Tales from the Anime Convention

[edible_hat]

What's fun is to find the Walking Encyclopedia fans and set them off against each other. Bonus points if you manage to get them arguing points from two completely different series as if the laws of one should apply to all. (Hmmm. Sound familiar? )

Not that I personally have started that, but it was worth a lot of giggles while waiting.

Around here we have a saying... "When you introduce logic to anime, God kills a catgirl." So of course I got around asking why stuff like Evangelion doesn't make sense.

[Cyphr]

Around here we have a saying... "When you introduce logic to anime, God kills a catgirl." So of course I got around asking why stuff like Evangelion doesn't make sense.

logic and anime are rarely bed cousins...serial experiment lain and evangelion are perfect proof

[Leopardmadcat]

They can be fun, especially if you watch some of the parents of younger kids! They look so freaked out!

Anyhow If nobody minds I'll plug ANIMETHON here!

It's low key sorta con, done at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton, Alberta. August 8–10, 2008 - be there or be... uh... sane? (But that's boring so join us!)

[Cyphr]

well lain i can understand being freaked out; as for Evangelion except the off camera sex scene between misato and kajii just makes people think "wait whats with all the angst?"

[SorryIsGoodEnough]

When I was Access Control (Whoo hoo AxCon) at Anime Expo in Southern California, I was seriously sore and hoarse after ONE DAY.

I showed up not knowing I was gonna be sent down to pre-reg as soon as I showed up, so after I got my shirt and vest and they gave me a quick extra tutorial on the radios, they sent me down.

I don't know how many times in six hours a human can actually say 'At con registration on the right! Pre-registration on the LEFT! ON THE LEFT! YOU HAVE A CONFIRMATION, GO TO YOUR LEFT!' but I think I came pretty close.

I remember strolling the line in one of the halls for the Full Metal Alchemist movie just saying 'Hi! Having fun!? Great. If you leave your trash here, I will find you and make you go to the end of the line! *perky smile*'

By the end of con, I was so hoarse I couldn't even talk.

It taught me the true meaning of "If I've said it once, I've said it a THOUSAND TIMES' or 40,000 in my case.




S.C.A.R.Y.

[Ringtail Z28]

Around here we have a saying... "When you introduce logic to anime, God kills a catgirl." So of course I got around asking why stuff like Evangelion doesn't make sense.

I wonder if that also applies to girls dressed like Inuyasha at ComicCon.

[Igorina]

Yeah.. I'm headed to Dragoncon for some INSANE reason... Oh yeah.. I'm being an idiot and volunteering!! Wish me a quick death...

Yeah, did that last year. I was a Security grunt. Not doing that again.

Lots of yelling at people where the lines for the mega panels actually were. Lots of yelling over the band playing in the concourse next to me.

Two things saved my voice: I was a drum major and can still yell from endzone to endzone (for an American football pitch), and I had a cup I could refill with water periodically.

This year I'll be working in the Artist's Alley.

[Crazeyal]

Give Jenny my regards if you meet her !

Who do you think is doin the Kilt blowin??

[Samaliel]

I don't know of any other kilt-blowing people but, you know, I just wanted to play safe and not make assumptions.

[Akasa]

I feel your pain, working an anime convention. I work A-Kon (www.a-kon.com). We broke 15,000 people this year. As much fun as it can be, it call also be completely miserable what with all the entitlement whores and also the fanboy stench. Oh, god, the STENCH.

I've worked A-kon the last 8 years in KAOS room. You wanna talk about fan boy funk? TWICE a day we'd send a minion around with a bottle of febreeze and have him spray theo whole floor.
(KAOS ROOM is the computer LAN gaming room.)

I've also worked Guest Relations at AnimeFest for the last 6 years. OMG the fan boys who somehow make it onto staff have to be watched and kept away from what ever vc they go fan boy over. Like last year a newbie Scott McNeil's person, uh no. You sir get to keep water in the panel rooms and kept as far away from Scott. *I* on the other hand who have learned the trick of getting Scott to and from his events ON TIME!!! Am assigned to him.
(Scott is a sweety, but he stops and talks to EVERY SINGLE FAN that calls his name when trying to get him to and from places.)

I'm really gonna miss animefest this year. Its the only time I get to see Greg and Chris Ayres.(I'm moving out of state)

[shelliebelle]

I've worked A-kon the last 8 years in KAOS room. You wanna talk about fan boy funk? TWICE a day we'd send a minion around with a bottle of febreeze and have him spray theo whole floor.
(KAOS ROOM is the computer LAN gaming room.)

I've also worked Guest Relations at AnimeFest for the last 6 years. OMG the fan boys who somehow make it onto staff have to be watched and kept away from what ever vc they go fan boy over. Like last year a newbie Scott McNeil's person, uh no. You sir get to keep water in the panel rooms and kept as far away from Scott. *I* on the other hand who have learned the trick of getting Scott to and from his events ON TIME!!! Am assigned to him.
(Scott is a sweety, but he stops and talks to EVERY SINGLE FAN that calls his name when trying to get him to and from places.)

I'm really gonna miss animefest this year. Its the only time I get to see Greg and Chris Ayres.(I'm moving out of state)

Haha, I work Meri's personal staff, so I am usually kept pretty far away from the fanboy funk, to be honest. Though I do feel your pain, as I have occasionally ridden elevators so funk-tastic I almost threw up. Let me know if you ever run out of Febreze, though, we usually keep some extra on hand in case of emergencies!

I only really watch subbed anime, so I don't really know much about the American voice actors. In my experience, they're all pretty nice people - but I don't feel particularly compelled to fangirl over them. I'm pretty sure the only person I would fangirl for is Billy Joel, who is unlikely ever to attend an anime convention.

Meri is pretty much exactly the same as Scott McNeil in that respect - it is almost impossible to get her anywhere on time, since everyone wants to talk to her! I think there needs to be a sign, something like, "Chairman in transit, please walk and talk" so that she can make all her appearances. Would that be too tacky? ;__;

[LadyAndreca]

I'm likely to get dragged into CPAC (Castle Point Anime Con in Hoboken NJ) for its second year. My old college club got enough momentum to hold their first anime con this spring--it was small, but pleasant. There's a manga library that the local cons pass around that they were able to use, and the college has a good dozen rooms with projectors, two of which qualify as small movie theaters. And one of the professors is also a professional game music composer and was happy to do a panel.

Apparently to the current anime club, my roommate and I are heroes who WRESTLED control of the club away from the frat that was mismanaging it and SAVED the club from extinction. Kinda weird to hear people talking about you like that.

I just remember us winning a club election, getting an actual budget ($500 instead of $100ish...though our second year in office our fast-thinking treasurer managed to snag $1500 'to replace aging equipment'), and replacing the club's worn-out fansub VHS tapes with DVD box sets. Though it WAS a fight sometimes to make the former club president actually bring the anime the club voted on instead of what HE wanted to see. We eventually had to rewrite the club constitution so that the secretary was responsible for the collection so he had to either turn it over or face charges of stealing club property.

*rambles on*

[Record Store Tough Guy]

Heh. Jennie's a blast. We interviewed her at Chattacon. Had to edit it down a good bit to keep it PG-13. It was amusing to hear her explain to passersby that the Devil's Panties isn't Satanic porn.

[Cyphr]

what's dp? i've never heard of that series

[Record Store Tough Guy]

D'oh! The Devil's Panties. It's one of the many strips she does. I'll go back and edit it.