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What's an anime convention?

Postby InSaNe KeYbLaDeR » Sat Aug 23, 2003 7:23 am

-ish stupid- I mean I know it's a place where lot's of people get together dressed up as anime characters, but what exactly do you do? And is there an age limit? So far I've only seen adults go not kids. :(
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Postby Mr Pilkington » Sat Aug 23, 2003 10:09 am

We all sit around in dark rooms muching on edible oil products and hecling bad anime MST3K style. Then we go to the nearest mall and get kicked out for looking like a group of freaks.
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Postby post-it » Sat Aug 23, 2003 10:35 am

hehe ^^ that's kinda hard to explain ^^;;;;;

the ones in the MidWest are fairly tame compared to most;
we start-out like a4-H Club meeting gone awrie
and its all downhill from there ^^ hehe
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Postby SarahtheBoring » Sat Aug 23, 2003 12:47 pm

...have you even tried reading people's con reports? You don't have to dress up. They screen anime, sometimes newer stuff and sometimes just anything; you can buy merchandise, manga, videos etc. from the vendors/distributors; they have panels where self-styled experts tell everybody the dark secrets of drawing or whathaveyou; companies announce new releases; there are contests, games, activities, that sort of thing. It all varies.

The usual age for cons as I understand is around college-age, like everything else in anime fandom. But it varies; I've seen a couple of kids and a couple of old folks.

Again, spend two and a half minutes looking up a site about a con and you would learn a lot. Start on something like www.fansview.com and click on whatever con you'd like to go to. This is not brain surgery.
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Postby Nappy » Sat Aug 23, 2003 3:42 pm

It's a place where you can easily find dwchang for an entire weekend, and glomp him everytime you run into him.
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Postby post-it » Sat Aug 23, 2003 7:46 pm

an AMV Convention is not a CosPlay Convention T_T
- they don't usually dress-up - that way!!! T_T
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Postby InSaNe KeYbLaDeR » Sun Aug 24, 2003 7:44 am

Nappy wrote:It's a place where you can easily find dwchang for an entire weekend, and glomp him everytime you run into him.


YEAH!!!!!
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Postby SQ » Wed Aug 27, 2003 3:31 pm

InSaNe KeYbLaDeR wrote:
Nappy wrote:It's a place where you can easily find dwchang for an entire weekend, and glomp him everytime you run into him.


YEAH!!!!!


I'd like to see that...

I can see some random stranger coming to dwchang and saying "Please quiet your daughter down!"

... lmao
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Postby trythil » Wed Aug 27, 2003 3:36 pm

SQ wrote:
InSaNe KeYbLaDeR wrote:
Nappy wrote:It's a place where you can easily find dwchang for an entire weekend, and glomp him everytime you run into him.


YEAH!!!!!


I'd like to see that...

I can see some random stranger coming to dwchang and saying "Please quiet your daughter down!"

... lmao


Holy shit.

That does it, we're raising a fund to get Insane Keyblader to ACen 2004.
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Postby SQ » Wed Aug 27, 2003 3:38 pm

Nuu....

AWA!

Because then I can see this with my own eyes...

Besides, even if we got her the money to go to ACen, her parents probably wouldn't let her go...

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Postby dwchang » Wed Aug 27, 2003 3:39 pm

trythil wrote:
SQ wrote:
InSaNe KeYbLaDeR wrote:
Nappy wrote:It's a place where you can easily find dwchang for an entire weekend, and glomp him everytime you run into him.


YEAH!!!!!


I'd like to see that...

I can see some random stranger coming to dwchang and saying "Please quiet your daughter down!"

... lmao


Holy shit.

That does it, we're raising a fund to get Insane Keyblader to ACen 2004.


I effing hate all of you...I came in here to check the AWA thread and asw that you replied and knew it had to be something bad for me...and lo and behold all this about me without me even knowing...:sigh:

Nappy you're dead for encouraging it! :-P

And don't even joke about that SQ! Somebody thought these kids at the weight room in my apartment complex were mine and I was like O_O.

BTW Trythil, if she comes to ACen, that means she'll see you in your MKR Umi costume and I'm sure that would lead to glompage which I know you don't want.
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Postby SQ » Wed Aug 27, 2003 3:41 pm

lol.

But I was being serious because that's happened to me too...

Well, not like "get your kids off me!" since I'm not.. That old...

But I've been mistaken as a guy(a multitude of times) and sisters of a stranger... and, well, you just seem like a typical all-0around family guy...

That's why I said it...



Oooo... Umi.. Now I must go to ACen... >_>
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Postby dwchang » Wed Aug 27, 2003 3:44 pm

SQ wrote:lol.

