/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

I was going to A-Kon but Momocon is around the same time frame. Uh, there’s San Japan in San Antonio during Labor Day weekend and Colossalcon Texas is usually right before Thanksgiving weekend in Austin.

Last I checked, there were 30 Texas cons planned for all of 2022. Now we have 32 to go. Huh.

>Animeverse Expo - March 5-6 - Pasadena
>All-Con - March 10-13 - Dallas
>AggieCon - March 25-27 - College Station
>Aselia Con - April 8-10 - Irving
>Arlington Comic Fest - April 15-16 - Arlington
>Texas Toy Show - April 23 - Lewisville
>Kameha Con - April 29-May 1 - Allen
>Anime Athens - April 30-May 1 - Athens
>Mini-Mini Con - May 7 - San Antonio
>Collect-A-Con Dallas - May 28-29 - Fort Worth
>A-Kon - June 3-5 - Irving
>KimoKawaii - June 4-5 - Conroe
>Anime Lubbock - June 10-12 - Lubbock
>YumiCon - June 17-18 - San Antonio
>Fan Expo Dallas - June 17-19 - Dallas
>Kaotik Freedom Celebration - June 25-26 - Lake Jackson
>Ba-Con - July 2 - Alvin
>Okashicon - July 8-10 - Pflugerville
>Dream Con - July 15-17 - Arlington
>Anime Matsuri - July 29-31 - Houston
>Midessanime - July 29-31 - Midland
>AnimeFest - July 29-August 1 - Dallas
>Magical Girl Day - August 6-7 - Houston
>Anime Houston - August 12-14 - Houston
>Delta H Con - August 19-21 - Houston
>San Japan - September 2-4 - San Antonio
>Anime Escape Festival - September 3-4 - Grand Prairie
>BanzaiKon - October 1-2 - South Padre Island
>Dallas Fan Festival - October 14-16 - Irving
>Anime Texas - October 28-30 - The Woodlands
>Colossalcon Texas - November 18-20 - Round Rock
>Anime Frontier - December 2-4 - Fort Worth

>>10737583
Continued with thots on this:

>Dallas
Obscenely overrepresented. When there were still 30 total, 15 were in or around Dallas. There's someone I can hopefully meet there, so I should try to fit in at least one. Anime Dallas 2020 is the only one I've done there, so I have no idea which.

>Houston
Closest major city to my grandmother, who is inaccessible by pretty much any other means. Magical Girl Day is probably the best one, given my main costume.

>Austin
Severely underrepresented. Only thing soon is Okashi, "a celebration of women", so LOLNO. No mention of Ecchicon, which may not even be happening, but a guarantee if it does. Colossal Texas is the #2 highest priority, yet an absolute goddamn shame they're doing it the same weekend of the much-awaited debut for Colossal North.

>San Antonio
Something's also very wrong with the scene here. They've already had two single day events, and the second one was just last Saturday. Had they done two or three days, you better believe I'd have picked it over Anime Crossroads. YumiCon is #3 highest priority, SanJapan is #1, as I received a personal invitation two months ago.

One final note, I already missed one (that I know of) and will likely be attending
>Oni-Con - October 30-31 - Galveston

>>10737413
seething as usual

>>10737583
Is Matsuri the only worthy con in Houston?

>>10737780
The only one I've been to there. For a huge event (possibly the biggest I attended last year), it was certainly better than average, namely because it was tens of thousands of people with absolutely zero mask enforcement at all. However, it failed to meet my criteria of a party event, as I only found one right when it ended. (Also, I thought an Uber driver was going to kill me one night because I'm a dirty kuffar)

>>10737586
I think Colossal North is going to be underwhelming if I’m being real. It’s the first venue so it’s tiny in comparison to what we have now (see Austin).

As for San Japan, I’m on standby with their policies.

>>10737802
You may be right. It was more about trying to hit all four in one year than anything, on top of the fact that I got to attend Colossal Texas from the minute it opened the first time ever. Thought it would be cool to repeat a year later. Also, what's wrong with San Japan? I don't see anything fishy on their site. Kinda important, as this is one I cannot miss for anything.

>>10737586
Did Ikkicon finally die?

>>10737854
They had two in 2021 and I went to both, with the second ending on January 2. That must mean they've decided it was good enough for this year, leaving Austin almost barren, when it should have more than any considering the kind of people who live there already.

>>10737810
I got no beef with San Japan, it was around the time I was exhausted with the mandates so if I go this year, I’m kind of holding it by the same standards I did CCTX. No mask, no drama, just a chill time where I occasionally have to play con dad. CCTX was pretty cozy for its maiden voyage, I got a few laughs out of people who noticed the Terry Davis shirt I wore. I’m intending to go back as an actual cosplayer this next time around, seeing other people’s stuff actually motivated me to get out of a five year hiatus so I’m pretty excited to work on shit legitimately instead of running a few experiments this time around.

>marathoning all four Colossalcons.

Every Kalahari that gets built makes me wish they would upgrade and renovate the others because there’s literally no excuse to put in more rooms. I get that they will mostly serve only for Colossalcon, which is pretty much synonymous with the Kalahari by this point. But more rooms mean more money for the hotels in general. In any case, more excuses for me to fly or drive out to Texas, the better.

>>10737866
Oh of course this is you again. Should have known. And you also indirectly know why San Japan is THE top priority, since you both met at the unplanned /cgl/ gathering by the Christmas tree. The morning after I even mentioning that "We're looking forTerry Davis shirt" then having to explain who he was, which included hard r's. Went over better than expected.

As for Kalahari, I was impressed by my first visit last year to Ohio but it was still obvious the place is in dire need of repair. The original is probably even worse. The Texas one is at least getting more space since we asked the front desk about villas and they said that's still underway. Not sure if you were around for that.

>>10737894
I was off doing my own thing for the most part. I don't really know why San Japan is top priority, but I'm probably going anyways because I'm getting a bit of cabin fever being in my own scene, and I had fun solo last time so this won't be any different. Probably book a closer hotel though.

>Kalahari Expansions

With all that space they bought it makes more sense to have the villas off in their own area or behind the outdoor pool. It was a bit weird seeing the Penthouses as the "max level" they can get.

>>10738081
>I don't really know why San Japan is top priority
Well, mark your calendar now cause I was asked to be a party coordinator by "the elf". And for villas, someone working there of course pointed out they have a ton of unused land, but if there's any work on villas so far, I haven't seen it

>>10737583
2 more in Dallas area:
Weebcon
Nishifest - March 19

>>10737377
I bought my ticket (my first time going actually) and I'm just hoping for no mask mandate.

Any massive Texas convention that everyone must go? Kinda like the equivalent of sakuracon or anyc? I'm planning to move to Texas in the next few years so wondering what the forecast is like. I think the Midwest furcon is here right?

>>10738679
Unless I missed something, Weebcon was already a month ago.
>>10739199
The only truly massive one I can tell you for sure is Anime Matsuri. Colossal has potential, no doubt, but being that it was only the first year, there wasn't a huge turnout overall. Plus, in spite of the name, the actual convention center area is quite small. The hotel on the other hand, is unquestionably the biggest I've ever seen.

>>10739199
A-kon typically. Don’t listen to the anons shilling matsuri, they’ve obviously never been. It’s been absolutely empty in past years and is usually a hot mess.

Well what do ya know? There was ANOTHER Texas con this week that I forgot to include, Hill County Comic Con. Nice to know about this too, since it's New Braunfels and I'm very strongly considering a move there.

>>10739541
Holy Jesus, it just keeps going. Not sure there's even a point in posting again when I'm probably gonna find another one.
>Ecchi Expo - December 9-11 - San Marcos

>>10737854
Ikkicon isn't dead. Check their website and you will see that they will be announcing new dates and venue soon. On the other hand, I am counting on Anime CTX, Anime Austin, and Anime North Texas to be dead. All three are or have been associated with the organizers of Ikkicon in some way, and all three have gone at least two years without a con. Just a theory, but I think Colossalcon Texas (plus Anime Dallas and Anime Frontier in the case of Anime North Texas) has rightfully replaced them. Colossalcon Texas has Anime North Texas' usual dates AND is located in the approximate area of both Anime CTX and Anime Austin.

>>10739219
Not sure if you noticed but the second floor was pretty much off-limits to Colossal last year in terms of convention area space. There are currently plans to move and expand artist alley there, but they'll need permission from the Kalahari to do it.

Souce: I was at the Feedback Panel

>>10738094
I don’t know dude, I’ll drop by San Japan if my schedule works out but I’m most likely going bar hopping solo like I did the last time I went over.

>>10739512
Anime Matsuri is a weird split. I know a dude who went there strictly because it didn’t have a mask mandate and from what I saw it was busy-ish. But the convo he recorded with the lyft driver he was with made it sound like the con had bad juju behind it. My little sister told me that she got dicked over on a Japan trip by one of the head organizers, and there’s also the curious case of the Mudkip cosplayer and the blue couch.. the voice actors being delayed past midnight for a meet and greet and iirc the water being roofied one rave night. I’d say Anime Matsuri is more ratchet if anything. If Momocon wasn’t literally a week apart from A-Kon, I would have made that instead. Locals are telling me it’s good, so I gotta make it out eventually.

