AnimeFest - Dallas, Texas

[AnimeFest - August 16th - 21st No.9595479]

Obligatory-
Who is going, what are you cosplaying as, did you book a room in time? [I didn't! :(]

Want to do a photo shoot meet-up, meet-up in general, or just weeb out together?

Let's chat it up!!~
Only 4 days left if you're an early bird like me!

[Anonymous No.9595653]

I'm just attending for one day. Anime Fest really doesn't have enough programming for me to warrant going the whole weekend, plus it's only $50 for a Friday only pass so that's not bad at all. Cheaper than a concert, that's for sure.

[Anonymous No.9596502]

I'm going Friday/Saturday. I'm down to hangout.

[Anonymous No.9596615]

I may go all day Thursday and the morning/afternoon of Friday with some friends from work. It's a 1.5 hour drive from my place and I have work that weekend so no room for me. I didn't take off work, so I decided to just leave it up to fate as to whether I attend or not. No cosplays planned, but I kind of want to dress up as a generic seifuku-wearing schoolgirl. I just get a feeling I might be creepy as I'm a 23 year old (at least I have a baby face?).

[Anonymous No.9596646]

>>9596615
Are you saying its creepy cause you are 23? Lol or because you are a man

[Anonymous No.9596656]

>>9596646
Creepy 'cause I'm a 23 year old woman. Once you're out of high school, your seifuku days are over (unless you want to look like you have a schoolgirl fetish...). The only time I can think of that it might be appropriate to wear one would be when cosplaying a specific character.

[Anonymous No.9598235]

>>9595479
ah I think most seagulls are active in the tx discord chat... I'll be there fri-sun and we can prob do a meetup around YOI panel times

[Anonymous No.9598243]

Going to be going all weekend with my dance group. Definitely going to attend a TX gull meetup if there is one!

[Anonymous No.9598346]

https://discord.gg/wsTpPxc
TX cgl discord! Only Texas gulls/people who attend Texas cons only please!

[Anonymous No.9598363]

>>9596656
no straight woman can be creepy.

[Anonymous No.9598366]

https://discord.gg/wsTpPxc
TX cgl discord, about 25 of us are going to Afest!
Texas gulls/people who attend Texas cons only please!

[Anonymous No.9598374]

https://discord.gg/wsTpPxc
TX cgl discord, about 25 of us are going to Afest!
Texas gulls/people who attend Texas cons only please!

[Anonymous No.9598495]

Bump for tx

[Anonymous No.9598543]

>>9595653
>plus it's only $50 for a Friday only pass so that's not bad at all. Cheaper than a concert, that's for sure.

...and if yer goin' on Friday, there *is* a concert!

[Anonymous No.9598655]

>>9596656
>oh no I'm 23 life is over might as well embalm myself

you are overthinking this, a lot

[Anonymous No.9600757]

>>9596656
I'm getting close to 30 and I'll be there.

[Anonymous No.9601360]

Day 0!
Anything to report?

[Anonymous No.9601408]

I'm here for the whole weekend, came to see SayoKubo. By my lonesome if anyone wants to hang. I'm dressed as Angie Yonaga from Danganronpa V3.

[Anonymous No.9601441]

How's the con so far?

[Anonymous No.9601514]

First chance for YOI autographs did not go well. They didn't follow their own line rules so most people didn't have a chance.

[Anonymous No.9601673]

>>9601514
Deets?

[Anonymous No.9601691]

>>9601441
babes are cute this year

[Anonymous No.9601837]

Planning to go saturday, I decided last minute, gonna reuse my elma cosplay I wore at a-kon.
Hoping for a good time, I haven't been in a few years

[Anonymous No.9601877]

>>9601673

People we're wasting time by having long conversations with the YOI guests and getting sketches done. It slowed things down significantly. The other Japanese guests were largely ignored. Everyone wanted YOI.

They also let people line up super early when they had been telling everyone most of the morning they would not allow people to line up until 15 mins till the scheduled time.

And if course people would cut in line, but there weren't enough volunteers to keep watch.

I don't blame the volunteers, but the people in charge who came up with the shitty plan to begin with.

[Anonymous No.9602204]

>>9601877
Yikes. I read on twitter about people lining up 4 hours prior, and conflicting info about shikishi. (official twitter says it's ok, but apparently onsite staff said they aren't?)

