/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Tokonatsu 2022 July 28 - August 1, 2022 Boyd Memorial Camp Site and Activity Centre
Henlow, Bedfordshire, UK

Animangapop Glasgow 2022 August 6, 2022 Holiday Inn Glasgow Airport
Glasgow, UK

Norwich Anime & Gaming Con 2022 August 6-7, 2022 University of East Anglia Students Union
Norwich, UK

Kitacon 2022 August 19-21, 2022 Warwick Arts Centre
Coventry, UK

Portsmouth Anime & Gaming Con 2022 August 20-21, 2022 Mountbatten Leisure Centre
Portsmouth, UK

Japan Fest Retford 2022 August 21, 2022 Retford Town Hall
Retford, UK

Bristol Anime & Gaming Con 2022 August 27-28, 2022 Mercure Bristol Grand Hotel
Bristol, UK

Doki Doki 2022 August 27-28, 2022 Sugden Sports Centre
Manchester, UK

Sheffield Anime & Gaming Con 2022 September 10-11, 2022 Mercure Sheffield St Paul's Hotel & Spa
Sheffield, UK

Cardiff Anime & Gaming Con 2022 September 17-18, 2022 Cardiff University Students' Union
Cardiff, UK

Newcastle Anime & Gaming Con 2022 October 8-9, 2022 Event Northumbria
Newcastle, UK

AmeChibi 2022 October 14-16, 2022 Park Inn by Radisson, Northampton Town Centre
Northampton, UK

Liverpool Anime & Gaming Con 2022 October 15-16, 2022 Liverpool Guild of Students
Liverpool, UK

Birmingham Anime & Gaming Con 2022 October 22-23, 2022 The Birmingham Conference & Events Centre
Birmingham, UK

HotaruCon 2022 November 4-6, 2022 Jurys Inn Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes, UK

Brighton Anime & Gaming Con 2022 November 5-6, 2022 The Old Ship Hotel
Brighton, UK

Animangapop Brighton 2022 November 12, 2022 Holiday Inn Brighton - Seafront
Brighton, UK

Please stop making these awful threads

>>10792438
But where else can I complain about English cons?

>>10792438
I can’t help the content nor can I be bothered to be close enough friends to everyone on Facebook or follow multiple people just to see what’s going on. So the watered down meme versions interspaced with “hi demo” and the odd bit of drama is sufficient for me.

hi demo

Hi dairy

>>10792487
>>10792549
Demo doesn't associate himself with gullcord or /cgl/ anymore, he won

fully believe Dairy is still here though

Lets be real, 95% of the posters here go to cons much less cosplay or wear lolita.

>>10792754
Do NOT

>>10792749
Can't say I care for either of them these days, and every new thing I hear about them through the grapevine just makes me... disappointed, to say the least.

>>10792749
Hi demo
Keep telling yourself that

>>10792815
They're both a waste of cum

>>10792203
MEGACON THIS WEEKEND, BE VERY AFRAID SNOBBY ANON.

>>10792827
D: I have no idea what that is. But I’m afraid for free all the time. So thanks for the heads up.

Ten year old me would have loved to meet cat from red dwarf. Still be cool now desu but it’s the same weekend as wildercon

>Have a convention during a Bank Holiday weekend towards the end of school summer holidays
T-Thanks Doki Doki organisers

what have you heard?

>>10792815
made a new post instead of replying, but still curious what is being said about either

>>10792846
demo here, we can skip the middle man

i'm a drink spiker, gaslighter, user and abuser, and worst of all a kpop hater

i'm also well documented in hating women

>>10792855
u forgot 'mega cutie' xoxo

watching people attempt to converse in the kita discord makes me want to saw my own legs off

>>10792842
What?
Afraid of kids, Babykiller?

Decided to go to Animeleague Portsmouth instead of kita, can someone remind me what was wrong with Animeleague in case I should dip, thanks :)

>>10792908
hi urine you should join gullcord!

>>10792908
>Decided to go to Animeleague Portsmouth instead of kita

funniest thing ive read in literal months

i'm so sorry

>>10792908
AL organizer might be a nonce.

But the people actually attending there(ie the ones you interact with) are less menally ill than the ones here.

>>10792913
I would if the invite link wasn't so cryptic just to join a harem bruh
>>10792923
One is local-ish and the other is in the midlands
>>10792947
Ye, trying to find a link to a site that explained it all, the actual con itself was fine when I went to London in the past, hence my decision for AL > Kita

>>10792953
https://discord.gg/aEZPd2Gm

its right here

anyone going to EGX this september?

>>10793251
yeah, first time going. hotels are pretty cheap this time considering it's the excel

>>10793258
I'm only going for the day, no need for hotel.
This is my first time going to the London one. I went to Birmingham a few years ago.

>>10793258
what are the prices?

I'm impressed the hotels in excel think they can charge 220quid a night for MCM london when it was almost half back in may.

Let's see how well booked they're gonna be when everyones disposable income drops like a rock after summer.

>>10793263
2 nights at £120 a night, opposite the tesco

Why are british cons & their attendants so unbelievably bad

>>10793274
whats the name of the hotel? I guess 120 is about right for off-peak though.

>>10793291
anything that isn't MCM has garbage attendance because the country is full of chavs whos only existence is to watch fagball and love island.

>>10793295
I sounds like we have a non believer. Next time for sure.

>>10793295
Good Hotel, it's the floating barge one

>>10793398
Looks nice.

>>10793398
Looks good

Looks great

>>10793398
Stayed there in May - it fucking sucks. Tiny rooms and a shitter that can barely flush a piss.

>>10793843
So what you're saying is... it's not a good hotel?

>>10793843
thanks for letting me know.

I sure as fuck won't go there for mcm october.

>>10793622
>>10793623
Life's good, Life's great, shut the fuck up and donate.

Toko was fun.

>>10792827
I’ve been to that event with few friends of friends and some of them end up going at it in their hotel room and now it’s a shame cause they’ve decided to blame the guy involved which I highly suspect as gay as an escape goat cause they cheated.
>a little bit put off by cosplayers now. Don’t think they make for good friends.

>>10794789
Well, it’s a doggie dog world.

>>10794430
Mega was great,
surprisingly some neat cosplays about to break the mould of the usual CURRENT THING fandom shitters that were there

>>10794789
That's their partners faults for not knowing cons are Vegas rules. If they expected monogamy they should have joined them.

>>10794789
>>10794844
I have only been hearing the story directly from the girl’s side. They’re saying they’ve been victimised. While the whole time she and her gang are posting photos of how happy they are at the event. I remember how touchy the girl was to the guy. And now suddenly they are saying that the guy is the bad person. It is just convenient for girls to play victim in this instance isn’t it. I hope not all cosplayers are like this.

>>10794875
Don't be shy, name names

I think I know who you mean

>>10794918
No need to name drop then if you already knew who

>>10795170
name drop them for everyone, they deserve to be dragged in the mud.

Kita Discord mods refusing to answer when asked if they're on the committee or not and favouring certain people when it comes to warnings. We love to see it

>>10795194
share the kita drama anon, I'm too busy going to another con.

the kita mods acting like they are committee is just a joke, also no meme channel and can't say cum..

>>10795202
discussion of c*m is punishable by death

>thread mentioned in democord
>suddenly active

makes you think

>>10794789
>>10794918
I think I also know who. This thread is very much tired of idol community drama but this is relating to idol cosplayers isn’t it? I know the group involved and heard them talking about someone being abused while drunk. Instagram group and member search shows that they have been having fun at the event and not a single sign of apparently being abused while there. Then again you can’t trust what you see online. This could just be one those e-thots asking for attention.

