AM round 3

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AM round 3 Anonymous Mon Mar 17 16:15:10 2014 No.7435316 [DELETED]

Old thread is in auto sage

Recap
>everything was late or canceled
>Dante tried to do a backflip
>lolitas are full of drama
>some cosplay happened
>teddy loid got screwed

Post more photos, talk more shit, etc.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 16:22:39 2014 No.7435332 Okay so what did the infamous Pengu do? Why is she infamous? I'm nosy and I need details.

Anonymous Mon Mar 17 16:23:09 2014 No.7435338

Was anyone else with superpass a little pissed about our 'amazing goodie bag'? Literally, they gave us the tshirt, a mesh tote and one of those ghetto string tote bags. They didnt even have the damn fliers that they ran out of put inside or any posters or anything.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 16:28:09 2014 No.7435349 File: 52 KB, 720x540, 1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Cosplay contest winners

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 16:29:09 2014 No.7435350 >>7435338 I am. Nothing ran on time so the passes weren't worth it. We literally had nothing in it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 16:38:39 2014 No.7435368 >>7435350 yup! If by goodie bag they meant, 'oh goodie, you got a bag!' then i guess...

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 16:40:09 2014 No.7435374 >>7435349 Geez how many awards did they give out? 80?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 16:41:09 2014 No.7435377 >>7435332 Search her name on the cgl archive, some shoe drama

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 16:41:09 2014 No.7435378 >>7435374 looks like a 50% chance of winning even with ~70 different entries

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 16:44:39 2014 No.7435381 >>7435349 What were the prizes?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 16:45:09 2014 No.7435384 >>7435378 I remember when winning an award at AM actually meant something and put you at a high caliber level. Seems not to be the case anymore.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 16:54:09 2014 No.7435404 http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bi8l0loCEAEcF2f.jpg:large

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 16:54:09 2014 No.7435405 >>7435381 I think the people's choice won like $700

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 17:00:39 2014 No.7435417 >>7435384 there were still some damn good costumes. It was 3rd - 1st for 3 divisions, 4 judges awards, 3 performance awards and bis I think. It is a lot of awards.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 17:02:09 2014 No.7435420 >>7435381 everyone got a book and a trophy. First places got cash, but the con didn't pay up on site so good luck to anyone waiting on money

Anonymous Mon Mar 17 17:12:09 2014 No.7435432

>>7435338
The only upside about it was the guaranteed chance of autographs if you wanted to pay out of the ass for them. I regret trying to wait in line for shit an hour before anything, only to have to wait 2 extra hours since everything was delayed.

I was beyond buttmad about the "autograph session" they had for teddyloid, although I'm surprised that they even made something happen... I imagine he didn't show up to closing ceremony or bother letting them reschedule his signing because he was justifiably upset.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 18:27:32 2014 No.7435584 Apparently the Pengu girl sucked off some guy in the restroom at the con.

Anonymous Mon Mar 17 18:32:32 2014 No.7435593 [DELETED]

>>7435584

Lol. Considering I know her personally this is totally ridiculous.

And the only reason those bum fuck hlc slags even brought up that shoe drama is bc they tried to twist it out of her favor. She has receipts and screen caps of that idiot's miscommunication and typical lolita entitlement.

So seriously nothing even infamous about her. She doesnt come for anybody unless they try to be messy or stupid in the first place

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 18:33:32 2014 No.7435599 >>7435593 Hi Pengu!

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 18:38:02 2014 No.7435613 >>7435349 any standing pics of that madoka?

Anonymous Mon Mar 17 18:40:32 2014 No.7435615 [DELETED]

>>7435593
>>7435599
Yeah that's bullshit, you must be Pengu cause I don't even really know her that well, and even I've seen her be a cunt to people/talk shit/etc that havent done shit. Though:
>>7435584
Even if I thought this were true, I wouldn't give a fuck. That's not drama or dirt on someone, that's just a sad thing to post.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 18:40:32 2014 No.7435617 Did any of you see Brennan Williams?

Anonymous Mon Mar 17 18:45:03 2014 No.7435623 [DELETED]

>>7435615

Well if you know her then you'd know me and be able to tell that she wouldn't be sitting here defending herself, so try again.

I'm not gonna sit here and vouch for what she says or does to people I don't know. I'm just saying that if not for being close to her for nearly 7 years i wouldn't have even bothered getting irritated and having to make a comment about this in the first place. make of that what you will.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 18:46:02 2014 No.7435626 Can someone explain to Pengu and HLC is?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 18:48:32 2014 No.7435628 >>7435626 HLC = Houston Lolita Community Pengu = one of the Houston lolitas That's really about it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 18:50:02 2014 No.7435637 File: 229 KB, 972x1296, 1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7435613 wow I took like one cosplay photo the whole con and it was of her. Here you go anon

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 19:11:32 2014 No.7435675 Best suggestion for next year >new sign: "we don't know where anything is, but ask this magic 8 ball if you want (please do not steal the magic 8 ball) >

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 19:13:03 2014 No.7435680 Did you guys hear about that dude Nhon Ly? He doesn't afraid of anything.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 19:43:37 2014 No.7435740 >>7435637 holy shit titdoka.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 20:04:08 2014 No.7435785 >>7435637 Dat shiny satin. What award did this win?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 20:15:09 2014 No.7435806 >>7435785 beginner

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 20:28:08 2014 No.7435831 >>7435806 oh. thats fair. any more saucy lolita dramu?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 20:31:38 2014 No.7435839 they're all ugly, nothing else to say

Anonymous Mon Mar 17 20:33:38 2014 No.7435843

>>7435831
>HLC is crazy and everyone hates each other
>Lolitas from out of state/other cities never coming back
>Fashion show/tea party staff are self serving bitches
>Matsuri a waste of money
I think we have all the bases covered. Can't wait for the secrets this Saturday~

Now, post pictures everyone

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 20:38:08 2014 No.7435853 >>7435843 Butbutbut...what happened regarding GLW? Something went down...

