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Ok, this really is getting to the point where it doesn’t feel worth it anymore. But fuck it. It’s habitual.

Anime on UK 2023
June 17-18, 2023 National Exhibition Centre
Birmingham, UK

Tokonatsu 2023 August 10-14, 2023 Boyd Memorial Camp Site and Activity Centre
Henlow, Bedfordshire, UK

I’m sure there will be Kitas, Ames, minami etc with dates somewhere as well as all the usual Expo MCM comic LFCC things and random local version.

Let’s all sit back and have some existential dread over a winter of blackouts, food / rent we can’t afford and prospects of everyone being made redundant or fired as the economy collapses from a series of conspiracy related reasons.

Drama optional.

>> No.10822064

It's sold out but you missed kokoro

>> No.10822067

can I please post ITT if I am a bored Burger with nothing better to do

>> No.10822069

>>10822067
Sure. Can I get a custom AR15 lower with “safe” and “full retard” etched in on the fire selector pls.
What’s you’re fave Hersheys? I like the white one.
>>10822064
If you know the dates just post it anyway as I didn’t know and couldn’t be bothered to try and recall all the cons. The other two were just on a “upcomingbl uk anime cons” list.

>> No.10822074

>>10822069
I can't help you with the AR15 unfortunately
>What’s you’re fave Hersheys?
Almond. I don't know if the chocolate recipe is different, but it tastes much better than the regular milk chocolate bars to me

>> No.10822075

>>10822074
The best chocolate we had was cadburies. But then Kraft bought them out, caused a stink by closing down a famous factory they said they weren’t going to and then made the chocolate taste worse. They also tried to get everyone to eat milka bars instead by sticking it on the front desk of all news agents. It sold ok, but it didn’t catch on. Freddos still taste ok, but they are 25p now. I find American chocolate grainy. I think there was a period when we couldn’t call our chocolate chocolate because of the vegetable oil we used but it all blew over. Babe Ruth’s and paydays are ok. But I have to pay lots for them from “American candy” shops that are likely Armenian drug money laundering lol.

>> No.10822076

>>10822075
>“American candy” shops that are likely Armenian drug money laundering lol
I've visited London once and there was one of these shops right down the street from where I was staying. The atmosphere on the inside was exactly like what I'd expect from a front operation, and the guy at the front desk has some strange thick accent I had never heard before (could have been Armenian, but how would I know, I'm American). He was extremely pushy and kept trying to get me to buy more shit I didn't want, like literally putting in on the counter as he was ringing me up and trying to scan it unless I insisted I didn't want it.

>> No.10822082

>>10822076
https://www.timeout.com/london/news/one-third-of-the-oxford-street-candy-shops-disappear-after-police-raids-111622

yeah it’s a thing. There was a rash of news stories about them all over the summer when it became obvious they weren’t legit.

Anyhoo I looked up Kitacon in a desperate attempt to keep the thread relevant and they aren’t running until 2024. What is running next year?

Minami con 28
10TH - 12TH MARCH 2023
NOVOTEL HOTEL, SOUTHAMPTON

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>Kitacon
They don't have a committee anymore. It's far worse than the attached picture. The most Toxic working environment I've ever been a part of.

>> No.10822168

Guess uh, we're stuck with MCM london as the only real con this year then with everyone else shitting the bed?

Seems to be only AL and MCM that are flourishing in these times. Guess all the other smaller cons are filled with toxic/sex offending committees. rip.

>> No.10822239

>>10822104
You gotta say more than that

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>>10822168
Why the fuck are AL getting Brian Peacock back yet again as a voice actor guest?

This already feels like a MasakoX Bingo card.

>> No.10822262

>>10822104
This is just sad.

Abandon ship.

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>>10822104

>> No.10822387

>>10822104
So basically the main oeganizer just pockets 30 grand or whatever while jannies work for free and feel good about that tiny bit of "authority" they get for 3 days?

>> No.10822445

>>10822387
I'm honestly not sure on the structure of Kitacon right now, but they may well be non-profit.

However, a few questions -

#1. Non-profit is great, but they are allowed to pay those in charge wages. So the main organiser could still get 30 grand or even more as a wage for his work and it still be borderline charity status. This would show up no where and be impossible to prove or disprove as this is a private matter.
#2. Regardless of this, what are the perks of being one of their committee? Typically it should be accommodation, travel and expenses perhaps? If this is so, then it's not so bad and actually with the relevant references and doing something they enjoy would be a good thing? Again it just depends. My belief is that if someone volunteers for an event they should get as a minimum free entry and minimal expenses covered beforehand - unlike a lot of cons which only compensate after, but lets see shall we?
#3. It's obvious Kitacon and other events are only running once every two years to get under the VAT limit of about 80k+ in revenue (income not profit) a year. Split it over two years and you're good and keep it under. Accountancy 101. Indeed this may explain the typical dual-year structure of Amecon/Kitacon and prior Amecon/Ayacon. Basically it's a way to avoid tax aka VAT which would add on 20% to all pricing.

>> No.10822446

>>10822445
Further to this - I believe any con claiming to be either non-profit or charity status should present their accounts publicly. They are literally trading on the idea that all the money given goes to the members, where it could well be that the committee pockets thousands in "wages" and "expenses". Indeed I recall speaking to a former Amecon Chairman (I will not name the name) who boasted his entire PC setup and tech equipment in his room as "an expense". He seemed very proud of this fact at the time and I feel he told many other people, and yet no one was able to tell this out loud. Why was this?

>> No.10822447

Tldr; Wouldn't it be nice to be head of an anime con and saying you're non-profit when actually you are secretly (AND LEGALLY) pocketing 30k a year without anyone knowing? :)

>> No.10822450

>>10822445
>>10822446
>>10822447
Fuck me, let me know your dealer for the crack you're smoking, that's some powerful shit.

Truth is most events are total shitshows internally and often run at a loss/break even. Shit do basic math £60 x 800 = £48, 000 so you're saying that convention organizers can skim 60%+ of a convention's total budget and keep it secret from the rest of the community and it's just accepted?

Running events is fucking soul destroying and doing it for honest profit means you either run lots of them or run them big enough that economy of scale kicks in, that's how AL and ReedPop make their money respectively.

I'd say to think about what you're saying but that ship has long sailed.

>> No.10822456

>>10822446
Lol, I remember you from like 5 / 6 years ago. My dad also works at Nintendo and he says that cons also pay the staff salaries so they can spend it all on plastic surgery. It’s why all committees are so good looking.

You can read most shit on companies house if you are so inclined.

>> No.10822457

>>10822456
Why do these toxic cunts run them non stop then?

I guess they're all on 560quid a month welfare and they all keep themselves warm and fed through the love and appreciation of all the similarly toxic cunts who browse this board

>> No.10822488

>>10822457
Believe it or not it used to be both fun and satisfying and you felt like you were giving something back to the community you loved.

>> No.10822539

>>10822488
You know you can just call it a nonce ring, right?

>> No.10822540

In the end which con is not free of sin then?

>> No.10822599

>>10822540
PAFCON 03.

>> No.10822601

Avoid unleashed events, ran by a nonce
Avoid monolopy events, ran by a douchebag who treats his staff like shite
Avoid anime league, ran by a nonce

Kek stick to the good ones

>> No.10822603

>>10822601
so basically no cons.

The "good" nonces in kita/Amecon ran out of unpaid jannies/rapist collaborators?

>> No.10822604

>>10822601
Shirts back on lads. It's over.

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>>10822604

>> No.10822607

>>10822605
Top lad

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>>10822607

>> No.10822772

>>10822604
Do you think this year it could come home? Is our team better than last time? I know we have France this weekend… but could we do it?

>> No.10822916

>>10822447
wouldn’t it be nice to not be a complete fucking brainlet and check companies house?

>> No.10822985

>>10822772
Ignore this post. It didn’t come home. Back to being angry about electricity / gas instead of being distracted with bread and circus for me.