>>10739553
Was that what happened? We were trying to figure out why it was shut off. From what I was talking to with the Kalahari staff, the employees seemed to be excited for the event so hopefully things away their direction next year.

>>10739199
A-kon or SanJapan

Don't let anime Matsuri fool you with their guest list. They had a history of bringing over Japanese and other international guests but it doesn't matter because literally every event is so poorly managed you are waiting 3 hours to get in and then it's poorly run. People that defend it have either never been, have John's dick so far down their throat they can't see the issues or just don't know what a well run con should look like. A lot of the actual valid criticism of the con gets drowned out but the accusations of misconduct or the anti vic people but...even without that the con is just a cluster fuck in the management department. It's not worth the money.

If Japanese guests are important to you keep an eye on anime fest too. It's not big but they consistently (before covid) brought over anime and manga industry guests

>>10737583
How come there’s none in Austin? You’d think with all the dumb rich techies we’d have something good

>>10739741
Because the two main ones are in January and February?

>>10739741
Austinite here, we already have a few cons in the Austin-area: Okashicon, Colossalcon Texas, and Ecchi Expo. Those that haven't announced their new dates include Ikkicon and Ushicon. Anime CTX and Anime Austin can probably be assumed dead if there are no updates from them within a few months since by the Summer, it will have been three years without a con from them.

Personally, imo, there's already enough cons in Austin. If you want to go to a gaming con, we have RTX and Classic Game Fest. Anime con-wise tho, we should be satisfied with Okashicon, Colossalcon Texas, Ikkicon, and Ushicon as our mainstay cons going forward (I don't think Ecchi Expo has gained a strong enough of a foothold in the area yet).

>>10739760
Okashicon is surprisingly good for such a tiny con. It’s good for hanging out with friends and mostly J-fashion oriented. The mixer is hands down one of my favorite con-tea party events and they have good prizes in the cosplay contest. Get a group of friends together and it’s an easy sweep since the competition is weak. You’ll walk away with a couple hundred in cosplay gift cards and a few machines heavier.

>>10739750
>Two right right out of the gates and then almost nothing else is ok
Kinda weak excuse desu fampai.
>>10739760
As stated above, Dallas is gonna have around 17 by the end of this year, bare minimum. Since there's almost definitely more that slipped under my radar, we can just round that up to 20. Give that Greater Austin 45% the size of Dallas-Fort Worth, that would proportionally place it at 9. Maybe a bit much, but Okashi is a HARD no from me and Ecchi Expo only sort of counts as Austin. Honestly not enough, especially for the kind of people that city draws in. While Ikkicon did do two last year (went to both), I'm also not holding my breath for the same this time.

>>10737583
>A-Kon in Irving instead of Dallas
>TWO cons in Arlington
GodDAMN shit changed in three years

I might check out Dreamcon out of the Arlington cons in this list, a con at the esports stadium mite b fun

>>10739199
It's still considered to be A-Kon, but San Japan does a better job of being the "massive" con in the same sense as SakuraCon. The venue is great and is attached to the Riverwalk's food court, there are interesting guests every year, the game room is good, and there's a small group bringing their itashas every year which I think is fun. Meanwhile, A-Kon has been struggling ever since they lost the FWCC as their venue, I don't remember if they had an edition last year but the last A-Kon I definitely remember happening was the one where they got Fair Park as the venue because they were just trying to find anything, and that went very poorly. The new venue looks promising and isn't in a ghetto area, but with all the moves they've had to do it'll be like going to a completely new con, though in A-Kon's case it'll be carried by its name.

>>10739548
>another fucking porno con
Imagine the smell. I don't really know how to feel about the weeaboo scene becoming as lewd as furries; you could say I'm jealous since I don't fuck, but at the same time I like showing up to cons for the anime stuff and having it be integrated with what's usually saved for late evening panels kinda ruins the mood. Sure, you can just ignore the porno cons, but how long will it be until the "normal" cons all flip to all day lewd shit to stay competitive?

>debating about booking a room at the akon host hotel so I don't have to commute
>akon posts with no warning it's already sold out

Well I guess I'm saving money???

>>10739856
Are we still in the place where people just assume everyone at (anime) cons are fat and stinky? It's really nowhere near as bad some make it out to be, so long as you steer clear of overpacked rooms where the temperature immediately spikes by 15 degrees. The parentheses are around anime to denote that it actually IS this bad if you're at an event centered on capeshit. That, and they aren't even that lewd. Every one has the eternal "orgy rumor" yet no one ever finds it, knows anyone who went, shared pictures, anything. *Most* behind the scenes stuff is really just copious drinking and maybe some harder stuff. ...Of course when your event is explicitly about hentai, that's another story, and I have yet to visit any of those.

>>10739668
I used to enjoy Matsuri - it was my mainstay con for years and years, but it's really gone downhill.

>>10740413
Anime Matsuri is so horribly run and they often have revolving door Japanese guests who come thinking it'll be good but then get so burned they never go again.

It isn't worth the money.

>>10739766
I don't have a lot of hope for them, running a "fundraiser" before the con even happens. That can't be a good sign.

>>10740533
There's clumsily integrating woketard shite into your con as everyone does, then there's making it the main attraction. Here's hoping they flounder and never come back.

>>10740533
It's a really nice looking tea party. Not sure what funds are being raised for but I looked up the venue and it looks really good and seems to actually serve food besides just sweets.

>>10740543
>There's clumsily integrating woketard shite into your con as everyone does, then there's making it the main attraction.
What about any of the event or fundraiser is doing this? I couldn't tell from the website or anything.

>>10740544
>What about any of the event or fundraiser is doing this? I couldn't tell from the website or anything.
They're probably put off by the "Celebrating Women" part plus the inclusivity panels that are bound to be at the con. Maybe they would've given the con a chance if the con kept the slogan to just about J-fashion.

>>10740551
>put off by the "Celebrating Women" par
Correct. To "celebrate women" is, in itself, nothing objectionable at all. It's also clearly not literal and will be infested to the brim with garbage political takes that have no business in a pop culture event. No doubt a healthy dose of validating mentally ill men in dresses as "real women" too. ...And even if I'm 100% wrong about this (I'm not), it's not meant for me, by design.

>>10740552
>>10740551

Wow I didn't realize other people read that much into a statement like that. I just saw it as generic marketing phrase. Most people wearing jfashion in the west are usually women.

>>10740555
>generic marketing phrase
>the phrase excludes half the population

It's a marketing phrase for sure but it's not generic.
So are they a jfahsion con now because I thought they were an anime con.

>>10740555 (checked)
It's something plastered on every single page of their website. All anime cons already have woke trash. It's in Austin. The chances of it being some simple, innocuous phrase are absolute zero.

>>10740583
they've always been primarily jfashion lmao

>>10740583
>excludes half the population
Are you one of those scrotes that gets mad that women get more credit for carrying a pregnancy?

And yes it is and has always been a j-fashion con. Every con in Austin isn't woke bait though there aren't that many anyway. Ikkicon and Anime CTX aren't. I think Ikkicon is even 18+ only just to allow for hentai panels and stuff. This one is also in a suburb of Austin, suburbs are usually far less woke.

>>10740597
What? Literally half the population is men. Saying your event is for a specific gender excludes half of all people. It's dumb.

If it has always been a jafashion con they've done a shit job advertising it. They seemed like a generic small anime con to me.

Also LOL you thinking they're in a suburb because they are "less woke." They are in a suburb because it's a lot cheaper. They probably can't afford to be in Austin proper.

Ikkicon has never been 18+ they just have adult programming.

>>10740650
>Ikkicon has never been 18+ they just have adult programming.
I shit you not when I moved to Austin I am pretty sure that Ikkicon was the one I couldn't go to because it said 18+, maybe they changed it or it was another one in December.

>>10740650
>Saying your event is for a specific gender excludes half of all people. It's dumb.

We got an MRA over here gulls kek

>>10740673
Are you confusing it with Eicchi con or whatever?

Ikkicon had an 18+ area but it's not an 18+ con

>>10740674
>implying anyone on this board is a man

>>10740734
if you're a woman why the heck do you care?

>>10740737
They're not a woman anon, they're the type of dude that thinks having a girls night out or the existence of international women's day is sexist. The con doesn't actually exclude men, it just literally says "celebrate women" on some pages on the site. And the fact that he thought Okashicon was an anime con further reassures me he is a dude. The vast majority of the women on this board are here for jfashion content, and the men here are usually in larp and con or coomer threads. Cgl has never been all women, him trying to hide his gender behind the idea that this is "the girl board" just means he's likely a crossboarding scrote who is mad that the con dare acknowledge women and not men and thinks if he says he's a girl people will somehow suddenly think he's less dumb.

Even on the off chance it's actually a girl it's a pickme ass one.

>>10740737
I mean I don't really care how they market I just think it's dumb.