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 21:26:08 2014 No.7435931 >>7435853 Oh that I don't know. Hopefully someone can elaborate.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 21:29:08 2014 No.7435935 >>7435853 >>7435931 Jenn Reger is a crazy bitch, all there really is to it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 21:34:38 2014 No.7435948 >>7435935 Did they pull the wigs and lashes from the fashion show?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 21:45:08 2014 No.7435955 >>7435316 It's a shame everyone just posts negative things about this convention. It's great just getting to make new friends. That's the best part of a con for me. Too bad you guys can't have fun..

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 21:48:38 2014 No.7435957 >>7435955 I had fun but I didn't cosplay or anything, and I'm not into lolita maid cafe was fun and meeting a few folks was also pretty nice!

Anonymous Mon Mar 17 21:48:38 2014 No.7435958

>>7435955
Yo I had fun thanks to myself and some alcohol, but I'm not gonna be OK with being harassed and ripped off and waiting obscene amounts of time for shit. You sound like you might be kind of dumb. If you aint a little bit mad, I think you might be dumb.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 21:49:40 2014 No.7435960 >>7435955 But that's not interesting to read about. More durama! Also, any convention is fun for meeting people and having fun with friends, but people want to know the details so they can decide which conventions to go to so they aren't wasting money

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 22:01:09 2014 No.7435981 >>7435948 No, the people running the show decided not to use them. If it was earlier before the show they probably would have kicked out the muses as well.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 22:05:39 2014 No.7435991 >>7435981 Why...why would they just decide not to use them? That makes no sense!

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 22:14:38 2014 No.7436008 >>7435955 I also had fun with my friends and meeting people, but that doesn't mean i can't see that the con was objectively poor. It was poorly run and many of the promised events straight up did not happen.

Anonymous Mon Mar 17 22:16:09 2014 No.7436015

>>7435955
For those who paid for super passes and tea tickets and got short-changed on things, there were problems. That's a lot of money to throw down to have the issues that happened. It's not just a simple case of nitpicking and focusing on the negative. It's very unrealistic to just pretend issues don't exist.

Anonymous Mon Mar 17 22:16:38 2014 No.7436014
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Why is it that nobody criticizes anything on HLC? Whats wrong with discussion on facebook. I guess any tiny bit of disappointment is immediately regarded with this sort of 'well I guess if YOU have a problem you can personally talk to one of us' nonsense.

Anonymous Mon Mar 17 22:21:39 2014 No.7436023

>>7436014
Maybe they want to try and keep it framed in the positive with an eye to improvement and avoid listening to complaints as well as to keep comments private to avoid public drama.

That's understandable, really but oh, I really really hope everyone who went takes this invitation to pm them and speak their mind.

Anonymous Mon Mar 17 22:22:42 2014 No.7436025

>>7436014
Hi Elaine.

It's because people can see through the pitiful attempt to stir up drama AND it really wasn't as bad as people are making it out to be. Tea has never meant a full meal, even when you go to nice high teas, it's meant to be snacks. The idiots there were expecting to get a full meal out of it.

Anonymous Mon Mar 17 22:26:09 2014 No.7436036

>>7435981
But what precipitated it, why have GLW as a named sponsor then just up and pull the wigs from the show this year?

They are also a local business and hosted con parties last year, gave away lashes, had a booth styling advice, etc.
Charles seems nice, he greeted me last year and complimented my Rhapsody styling at the fashion show and I'm just an out of town nobody. It's just odd so there must be a story behind it.

Anonymous Mon Mar 17 22:32:38 2014 No.7436057

>>7436025
If the Q&A was hijacked, that's unexpected.

Not Elaine and not in your comm but I am an experienced con tea hostess.

Running out of food means poor hostessing. The convention booked a tea with X amount of food but people are greedy and yep, hostesses have to keep an eye on portions and control even self-serve things. Most people have never been to a proper tea and yep, don't know how to behave so hostesses must gently guide them. Sounds like the hostessing was a bit inexperienced, maybe?
And getting snippy and defensive about it is no solution.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 22:38:08 2014 No.7436079 >>7435725 >One of the Japanese guests told me that John groped her and she was scared of being around him. deets, name, proof, etc?

Anonymous Mon Mar 17 22:47:38 2014 No.7436110

>>7436025
The description for the teaparty is:
A limited number of tickets are available to attend The Lolita Tea Party on Saturday and SUnday at Anime Matsuri
There will be games and activities
Food and drinks will be served.

If there wasn't food and the drinks were tazo and hot water, and there were no events, then yes it was bad.

Anonymous Mon Mar 17 22:57:39 2014 No.7436142

Did John really hijack the baby q&a? I've been to the previous 2 and it was standard audience asks questions. Putu's wad the same.

I love baby but John and Denise need to stop sucking their cock. Both of them should have far more important responsibilities besides going to tea parties and feeling around in the fashion show. They should have been on the floor solving problems like a total lack of information or making sure shit started on time

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 22:58:38 2014 No.7436145 >>7435853 Not even the models know what happened. All of a sudden a couple days before they were told no GLW and no Dior. The only thing they got were free nails from Bling it up.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 22:59:39 2014 No.7436149 >all this lollita drama. I just cosplayed, got drunked, and fucked some ho's god bless this con.