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YOU ALL GOING HOME TO MAD DADS AND MAD LADS

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>booked cheapest hotel near mcm may for 300quid(370 flex)
>check prices again
>everywhere costs 700-900 or booked out. Travelodge 480 quid

The cost of living scare really is just a media tactic. Ive had a 12% raise and everyone seems to still be living big.

>> No.10823018

>>10823014
I've had a 100% raise of my cock looking at that fox

>> No.10823020

>>10823014
>going to mcm
>2011+11
ishygddt

>> No.10823022

>>10823020
We get it. You only go to 300man ghost town cons with organizers that have mental breakdowns, hire 95% unpaid staff and pocket 30k from your 80gbp tickets/vendor cuts for what amounts to a lil hallway for programs.

>> No.10823096

>>10823022
We get it, you are trying to discredit smaller cons because you are banned from them all.

>> No.10823122

>>10823096
Give me one attraction at the past kitacon that justified the price tag. Not even the announced z tier cosplay guest turned up.

>> No.10823125

>>10823122
The increased costs from the venue.

>> No.10823131

>>10823125
The organisers allegedly having to pay more for a venue is not an attraction.Try again, dipshit.

Out of curiosity, how much more did you have to pay for the venue?

>> No.10823136

>>10823125
You don't need to throw money at an event to make it better, especially if your entire workforce is comprised of volunteers.

>> No.10823137

>>10823096
Those allegations were false, asshole.

>> No.10823219

>>10823131
Ok, next time they’ll be at keele or the Britannia.

>> No.10823221

>>10823219
Warwick, Keele and the Britannia. Famously the only 3 conference centers in the UK

>> No.10823271

>>10823131
hahaha! For the record I’m laughing at you, not with you

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>> No.10823381

>>10822031
merry crhirstimas to all my good friends i made onm the dead discord watching icesnort vids and thinking of you especially kazoo who was right

>> No.10823382

>>10823381
Actually, I was wrong all along

>> No.10823384

>>10823381
manuel
i'm your tiger

>> No.10823423

>>10823381
And I hope my enemies spend Christmas alone, and unloved, knowing they are pieces of shit.

>> No.10823517

>>10823423
Don't worry I will :)

>> No.10823665

>>10823379
Ahahaha start speaking French, dirty white boy

>> No.10823680

>>10823665
The real victory is not having to play Argentina.

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It's time.

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>:3

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>>10823753

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>> No.10823791

>>10823766
This one was ok.

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>>10823791

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And around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around

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>> No.10823825

feeling lonely?

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>>10823825
Of course

>> No.10823834

lads I got the fever n sore throat from the cold.

got me a slice of hawaiian pizza and a can of tomato soup

>> No.10823851

>>10823834
Have you tried Hot ribena?

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>>10823814
And around

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>>10823814
And around

>> No.10823963

christ you're lonely aren't you reece

>> No.10823968

>>10823963
Yes, Rachel. I am lonely. You did me dirty.

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>>10823767

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>>10823986

>> No.10823991

>>10823968
If this is Reece, take the hint. No one wants you around or in the UK con scene any more

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>>10823968
>>10823963

>> No.10823996

>>10823991
Cringe

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>>10823814
Around

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>>10823968
Who the fuck is Rachel?

>> No.10824008

Pretty much every Brit CGL Post is like that Willie meme but im too lazy to post it

>> No.10824016

>>10823991
But... but... false allergations

>> No.10824017

Any good storytime from the UK?

>> No.10824025

"False"

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>>10824008

>> No.10824087

>>10824016
Dairymilk is a rapist

>> No.10824090

>>10824087
I thought anons here were smart enough not to trust the word of a cosplay thot

>> No.10824097

>>10824090
by definition dairy is a cosplay thot

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Well looks like these cosplay hoes ain't loyal, lads, guess being single is the smart choice

>> No.10824326

>>10824287
just don't fuckin rape them?!??

>> No.10824339

What is this dumpster fire of a thread

>> No.10824346

>>10824090
And who is it exactly accusing him

>> No.10824374

>>10824030

Not that one the Simpsons one but it made me lol

>> No.10824511

>>10824326
They are still trouble, m8

>> No.10824549

>>10824287
Spill the deets sistah

>> No.10824689

did dairy do another rape

>> No.10824694

brit thread is full of anime boomers complaining tickets aren’t £50 anymore and some obsession with dairy who’s the new obayed i guess

>> No.10824696

is anyone actually shocked that dairy is a sex pest

>> No.10824699

>>10824694
Cons used to be about £30 / 35 in 1998.
You’d see an advert in a magazine, send a cheque away and turn up on the day and hope it was real.

>> No.10824724

>>10824696
I'm shocked you're still talking about Dairy.

>> No.10824727

>>10824699
Man I wonder why cons cost more now
Leisure activities never get impacted by inflation

>> No.10824728

>>10824727
>Leisure activities never get impacted by inflation
retard

>> No.10824740

>>10822168
Literally all the small cons are just there for small cliques of cosplayers with sub 1k followers combined to run like a club house where they can larp they're famous at a bigger con like MCM. Especially the over 30 cosplayers.

>>10822450
CosXpo in particular is bad for this. They pay out the arse for guests and never make that money back. But Kenny and his lot get to pretend to be cos famous.

>>10824694
What's going on with Poo Skin Pepe btw? I didn't see him last MCM. Is he hiding?

>> No.10824742

>>10824740
Wait, people give a shit about followers?
Is that actually a thing for people who aren’t 12 year old girls?

>> No.10824760

>>10824728
Says the waste of cum who doesn't understand sarcasm

>> No.10824785

>>10824694

Who in the F is Dairy?

Also do you think all the attempts to cancel Animeleague is ever gonna work?

>> No.10824957

>>10824785
Cancel what?
Literally no one has anything against AL outside of a random sperg here who probably got the cold shoulder from some committee.

Every normie on tumblr or whatever attends their local AL shit every year.

>> No.10825025

>>10824957

Well because it looks like they put the topic every single year with every single con as "cons to not attend" but they fact they still run them means they are still having a profit

>> No.10825030

>>10825025
That's because cgl is full ofsalty boomers which in the case of the women get mad at seeing younger people with nice skin and mail order costumes that are better than anything they ever made and in the case of the average males gull they get the nonce sweats and have to be escorted out of the building

>> No.10825105

>>10825030

I can tell the salty.... Is it that bad the predatory behavior on the con scene in the UK? Aside from the Genshin Cosplayers I did not see many minors around.

>> No.10825107

>>10825105
Its entirely made up by vendettachans here.

If everything they said were even 10% right then punjabi pepe wouldve been banned years ago and towers would be in epsteins journal

>> No.10825207

>>10825107
nicely put.

>> No.10825372

>>10824957
You are clearly either too young to remember the shit Mike Towers has pulled, or you're one of his asslickers. Which is also the demographic who attend AL cons.

>> No.10825391

>>10825372
Anon, would you like the worlds smallest violin for Christmas?

>> No.10825392

>>10825372
As far as I've heard no cops have ever been involved with any of the supposed "predators" CGL talks about. No cops, no ankle bracelet, no convictions, nada.

It's entirely bullshit from people like you.

>> No.10825395

>>10825372
???

Haven't you toxic cunts had enough fun spreading shit in kitacon? stop making things up it's honestly disgusting how people just want to have fun and make friends in cons and you have some incels/femcels who get their kicks harassing people.

>> No.10825397

>>10825395
sir this is a 4chan

>> No.10825484

I hope everyone in this thread dies in their sleep tonight!

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>>10825484

>> No.10825701

>>10825484
Sadly anon I survived

>> No.10825908

I haven't been to a con in ages. What's the deal with post event party like? I want to get smashed to weeb music

>> No.10825909

>>10825908
Youll get falsely accused of rape by everyone in this board.

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>>10825909

>> No.10826031

>>10825392
That's what they said about Jimmy Saville anon.