>>10740789
If I was a man mad about things not being about men why would I cross dress? What are you talking about? I've been on this board for cosplay since it was red. The jafashion influx happened several years ago but it hasn't always been here. Not everyone with a cunt cares about Lolita drama. While we're on the subject, having a vagina doesn't mean I'll praise anything that advertises that it's for women. Sorry of exclusionary marketing excites you

>>10740821
>Sorry of exclusionary marketing excites you

It doesn't actually exclude men to say "celebrating women", and it doesn't excite me, I'm just not offended over it like you are. I feel indifferent about the con but your whiny "what about men" and assuming it was an anime con makes it clear you're a scrote.

Can you fags shut the fuck up and talk about anime cons or go hug it out over whatever /cgl/ discord corner you came from.

Anyways, Speaking of Ikkicon ;

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2022-03-10/ikkicon-celebrating-seventeenth-annual-anime-convention/.183435

Looks like they're running contract at the Kalahari now too.

>>10740883
Wow, that's kind of exciting honestly. I guess I'll have to go back.

>>10740821
you're clearly a man because i refuse to believe women are this autistic.

How are aselia or Arlington comifes
I'm considering them for next month but might pass on aselia since my cosplays aren't tales of

Anyone at allcon in Dallas

>>10740900
That's sexist anon how dare you

>>10740967
I kinda forgot about it.
It's a blah con that used to be neat and fun, but now is just alcoholics in denial.
Plus they could never get their cosplay shit together

Interesting.

>>10741595
I'm sold, in spite of...
>masked photos
I've only been there for Colossal Texas, which made absolutely zero attempt to even pretend they cared. They didn't even bother with signs as a formality

>>10741603
Those are just photos from the last con, I doubt they are trying to imply any kind of policy this far in advance.

>>10741614
It very much gives the impression that they want to enforce again. And what's stopping them from using even older photos if no one can the difference? I'm beyond certain there are plenty out there even from 2021 that didn't have any.

>>10740521
Yeah, that's why I've stopped going. My last trip to Matsuri was in 2018.

>>10741595
>Masks in a anime convention advertisement

This is not a good look to attract people to a convention. This basically says "if youre looking for a normal convention, go away!"

>>10741615
Nothing is stopping them from using older photos before the hysteria to make the apprence of normalcy. They can find unmasked photos, but that involves work and most people don't want to do actual work in the anime convention scene. If I see a convention that has this type of crap, I would walk away unless they explictly telling us that we are back to normal.

>convention tag line openly targets women and feminists
>anons act like it's insane to think the con is targeting women

>con uses photos from its last event that just happen to include masks
>anons act like the con has a full covid policy diatribe released

Y'all are idiots

>>10741745
Technically the con's tag line said "celebrating J-fashion, anime, and women in the industry" but even on the homepage where that is I think there's a Sebastian Masuda or other male creator in the photo they use, because it was obviously not literally trying to exclude men but MRAs on cgl will cry sexism just like they do when we exclude literal sissies and fetishists.

The women part is last and contingent upon being at some level involved in those industries (presumably in a business sense). The anons acting like it's an SJW manifesto are overreacting.

>>10741745

The con is targeting women, most people who wear jfashion are women. The men who do are usually creeps or cringe. There is nothing wrong with an event targeted at women. The argument was never that the con wasn't targeting women, it was that they are somehow trying to completely exclude men in some overly woke way when they're not doing anything different than what JP brands do when they describe their concept as being like a princess or focused on nostalgic girly themes.

>>10741755
>The women part is last and contingent upon being at some level involved in those industries (presumably in a business sense). The anons acting like it's an SJW manifesto are overreacting.
the woman part is because the woman who runs the show is pushing for "woman run business" status, despite the fact that the board of directors really run the show.
But being a "female led business" in certain places opens doors and gets kick backs.
Melissa definitely always wanted it to be a girl's club though. She always thought women weren't catered to enough in mainstream anime cons.

>>10741868
>She always thought women weren't catered to enough in mainstream anime cons.
Women in jfashion (so basically almost everyone in America wearing jfashion) definitely aren't catered to enough at mainstream anime cons. Creating a girls' club kind of thing isn't SJW or sexist or excluding men tho which dudes and pickmes itt act like it is. On top of that even RVR had a bunch of actual SJW stuff in their advertising and site and people still had no real problems come up with it in person at the actual event.

>>10741595
Probably photos from 2022. Besides no where in Texas is forcing people to wear masks, it is "wear one if you need to". With Cedar season coming up I'm guessing you are going to see a lot of people still wearing one.

>>10741892
Idk where you bitches got the idea this is a jfashion con but it's just a generic anime con with a fashion track. They still have anime va guests. They still have cosplay guests. They still have a cosplay contest. They still have anime programming

By your logic Anime Matsuri and Akon are jfashion cons because they also have fashion shows and tea parties and fashion guests.

>>10741956

The con is heavily jfashion focused compared to usual anime cons. Anime Matsuri is actively avoided by the established jfashion community except maybe CathyKat.

>>10741958
So it only counts to you if your ~community~ endorses it? What about people into jfashion who don't bother going to your little meetups?

I take it back maybe Okashicon was smart to market like a feminist yall are eating that shit up.

>>10741990
People in j-fashion avoid Anime Matsuri because The Leighs are child predators/generally creepy. Plus the con is shit and treats guests like shit. It's not an SJW thing, Tyler did a whole video on them and how they sued her and lost for exposing his inappropriate behavior towards actual children.

It's not a popularity contest or SJW thing it's a safety thing and also again, AM is a horribly managed con even on the anime side so there are practical reasons to avoid it when there are tons of other cons in and near Texas that are worth the money.

>>10737583
Excluding furry cons? For shame.

>>10739766
I really want a good j fashion con. I was hoping they had gotten lolita brands, but nah

>>10741996
Wait so it's not about excluding men except it is because you feel safer that way

Can you make up your mind?

>>10742013
Okay you're being willfully stupid. The safety issue is one specific guy who owns Anime Matsuri. No one wants to support a con by someone known to be predatory. Anime Matsuri sucking and on top of that being run by a creep, is a separate thing from a totally different convention saying "hey let's do stuff women might like more cause most cons don't do that".

If you hate it so much don't go but don't pretend to be dumber than you actually are and act like this is some discriminatory sexism.

>>10742023
>most cons don't so that
>list 2 other cons that do do that but don't make a big deal about it and you bitch about them

The majority of attendees are women, all cons are catering to women you fuck

>>10742053
Hosting mediocre and last minute tea parties does not cater to jfashion in the same way a con that prioritizes jfashion does. You clearly don't wear any of it and just want to ree and scream about women so instead of making false equivalencies just don't go to the con and go to the ones who do the stuff you like instead of whining that girls get more attention than you.

>>10742057
you should stop arguing with him. he's clearly not worth the time of day, that's why he has to shit up the thread instead of having life.

>>10742053
>acknowledging that no one in tx comms likes am because of the pedo who owns it is bitching

kek scrotes

>>10742057
Guess I'll just throw out my AP and Meta since you gals think I'm a gross man T____T

Of course a bunch of self entitled rorita fucks can't understand that a mediocre anime con pivoting to pat their petticoat covered asses after a 2 year pandemic induced dry spell isn't anything to defend or celebrate. If okashicon even manages to survive this year yall are going to be pissed when they pivot again because they found a new shiny subgenre to exploit.

>>10742075
Seek help for your weird obsession.

>>10742013
the way you read 'predator' and thought 'men' is basically telling on yourself, isn't it? even you know men are predators.

>>10742075
what staffer hurt you bb?

Who's going to A-kon?

>>10742132
I am, pretty excited to go to a big con again (Anime Frontier was so tiny by Texas standards)

>>10741958
>The con is heavily jfashion focused
Just so we're clear....
are you considering maid cafes to be jfashion?

>>10738679
>Nishifest
are these cucks serious with their mask policy?

>>10742542
Fuck the mask policy, I can't believe they want 35 bucks plus over 10 dollars in fees plus 10 dollars to park plus 20 dollars for a dance for a ONE DAY event.

I wad thinking of going before I found out it would effectively cost me over 50 bucks just to get in the door

>>10742148
almost every con has a maid cafe, dumbass.

>>10737583
when did cons start getting so jewy with their weekend pass prices

>>10742607
Inflation is hitting everyone.

>>10742564
I think I'm still gonna go to check out the car show. If things seem cool maybe I'll get a day pass.

>>10737583
I'm thinking of checking out YumiCon and Anime Houston, never been. How are they? I imagine they're are smaller cons like Delta H.

>>10742584
Yeah, but Okashicon put a lot of attention in theirs, so if anon mistakenly thinks maid-cafe = jfashion, I could see their confusion about okashicon

>>10742968
>YumiCon and Anime Houston, never been. How are they?
Yumicon was barely a thing, it was a 2 year con and then the pandemic shut it down for 2 years. So no telling how it'll be really
Anime Houston is brand new though.

>>10742607
Cons with high daily prices and low weekend prices usually rely on hotel block filling to pay for the venue.
So events at convention centers, or with smaller room blocks, are more likely to be cutting a check rather than meeting a room block requirement, so they'll price the weekend passes higher, since they make a higher profit margin on daily passes.

