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May 26 2012

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If anyone wants to meet me, I will be at the San Carlos street entrance at 7pm on Saturday. I’ll update via Twitter. I will have Dr. Pepper.

My impressions of the con so far: Disorganized. There’s a pocket schedule that has no descriptions of events (and missing a few key ones like Black and White ball and Masquerade), and there’s a full guide that has descriptions of some events but zero times. You have to flip between them to figure out both descriptions and times. Oh, the full guide isn’t even fully alphabetized but rather grouped by individuals doing it. And the registration? Come on. When will they ever learn? More staff on registration, less staff babysitting doors.

There’s also no “hot” shows (like when the place was flooded with Haruhi or Gurren Lagann or Madoka) as majority of cosplayers seem to be into video games: old favorites Zelda and Final Fantasy are joined with League of Legends. I think it’s almost a 50/50 split. I did see one guy walking around wearing the $80 Apollon shirt.

The dealers were all quite similar. Figma, Nendroid, and petite Madoka toys are everywhere. As well as those “necomimi” mind-controlled cat ears (who were out in full force and being pimped by Crunchyroll).

Also seems to have very little industry support as only VIZ (who are based in SF) and Aniplex are here.

But day one is generally tame as people get registered and settled in. I expect today to be crazier. And, yes, I will be enjoying the meido cafe.