>> No.10826032

>>10825391
>>10825392
>>10825395
>Three posts in less than 50 minutes

Imagine being such a Towers asslicker you spend Christmas Eve evening frantically trying to defend him on a Vietnamese basket weaving forum. Does he pay you or have you been groomed to do it?

>> No.10826070

>>10825909
Would you prefer to be positively acused of rape?

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>>10825484
Ahahaha eat a dick, I live

>>10825525
Gay ass, mid anime gif

>> No.10826092

this is the most negative thread on 4chan, fucks sake brits can we just stop being so depressing?

>> No.10826431

>>10826092
We live in Br*tan and there's no cons till April so it's a depressing time

>> No.10826509

>>10826431
Animeleague has a few events on feb, senpai.

>> No.10826605 [DELETED] 

>>10826509
I'd rather slash my wrists then shove my hands on salt water than to to an AL "event"

>> No.10826619

>>10826509
I'd rather slash my wrists and dip them in salt water than attend an AL "event"

>> No.10826638

Can we back up for a minute and just discuss how no one knew Dairy was a dodgy cunt?

>> No.10826671

>>10826638
Every single old gull is a dodgy cunt.

>> No.10826675

>>10826619
aight what cons are you attending this year then, oh fancy one?

>> No.10826691

>>10826638
Really? Cause a couple of people said he was dodgy and everyone brushed it off saying he was harmless.

>> No.10826692

>>10826675
Literally anything but an AL event

>> No.10826693

>>10826692
There are none outside mc,. which Im also going to

>> No.10826712

>>10826693
There's kokoro and toko at the very least

>> No.10826741

>>10826712
rather not get skin cancer/extreme aging senpai.

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>>10822031

>blackouts, food / rent we can’t afford and prospects of everyone being made redundant or fired as the economy collapses from a series of conspiracy related reasons.

For God's sake take your PSYOP pills, anon.
I bet you still wear a mask.

>> No.10826796

>>10826638
They did, they just ignored it until he got caught and was made to face the consequences.

>> No.10826871

>>10826638
I mean, I mostly remember people telling stories that always seemed a bit sus, but I suppose I looked past it, wasn't too comfortable with the casual misogyny though.
Sounds like he was doing some pretty sus stuff even before the incident though, even among the gulls.

>> No.10826879

Dairy "Knob Out" Milk

>> No.10826886

I can’t tell if this is all a joke or not.

>> No.10826911

>>10826886
it is, but not the haha kind

dairymilk is unironically an unreigstered sex offender and doesn't have a single friend left in the con scene

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>>10826911
>unironically an unreigstered sex offender

>> No.10826915

>>10826913
What else would you call a rapist who gets his cock out at the drop of a hat?

>> No.10826916

>>10826915
This is a cosplay board, not a bitching group for your out of touch circle jerk. Fuck off to lolcow or some other dumpster fire.

>> No.10826968

>>10826916
When's the last time someone actually talked about cosplay in the brit thread?

>> No.10827060

>>10826968
2014

>> No.10827062

>>10826968
none of the gulls here actually cosplay. They just spend hundreds of pounds to stay in the hotel room the entire time and just drink alcohol.

And possibly sexually assault people.

>> No.10827089

>>10826913
of the two people this is likely to be, i know both of you are likely to get smacked at kokorocon

see you there

>> No.10827125

>>10827062
Sounds based

Except the SA

>> No.10827140

>>10827089
We’ll sell you the seat, but your’e only going to use the edge. This koko koko kokooo kokoro cooooooon.

>> No.10827141

>>10827089
I mean we already have sexual assault on the gull bingo card, do we really, really have to add physical assault too?

>> No.10827152

>>10827141
This is some lolcow shit had these people only been not "anonymous" (we all know who you are)

>> No.10827424

>>10826916
Shoutout to the Kiwifarms

>> No.10827551

So whats the scene like in the North and around Yorkshire? I'm moving up and I was wondering if there were any big cons?

>> No.10827630

>>10827551
AL has some cool peeps if you come over. Ignore the schizoposters.

>> No.10827636

>>10827551
There's sunnycon in Newcastle and that's literally it

>> No.10827651

Most of the good cons are in the midlands

>> No.10827671

>>10827651
Best cons, worst people

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>>10827671

>> No.10827675

>>10827671
Nah I dunno, I’ve made some friends for life through midland cons. Every fandom has toxic people right?

>> No.10827741

>>10827089
The funniest part of this is the implication anyone posting in this thread has the balls to start a fight irl. Hard to come across as threatening when the worst you're capable of is glaring at someone from a couple feet away then bitching to your mates about how hard you're gonna fuck em up

>> No.10827822

>>10827741
Ahh the gull special

>> No.10827833

>>10827741
Bring back the expo fight club. But for real and use it to settle scores. Winner is right because god was on their side or however it went.

>> No.10827839

>>10827833
>the pigs show up and tell you you can't loiter in a public area because reasons

>> No.10827976

>>10827833
Shit, so you telling me there was a con fight club?
Anyone die?
lol

>> No.10827979

>>10827976
Only of cringe

>> No.10828803

>>10827741

I saw one guy dressed as a foxgirl once in Sunnycon there it was a bunch of normies mocking the cosplayers and they saw the guy and started laughting. He immidietly went psycho mode and confronted them directly and im plenty sure something would have happend because the dudes were tell him to go away or they will beat the shit out of him and the guy was just laughting like some insane viking. The normies moved a lil away this guy too and security came not long after to kick the normies out.

>> No.10828809

>>10828803
this is what happens when you crossplay with a beard.

>> No.10828954

>>10828809

You were there too? I know some girls went afterwards to him to tell him to chill and just keep enjoying the con

>> No.10829034

>>10828954
No, but ive been in that kind of scene long enough to know what the kind of person who'd get harassed would look like.

The average chav wouldn't really single out a small cute looking crossplayer. they would focus their attention on either harassing fat people or creeping on the titty cosplayers.

>> No.10829042

>>10829034

But these guys were ridiculing the girls as well so is not like they went after him specifically

>> No.10829052

>>10829042
Guess hes just a loose cannon or something.

>> No.10829109

>>10829052
Channeling the spirit of Sailor Buba to punish wrongdoers

>> No.10829166

>>10829052

Maybe someone with a missing screw on its head.

>>10829109

He is gonna goosh goosh them to oblivion

>> No.10830827

more like dairypilk

>> No.10830845

>>10830827
Cringe

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>>10830827

>> No.10831177

48 days to kokoro con.

>> No.10831417

>>10831177
Gull roulette, who's going to get a blanket ban from all conventions THIS time

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>>10831417

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>>10831434

>> No.10831510

It all stinks

>> No.10831628

>>10831417
Did someone get a ban? What I miss

>> No.10831931

Who should I crossplay to animecon uk

>> No.10832030

>>10831931
Nikocado Avocado

>> No.10832041

>>10832030
But I'm a man and so is he.

>> No.10832054

>>10831931
Isnt that con literally dead? Oh right I get the joke

>> No.10832055

>>10832054
that's every con outside of london

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>>10831510

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>>10831177
No one gives a shit, Kockfuck.

>> No.10832318

>>10832308
Sour grapes anon?
Kokoro is the best new con.

>> No.10832411

>>10832318
Agree. Had the best time last year!

>> No.10832668

Does anyone know what the fuck is happening with Amecon? They said they were going to run this year at Chibi but they're going to be skidding on their ass cheeks if they leave an announcement any longer.

>> No.10832684

>>10832668
Last I heard Ame's con board broke up due to being toxic, but I might be thinking of another con

>> No.10832787

>>10832318
>Sour grapes
God you sound so fucking old, sounds like a groomer con

>> No.10832832

>>10832787
Sounds like someone is salty they're on the waiting list

>> No.10832933

>>10832787
Totally is, went last year and average attendee looked about 35. Felt completely out of place, Kokoro is one for the avoid list. Despite/cgl/ shitposting AL events have a way more chill and young vibe

>> No.10833223

First time at kokoro. Hotels had better not be £400+ every year.