>>10743166
The maid cafe is not the aspect of the con that anyone thinks is jfashion. It is just a con that does more than one lolita tea party by having the mixer, a tea party fundraiser that's otome inclusive and not only traditional lolita, among other things like guests and such.

>>10742132
Me, this is my first year going so I have no idea what it's going to be like.

>>10743175
>ITS A J FAHSION CON
>well the maid cafe isn't j fashion
So it is anime con.

Why are so many people in this thread so thirsty over some 200 person event in phflugerville?

Is anyone at nishifest right now? Do you need a badge for the car show or not?

>>10743167
>Yumicon was barely a thing
Yeah, I'm painting a very clear picture that San Antonio's scene is less than stellar too. Unfortunate, since Yumi is (for the time being) my best excuse to get back there before SanJapan. Probably still going anyway, just getting more and more annoyed of hampering my expectations for everything now.

>>10743269
I thought you were just pretending to be illiterate but now I'm certain it's genuine.

>>10743491
>Yeah, I'm painting a very clear picture that San Antonio's scene is less than stellar too
that's not exactly fair.
San Japan pulls from all of central and west texas, so there's a lot of great stuff mixed with a lot of bad. A smaller local show might be very different.

>>10743269
because the owner literally posts here in /cgl/
She literally sued people over shit posted on 4chan.

>>10743685
Proof of this? Who is the owner and how do you know this actually happened?

I know the Leighs from Anime Matsuri sued Tyler over exposing creepy John. Are you getting these confused?

>>10743683
It seems like a fair assessment to me, if this giant city can only muster up ONE (1) good event a year. I keep checking in, and everything they've got is single day or two. Fine, maybe that appeals to somebody who treats it like a visit to the mall, but that's not me. I'm there to see cool costumes, take pictures with people and stay up as late as possible while getting plastered.

Also feel it's worth pointing out again that Dallas and the surrounding area can claim somewhere in the range of 20 cons this year.

>>10743714
Aren't court documents public record? Shouldn't be hard to find.

>>10743752
I don't know the name of the organizer.

>>10743752
not all court documents show up on a search. you probably have to call the court.

>>10743752
It sounds like someone pulled something out of their ass or are following rumors with zero proof considering they didn't give the info to search where it could be found.

People just love to shit on stuff they perceive as SJW. Remember the RVR thread rage but then the the event was actually perfectly normal.

>>10743761
So what's your job at Okyashicon?

>>10743768
I've never been and don't plan to but what's your vendetta against the owner? And who even is he?

>>10743749
No one has figured out how to put on a big event in San Antonio except San Japan. Unlike Dallas or Houston there are only tiny places or huge places. The hotels want a lot of money to hold an event. Big events like PAX and Alamo City Comic Con tried to hold huge events to only end up folding up. No one wants to risk a lot of money to try to take on San Japan.

>>10743778
Google the owners name and find the court documents. It's not that hard to see she's no one I want to give my money to.

>>10743749
Dfw is a massive hub of entertainment businesses that's why.
Video came companies out the yin yang, Funimation is based there too, not to mention there's a huge asian population to feed into the demographics. And TWO major airports (one bigger than most cities)
San Antonio doesn't have pretty much any of that. Combine it with the fact that any new game in town basically has to get san Japan's blessing since they make so much bank for the downtown area during the weekend, and it's hard to muscle in there.
It also helps that, economically, dfw residents have more spending money.

>>10743827
>General socializing with people at cons girls, guys, making friends. What's your advice?
I don't see the name on the con website so how can I Google it?

>>10743827
Can't Google a name I don't have/know anon.

>>10743827
There's no record easily findable online of anything. This is some made up complaint in response to gulls not falling for the idiotic "celebrating women is a sexist SJW phrase" sperging by a maleposter.

>>10743850
>>10743846
clearly you're both either trolling, or new, cause this was fucking everywhere on /cgl/ when it went down in 18/19. Covid makes everyone forget I guess.
But I also get it might be hard to figure out, since conventions don't use their convention names as their business names, and when lawsuits are filed in different cities, you have to navigate different court systems to figure it all out.

But it's just really hard to believe such a thing is COMPLETELY forgotten by everyone except a couple anons here.

Especially when one anon keeps insisting the con owner is male.
That's just wierd.

>>10743853
>But it's just really hard to believe such a thing is COMPLETELY forgotten by everyone except a couple anons here.

/cgl/ is full of newfags these days so more than likely most current posters genuinely DON'T remember because they weren't there

>>10743854
I guess that's fair. I can't have unrealistic expectations from anons

>>10743846
Bullshit. I find it impossible to believe every other tx con head has been name dropped in /cgl/ drama for years but the entire board doesn't even know okashicon is run by a woman.

I'm not going to name drop anyone on /cgl/ especially when the person in question has literally sued people for talking about her on /cgl/ but the info is out there and it's not hard to find if you care to find it.

>>10743850
>>10743846

Bullshit. I find it impossible to believe every other tx con head has been name dropped in /cgl/ drama for years but the entire board doesn't even know okashicon is run by a woman.

I'm not going to name drop anyone on /cgl/ especially when the person in question has literally sued people for talking about her on /cgl/ but the info is out there and it's not hard to find if you care to find it.

>>10740916
Aselia is tiny, under 200 people. If you're not a big Tales fan you'll probably get bored pretty fast, but everyone there is pretty friendly if you just want to chill.

>>10743906
I legitimately tried and couldn't find it. I'll admit I'm fucking new but how am I supposed to search a court case on Google for some random Texas city with no name?

How can she sue for someone shit talking? It sounds made up and like a lie because it's so ridiculous to think you can sue anyone when everything is anonymous (at surface level anyway). And the suit probably couldn't hold because unless people were doxxing or trying to harm her irl or trying to legit "cyberbully" her into self harm nothing can really be done right? I don't see how you could be afraid of someone suing you when you post on cgl if it's really public knowledge they are a con owner. I don't know the names of any con owners besides the Leighs because I saw Tyler's vids, but I know many are dudes because of cgl threads of other con owners harassing women and girls so I assumed it was a guy.

If it is truly real sorry for being new but I don't even know what to search for in the archives much less any supposed court documents if I have no name. These claims have as much weight to them as the DDZ animal abuse memeing in the other thread for me who has no background on the situation.

>>10743924
I both envy and feel sorry for you that you have yet to learn the harsh realities of the american civil legal system.
1) it's not as hard as you think to prove you said something "anonymously" online in a civil trial because you don't have the right to the 5th amendment, you have to respond to the questions and if you lie, and they ever prove it, you get in a fuckton of trouble. So you can literally just ask them.
Secondly, businesses sue each other for shit said online ALL THE TIME. It's a plague on the courts really. All you have to do is try to claim they defamed you. It doesn't matter whether it's true or not, the point is to run up the lawyer fees. Do that too many times and you'll get labelled a vexatious litigant and be banned, but only from bringing THAT sort of suit against THOSE sort of people.

Defamation law is kind of terribly under-suited to dealing with the age of the internet.

>>10743955
this. people constantly sue for bad reviews and stuff when it's perfectly legal. businesses also don't realize that a consumer can give a negative review based on something that happens to someone else (ie. having dinner and someone gets bad food at your table) as long as they don't make something up.

>just because their slogan has the word woman in it it doesn't mean they are pandering to the woke crowd!!!!!

WTF does this mean then?

>>10744198
What does it mean to you? All I see is a pride flag which for a j-fashion heavy con as people are claiming makes since bc a bunch of lolitas are gay and bi. Considering people are pretending to want to cancel KSKawaii just for being in TX, makes sense they feel the need to let people know they don't hate gays as much as the rest of the state. Pandering and saying "hey here's a signal we don't hate this group like the rest of our state/region of America" are different.

>>10744201
Anon they're outside of Austin. No one thinks they hate the gays.

You just going to sidestep the addition of a black mascot too? That girl wasn't there the first 2 years.

Whether on purpose or not they sure seem to be ticking all the woke bitch boxes.

>>10744222
>You just going to sidestep the addition of a black mascot too?
>being black is SJW

kek

>>10744223
No, adding a token black girl 2 years into your event after a huge social movement about race is SJW.

Must say, I'm actually glad my Florida thread isn't super active, since that means it's not infested with rats who can only argue dishonestly, and about petty meaningless garbage at that. Another indication that we're more drama free...and yet somehow this Texas scene is still not as bad as the Midwest.

>>10744222

KSKawaii is outside of Houston which is another large more liberal city so that argument is moot.

Tbh I legitimately think you're looking for woke stuff to be offended by. I don't assume someone is a racist or conservative if they fly a Texas or US flag, and I don't assume an organization is Twitter personified just because they have a pride flag. Isn't the con during pride month too?

If you hate these things and find blacks and gays too offensive to ever have on a twitter pfp then by all means avoid the con. I'm not going either.

>>10744227
Austin has for decades been known as the little dot of blue in a sea of red. They have a national reputation for being liberal.

