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Live Photos from Anime Expo 2016!

Pardon me if it's off-topic but I've seen no pictures or reviews of the Anisong World Matsuri apart from what has appeared on artist blogs or Japanese promotional sites (e.g. BARKS).

Has anyone seen any post concert coverage on any US web sites?

Photos aren't allowed during those events and as press we have to follow those rules very closely - also we've had very poor readership with "reviews" of concerts that feature no photos or footage otherwise, so we haven't done anything like that in a long while.

We did manage to get an interview with Aqours, which will have approved photos, so look forward to that!

HeeroTX wrote:

Just asking because your tags note you're in the UK and I HAVE TO know. Is this serious or sarcastic? Because speaking as someone (in Texas) currently enjoying upper 90s, lower 100s F temperatures, the forecast your posted looks like a BEAUTIFUL weekend.

I am sorry for the late reply, but there was an element of earnest behind my earlier jest. Our weather is, for the most part, an endless autumn. Having grown accustomed to this, the scorch of a real summer is hardly to my taste. To an extent I pity the poor souls bracing the artists' alley of AX—accounts from attendees suggest it was tropical in the most perspirant of ways.

Zac wrote:

Photos aren't allowed during those events and as press we have to follow those rules very closely - also we've had very poor readership with "reviews" of concerts that feature no photos or footage otherwise, so we haven't done anything like that in a long while. We did manage to get an interview with Aqours, which will have approved photos, so look forward to that!

OK, thanks for the information, I'd hoped that the organisers would have released some sanctioned concert photos to those accredited as media reporting on Anime Expo.

Dude, you can go to Twitter and search for photos and videos. I posted a bunch of clips from the concert. Japan Super Live was amazing! So glad I went and we'll definitely VIP it next year. The band battle was pretty cool too. It was a smaller more inclusive venue which let to a really great experience! FLOW was great but OLDCODEX really went all out.

I'm going to JPop Summit in SF and can't wait for GARNiDELiA (MARiA).

If photos aren't allowed in these events, then aren't what they're doing illegal?

Dude, you can go to Twitter and search for photos and videos. I posted a bunch of clips from the concert. Japan Super Live was amazing! So glad I went and we'll definitely VIP it next year. The band battle was pretty cool too. It was a smaller more inclusive venue which let to a really great experience! FLOW was great but OLDCODEX really went all out.

I'm going to JPop Summit in SF and can't wait for GARNiDELiA (MARiA).

There is a difference between breaking the organization's rules, and breaking an actual law. The first can get you thrown out of the concert of the convention the second can get you arrested. As Zac said, ANN has to be very careful to obey the convention rules (as they need to maintain a professional relationship with them.) A random concert viewer has very little to lose. About the only thing that would get a person arrested for taking photos is if they violently refused to leave.