What conventions does everyone attend? I live in the midwest USA, so I'm mostly in the Ohio/Kentucky con scene. The cons I'm attending this year are~
Daigacon (Bowling Green, KY)
Anime Punch! (Columbus, OH)
Anime Central (Chicago, IL)
Colossalcon (Cleveland, OH)
Otakon (Baltimore, MD)
Tsubasacon (Huntington, WV)
Sugoicon (Cincinnati, OH .. also my personal fav <3)
Anyone from the board going to any of these? I'm staff at Anime Punch!, and doing work for Tsubasacon and Sugoicon, and possssibly Anime Central.
I'm not dragging XP-tan anywhere this year ^^; but if someone else from the board goes, find me!
I have often considered going to an animecon, but I've been too busy. Are any of those in the summer? I know a couple of guys who might want to go. I have often thought what it would be like to meet someone from the forum at a con...
Totally guessing by your name to distinguish your location, you'd probably be good getting to Otakon, location wise :) It is in the summer, and it's the largest con on the East Coast (24,000+ last year, wooo!)
www.otakon.com <3
Hmm...indeed. Meditate on this, I must.
I'm sorry, Codi-san. ;__;
Usually I attend Anime North in Canada, and Anime Central and Youmacon in the US. But this year I'm afraid I'll have to pass on all of them, due to business needs. ;__;
I'll be sure to compensate you for your complete lack of C-chan-ness, though. ^__^
Maybe some more 25 cent postcards of my OS-tans. ^v^'
I like conventions, but there's never enough time to attend many. Usually I'm only able to reserve time-off for Comic-Con in San Diego. To make up for lost time I'll spend the whole week there.
Last year was amazing. About 120,000 people made it into the convention hall. I was quite surprised to find some military acquaintences and weapons manufacturers hawking chibi figurines. They had a plate carrier and M4 stashed under their table.
A couple of my friends dress up as hunters on safari to go to some furry convention(don't remember the name).
Now, technical conventions... I go to too many of those.
none in washington waaahhhhh >_<
I go to conventions but rarely, i'm going to my first animecon this year, i hope they've got some good OS-tan merchendise laying around!
Other than that I went to a few gaming conventions, a couple electronics conventions, that's about it.
I would like to come but there are some problems ;018
- I live in Germany
- I have never been in America
- I don't have the money because I spent a lot (a large amount) for the animation/drawing equipments -.-"
- My english isn't the best....
thurisis...dude there ARE anime conventions in germany
i just googled "anime messe" for you (that's german for "anime convention")
look what i found instantly!
http://www.manganet.de/7053.jsp
it's ok you don't have to thank me ;)
I have been thinking of going to Akon in texas, since i know some people there. That will not happen this year at least, though, since I'm not really a person prone to spontaneous overseas trips or skipping my studies. Maybe next year though...
I usually only attend one con a year.
Nan-Desu-Kan in Denver. It is the nearest con I know of so I don't have to leave the state. :)
went to my first otakon last year, going again this year with more people and i might actually cosplay
Ill go to any in the UK, but I need to find one and get the money for it :P
dude, Alex, welcome back! ^^
I'm going to AX for my third year. :3
Going to see the SOS-dan there. X3
I'd like to go to Sakuracon and Otakon one of these days... I MIGHT go to Anime LA this January. I'd like to experience a small con. cuz AX is HUEG.
There's only ONE anime convention in Ottawa and that's AC Cubed. Toronto gets all the anime conventions. >_< AC Cubed is usually only for two to three days in November in a hotel lobby and costs about 60 CDN dollars to get in. I only went once because last year my parents wouldn't let me go. I hoping that this year, they'll let me go.
If you ever go to Sakura con, let me know, we will hang out :P
I went this year and it was a blast.. still need to post pictures from it
haha, you'll have to give me a few years. ^^;
My independence is being held hostage by family and finances. ehehe...
I want to see the pics! I'll be sure to post pics of AX07 then (with mah brand new camera. w00t!) X3
There are actually no conventions here, officially. There are some times that members of anime.is have one, well it's actually more of a get-together of otakus, it could be called a con.
i'm going to go to a convention on saturday and sunday! Woot! haven't cosplayed though maybe sometime soon..