>>10795218

im sure there’s an idol thread somewhere. Take it there

>>10795206
hello ben

looks like a no nudity hentia pannel at kita

>>10795202
Kita discord sounds like a real good example of how to not run a con discord

>>10795311
this shit just becomes more and more of a clown fiesta as the event draws closer

>>10795311
Source?

>>10795206
Literally no one outside of your clique gives a shit about your discord

>>10795333
discord

look here, assholes.

Don't bring up drama if you're not actually gonna elaborate what's going on in detail.

>>10795333
From gullcord posted yesterday. Edited out the names

>>10795337
maybe if people like you actually used the gull discord we wouldn't be in a situation where the other discord is the only active and relevant gull adjacent discord rn uwu? Could you do that anon?

>>10795453
It's drama cold war, anyone who says to much gets their own skeletons revealed.
So everyone takes vague snipes.

>>10795453
You don’t sound like you’re from around here at all son. Stop shit posting about your shitty idol group to gain attention.

>>10795676
Maybe if some freak didn't ask you for feet pics any time you join it might get new blood

>>10795761
No one is actually stupid enough to take that seriously though right anon? You must realise it's a joke~

>>10795761
i'm sorry you don't understand humour and tradition

>>10795761
Awwww, is little baby embarrassed by their hoofs?

Come now kitten, post them for daddy :)

>>10795777
t. Nonce

>>10795801
It's the mods way of figuring if you post feet, if they slip into your DMs you might be willing to post something else too.

>>10795804
>gullcord mods
lmao

>>10795777
>>10795779
>>10795782
Actual nonce behaviour

>>10795804
Now I'm not saying dairy does this
But I'm not not saying he does

>sekrit club discord with their own sekrit club channel where they can act two-faced to everyone else on the server
very positive experience for all I'm sure

should i cosplay at insom or should i wait until mcm

>>10795859
At this point I can't even tell whether this is about og gullcord, emocord or democord. A pox on discord in general

>>10796038
It's about lewdcord

>>10796016
For fun? Hi ahead, for attention/clout/competition forget it.
Cosplay plays a poor second fiddle at gaming events.

Don't believe the cosplay pages on the websites lies.

>>10796047
Drop the invite link coward

>>10796059
It's been dead for ages but fine: https://discord.gg/FgxDsuCEpt

>>10796038

Obviously talking about Yorkiecord

>>10796065
I wish yorkiecord was real I just want one /cgl/ adjacent discord server that is not run by a drama farming nutjob and all the current options are very unappealing

>>10796067
this might be the most unintentionally funny comment we've had in the thread for a while

>>10796067
>doesn't know about rekcord
lmfao

>>10796070
i run rekcord and I still prefer being in yorkiecord, very comfy server

>>10796071
Rekcord would have been a great thematic name for emocord

>>10796072
that's not fair I don't even post wordles :<

DISCORD BREAKDOWN FOR NEWFRIENDS

Gullcord - the original, a shadow of what it used to be, kept alive out of pity for a handful of exclusive posters

Emocord - a server where everyone could hang out without having to listen to wib talk about her problems

Democord - a server born from Demos hatred of Jeff and Banshee though he will pretend he made it to run games, the current most active discord

If I missed any it's because I haven't been invited to the secret club

>>10796075
a few additions for you anon

tgcord - coco's attempt at boardgames unity
aight club - rek's attempt at vidya unity
lewdcord - some secret sex server, doesn't sound good
flavourtown - abuser containment server, more leaks than the titanic
kitacord - school shooter containment server, keep it clean
kokorocord - :wave: :sun_with_face:
yorkiecord - /hunt/ general
fishcord - the only good gull server, rip

>>10796078
Oh yeah, forgot that wib adopted a pet retard. I hoped he killed himself to be honest.

>>10796079
They're probably besties now, pair of emotionally manipulative lost causes

>>10796083
When I think about it, all our problems started with him. That shit literally killed gullcord.

>>10796085
Hard to make friends in a dead server

>>10796078
Wib left flavourtown ages ago because undiagnosed mental illness

how can a community be so dead and toxic at the same time bros

>>10796096
you have to become the friend you want to meet anon! :D

>>10796104
That's a very sweet take, you're one of the good ones, Paero

>>10795827
eat shit and die

>>10796154
But anon
That's my fetish
Not feet

>>10796038
big-s

Is Scowny still involved with kitacon?

>>10796368
Thought they shut it down a while back? Guess this explains all the backstabbing and fallouts that's been going on.

>>10796368
I miss big s

TF Nation next weekend, transform and rollout

>>10796419
Not for many years
>>10796509
It's been gone for ages and hasn't come back. Pretty much everyone is still friends and no backstabbing has happened in the core group. There have been a few fallout but nothing more the normal level for a group of this size. Does that help you speculate about a group of people you don't even know anon?

Are there any guests at kitacon this year? I can't see anything on the website

>>10796559
A couple of literally who insta cosplayers for the cosplay judging, but otherwise there's none of the bells and whistles of a usual con, it's going to be a very 'you go to get drunk with your friends' affair

>>10796533
Probably a couple of the gull rejects who can't let go.

>>10796570
>you go to get drunk with your friends
Isn't this every single con and also why people whine about MCM?

>>10796580
no con is gonna please everyone

for me though, kitacon works juuuuust fine

Do any UK con still get MasakoX as a guest?

>>10796633
Is he still alive?

I remember him having a cameo in Ashens first movie and just face palmed

>>10796800

He was recently announced as a guest for akumacon in ireland, its really annoying, they get him every year, I dont think they've ever had an actual voice actor guest apart from the time they got Steve Blum over video call

>>10796804
He's been to a couple of AL cons in England I went to years ago. Even at AL cons he was a meme amongst con goers

>>10796804
Speaking of voice actors doing video calls, AL is guilty of fucking around voice actors appearances of recent, reduced to some 'Shit' tier nonce voice actors instead.

>>10796905
Imagine still going to AL cons in 2022

>bluebell rooms overbooked

what next? feel like we're watching the dying breaths of a convention lads

na running a convention at a uni is just stupid.

>>10797236
Where else could they run it, stupid?

>>10797342
I dunno, look at all the other host venues from real events going on in august

>EVO
>abunai
>animagic
>colossalcon

Uk "cons" are literally ghetto tier.

>>10797360
It's because it seems like everyone who runs a UK con isn't doing it from a business perspective, they do it because they want their dick sucked for simply existing and clout.

Doing a big con is a lot of effort, from the larger events I follow they are in the convention halls literally months before anything happens. Some even operate warehouses where they test-build their stands. And I appreciate events have to start somewhere but it feels like the incentive to grow just isn't there when you can rock up to a sports hall or uni a week in advance.

>>10797360
I still think we should have a con at a Center Parcs

>>10797442
if Viencon in the Netherlands is anything to go by I think a UK Centreparcs con would be so good.

Likewise I think Tokonatsu sounds really fun in theory, but I can't hack the thought of camping for a weekend, let alone in cosplay.

>>10797438
Is it just brit culture that prevents us from having crazy anime cons?

Too many people into football, capeshit and love island?

>>10797360
But EVO was shit this year, amigo.
Same with colossalcon,
facemask land.

>>10797461
It wasn't well enforced at all, anon.

>>10797461
Just wear a mask you waste of cum

>>10797461
Colossal was anything but shit anon, those Americans know how to party

>>10797477
Keep seething Britlets

>>10797600
Britlets? Implying we have less Brit? That doesn’t work.

>>10797600
Fuck off, foreigner.

>>10797450
Money. Space is expensive as fuck, like 10-12x the cost it would be in bumfuck USA which tends to be most of these big events originally start out. Plus all that extra cost has to go somewhere, either you pay shitloads for your ticket which reduces the number of people that attend or you cheap out on everything and make it cheap so people attend a show that's got fuck all there.