The past times I got autographs at Afest, I felt awkward about passing on certain guests I didn't know and just got my program book signed. I don't know of a good solution but I'd imagine the waiting issue would be less of a clusterfuck if they just split up the sessions into different time slots or in this case, just do dedicated YOI signing sessions.

Are they still doing the thing where they send people who attended the prior panel to the front of the autograph line?

[Anonymous No.9602216]

>>9602204
They said they would NOT ticket for attending panels this year but who knows

[Anonymous No.9602293]

>>9601877
Same shits happening today. It's 2 hours before the autograph session me there's already a huge group of people waiting. Some staffer came by and said it wasn't allowed but nobody's moving.

[Anonymous No.9602301]

>Heavily marketed about YOI
>Thousands show up to meet them
>Lines are fucked
>Staff refusing to treat attendees as cattle
>Aspie fatties want all the time with them

Who didn't see this coming?

[Anonymous No.9602400]

I was told that people lined up at 10am and were told by the director of the con to leave their seats but didnt. So crowd control is like zero if its true. The autograph signings are a fucking mess.

[Anonymous No.9602472]

>>9602400

Exactly this. The volunteers are just as annoyed. They don't have enough for crowd control or someone willing to force people to stick to their rules.

[Anonymous No.9602564]

Anons, if I want literally any of the other JP guests besides YOI will it happen? Are they splitting the line? I couldn't get off work so my only shots are Saturday and Sunday.

[Anonymous No.9602586]

At least they admit that they got problems in handling the situation.

[Anonymous No.9602627]

>>9602586
I honestly doubt they will come up with an actual solution. Also a solution? Kick people out who do not even listen to the DIRECTOR of the convention. Another idea? Have staff and everyone involved locate their backbones since they have none it seems.

[Anonymous No.9602659]

>>9602627
What can they do tho? Weebs can just turn deaf to their instructions, what if they if they don't listen remove their badge, have security kick them out? There is too many of them and will create a mob against the staff

[Anonymous No.9602704]

>>9602564
I'm not there but afaik they're doing two separate lines for YOI & not YOI

[Anonymous No.9602776]

They just posted that cops will be on site to deal with autographs. Thats how incompetent staff is here. Also a waste of police since i guess there is some protest at the same time.

[Anonymous No.9602817]

I thought anime was illegal in Texas

[Anonymous No.9602836]

>>9602817
Why?

[Anonymous No.9602857]

There's going to be a Nazi/White-Supremacist Rally up the street tomorrow. VERY close to the con.

Be careful wandering outside of the convention.

[Anonymous No.9602892]

>>9602857
I believe it is ANTI- white supremacy/conderate

[Anonymous No.9602896]

>karaoke panel
>2\3 of songs so far have been meme western songs

This is a fucking joke

[Anonymous No.9602933]

>>9602776
Is that what's going on? I left to go get dinner and I couldn't find a way back in between the police blockades and downtown Dallas traffic.

[Anonymous No.9602940]

>run into one of the guests as they're going back to their room
>he goes out of his way to say hi to me
>80% sure he thinks i'm cute
>100% I think he's cute
>can only muster a laugh at his attempt to talk to me because I'm autistic


Someone kill me.

[Anonymous No.9602948]

>>9602896
that's what most anime con karaokes are nowadays m8

[Anonymous No.9602949]

>>9602892
Goood. Though I suspect there will be counter protests as their recent gathering had it's permit pulled.

[Anonymous No.9602950]

>>9602933
Yeah Dallas made a big press announcement and it's making the rounds on the news that Dallas P.D. will be in high force tomorrow. They are expecting thousands and may have other departments come in.

[Anonymous No.9602952]

>>9602950
Aw piss. Guess I'm walking and getting pestered by bums tomorrow, then.

[Anonymous No.9603127]

Here all weekend on my own working as press. Running around taking pics and recording panel audio. Was looking to get laid since I had a room to myself for the first time in years, but unlikely.

[Anonymous No.9603141]

>>9603127
Nobody cares

[Anonymous No.9603145]

>>9602952
>Guess I'm walking and getting pestered by bums tomorrow, then.

Where are you coming from? I was outdoors at Cancer Survivor's Plaza for two photoshoots yesterday and the home les people were non-existent. Maybe they figured out these kids have already spent all their money in the dealer's room and will be just as hungry as they are by the end of the weekend.

