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This year I have been to AnimeDetour, and I will be going to Kikoicon and Sogencon. Next year I might add Convergence and No Brandcon to my list.

I was at Acen08.

I will be at Anime Festival Wichita in August.

Well.....Anime Expo has moved from 'possibility' to just about a certainty.....as I just booked my hotel room and flights....using points and miles respectively.

LA....here I come.

Incidently......while looking at the programming section of AX's website, I saw what looks to be a preliminary schedule.....that lists a Nozomi/Right Stuf Industry panel starting at 3:00pm on Friday, July 4th........and a Nozomi Premieres panel at 4:30pm on Saturday, July 5th.


However, this also means that I will likely have to miss out on attending SDCC this year.

Oh well......maybe next year.

A.J.

I missed the MTAC (again) this year, but I plan to go in 2009.

However, our local 2600 group hosts a hacker convention called PhreakNIC each year, and we always have an anime room running during most of the con. I'm the volunteer director, so naturally, I always assign myself to help out in the anime room. Oh, the sacrifices I make for the good of the group...

This year I am only going to Youmacon in Dearborn, MI. I have been going there since its first year four years ago. I also go to JACON every other year which is in Orlando, FL. This was the first con I went to, and I had no idea what to expect that first time. I was expecting something like Motor City Comic Con, so I planned to be there for about four hours(this was the last day of our vacation before we had to drive home)and there to be a bunch of dealers and one viewing room and maybe a couple of speakers. Boy was I wrong. There was only 15 to 20 dealers (as compared to about 200), but they were all related to anime (there were 2 at MCCC). It also must have been the year of final fantasy X because there were so many Lulu's, Yuna's, Rikku's and Tidus' walking around it was almost ridiculous but a lot of the costumes were really well done. I didn't even find the four viewing rooms until a half hour before I had to go.

The moral of this story is to plan to be there more than four hours. So I recomend getting the 3 day pass for all those con newbies out there and check out everything.

I also go to cons by myself and mostly at night, since I work nights. I only get to see the evening panels, but I am always there for the concerts. Then on one of the days they usually play a whole series of something or a bunch of shows that will never be licensed for North America. I think this is why I go to at least one Con each year.

We did SakuraCon in April, then next is Portland OR for KumoriCon end of September. The daughter is dreadfully afraid to fly so it better be close enough to comfortably drive to.

2otaku

the 3 day pass is always worth it. there is always something going on from the opening of day one to the very last event of day three.

i'm going to have to start looking into plane tickets for september

Brand new this year is AkiCon:
http://www.akicon.org/

We'll be going, of course.

This coming weekend I will be at Connecticon! Hope there's some other people here going too.