Wait shit sorry I mean.... Errrrr..... Fuck.... Soul, vibes, capeshit cucks.

>>10797916
It's possible to grow out of a hotel con, I've seen it happen. Though that was pre-brexit and getting international visitors sure did help.
It's pretty complex unfortunately - like you could probably get a big hall somewhere like Telford on a more reasonable budget, but who wants to go to Telford (maybe we have some small issue with transport and location snobbery)

how can i make friends at conventions?

>>10798339
join gullcord

AL posting safety rules regarding this weekends UGH MUH 4 DAAAAYS OF HEATWAVE then gone weather, are fucco's that dumb?

>>10798444
Literally no one cares about AL

>>10798142
That sounds like effort.

>>10798142
grooming capital of the uk, great choice

>>10798339
>Go to events that encourage group participation, like pub quizzes or trad game rooms
>Be friendly and talk to people
>Don't be a creep
>If you hit it off exchange Facebook/Discord/whatever details
>Talk to them after the con about your shared experience
>Find some common interests and talk about them
>Become friends

>>10798673
or just

>be attractive and cosplay
>get friends with practically no effort

>>10797360
Ghetto is being kind.

UK "cons" might as well be "let's all drink until we need a new liver" and "we are not leaving this shithole uni dorm until we've flooded every shared toilet more than it already has been".

Doesn't matter if their moms made their shitty cosplays or con logos are written in comic sans ms. Anime talk becomes a side attraction. Who needs deep philosophical discussions about hidden metaphors in Madoka or AoT or whatever, when you can drink this gallon of pure alcohol, or jump over a bonfire and catch your balls on fire?

Am I whining? Yea, guess I am, whatever, don't give a shit. Go to cons that don't have UK in their addresses in them for actual anime fun. If you want non-sober chaos, I ain't stopping you

>>10798985
America is full of pure party cons in amazing venues, what we have is a few people clumping in a university room or stairsteps drinking IPA and thinking that's worth 400quid, that's the problem.

>actually talking about anime/philosophy

Mate, the only philosophical talk I want to hear is if hawks/endeavour is the best ship.

>>10798985
>Boomer who is in that stage where they like anime, still has time for cons, but grew out of having fun

maybe you should organise an anime con at a nursing home and talk about evagallion or wherever

>>10799112
Unrelated boomer here. I’d go to that

>>10799112
Haha but you'll be dead by 30 kiddo.
No wonder your gen is fucked and full of untreated schizos.

>>10799112
i would legit go to this too. Would be better than anything AL puts on.

Need anime/cosplay friends.
Need anime/cosplay gf.
Too scared and autistic to go alone :(

>>10799443
If you want keep the the current generation out of cons put up a sign that says no covid passport required and they'll never come near the place. Which is ironic because if you go to con you'll more times than not come home with conflu

>>10799564
then perish

>>10799575
moron

>>10797445
>if Viencon in the Netherlands is anything to go by I think a UK Centreparcs con would be so good.

Yeah especially since half of the people, or at least a third, who go to Viencon are people from the UK

>>10797445
>but I can't hack the thought of camping for a weekend, let alone in cosplay.
That actually sounds breddy fun if everyone is in the same boat.

>>10799625
>no comfy hotel
>no airconditioner
>no instant gratification and comfort of civilization

Hard pass.

>>10799009
>what we have is a few people clumping in a university room or stairsteps drinking IPA and thinking that's worth 400quid

Speaking of people getting stupidly drunk at a UK party con, how is everyone feeling about Kitacon this weekend?

>>10799634
Feeling happy i didnt dump 600quid for that disaster.

>>10799632
Centerparcs has rooms or cabins, right? If you want to be a toff about it.

>>10799634
Expecting it to be pretty fun, though not allowing hentai at the hentai panel is a huge red flag

>>10799722
What is the hentai ban about? Surely this is just a meme?

>>10799636
How do you end up spending £600 on it? The combined total of my room + ticket came to a little under £200

>>10799942
I don't share rooms with anyone unless its my gf.

>>10799959
Radcliffe for only one person costs £300

>>10799970
yeah but you still gotta pay for tickets and travel (also you spend more for cons).

I guess its more like 450gbp if you're a cheap fuck. Not really worth it for such a small con.

I miss HexenHarlot/EvaBraun. Whatever happened to her?

>>10799979
I reiterate, my actual con expenses were £200 + £35 train, so £235. I chipped in £5 for weed to last the entire weekend and £16 for a bottle of vodka. Even if I add an extra £40 for food, the total is still under £300.

>>10799942
First experience with hyperbole?

>>10799981
Died in a grade 4 Nazism incident. Rest in peace.

>>10798751
Those aren't actually friends, anon. You do know what a friend is, right?

Well, considering how much kita costs now, I can't say I'm happy with the conbag and it's contents

Me when I checked the Insomnia 69 guest list

>>10800115
congratulations, you're old

>>10800094
What’s in it? No funky compass that doesn’t work this year?

>>10800130
Idk man, I'm pretty good at knowing about popular contnet creators. These people are just nobodies.

>>10799981
Nice selfpost

Ahem

FUCK WASPS

that is all

Kita day 1: Opening ceremony was pretty empty, winning pub quiz team probably cheated, MAD is fairly decent. Pretty slow so far, apparently loads of people struggling with trains. Alright day I guess?

>>10800467
SHITACON

>>10800467
>MAD is fairly decent

>>10800488
SHOTACON

Saddest games room I've seen in a long while

>>10800530
maybe they need to get an emergency ball pit in there.

>>10800467
>>10800530
YOU GUYS PAID 400QUID FOR THIS?!

No one going to AL at Portsmouth? Saw one person in this thread likely going but still seemed unsure because of the people behind it

I read about it and they're pretty much nonces but it's still mainly the people attending the con itself

Decided to just take the bullet and will likely check it out, can just leave if it's nothing at all, and was too late for kita anyways so was just wondering

>>10800642
lots of ppl attend AL anon, most of them clueless and just want to be massive weabs. There's a reason they make hand over fist with money, very little expense and lots of plebs attending.

Just a shame the guy running it is a bit of a nonce, but that's every single con in the world.

>>10800642
oh portsmouth, isnt that in like, devon or cornwall or someshit? I thought only boomers inhabit that area.

>>10800658
Pompey is full of students and navy personnel, so literally everybody is drunk all the time. The road leading to the guildhall is one long stretch of nothing but pubs. The boomers live nowhete near it.

>>10800642
Nice blog

kitascam

>>10800718
is it still ded?

>>10800718
How is all the new but they built over the last few years? Whatever the arts centre but was they smacked down.

>>10800736
I think the problem is that it has the numbers of a small hotel con, but is set in a venue for a giant con. It feels a lot deader than it actually is because everything is spread out so groups of people are sparse. The events I've been to have been fucking great, but the atmosphere outside the event rooms is pretty subdued.

Looks like RakuCon was a fail

>>10800773
Apparently a lot of folks have been cucked by train strikes but I'm sure everyone who was committed to getting here is here now.

>>10800642
I went in the end with my wife, was alright, not as big as London but same vibe. Wify says the gaming room was cool but the tournaments had no hype.

>>10800864
That's kind of depressing

>>10800951
Decided to go as well after thinking about it. Was cool to see the retro game stuff, was a bit too late for the tournaments though. The dealer room was okay. Other than that, it was smaller than excepted, so you would tend to see the same people few times. It was kinda fun to walk around in cosplay but it's a shame no one really asked for pictures:(

Also glad you enjoyed, couple goals honestly.