I went as a video game character.. tho techincly an american game -_- but oh well, it was fun to have people run clear across the large rooms screaming "wait! Cpl Shepard wait! I have to have your photo!!!"
those who knew who i was anyways, thats what it means to be a obscure character.. most dont know who you are, but those that do are really geeked to see you.
Most people just called me counterstrike guy
haha, note to self: scream the names of obscure characters across the large halls to take their pictures at AX. XD;
I was only there for half a day.. and at least 300 people I dont know have my picture
thankgod a gas mask was part of my costume
Counterstrike cosplay? By the name of the empress, WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE!!?!?
No no no, Halflife Op For, but close enough. there was a quake 3 person there too, I couldnt remember his name, but they took alot of photos of the two of us.
Quote from: "Dorktron2006"went to my first otakon last year, going again this year with more people and i might actually cosplay
lol, me too. I went to my first convention last year. Planning to go to one of the biggest anime cons in Mexico this year: La Mole.
No cosplay for me. NEVER.
Quote from: "CaptBrenden"I went as a video game character.. tho techincly an american game -_- but oh well, it was fun to have people run clear across the large rooms screaming "wait! Cpl Shepard wait! I have to have your photo!!!"
those who knew who i was anyways, thats what it means to be a obscure character.. most dont know who you are, but those that do are really geeked to see you.
Most people just called me counterstrike guy
lol, CS guy
Now, it would be nice If you could bring some photos =/
still trying to get them from the girl I went with.. I got no pics of me with my own camera
haha, alrighty captain, we'll wait for em.
but if you have other pics that are interesting, feel free to share. :3
ahh just finished day of the 2 day event!!
i'm sooo tired
cosplay was pretty nice though! lots of transformers cosplay some even transforms!! i think there was about 9 not sure and even TWO GOBOTS!!! (leader one and cykill). IMHO i thing its good that nobody used the new transformers design from the movie.
Shocking to say but there was only one Haruhi Cosplayer ONE, i give her a lot of credit thou because she did create a big fuss, wearing a bunny suit and all.
and the 165th cosplayer (the last) was a Wikipe-tan! first cosplay i've seen here that is in anyway related to the os-tan. too bad i didn't get a picture.
very lively event i must say and i'm waiting for group cosplay competition tomorrow cuz there's a cosplay group here that rocks the convention hall, they've choreographed some pretty fast and awesome fights while wearing Hunter X hunter and streetfighter-snk character cosplays. they even use wrestling maneuvers such as hurricaranas and stuff.
I go to cons when I get the chance. Last time I saw man rei and man chii they were both really fat
man-faye has been losing weight recently... didn't see him this year. ^^
(saw him the last 2 years tho)
in any case, I'm back from AX07. Missed Day 4 (today) and I will post highlights and pics when I'm less tired and/or lazy. hehe...
I actually only just went to my first anime convention this year but it's going to be the first of many. I go to Anime North up here in Canada. It's over in Toronto though so the ride is a couple of hours to and from.
I didn't have a lot of money at the time, but next year I'll be prepared, and the year after that, and the year after that...
AN eh?
I know someone who works as staff there. In fact, I met her irl for the first time in AX's Artist's Alley.
oh, which reminds me, belated happy canada day. ^^
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I so didn't connect the "eh" in my first statement and canada until just now. lol
Thanks. ^^
And with regards to you knowing someone who works as staff there, it's a small world, isn't it?
it is isn't it? ^^
I got to see the SOS-dan in concert, and those girls are cute! >->
....yeah. ^^;
At Anime North this year we had the premier of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Johnny Yong Bosch (who voices Koizumi in the english dub) was also there as the main judge for this SOS-dan dance-a-thon thing (perhaps the concert thing you were talking about? Or perhaps it was something more local... and by local I mean in your own country, which I'm assuming is the US). Several teams of people would take turns going and do the full dance segment that is partially shown during the credits. It was pretty neat. ^^
Also, I wasted most of the money I brought on the Sumumiya Haruhi Boxset which came with extra doodads and a poster. At the time, the Suzumiya Haruhi DVD had not yet been released, or so it was advertised. So me, being lucky and all, got to watch the volume 1 DVD of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya before many others.
haha, close, but this concert included the winners of said contest dancing along with Johnny Bosch, Stephanie Sheh, Aya Hirano, Minori Chihara, and Yuko Goto along with a large percentage of the audience in the arena. XD;
and by "those girls are cute" I meant those three seiyuu. :3
Oh wow, Nice. I've never seen Aya Hirano or the others live. That's pretty much bragging rights right there. Also, yeah I'll bet they are pretty cute, from what I've seen in pictures they seem to be. ^^;
Anime Expo Report Day 1!!
http://sleepydoodler.deviantart.com/journal/13625097/
AX this year had its ups and downs... people are complaining, but I still had fun. ^^
I go to the animethon! last year was my first year and i had ALOT of fun!
next year Im bringing my DDR machine agn!