Anonymous Mon Mar 17 23:02:09 2014 No.7436159

>>7436149
maybe they should just nix the lolita stuff at the con in favor of more boob cosplayers (yaya and jnig), have a full bar, start the rave on time and everyone can just get messed up since those people seem to have the best experiences in all this bs.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 23:14:08 2014 No.7436183 >>7436014 >tasty if not plentiful the first day Bitch you are LYING >>7436025 Don't delude yourself, literally every complaint I've read in these threads has been accurate.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 23:15:08 2014 No.7436184 >cosplayed >looked fly as hell >pics everwhere >got stalked by crazy chick >met qt3.14 and hung out with her >she scarred of stalker All in all had a fun con aside from stalker chick and everything running behind scheduled

Anonymous Mon Mar 17 23:16:09 2014 No.7436188

>>7436110
'Food and drinks will be served' is not clear that it is a light snack and a true high tea IS a more substantial amount with all three tiers of a tea tray plus one or more teas with cream. A Low Tea, Cream Tea or Dessert Tea is quite different from a High Tea. Sounds like there was some more confusion going on due to inexperience. What type of tea was it supposed to be, exactly? Who was liason with catering staff and in charge of choosing the menu and organizing the room and tabletop setup? Sounds like someone dropped the ball.

Maybe next year, "a delightful selection of petite refreshments will be served in the form of light tea-time treats along with the selections of teas" as a not so gentle hint not to just chow down.

Publishing a tea time etiquette lesson would also be useful, AND the menu...sent out as a PDF with the other details and the rules and dress code with each ticket and as a page on the website with photos from previous years.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 23:18:39 2014 No.7436192 can someone tell me why they turned on the lights on saturday's rave?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 23:34:59 2014 No.7436232 Akira was the best JP guest this year. I hope they bring her back next year.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 23:39:59 2014 No.7436254 >>7436188 We need more people like you, anon-chan _; Is there any forum of discussion with actual AM people about problems with the con that can maybe be fixed for next year? :o

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 23:41:00 2014 No.7436256 >>7436232 agreed, Akira was amazing. I hope they can bring her back next year, maybe with her band in tow :) The photobook signing was glorious too, I'm glad we had an opportunity to meet the models and everything, they were so adorable _

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 23:43:29 2014 No.7436263 >>7436254 >>7436256 >_ Stop that. They probably won't fix anything due to complains. They'll just keep relying on their high profile guests to reel in the con-goers.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 17 23:46:59 2014 No.7436273 got to meet some cool cosplayers like overbeck, vampy, ayriath, alpacosplay, and syren so i feel like it was a win.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 00:09:29 2014 No.7436335 File: 462 KB, 744x1116, 1395115747474.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] To anyone who thinks this con was bad, I have two words for you: bacon and eggs

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 00:10:59 2014 No.7436341 >>7436335 OH FUCK SHE WAS A GOD DAMN SMOKESHOW

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 00:13:29 2014 No.7436346 >>7436335 Her ass looks like a pancake, fitting.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 00:14:29 2014 No.7436348 >>7436232 She did not even get front page billing on the website with the other guests. That's a shame.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 00:14:29 2014 No.7436349 >>7436346 jealous as FUCK bitch detected. Stella was a god damn babe you fat jealous cunt LMAO.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 00:14:59 2014 No.7436351 >>7436335 Is this a character from something or was she just cosplaying breakfast?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 00:16:29 2014 No.7436356 File: 131 KB, 640x480, loli-breakfast-machine.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7436351 Some sort of breakfast machine.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 00:18:59 2014 No.7436363 >>7436351 isn't it breakfast princess from adventure time?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 00:19:00 2014 No.7436368 >>7436254 I'd volunteer if I lived locally. I'm sure there must be an AM forum, link anyone, please?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 00:21:59 2014 No.7436374 >>7436349 She looks like a QT but her buns should have stayed hidden under the pancake, lol.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 00:24:29 2014 No.7436381 >>7436335 did she really strip out of a BP costume? I'm kind of sad I didn't go to the burlesque now

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 00:28:29 2014 No.7436387 File: 535 KB, 1296x2198, BEPRINCEES.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7436363 Yep! Or as close as they cared to get anyways (dat copyright infringement lel).

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 00:29:59 2014 No.7436397 File: 374 KB, 661x991, 1395116992713.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7436374 >>7436381 yes. yes she did.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 00:49:59 2014 No.7436436 >>7436397 Wat.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 00:55:29 2014 No.7436449 >>7436254 John and Deneice dont care on improving the con this has happened for atleast the past 3 years. Just like 7436263 said they just rely on high profile guests to reel in con-goers

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 00:57:59 2014 No.7436454 >>7436449 With all the money they blew on stupid shit they could have hired 1 or 2 Event Coordinators for the weekend to keep this shit running smoothly.

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 01:00:29 2014 No.7436465

>>7436454
yeah
also they shouldnt have bothered having eyeshine, they should just do anime idol to start it up and then the main band next year. nobody likes a cover band, and nobody likes standing around an extra hour during a cover band after a very long and buys day and a late start :c

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 01:03:59 2014 No.7436468 File: 32 KB, 500x375, wehavenoidea.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Every year people buy into the hype. Every year they disappoint more people.

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 01:09:29 2014 No.7436478

>>7436468
Yeah the last time I was "there" was to save Texas Showdown from being a complete disaster (which almost happened) I was so pissed I didn't even come back for the finals or check out the con.

Also, having known these people for several years I can say that the only thing they are good at is generating hype, even if they have to resort to lying to you. (I think they are both compulsive liars since I've hung out with John outside of events via helping out at PZ and he's like that awkward kid that's always trying to impress you with some story about whatever.)