Could still go today but not sure because it was quite small and well the experience was different than I thought it'll be so just wondering if I really should go again

>>10800864
I keep seeing people's photos of Kita with basically no one behind them, this just confirms it.

>>10800976
Confirms what?

>>10800953
2/3 of the people were on the dancefloor

>>10800976
What?

>>10800953
Taken when most were inside for the DJs. Great attempt.

>>10800864
>less than 10% cosplaying
>less than 10% under 28 BMI

Let me guess, all the cosplayers and normal looking people are in this "dance hall" right?

>>10800987
I mean, kinda. All the social butterflies go to the dance floor and the rest go to the steps.

>>10800987
"Yes"

>>10800989
me wearing the orange shirt on the right.

>>10800989
me in the welly boots

>>10800989
Me off camera to the left

Games room was the saddest thing I’ve ever seen.
KGT was a shambles.
Committee obviously don’t give a shit anymore

If you think this is shit show. Wait for amecon

>>10801042
KGT was brilliant mate, the only performances that were slightly lackluster was the firestick guy who could have done with wearing a cosplay and the ragtime dancers where the girl clearly knew the routine and the guy was forced to learn it the week before, even then both of these were enjoyable and entertaining.

Everything else was well above the expected standard of this sort of thing.

Games room wasn't the best I've seen but wouldn't call it shambles. That room does have a lot of space to fill but they had plenty of stuff in there.

At this point I'm wondering if this thread has paid trolls or if some of you gulls have just gotten too old and your crows feet too deep to enjoy anything anymore so are just becoming toxic salty slags about everything instead of cultivating any kind of likable personality.

>>10801042
>obligatory DDR machine
>Multiple fighting games
>Multiple racing games
>Several emulators with masses of games
>That bongo game
>Board game library with an actual decent selection

What more were you after? Definitely needed more tables and chairs but otherwise it was fine.

>>10801055
You have no idea what it’s like.

(Couldn’t find the “why are these not fun anymore” one sorry.)

Did people have fun? See some frens? Job done.

>>10801055
Because I'm not interested in acting like this mediocre shit is anything more than mediocre
Sure drinking and having fun with friends is easy but man is the con itself a damp squib

>>10801056
Kokorocon has upped the baseline now with MaiMai and Project Diva machines

>>10801076
I think Ame 2018 is still the peak of games rooms. Kokoros was fun especially as a rhythm game player but it definitely needed more. Kitas would be better off in a smaller room. It's just okay but we've had much better. No rock band setup is always sadge. The lan pc setup at ame and hibana was pure soul too.

>>10801098
Ame was the one that had a rockband set up with all the anime music? That shit was great and should be a staple of con games rooms.

>>10801111
Shame it's just one guy who owns it all

Bring back ddr:uk

>>10801135
Thought they were still about

>>10801142
Dead site, last twitter activity 8 years ago.

>>10800966
What was your cosplay?

kpop set is on so everyone is outside

More people dancing at the steps than in the disco. Let's go steps gang.

>>10801135
It's literally them here lmao

Let's gooo

>>10801145
Still about, still running the games room at Kita and Minami

>>10801162
>still 0 cosplayers

>>10801185
Not a huge amount of cosplays outside the multiple spy x family waifus the a huge amount of girls in bunnysuits, meido outfits and a half dozen femboi hooters so like it's not like it's just a normie parade. It's Sunday night people aren't going to be in their full costumes and this was also just after the ball so a lot of people were in formal dress. It just looks like you're desperately trying to put it down with buzzwords and muh shitacon.

poor DJs

>>10801190
An easy night for them since they are hosting the quiet lounge which shockingly was quiet, everyone was partying in the room next to it or partying just outside the room.

>>10801157
and who were you anon?

seemed something happened at AL as well but idk

>>10801194
Stop adding context to the other persons photos, you are making them look stupid!

>>10801190
the wojakest DJ I've ever seen

>>10801190
what event was this?

>>10801210
>seemed something happened at AL as well but idk
Are you talking about the crying 2B?

>>10801261
Spill the tea anon, we need to know.

>>10801262
Idk there was this 2B cosplayer and they walked up to a kurisu cosplayer and I think a ritsuko? Then later on was just crying at the bottom of the stairs

>>10801263
Prolly got dumped or her advances rejected then.

>>10801266
That 2B was a dude

>>10801263
“Leave it out Shazza, he ain’t werf it”

>>10801190
downstairs got better but you can tell everyone liked outside more just from the quality of songs

>>10801185
do you have eyes

>>10801266
it could be anything honestly, maybe that person had a shit day, maybe that person recognised them but they didn't thus making it pretty awkward. it sounds embarrassing for everyone involved though

>>10801279
>maybe that person recognised them but they didn't thus making it pretty awkward. it sounds embarrassing for everyone involved though

They were an obsessive creep from discord I blocked that either happened to know I was there or a really bad coincidence considering they're not from the UK

>>10801268
probably sucked at crossplaying and had a mental breakdown.

It's not for everyone.

See one Genchink cosplayer, see em all.

And fuck me from looking at Shitacon, why are UK cons getting so progressively worse with cosplay attendance anons?

>>10801283
its kind of telling when a normiefest like MCM actually has a ton more cosplayers and have serious cosplayers compared to these "soul" cons full of guys in red T shirts just drinking beer on the steps for 3 days.

also

>animeleague has more cosplayers

>>10801280
honestly, how would that person even found out that you were going for that matter, to me it sounds like a big coincidence then, did you ever talk about it to them? that person prolly never excepted you to be there either. let alone with someone else, going by a previous comment your wife?

i suppose you'll only really know if you ask em but sounds not really clever to do so, i suppose if you would ever do, keep it civil cause they prolly feel bad about it, don't think they're all smiles now

well, if they're not from the uk, they either planned a holiday perhaps (why you would go here anyways) and bought tickets sometime, that's what I would think. shame to let them go to waste then. and going by previous messages, they sound fucking awkward, maybe seeing you was a huge surprise to them and they didn't really know what to say either yet they wanted to, hence creating such an awkward situation. and hey, seeing someone like that out of the blue may come over as an enormous shock to you as well. don't know how long you two have been in touch.

just food for thought. dont immediately assume they went all out paying hundreds just for you and that they had ill intend.

also as said, it's embarrassing for everyone involved.

>>10801283
Should have gone to anime league rather than kitascam

anybody know if there are gonna be any good cons on in early 2023?

>>10801285
Bro long story but he was literally following us, even to the bus.

>>10801288
some people really do be fucked up

>>10801287
Try the netherlands, germany or the US.

>>10801288
was just playing devils advocate there and trying to get another viewpoint in

couldn't you just tell him to leave you two alone? clear, direct. besides, from what ive seen AL Portsmouth was small anyways so you bound to see each other more, dude should have taken the hint though and go a different way or even leave but avoiding each time is awkward as well

i guess anime cons arent his cup of tea and probably just felt heavily out of place there and just walked around like a retard, been there before save bothering people

anyways it also seems like there were hapless attempts to make up or something to me but what do i know, get being alone at cons sucks

>>10801292
creeps like that don't take no for an answer.