At least the girl cosplaying Sasha Blause might have a potato left to eat ...

[Anonymous No.9603181]

>>9603127
Unless you're a shirtless cosplaying 9/10 no one is gonna smash ya out of the blue. It doesn't work that way.

[Anonymous No.9603273]

>>9603145
Butler Bros building or something. It's next to the library. Kind of an apartment-style hotel, it's about nine blocks away and we end up passing that 7-11.

[Anonymous No.9603333]

>>9603181
>>9603273
Don't listen to them, go find a place to sit and stare into the distance with a thoughtful look, drives the girls crazy

[Anonymous No.9603447]

Did afest turn into a yoi-con?

[Anonymous No.9603528]

I guess the autographs were actually worse even with police there. Also staff promised people who were capped in the front of the line they would be first to get in the yoi panel today. Well that was a lie too i guess.

This con has been a disaster. I am tired of hearing about how they didnt expect this many people and its hard for them too. They saw how many badges were being sold and people have offered easy to implement suggestions to make it less stressful for everyone involved. They have not taken any of them into consideration and even with cops here its still been a mess. My dog could run a con better.

[Anonymous No.9603554]

>>9603273
>we end up passing that 7-11.

I remember that place... I bought a sandwich and a drink there one year.

It also occurred to me that yesterday was a normal work day; maybe the homeless people, as desperate as they are, would hit up the con-goers more on the weekends when the office workers are all enjoying their weekends off and they have no other chance at a meal ticket.

Also remains to be seen if today's scheduled protest(s) will affect what goes on at the con: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/news/2017/08/16/thousands-expected-rally-white-supremacy-downtown-dallas-protest-saturday

[Anonymous No.9603570]

Did the LMC concert and signings at least go well?

[Anonymous No.9603589]

>>9603570
>Did the LMC concert and signings at least go well?

The concert rocked. Can confirm what some people said about spitting, albeit the only audience members who actually would've gotten wet would've been when Maya flung water out into the audience (and then later tossed them the empty bottle as well).

[Anonymous No.9603600]

>>9603528

[Anonymous No.9603657]

My friend tweeted about someone like publicly masturbating? and/or a guy showing their literal ass?

I was gonna fly out of state for this con, so glad I didn't, it sounds like it was an absolute shit show

[Anonymous No.9603660]

>>9603589
I got hit with spit.

[Anonymous No.9603709]

>>9603660
sexy

[Anonymous No.9604342]

One of the directors was crying near the autograph area after people went to her and were expressing their feelings about this shit show of a con. They also are blaming everyone but themselves. When i said something they blamed the creators, the fans, everyone but themselves. I heard they also blamed the police they hired about this clusterfuck. Like this is their con and if they cant handle their business then they need to find someone who can.

[Anonymous No.9604357]

>>9604342
Jesus fuck why are they taking it out on the Japanese guests? They can go on AFest facebook page to take it out on the reviews to let people know but the Japanese guests had nothing to do with this falling apart. What a bunch of assholes.

[Anonymous No.9604380]

>>9604357
I spoke to the director(the one sitting) and she said that the lines were horrible because of the fans not listening to them and because the jpn guests were drawing for every fan. I was like you can tell them not to do that and they were like try telling them that. So basically they have no control over any aspects of this con and refuse to take responsibility for their shitshow they created.

[Anonymous No.9604384]

>>9604380
I kind of feel bad for the director though? If the guests themselves feel like drawing for every fan there's really not much the staff can do about it. What are they gonna do? Kick their own guests out of their con? Sure, complain about how they handled lines and made false promises to people in line but the guests taking time to draw for everyone sounds like something beyond staff control.

[Anonymous No.9604442]

>all these fujoshits getting mad because they can't get their shitty anime merch signed by some japanese guest who can't understand what you're saying
Lol kill yourselves, yall are so trashy for making such a huge deal out of autographs, possibly the least important aspect of a convention.

[Anonymous No.9604480]

>>9604442
According to the 5-6 hour long lines, that may be like, your opinion, man.

Also blocking Artist Alley for 5-6 hours at a time was super cool of animefest

[Anonymous No.9604481]

>>9604384
Don't make excuses for them. If you saw how they organized the lines, drawing wasn't the issue.