^_^ everybody's looking forward to it
UppCon starts this Friday, so I'll be gone over the weekend. -w-
/HYPE
>w<
*wanders into thread*
Wooo...dusty.
*dusts off thread and old stuff*
Sorry, I'm late ^-^;
Anyways! I forgot about posting about my convention visit in septober, since I had other stuff to do at the time. But now it's been done, and thank the dear Captain-san for reminding me of this thread's existence^-^;
This year at UppCon, which is the largest Swedish anime con (although in comparison to the american ones it's nothing at all, seeing it's only hosting 2000-something people over a single weekend) Nejin-ssu went as Visbou-kun (http://kazumi386.org/~ostan2/pic_os_uploader01_02/long_kun/src/1178550856112.jpg) , in order to see what cosplaying what like (first-timer) and to honor our dear forum and fandom. The comments i got from this were mostly of two kinds - "What is that you're cosplaying?" which gave me lots of trouble, due to Visbou-kun being obscure even among OS-tans - and "That's one savvy mesh shirt you've got there! Where'd you buy it? WHAT!? Handsewn!? Damnit, that's freaking awesome!" - which usually made me go tomato mode, if you know what I mean. Other things that happened quite randomly were the establishment the Boxman Fanclub (if you're wondering who the Boxman is, that's me, for obscurer-than-obscurest reasons), and my acquiring of a hat. That was probably the most random thing ever happened to me (possibly contested by last year's UppCon when I was randomly selected to make the sign for the Hentai room (which i had nothing to do with at all, i can add)), and went simply like this:
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Nejin: *is playing Super Smash Bros Melee*
Dude: "Yo, boxman." *puts hat on Nejin's head*
Nejin: "Wha?"
Dude: *is gone*
...so, yeah, it was the regular type of insane Con, albeit small.
Anyways! The (only two of them! ^-^; ) pics from my cosplay are reposted here from Topicless, so I'll URL them for space. Anyways, here ya go! (except nothing much though ^^)
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g239/NejinOniwa/Myself/Cosplay/2007-06-30010.jpg http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g239/NejinOniwa/Myself/Cosplay/2007-06-30009.jpg
Last Sunday I went to a con here in Monterrey. "XXXI Convención de Juegos de Mesa y Comics"
Whoa, It was like a can of sardines, almost impossible to walk >_>. Cosplay...ugh, too much naruto and bleach. Srsly, there should be a limit...
Well, at least there was not a lot of Inuyasha cosplay.
I saw 2 decent Shanas, a Haruhi, a Yuki and a Mikuru. a good chidori and an AWESOME Suiseiseki. A shame my cellphone camera sucks.
Special mention to a Shippon (Uchuu no Stellvia). Never though I'd Stellvia cosplay at this time, in this place. >_>
I'm surprised I didn't saw any Lucky Star cosplay/merchandise.
..
And well...I HAS A RIN
(http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/2197/tohsakabome03ad4.jpg)
Having just like 5 figs, I'm truly impressed by the detail of this. Friggin awesome.
A SABER OR ILYA IS SUPERIOR, BUT A RIN IS FINE TOO.
Excuse me sir, but wtf are you saying?
A SABER OR AN ILYA ARE ALWAYS FINE TOO, BUT A RIN IS ALWAYS SUPERIOR. ALWAYS.
P.S: That reminds me, I saw also a decent Rider cosplay. But surprisingly, no Saber nor Rin were found.
A CHALLANGER APPEARS!
(http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/5058/img1706fc2.jpg)
Evangeline: "What can a magician with no partner do? If Im not mistaken youve lost yours...Chachamaru, Chachazero."
Chachamaru "Yes Mistress."
Chachazero "Aye aye misteress!"