>>10801292
>from what ive seen AL Portsmouth was small anyways so you bound to see each other more
Indeed understandable
>dude should have taken the hint though and go a different way
Dude followed us to the games room and kept sitting next to us on the main stage when half the seats were empty
>i guess anime cons arent his cup of tea and probably just felt heavily out of place there and just walked around like a retard, been there before save bothering people
Been there done that before too, would've been ok if it wasn't for above
>anyways it also seems like there were hapless attempts to make up or something to me but what do i know, get being alone at cons sucks
Dude was mumbling and shaking every time he tried to talk when we clearly said no and walked away, eventually told security but they didn't do much

All in all the con was fun and we didn't let him ruin our moment, but wish he stopped following us everywhere

>>10801295
alright, i get your points, dude definitely should have kept his distance and while following may happen, if it happened frequently then I get you and your partner may get pretty uncomfortable. i get it's somewhat nice seeing someone you are a bit familiar with at a strange place but there's just limits, i guess that person never got social cues plus I suppose it was loud as well, wouldn't be surprised if he didn't hear you clearly though

kinda wondering what made them a creep anyways actually, maybe they are in a really dark place and are just idk, became one lonely isolated mess, been there as well and that is something I don't wish on anyone. but got my friends and gf in the end, loneliness can screw someone up really and well maybe that dude enjoyed the friendship with ya and attempted too obsessively to regain it just not to be alone. it just rarely works out.

but good, at least this is over, would things even be different if he didn't follow you like a puppy and just tried to enjoy themselves? im still glad for you erine that you got to enjoy the con with your partner, and next time he won't be there. sure he'll never attend one again actually.

>>10801300
Anon, I know you want to help people and believe that they can be fixed, but the unfortunate truth is that some people can't. They are toxic to their bones and ultimately the best thing for everyone, even the toxic elements is to identify and flush them from the community do they can't hurt anyone else. Like what the gulls have done with their toxic and abusive elements. They got purged, cancelled, and the scene as a whole is now better off.

Stop justifying toxic behaviour, please, for everyone's sake

>>10801304
Just cause some people left to make their own server doesnt make them toxic and abusive

>>10801304
i tend to see the best in people as much as i can and I think most have a good side at least, even hidden. I'm not excusing the behaviour from him to Erine but I do think he felt regret and sorry by crying at a con, and I'm sure in private as well.

But good, I'll knock it off then. I'm just saying, someone I used to know felt at some point so much guilt and shame about a similar thing while just losing everything they had they killed themselves. I think in the end there was just a lot of miscommunication which could have been prevented with one good conversation, and I didn't know them as a bad person. It just reminds me of that. That's all. We don't know much about this person at all, by the way, but anyways, I'm also not saying this person is innocent.

>>10801307
Whether your say, Abuser.

>>10801295
Just the right thing, is there's any pics of then share them, name and shame, and send to con organisers

>>10801313
hes probably just a sperg, anon. I don't think he should be blacklisted for being cringe.

How good are the merchants at kitacon rn? What stuff they're selling and any good artists?

>>10801328
Right now, they’ve all gone home.

>>10801328
Kitacon dealers Hall was alright. Some nice artists some shit artists a couple figure vendors, bubble tea, there were some led masks that were pretty cool, a booth selling dvds/bluerays/cds, somone selling anime nurse cosplay accessories and two booths selling some cheap prop katanas and weapons at a steep mark up but people tend to love those as easy cosplay props.

It was decent but not a single manga anywhere which I'd a shame because no where near me stocks that sort of stuff.

I guess you have to cut some slack to it as it was the first warwick con since covid.

>>10801328
Do you like gunpla?

>>10801328
i feel like the bad artists outweighed the good

>>10801556
I agree with this, there were some very good artists but they were the minority. Overall I really enjoyed Kitacon, would like a better games room for 2024 but that's about it. Was good catching up with everyone and can't wait for Kokoro

>>10801557
Sounds like Shitacon cope, Kockoro shill

>>10801557
Did they confirm the next one? I don't see anything about dates on their socials

>>10801615
They mentioned Kita 2024 in the closing ceremony

>>10801615
2024. Amecon is probably 2023, we'll get confirmation at Amechibi.

>>10801679
Amechibi into Amecon like 8 months later seems unlikely to be honest.

Kita review:

>Venue
Arts Centre is even better now, loads of comfy seating areas and the new restaurant is fucking great. Still best venue.
>Dealers room
40% shit art, 40% shit art with a tranny flag superimposed on top, 20% actual anime stuff. Did buy a few things, but very little choice unless you wanted terrible fetish art or wanted to show off your twitter flags.
>Events
Actually really good. Choice was limited but every event and panel I went to was very enjoyable and worth the time.
>Games room
Way too spread out and closed too fucking early, but good choice of games.
>Parties
Didn't attend lol

Wasn't the best con but wasn't the disaster I expected either. I had fun at least. Really needed more attendees for a better atmosphere, but it was a neat little event. 6/10 not bad but needed improvement.

>>10800787
Yes it was horrible anon. Small space, not very accessible for disabled people, unreliable organisers, and guest idol group who’s having a sex scandal. Just all the things a con should need I daresay.

Good riddance to gullcord

>>10802184
agreed, better times ahead for all

>>10802184
noticed that, did it got nuked?

>>10802184
Wasn’t aware it was still about. Thought it was dead. Does it now straight up not exist?

>>10802184
Its not like theres a con community to fill anyway.

>>10796075
>>10796078
Got any invite links?

>>10802237
https://discord.gg/CX6s6D2

Here you go, the impartial UK con discord

>>10802246
Ew that's the cringe one

>>10802208
Yeah, it was quiet and now it's gone

>>10802301
Gottem

>>10802186
Oh you know nothing

>>10802301
is it full of lgbt people? what's wrong with it.

>>10802313
it can ALWAYS get worse

>>10802314
It's full of boomers and the most normie shit
Also dead as fuck

>>10802323
so are all the uk discos dead then? sounds about right.

>>10802324
Besides specific con discords and clique discords yes

There exists a gal in the market

>>10802324
All the public ones

>>10802313
I know your mom's a hoe

>>10802324
Besides specific con discords and clique discords yes

There exists a gap in the market

>>10802325
All we need is a young charismatic leader to revive the scene.
Unfortunately everyone here is over the age of 27.

>>10802327
Maybe there's a reason all the big public discords suck

>>10802329
theres like 100-200 max in all the public servers(mostly inactive/bots), seems pretty tiny to me.

>>10802330
Either way they've all sucked or been really cliquey

>>10802328
speak for yourself grandad

>>10802328
Certified nonce

>>10802166
Two shitty flag-art dealer rooms and one main stage, really zero much else aside scarce cosplayer attendance both days. But good to hear Kita was shit too.

>>10802365
im not a nonce

I really need to cosplay 9S and make this happen while I'm still young and beautiful.

>>10802402
Calm down demo

>>10802408
Step on me

>>10802330
Getting on 700 in the AL discord, js~

>>10802435
>AL discord
lol

>Insomnia is on this weekend...
GO FUCK YOURSELVES
Hate cons that clash dates.

>>10802445
>not being at viencon

>>10802435
Wait, they have a discord?! Where the fuck have I been lol.
I thought they were stuck forever in the past with that shitty looking blue forum thing from the 90s.

>>10802482
>>10802435
Invite invite?

>>10802435
>ALcon

holy fuck you HAVE to share the link I wanna see this trainwreck of nonces and hero academia cosplayers.

animeleague went to shit after brentalfloss stopped going to their events

>>10802445
Insomnia seems pretty dead now desu. No one talks about it, and they've stopped getting big-name guests, now they invite 400 follower Twitch streamers to their "creator tavern".

>>10802575
If it weren't for the lan aspect I'd say Eurogamer has totally supplanted it

>>10802576
I used to go to EGX when they held it in Birmingham, and it was infinitely better. Still though, people talking about Insomnia is making me want to get a ticket for tomorrow, since it's nearby.

>>10802577
I was do disappointed when they moved back to London, I know I'm biased but the NEC is a pretty good location and venue.

>>10802582
Yeah, it takes me 3x as long to get to the excel centre as it does for me to get to the NEC. Apparently they're going to have events in Birmingham, too, but I can't see them being quite as good as the old ones were, or the London ones are.

evens and I go to insomnia tomorrow

>>10802166
>guest idol group who’s having a sex scandal
What scandal? I'm sure most conventions doesn't have idol group sex scandals. Also new cons tend to have unreliable organisers and small spaces unless their organiser are very experienced.

