Anime Conji Report - Epic Sean

             I’ll start off by saying this: Anime Conji 2013 was different from Anime Conji 2012. They both have their ups and downs, but 2012 had a better exhibit hall and more panels, and this year’s had a better video game/tabletop room. Enough about the goods and bads though, let’s get to what I actually did.          

           

            Friday was my least favorite day. We couldn’t find anything for about an hour, except for a voice-acting panel I almost fell asleep at. We got to skip half of school however, so that was pretty cool. We basically spent the rest of the afternoon in the exhibit hall, and Ian and I both bought Gundams. Our step mom, Sarah, came with us, and it was actually pretty cool for her to cover more than Comic-Con.

           

            Saturday was better, but Sarah didn’t come with us. We got to explore the exhibit hall more on Saturday, and they had a lot of neat stuff. Gundams, posters, bags, stuffies scarves, cos-play, wallets, all that cool useless stuff that nobody needs but everybody wants. We went to a cos-play panel on advanced materials. Then we found the videogames. I played games for hours. Street-fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom, Halo 4, and other games like that. My dad and Ian played a game called Kanzume Goddess for a while, and then came to watch me. After that, we went back to the Exhibit hall, bought messenger bags, and left for the night. I got a Full Metal Alchemist messenger bag.

           

            The next day was the best. One of our friends, Ari, came with us. We all cos-played and I dressed up as Finn from Adventure Time, Ian went as Luigi from Mario, and Ari went as Misty from Pokemon. We went to the exhibit hall first, and Ari almost immediately bought a Dragon Ball Z messenger bag and a foam Master sword from Legend of Zelda. We played video-games for even longer than the day before, and ended the day with another cos-play panel.

           

            It was over all epic, and I believe we have made a convention monster out of Arianna… and she is only the first of many… Mwaaaaa ha ha ha haaaa.

           

2nd Annual Anime Conji Artist Extravaganza!

So it's kind of an annual thing now for me, I meet all of the artists, take a picture of their booth (except one person who asked me to not take pictures of her booth...so I didn't), then link it with their artist information. So you my readers can have some access to some cool art, and perhaps support these artists. True many of these artists are anime artists who are early on in their careers, and are doing this as a hobby to make a little extra scratch.

So I will be updating this with the "easy" to identify booths first, then over the next couple of days, I'll attempt to identify the rest of the booths. Nice signs are easier to identify with a card! YAY. So if you're looking for your site, and you didn't have an easily identified business card to sign, it may take a couple more days to ID your booth. Then I might still have a couple of cards I can't ID.

Also, if you're checking for your link, and I don't have it up yet, shoot me an email with which pic is yours and your info, and then I can get it up faster!

Jayme Humphries, Illustrator. www.jaymehumphries.com

Battlerobots, battlerobots.deviantart.com plus others.

LeanaMee101 leanamee101.deviantart.com, Leana Crafts leanacrafts.com

Horchata Crew

Tiffany Lam, Elias's Corner whimsicalsweetstars.tumblr.com

Cute Crochet Creatures - "Ami Amour" www.amiamour.com

Comics, Illustrations, Plush Toys KAX Art. www.kaxart.com & kaxen.etsy.com

Ben Lazer Designs , blazerdesigns.tumblr.com

Jon A. Guerzon - www.jaguerzon.com

 Jon had some really cool crossover anime pieces, I think my favorite was the Edward Elric and Ichigo playing 'football' (soccer to us Yanks).

Adrian B. 'Super Tramp' - x-supertramp-x.deviantart.com

8-Bits are enough for me studios - facebook.com/8bitsareenough4me

Deanna Sulli

oboro charms - www.oborocharms.com

More links to come, brain "friered".

Anime Conji - Day 2

And back from Conji Day 2...

While the management has changed, and some stuff I kind of miss is different, by keeping an open mind, I notice things have changed for the better as far as gaming goes. Last year, gaming was pretty pitiful, I must say. This year, things are WAY better, there was an actual game library, with plenty of games to check out, Ian and I played in a Kasume Goddess tournament, and while we didn't win (since it was the first time we played.) we had fun and got TWO promo cards each. The upstairs gaming area was a lot larger.

In the Dealer Hall, we got to play Krosmaster ARENA, which is an anime boardgame published in France, based off of an MMO game. Japanime Games, publisher of Tanto Coure, currently has a kickstarter for the English version of the game. Now, you know I've unboxed Super Dungeon Explore, and reviewed the expansions, this game looks similar but the player versus player interaction is a bit better. (I  would love a PvP heroes version of SDE!!!)

Standby for more tomorrow...