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 01:10:59 2014 No.7436482

>>7436468
I don't know how people don't expect the same shitty management after this long. I think the venue (despite the rude as fuck security and bad layout) was still better than last year.
They better start treating all of their guests, not just one, a lot better or they're going to have more problems in the coming years when no one big will want to go.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 01:13:29 2014 No.7436489 >>7436478 I couldn't of said it better myself. (regarding john being the awkward kid).

>>	TLOU Tue Mar 18 01:15:59 2014 No.7436492 When do you get the item for playing online in demo version?

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 01:54:12 2014 No.7436555
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>buy a weird hat, the fluffy kind that hangs over your ears with little ropes
>walking around
>wait something is pulling on my hat
>turn and see a cute girl in a green wig smile and run off
>continue on
>realize im an idiot and try to find her
>never see her again

Other than that and nothing on time it was pretty swell. The nothing on time worked out well when I got to see Eyeshine and Nightmare both.

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 02:04:42 2014 No.7436576

>>7436335
Lol, sure. When it costs us somewhat over 1k plus travel plus time off work to attend this convention, I wouldn't quite feel compensated by a chicks butt playing peek-a-boo from under a pancake.

There were convention issues that short-changed people who spent a decent dime to attend this con. Those need to be addressed and remedied.
Butts and pancakes aside.

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 02:49:42 2014 No.7436660

Went the first 2 days and (shittily) danced my butt off at the rave, was too exhausted for sunday. But I made friends with Burt from sesame street and Waldo (the one with the walking stick) Went to the burlesque show so I missed out on Eyeshine cause of the schedule fuck ups that happened. Danced with a bunch of qt3.14's at the formal as court of owls member, but totally forgot to ask for their number, I figured I'd see them the next day but didn't. :-( Also danced with this super hot blonde chick saturday night in a black dress with a bunny tail, she had a tattoo on her upper back. Anyone have pics of her?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 04:07:12 2014 No.7436754 >>7435316 Can someone archive the old thread before it's gone??? The owners are going to try to push all that information down as fast as possible.

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 04:15:42 2014 No.7436762

>>7436142
Lol they used the con money to immediatly taking the guests to a basketball game and buy Denisce dresses from the fashion show.

Please stop buying badges to this thing.

If John really felt up one of the guests that needs to be talked about. He seemed like a creep from the start.

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 04:18:42 2014 No.7436765

>>7436145
PLEASE SOMEONE REPOST THE MAKEUP COUNTER PICTURE.

They posted that Dior announcement with them standing in front of the makeup counter at Macy's.

I'm not buying a badge anymore. Someone needs to make a site that compiles all of this information and puts it out for people to see. Tired of seeing them fuck over every community including the lolitas now because its what john's wife is into so she's using it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 04:30:16 2014 No.7436771 >>7436555 i bet she was waiting for you to follow her, hah!

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 04:37:46 2014 No.7436781 >>7436765 >Someone needs to make a site that compiles all of this information and puts it out for people to see Why don't you do it then?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 09:47:49 2014 No.7436975 >>7436754 Everything on cgl gets archived on Rebecca Black Tech.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 09:59:49 2014 No.7436987 What people need to be saving before they're purged is the Facebook reviews being left on their page. It has been delightful in reading how many people they pissed off so badly.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 10:11:37 2014 No.7437008 File: 52 KB, 640x960, 1395151880895.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Browsing around photos, found this. Some people were looking for .Hack//Sign pics in the other threads.

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 10:16:07 2014 No.7437019

>>7436025
>It's because people can see through the pitiful attempt to stir up drama

You mean kind of like the way you're calling out names even though you have no idea who's truly posting? Nice to see that even HLC can realize how crazy it actually is.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 10:44:08 2014 No.7437059 File: 87 KB, 720x533, 1395153891976.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The man face glasses chic was at AM apparently?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 10:51:38 2014 No.7437071 >>7437059 She was, I thought she was very pretty in person and her coords are good.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 10:57:15 2014 No.7437078 >>7437059 Her face would look so much less manly if she had glasses that weren't terrible. Thos glasses really just look awful on everyone.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 11:06:15 2014 No.7437090 >>7436397 I'm hungry for waffles now...

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 11:08:45 2014 No.7437093 Any news on the contest? Any good skits? who got BIS

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 11:25:49 2014 No.7437108 File: 89 KB, 720x960, 154654984651786455.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7437093 Best in Show was Shinrajunkie and Tabbycatmittens

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 11:33:19 2014 No.7437115 >>7436762 did they took all the guest to the match? I only saw Reika

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 11:36:19 2014 No.7437120

>>7435955
You know you keep posting that same shit every thread and I keep thinking you are staff. You said the same thing last time too.

EVERY con is about meeting friends and having fun. The question is whether I need to pay 60 dollars to make friends. And I dont.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 11:36:19 2014 No.7437121 >>7437115 It seems like they treated all the other guests like crap in order to baby Reika. Don't get me wrong, I only actually went for Reika, but I don't agree at all with the way the other guests were treated while Reika was being pampered.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 11:36:19 2014 No.7437122 File: 128 KB, 768x1024, Bi97wtdCYAEr1mq.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7437115 forgot pic

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 11:39:49 2014 No.7437128 >>7437121 Ow, that sucks :/ How did they treat other guests? (Akira, Misako, Midori etc)

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 11:48:48 2014 No.7437137

>>7436254
>>7436254
>>7436254

WHY CAN I NOT SHAKE THE FEELING THE SAME FAG IS DEFENDING THEM IN EVERY POST.

They already HAD a shitty year last year. They did this same shit where they acted like they wanted to hear suggestions but everything got even worse and prices went up.