Houston is just liberal because it's a big city. They don't make a big deal about it. People who don't know anything about Texas politics know Austin is a liberal bastion but I bet they're dumbfounded when you tell them the mayor of Houston is a lesbian.

>>10744224
Are you saying you can't ever include anyone with darker skin in promo material for something without it being woke pandering? If they added a ginger mascot would it be Irish and curly-hair pandering?

>>10744228
>People who don't know anything about Texas politics
People attending a con in this small town in Texas are probably from Texas and understand the politics, so they know that who is and isn't homophobic or whatever else is a real mixed bag depending on where you are and who you surround yourself with. A tiny little rainbow flag in a shop window or on a con's page is like a note saying they're chill and not going to gay bash you basically.

>>10744229
Yes, you got me. That's exactly what I was saying. It wasn't that adding a marginalized mascot 2 years into your event after massive social media pandering from companies of all size in response to national protests about race is the issue.

>>10744231
I thought we were talking about people bashing KSKawaii who aren't from Texas mad its in Texas.

There is literally no reason to market to gays that your anime con is gay friendly because they are ALL gay friendly. Look at the programming schedule. Look at what they post. You don't need to paint your entire online presence in rainbows unless you are havencon.

>>10744228
>Austin is the little dot of blue in the sea of red.

I guess that would explain the amount of faggotry going on in this thread when it comes to Austin.

>>10744226
... There's a reason I'm trying to fuck off the Midwest con scene wise.

>>10744236
Their whole presence isn't even rainbows, it's the bg of their pfp on one social, not the crazy red flag people are trying to read into it.

>>10744232
Nonny I just checked their FB they've had black and tan mascots as well as the blonde one since 2019, well before summer 2020 when BLM was trendy, so you're literally making up the pandering in your head.

>>10744232

bruh they had more than a black mascot long before rona summer riots: they had paida and black and other minority guests in cosplay and other industries, actual japanese guests like haruka kurebayashi, idol groups of many races, etc. it honestly feels genuinely inclusive long before the other mascots being added, not a cash grab

>>10744228
>the mayor of Houston is a lesbian.
Was, she served her terms and was replaced with Sylvester turner years ago.

>>10744247
This would make a lot if sense if i hadn't literally had conversations with Melissa about the mascot. I think you're confusing mascot and promo girls, but that's an understandable confusion

>>10744250
Is Melissa a con volunteer/employee? How is a new mascot pandering when as multiple people stated they've had multiple mascots and real human black and other race people promoted by the con since before 2020?

What is the difference between the mascot and the promo girls? Aren't the mascots the anime girls? That seems to be what anon seething over a black character is claiming. Are you saying this person explicitly said they did it as a response to George Floyd, somehow months before that was even news?

>>Is Melissa a con volunteer/employee

LMAO why are so many people in this thread kissing the ass of a con head they don't even know the name of?

>>10744257
No one was kissing ass, people who aren't whiny edgelords are just skeptical of the initial assumption and claim that the word "Celebrating women in jfashion and anime" on a con's website equals SJW Twitterfest.

It's almost like you don't need to be wking to think someone on cgl has come to a stupid conclusion. Also how new are you that you can't sage correctly?

>>10744263
>Also how new are you that you can't sage correctly?

Can't sage OR reply correctly, for that matter.

>>10744263
>>10744265

I'm sorry Anons I'm rusty. No cons for 2 years means I haven't been shitposting on the regular. I'll do better for you desu.

Maybe Austin is "super blue" by Texas standards, but I gotta say that for a city with this reputation, not once have I seen it flaunted in the open. Places like Chicago and ESPECIALLY Seattle have it on every other lamppost in their entire downtown areas. That aside, it bears repeating again that ALL cons pander to far leftshits, and no "there was one time in some podunk con in Mississippi..." or whatever does not refute that. So yes, one can expect promotion of women, pride stuff and black mascots. To make it your selling point, is absolutely pandering, though I'm gonna suggest it's cause of Floyd. They would do it, even if no one had ever heard of him. The number of people around here who blindly accept everything at face value and can never even consider an underlying symbol or intent is staggering, scary and sad.

>>10744254
Melissa is the one who worked with the artist to make a mascot.
Promo girls are like both babes, though sometimes a con will also just have cute anime girl art on some of their products, a mascot is a legally distinct IP.
Also I'm not making those claims, I'm a different anon than the one talking about pandering

Maybe Austin is "super blue" by Texas standards, but I gotta say that for a city with this reputation, not once have I seen it flaunted in the open. Places like Chicago and ESPECIALLY Seattle have it on every other lamppost in their entire downtown areas. That aside, it bears repeating again that ALL cons pander to far leftshits, and no "there was one time in some podunk con in Mississippi..." or whatever does not refute that. So yes, one can expect promotion of women, pride stuff and black mascots. To make it your selling point, is absolutely pandering, though I'm also not suggesting it's in any way because of Floyd. They would do it, even if no one had ever heard of him. The number of people around here who blindly accept everything at face value and can never even consider underlying symbology or intent is staggering, scary and sad.

>>10744276
Thanks for clarifying nonny, appreciate it. So the mascot is just the cowgirl and the black and tan girl are just promo girls?

>>10744277
>To make it your selling point, is absolutely pandering
The con isn't making it a selling point. Their selling points are guests, anime, Japanese fashion, and the charity related work they do from what I can tell.

>The number of people around here who blindly accept everything at face value and can never even consider underlying symbology or intent is staggering, scary and sad
You assume a rando suburban con has a sinister motive when at worst the behavior you're seething about is virtue signaling in an attempt to try to communicate that they want to be seen as good people. That's more sad, staggering, and scary, the fact you're assuming people who are just running an extremely small scale Texas weeb event are some evil kabal of woke warriors.

>>10737377
Kalahari area got hit by a tornado just a little while ago. Much of central Texas is on a tornado watch/warning, about 3 confirmed on the ground. Hopefully that doesn't fuck up anything else con related.

>>10744348
>>People might be dead.
>Hope this doesn't ruin my fun.

This is why all of your selfish retards.

>>10744349
Tornadoes are sad and dangerous as are other natural disasters but realistically why would I post my thoughts and prayers on the cosplay board? I'm literally in the area watching the news and hiding in my bathtub my dude I could be dead too if it hits me.

>>10744348
>>People might be dead.
>I hope this doesn't ruin my fun.

This is why all of ya are selfish retards.

>>10744352
Not sure why you deleted your post but >>10744351 my point still stands.

>>10744282
Reminding people that your event is a celebration of women on literally every page of your entire website is not a selling point huh? That was the very first thing I saw about this event when I first heard about it on animecons.com. and the rest of your message is apparently just straw man piled on another straw man because at no point did I mention anything about some grand conspiracy or sinister agenda. They're doing it because literally every con owner does it, simple as. They just choose to be far more obvious about it, which suggests they're even more intent on drilling it into your head, but hey. I'm quite grateful to them for doing it because it tells me I need to stay far far away

>>10744688
It's not on every page? At least not on mobile. But yes you should stay far away if you're so offended.

Anyone going to anime Athens? I'm considering dropping by for a day but I don't know if it's worth the drive. I expect it to be small.

tfw last memories of a-kon are burning outside in the heat

>>10744700
>if you're so offended.
More like "if it makes you distrust their intentions"
I don't go to animecons that have an overt LGBT slant either.
I wouldn't go to a con promoting a particular race.
You want to embrace the location? Go for it. A mexico themed anime con in mexico is fine. Hell, even in a border city in california it'd be fine.

But any time I see a con that's all "Brand^tm-con is an open and inclusive convention for all kinds of people" it just reads like the medical disclaimers on pharmaceutical commercials.
If you want to be "woman oriented" then mean it. Show us your woman staff, bring in guests that specifically talk about women issues.

Don't just slap a label on it in hopes of easy points from people who will trust anything you say anyways.
I dunno, in all my years I've only known maybe 3 conventions run by people who I think are very upfront and honest about what they feel the role of conventions, and their convention in particular is.

And I don't think their shows exist anymore.

Sorry for the rant.

>>10745595
>tfw last memories of a-kon are burning outside in the heat
You dallas peeps don't even know what heat is.
Houston in late summer. THAT'S heat.
fucking 110+ degrees.

Course, that's mostly because we paved over a swamp so the entire town is just concrete and no real shade.

>>10737377
Yay I'm from DFW. What cons to go to?

>>10745609
used to go to Animefest. Decembers was a travesty/disappointment.
I'm gonna give them another chance this year, but if they do something stupid like a vaccine mandate, I'm getting a refund and won't look back.

I used to go to Anime North Texas, but I don't know if that survived Covid lockdowns.

Then there's akon obviously.

>>10745603
>I don't go to animecons that have an overt LGBT slant either
Same. This coming from someone whse first con hookup was gay and spur of the moment. This is not meant to sound like a preachy "WELLL as a [fill in the blank], my opinion is to be more valued because blablabla" yet at the same time, let's not beat around the bush here. Why would someone who's open to same sex con hookups but NOT gay pandering cons be interested in a pandering con for a demographic I don't even belong to?

