/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>6761416
Shuttup and take my images 4chan.

>>6761195
I will be there as follows. And probably a very casual Rule63!Ms. Fortune

It'd be nice to go, but the one day I could go(Saturday) is my father-in-law's 60th birthday celebration. Also my car would probably not survive the trip since it's in such bad shape.

Yup, wearing Lolita. I was hoping I could get one of my AX cosplay done early enough to wear, but no such luck, so j-fashion it is instead. I'll be there Saturday for sure, and maybe Sunday as well. Couldn't be arsed to take the day off work to go Friday, though.

yeah. about to drive 600 miles for a con i didn't care enough about to have new cosplays.

I'll probably be Link again.

>>6761553
Were you the link who was in the Masquerade last year? :O

>>6761553
I hope you're not a girl.

>>6761694
You have to be the most boring, dogged troll in a while.

maybe

Bringing Hanekawa with my friend as Nadeko!

Oh man this con is fucking dead at least I have marijuana.

>>6763956
ditto.

Ditto.

Oh man maguma is in this shitty suite party I feel like I saw a celeb <3~

>>6764161
Don't get too hype, he's Carrot Top tier.

I have a friend working artist ally so I'll probably be hanging there

>>6763997

Brah I got a volcano vape here if you wanna pool resources.

>>6764193
I don't like vaping :x I hope that's not weird.

>>6764802

Not at all whatever floats your boat.

Just got back from the con. Any sweet pics yet?

Reviews of the con? I was only there for a few hours and Saturday and I didn't really do much. I heard it was a flop, can I get any reasons why?

>>6768032
No con suite :( otherwise no problems from me.

>>6768032

I thought it was lovely, but Sunday was extremely boring, you might aswell have only gone the first two days I guess.

Wish there were more 2hu cosplayers there was just me as Marisa and two other Reimus and the 2hu panel was empty. :c

Taco Party and Hooklah Party next to each other
Whoever thought of that is a fucking genious

>>6768250
For me the last two days were more exciting than Friday - but then again I was in the Artist Alley and Friday was absolutely dead in terms of foot traffic.

Jessica DiCicco stopped at my table and was looking at my Adventure Time art and without knowing it was her - I asked if she was going to the Flame Princess signing. She told me she was and she'd see me there. Imagine my embarrassment when I got to the signing and saw that the lady at my table had been the voice actress all along.

Man, that was super awkward, but she came by my table today too to sign something else for me since I brought her a poster.

It was a pretty decent con after Friday! They definitely were underprepared/not ready for set up on Thursday night and a lot of vendors were upset about that. And there were no programming guides until Saturday morning which was a little ridiculous. The vendor wifi situation was kind of dumb too - but I guess they're working out the kinks because of the new management.

I kind of felt bad for the people having the wedding at the same time as Conji though.

>>6768274
Hope you enjoyed!

>>6768250
Damn, I didn't even know there WAS a touhou panel! What day was it?

Tall Reimu who was Tall Yoko on Sunday was cute.

>>6768302
Yeah, she and her boyfriend who also cosplayed Reimu were nice and we were invited to go to the panel to show people what's upz.
Also, it was on Saturday but I think it was a spur of the moment panel, it wasn't on the schedule book or anything, but it was on the TV thingy in the lobby

>>6768284
Yeahh! My friend and I were talking about that too. Sunday is when it got really bad with the conflicts between the wedding and the con.
We were getting kicked out of all the rooms, kareoke was cut a bit short I believe for the upcoming events, etc. etc.
All I could really do was sit and talk, which isn't too bad, but still ~

Oh mang that wedding. An actual fucking wedding. During a con. Were they even awar of what the fuck was going on

How popular is Conji to begin with?

Here's everything I took on Saturday. Only spent the day there. Had an okay time, though I was hoping for a bigger crowd and felt the venue was too spread out.

http://www.dtjaaaam.com/Anime-Conji-2013/Anime-Conji-2013-Saturday/

Let me break it down this way:

Friday - Absolute mess. Dead con (thanks to Kyary concert in LA, school, work.) No program guide. No main event.
Saturday - Pretty much turned into ALA on steroids. Random LOL wedding. Not as many people ended up drunk since most of the LA crowd came in the morning and left in the evening. Con was WAY better this day.
Sunday - Dead con (was anyone staying at the hotel awake past noon?), started to sprinkle outside forcing some to go indoors.

Con should be better next year, unless the staff go back to in-fighting, bitching, and quitting. Of which case, it'll be a clusterfuck again.

