Has anyone heard anything about these two Los Angeles area conventions?
MikomiCon:
http://www.animecons.com/events/info.shtml/1166
Anime Los Angeles:
http://www.animecons.com/events/info.shtml/1233
An unusual number of newer workers at my workplace turned out to be anime fans.
Whatever happened to that anime convention that was in the Lancaster California region? Or did they already have their convention this year and so that's why it's not showing up on AnimeCons.com?:
http://www.animecons.com/events/
MikomiCon and Anime Los Angeles
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I have not attended either. The one in Burbank costs $35 but is limited to only 2500 people so I doubt any dealers of concequence will attend. I'm not into cos-play which seems to be the main interest of these con's.
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That's true, but these new anime fans at my workplace have made me think about why I used to attend Anime Expo in the first place (in 1998-2002):JWR wrote:I have not attended either. The one in Burbank costs $35 but is limited to only 2500 people so I doubt any dealers of concequence will attend. I'm not into cos-play which seems to be the main interest of these con's.
1. To attend the cel collectors meeting since I've only run into one collector that I knew outside of AX.
2. To buy cels from the cel dealer's tables.
3. To have fun with the people I attended the convention with.
4. To enjoy the Fund Raising Auction and to possibly bid on something.
5. To watch the latest unseen fansubs with a large crowd in the fansub room.
6. To watch recently debuted anime on a big screen.
7. To talk with other anime fans because I rarely ran across any of them in real-life.
8. To get a chance at winning an autograph or sketch from a guest panel.
9. To see the non-cel items being sold in the Dealers Room.
10. To attend the guest and company panels.
11. To see the cosplayers.
12. To see the Masquerade.
13. To enjoy my vacation off from work.
But...going to somewhere less crowded and enjoying my vacation may trump all the other reasons these days because of the "Less Stress" reason.
If I hear that Anime Expo's registration lines are not too long for two years in a row, that'll give me a reason to go there again just so long as:
1. July the Fourth doesn't fall on the wrong day during the AX scheduled dates.
2. I can find at least one person to attend AX with. It's too boring just to go by myself.
Unfortunately something always seems to go wrong with one of the three factors however.
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