But I was being serious because that's happened to me too...

Well, not like "get your kids off me!" since I'm not.. That old...

But I've been mistaken as a guy(a multitude of times) and sisters of a stranger... and, well, you just seem like a typical all-0around family guy...

That's why I said it...



Oooo... Umi.. Now I must go to ACen... >_>


People mistake you fora guy? That sucks, but whatever...

Yeah I'm not *that* old yet either, but it still wigs me out when they don't check my ID when I buy alcohol and people call me "sir" at stores and junk. The best is that people at Best Buy and so on actually pay attention and answer my questions when I walk around expensive electronics...what a concept!

I seem like an all-around-family guy? What's that supposed to mean?

Yeah Trythil lost a bet with me, which Im sure you heard about (which is why I did mine with meri and trythil, since it's fun) and has to dress-up as Umi from MKR at ACen'04.

The entire .org is invited of course.
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Postby SQ » Wed Aug 27, 2003 3:48 pm

dwchang wrote:
SQ wrote:lol.

But I was being serious because that's happened to me too...

Well, not like "get your kids off me!" since I'm not.. That old...

But I've been mistaken as a guy(a multitude of times) and sisters of a stranger... and, well, you just seem like a typical all-0around family guy...

That's why I said it...



Oooo... Umi.. Now I must go to ACen... >_>




People mistake you fora guy? That sucks, but whatever...

Yeah I'm not *that* old yet either, but it still wigs me out when they don't check my ID when I buy alcohol and people call me "sir" at stores and junk. The best is that people at Best Buy and so on actually pay attention and answer my questions when I walk around expensive electronics...what a concept!

I seem like an all-around-family guy? What's that supposed to mean?

Yeah Trythil lost a bet with me, which Im sure you heard about (which is why I did mine with meri and trythil, since it's fun) and has to dress-up as Umi from MKR at ACen'04.

The entire .org is invited of course.


I've been mistaken for a guy as many times as Devolution has been mistaken for a girl.. (You'll figure out what I'm saying at the AMV Dinner at AWA... *Dun dun dunn* But I swear I'm already giving it away...)

And the expensive electronics... Ha. They get comission.. They pay attention to ANYONE... I go to Mediaplay and I'm bombarded with people who want to know if I'm going to buy the latest iPod or DVD/VCR ....

.... But then again that could be because I'm one of their most frequent shoppers(Hell, they know me by name because of all the anime I buy from them =P)

All-around family guy just means that you're nice and it just seems natural for you to have a lot of kids.... And love them... And stuffs...

ANd Ooo... Haven't met Tythril in person yet. Now I get to further my expirence with a huge blue wig.
Fun! =P

Now if only I had more monies...
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Postby dwchang » Wed Aug 27, 2003 3:54 pm

SQ wrote:I've been mistaken for a guy as many times as Devolution has been mistaken for a girl.. (You'll figure out what I'm saying at the AMV Dinner at AWA... *Dun dun dunn* But I swear I'm already giving it away...)

And the expensive electronics... Ha. They get comission.. They pay attention to ANYONE... I go to Mediaplay and I'm bombarded with people who want to know if I'm going to buy the latest iPod or DVD/VCR ....

.... But then again that could be because I'm one of their most frequent shoppers(Hell, they know me by name because of all the anime I buy from them =P)

All-around family guy just means that you're nice and it just seems natural for you to have a lot of kids.... And love them... And stuffs...

ANd Ooo... Haven't met Tythril in person yet. Now I get to further my expirence with a huge blue wig.
Fun! =P

Now if only I had more monies...


I guess I'll see in a month I guess.

Hey now! I have an I.pod and I love it (even though I bash Apple all the time). Although I know they make commission and stuff, the attention is different this time. I used to get situations where I was legitimately interested in something, but they wouldn't really pay attention and go to someone else, but if I have my work badge on (right after work) and am in semi-decent clothing, they almost hover over me.

I guess thanks on the family guy comment, but the irony is that I hate kids. Well I don't hate them and could see myself having a few in the future (yeah future, I dont' think I'm mature or responsible enough yet and I have these morals about responsibility and junk anyway...), but regardless young kids just annoy me lately.

Not to say all of them do, but ones whose parents just need to pay attention more or discipline better so they don't annoy me in some public area.

Oh and don't get me started on if my kid didn't like Math or geeky things. Knowing my luck, he's gonna wanna go play football and become a frat boy :roll: j/k

I guess I don't really know what to say here since I'm only 23 and have only been working a year or so. Haven't really thought about it. My last g/f and I talked about it once or twice and it felt odd so :shrug:.

Meeting Trythil? I hope you don't have the displeasure of that. He's an asspirate.
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