[Anonymous No.9604493]

>>9604480
If people weren't willing to wait 6 hours, nobody would. Stay mad.

[Anonymous No.9604564]

>>9604493
That's kinda my point. Autographs are important to some people. I wouldn't do that but watching how AnimeFest staff conducted itself is sad. Artist alley was impassible.

[Anonymous No.9604577]

There is no excuse for badly managed lines. Look at Wizord Word Comic Cons. I've been to several of their shows and the lines are well managed. They need staff that is firm and willing to take action. With a pushover staff nothing gets accomplished. I'm not blaming the staff I just think they should check volunteers and place them in areas of their strengths. Don't make shy girl be on line control. Simple as that. There are forms people fill out to volunteer and they ask for experience; get a good team. People wait for hours to get stuff from celebs. The wait time isn't the issue, it's how you manage the lines.

[Anonymous No.9604601]

>>9604577
I went to the cosplay contest, the director said that they were understaffed and asked for people to maybe volunteer next year

[Anonymous No.9604603]

>>9604577

While good in theory, I don't think any of the volunteers signed up to have death threats thrown at them or assholes trying to start riots on purpose.

[Anonymous No.9604661]

>>9604603
Do we know if the death threats have been confirmed as valid or are they just rumors?

[Anonymous No.9604672]

>>9604661
They are weebs in their natural enviroment, im sure they made threats, of course they won't do shit but im sure they made threats

[Anonymous No.9604681]

>>9604661

Confirmed. There were some absolutely insane fujoshi. Not even women at YaoiCon act this shitty.

[Anonymous No.9604692]

My guess is the death threats had to do with line cutting for YOI
Does anyone have deets?

[Anonymous No.9604697]

There was no riot at all.

Also the feedback panel was a shitfest. Two ppl got to talk about the yoi panel and they were pretty much done with answering them with that.

Also they only had a 7% increase in attendance.

[Anonymous No.9604711]

>>9604697

Attempted riot. There were women being led out by police due to making scenes and poking vounteers in their fits of rage.

Not all the women were nuts, but there were quite a few who went bat shit in anger.

[Anonymous No.9604718]

Sounded like chaos, but the didn't the con have a lot of time to prepare and know that YOI is super popular right now?

[Anonymous No.9604724]

>>9604718
Considering that other cons where the YOI cast has been present the lined have gone up to 12 (!!!) hours? Yes.

[Anonymous No.9604732]

>>9604711
Holy shit when was this? I have no interest in that show so I wasn't in that area much but I didn't know anything about all this.

[Anonymous No.9604741]

>TFW everyone was worried about a literal race riot erupting but in fact fat angry fujoshi turned out to be a bigger problem
>Wow

[Anonymous No.9604743]

>>9603657
So your average con?

[Anonymous No.9604781]

>>9604481
I'm not making excuses for them. If you read my post you'd see that I agreed with most of what you said. I think getting angry at them for not doing anything about guests drawing for attendees is stupid though. I'm not the one who brought up drawing in the first place.

[Anonymous No.9604859]

as a very casual YOI fan who avoided the whole autograph fiasco, I had fun at the con. the other panels were nice.

[Anonymous No.9604882]

>>9603657
Never heard/saw anything like that while I was there. Can someone confirm?

>>9604859
Yeah, it was a fun con if you avoided the AA and didn't give a shit about the YOI autograph stuff. I was short on money and was hardly ever on the first floor, so I was completely oblivious to all the issues with the autograph setup until other people around me were bitching about it.

[Anonymous No.9604887]

Did anyone see the woman walking around with her service dog? Medium-sized, short-haired, brown dog with protruding hips and exposed ribs? I passed by her in the plaza a couple times.

There were rumors floating around that she was abusing the dog physically, and the poor thing looked malnourished. She was apparently spotted at an artist alley booth physically abusing her dog? No clue if it was true or not, but multiple people brought it up to me while I was at the con.

[Anonymous No.9604911]

>>9604887
Bruh if this true we boutta bust sum caps

[Anonymous No.9604920]

>>9604887
Please tell me they weren't a YOI fan.

[Anonymous No.9604922]

>>9604911
>>9604887

It was posted in the afest app. Though some moron took a picture of an AA artist's booth claiming it was their service dog and no one should shop at that booth. Except it was the wrong person completely. The artist had a hoard of people giving her hell. She ended up posting to the app and elsewhere to explain they weren't the owner of the emaciated dog and had no idea why she was being targeted.