Stop acting like they have any intention to fix this convention. It's a wallet for John and Denisce and nothing else.

Want a better tea party next year? Throw your own and dont pay for a badge and use that to fund a private tea-party with you and your friends in your room. 65 dollars for a tea party should make it swag as hell.

I'm not paying for a badge and everything I post keeps disappearing off their facebook.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 11:50:48 2014 No.7437141 >>7437122 Excuse for John to creep on Reika. They only get the guests that they care about. Reika looks unhappy in every single photo with them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 11:51:49 2014 No.7437142 >>7437122 Excuse for John to creep on Reika. They only get the guests that they care about. Reika looks unhappy in every single photo with them. >Money for basketball game but no money to print schedules.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 11:51:49 2014 No.7437143 >>7437059 >>7437078 If you guys don't like her glasses, but her new ones. I personally think they look awesome.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 11:53:18 2014 No.7437148 >>7437137 Yes. This sounds like a plan. Instead of going to the con, why not host a huge private Lolita tea party, then Lolita's can have their thing, and Anime conventions can go back to being what they are supposed to be about.

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 11:56:49 2014 No.7437150

>>7437148
The anime part of this anime convention sucks too. It wouldn't help. Tea parties arent such a big deal this con just didn't do anything right unless you count spending the money made off of it on selfish reasons as something right.

Why not just try to throw another event in houston on the same weekend or find another con to meet up at in another city?

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 11:58:18 2014 No.7437153

>>7437137

Don't post bitching on their Facebook Page. Of course it'll get deleted as they are the gate keepers. All those reviews telling the truth on how bad it was run will soon be deleted soon too.

Post it on your Tumblr, your wall, make a community calling AM out. They will never change. Inform the public how horrible they are.

When John and Deniece try to bully you to take it down you should stand up to them. They are all bark.

The public show know how much of lecherous scum John is. How they horrible treat people who go AM. How much they shit all over any promises. Knowledge is power. If the prospective public know how horrible they run things then they won't show up.

The greatest thing would be for AM to die due to their own massive failures. Bitching about it on 4chan is not going to do shit.

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 12:08:18 2014 No.7437160

I just sat and went back through the last few months of their facebook and noticed the majority of it is them just talking non stop about Reika and re-posting about everything she does, spattered between weird photoshops of cars.

I'm letting my money talk this year. They aren't getting my return business and I am going to find another event to get my friends to go to.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 12:10:18 2014 No.7437163 File: 28 KB, 600x158, 1395159004363.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7437160 >It's a splendid Saturday on the Tokyo Symphony Cruise ship this is what john and "trinity leigh" spend yo money on.

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 12:14:18 2014 No.7437170

>>7437160
"It is exciting how the 2014 AM Cosplay Contest is shaping up, we still have many announcements to make. Lot's of prizes and categories, amazing half-time show, live voting, and of course the most creative, artistic and inspiring cosplayers."

I didn't see an amazing half time show? I saw Reika come up, leave, and have to get called back to the stage then asked awkward questions for 30 minutes.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 12:28:18 2014 No.7437185 >>7437160 facebook link?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 12:31:18 2014 No.7437190 >>7437185 Just type in Anime Matsuri into facebook search and scroll back. Its easy to notice a trend of it just being John and Trinity(Denisce his wife) bragging a lot.

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 12:46:18 2014 No.7437216

>>7437128
I dont know how they treated the models but I felt like Hasegawa got shafted. The putu q&a was at 1pm on Friday so hardly anyone showed up. His tea party was on Sunday, which is the less attended of the two (though it sounds like he lucked out there) and putu was so overshadowed in the fashion show.

I was really excited to see someone other than baby since they have been there for several years at this point, but then they treated him like shit in comparison.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 12:53:48 2014 No.7437227 >>7437190 so they're the one who made that Because Reika t-shirt..

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 13:18:57 2014 No.7437264 >>7437227 Why do you think they are carting Reika around eveywhere? Denisce and John get all of the profits off of Reika's merchandise.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 13:24:27 2014 No.7437272 >>7437216 I don't think either tea party was less attended, seeing as they were both sold out

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 13:32:57 2014 No.7437283 >>7437264 Hey so why does everyone give a shit about reims in the first place. Is she even all that popular in japan?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 13:40:27 2014 No.7437295 >>7437283 Yes but I dont like her cosplays, she crossplays shitloads which is why she has a huge female following

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 13:41:27 2014 No.7437296 >>7437227 I went a few years ago on Sunday. It was "sold out" but we only filled 3 tables.

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 14:07:27 2014 No.7437341

>>7437283
She's been cosplaying for more than 15 years, made more than 500 costumes herself (she always post progress pics), have shitloads of followers across the world (honestly, the most well-known Japanese cosplayer, even more than Kaname) and currently ranked the first on worldcosplay.com and cosp

also, she crossplay really well so she has tons of female fans

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 14:20:57 2014 No.7437376

>>7437121
They actually treated Reika pretty poorly as well. She's just very polite and doesn't say anything, but it was pretty obvious that they were using her as a money-making thing.

They changed her schedule last minute so she couldn't judge the cosplay contest like they originally said she would, because they wanted to put he Levi photos at 4 PM on Saturday while the contest "started" at 5. So all she had time for was a walk-on at the end. She also didn't have enough changing time between so she had to go to the tea party AS Levi.

They also rushed her from doing signings to the closing ceremonies to doing MORE LAST MINUTE PICTURES "AHHHREIKAAAAAAA!!!1111!!" but said it would be free and then changed their mind and said we had to buy her book or Prince Tristan poster for $30 (aka the cost of if you pre-reg'd for a book and photo-op anyway). At this time, the convention's security was telling people to GTFO like the hallways RIGHT OUTSIDE HER ROOM were off-limits.