>>10745650
Yeah, at a certain point the issue is more "what kind of people is a con that makes this aspect such a big issue gonna attract"
There used to be a con with a tentacle mascot run by a skeezy guy.
It didn't last. It attracted like minded people and cosplayers didn't like going there.
It's an easy example because that's kind of universally recognizable as cringe, but even shows like Mechacon had some low attendance until they ditched the "mech only anime convention" vibe they had.

>>10745595
It'll be the more of the same in 2022.

>>10745603
>I wouldn't go to a con promoting a particular race
>attends a gathering of people where the main focus is Japanese cartoons
All cons outside of Japan should be shut down.

>>10745784
Stop being obtrusive. You know that Anon meant shit like Dreamcon where the internet went bonkers and harrased some poor girl off social media for entering a cosplay contest while white.

I'm registering for A-Kon right now and don't see a place for me to put what nickname I want to show up on my badge, would I just put that nickname as my first name? I figured they'd want my real name so that my badge could be mailed to me, or maybe for verification when I pick the badge up during pre-reg, but then didn't see where I can put my nickname which makes me think they'll put my real name on the badge

>>10746580
Lot of them tend to let you fill in on location now.

So san Japan badges went on sale, but their covid policy is a bit ridiculous
You have to have a medical personel give you a covid test if you're unvaccinated
For the record, over half the target demo for san japan is unvaccinated.
Self tests won't do.

>>10748532
San Japan staff are so condensending about everything. I'm tired of going to this con when they treat their attendees like shit

>>10748533
Many of them have had open vendettas against types of attendees in the past too

>>10748532

>>San Japan’s current COVID Policy and Guidelines have been modeled after the policy created by our friends at Anime Boston with their permission.

Well that explains it
They pulled their whole policy from a con on the east coast.

>>10748545
>They pulled their whole policy from a con on the east coast.
which is weird considering until 6 weeks ago, Boston had a vaccine passport rule, and such rules are straight up illegal in Texas

>>10748532
Either San Japan is going to change this or they are going to get sued. It is illegal in Texas to ask for vaccination status or to ask if you are negative for covid. It isn't even going to be someone who wants to go to this con who is going to sue them. Someone is going to have a gopro recording them being told they need to get tested for covid and when they say no and are denied entry they will have proof and then will hand it off to their lawyer.

I would feel bad about San Japan but, well, they are idiots so it is hard to feel bad for idiots like them.

This is all sounding like a near-exact copy+paste rehash of Anime Frontier, but more mild. That one was straight up demanding jabs. Did anything ever happen to them? If so, nobody bothered mentioning it here. Either way, it's funny to watch how one group will get up in arms about something as simple as a test and the other says full vaxmaxxing is no big deal.

That, and SanJapan can pull literally anything if they run it, I'm going because it's my absolute top priority for this entire year (also outside the context of conventions), and it's not even close

>>10748699
So all music venues in Texas asking for the same things are breaking the law too? Where do you see the government shutting them down and getting sued?

You're the fucking idiot.

>>10748699
>Either San Japan is going to change this or they are going to get sued. It is illegal in Texas to ask for vaccination status or to ask if you are negative for covid
No, it's illegal for the government to do this.
It's also illegal to mandate vaccines for public accessible places.
A workplace doesn't count, and letting them test (even if it's ridiculously expensive tests like the medical administered one they're asking for) is still legal.

>>10748709
>This is all sounding like a near-exact copy+paste rehash of Anime Frontier, but more mild. That one was straight up demanding jabs.
What? No, I went to frontier, they let me show up with a home test in hand. No third party.
They didn't demand jabs.

>>10748724
Well there was an underlying implication to my message. No idea why I didn't make it more obvious, but that's besides the point. That point being Anime Frontier's policy was also carried over from another state, along with numerous events I've attended or heard about claiming one thing and doing another. Notable examples include the currently-active AniFest thread, Anime Midwest plastering MASKS MANDATORY all over their site then "masks optional" at the front door and Otakufest saying no masks before changing their minds while doing zero enforcement (even in full view of the owner). I suspect SanJapan will be no different.

>>10748748
They did last year, hope it stays the same.

>>10748748
I mean, the cdc doesn't recommend masks indoors anymore so I really don't get how they think they're cdc compliant

How the fuck is SJ going to run a more restrictive policy than last year now when cases are basically the lowest they've been since the start of things? It's absurd. I hope their email gets flooded with complaints and questions.

Like, you need a test within 48 hours. 48 hours of what? Friday? What about vendors and artists who load in Thursday? What about someone who buys a day pass for Sunday?

If they are going to be this restrictive they should offer tests on site. I know you are reading this SJ staff, fix your shit.

They'll reverse it and then just say that masks must be worn at all times, then the weekend of the con will come and barely any one will be wearing one.
I already seen this episode, what else is on.

>>10748791
my big issue is, if they're requiring negative covid tests within 48 hours, then I can't cancel my room or ticket if I get a positive test.
Basically, unless the FDA gets off their asses and finally approves the other non mrna vaccine that half the world has been using for months, I won't be able to go unless I'm willing to risk losing hundreds of dollars.
I mean, I guess I could still stay at the hotel, cosplay outside, and have a nice vacation on the riverwalk so it wouldn't be a total loss.

>>10748800
And the best part is that people with jab cards could be covid positive but they aren't tested and can waltz right it.

>>10748723
>No, it's illegal for the government to do this.
No, the government made it illegal for a business to do this. Look up Senate Bill 968, it states that a business can't do this.

>>10748955
this is what i've been trying to say. removing the mandate means that it removed the protection that businesses have to require masks.

>>10748959
>removing the mandate means that it removed the protection that businesses have to require masks.
All a business can do now is to ask you to wear one.

>>10748992
Businesses don't have to require a mask but a business can refuse service for almost any reason, including masks.

>>10748955
>>10748959
That bill makes it illegal to do vax only.
If they let people test, it doesn't violate.
However, their requirements for medically supervised testing might violate the law

>>10748993
The law also only mentions you can't keep them out of your business, not that they cant refuse business.
Basically, san japan can't kick people out of the hotel or the convention center lobby, but they can pull your badge

WTF are they going on about. Cases are thr lowest they've been in 2 years.

Whoever runs their socials is a huge dick. They come off so condescending in ever reply to people about everything.

>>10749014
Get fucked, plague rat.

>>10749015
Hello san japan, revise your bullshit policy. Vaccines don't prevent jack shit at this point. You would be better served requiring everyone to home test if you were actually concerned about spread.

But I guess I can't expect anyone to actually pay attention. Mask up and Vax up or die am I right?

>>10749015
No one asked for your worthless lardass hole opinion, worthless lardass hole. Now do what your lot always does and whine all day while not actually going (no one wants you there anyway)

Has anyone else seen Aselia Con's covid policy? It's literally the strictest in the state (from what I've seen so far) since they want to account for boosters and "loss of effectiveness of vaccines after 6 months". Just an example tho I guess no one on here really cares about this con anyways.

>>10749163
Tales fandom is a complete dumpster fire anyways. I would never go there and I regularly cosplay from Tales.

>>10749163
Vaccine policy is stricter, but san japan has a stricter testing policy.

>>10749163
That might be the strictest Vax policy period. Are there any other cons anywhere that are requiring boosters? Most businesses aren't even requiring their employees to get boosters.

>>10749174
Most businesses are even rolling back their vaccine mandates.
Basically, vaccine and covid measures are the reason it's so hard to hire. No one still out of work wants to work at a place that wants you to wear a mask 8 hours straight, and take a drug you may not even need.

HAPPENING

PUSHED AHEAD BY THREE MONTHS FOR GOOD THE MADMEN ACTUALLY DID IT

>>10749749
Well now, this might be a good replacement for SJ if their covid restrictions aren't batshit.

>>10749772
It doesn't look like they have any covid restrictions. Here is their Rules & Policies
https://colossalcontexas.com/info/rules-policies/

>>10749808
>doesn't look like
Because they don't. Neither Ohio nor Texas even pretended to care about masks last year.

>>10749809
Awesome. Sounds perfect!

Did anyone go last year? What was it like?

>>10749814
Not a gigantic turnout but that wasn't too surprising, given that was their first year. They were clearly desperate for volunteers and asked if I'd be interested in exchange for two free nights at Kalahari, refunded ticket and unlimited waterpark entry. We also had an unplanned /cgl/ meetup that resulted from two groups busting in on someone else's meeting that we read about here. Easily the best part.

The convention center is apparently bigger than I thought because there's a second floor that they should be opening up this time around. And I'm also hoping to GOD the villas are done by then. That's where the real fun will happen.

>>10749816
I would expect that it being in the summer will make it more desirable. Seriously thinking about all those swimsuit cosplays I've a lays said I would do...

>>10749749
wew, same weekend as Delta H Con
Get fucked H-Town!

>>10749814
I loved it as my first colossalcon ever, the arcade and pool were huge and made it so much more fun. I've already got everything set up for this year now with the new change and I'm very excited to use the outdoor pools this time

>>10749816
>second floor that they should be opening up this time around
Where? I can't imagine where any additional floors would go

Everytime i go to a con with cgl in texas theres a very unfortunate trans woman with a ryuko wig are they any cool

>>10749828
Weren't you there last time? A second floor did exist (literally just an escalator ride away) but was off-limits to the con for some reason.