>>6768562
Sounds like it's a good thing I didn't go.

>>6768562
Assuming Conji stays under the SPJA umbrella, expect more of the same

>>6768359
It's its not uncommon for cons to share space with weddings. I remember the same thing at Yaoicon

>>6768562
Yeah, I was WITH a lot of people at Kyary who were skipping Friday Conji for the concert. And then ended up not making it/barely there on Saturday because of sheer exhaustion. (which definitely includes myself.)

There was cgl chatter about "skipping Friday for Kyary" too.

>>6769255
I also went to Kyary on the first day, it was an intense show.
One of the best I've been to atleast

can we get picture thread?

That was one of the shittiest hotels I've been in.

>>6761417
Was this foreshadowing your skit in the masquerade?!
IF SO I LOVED IT.

>>6769528
Fuck yeah, it was amazing. Sorry Conji.

Heard rumors that the game room had thousands of dollars worth of stuff stolen from it.

Aside from Maid Cafe, Dealer's Hall, and Gaming Room, Conji was a fucking mess. Terrible GoH selection, way too spread out, low attendance, boring masquerade, and just... boring overall.

3/10, unsure if I want to go next year.

>>6769836
Yeah I remember looking at all those press releases SPJA spams you with and thinking "oh, a bunch of low level guests, okay, good stuff coming later." Then one of my friends said "oh Conji is this weekend." What. Absolutely nothing I would have gone for.

I heard the game room at the other side of the hotel were the programming rooms were got broken into and had some stuff stolen.

>>6768941

This, the SPJA fucked Conji over. I can't justify a good reason to support this group of dicks.

>>6769861
Yup, I was there when the police showed, it got really awkward for everyone

>>6769631
Let me tell you, it is a tradition that my usual Masquerade partner and I formed after Anime Conji 2011. That tradition is to enter conji's masquerade at the last second, and hope for the best. This year I was told by a friend who works the Masq that the entry count was low, and like the first time, I agreed to enter, but my usual partner is teaching in Japan, so that isn't happening.

I ran into my friend Eric, (Psyduck) shortly after and the wheels began to turn and in 2 hours we came up with what you saw on stage.

I'm glad you enjoyed it though! We were hoping people would enjoy the antics and nostalgic psyduck attitude!

>>6769864

I heard that they pretty much fired all the Conji staff from last year. That may be the reason why this year sucked.

>>6769878
Ahh, well keep doing what you're doing, the Masquerade wasn't the best, but you along with that Aeris sure helped it out.
Hope to see you next time !

>>6769910
Haha, will do! My friends and I will always have something up our sleeves!~

>>6769879

Did you know what was stolen? I also heard that Marc Perez's car had its tires slashed.

Somebody really needs to give the people at anime conji a good critique so they can better the con and maybe everything won't be so boring and they won't be acting like pansies.

>>6770270
>SPJA
>good critique

Hahahaha my sides!

>>6770298
>SPJA
What is it about them that everybody hates?

>>6770270
Well ~ There was a feedback event at the end of the day at around 7PM or so, but by 4, everything was emptying out, people were getting bored and leaving, so I don't know if anyone showed up or if it even happened.
I skipped the first day for Kyary for the rest of the con. Saturday was bueno, and sunday was a bust.
3 day pass for 1 day of fun.

>>6770243
gaming supplies, in upwards to 2,000 USD.

I went saturday and sunday. It was a mess and a half. The only thing I enjoyed was the Mochi Cafe (which I got in for free being press) and the gamig room.

this leads me to the biggest problem that this and Cons like ALA always bug me: you mean to tell me you all go, even sometimes across country, to spend X amount of dollars to go to a con just to get drunk? For the amount I paid to go to these cons, I want a once-in-a-lifetime experience that I can't get anywhere else, not go to some glorified kegger.

If I wanted to get drunk with my friends, I'd call them up, dust my N64 and we'd play Goldeneye and WWF No Mercy all weekend and pay 1/3 of the price for those cons.

>>6770547
Hah, I remember the last time expressed such an opinion it evolved into a gigantic argument with many a "you're a virgin!" and "you have no friends!" being tossed around.

>>6770547
No, I get you. I can at least say though that ALA wasn't a crash and burn in comparison to Conji.

>>6770554
I think what worked for ALA was everything was in a small hotel, so you didn't have to travel around, Here, you had to traverse through one end of a football stadium to the other to get to see all the events.