So while they were making it all seem like Reika was being treated like their princess, they were being pretty obvious that they were dragging her everywhere for more money. Honestly, I don't think they really treated ANY of their guests right, but most of them got the short end of the stick.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 14:22:27 2014 No.7437381 >>7437108 ....is that what they wore in the contest?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 14:37:27 2014 No.7437409 >>7437381 Yeah, Heavenly Sword I think.

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 14:59:27 2014 No.7437450

>>7437376
My bad, anon. Her being pampered was just the impression I received. I actually had to miss the cosplay show as well just because they rescheduled the photo op, which bummed me out since the show looked cool. If I hadn't attended the Q&A that same morning, I would of missed the photo op all together. She does look pretty unhappy in the photos she's recently taken with the coordinators, almost as if they're dragging her everywhere for bragging rights. I feel so bad she doesn't deserve it, and the special guests didn't deserve to be treated so badly..

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 15:24:27 2014 No.7437481

>>7437450
Yeah. I think she figured out from the day before that they were just dragging her around for bragging rights. At both photo ops, they were really ruse, just yelling "NEXT" after each pic like they were running a conveyor belt system. Autographs too; the staff got really pissed that one of my friends took a pic of another friend getting her autograph, and Reika just did her best to be cheerful. I felt so bad for all of the guests. I don't think I'm ever going back to this con; their staff is full of assholes and they don't know how to make people feel welcome, guests and congoers alike.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 15:36:57 2014 No.7437508 >>7437376 I feel like the only person happy she ended up not judging. Its hard enough for judges go come to a consensus, lets throw a language barrier in there!

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 15:38:27 2014 No.7437510

>>7437059
Hey, her coords look pretty okay here. A couple nitpicky things here and there, sure. Like the cinema doll outfit -- the shoes are too white, random flowers on her head, and I'm personally not feelin' the giant bead/pearl necklace.

Her glasses look fine in 2/3 coords.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 15:52:57 2014 No.7437544 >>7437481 >Autographs too; the staff got really pissed that one of my friends took a pic of another friend getting her autograph, They specifically stated no pictures in autograph or photo-op rooms for months.

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 15:57:57 2014 No.7437558

>>7437544
Wow what the fuucking fuck? No pics on photo-op rooms? Well why the hell not? So Reika can be treated like a money making object? Fuck, Imma go message her on curecos about this bullshit and about how she should never come to Anime Matsuri and tell all her cosplay friends to avoid this stupid con

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 15:59:57 2014 No.7437561

>>7436468
To be fair, that sign was in front of the booth for the people from the company that ran the arcade machines, who were not con volunteers or employees. I think they would have saved a lot of trouble if their poster announcing who they were wasn't a single sheet of 8x11 20 feet behind them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 16:10:27 2014 No.7437589 File: 285 KB, 960x1280, transformu.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I think I'm gay for this Attack on Titan Bertholdt

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 16:16:56 2014 No.7437606 So Ill ask here instead of making a thread: I want to give texas a second chance to impress me. Should I go to San Japan or A-Kon?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 16:17:26 2014 No.7437611 >>7437558 Because taking photos takes up time. They wanted to get as many people in and out as possible. By Sunday, nobody gave a shit though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 16:18:26 2014 No.7437613 >>7437606 san japan, akon is so big that there's longass lines for everything. unless youre more into having nice merch, in which case akon is better.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 16:19:27 2014 No.7437618 >>7437606 just don't go to A-kon, anon. It may not be the clusterfuck that AM is but that doesn't mean it's good by any means.

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 16:20:56 2014 No.7437621

>>7437606
I've been to San Japan several years and it's always pretty fun. They always seem to fuck up on the autograph lines and stuff involving badge privileges, so if you're desperately wanting to see someone there make sure you get the superpass or whatever. There's a ton more panels however, very few of which got canceled or screwed up, and downtown san antonio is a much better destination spot. As a Houston native, nothing ever goes on downtown after like 5 o clock unless you're going to a wedding or something, and San Antonio's convention center is right on the riverwalk, which is both very pretty and lined with cool stores and resturants.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 16:24:26 2014 No.7437633 >>7437589 He's a huge faggot, don't bother.

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 16:29:57 2014 No.7437658

>>7437508
I don't think you're the only one. I think it's mostly because people would have liked knowing Reika looked so hard at their costumes, but the language barrier is a definite problem there. This was also on Sunday.

>>7437544
I had no idea about that one. They only took the pics WHILE she was signing it, so it just filled up wait space... hell, even I got a picture of her and they didn't seem to mind at all.

>>7437606
San Japan, definitely. Bigger space, less lines, and if you get bored you can get to check out the riverwalk. I spent half of last year literally just taking walks and having shoots around the city, and talking to the confused visitors who thought it was amazing. The staff is usually a lot nicer than A-kon's, and you get yelled at way less.

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 16:36:57 2014 No.7437674

>>7437621
>get the superpass or whatever

San Japan calls them Gold Passes. I now get them every year as they take care of us but they could do a little better in making sure we get to the front of the line. They give us a decent catered breakfast on Sunday where we're able to actually talk to the guest of choice. Last year we were able to get any guest autograph we wanted for a hour after the brunch.

Don't bother looking as they already sold out of them within a day.

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 16:40:27 2014 No.7437687

>>7437674
I'm recalling the specific time two years ago when christopher sabat was there, he was only there for like an hour on saturday and for some reason they gave priority to the people with day passes, which really annoyed me, since one of the reasons my friends and I had gone that year was to get some tribes stuff signed.

