 Hey guys, I just wanted to make this video to show something I got in the mail today. I thought you guys might find this a bit interesting and a bit cool. So actually, recently at anime expo they announced that Yuji Hori, the creator of Dragon Quest, the original creator and writer and the game designer for Dragon Quest is going to be showing up to anime expo for a two day autograph session. So this is actually the first time he's come to United States for an autographing session in a very long time since Dragon Quest 9 came out like eight years ago. So it's been a really long time since he's been in the States so it's a pretty big deal. Unfortunately I wasn't able to go to anime expo this year because I didn't plan it out ahead. They announced that Yuji Hori was coming to anime expo very last minute which was kind of surprised to be honest. So by then it was too late to really go to anime expo to take the plane to Los Angeles. I'm actually from the east coast, I'm from the east coast and LA is all across the country so it would have taken a while. So I actually know somebody who was going to anime expo and I managed to get them to hook me up with Yuji Hori's autograph. So we're going to take a look at that but first we're going to take a look at the poster that they gave away. So they had a big Dragon Quest 11 sort of stand going on there. Basically you play the game, you get a poster and you get a t-shirt. Unfortunately I don't have the t-shirt but I did get this poster so let's take a quick look at this. So it got a little bit banged up inside the mail but that's the Japanese cover art for Dragon Quest 11. So you can see it right there and it's pretty, it's pretty rolled up there. So yeah that's pretty nice actually. The Dragon Quest 11. And if you flip it around to the other side you get the United States you know what localization cover art which is also pretty nice. It looks like in-game graphics kind of, it's also shaded so we have all the characters and everything and that's pretty cool as well. If you ask me though I actually like this cover art a little bit better because it looks more like the Dragon Quest games. The game cover art like 8, 9, 5, all the DS games. They all had us just you know Toriyama art cover art like this. So I thought that was pretty cool also I got that as a little bonus. But now we're on to the real, the real deal. So here it is. That is Yuji Hori's autograph. As you can see he wrote down the date and he signed it and he wrote drew a little slime there. He actually drew that. I also have a photo of him holding it but we'll take a look at that later. So yeah it's pretty nice. It's like a little card right? It's not a piece of paper. It's kind of a little bit smaller than Leris High's. And as you can see the card has all the characters on the bottom. There's the little slime, there's his autograph right there. Dragon Quest XI. It's kind of shiny you see. It's a nice cardboard sort of thing and it's in great condition. And also right here there is, let's see. This is the ticket to get the autograph. So it was stamped when it was autographed and on the back says Dragon Quest XI coming to PS4 and Steam on September 4th, 2018. And there's some social media links there. It's pretty nice. And yeah so they stamped it. This was for the Saturday 10th 30th to 11th 30th AM signing. It says here redeemed his ticket. His ticket number is 65. So basically Yuji Hori was signing Square Enix said that you should not bring any stored personal items because you won't sign that. But actually that was not true because Yuji Hori was signing pretty much anything people wanted to sign. He was signing people's games, he was signing people's shirts, people's other, the Anime Expo guidebook, all that stuff. So he was being pretty cool about it. He's a pretty cool dude. So yeah this is a really big deal for me. Dragon Quest is actually my favorite game franchise of all time. I grew up with it. As a kid I played all the games and I'm like obsessed with the Dragon Quest series and I've always wanted to meet Yuji Hori but I guess it just wasn't time. So maybe some other time. But for now having his autograph is good enough for me. It would be cool to meet him. But yeah he's an extremely influential figure in the gaming industry. He basically created what is the Japanese gaming industry today. He created Dragon Quest, he created Portopia, Serial Murders which basically kick-started about the visual novel genre and the RPG genre. So basically gaming would not be the same as it is today without this man. And I sort of have a really nice piece here and this is really great for my Dragon Quest collection you know. This is going to be a very important piece. So you know what I kind of want to do is I want to get this framed actually. I'm going to get a nice frame for this obviously because this is a really great treasure to have Yuji Hori's autograph. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to get a frame where I have the ticket right there and I'm going to have the autograph card right there and I'm going to have it all kind of framed and have like a matte frame. That's kind of my plan right now. So yeah I think that'll be a really nice item to have. Because like I said he never does autograph sessions this man. Yuji Hori did one autograph session inside, he came to Manhattan back when Dragon Quest 9 was coming out. He did an autograph session at the Nintendo store. I don't remember, I don't think he's ever done one in Japan to be honest which is kind of interesting. He's only done signings in the United States. He did like one signing for Dragon Quest 6 at a random GameStop in LA which I thought was kind of interesting. And he did this one at an Anime Expo and it's been a while. So having his autograph it's not only rare but it's also very significant because he's a very significant person in the industry. And it's just great to have this. I'm really happy I managed to get this. I was really bummed out at first because I thought I wouldn't be able to make it and you know I'd miss out on this but luckily I found someone who was willing to grab me the autograph and they really pulled through it and looked at the tickets in great condition. This will be just great. The poster was a little bit banged up but you know the poster is not as... The poster was just a nice bonus. I'll hang this up somewhere. Maybe I'll get a frame but maybe this will go in my dorm when I move out. Yeah, there's the poster again. It's a nice poster too. It's a little bit smaller than it might look. That's about how big it is compared to this thing so it's like 11 by 17 inches sort of. And it's got a nice heart too but the real treasure here is UG Horizontograph which it's just great to have. And on the back there's not really anything. You see it's just kind of blank. There's a little bit of a stamp there. I don't know what that is. I was sure. But other than that it's great. Wow. And he even drew slime. See he must have been sitting there just drawing slimes and autographing for hours but I think he likes it a lot. He enjoys it. Meeting his fans and everything. I've also been keeping up with a lot of people on Twitter who have been meeting him and kind of checking out their autographs so it's just really great to have something like this. And I hope you guys enjoyed checking this out and seeing his autograph. This is a pretty rare item. I never saw this on eBay or anything after the anime expo was over so I can't imagine how hard to come by this might be. This is a pretty great item to have. So anyway thanks for watching. Hope you guys enjoyed the video and I'll see you next time. Bye.