>>10749829
dude isnt a troon just a guy that does crossplay ironically. seems like an ok guy

>>10749814
It was cozy. I think actual Kalahari staff told this overweight Genshin impact cosplayer to stop practicing her hoop dancing act for the masquerade but I think it was more out of cringe than it was “bad behavior.” The temperature change should make the con a much more lively area, because it was a massive waste seeing the outdoor area not being used during the season. It should at the very minimal have repeat users going, I know me and a few more people from my group are.

>>10749829
Nah, I don’t think Burger King Rei is a tranny. But he is extremely autistic and socially retarded so I can see how he would be mistaken for being trans.

>>10749749
This will kill Delta-H, especially since we know Delta-H will have some wacky covid policies.

>>10750180
Last time I went to Delta H years ago it was a sub-1000 person con
How big is it these days?

>>10750207
>sub-1000
>mask required
While 40,000+ (allegedly) at Matsuri last year and no enforcement at all. Yeah, good look with that one, fellas.

>>10750211
matsuri (like most conventions these days) publishes the number they have to give the insurance companies as their attendance.
i.e. "Number of total bodies in and out, each day"
An event like matsuri has a 1500+ group of vendors, staff, and guests that will be there a day or two in advance as well.

So before they even count paying customers, they're at roughly 7k
So if they have 12,000 unique customers, it might very well translate into 35,000 people.

Last year before covid vendors got SUPER pissed because they lied about their numbers (when a vendor asks, they want to know paid attendees, not bodies) and so vendors brought too much stock.

>>10749829
>>10750008
Yeah, he's very weird socially retarded is a good way to put it. I still think he is a creep. He does not know just when to go away. I more or less had to cancel a room because of him weirding out actual females.

>>10750787
>I more or less had to cancel a room because of him weirding out actual females.
Yeah that goes from being autistic to acting like someone from TBBT

>>10749829
pretty chill guy

>>10750877
Ah the TBBT a show that made non-nerds think it is ok to be assholes to people by trying to act smart.

>>10751335
If a nerd can't describe solid state physics to me then they're not a real nerd

Gonna attend Kamehacon for the first time, anything to know about?

CCTX moved to August, I'll see you dudes there.

>>10752337
what is CCTX?
searching just leads me to corpus christie

Well I emailed San Japan with a boatload of covid policy questions. Will post here when they respond (most likely monday)

>>10752341
I'm guessing colossal con texas

>>10752342
>emailed San Japan with a boatload of covid policy questions. Will post here when they respond

They are not going to respond. They posted their policy online and after reading it I have no intention to go. There are a lot of con's in Texas and SJ isn't anything special so why deal with their BS when I can go to another con that will have the same things as SJ but doesn't have SJ's BS.

>>10752663
Good job anon. Don't go where you're not wanted. That's the right way to handle this.

>>10752728
>Don't go where you're not wanted
Hey, no need to get mad just because no one has ever wanted you

>>10752728
Why would a con not want paying attendees?

>>10753313
Because they're unvaccinated or unmasked or whatever. I meant that as in, if the con is going to have policies that you disagree with, it's good to take your money elsewhere and support cons that agree with you. If they want your money then they'll change or they won't because they want the money of people on their side and if that's the case then the con wasn't worth going to for you cause you'd probably hate the environment or experience.

>>10753313
Because they are more concerned with virtue signaling over dated covid policies. Some of these con runners legitimately would choose bankruptcy over mask and vax requirements. Look at Anime Next. They canceled their entire con because they got buttmad they couldn't enforce mask policies in public spaces and hotels they aren't contracted with.

>>10753417
I forgot about Anime Next.
If you run a con just put something in the Terms of Service that says that the con isn't responsible if you get sick. That if there are any requirements they are due to city, state or federal laws that they legally required to follow.

Besides it is a con, I'm more worried about con plague than covid.

>>10752446
oh, that makes sense

How big of a blow up is A-kon going to be

>>10753685
All signs show that it's going to be worse than 2019. Y'all gonna wish it was back at Fair Park.

>>10753685
Only "talent" that is going to be there that is worth seeing is fhána and possibly Yaya Han. Get some actual Japanese VA, not some people who just talk to the lip flaps of a character. If you can get a band from Japan why not get some VA's, animators or people who actually work on making anime.

>>10753769
>Get some actual Japanese VA
Because of the delays in anime during covid, the current recording schedules are gonna be on the heavy side so fewer Japanese VAs will be available to come out until later this year.
If they don't get them next year, then it's something else.

>>10752342
They'll probably email back saying read the FAQ

>>10754064
That'd be hard
I quoted the faq in my questions

>>10754074
They don't care about you, heck they don't care about making money from this con, the only thing they care about at this point is virtue signing with their covid policy. The con can be a complete failure but they will still congratulate themselves saying "We made sure that everyone was safe".

>>10754176
I have to believe at least some of their decisions are money related because people have asked multiple times why they aren't using clear.this year and their response is that it was too expensive.

I just find it crazy that covid numbers are down significantly from where they were last year but their policy is way more restrictive. Makes them look dumb.

>>10754176
They're using a standard covid policy possibly because of insurance reasons. Big events have to ensure some type of precaution anyways even if the state has looser policies.

>>10754237
Standard for who? Also no they don't have to have highly restrictive covid policies for insurance reasons. Why do you think every con has a disclaimer now about assuming risk by attending.

>>10754214
Talking with some other convention owners, they've said it's a hard balancing act between doing what the customer wants and doing what the staff wants.
Much of the staff being volunteer means they can walk off the job with no consequences at any time. So if the right number of staffers think everyone needs to push for vaccinations "so we can go back to normal" then it's hard for the board to overrule it without losing half their work force.

This is why cons should actually pay people.
When there's money on the line, people are FAR less likely to threaten to walk if a company doesn't virtue signal.

It still happens, but happens less.

>>10754366
Huh. This post certainly puts things in perspective on why Colossal Texas, with no pretense of masking at all, was so eager to recruit me for volunteering on day 0, even without me asking them.

>>10754380
If they happened last year, I'm not surprised.
A LOT of the convention volunteer base is absolutely terrified of Covid, despite being extremely unlikely to succumb to it.
To be fair, NYAF being ground zero for Omicron didn't HELP things.

So yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if some volunteers just assumed certain precautions, then when they got there and saw it didn't have those precautions they just bailed.

But also, first year cons are lucky to get more than 30% of their volunteer list to show up.

Anime Matsuri has some actual cosplayers coming but that is it. The con isn't for another 3 months but I would think they would have a few more people on their guest list.

>>10756230
Matsuri always runs announcements late
But also, a lot of VAs won't go to AM because of peer pressure

>>10756238
The fact that they still haven't posted their room block gives other red flags. John claims it's the hotels wanting $400 a night.

>>10756230
"actual cosplayers"
You mean the handful the chair and his wife haven't stolen from

>>10756260
I wouldn't be surprised
Downtown hotel prices have skyrocketed this year due to inflation, and increased operational costs, and higher demand since people are actually traveling again

>>10756264
This is something that should've been figured out long before that they announced their convention dates. At 3 months out? Sus.

With Matsuri still bouncing checks in 2021 as they're not able to pay the bills I bet it's caught up to them on places demanding payment up front.

>>10756230
Yeah because they've pissed off the English VAs to the point no one will appear and Japan is closed due to Covid so they can't con any JP guests into coming out. All they have left to mooch off of is cosplayers.

>>10756530
They fucked over the one JP guest that they had in 2021 who blasted Matsuri. Good luck on Matsuri getting JP guests. It's going to be KR acts along with Vic.

Has anyone gone to Anime Houston? Is it worth going to?

It'll be $100 if you want to see the K-Pop act at AM on Thursday unless you don't mind being shoved in the back of the room.

>>10758711
It hasn't even been an hour yet there's already a petition to get them to pull out from AM. This is glorious.

https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/pull-dreamcatcher-from-anime-matsuri

>>10758712
Is this what they think will happen when they get their 100 signatures?

>Get 100 signatures
>Mega algorithm kicks in
>All world governments have emergency meetings
>UN Security Counsel is convened
>Worlds first global task force shows up in Houston
>Houston is leveled to the ground
>All staff for AM are rounded up and publicly tortured before being executed in front of a cheering crowd
>The land Houston was on is turned into the worlds largest concert hall
>Dream Catcher makes their first performance in the USA from it.

When's third strike?

>>10758868
Dreamcatcher already has a US tour with tickets on sale. Some already sold out for that matter.

>>10758868
>>All staff for AM are rounded up and publicly tortured before being executed in front of a cheering crowd

I would pay good money for this.

>>10737377
Is San Japan any good? Havent been since around the second or third when I was underaged B&

Went to this past afest and looking to get back into this shit.

