Hello
folks it’s Taiwan, Squad 9 Captain (Blog Division AKA Blog Battery) from
#TheGuild also known as Kuraikore. I just wanted to make a blog about my
experience at Katsucon 20 (my first anime convention). Enjoy :D
Day 1
Me, my
department manager (Rosa), and her boyfriend got to the hotel a day late due to
the weather. Once we got to the hotel where the convention was, I went to
get my badge but the line was LONG I MEAN SO DANG LONG! A fair warning to
everyone that decides to go to an anime convention, get there early if you can
so you can get your badge early.
I got
to meet the rest of my roommates, and went exploring around the convention. I
saw a lot of different cosplayers, I mean A LOT! It was interesting to see so
many different cosplayers. I never really thought much of cosplay due to the
fact that my focus is really only on anime and manga as an Otaku but it was
nice to see that people really got into cosplaying and seeing some of the work
that people put into their cosplay. Day One was more of a kind roaming around in
a grade A candy store type of experience. At the end of the day I finally got
my badge but it was too late to hit the panels that I wanted to go to.
Day 2
I went
to a few panels, for those who don’t know what panels are; my best definition
that I can give you is activities that you can engage in, there are so many
different activities that you can partake in that it’s hard for me to go into
detail. I went to about three panels, the FUNimation Previews Panel, TBA
Crunchyroll, and the Aniplex of America Industry Panel.
Each
panel talked about what anime was going on DVD, showing previews and telling
the latest news on what was going on for their companies except Crunchyroll.
The Crunchyroll panel was more detailed and the person running the Crunchyroll
panel was telling us about how Crunchyroll started, what anime was steaming for
this season and how much anime Crunchyroll was steaming all together, how
Crunchyroll was expanding etc etc. It was nice to learn about all of those
anime type companies from each panel. I would roam more around the convention, just observing the area and going into random
places like the game room, the Gazebo (place where the cosplayers and other
people would hang out and take pictures), as well as other places inside the
convention. I went to a viewing of Kamisama Kiss with a Twitter follower that I
met at the convention. Day 2 was pretty cool and I got to experience more
things that I didn’t get a chance to do on Day 1.
Day 3
On day
3 was the last day of the convention, I went shopping at the Otaku Flea market
AKA the merchants’ hall with Rosa and her boyfriend. I picked up some pretty
good anime. I went shopping as well on day 2 but only brought a little bit of
stuff. I took more pictures and went into the artist alley and saw some really
nice art. I roamed around more at the convention until it was time to leave.
Side
Notes
My
roommates are pretty funny. Never knew that Otakus’ party hard! Saw A LOT of
Attack on Titan cosplay like 50+ people cosplaying and wearing merchandise of
the series. Met my first Twitter follower that I didn’t know in real life etc
etc.
Overview
Katsucon
20 was pretty dang fun. I recommend that if you haven’t been to an anime
convention that you should go to at least one. I had a blast and I hope you
enjoyed this article.
