>>10859749
Anime North is, on every metric, a bad convention. There is outstandingly poor programming, the guests all irrelevant westerners, the dealer's room is shit, the artist alley is a lotto so it's a crapshoot, the gaming room is somewhat okay. There's also so many attendees that you're practically always rubbing elbows with some sweaty fuck since it's either uncomfortably hot or raining when AN happens.
What I'm saying is, you don't go there for anything AN offers, you go to it because it's an anime convention which lets you meet other people interested in the hobby and cosplay in public. If you want to hang out with Discord people or 4chan truck loonies or anyone else, that's as much the same as it is what most people do for AN.