>>10802435
I would honestly rather slit my wrists and shove them in the sea

Went to doki doki and now im sneezing like a motherfucker.

Those pieces of shit spreading diseases

>>10802577
>Birmingham
My condolences anon

>>10802536
Probably best place if you want to chat desu - https://discord.gg/ZVmXSkJN

>>10802760
It's better than London, as long as you stick to the main areas.

>>10802772
Fuck of with your noncecord

>>10802834
Cool, that one highstreet that hasn't even got a decent restaurant on it?
I'll stick to a civilised city thanks, rather than visiting the most homophobic, transphobic, racist and just embarrassment of a city like bumfuck Brum again.

>>10802851
>the most homophobic, transphobic, racist
wtf I love Birmingham now

Gutted to hear about gullcord, Dairy and the gang always seemed like top lads when I met them.
Hopefully we'll get a 2.0 soon

Why does it feel like every con which has happened this year has just been ALRIGHT?
Not good, not hysterically bad.

>>10803125
nice bait

>>10803130
how is that bait, friendo

>>10802632
You said it yourself. Unreliable organisers and horny and promiscuous idol groups and members. To be exact, it was Iridescent idols that anon meant. Another anon posted them above as well. It nothing new really. People getting drunk and having sex at conventions. Only the hoebag decided two days later that she was too good for the guy and started a rumour that she was raped but really nonchalant about it, posting about how happy she was at the event and even posting photos of her and her alleged abuser. My sister was raped and we went to police and did all the correct ways to deal with this. That’s the difference between a slut like Idolmomo who wants her reputation clean and a real victim of abuse. Absolutely disgusting.

>>10802691
Careful fren, Genshitcosplay-19 is everywhere!

Fucking chink gachas.

>>10803127
I feel like cons are more consolidated than ever. We rarely get independant small cons anymore at least in the south. Just seems like all the small to mid sized cons are run by the same 2 or 3 cliqs. And there's no room for anyone new. It's very stagnant. That's why cons are just "alright" now. No real competition and organizers just want to boost their friends cosplays over anyone new.

Done with cons
Done with cosplay
Done with the festering corpse that is 'the gulls'
Done with it all

And I feel
so
fucking
free

>>10803556
hi [redacted]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-9DEUZlKLPxZ08ni0-vouj7GUKeWiA1NEde2i4mCZsI/mobilebasic glad to see wib hasn't changed

>>10803556
Gullcord is dead
Long live [your favourite replacement discord replacement]

>>10803556
See you at Kokoro!

>>10803125
hey Kyle

>>10803561
glad to see people are still being catty against each other.

Let's catch up a bit

#3404

>>10803611
Fuck off cunt

Wait why is Gullcord gone?

dairy you silly cunt

>>10803624
It's not gone.

>>10803656
Sure as shit looks gone to me

>>10803657
It isn't gone dairy just kicked everyone besides a handful of people because he can't let go

>>10803620
I wasn't referring to you, CUNT.

>>10803664
abusers often need their own little hugbox

>>10803664
I'm shocked anyone would want to be associated with that cunt

>>10803664
It will all blow over by next year anyway, It's just depressing how people can get cancelled over baseless accusations. #freedairy

>>10803664
They kicked everyone. All the old channels were archived

>>10803748
That isn't everyone

>>10803749
Discord Bots, Dumbass.

>>10803750
there aren't that many bots, dumbass

>>10803750
Wait, that's 4 online and 7 members. My mistake, I'm the dumbass.

>>10803746
I believe people will "forget" about it eventually not because it's false accusations or baseless rumours but because most gulls are brain-dead and morally bankrupt

What did Dairy do?

>>10803746
kicking everyone from your discord server is definitely the response of someone who has done no wrong

>>10803756
He's making the career transition from discord administrator to convention organiser.

>>10803756
enough to get banned from kitacon and kokorocon and most likely more cons across the uk

Anyone wanna play hunt

>>10803561
i thought kokorocon was meant to have a serious safeguarding policy, why do they let someone like wib be active in the discord? didn't she also make physical threats to another con attendee at the first kokorocon over literally nothing?

https://twitter.com/GyaruOfTheDay/status/1520078170648629248

>>10803756
Once someone spills Dairy's dirt, everyone else's is coming out.

Wib is pure scum, nothing else to it

Keep having breakdowns in public channels where nearly everyone is laughing at you, babe x x x

>>10803778
What version do you want?

>>10795311
>>10795651
>>10799722
>>10799841

I can confirm this. I went to both hentai ‘quizzes.’ For starters having 2 events that are basically the identical concept is odd in itself and you can really tell they had trouble filling the panel schedule otherwise a duplicate wouldn’t have been green lit.

The ‘big dumb hentai quiz’ on Saturday was done by a guy who’d apparently been told last minuet he had to censor basically everything in the quiz. Instead of quitting (what I might have done in his situation) He censored his panel (which was entirely ‘what happens next’ hentai clips) He heavily censored the clips using quotes from the committee and basically used the event to take the Mickey out of the committee.

The second hentai panel on the sunday ‘super happy fun time hentai panel’ was less censored but apparently a shorter video section was also cut from this. In the middle of this panel warwick uni staff came in to complain that there were children outside who might hear things.

I raised this at the feedback panel and was told there had been numerous complaints from warwick uni staff and even some con goers about a long hentai clip in the previous kita hentai panel. The ‘butt vampire’ one. Basically the venue put their foot down, started talking about ‘obscenity law,’ and basically vetoed future adult content. According to committee all future panels with ‘adult material’ will be censored to some degree.

Committees position was roughly summarised as ‘we are a business and this is what we have to do to keep this venue.’ Apparently ‘super happy fun time hentai panel’ was only as relatively uncensored as it was because the runner is married to a committee member.

>>10803812
did anyone see a single child the entire weekend of the convention? talk about stupid
when are we gonna have a true 18+ con

>>10803816
I remember when kita went from a 16+ con to an 18+ con. The argument being it was getting hard to keep doing things like the hentai panels and hentai screenings when they had to police the younger con goers trying to sneak in.

Incidentally also raised the way issues like this had been dealt with in the past. Committees response was something like kita isn’t the same event it used to be, different team, different ethos and they wouldn’t even know how things used to be done in the early days of the con because the don’t really have any one from back then even involved in the periphery.

>>10803820
just rename it to shittercon at this point, Warwick is really the only thing holding Kita up nowadays aside from the name

>>10803816
When a con is brave enough to use a fetish venue as a host

>>10803844
I'd say it was more holding it back. The con runners go on about how its the only place big enough. I think maybe kita is too big. Might be better to have a smaller venue that will let you run events at 2am where you have the place to yourself.

>>10803848
You recommending any? :P

>>10803858
just want the Hilton back I miss it so much

>>10803861
Yes but as I recall they more or less got kicked out for 'manga shagging.'

It's not that surprising. Didn't they book along side a baptists convention one year? And then the gadget show another. Hilton banned a girl from going into the party wearing a rope harness over her jeans and t shirt. I believe it was the Hilton staff that objected to the late night hentai screening because (I've been told) some kid caught a view of it as the door swung open. It was the Hilton shut down the late night party early for noise. A hotel like that only works for a rowdy noisy con if you can more or less book out the hotel. It has 789 guest room a lot of them doubles. If every attendee had booked rooms the Hilton instead of the cheeper near by hotels then maybe it could have worked.

>>10803862
And the Hilton hosts ConFuzzled to this day. Guess the weebs really are worse.