Shitty Tumblr SJW being shitty.

[Anonymous No.9604924]

>>9604887
>Medium-sized, short-haired, brown dog with protruding hips and exposed ribs

Might be a greyhound.

[Anonymous No.9604931]

>>9604922
Yeah, I heard the dog situation was mentioned on the official app, including the mention of a booth. A few people told me they had seen her behind a booth with her dog, but I can't verify the legitimacy of that, since I never saw her behind any of the booths the few times I was down there.

>>9604924
Same anon. Saw the dog twice, both times in the mall.

I got a really good look at that dog both times, and I don't think it's a greyhound. Even though the dog was emaciated, its legs and face were too short to be a greyhound. It very well could have been a greyhound mix, though?

At this point, I'm not entirely worried about the breed, but rather the owner and the dog's well-being.

[Anonymous No.9604932]

>>9604922
Caps from the app?

[Anonymous No.9604946]

>>9604859
The panels I went to that weren't cancelled, or at least cancelled according to the app, were pretty fun.
Especially the con horror stories and the team trivia, those were dope.
Gonna be pissy about not getting to see "Was anime a mistake?" for quite some time.

[Anonymous No.9604960]

>>9604932
Couldn't find the original post where someone accused a random vendor of abuse, but I found the accused artist's response post.

[Anonymous No.9604962]

>>9604960
Didn't think it was worth censoring her name; she's in good standing and the post is public (as well as her name)

[Anonymous No.9604964]

>>9604962
Last pic.

To be fair, the dog in the picture she attached, while the same color as the malnourished dog mentioned above, doesn't have the same body or facial structure as the actual dog that was being talked about all weekend.

Her dog is smaller and definitely healthy.

[Anonymous No.9604972]

Does anyone know what was up with Maya from LM.C and that lolita who was carrying around the Usakumya bag? I saw him approach her a few different times and I wasn't far from her in line for an autograph after the concert from them and the look on his face when he saw her kinda seems like he knew her.

[Anonymous No.9605050]

>>9604732
I was there all weekend and didn't notice any of this shit going on. I had a great time.

[Anonymous No.9605296]

>>9605050
>I had a great time.

We did, too. My biggest gripe was my own damn fault - waiting until Saturday afternoon to visit E.K. Weaver in the AA, by which time she had sold all the remaining copies of her book. I've been a fan of hers for a long time, and she does not attend a lot of conventions.

[Anonymous No.9605302]

[Anonymous No.9605314]

>>9605296
Yeah I missed out on some stuff I wanted from the dealer's room by waiting until Sunday to try and buy it. But other than that it was great! Did you do any cosplay?

[Anonymous No.9605324]

>>9605314
>Did you do any cosplay?

Oh, not me myself. I'm mostly a pack mule, babysitter, and photographer.

[Anonymous No.9605426]

>>9605324
Haha nice. I brought one of those too. I did a gothic brolita and a Pokemon/adventure time crossover. I was Pokemon trainer Finn

[Anonymous No.9605473]

>>9605426

I didn't have to make any more props this year, either ... we already had the shirt and shield from previous years, and without Pearl, there was no need for a her spear (which is now just gathering dust, I guess).

[Anonymous No.9605535]

>>9605473
Nice! I love Steven universe. I didn't have to make anything this year either. I didn't have the time or the money. Maybe next year I'll get my shit together and make a new cosplay.

[Anonymous No.9605554]

>>9605296
She was my main draw for wanting to go, but around the start of the con she made a tumblr post along the lines of "sorry if I'm phoning it in if/when you talk to me" and I was like, k lol

[Anonymous No.9605556]

>>9605473
There is not even one good cosplay in this whole photo, holy shit. The only one I would give a pass to is center Peridot if you can get past the wig, maybe Lapis.

[Anonymous No.9605560]

>>9605554
>sorry if I'm phoning it in if/when you talk to me

She did seem a little pre-occupied when I stopped by on Saturday, and she didn't come until sometime after lunch, but that might have had something to do with the fact that she actually came in cosplay (thought it might be rude to take a picture); I didn't even recognize her at first.

[Anonymous No.9605565]

>>9604972
Pink glasses girl? I saw that too.