>>10752342
>Well I emailed San Japan with a boatload of covid policy questions. Will post here when they respond (most likely monday)

It has been over two weeks and you haven't posted anything. They are going to be idiots and try to get anyone who comes to get multi-shot and at this point there are plenty of other con's in Texas so if you don't go to SJ there is no big loss for you.

>>10759159
Don't bother, their covid policy alone makes it where it isn't worth going. If I wanted to deal with all that BS I would move to Shanghai.

>>10759159
It's pretty good, I go whenever I can with friends and it's always a chill time. Have some friends visiting for this year so it shouldn't be too much of a problem but their panels are always kind of hit or miss for me.

A-Kon is requiring masks but not vaccines or negative tests. Curious to see how that will play out given it’s fucking Texas, but I don’t mind getting some extra use out of all of the masks I bought. I have so many cute face ones I never got to use before we decided masks were not the way of the cowboy.

>>10759243
>A-Kon is requiring masks but not vaccines or negative tests
Sad to say this is a vast improvement, compared to pretty much any event outside Florida (I assume there's other more lenient places but I have yet to find them). What that also probably translates to is little or absolute zero enforcement. So I hope.

>>10759244
From the events I’ve been to in Texas, it is usually minimally enforced. The people enforcing would be volunteers, and would you risk getting into a fight when you’re being paid a fabulous rate of $0? No. At most you’ll get someone pointing to their mask to remind you.

>>10759246
>would you risk getting into a fight when you’re being paid a fabulous rate of $0
Is this to say people actively resist in Texas? Everywhere else, they're the most complacent lot you've ever seen. That becomes painfully obvious when you notice the only no-maskers around are 45+ and clearly not there for the actual event.

>>10759246
>would you risk getting into a fight when you’re being paid a fabulous rate of $0?
bold of you to assume weebcon attendees are anything but limp weenies who will comply if it means they get to buy waifu merch and ogle scantily clad women dressed as their current flavor of the month anime faves.

this is the only social interaction most of these people get all year, the majority aren't going to sacrifice that just to bitch and moan about masks when antisocial weeb fashion has already involved quirky fun cloth masks for years anyway, pre-covid. 99% sure half of them want to hide their faces and it gives them more confidence since they're often insecure about their appearance.

it just isn't a big deal to most people, especially asians who are a large portion of anime con attendees in big metro areas.

>>10759243
I'm ok with this. I totally get why they would go ahead and require masks even though they don't do anything. It creates the illusion of doing something and satisfies people who are still insane about it without actually putting most people out. At this point we all already have masks and are used to wearing them. I'll deal.

I'm just glad they didn't go full vax nazi like San Japan. I'm probably dropping them, especially after a larger event put out a significantly more reasonable policy. Makes them look like idiots.

>>10759269
>especially after a larger event put out a significantly more reasonable policy. Makes them look like idiots.
Friendly reminder that Colossal Texas is only about 2 hours down the road, less than a month before and has absolutely zero enforcement. Of course I'm going to both anyway, but still

>>10759273
People talk mad shit about ATX and nearby cons for no reason so hype for those outside of people actually from Texas is dead.

>>10759284
There are also 27 conventions in Texas for the rest of the year, that is just anime, not regular con's. You could pretty much go to a different con every weekend if you just live in Texas. Heck at tp2gpmhis point Texas is the anime capital of the USA.

>>10759284
To be honest, I'm not entirely sure what you mean. However, I can tell you one thing, which is that I'm not in Texas or even near it. Several others from out of state that I know are also confirmed for Colossal Texas

>>10759244
When I went to Delta H Con they had mask requirements (they tried to do vax only) but when I got there barely anybody was actually wearing masks.

>>10759273
I'm aware. I'm highly considering giving up on San Japan for it. I'm not local to central TX and I don't want to make that drive twice but colossal con is slightly closer, has a swim up bar and no dumb restrictions.

I just have no idea what to expect from the con itself.

>>10759319
>they tried to do vax only
Is this to say they backed down? My last Texas con was Ikki 2021 (the second one) and I'm curious about the atmosphere before going back there in a month.
>>10759322 (checked)
That swimming bar is pretty cool, eh? It's extremely hard to guess how it will be since of course last year was the first. And SanJapan is literally only on my radar because I was invited. Otherwise it wouldn't have even been an afterthought. As can be seen above, it's clear the entire San Antonio scene is lacking, if virtually nonexistent.

>>10759327
It got too expensive to put on cons in downtown Austin.

No one has figured out how to put on cons in downtown San Antonio except San Japan. PAX left town. There's smaller pop up cons around the city but nothing major.

>>10737377
Yeah he is.

>>10759327
>Is this to say they backed down?
Yeah they put up their policy on their website but then a week or two later, Texas announced that bill which would punish businesses that were trying to require proof of covid vaccination to gain entry so Delta H just went with only masks required instead. I don't know what the deal is now with San Japan and their covid polices, maybe they don't care or maybe there's been a change in Texas policies since.

>>10759419
>maybe there's been a change in Texas policies since
Texan here, there has been no change in covid policy. Honestly at this point when I see someone outside wearing a mask I'm thinking they are wearing it due to allergies instead of covid.

When March 2021 came around they lifted all the Texas covid restrictions, which was ceremonial because most of the state wasn't even following them. The only places where it was really enforced were the major cities but go even outside of Austin or Dallas and people didn't care about covid rules. After March 2021 some places still had mask requirements but that was mostly large corporations that had a national policy or a local place that had it just so they wouldn't have to hear someone bitching about the place not having a mask requirement.

Being 2022 in Texas if you try pulling the "you need a vax card" either people are not going to have one on them, they are not going to show it to you or they will just avoid the place.

>>10759159
I went before COVID went down. It was kind of cozy, super big venue and a pretty cheap weekend considering it was on Labor Day weekend. Convention center is surprisingly not abused for private photo shoots enough despite the Riverwalk and upper areas of the con center being really really photogenic. I don’t know how it is now since I don’t go to cons that require me to show proof of vaccine post Covid.

Why the fuck is Akon badges $100?
And to go to dreamhack aswell is another $85?

>>10760645
Maybe don't be poor

So did San Japan ever have a link to their covid policy on their website or has it always only been accessible through a small text link on the 3rd party registration page???

Seems like some shady ass shit SJ.

>>10760713
Literally on the convention website menu. Sorry that you're blind as fuck.

>>10760739
It is linked on there as a large red button You must be colorblind. You should go see a doctor.

>>10760645
Why didn't you buy them when they were $55? Budget better.

>>10760645
That's around how much they cost last time this close to the convention too I think? Anon, you had two years to buy a badge.

>>10760739
I swear to God that wasn't there yesterday. Wtf maybe I am going blind.

>>10760713
>>10760739
>Literally check the website yesterday because san japan still haven't gotten back to me via email
>Spend 10 mins unable to find the policy
>Google can't find it either
>Today see this thread
>Suddenly there's a bright red bar listing covid policy in the main menu

So, we now have confirmation that someone on san japan staff is here
Maybe they just screwed up and forgot to add it to the mobile version, but i find that hard to believe

They still haven't replied to my email

>>10760909
I literally linked it to out of state friends a few weeks ago when they asked for it anon, it's been there.

>>10760645
Inflation is a bitch, but generally any convention with over 12k people is going to have an at the door price of 85+

Also, dream hack is a completely separate company, which has struck some sort of cooperation deal. Blame them for their overpriced ticket, that's not akons choice.

>>10760910
I'm not saying the page wasn't there
I'm saying the menu link wasn't
They had the page linked in their Facebook post which was where i originally found it
It's also linked in their registration page.
But it wasn't on the mobile drop menu yesterday

>>10760909
LMAO I absolutely wouldn't be surprised if SJ staff is lurking around and fixed the problem after seeing
>>10760713

If yall have time to troll CGL maybe you have time to rewrite your policy so it's not ridiculous and confusing???

>>10760916
I just think it's funny
San Japan's biggest competitors are going with little to no precautions
San Japan is going with some of the strictest in the country.

And now the FDA is officially telling people to treat Covid like it's the flu.

I expect San Japan will change their policy by the end of the month.

Never in my life have I been so grateful to live in the shithole known as Florida. We've given up on caring about masks in doctor's offices before 99% of convention owners at their events (at venues which aren't enforcing under other circumstances). Absolutely nothing in vaxmaxxer centrals like Chicago or Seattle either. Colossal (all of them) can't come soon enough

>>10760953
It’s weird because Texas is the exact same way. Enforcing masks at events isn’t something we’ve done since early last year. I don’t understand the mask mandates in 2022.

>>10761186
Because the people that run and work cons are liberal idiots.

Christ.

>>10761186
My first ever trip to Austin was also the first time I saw people going no-mask and gathering in large groups. That was the end of May last year. Not exactly an expert on the state, but I do know that people have been calling Austin the new California for a while now. If even they were sick of lockdowns nearly a year ago, I can't imagine what the rest of the state is like. And also I am in full agreement with the post underneath yours.

The more things open up, the more people will see something is very wrong with these event organizers. It's already a common sentiment on this board in regards to events happening all over the place. Here's hoping they stop caving in to fearmongers, get run out of business or even better, denied access by the venue owners.

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