Another thing is there was poor allocation of staffers. I went to pick up my badge and there was one volunteer and no staffer to help him. Meanwhile, everyone was getting mad because they'd been there for 2 hours and some were even forced to no-show their panels they were hosting because of this.

Any one have pics of Lucky?

>>6769831
I work for the game room. I can confirm we had$3k worth of stuff stolen from us because hotel opened the doors without permission before con opened up. SHit is our personal stuff

>>6770628
So who takes the hit on this? Hotel?

>>6770641
SPJA most likely.

>>6770641
We might take the hit.... It is really shitty. Plus my friend and co worker in gaming had his laptop stolen. I was the one who wanted real cops to come because higher up conji staff didn't give a fuck. I hope we get reimbursed.

Also creep lumpy man who kept hanging out in table top was touching himself and sleeping hallways at night.

Needless to say but Valhalla Gaming will no longer be working for SPJA.

>>6770655
**sleeping in

Dumping some Conji pictures (sorry only had camera phone with me)

>>6770667
is that maridah? old as fuck in this picture.

>>6770905
Is that kurohime cosplay?

>>6770905
Yeah, it is.

>>6770926
I only recognised it by the gun since I've never seen that outfit before.

>>6770565
Maaan this kid... Can't wait for him to get his just dues.

>>6771066
That's a very vindictive mentality. Check your negative energies.

>>6771084
It's very much a "What goes around, comes around" kind of attitude. So you know, this guy has repeatedly groped people at cons. He got banned this weekend and he was also banned at PMX as well.

>>6771102
Isn't he the one that I almost caught nearly red-handed on camera last year at Conji during Cosplay Chess? I heard there was some other guy who was running around groping people too (girls AND guys alike. Seriously.)

I have to wonder if they tried to take on too much. The space could have been half as big and still accommodated everyone well.

Small cons always try and put everything out they're like they're big cons. If you're not big, it's fine! A small con done well is on track to bigdom.

>>6771115
It'd probably be the same guy. Was he dressed as Sebastian from Kuroshitsuji? Short black hair, never wears a wig, glasses?

>>6771179
He wasn't cosplaying last year. The guy I'm talking about is the guy getting pointed to by staff in this screenshot.

>>6771141
They had the correct amount of space last year, but when SPJA took over - I think they tossed too much money in getting the entire hotel that they didn't know what to do with all the extra space. I was at the feedback panel at the end of Sunday, and they say they'll have everything more centralized for next year.

>>6771227
Yup. Same guy.

Staff here for a department that shall remain unnamed. Con was alright this year. Most of the complaints voiced here are right on (hotel too big, no big GoH, programming being a clusterfuck of a mess, gropers, lelRain, poor planning)

>>6768032
Was pretty disorganized for the first day, day two was much better, day three was a ghost town by 2 PM.

>>6768048
>goes to a three day con in San Diego
>doesn't plan for a hotel nor contacts friends in the area to crash at

>>6768274
You're welcome.

>>6768562
>staff in-fighting, bitching
The only department that really suffered from that was Access Control because Andy is a useless piece of shit who pretty much fucked everyone over by being lazy and staying in his room drinking whiskey.

>>6769907
They didn't fire them, most of them quit. They transferred about 1/3 of the current Conji staff from AX.

>>6770565
You talking about that creepy guy dressed as the Lucky Charms mascot who groped grills on Day 0 and 1, then came back and got another badge under a different name and groped more grills on Day 2?

I might have a few. He's permabanned from Conji and AX indefinitely.

>>6771141
We're working on it. The hotel was pretty shitty (and ogrepriced).

>>6771237
Please. Please. Please. For the love of god, go on a cut if you're going to cosplay Marlon.

>>6770560
I got there an hour early on Saturday to pick up my badge and check everyone in for our panel at ten. It was 30 minutes before the room was even open, another 20 before the computers were up, and another 10 to print six badges. We got to our panel room at 10:05 and still had to set up the laptop/projector. Organization and time management by the staff sucked ass.

Our panel went well, though, so I guess that's something.

>>6768032

When I got there on Friday and walked around (didn't get my cosplay on until like 2), the place was dead. Checking out the dealer's room we were all like "damn is this it?"

Saturday was cooler. Maguma at the masquerade was dope rofl. Sunday I bought shit and departed post-haste.

As literally everyone said, there wasn't enough programming. I disagree that the Town and Country was awful (other than having kinda shitty overpriced food if you didn't want to go into Mission Valley). Being able to smoke literally anywhere was cool too.