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>>10833223
Mine was £240

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>>10833243
What the fuck. Where?

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>>10833249
Crowne Plaza from when the hotel block opened
Thursday night is a meme so I skipped over it

>> No.10833292

Isnt like Kokorocon at the same time as CosXPo?

>> No.10833304

>>10833292
2 ghost town cons at the same time. Spoopy

>> No.10833318

>>10833304I’m pretty sure koko is sold out and has a waiting list…opposite of ghost town imo

>> No.10833349

>>10833318
>max capacity : 300

Well ok I guess. Say hello to like 3 other people you pass by.

>> No.10833355

>>10833349
Where do u get ure numbers from?

>> No.10833461 [DELETED] 

>Have a look at the MCM London website >Haven't been since 2016, but I'm interested in going to a con again
>See that they have three of the voice actors from the original Pokemon dub (plus the guy who voiced Mewtwo, which is also fairly cool). >Basedface really fucking hard
>Decide I want to get a copy of the first movie DVD and have them all sign it
>Have a look at how much the autographs would cost
>Almost burst out laughing
>Immediately can my plan to go
When I used to go to cons when I was in my teens, autographs were fairly expensive but these days it's straight up highway robbery. When did it get this bad?

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>Have a look at the MCM London website
>Haven't been since 2016, but I'm interested in going to a con again
>See that they have three of the voice actors from the original Pokemon dub (plus the guy who voiced Mewtwo, which is also fairly cool).
>Basedface really fucking hard
>Decide I want to get a copy of the first movie DVD and have them all sign it
>Have a look at how much the autographs would cost
>Almost burst out laughing
>Immediately can my plan to go
When I used to go to cons when I was in my teens, autographs were fairly expensive but these days it's straight up highway robbery. When did it get this bad?

>> No.10833464

>>10833355
Use your eyes

>> No.10833575

>>10833462

I think since Reedpop got the business probally they dont pay the guests as much and they have to go for crazy prices.

>> No.10833664

>>10833462
October 2021 when Tom Hiddleston was £225 for a photo or autograph (£450 for both) Prices are set by the guests' agents, apparently.

Oh, and because The Virus™ was still a thing, the photo was taken with a plexiglass divider in between the attendee and the guest...

>> No.10833718

>>10833664
Can't find the pics. Anyone have any? I remember them being comedy gold.

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>>10833664
>>10833718

>> No.10833720

>>10833462
>>10833575
>>10833664
Any of you guys know if you can get multiple autographs from the same person, or if you have to pay for each individual one?

>> No.10833799

>>10833719
That’s depressing. I’d be pissed paying £30 for an autograph, let alone £400

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>>10832832
Stroke mode engage

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>>10832832
>300 man capacity con has a waitlist

Reminds me of those chavy "gastro pubs" that have the doorman make you wait 15 mins in line but its only 1/4th full

>> No.10833949

>>10833915
>>10833349
Where the fuck are you getting the 300 number from?

>> No.10834144

>>10833949
Confused by this too. They don't seem to have a capacity mentioned anywhere, last year had far more than 300 and this year is set to be bigger

>> No.10834146

>>10833915
Are you confusing rooms with venue capacity?

>> No.10834246

>>10833720
You have to pay for each. Autographs are a scam.

>> No.10834316

>>10833719

I have the biggest vibes of "Dont touch me you filthy mortal" like he was wearing his Loki outfit

>> No.10834495

>>10834144
>bigger
>sold out

its tiny, low capacity low effoet hence why it sells out.

>> No.10834497

>>10834495
Do u have a grudge against them or something? The hotel is big, and there was way more then 300 people last year…

>> No.10834576

>>10834497
Clearly someone who's missus got shagged by Baker

>> No.10834612

do i go to Manchester Anime and Gaming con for a laugh or will it actually just be dead

>> No.10834675

>>10834612
It's always been packed on Saturdays.
Might see you there I'll be cross playing(properly).

>> No.10834693

>>10834675
God bless you, Father.

>> No.10834703

>>10834675
be sure to work the shaft

>> No.10834710

do i go to Birmingham Anime and Gaming con for a laugh or will it actually just be dead

>> No.10834732

alright lads?

>> No.10834733

I wanna have gay con sex.

>> No.10834736

>>10834733
Same

>> No.10834737

>>10834736
Anon that's perverted.

>> No.10834742

>>10834675
im gonna go and try to get sucked and fucked by some 4/10

>> No.10834751

>>10834733
Furry Cons are for you then

>> No.10834752

>>10834751
But I'm not a furry.

>> No.10834796

>>10834733

From what ive heard of the rumors of the orgies you can get this pretty easily specially if you look like a femboi

>> No.10834892

>>10834796
Maybe. The bar for one is set so low any gross fag would fuck you despte the beard shadow.

>> No.10834995

by far the easiest way to have sex at any con is to be a photographer

not being fuck ugly is a given

>> No.10835072

Imagine reasonable hotel prices in any con nowadays

>> No.10835124

>>10835072
Youre supposed to book before the dates are announced.

>> No.10835162

>>10835072
you don't have to stay on site anon

>> No.10835184

>>10834995
yeah im gonna go with a camera and take pictures of strangers in hopes of getting pussy

>> No.10835216

>>10835184
Based

>> No.10835332

>>10835124

So basically throw guessing to book and then cancel if its not the weekend correct?

>>10835162

Nah im not talking in site but if I want to go to London for MCM it doesnt matter where everything is pretty much 80 per night

Also does anyone know the criteria for the content badges for Megacon?

>> No.10835335

>>10835332
They can be quite predictable if youre familiar enough with the cons

>> No.10835344

>>10835335

Having anykind of big following in socials like Tiktok and just your average good looking cosplayer i pressume?

>> No.10835347

Why is this thread full of anger and hate? I think attending cons would be a bad idea now.

>> No.10835351

>>10835332
80 a night for London is unironically reasonable

>> No.10835402

>>10835347
Honestly there's 84 people here out of the hundreds you get at events
Leave the thread while you can

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>Anime on UK 2023
June 17-18, 2023 National Exhibition Centre
Birmingham, UK

This shit any good or am I in for just shit?

>> No.10835794

>>10835648
Sounds like a shittier MCM.

>>10835347
The angry ones only attend dead cons. Youre safe.

>> No.10835795

>>10835332
Mate I prebooked london last year and its 370 for 3 nights flexible on a fucking travelodge.

Its up to 600 now and nearly 1000 on the better hotels. Are you seriously crying about 80 bongbucks a night.

>> No.10835856

>>10835648
You would probably be better off going to Birmingham Anime and Gaming Con.

>> No.10835863

>>10835856
>Going to an AL con
>Going to any event that has Tower's greasy dick all over it

Yeah, no thanks.

>> No.10836071

>>10835863
>muh towers

Let it go, chud.

>> No.10836073

>>10836071
Kys AL shill

>> No.10836077 [DELETED] 

>>10836071
No matter how much you suck his duck Towers will never love you.

>> No.10836083

>>10835794
One of the best things you can do is getting over yourself and just have fun at the big Excel/NEC/etc events instead of the tiny circlejerk hotel cons with the same 300 attendees every year (on the rare occasion someone new gets one of the golden tickets) that never grow or go anywhere.

>> No.10836084

>>10836083
Dunno if I'd call it a big event.

>> No.10836087

>>10836083
Tons of new friends to meet in mcm and alcons too.
Try to attend those boomer dead cons and youll be lucky to find a group who just spends 3 days straight in their room sipping 10quid vodka in regular clothes or someshit.

>> No.10836091

So much shit stirring in this thread

>> No.10836099

>>10836091
Nawt else to do

>> No.10836117

gay con sex

>> No.10836121

>>10836087
bundling alcon with mcm, you ok hun?