I don't think they know eachother, they both acted like awkward middle schoolers with crushes around eachother though. I think she was just a big fan and he thought she was cute and approachable.

[Anonymous No.9605642]

>>9604887
I saw the girl with this service dog and was extremely concerned as were the friends in my group. The dog was taller but was WAY too thin and looked severely underfed. It was in the dealers room on Saturday.

I didn't do any of the autographs but I did see that the custom drawing Kubo did of Yuri was auctioned off for a whopping $6,900.

There was also a girl who flew in from Japan that was getting hate and vague tweeted on twitter because she had been able to get an autograph each day. The immaturity of american fans who think theyre entitled for one or that just because this girl already had 1 she was awful for getting another when they couldnt even manage 1. Instead they should have asked her when she was lining up and followed her lead because obviously she was doing it right.

As for the rest of the con it was pretty fun. But i spent most of it feeling like i was reliving the old A-kon with the identical setups.


LM.C concert was great side note. I didnt get an autograph but I was tired af at the end. Maya kept ushering for more and more screaming and chanting despite the constant screaming and chanting. Not to mention some stupid kid dressed in a school uniform made her way to the left side box seat with her friends and was jumping and shaking so much over the edge for his attention that she was a hair away from falling over.

[Anonymous No.9605663]

>>9605642
There was a lot of misdirected anger all around, but being pissed someone managed to get an autograph each day when the demand was so insane and it was such a luck of the draw situation doesn't seem that outrageous.

There's video circulating of a staff member basically saying they only had time for 60 autographs each day.

[Anonymous No.9605667]

>>9605565
>>9604972
Hello.

I think I'm the girl who you two are talking about, I just wanted to say I don't know him to stop rumors.

It's true I did get several chances where he talked to me outside of the autograph sessions but each time was brief due to the fact I was very nervous to speak to him and I wasn't entirely sure why he was approaching me.

I really think starting rumors about him like that is a bad idea and I really respect LM.C so I'm clearing it up.

[Anonymous No.9605707]

Hey annon, it's ok. I once went to a comic con an a high profile guest gave me a hug and I ran into him again towards his autograph signings. A group of girls saw and approached me asking if I was close with said famous actor. I was trying to explain he was the one who gave me extra attention and I was flattered but that's all it was. People take things way out proportion. And my guess is they are just jealous or butthurt they didn't get attention

[Anonymous No.9605723]

>>9605642
youre talking about denki, people were mad because she cut in line for YOI panels and autographs, not really that she was able to get them

[Anonymous No.9605744]

>>9605667
>I was very nervous to speak to him and I wasn't entirely sure why he was approaching me.

he was hitting on you anon, you're really cute. ignore anons who are acting like you did something wrong and enjoy the fact he gave you attention.

i loved your bunny themed coord btw.

[Anonymous No.9605763]

Did anyone here take pictures at the pose academy? I didn't get to go and a friend of mine told me it was pretty funny.

[Anonymous No.9605767]

>>9604601
The cosplay director was horrible yet again this year. Rude and short with everyone with only her small click of friends to run everything.

I wasnt there for YOI so I felt completely left out this year. If you weren't attending for that then it was just a crowded badly run con.

The rave usually is pretty good. Me and my friends just left this year. The guys running it were weeb cringe.

[Anonymous No.9605769]

Did anyone else attend the con gripe? It felt scripted

[Anonymous No.9605776]

>>9605723
Except that didn't happen and was a rumour made up by a shit poster on Twitter who wasn't even at the con (whom apparently had someone DM her that "somebody" cut in line). The shit poster later retracted what they said cause it was confirmed to be false.

I think overall, besides bullshit organisation, the con was really good. I say this as someone who travelled internationally (and there were more than a few people who came all the way from Canada, Mexico, Japan, China, England, Australia, etc) that we were prepared from Day 0 for things to be crazy.

I feel like most of the people who were disappointed were con goers who also underestimated the YOI pull and simply didn't prioritise the official YOI staff events.

I managed to get an autograph on the first day and decent seating for every official panel just by repeatedly asking staff what the rules were and what their plan was. I think the problem lay in most people taking rumours at base value and not confirming information with official staff re:organisation or simply just being entitled and thinking that they could simply buy a badge, show up and get anything their heart desired.

