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Via_01
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Same. There aren't many cons around here either, but I've midly enjoyed those I've gone to. Still, sometimes I feel that some fans are just "too" into it for my tastes. I can tolerate cat ears, but trying to talk like an anime character, or mixing japanese into your normal speech... it's just too much. Worst of all, I'm positive I watch more anime weekly than 95% of the people that go to cons around here. It may just be the case where I live, but it's the newer anime fans the ones who act this way, those who've recently discovered anime and fell in love with how different it was to their normal cartoons... and thus try to adapt themselves to a sub-culture that is not really what they think it is. |
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MetalUpa1014
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Thanks! I went to Tekko once last year as an attendee. For a variety of reasons, I decided to be a volunteer worker this time. I think it'll give me a good opportunity to meet some new people while perhaps even allowing me to practice some Japanese while I'm there. |
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Videogamep
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The only convention I've spent any time at was Anime Expo last year and I didn't see anything that weird. Maybe it happens more at smaller conventions.
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Brand
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I've been going to conventions for years now, both large and small, and there are weirdos at all of them. I just feel at a smaller convention there is a chance to be more "intimate" with them. I also feel the smaller local conventions then to attract an even younger crowd. Who are much more likely to be awkward (because pretty much most teens are awkward anyway). But also super excited about their fandom. Which as I've gotten older I still love a lot of fandoms but I don't express it so loudly. |
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MetalUpa1014
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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.
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Hoppy800
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and to think someone dressing as a catgirl as normal casualwear was something that only occurred in anime and manga. |
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Gasero
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I've enjoyed a lot of anime, but I have not enjoyed a lot of anime fans. I generally stay away from people who are dedicated fanatics, and thus, I do not plan to step into any anime convention. I just don't fit the crowd. I like anime, but I don't want to BE anime. |
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brankoburcksen
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I would really like to hear one of the stories of how you met one of your long standing friends or colleagues. It would be really fun if it was one of those "I knew this guy who [insert weird thing]...and that's how I met Zac Bertschy."
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nobahn
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I'd like to hear how Justin Sevakis met Chris Macdonald. 
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mdo7
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This is probably the most funniest story I've read
 , but at the same time sad  because I can see why Justin left the con.
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thenix
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I really don't mind weirdos at conventions. To all my friends I am a weirdo. (most of my friends don't like anime) What's weird is different to everyone and everybody thinks they aren't weird. What had been getting to me is people pretending they are something they aren't so that they fit in or impress people. That and creepy guys who just try to pick up every chick they see hoping to find a nice innocent girl to take advantage of. I was leaving a ACen one year and there was a guy who looked like he didn't watch anime and he was asking every girl who was alone if they wanted to come to his room and model for him to take pictures. And that's not the creepiest thing I've seen
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maxhate
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That was hilarious!
{Please. No one-liners. Thank you. ~nobahn} |
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JaggedAuthor
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I started going to cons at 14 and stopped in my early 20s. (I'm 30 now.) Ever since the age of 24, I've felt well outside of these events' target demos - which is a shame, since ACEN is practically in my backyard.
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Utsuro no Hako
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The Saber Marionette story would be so much better if ended with, "By the way, I'm Zac Bertschy."
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504NOSON2
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The only things that entice me about cons are the dealer's room, industry panels, viewing rooms, anime booths, and meeting other moderately introverted fans who I can have an enjoyable back and forth discussion with and not just listening to them go on monologues and talk over one another. You can keep the cosplaying.
I was always under the impression that cons were mostly a male, 30+ crowd. I remember John Sirabella from Anime Blasters, at the Otakon 2008 industry/fansub panel, saying that back in the '80s, anime cons were mostly attended by guys in their 40s, who were also video game/sci-fi/computer nerds. That's obviously changed, but Adam Sheehan from FUNi said at Anime Expo 2010 that DVD survey statistics showed that 51% of fans were over 25. I've only been to two conventions in about 15 years of otakudom (Numa Rei no Con 2003, Mechacon 2011, and I wanted to go to Sakura-con last year), and it did seem like the teenage crowd, though a large minority, was the most, uh, "noticeable". |
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