The main problem, I think, was a lack of attendance. It wasn't the space. Con staff, hotel staff, and volunteers were surprisingly chill, especially considering we were walking around obviously inebriated with clear open containers of drank.

Yeah, I was disappointed at first. I ended up liking it in the end. But ultimately I go to cons to mob around with my bros in costume and see cool costumes, so maybe my standards aren't patrician enough.

>>6770565
If this is the same Lucky I'm thinking of, he's now currently banned from every single SoCal con.

>>6771375

Please explain whose idea was it to jack the price for one day badges during con?

>>6771693
No idea anonymous. I could ask my manager and see if he/she knows anything about it. This is just a guess but it could've been the finance department since they fucked over guest relations, programming, and food pretty hard during the con by cutting most of their funds (which was already close to nothing) at the last second.

>>6771693
>>6771725

Not involved with the con but I'd assume it's because nobody fucking showed up and they needed to make X money on badge sales.

>>6771748
also, i'm sure all the "guest of honor" you guys had also wanted more money. That and the whole incident with the game room.

>>6770554
>>6770547
Many times people will party in downtown LA with their friends who are not normally in the area. Sure I can call my local friends in but on the flip side by going to ALA and other social cons I can hangout with folks in Socal and even out of state and party.

It's a lot easier to synch up everyone's scheduals around a convention as opposed to making a super huge house party

>>6771845
still, and in the context of Conji, people are paying an upwards of like 50 bucks to go, and yeah, people "ghost" and thats fine, but shit, I want those 50 dollars worth where I can have an experience, no so I can be in a room with drooling fanboys with "Vampy". Again, i'm not opposed to drinking, but I am opposed to thats the main focus, because if thats all that it is, you get shit like "Vampy" as a GOH and instead of getting a unique GOH that will make you pay for the con and see all that the con has instead of just "ghosting" and borrowing your friends badge. Sure, there will still be alot that do, I won't argue that, but i'm sure the payoff would be a more better experience overall and feel like their badge price was justified.

>>6771863
That's Conji's fault for not having good programs and failing as a con. Complain about the guests at ALA all you want but as a con the programing and hotel accomidations are really rock solid. Heck the con even gives you free food and sets up bean bags in the lower floor just to make things more cozy for the attendees

>>6771891
yeah, but does free food and bean bags worth the paying for a badge for a con? And yeah, the programing is cool at ALA, but still, I don't see it as something where I want to spend the money to go to Los Angeles, pay for a room with my friends and pay for a badge. There needs to be more.

>>6771918
I think it's so just because there's a lot of little unique moments at ALA that make the con special. I get to see people from out of state, I get to hang out at a good hotel which has many awesome photo locations, pachinko machines, cozy beanbag chairs, the rum party, standup comedy shows, events that run on time, no hassle badge pickup. Hell the staff was really damn cool too. I remeember having a huge gathering downstairs and when our numbers swelled they opted to let us use an empty panel room as opposed to just kicking us out.

I guess I'm less strict on cons and focus on what they do have and how they serve people over what the could have.

>>6771946
I dunno, I got a new job and it's not that high paying and I'm paying more and more attention to stuff like "value". Like, how much can all the money I set aside be worth going? yeah, i'll be with friends and such, but last ALA I was at (2012) I spent most of my time in the game room, so I wondered if my money that I spent (upwards of 200+ bucks) was worth it.

I know it's a Horrible way of looking at things (the value of money compared to the value of entertainment), but when you are jobless (which i'm not now, thank god), you begin to analyze and begin to think more critically about stuff like "is X really worth it's value?" and make better choices financially.

>>6771954

>im into an expensive hobby
>>whines about having no money
>>>fucking pick one

>>6771954
Welcome to my whole life both when I was jobless and with a job. My parents brought me up in a manner where you go cheap even if it means some suffering/more time. We've been on more road trips than I can count throughout my life and inversely I can count the number of times I've been on an airplane on my two hands. My friends like to say I'm "really Asian" and that's only from seeing all the coupons I use.

>>6771954
Could it be that you felt this way toward ALA due to the fact you did spend most of your time in the game room?

I'm at least relieved that our difference in opinions is more reflective on a difference of perspective as opposed to quality. I do see entertainment as "priceless" and am a bit more willing to pay what I do in addition I like to support ALA as I believe that it "gets it right" in terms of how it treats their attendees despite the low resources it as at its disposal. In comparsion to huge cons like AX and even Fanime I feel more like the con is taking care of me when I go to ALA as opposed to just being a venue that leaves me to explore on my own.