>> No.10836123

>>10836087
>>10836121
Alcon stopped being big when brentalfloss stopped going

>> No.10836125

>>10836121
AL has gone strong all throughout even after covid. Even mcm had to abandon a few cons.

Every other ghost town con the people here rave about has either died, skipped a year or has remained completely stagnant.

>> No.10836143

>>10836087
>>10836125
I just don't understand how our scene has not grown at all in, idk how long it's really been around, maybe 15-20?? years tops. American events just keep growing and improving, our cons just book the same hotel for the same weekend 10 years in a row.

I really hope the current and next gen of attendees don't get poisoned by the boomers and actually grow the anime scene meaningfully.

>> No.10836175

>>10836125
alcon has never had anywhere near mcm’s attendance, it’s not even funny.

alcon has never topped aya, ame or kita either. alcon just talks big, that’s all. stop drinking the coolaid anon

>> No.10836188

>>10836143
It's a never ending cycle of burn out. Just look at >>10822104. Imagine posting a list of roles like that and expecting no one to raise an eyebrow. It's very clearly a final "fuck you" from who ever made and posted it.

>> No.10836202

>>10836143
Yeah the UK con scene is fucking bad. It has declined quite a bit in my opinion, you'll maybe get a guest or two now and they'll be someone you've never even heard of.

I had some hope for the future of UK cons around 15 years ago but all that has happened is AL has expanded through sheer tenacity while the "good" cons have faded further into obscurity.

It honestly makes me think that not for profit isn't the way to run these events effectively. Or maybe it isn't that deep and people just want an excuse to get dressed up, hang around with their internet mates for a few days and get pissed.

>> No.10836255

>>10836202
If they died then maybe they werent good to begin with??

Good american and euro cons started in the low hundreds then rapidly grew to five figures.
Boomers here keep hyping up a new 300man con every other year and it ends up stagnating or dying out to be replaced with another boomer con. Its an endless cycle.

>> No.10836256

>>10836143
Remember the year when Kita ran this full episode of their channel awesome movie clone before the opening ceremony?
https://youtu.be/iqBAtwTTxWA
Or last year when they ran taskmaster with a bunch of committee members.
The organisers are so self absorbed, filled with their own self importance. They're insufferable to be around. Look at the turn over.

>> No.10836269

>>10836256
Wtf is this shit.

>> No.10836334

>>10836202
>>10836255
I think the issue is that UK con scenes don't have much of a unique selling point and the smaller UK cons arent really being advertise enough on social media for all the younger generation to discover it. The older people mainly moved on because the convention scene isn't how it used to be.

US conventions always have parties, both official and room parties meanwhile MCM only has the fox going for it.The only reason why MCM is popular is because its being shared and advertised everywhere, same with AL too. Both conventions are also reaching out to 'influencers' and 'content creators' to help bring hype to their convention.

>> No.10836345

>>10836334
Mcm has parties in every hotel surrounding it plus people chilling outside(for may, at least)

Only couples and single, sexless men attend the "official" parties.

>> No.10836353

>>10836345
Interesting. Had a blast at the autumn one but was with conservative friends so I couldn't party but planning to go to the next one.

Tell me more please anon?

>> No.10836472

>>10835795

Yeah I am DESU I would consider even bringing a tent before paying that money.

>>10836255

I think because unlike UK cons in Europe they try to entertain the atendees instead of focusing in being 100% corporate. You get your glimses here and there but you also get al ot of activities to do and enjoy.

>>10836334

I would say also that there is not enough "smaller cons" for people to have a taste. Is there even like single city down of the mill anime club who does a con in their college or uni? Because ive seen that in the past and they can work out pretty well.

>> No.10836585

Is anyone heading to Liverpool Comic Con in April? Is it worth it, if anyone has been in the past?

>> No.10836615

>>10836472
Gotta say US cons seem to exist in roughly 4 sizes, with county type events, local city cons, state level cons and national level cons so theres roughly something for everybody.
Every state capital has a convention facility that puts the Excel and NEC to shame, not to mention the mega resorts/hotels that are used.

Despite our population density I'm not sure we'd ever pull that kind of shit off.

>> No.10836688

>>10836615

I think is all about people doing the hard work stop lazying out and actually take the torch to continue the work on cons. There is months of preparation to do one specially if you want to do your first one.

It might be difficult at first but you can just talk with your local council, get some of your friends and start arraging plans, contact sponsors. There is a thousand ways to start walking the mile but is not easy work and I think there is no better example than what happened at Dashcon.

Keep your profile low at first like many cons do.
Start locally maybe a group of friends and any volunteers they want to join up.

Even if has to be run free and supported by stands, sponsors or even the council so be it. But it comes out in the end on how much effort people put in the table.

>> No.10836739

>>10836615
Uk can never compete with the gaylord and colossalcon events. True. Its too poor and lacks infastructure.

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>>10836345
Who hurt you anon and where does it sting?

>> No.10836787

>>10836688
anon, the UK cannot compete with the US, we do not have the venues, the biggest venues are NEC and Excel, they are conference halls only, no break out rooms and stages. If you knew anything about US cons, you'd know they have multiple rooms like the aya, kita and ames do, but as a much larger scale. MCM is a big trade fayre with some sort of bastardised stages shit on a divider boardered off stage. Look it works, but it can't compete.

The country needs bigger hotels and conference venues to compete on that level. butt hurt? then go move to the US or europe, they have these venues en mass.

>> No.10837051

>>10836787

Even if we dont have the venues to compete it doesnt stop people from organizing at lower scales. Ive seen very fun cons that did not need a big venue. In the end is all about do the best with what you have.

>> No.10837060

>>10837051
Have to admit, the thought has crossed my mind - i know i can hire a fairly large space from my local council for as little was £200ish for a day, and i can absolutely say that i've spent £200 on dumber shit than hiring out a room and hoping people turn up.

>> No.10837090

>>10824957
Nonce con

>> No.10837128

>>10837060

So why dont you do it? Get some tables ask some friends around dont charge or charge like a 1 quid or something like that and see what happens. You never know.

>> No.10837233

finna rent out ombersley village hall and hope other cosplaying idiots show up. retardcon 2023 coming soon

>> No.10837276

>>10837090
t. 30+ yo who doesnt cosplay and spends 500quid on dead cons just to drink shitty alcohol all day in their room.

>> No.10837314

>>10837276
You know, the worst part about my "friends" like this is that they have absolutely zero motivation to organise just a simple meetup or go to some other event besides a con.
But fessing up nearly a grand to spend a weekend at a cheap hotel in the North? Sign them fucking up

>> No.10837538

>>10837314
Every considered you might just be a piece of shit nobody wants to hang out with unless forced to?
Something to think about.

>> No.10837539

>>10837538
Nobody said anon was not invited.
She just said that these boomers literally complain how cons back in the old days were better yet all they do is spend 1grand to go to some shitty hotel for a random meetup to drink alcohol for a few hrs then go home.

>> No.10837544

>>10836143
The problem isn't the con scene, but rather the con organisers.

The UK Games Expo went from being a small hotel con to a massive event that had 45,000 visitors last year. The people who run the UKGE though take things very seriously and run it like an actual professional business. As a result people have a great time and tell their friends, word gets round companies that it's good for business, more special guests want to attend etc.

In contrast UK anime cons are run by either clueless idiots who want recognition (eg Kita) or egotistical narcissist (eg Alcon). These committees get in way over their heads because they want the accolades of running a con but not the work or experience required to do it. Case in point: the Amecon where the social media manager had a meltdown and quit because she didn't have a fucking clue how to be a social media manager.

So you end up with committees that don't capitalise on the con, don't work hard to make it a bigger and better experience, then suffer burnout after a few cons and stop caring.

The UK con scene has relied on volunteer committees and cults of personality for way too long, it seriously needs professional teams to run cons.

>> No.10837556

>>10837544
Another example is LAGC. I know a guy who was pretty deep in the committee/whatever you want to call it running it. The main organiser apparently creeped on female cosplayers and is a groomer who started dating his gf when she was underaged and he was in his mid 20s.