Ultimately with such a large amount of guests there are going to be people disappointed, and the staff definitely should have been more prepared; on the first day in autograph line one of the volunteers said they had not anticipated such a high demand which basically tipped off how ridiculously unprepared they were for YOI fans.

tl;dr I think the con was an overall positive experience for most people who prepared accordingly.

[Anonymous No.9605782]

>>9605776
>veteran AFest goer
>prepared accordingly
>asked staff multiple times to clarify rules and ended up with cops in my face
>had an unpleasant experience despite trying my best to follow the rules

Guess I'm not "most people"

[Anonymous No.9605784]

>>9605767

Which entry we're you? I'm guessing you're mad you didn't win. The director was polite to me and those around me.

I entered and didn't win. Sure it sucks but that's the judges choice. It's subjective. Notice how the grand prize went to a group from the same series all the judges were wearing? It happens.

[Anonymous No.9605831]

Autographs notwithstanding, I thought this convention was great.
>Linkin Park AMV
>Air conditioning
>Japanese guests that didn't suck
What's there to complain about?
>m-muh signed piece of paper

[Anonymous No.9605890]

>>9605763
I took only a few shitty ones, it was fun though. I'm still looking for the pictures from the JoJo meetup on friday though, unless they just haven't been posted yet.

[Anonymous No.9605931]

>>9605554
>>9605560
Her dog died Thursday of the con and she was feeling pretty down about it. She posted about it on twitter/tumblr.

[Anonymous No.9605979]

>>9605776
I'm going to use just Sunday as an example of how doing exactly what you did, didn't help anyone.

>Arrived 4 hours before autographs are supposed to start
>Told by staff member at autograph area to stand near the tables in the front
>Told by staff member there that we are to be in this area
>when asked if we could sit at the tables, they told us they didn't know but they knew we had to be in this little area
>confirmed this multiple times with different staff members, some even said not to sit at the tables at all
>time comes for them to start getting people ready
>Guy in charge of autographs now says we were supposed to be sitting at the tables the whole time

Attendees had no chance, it was complete luck of whether you talked to the right staff or not. It's not the normal staff at fault, they just did what they were told. It was the head organizers that couldn't lead them or get proper instructions out.

Also, on the first day the YOI staff had done either as much or more autographs than Saturday and Sunday combined, you probably wouldn't have gotten yours if they had done the same limit cap.

[Anonymous No.9605983]

>>9603660
U lucky bitch
Concert and lm.c autographs were good but everything else was a clusterfuck and if not for being an lm.c fan i would of wanted my money back. 2/10 I wont be there next year

[Anonymous No.9606002]

>>9605983

You'll go back if the there's a guest you want to salivate over. Don't lie.

[Anonymous No.9606023]

The staff of Tatami Galaxy premiere their movie in a room with no screen in the middle.
Very little attendance and with the two screens being left and right it was hard to even see the subs.

Whoever thought it was a great idea to set up the room that way needs to be shot. It's felt like every guest that wasn't yuri on ice was treated like shit. Great movie however, would buy blu-ray.

[Anonymous No.9606030]

>>9606002
What thousands say about A-Kon every year.

[Anonymous No.9606041]

the feedback panel was a joke btw. they obviously did not want to hear ANYTHING about the you debacle and only took two questions about it and near the end of the panel they were like "any questions not about yuri on ice?" and just wanted to wash their hands of it.

they also said that they don't blame anyone for the mess despite the fact that board members blamed everyone from the creators to the fans to the cops when talking to upset fans.

the woman crying on sunday and needed to be comforted by people because people weren't nice to her and called out the shitty organization was not very fond of me. if you cannot handle stress or deal with upset people, you shouldn't have anything to do with running a con.

anyways, i wasted around $2k just to deal with bullshit. everyone who had a good time probably wasn't there for the yoi guests and i'm glad u had a great time.

[Anonymous No.9606122]

>>9604887
I saw the dog twice, it looked horrible. I was tempted to ask if it was sick, but that was definitely an emaciated dog. I felt so bad for the poor thing.

[Anonymous No.9606422]

I skipped the cosplay contest, how did that go? Who won? Any videos yet?

[Anonymous No.9606441]

>>9606422

I'm not trying to be salty, but I honestly expected a lot more.

