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Japan Expo 2012 - Exhibit Hall




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reanimator





PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 2:21 am Reply with quote
Displays look nice. It's nice to some Japanese company booths.
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bglassbrook



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 2:41 am Reply with quote
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So just how big is 120,000 square meters?

Not quite 1.3M square feet...
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To put things into perspective, San Diego Comic Con's exhibit space is just over 460,000 square feet and Anime Expo's exhibit space is only a fraction of that.

(To save others from having to lookup the conversion.)
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 4:20 am Reply with quote
The discussion forum link on each page links to separate threads, some to Talkback, others to the Events subforum. It would be nice to consolidate of of them into one Japan Expo 2012 thread here.

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Perhaps the most interesting booth belongs to Toshio Maeda, creator of La Blue Girl and father of tentacle hentai. Maeda's booth offers original art, both ready to buy and by request, which he will draw before your eyes for 30€. For purchase are doujinshi, pages from various manga, Urotsukidoji covers, and postcards, which he will sign for you. Maeda is a fairly constant presence at his booth, speaks fluent English, and in general is a delightful person. His prices are very reasonable, particularly when compared with the nearby booth of shoujo great Moto Hagio.
Read more at animenewsnetwork.com/convention/2012/japan-expo/day3#dfr0YSLDDXxJLJ2f.99

Very rare for someone to speak good English, even rarer probably for a hentai artist. I'm sure however, it helps tremendously with the custom art requests Very Happy

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Unlike Maeda, Hagio is rarely present at her booth, and her prices are much steeper. She also offers original art, both pencil, pen and ink, and colored, but most of her merchandise is cat related. She has much more staff hovering, and while her work is beautiful, her booth is much less inviting than that of the tentacle king.
Read more at animenewsnetwork.com/convention/2012/japan-expo/day3#dfr0YSLDDXxJLJ2f.99

lol, "the tentacle king" needs to hook up with Tentacle Grape
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 7:38 pm Reply with quote
That place is huge!!! Shocked One could almost imagine what the noise levels were like. Would love to experience a convention like that one day.
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