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 16:46:54 2014 No.7437702

>>7437687

They made changes when people bitched about that so that everyone can try to get an autograph if time allows.

One of the nice things about San Japan is that they make visible changes each year showing that they listened to feedback. They don't get the biggest guests but they show they give a fuck.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 16:50:55 2014 No.7437709 File: 49 KB, 500x333, no homo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7437633 Is he really? How so? He seemed like a pretty okay guy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 17:02:00 2014 No.7437738 File: 33 KB, 599x447, TYBG_434f28_4845560.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7436149

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 17:05:30 2014 No.7437747 >>7437709 Key word 'seemed'. That Levi on the other hand is a huge sweetheart.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 17:07:30 2014 No.7437750 >>7437747 I think he seemed pretty okay, why do you think differently? I'm uh. Curious. And yes, that Levi is very sweet.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 17:13:30 2014 No.7437758 >>7437059 >>7437078 >>7437510 I can't get past the glasses. I don't like the big beads in Cinema Doll coord either. Her wigs look messy and not styled nicely enough. But mostly it's the glasses.

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 17:21:20 2014 No.7437775

>>7437750
Tumblr fag, constantly looking for attention, makes crappy music, makes out with girls then wonders why he has stalkers, later brags about said stalkers, constantly whining about his shitty love life, makes friends then talks shit about all of them. I could go on but I'd rather not get off topic on this thread. Have fun if you decide to tap that.

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 17:22:49 2014 No.7437777
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>>7437059
Why does she have two bags in the first 2 cords?
I think she parks those glasses on her face to draw attention away from anything wrong with the coordinates because all you notice is 'hellllooooo glasses!'

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 17:29:19 2014 No.7437793 >>7437775 Hahaha what a tool Maybe I'll rethink my plans to hit it then.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 17:32:19 2014 No.7437802 >>7437793 USE PROTECTION. TUMBLR FAG DISEASE IS REAL

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 17:33:49 2014 No.7437806 >>7437802 I would sure hate to catch the KAWAII TUMBLR FAG DESU At least he's hot.

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 17:34:49 2014 No.7437809

>>7437376
Reika was backstage for the cosplay competition (late) and did, in fact, get upset because she WANTED to watch and judge the competition. She had been under the impression she was going to be able to..and Jon never told her that they made the photoshoot conflict so she couldn't judge. She looked so uncomfortable with Jon's awkward questions.

Nightmare won't ever come back, nor anyone with their label. Matsuri treated them so poorly that the manager called in from Japan and had a shit fit. No rehearsals, improper set-up, nothing they were promised and assured them in every way that he would NEVER send another client to AM.

The Baby Panels were awkward because Jon did what everyone has said he did. Those poor girls looked so uncomfortable every time they had to do something. The only time they seemed relaxed was when I saw them in normal clothes headed to the Nightmare concert.

This was my first, and last, Anime Matsuri.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 17:41:50 2014 No.7437821 >>7437272 People ended up seeling their tickets (or attempting to ) for the Putu party after how horrible Saturday's was.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 17:56:50 2014 No.7437839 >>7437777 I hear AP bags don't typically have room to hold much stuff, so often people have to carry two bags.

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 17:58:50 2014 No.7437842

>>7437606
depends on what you want out of the con. Akon has had several bad years but they are finally on an upswing. I'm expecting this year to be pretty good.

Akon is like twice as big as SJ, but SJ has a more laid back feel. Sometimes that can be a problem, like when the staff actually fails to do their job.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 18:17:40 2014 No.7437888 i heard there was this guy who did porn there. did anyone hear about that?

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 18:57:36 2014 No.7437955

>>7437809
>Nightmare won't ever come back, nor anyone with their label

>Gackt
>Luna Sea
lol

Doubt it matters. Despite their MASSIVE fuckups, they're able to get huge musical guests nearly every year. That's basically the only reason I got, besides friends of course.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 19:01:35 2014 No.7437965 >>7437108 Ouch, really? His costumes are normally pretty good, but recently they've just been so-so, not sure what happened there. I'd like to see something Draven or Trynd quality again.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 19:19:36 2014 No.7437998 >>7437965 That's a pretty shitty photo too though. Maybe they look different with a full-body, decent photo?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 19:21:35 2014 No.7438002 >>7437809 Wow, I had no idea that happened, but that makes it even worse. Also my first and last. I can't bear to give my money to a convention that treats so many people so poorly.

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 19:47:36 2014 No.7438042

What happened to Teddyloid besides the autograph session?
>read all this about Japanese guests getting shat on
>immediately think about to AX 2007 when the main Japanese cast for Haruhi and Halko Momoi got shat on by AX and SPJA staff
>None of the three from Haruhi made an appearance for over 4-5 years and Fanime took a leap of faith with Momoi (and it worked)

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 19:51:06 2014 No.7438053 >>7437888 was it you and you want to know if anyone heard about you? enjoy your fatty weeb porn

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 19:53:35 2014 No.7438056 There's videos of the fashion show on youtube. The "storyteller" is not a very good speaker. Middle school level acting.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 19:54:05 2014 No.7438058 >>7437809 Do you have any proof of this or is it just gossip?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 19:55:35 2014 No.7438059 >>7437965 He's taken like half of it off in this photo

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 19:57:05 2014 No.7438062

>>7437809
>looked uncomfortable

or maybe it's just because they are Japanese and there is a cultural difference. How would you know all of this, are you fluent? Were you on staff?

