Im home from my first anime con.
Not ganna lie and say I had a super fantastic time, it was defianantly better than any ol boreing weekend though. But as con's go, I wasnt impressed. Went to a couple panel's and fursuited was about the extent of what I did. I dont know if they are all just Neko's or whatever they call it, but I think I saw more cat/fox ears and tails worn (with normal clothes) at this con than is worn at furry con's no joke
Positives +Majority of the anime tards liked the fursuits (whether its because anime con seemed to have alot more girls for the *cute fluffy!* response, they are closet furries, or something I dont really know enough about the anime scene to judge)
The panels I went to (How to start a web comic & What not to do with a web comic) where pretty good, it wasnt just some schmuck choking and struggling thru +45minutes or an hour of crap they actually did a decent job filling the whole block with the inclusion of some Q&A
Con space's where kept fairly neat, their staff actually did a decent job of making sure ppl didnt clog the hallways like douchecunts all without being overly pushy "popo-tastic" themselves, alot of this can be attributed to the fact it wasnt overly crowded anyway, but did notice a few times where they where actually keeping lines / clogs, from happening
I think its pretty cool that about 90+ % of the con goe'ers cosplay'd, did I see some repitition yea so kinda lame there, but its still pretty cool that such a large majority of them get in costume and stay in costume all day (much easier to do than a fursuit of course since usually is just similar to regular clothes) Alot of the cosplay's I didnt have a clue who the fuck they where, Ive defianantly fallen behind the curve of keeping up-to-date with anime. I think at most I could just identify the Final fantasy guys, the TF2 guys, the nuruto-tards and ichigo or whatever from bleach , I dont know much about bleach but I know dudez with swords + those bone mask things with evil lookin eyes = Bleach dudez
I played Blublaze, or Blazeblu whatever its called, really cool game I got to pick this up
Negatives (-) Average age of the convention is about minus (-5 or 6) to what it is at furry con's. Not to be a jackass to anyone reading this that is less than 21, or basically in the highschool range age, but this defianantly hurt the level of coordination / organization of the convetion, not to mention it was just in general louder / alot of what I felt was really young kids running around with no supervision
Still in Nebraska , minus 5 points motherfucker *this is for the lulz*
Adult panels, yet for haveing such a younger crowd, I was a little suprised that there is more 18+ panels or P/A panels, at a anime con, than there is at furry con's. And furries are the ones with the bad rap? I already threw away the con book but - Shounen-ai (so basically yaoi without the sex?) , The dangers of 4chan (Seriously? seriously?!?!), Dating auction? (wasnt a 18+ event but, poor taste maybe? I dont know i didnt go to it). Maybe I simply dont know enough about anime-cons or the whole anime fandom /shrugs, not saying adult panels are horrific either im an adult, and would probably enjoy a 18+ furry panel if it was done right (not to crude) just seems a little strange to me
Cosplay show / maskerade/skits whatever - L2stage-layout , dont put huge subwoofers that arnt even turned on halfway out on both the left and right side of the stage completly blocking the view of anyone in the left or right seats (about 200+ ppl) seriously run 35minutes late, thats later than even furry con's and I thought furries where disorganized, have mic's that are either too low or horrendously too loud, and then the whole vision blocked by subwoofers that arnt even turned on way out on the side of the stage = FAIL -100points for being fucking retarded
Dealers room = fail, nothing but pre-packaged / manufactured anime shit, severe lack of actuall artists selling custom made stuff / art. There was a few artists but a severe lack, dealers room / artist alley was dominated by companies with manufactured shit. Also Furry fandom artists > Anime fandom artists, flat out the average skill level of the good furry artists completely decimates the anime fandom artists, im not saying this because Seeing Naruto or sasuke drawn almost identicle to how they are actually drawn in the show isnt impressive, im saying it because truely on average furry artists could draw /paint / whatever , circles around most of what I saw