>>6771973
and you bring up a good point: Conji should of been runned like ALA, but instead, it was runned like AX, and it magnifies the problems even more when it's centered on something small.

and thats fine too. It's just, growing up going to stuff like SDCC and AX, the travel and stuff and seeing all these awesome guest of honor like actual guest from the industry and guest from japan was something I would love and something I would again and again pay money for. Not for Vampy.

As far as the gaming room goes, I wasn't there ALL the time, I hosted a panel, I saw a few other panels, I went to dinner with my friends, I slept in my room. Alot. Mainly when all my friends had gone off and do their cosplay things, I take their bed and sleep. And there isn't much left to do after 12am other then get drunk (which is fine, but when I want to drink, it's because I feel like I deserve a drink, by doing hard work or something), stay at the game room or stoop to myself in the lobby till I get sleepy.

Meanwhile, I go to SDCC, i'm literally stuck in panel rooms all day and I don't see the dealer's room till sunday.

i remember seeing this guy dancing like crazy all over the place...Then I found the video..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC9AEZkvFgM&feature=player_embedded#!

>>6771066
>>6771375
>>6771518
Yeah I mean him. I would like people to spread pics of him so people know he is banned.

Person in this pic. is here. that was retarded that he was able to do the harassment for that long

^

>>6761553
I hope you weren't the fat Link that was with a fat Asuka at the con.

>>6771986
Sounds like you just like big conventions like AX and SDCC. That's fine - some people just don't like small conventions.

Though, I would hate life if I all I did at SDCC was go to panels and stand in lines all day. There is so much to do at SDCC, there's no way to do it all - that's unlike a small con where you can get everything you want to do and have time to go have a drink afterward.

You know, I hope SPJA doesn't shoot themselves in the foot and screw up Anime Expo because of Anime Conji.

>>6771986
You might like WonderCon and Comikaze then, if you haven't already gone. I really love going to SDCC and even AX, despite it's problems, because it feels like there is always a thousand things to do or see or go to. I like my drinking to, but I'd like to have a shot and then go prowl around for something to do. It's harder to do that when the convention you're at is extremely small, so if you're not one of those people that can people watch for 6 hours, then you're going to be crazy and feel like you've wasted time and money being there.

That said, I still enjoy ALA as a small con for a lot of what's already been posted. It just seems like Anime Conji has a lot of salvage work to do for next year.

>>6772805
>I hope SPJA doesn't shoot themselves in the foot and screw up Anime Expo because of Anime Conji.

Too bad, because this is just a preview of what is going to happen at AX this year.

>>6772805
>>6772835
and I like those cons, but I hate though that it's like "I also want to have fun with my friends" and I like the smaller con environment. I guess the best middle point i've experience was Botcon. It wasn't a HUGE con, it was big and there was stuff to do all the time and I didn't feel exhausted from sensory overload nor did I feel underwhelmed from the amount of stuff to do.

>>6770311
No matter how much you critique them, it always falls on deaf ears and they continue to suck.

>tfw you had to work all day Saturday and than showed up on Sunday, which turned out to be shit, and everyone tells that you missed the best day of the con.

Fuck me, it's times like this I wish I was still an unemployed bum.

>>6770667

Why doesn't she ever smile? I've seen some where she does, but 90% of her pics are that same dead face. Her costumes are nice, but she doesn't do much to really help bring her character to life or put much feeling into her photos. Also, I never realized her hips were so wide, she appears thinner in her photos.

Leaving this here for those who wanted to see Maguma's skit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6bAfH4mlTA

>>6775447
That was pretty good. Would have been awesome if you somehow got the Pokémon Men involved since I saw them at con.

Last year was the first time I ever heard of Conji despite living in SD my whole life, I was pretty excited to attend a con since I had missed out on a ComiCon badge but after watching videos on youtube that congoers took I emailed the people in charge asking for a refund lol

>>6775456
We had the skit an homage to what they do~

I've talked to them in the past on other masq ideas, but I'd love to work with them in the future. Maybe Fanime~

>>6771375
>>goes to a three day con in San Diego
>>doesn't plan for a hotel nor contacts friends in the area to crash at
I actually live in SD, dipshit, that doesn't mean I can't miss the con suite.

>>6775460
Let us know how that goes. I'm considering doing the same thing.