I don't know about you guys but I can pass on hentai panels. They're not funny or even amusing, just a tired staple of the convention scene.

>>10803864
I understand that point of view. It's a bit like the rocky horror picture show. Half of the fun is watching the new people enjoy their baptism of fire. And It does take a real effort to keep them original. I gave scowny a hard time in the past for too much of his panel just being slides of /d/'s weird imposable anatomy pics. but at least he tried to innovate, with life on girth etc. Hentai panel needs a fresh new format. Something more than just 'look at weird picture x' Personally I'd like to see some one try and do educational and funny (with a good measure of degen added).

When I think about it the cycle of emotions a hentai panel should take you on should be something like
>My goodness hentai is F***ed up.
>But that bit just there is making me kinda horny, how F***ed up am I.
>But really this is just fantasy and escapism that follows its own kind of internal logic I'm starting to get. This isn't so scary.
>Ok this is a fun place to visit but I wouldn't want to live here. definitely a place for fantasy not anything to do with IRL stuff
>Except that thing, that things hot. Anyone wana try that thing.

>>10803865
Long ago I wanted to do something like this but beyond explaining what comiket and doujin circles are couldn't really think of much more material, and I don't think I'd be talented enough to make it interesting either. I guess there are corners of Japan and other conventions that could be explored through the same lens though. Either way, something like this which ties into the culture would be much more interesting than examples I've seen in the past.

>>10803878
Other comic markets, rather.

>>10803865
I have an idea for a doujinshi book club panel where we read through h-manga/h-doujinshi and point out plot holes, rate the story, the sex scenes etc. with audience opinions being the focus

>>10803884
Gaaah, sempai, my hips are moving on their own. I guess it can’t be helped, I’m going to go crazy. You’ll take responsibility right

>>10803895
>okay anon, it's your turn to read the next two pages

So seeing as Gullcord is dead and most people seem to have split off to do their own things, are these threads going to not be made anymore?

>>10804145
if anything they should be made more often

>>10804145
The gent who makes these left gullcord some time ago. I think they'll continue to be made.

>>10803878
A) I really think we need something grass roots like comiket in the uk

B) it would be quite interesting to explore how Japanese law and Japanese sex work have influenced hentai in the hentai panel. One way you could do it is with a mockumentory style news report about a journalist visiting Japanese sex establishments.

>>10804172
That's good, I'd miss these if they went away

>>10804172
It’s cool. I’ve been making them on and off since like 2012 and maybe 90% of them since 2017. Been reading them since 2004 or so, I’ll keep making them regardless of gulcord as long as there are cons / events to go to.

>>10803858
Kita's problem is that it still thinks it's a small con. Before you'd only go to Kita for the parties and it styled itself 'the party con'. Now it's stepped up to fill Aya's place and doesn't know how to be a big con. So you have every room closing down early, empty schedules, things being badly organised etc. It's been repeatedly raised to the committee but they either don't know what to do or don't care.

Bring back Aya and boot Kita back to being a hotel con, everyone would be happier.

How hard is hosting and scheduling a con realistically? I'm not talking about hosting my own con, but actually making a con good. What are the complications that are stopping cons from being able to host back-to-back volunteer event panels all day and keeping stuff open late?

>>10804299
I mean I agree with that last point. I don't think kita was by design a 'party con' I think it just happened by accident because they ran their party till late, one of the 1st cons to do so, and people happened to like it. I think one of the reasons it worked so well was there were other things to do though while the party went on. People would flit between party / karaoke / showings etc. That formula didn't really break down till the move to Warwick. I don't recall aya running late panels either desu. I think that's just a venue issue.

>>10804311
I the case of kita I think it was a lack of people volunteering to do panels. I think the that the con was moved several times can at least in part be blamed for that. It felt like the con would never happen at one point so that has to put some people off committing to the work involved in running an event. (knowing their panels may be censored isn't going to help this in future years)

The other side is the venue. Warwick clearly isn't willing to keep it's art centre / roots open till late, that's where the space for panels / gaming / showings is.

>>10804311
Also this year kita seemed to have real trouble sourcing licences to show anime. The showing line up changed at the last minuet and there were long gaps between them. I think anime distribution companies no longer see anime conventions as a benefit to their PR. I guess they think they have better ways to reach consumers through the web and cinemas.

>>10804311
People don’t want to run events. People want to attend them. It’s harder to fill an events schedule now a days. Same reason you tend not to get con books, no one submits anything. Ignoring that, filling the schedule, then spreading it through the days so people can attend nit creating bottlenecks or putting events too early or against other things meaning no one will go. It’s one of the more fiddly things to do, plus you have to balance that agasint what rooms are a available from the venue and how popular the events will be so you don’t put a sell out event in a room with a capacity far lower.

The early Kitas didn’t run events against the party’s to deliberately make it the only thing to do. This created the party con atmosphere and it became established.

Anime licensors haven’t allowed fansubs or upcoming licensed stuff to be shown at cons since 2005. Since then you had to go through them and see what they offered you. Prior to that cons were small time enough that the companies didn’t care.

>>10804341
Feels like legal licensing could be a nightmare for events unless they are an explicit sponsor, and I can't see any of the major anime companies sponsoring a UK con at the typical capacities we run at.

>>10804388
>>10804339
That's the big thing I always say about conventions, especially these days. You can lead a weeb to a convention, but you can't make them run panels.

At the end of the day, the convention is working with what they are given and doing their best with it. Espeically with the pandemic break that is also killer for events, because a lot of first time event runners do so because they had real good times at previous event and thought "I have an idea to get involved next year", with a 2-3 year break that doesn't happen, and even the regular panel runners are possibly thinking "It's been 2-3 years I just want to enjoy the con myself." so hopefully as things start to open up we will see a return to great panels. You do have to remember, there are a bunch of 18-21 year olds who Kitacon was their first con simply because they were too young to attend previously.

>>10803816
Yeah, for some reason a family brought their kids in the middle of the arts center to play on the cushion-thing outside the theare/woods-scawen and they were there for like two hours just lingering while the hentai panel was going on so staff had to say "Please avoid the Lewd chatter on your way out because there is a family there and if they go karen and complain to the venue the con might get in trouble."

>>10803865
>>10803868
I've been to some really good hentai panels and some really bad ones, some are just cringe fests of "Look at this art I found of Ice-Queen from Adventure time with a car sized dick." or "Hey check it out, it's yet another Sonic-the-hedgehog foot tickling image." which are only fun in small doses.

Personally, this years Super Happy Fun Time Hentai panel was one of the most entertaining I've been to. Everyone had cards labelled A, B, C, or D, and had to stand up all together, sitting down when they got a question wrong. It was fun audience participation with low stakes and investment since you know, you could sit down if you were uncomfortable sharing that you got 9 questions right in a row. The "Higher-or-Lower Bukkake" was fun and dumb and all in all, the panel didn't have to rely on anything fucked up for chuckles and all in all was relatively tame but still very entertaining.

>>10803884
While it's great to have a little back and forth, relying on audience paticipation is cyanide to a panel if no one steps up, or whoever steps up isn't as witty and entertaining as they are in their head.

I remember the "Anime Blind Date" panel that was 100% reliant on getting 3-6 cosplayers to step up to the stage and be able to act in character and improvise on the spot and I tell you what, they were not.

They lucked out and got a couple cosplayers with charisma near the end that salvaged the panel but it was basically hitting a gold in the swamp, without them it would have just been piss-warm cringe from start to finish because it was relying on your audience to be filled with cosplayers experienced with improv experience.

>>10804388
>The early Kitas didn’t run events against the party’s to deliberately make it the only thing to do. This created the party con atmosphere and it became established.
You say early kita but I don’t remember kita 3 or 4 being like that. I could go digging for the schedules in my old con books if necessary. In fact didn’t kita 3 run panels after the party at like 2am?