Quote from: "CaptBrenden"A CHALLANGER APPEARS!
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/5058/img1706fc2.jpg
Evangeline: "What can a magician with no partner do? If Im not mistaken youve lost yours...Chachamaru, Chachazero."
Chachamaru "Yes Mistress."
Chachazero "Aye aye misteress!"
Rin is so superior that she doesn't need a partner. The same way Suigintou is so superior that she doesn't need a medium Ã"_Ã" (Jun is just OMG WTF GOD MODE HAX)
:D
>>40840 (http://ostan-collections.net/post-40840.html#40840)
WOAH! Kage bunshin DETECTED!!! >.<
The last convention I went to was called Project A-Kon, in Texas. That was a few years ago. Although I live in San Diego, I have not been particularly interested in attending the San Diego Comic-Con. I did go once, many years back.
Daisuki! Tabetai! Itsudemo! Dokodemo...
Almost Sakura con wheeeeeeee!!! * bounces off the walls *
*jams injection tube into Toki's small stature*
Have some anesthetic, lass.
Too late!! I had so much fun, I even lost my voice ^o^ I was only ME-tan for the first day, because cosplaying is alot of work and so many people were taking my picture, and even when I wasn't cosplaying people were still taking my picture and I just wanted to run around and have fun and pounce peopleeeee >_<
You, girl, are crazy.
Then again. We like crazy.
*walks in*
Aw, man we need those here... I need those here (anime cons that is :D)
*walks out again*
Are you saying there's not a single convention available in the Netherlands!? That's just...weird. Really.
If you've got a few euros to spare, though, you might just consider going abroad for that. American con's are bigger, better and plenty more, but I think there's a good amount of anime-cons in continental europe - there's a list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anime_conventions) at wikipedia if you wanna check.
I think Hollands isn't ready for that, yet...
I mean the nearest Anime/manga shop is 30 miles away from where i live...
But this list is quite handy... :D At least there's some in England ;010 (America is a bit too expensive for me, wich is a darn shame, considering the low dollar and all)
I'm going to akon in a month :3 Hweh hwehh... I'll be able to work out the kinks in my costume before then ^-^
Cheat. -.-
The only reasonably sized cons in vikinglands are UppCon and Domokon, and they're both in October...
The only positive thing I see about that is that I'll at least have time to work on a costume.
Hey, at least you don't have to cross a sea to go to one :D
Well, true.
(in fact both of them are just some 30 minutes away by bus/train XD)
I only have wee little cons around me. But if I'm willing to take a trip of hours I can arrive at OTAKON. Though I've yet to be able to go, I'm hoping to make that pilgrimage this year.
Well, a small con is better than no con... :D
BTW...Nice new avvi... ;010
Was about time for a change, eh? ^_^
I have to travel for hours to go to any con. But I don't mind doing that at all, it just costs monies. I really want to go to Anime Expo. And Otakon would be fun too. It really makes me sad that you have to be eighteen to attend Lolikon. Isn't that silly?! ;-;
No, it's illogical. Since it contradicts the name! O_O
a bit delayed, but here is a few sakura con pics. Not many I took of toki turned out -_- she always gets the deer in the headlights look :P
anyhow, since I dont really have the body to do any cosplay I rather do I just went as I did last year as Cpl Adrian Shepard from Half Life Op For. Tho unlike last year I was no the only valve character there, inface we had a complete valve photo shoot! I have dozens of pics from it but here are a few...
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Sweet... ;010
Conventions do kick ass, but the only two i have been to so far (wich were noteworthy at least) was the World Expo in 2000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_2000), wich was great... :D
And the Cebit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebit) wich was also in Hannover and also really awesome... ;010
ah and ill have to look for the video, but we did a Still Alive sing along at the end of the photoshoot X3 then we had delicious cake.
She wasnt at it, but there was a GlaDOS floating around at the con too.
And the only reasonably good cons around here are in the autumn. -_-
Shit SUUX
Oh well.
AFW next week! Whee! I was supposed to attend San Japan but thats noooot going to happen at this point.
I visit conventions pretty often. I have friends who tend to go to *each one* of them and I end up hanging out with them.
Last one I went to was Ropecon in August. (a roleplaying convention)
UppCon is in January, got my ticket last week. I'll see what'll happen next.