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August 10, 2004
Anime Expo
A friend I met online, James, came out to visit for the 4th of July weekend and we joined Henry, Drew, and Jason at Anime Expo 2004 in Anaheim. It was a pretty packed weekend, especially for Henry, Drew, Jason and myself since we were working on the newsletter.
Newsletter is like a throw back to my high school days when I worked on the Lisgarwrite, but the time crunch on it was much higher. We put out seven issues over the course of three and a half days and covered all manner of events at the con.
Being my first Anime Expo, I expected it to be a lot like Comic-Con in San Diego. It was and it wasn't. There seemed to be a more familiar feel to AX. People were friendlier and treated each other more like friends than just a huge mass or random people sharing space on a convention floor. I think most of this could be attributed to the cosplayers, who form and entire subculture of convention. Think of people dressed up in costumes from anime and video games. Some of the stuff out there was absolutely amazing.
I'll confess, some of them were really hot, but I'm a social coward.
Definitely going to go back again next year. Henry, Jason and I met up again at the staff appreciation dinner this past Friday and shop-talked a little about what next year might look like. We have visions of bigger and better things. It's just a matter of getting the funding to do it.
As for James, who was mentioned at the top of this post, I owe you an apology. Things were pretty hectic and I was neglectful as a host at times and at times terse where I shouldn't have been. Sorry.
Posted by KinCross at August 10, 2004 04:07 PM