I take you point about licensing recent anime but again I actually like retro anime. I’m a retro anime fan and there is still plenty of obscure stuff from the 90s/00s I’d have been tempted to catch at a showing. Again promoting the back catalogue doesn’t seem to be something newer distributors care about. Even when they’ve paid good money to buy up companies with extensive back catalogs.

As for panels I think you’ve a point in so far as it’s very intimidating to run a panel at your first con. Or if you’re at the con alone. And I think that’s more common just after the pandemic. It might get better later.

>>10804524
>Personally, this years Super Happy Fun Time Hentai panel was one of the most entertaining I've been to.
It was ok. I’ve seen That Man do that panel maybe 3 times now? That was probably the worst. I really think it suffered for the lack of video.

>>10804522
I mean as some one who ran a panel which actually managed to get a few laughs (which is not bad for a first panel) it might be easier to get people to run more panels if you don’t go on in 4chan threads about how their panel is the cancer that’s killing conventions.

People used to love running panels. Obscure niche panels on some little known anime lore about lost media or something like that. I wonder if it’s not that people aren’t still offering to run those panels but the offers are being rejected?

>>10801285
Hi val, nice to see you’re still a manipulative lunatic, if I see you irl again I’m getting a restraining order on you.

Wouldn’t that be embarrassing for everyone involved.

>>10804621
Can we just have one convention without needing to call the police

>>10804526
Whewfh, Cosplay Blind Dates?
Cosplay Chess must sound like prolonged cancer when done by Brits.

>>10804668
I’m pretty sure it’s all scripted including the chess moves.

>>10804645
Oh come on. There will be at least one or more weeb believing they are the coolest kid at the party but are in fact thick as shit meaning police will turn up.

>>10804712
I remember one convention that took place near a foot ball stadium on a match day. Some tipsy footy fan say some cosplayers with prop weapons walking to the convention (the hotel was more or let the other side of the stadium from the convention centre) so he called the police.

Armed police came rushing in in their van, jumped out, took one look around at the sea of cosplayers milling around and dejectedly got back into their van realising it was a false alarm.

>>10804684
Nah it looked like some of the battles were improvised

>>10804801
Well at least I think cosplayers must have had prior contact with the players they’d face off against. Too many contrived match ups and frankly too much of it was too polished to be entirely unscripted.

>>10804801
They all plan out the moves and who will fight who ahead of time online, and then rehearse it before doing the proper show

>>10804797
Think something like that happened with Alucard cosplayer milling around Southampton town centre during minami.

>>10804549
I was chatting with guy who ran it afterwards and he said he'd had to drop the video last minute due to some new rules by the venue.

>>10803812
>>10804842
Yeah that’s what the committee said when I asked them about the othe hentai panel.

>>10804815
This was derby as I recall

>>10804668
Honestly I think the things that work best in that situation are also the meanest. The easiest way to generate humour out of those situations is put the contestants in uncomfortable situations. Or at least situations uncomfortable for the characters they are portraying.

Like pairing up a sweet and innocent character with a bunch of incorrigible letch characters. Like putting card captor Sakura with 3 dommy mommy’s.

It’s funny for the audience but you need good sports for volunteers.

FUCKING SECRET CON NIGGAS, GET THE FUCK OFF MY COSPLAY BOOOOOARD! GOD FUCKING DAAAAMN! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

>>10804550
Well done, glad to hear that it went well and hope you do more in the future. Was it a recent one or would you rather remain anonymous on the subject?

A friend of mine wants to run a panel about asexual characters in anime and media because obviously yaoi/yuri/ecchi content is everywhere in anime and at conventions but asexuality is never really explored because it's kind of hard to do that. There are a few interesting characters and representation out there but not too much, especially when you disregard the shounen "fightsexual" characters like Luffy who have a lack of sexual interest because it's a gag when he rejects sexy lady and embraces punching bad guys. That said, I'm not sure if there is a market for that kind of thing without it just becoming across as LGBTumblr flagwaving.

>>10804668
>>10804684
Cosplay chess is scripted, all the chess moves are set up and volentueers basically have time during the rehersal to come up with a skit for each of their captures. So it's not 100% improvised but like, improvised a couple hours ago and then repeated on stage for the first time. Usually if you see a player get on the stage like 4-5 times they are often part of the team that is running the event. I enjoy it though it's a fun little spectacle.

Cosplay Blind Date honestly seems like a concept that could work well, but when it ran they entirely rawdogged the audience, both the bachelorette asking the questions and the three dates behind the screen were entirely pulled up out of the audience and given no prompts other than "Okay, ask Date #1 a question." and it was incredibly cringe because people had no idea what they were doing and suprisingly most random people are bad at improv.

To do this kind of panel right, you'd need at least some level of scripted content. Start with your 3 Cosplay dates as people on the team running it and have a clip board with 20 preset questions. Each of those 3 cosplayers knows the list of questions and has a good in character response to each question. The bachelor/ette asking the questions can be from the audience and be given the clip board to select questions from.

That way none of the dates are randoms who realise too late they suck at public speaking and improv, the event is funny and enjoyable to watch and everything plays out roughly as expected for the first part without any major crash and burn. THEN after the first round where everyone knows what kind of responses are expected and what kind of questions are being asked, and after everyone is loosened up and having a good time, THEN you bring randoms from the audience up to be dates to be quizzed.

>>10805577
that idea is actually really cool
semi scripted seems like a happy medium that alows real random input and audiance involvement without having it be awkward

would an additon of "sleeper agents" work you think?
i.e. if the improv is still struggling, occasionally interspacing pre-prepared ones to keep the pannel going (or, ending on a really strong one to guarantee finishing on a high note?)

>>10805216
No one's bought up Secret Con here that I can see. It was fun by the way. None of the usual cunts to ruin it but the togs were a bit snobbier compared to last time. Lots of the cosplayers thought it was funny these 50 year old dads were acting like 12 year old girls on a playground though.

>>10804522
You really need to be mates with con organizers if you want to run a panel at cons. I've asked to run panels a couple times but get ghosted. Even when there's a lack of panels. I know they just don't want me. But if cons want more panels they need to be less stuck up. And stop just hosting their mate's panel on why Madoka Magica is still underrated.

>>10805654
>You really need to be mates with con organizers if you want to run a panel at cons
Never had a panel submission turned down and I'm a nobody. Your panels ideas are just shit. Sorry to be the one to tell you.

>>10805654
>tfw will never have a group of friends as rad as picrel
Feelsbadman.

>Con organizers do better
I agree with this statement, this year has been quite shitty con wise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_liZYfXpKUU

I think this sums up our feelings in this trying time. Turns out Dairy was the hero who committed regicide to save the britgulls.

>>10805575
It was a long time ago. A panel on gender bending in anime. I foolishly put a guess the gender game into my panel. Which of course meant I had to pick a basis to categorise the gender of characters. People thought I was trying to make a political statement instead of a fun game. That and frankly I was trolling my audience by picking characters who's gender you could only guess if you knew their anime well.

>>10805577
One thing they used to do on the actual blind date is give nervous contestants hints about what the questions would be a few hours before the show. That could work in cosplay blind date. Or even a from of limited rehearsal where they get the host to read the questions.

Am I the only perv that thinks it would be funny is they were able to get notoriously horny minor cosplay 'celebrities' to fill the questioner roll?

>>10805712
Or controversial. The kita committee were quite open about giving Keith more leeway because they knew him. It maybe the panels that never get turned down are the boring (or at least uncontroversial) ones.

>Looks in thread bc I want to get into cosplaying
>It's all drama

Um....