Last year, the Japanese guests of honour attended the cosplay contest. The VA for Sailor Moon got cosplayers dressed as SM up on stage with her. The other guests chose their favorites from series they worked on. There was singing - both from the guests and the ani-idol winners.

This year was strictly the cosplay contest with no extras. We had a good time, but last year, we had a *great* time.

The winners were a couple dressed from FF14.

[Anonymous No.9606462]

>>9606002
Id only go back if they brought wagakki band, baby metal, or kyary. Which are all not very likely.

[Anonymous No.9606487]

>>9606441
I missed last year's special guest thing because I was backstage but I too was salty they didn't do something like that this year. I would have died to have the JP guests this year see my costume.

[Anonymous No.9606559]

>>9605784
Dude they are rude every year and have a long reputation for that
1st place was a bunch of their friends on FB gasp

[Anonymous No.9606560]

>>9605831
> the organization of everything was a shit show, nothing started on time, and my booth was blocked for hours but sure autographs are the only problem

[Anonymous No.9606571]

My overall review for the con?
I may go back to ghost but I will never pay for anything at that convention again. I wasn't there for yuri on ice and felt like no one even tried to put on a good convention.

I can vouch about the cosplay director. She is not a nice person and I have seen how she feels about cosplayers first hand. It has been a shady weird contest for years. Too many rules not enough entries. Judges are bestie only. Would love to see diverse new cosplay guests and judges and maybe better prizes.
(Last year we just got pins that were given to all staff members. I didnt care but it was lazy.)

[Anonymous No.9606581]

This con was an embarrassment.
Having volunteered for a couple of years at Otakon and AnimeBoston, I couldn't believe the cluelessness of staffers and volunteers alike. This convention is 25 years old, why is it so miserably run? How can you try to coordinate an event with thousands of people and be too much of a pussy to yell through a megaphone to address a crowd? The Artist's Alley was excellent and everything else was deeply and profoundly mediocre.

[Anonymous No.9606763]

>>9605931
That sucks & I'm a bad follower for not catching that. She loves her dogs. I just assumed she was ~feeling anti-social~ since she's usually super introverted. Hopefully the con was able to cheer her up

[Anonymous No.9606976]

>>9606559
I hate how contests are just a circle jerk now. There were way more deserving contestants than "omg this is my favorite series, we gotta let them win."

[Anonymous No.9607077]

>>9606976

Such as?

[Anonymous No.9607102]

>>9607077
I'm don't remember the characters name, but the demon chick with the horns and traditional wear, the Claymore girl, and the girl with all the tails were really good I thought.

I just don't think some of the people should have won because of series hype. All the FF, Hero Academia, and YOI stuff were really sub-par from what I could see.

[Anonymous No.9607107]

>>9604887
>She took it into the saturday rave also, it was just laying there in the back while she kind of autistically bobbed

[Anonymous No.9607122]

>>9595479
the amount of normie tourists and retards playing rap on portable speakers hit an all time high this year.

I'd say it was worse than the first year aKon moved to the meme art hotel.

Like holy fuck, there were raving hordes of niggas/cholo looking people just being loud and faggy the whole time, and out of those groups I'd say one or 2 out of 6 of their members had visibly purchased a pass.
Had two homeless fuckers come up and bug the two cosplaying girls I was hanging with, too. Just about the creepiest way of acting I've seen in real life.

I think cons in north texas are quickly approaching an overall level of shittiness I don't want to cope with. I'd rather walk through hobo city near san japan before dealing with all the atmospheric interruptions at AFest again

/rant

>on the other hand I got on the roof of the hotel, which was kind of like an adult jungle gym meets post apocalypse and definitely a highlight

[Anonymous No.9607238]

>>9607122
Pretty impressed. Not going to lie. How did you manage to get on the roof?

[Anonymous No.9607756]

>>9606976
the art show was full of staff members art, it was so rigged that they get pieces into the auction. there is no way there was 4 people who wants to buy their crappy art.

[Anonymous No.9607932]

>>9607238
there aren't any locks on the top floor between you and the scaffolding going to the roof, and you can get to the top floor via the staff elevators (which are janky)

[Anonymous No.9607935]

>>9607932
Cool. Thanks for the tip

[Anonymous No.9611575]

>>9604887
i know this girl personally holy shit how wild to see her on this

[Anonymous No.9612468]

>>9598374
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