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Tales Of The Industry - Trapped at a Convention


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dragonrider_cody



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 1:32 am Reply with quote
MetalUpa1014 wrote:
Oh god, it's these kinds of people at conventions which give anime a bad name.

Related to this though, I'm contributing over 20 hours of volunteer time at Tekkoshocon next weekend. It's the first time I've ever worked at a con, so it's going to be a new experience for me.


Good luck to you. I volunteered at Tekkoshocon twice and it was a nightmare both times. The staff treated the volunteers like crap, even the ones that were actually working hard. The industry guests the second year, in particular an ADR director, we're just awful people. They were rude, made terrible comments about the people attending and anime fans in general, and completely took advantage of the volunteers.

However, Tekkoshocon was taken over by a new group this year, so I hope you have a better experience than I did.
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Joe Carpenter



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 7:18 pm Reply with quote
Mother of God that Saber Marionette guy sounds nasty, I literally feel sick.

What year was this exactly I wonder?
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Paiprince



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 3:47 pm Reply with quote
Parsifal24 wrote:
Wow that was a painful read made me thankful I've never gone to a convention, and extremely thankful for my non Otaku friends. If I want that cringe inducing experience of some sectors of Anime fandom I can save my money and time and go to 4chan.


Yeah, nah the majority mentality on 4chan is heavily "anti-weeb." Try Gaia online.

Anywho, the con experience for me is an eclectic mix of excitement, fascination, awkwardness and exhaustion when I went to Western cons such as AX and Otakon.

Japanese cons like Comiket and Anime Japan have a very different feel and is more in line to the old school cons that have been mentioned. Demographics were mainly 20+ male/female and generally polite and quiet about their hobbies not to mention easy to talk to (if you know Japanese.). No screaming "Marco Polo" or the now extinct Yaoi paddles to be witnessed there. Of course, there were the definitive "kimota" in the midst but just as its Western counterparts' population is changin, the J scene too as well.
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Jose Cruz



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 11:57 am Reply with quote
MetalUpa1014 wrote:
At these conventions, particularly the ones open to the younger crowd, that's where you get the worst kind of weebs imaginable. The ones who get their entire perspective of Japan from anime and manga, while creating stories for our enjoyment that fill r/WeeabooTales.


Well, when I meet my first American when I was about 12 I asked him with my broken english: "Do you like Starcraft?" Very Happy

Though in terms of manga I think that they indeed represent a very broad perspective for Japanese culture. Miyazaki even said that manga infiltrated Japanese culture to such an extent that even the way they think and the way live action film directors direct is heavily manga influenced.
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