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Why megacon gotta be so late & gay with announcing stuff? nothin but shilling goyslop to hide its fuckups

>> No.10837647

I'll be seeing you all at AL tomorrow

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>>10837544
The banner on kitas' twitter is telling.
Kita 2023 was a death nail for uk cons. What do UK anime cons have to offer anymore?

>> No.10837716

>>10837544
I know people will pull out the SOUL argument, UKGE is pretty crazy if you follow their socials, they have industrial units that they use to design and test build stands for the show, they are in those convention halls like a month before the event goes live putting the show together - It's quite eye opening compared to anime cons.

It's almost worth the walk of shame past the arbiters of the damned, mr & mrs minion deadpool.

>> No.10837848

>>10837716
almost like the video gaming industry in the uk dwarfs the anime industry by a crazy magnitude or something. tell you what anon, start your own event, go for 30k attendance, but as you’ll be going full effort unlike the other nonce cons, you’ll totally get 30k, they are all too lazy… in case you were wondering, that was sarcasm, the retardation in this thread is on another level

>> No.10837866

>>10837848
It's a tabletop expo.

>> No.10837867 [DELETED] 

>>10837848
Literally 2 seconds in google would have told you it's not a video game event, anon. Actually engage your brain before you speak anon, you'll look slightly less dumb.

>> No.10837868

>>10837848
Literally 2 seconds in google would have told you it's not a video game event, anon. Actually engage your brain before you speak, you'll look slightly less dumb.

>> No.10837981

>>10837848
I've been going to UKGE for years, the Hilton era was pretty soul to be honest, not to say the NEC era isn't good, but there was something about thousands of you crammed into the hotel that was pretty awesome. They started off even smaller than that, but even their Hilton days blows away just about every UK hotel con, considering they filled out the entire venue (I can't actually remember what kind of numbers they were hitting back then, might have been in the ballpark of at least 5k???)

Though i've not been since covid since the friends i went with ended up having covid babies.

>> No.10838008

SciFi Ball is this weekend, apart from the cheap tickets of £15 per day there are silver tickets (£195), gold (£295) and platinum (£445)

Next year silver is £250, gold is £850 and platinum is £1650

>> No.10838084

>>10837556
You mean your source is the same guy who raped his gf and basically dumped her when she refused him? I know about the Kocoro guy!

>> No.10838086

>>10837868
>>10837981
oh no! oh my! wrong type of an event, that invalidates everything i said then doesn’t it? i mean TTRPGs isn’t a ridiculously popular genre is it? i mean i haven’t seen any games workshop shops in the uk high street, but there are so many anime shops that i can’t walk two minutes without hitting one. Oh wait a second… turns out my point still stands. how about you follow your own advice and look up the uk anime industry for two seconds? IT’S NOT THAT BIG! you can’t get 30k anime fans or even 10k anime fans. only way you can get those numbers is to spread your event’s appeal. just don’t pull a collidercon

>> No.10838093

>>10838086
the tabletop/boardcel industry is fucking tiny you retarded fuck.

UKGE has a lot of people because its only ONE event so people can all concentrate there plus its actually organized well so it creates room for growth.

The fucking furry convention in brum is way bigger than any anime con here, are you gonna tell me theres more out and about furries too?

>> No.10838097

>>10838084
Wat guy anon?

>> No.10838106

>>10838093
Amusingly Confuzzled also happens the week before UKGE, used to be able to joke you can still smell the furry stank in the hilton. But yeah, i think they hit something in the ballpark of 2-3k, which is pretty respectible (and Just don't bring a blacklight with you for UKGE)

I suppose you can argue that UGKE has the benefit of being a family friendly event and that has helped it grow immensely, if it was a 18+ only con i'm sure it's growth would have been far more marginal, in line with anime cons.

>> No.10838112

>>10838106
people under 18 play warhammer/mtg/DND/insertboardgamehere???

>> No.10838145

>>10838084
Nah, he was only informally involved, but knew the people in the friend group well. I doubt anyone outside those who know the group personally know him.

>> No.10838157

>>10838093
>Laughs in /tg/

Cons happen on average every month in the UK. Chillcon, Hammerhead, Airecon and Dragonmeet are major ones, and there are plenty of small hotel cons all over the place. The UKGE is just the big daddy of all the cons.

>> No.10838163

>>10838157
Which is fair enough, each scene in the UK has their own big daddy con except for the weebs, though theres a buch of factors that are hampering it. Like the rampant ageism (Though - lets be real, our older members don't act in ways that are becoming of their age, and are embarrasing to be around) while the other scenes/events have a much broader age representation.

>> No.10838168

>>10838157
I guess it does make a lot of sense for board games to have all those conventions, since you have to meet up with everyone anyway every saturday/sunday in your local game store.
Might as well have a hotel event for special occasions.

>> No.10838304

>>10838163
>Blaming veteran fans
Lmao, showing your age there, kid.

You're completely missing the point anyway- the UK Games Expo went from being a small hotel con to the biggest event of its kind in the UK, and it was entirely due to the commitee working their asses off and aiming to make the event bigger and more successful each year. Committees in the UK anime scene simply don't have that level of dedication. There's egos and paedos everywhere, everyone treating it as a form of personal preening rather than a service to the fan community.

Until we get out of the self-absorbed mindset anime cons are never going to reach that level in the UK. It's completely possible to do so, but the culture (both committees and their sycophants) sucks and holds it back. People would rather be a big fish in a small pond than make the pond larger.

>> No.10838317

>>10838304
you’re limited by the number of anime fans, dumbass.

do it then smart ass, start your own 30k member event, stop ranting and do it

>> No.10838342

>>10838317
True dis, I'm willing to bet that if there was a con with unlimited spaces, in a massive venue. Absolutely 2k tops for anime fans being willing to make the effort to go to a con. Anon is confusing casuals who's maybe watched Agretsuko on netflix or something for actual anime fans willing to cosplay and go to a convention. We're not even the majoritory of the cosplayers at MCM, they are all superheroes, vidya or other western shit.

>> No.10838403

>>10838163
>ageism

Its the 30+ people here that are the biggest wet blanket cunts lol.

dont cosplay, dont actually watch anime, dont play weab games, act too cool to actually care about the hobby and just drink cheap alcohol on the stairway or their room for the ENTIRETY of the weekend

Zoomzooms are a bit much but theyre very social and friendly

>> No.10838620

>>10838342
Kita literally had no limit in the tickets and struggled to hit 1k

>> No.10838641

An unfair issue with comparing UK con sizes is we simply don't pull overseas visitors, when it's perfectly normal for people in yurope to travel across borders what with cheap, convinent travel and a universal currency.

Thats right, brexit killed the UK con scene.

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Going to Deecon in April and I don't have a clue what I'm gonna dress as. Considered a Death Korps of Krieg infantryman but I'm a fraud and my warhammer 40k knowledge doesn't extend past playing the RTS games and Darktide

>> No.10838688

>>10838641
yeah man all of the visa application stages you need to go through to travel between england and the eu now are so troublesome

>> No.10838689

>>10838641
mcm london is full of foreigners dumdum. Why else are the 30 hotels near it charging 1200 or sold out?

>> No.10838716

Can any of you fellow bongs recommend good Euro cons?
Are Japan Expo, Japan Weekend, Romics worth going to?
Bonus if they're easy to get to via cheap flights

>> No.10838719

>>10838641
You sure it’s not also our food?

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>>10838689
Fuck mcm london, full of fucking plebs

>> No.10838961

>>10838689
M :clap: C :clap: M :clap: isn’t :clap: just :clap: anime :clap: you :clap: fucking :clap: pleb

>> No.10839009

>>10838961
Mate, at least 20% of MCM participants are weabs or play japanese made video games.

That's at least 5000 or so people who visited.

