sumo. Long talks with Kajfa ensued afterwards.

Hereon we’ll post pictures of cosplayers. On this one, we see MegaMan (or rather, MegaWoman) posing together with Kajfa.

Left: A cosplayer who’s like a carbon copy of Harima from the School Rumble-series. Natural cosplay!
Right: Keroro from Keroro Gunso!

Left: Pixelninja, as she calls herself, dressed up as Samus from Metroid. Impressing work as usual!

Right: Jack Sparrow from the Pirates of the Carribean movies. We saw him (we think) one year ago on the book fair at Göteborg. Still as good as ever!

Left: Not a single maid that we met in Akihbara managed to make as strong an impression as this fair one!
Right: A bloody Gloomy bear terrorising the visitors with hugs.

Left: A girl with a cool weapon. Cosplaying as a character from Hellsing.
Right: Another girl dressed up as the fan-favorite Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII.

Left: Master Chief frm Halo.
Right: Princess Zelda from The Legend of Zelda series.

Cosplayers dressed up as Cloud and Zack from FFVII, walking by our table.

Two girls cosplaying as Sora from Kingdom Hearts, treating us to a fight right in front of our table!

DoraJen with a Kuja (from FFIX) cosplayer.

Thanks

During the second day, we got the opportunity to meet a couple of devoted fans, whom touched us deeply. Thank you for coming and telling us that you appreciate our work! It means a lot to us. We also want to thank all participants in the Sumo tournament, and also apologize to those who missed it due to a time issue. Next time, we’ll make sure that the tournament’s going to be even better!