>> No.10839096

>>10839009
Putting out a devil's advocate argument, MCM has the advantage of just being able to turn up for a day, which is good if you have a lower budget or don't have the time, compared to anime cons where it's generally assumed you'd be staying the whole weekend, or even something like thurs-sun (throw in an extra day either side for travel/unpack/setup/etc)

Probably what helps AL a lot if they've embraced the daytripper fan rather than the hardcore weekender fan, so if a con could balance both of these sides maybe they have a shot at being "the" UK anime con.

>> No.10839104

>>10839096
Unfortunately, only people in london can actually make MCM a day trip con.

I'm sure the extreme number of fully booked or insanely priced hotels within 5 miles of excel means there's a shitload of attendees.

Also nobody fucking travels the entirety of the city in cosplay(or carrying an entire cosplay set+makeup) so the daytrippers are probably just boomers and their children, not the actual weabs and gamers.

>> No.10839174

>>10838716
Japan expo and Japan weekend are both great. Both extremely crowded though. If you like cosplay especially, Torucon in Norway is a small but fun event. Elfia in Holland too, con mixed with ren faire at a castle

>> No.10839280

>>10839009
a number taken completely out of your ass. anime fandom in the UK isn’t that big, it just isn’t. look at SLA, look at the number of anime companies, look at home MVM and a bunch of other anime companies pulled out of the UK. You literally know nothing about the UK scene, you’re a 4chan shitposter who makes up bullshit. Run your 5k con anon, i’ll wave at you when you’re in the job center queue after shitting away all your money on a “full effort” event with 5k spaces that bearly reached 1k

>> No.10839309

>>10839104
Seriously, why don't cons do ticket variety anymore? It used to be:
>Fri only
>Weekend only
>3 day

So if you could only make one or two days you could still go. Now it's 3 days or nothing, so if you can't make all 3 days you might as well not bother.

>> No.10839310

>>10839280
You've never been to MCM london you retarded fuck. don't ever speak about shit you don't know about.

Probably some single scrote who doesn't even cosplay and attends 300man dead cons.

>>10839309
Let's be real, who the fuck even attends these on a sunday. It's a dead day and I'd rather not waste hotel bills on a quiet day where everyone's leaving and there's no people to hang out at night.

>> No.10839337

>>10839310
did you think MVM was a typo? it was an anime distributor in the uk.

yes i’ve been to MCMs, yes i’ve been to kita and a bunch of other events and ya, i do cosplay. this isn’t about me though, the fandom is not that big, it just isn’t

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>>10838163
>>10838403
No actually it's not age based at all. UK cosplayers in general are miserable and touchy. Regardless of being Zoomers, Millenials, or Gen X. They go to cons just to stick with their friends instead of socializing with new people. No one just chills out any more. I understand why with the Fox looking like a concentration camp with tickets. But everyone knows you have to go to MCM and other cons with friends or no one will talk to you. So trying to say any generation is more anti social or stuck up or whatever is dumb because everyone is like that.

>> No.10839344

>>10839339
>"Nobody will talk to me!"
>Never considers making the first move

Seriously, it's not hard to make friends at a con. Go to an interactive panel and join a group. Chat to people sitting next to you. Arrange a meetup with other fans. Go to the trad games room and join in a game. As long as you're not a creep or a turbo autist people are glad to hang out and chat.

>> No.10839352

>>10839344
Cosplayers are some of the most autistic people you'll ever meet. Being forward and social is one of the worst things you can do. Actually just talking to them results in them either ignoring you like you're not there. Or mumbling whilst looking at the floor. You might find some interesting people at meet ups though. Cosplayers stick to their groups and rarely even want to talk to people outside of it.

>> No.10839369

>>10839339
> But everyone knows you have to go to MCM and other cons with friends or no one will talk to you.

I'm gonna have to be lay down it down directly.
You are either not cosplaying or cosplaying really horrible or something nobody knows about.
You are a dude that is really fat/unattractive.
You are a dude with autism/extremely bad social skills.

>> No.10839472

>>10839369
Anyone in any of these categories should just consider themselves soft-banned from conventions and events, for both their own dignity and our safety and emotional well-being

>> No.10839501

>>10839369
Literally this. Con goers are extremely social and the only reason people would outright refuse to engage with you is if you're a creep. I've seen shy and socially awkward people get literally adopted by groups and dragged into friends groups. You're doing something terribly wrong if everyone is refusing to engage with you.

>> No.10839624

>>10839501
a lot of creeps don’t realise they are creeps

>> No.10839891

>>10839501
Agreed. Made dozens of friends attending cons in the past couple of years.
"Hey I like your cosplay" and go from there.
Only a handful have reacted as the poster described.

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AL got Genshit voice actors for guests,
avoid it like the plague.

>> No.10840116

>>10840110
Vendetta anon literally subscribes to AL via emails just to find reasons to be mad.

Sad!

>> No.10840403

Is it London Comic Con Spring so dead that they need to give out tickets for free?

I saw in Instagram that they were giving out 200 tickets for Sunday

>> No.10840587

>>10840116
I saw it on facebook advertisements, you schizo

>> No.10840654

>>10840403
Two days and you can still get the tickets, so they can't even give 200 away it seems?

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/london-comic-con-spring-2023-tickets-403920195177

Going to be one dead-con!

>> No.10840655

>>10840654
>https://www.eventbrite.com/e/london-comic-con-spring-2023-tickets-403920195177
PS: Code is 20YEARS if anyone's wanting a free Sunday ticket from there.

Amazing that two days of doing this and they're still not given away. Just how dead will London Spring Comic Con be for Showmasters?

>> No.10840909

>>10840654
Hot shit, I'll add Showmasters to the list of dead cons fren

>> No.10840920

>>10840587
Towers' asslickers lurk these threads and try to do damage control/PR by actively shitting on any AL criticism. Their usual tactic is to gaslight the critic and make out that any negative statement about AL is not real and that the critic is making things up. They're very obvious once you recognise their style and manners of speech.

>> No.10840944

>>10840909
Meatspace cons are pretty dead in general. During lockdown a bunch of my friends switched to VR events (waiting for the headset was painful) and haven't gone to an IRL one since. You can get get drunk, fuck around, party, fuck all from the comfort of your own home.

>> No.10840953

lol looks like megacon don't like eighty-sixth floor goons clogging they're groups, probably found out they are pro mcm

>> No.10840970

>>10840944
Sounds kinda cringe bro

>> No.10840996

>>10840944
You are likely unattractive and dont cosplay.

>> No.10841017

>>10839369
This. I put some effort in my cosplay and got approached by like 4 girls right off the bat asking if I wanted to party later and go to the fandom meetup. My autistic ass refused but that was on me, not other cosplayers

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>>10840953
repeat that in english please

>>10840944
absolutely not comparable, unless you have some weird Bluetooth onahole that sucks you off with the guys/gals you meet in VR

>> No.10841163

>>10841048
they clearly have that, let them get fucked in VR, less mouth breathers at the event complaining that “girls don’t date nice guys like them”

>> No.10841166

>>10839624
It's so sad. I wish i can be enlightend and say people can be saved or fixed in some way, but so many are just completely beyond saving. But if they realise they are creeps, maybe they'll do the enlightened thing themselves and stop making spaces uncomfortable for other people by stopping going out.

Sad shit to think about man. Losers that are completely beyond even therapy and gym.

>> No.10841186

>>10841166
you high and mighty fucks who talk shit about everyone behind their backs thinking they are better than everyone else

>> No.10841212

>>10841186
Stop coming to events creep, no one likes you

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>>10839501
Individuals are fine but groups tend to get stuck up. Especially if you approach as an individual. That's why you go to cons with friends and don't wander on your own. It's the best way to avoid toxic people and groups (which are numerous
) Everyone I go to cons with says the same thing. And has been for over 8 years It's not a new concept. Hell other people in previous threads have talked abou how shitty UK cosplayers attitudes are compared to other regions. Hell I went to cons in Germany and Sweden and people were way nicer and approachable.

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>>10841290
Yeah I don't know what's going on with these people, anon. If they're so cool and have all these cosplay friends why are they shitting up these threads?

>>10841186
Welcome to cosplay.

I have a pretty big friend group. I'm the only male out of it. And they recommended I come to MCM with them a few times. They all told me to just stick with them and don't wander off. I was younger and thought I knew better so I made the mistake of engaging with another person outside my group. Only to be met with autistic blank stares and mumbling. That happened 3 times before I got the message. I just stay with my group and get drunk now. Pretty much gave up on people outside my group after that point. They all said I was an idiot for doing that as no one talks to anyone outside their group. That just seems to be the culture from what I've seen.

It's just a UK thing too. I've been to Japan on holiday a couple of times and took one of my shittier Warhammer cosplays to a con. Everyone there was approaching me and asking for photos. They didn't know what Warhammer was but thought the costume was cool. They even talked after they realized I was conversational in Japanese. I'm not great at it but I could talk. Very friendly people over all. They seemed impressed I made all my costume from scratch. EVA foam, worbla and sewing. I didn't think what I did was even that impressive. People just seemed less autistic overall. Which is saying something considering it's Japan.

>> No.10841293

>>10841290
>>10841291
Considering what I've seen on the old gull discord and IRL meetups at cons, I really got to laugh at Gulls saying they have loads of friends. Stop lying, I've seen you all.
>>10839624
The lack of self awareness here makes Dairy, Towers and Pooskin Pepe look less autistic in comparison.

>> No.10841308

>>10841293
Dairy was cool, pity about what happened to him since i heard nothing substantial actually turned up. Cancelling people for misdemeanors is a pretty fucked up thing to do.

>> No.10841329

>>10841308
Hi dairy

>> No.10841338
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>>10841329
Try again

>> No.10841342

>>10841290
The friend groups at con are fairy cultish, the shunning and only talking to each other give me the shivers

>> No.10841357

>>10841338
I want to say people can change, people can get better, but at the same time it is quite sad that dairy has a bunch of rubes who either bought into his narritive or are enabling him in some way.

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>>10841357
dairy milk is a sexual predator, eyewitness confirmation of at least 3 attempts and accused of about 4 others, that really is the top and bottom of it

nobody in their right mind wants to talk to him or want him to be part of their group in any way

even if you don't believe the accusations and only go on what he has 100% confirmed done, to still be in touch with him by now outs you yourself as a scumbag

i'm demo btw - i'm happy to educate you if you are genuinely just ignorant, by all means just slide in my dms, but if you're going to bury your head in the sand and continue to act like he's not a danger to women everywhere, you deserve everything that is surely coming to you

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Ah yeah, trust worthy Demo the gaslighting pedo

>> No.10841361

>>10841360
hey that's me!

love anime children

>> No.10841365

>>10841360
Dairy you got off so easily considering what went down, you could just go live your life. All you're doing is ensuring this stuff follows you forever, just move on and be better. The only reason you even came up is because you instigated drama in a half dead videogames server.

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>>10841365
Would you like an invite to "cult prevention general"? It's popping off tonight!

>> No.10841368

>>10841367
The good stuff is after these though :<

>> No.10841369

>>10841367
>everyone agreeing with someone who is right
>this is cultism

Imagine being this owned online

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bros how could he say such a thing
clearly a monster

>> No.10841381

If you need a hand narrowing it down, I guess you could say I'm a sussy baka in the food court ;)

>> No.10841384

>>10841381
we've moved on, what's your favourite slur?

>> No.10841385

>>10841384
Friend of demo

>> No.10841389

>>10841368
Post the screenshot then anon

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>>10841376
Evangelion IS shit though.

>>10841342
>>10841290
The fuck? the only cultish people in cons are certain people from this discord who are frosty as shit with someone they havent circlejerked with.

Are you like, interacting with 14yo academia/genshin/fujosports cosplayer groups as a 30year old man or something? cause 90% of congoers and con groups are friendly as shit.

>> No.10841459

>>10841367
This is Padfoot from the staff of Kokoro on Discord?

>> No.10841461

theres enough proof of what dairy did that it was recommended to be taken to the level of police intervention. the only reason it wasnt was because he pulled the "poor me i'm so suicidal" act after he realised how fucked he was

>> No.10841467

Dairy is scum
We don't need to go over it constantly, just let him rot on obscurity.
The only plus of this is knowing he's alone and can never go to a UK con again

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>>10841405
Hating Eva?
Fuck him, fuck you, and whatever shitter anime the zoom zooms have forgotten already

>> No.10841470

>>10841459
same avatar so looks like it
>>10841461
classic

>> No.10841472

>>10841367
What kind of pscho threatens friends like this? It's textbook abuse

>> No.10841476

>>10841472
No one is friends with Dairy

>> No.10841477

>>10841469
EVA fuckin sucks

>> No.10841484

>>10841476
We've already established that this is not Dairy. You need to take a long, hard look at yourself. We're at our limits.

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>>10841477
Go blow a troon

>> No.10841492

>>10841484
Back on the sauce Dairy?

>> No.10841493

>>10841490
> I don't like your dated mid ass anime
> slurs
Never change 4chan

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Nasty guy

>> No.10841507

>>10841497
>can't handle bants

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>>10841497
i have to tell you it feels absolutely wonderful knowing the limit of your petty anger is posting screenshots online that not a single soul cares about, because you know if your identity was revealed it would be over for you

>> No.10841530

>>10841517
Because you're an abuser. This is the only place people feel safe saying it.

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>>10841367
It was me James.

(It wasn’t, I just wanted to post this meme. I have no idea what’s going on)

>> No.10841535

>>10841530
that's a nice argument senator, but can you back it up with any actual proof?

>> No.10841540

>>10841535
You called me a moron in factorio once

>> No.10841542

>>10841459
Imagine supporting JKR in 2011+12

>> No.10841551

>>10841530
the only thing demo abuses is my prostate when we have angry sweaty gay sex

>> No.10841552

>>10841540
Not to defend him
But you were probably being a moron

>> No.10841554

>>10841540
yo same, but i am a moron

>> No.10841555

>>10841552
That was a perfectly good set up for a “being racist at greggs” meme and you blew it.

>> No.10841580

This round of TTT hits different

>> No.10841583

>>10841580
i think all terrorist towns are quite troubling

>> No.10841585

let the thread die so we can actually talk about cosplay and conventions on the next one

>> No.10841587

>>10841585
We won't though will we?

>> No.10841593

Given the usual thread pace the next thread will likely spill over kokoro, that'll be an exciting one

>> No.10841597

>>10841497
wib acting like a victim any chance they can get is hilarious, go back to sucking up to dairy. sexual predators gotta stick together right?

>> No.10841606

>>10841358
Lmao you seem cool.

Unrelated to all this but can I slide into dm's? Sounds interesting.

>> No.10841609

>>10841606
Sure

speedlolita#4728

>> No.10841611

>>10841490
Im a top.

>> No.10841684

can you gullcord autists just go chat on discord about shitting and how you hate dairymilk? you’re really making my head hurt here, please go away, nobody knows any of you, you’re not famous, fuck off

>> No.10841685

>>10841684
>exacerbates the problem

Nice one moron

>> No.10841718

>>10841606
No worries pal. My discord is demo#6425.

>> No.10841722

I wonder if those discords are even real or just someone sending harrasement there

>> No.10841725

>>10841722
There used to be a public one
How you need to suck demo's dick to get access to the only not dead one

>> No.10841727

>>10841725
Or be named nish

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Are there even Jannie's on /cgl/?

>> No.10841733

>>10841606
yeah mate no worries

Rekoza#1337

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>>10841733
i'm too busy playing counter-strike 2, leave me alone

>> No.10841879

Changing topics

Anyone went to London Comic Con on Sunday? I`ve heard they gave free tickets because it was absolutly dead

>> No.10841897

>>10841879
thank you anon, at last the topic is away from this circle jerk

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>>10841731
I dunno likes try an experiment