I don't see how she looked uncomfortable, she looks that way in every photo.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 20:01:06 2014 No.7438069 >>7437376 Where are you getting this info from? Legitimately curious. I wrote a story about AM for the news.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 20:04:05 2014 No.7438075 >>7437153 http://www.freepresshouston.com/news/anime-matsuri-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 20:13:06 2014 No.7438087

From Facebook:

>we truly are sorry for your experience at AM this year and as a member of staff could you kindly PM me about what all you did not like so that we may work on it. We were a bit undermanned for this event and we did the best we could with such a ratio. Now with that being said not trying to be rude, but the nit picking at certain things was really not needed. Did you enjoy the rest of the con? Was it fun? Or did you let the small things ruin your time?

What a manipulative asshole. Never giving any money to this con again.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 20:20:35 2014 No.7438095 >>7438087 >Nitpicking our shitty con via PM is fine but doing it where people can see just makes us look bad. I mean you. Makes you look bad.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 20:21:05 2014 No.7438097 >>7438087 Are you fucking kidding me right now. I hope no one ever gives money to this con again, I feel swindled.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 20:28:35 2014 No.7438113 >>7438087 HAHAHA oh wow Never been to Matsuri and I'm sure as hell never going now. Fuck this guy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 20:32:05 2014 No.7438132 >>7438075 Let them have it in the comments. There's your local media opportunity to have your public say about the exact things that went wrong or talk about the things advertised when tickets were bought but that did not even come to pass.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 20:38:35 2014 No.7438152 >>7438062 wow can you whiteknight any harder

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 20:39:35 2014 No.7438155 >>7437839 Ugh, this is why I hate novelty lolita bags. What's even the point if it can't hold anything?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 20:45:36 2014 No.7438170 >>7438155 There's plenty of lolita bags that hold more (MILK heart purse), so having 2 small bags is extremely faggy. Either carry less shit or buy a bigger bag, end of story.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 20:47:35 2014 No.7438174 File: 85 KB, 720x960, 1395190036928.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7438059 Here's another picture where you can see him wearing the actual outfit and more of the details. Unfortunately It doesn't have the props in it though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 20:55:05 2014 No.7438194 >>7438170 Exactly, like the cute boston or school satchel style bags IW and Meta put out. Especially when you're at a con, you should know better to bring a larger bag.

>>	Hikaru !HIME.ueZ8U Tue Mar 18 20:58:35 2014 No.7438197 File: 83 KB, 720x960, 1395190688770.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] These props are really nice. I wasn't there, but I'd say they deserved BiS.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 21:18:05 2014 No.7438235 To sum up AM 2014: If you went mainly to see/make friends and socialize, you may have had a decent experience. If you came mostly for the con itself...well people were screwed over one way or another.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 21:20:05 2014 No.7438244 Did anyone see that guy with the spinning laughing man mask?

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 21:27:06 2014 No.7438269

>>7437544
>Staff and most volunteers were being rude as fuck while saying she will only sign one thing
>Staff said you couldn't buy more than one autograph per session as well
>Reika clearly gave no fucks what the staff told her and signed everything for her fans
I laughed every time.

>>7437606
Also would say San Japan, come have a drink with us.

>>7437806
Stop self posting.

>>7438042
Since everything was running 2 hours late, teddyloid started late. He had to set up his own gear and almost everyone was getting kicked out before they could find the autograph room (security took down the signs) while one of the translators and two or three regular con goers orchestrated a pretty makeshift autograph session. He showed up in the clothes he wore during the performance and clearly didn't even get to freshen up. Needless to say, teddyloid didn't show up to closing ceremony.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 21:32:06 2014 No.7438295 >>7437809 what questions did he ask?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 21:36:06 2014 No.7438319 >>7438244 yeah that guy was really cool with his creepy trenchcoat. def appreciated the spinning mas though

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 21:39:35 2014 No.7438336 >>7438319 Creepy as in it fit the costume or creepy as in it made him look like a pedophile?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 21:40:35 2014 No.7438341 File: 152 KB, 467x700, 1296357529893.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7438087

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 22:08:28 2014 No.7438448

>>7438269
I don't live in Houston at the moment, but my boyfriend does, and he and I discussed AM and Teddyloid appearing before that weekend. He really wanted to go see his show, but he hadn't gotten admission for the con and the show's start time was too late at night for him to go anyway.

Knowing this, it's probably for the better that he stayed home. It's terrible to hear Teddyloid was treated so shittily, though, he seems like a really chill dude and didn't deserve that kind of treatment.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 22:17:28 2014 No.7438475 >>7437702 I hope as they begin to emerge as the best con in Texas (which, they are in my book), they'll get bigger and bigger guests. If Reika came to SJ how chill would that be??

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 22:49:28 2014 No.7438546 >>7438197 but why flipflops sigh

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 22:52:58 2014 No.7438558 >>7438475 My bet's that if what people said here is true, Reika wont be at any more Texas cons for a while...

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 23:12:28 2014 No.7438596 >>7438087 I bet this tool is just a general volunteer and has no real authority. If J&D deletes anything it should be that bull shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 23:15:59 2014 No.7438604 >>7438558 Reika needs to stop attending foreign cons for awhile since she keep being treated badly, I guess. First the Filipino con and now AM. Who knows how other foreign con organizers treated her

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 23:20:58 2014 No.7438614

>>7438152
I could, if I was white knighting.
People keep saying Reika looked uncomfortable, but I went through her FB page recently and she seems to just have a case of RBF. There are no actual accounts of any of the guests saying they were uncomfortable or having a bad experience, just a lot of fans claiming they looked sooooo put out and OMG poor babies.

Stop projecting your shitty experience on other people. They got flown out to Hawaii, I'm sure they were fine.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 23:22:28 2014 No.7438618 >>7438336 more like a flasher

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 23:24:30 2014 No.7438624 >>7438197 >I wasn't there but everyone should listen to me fuck off, you weren't even at the con

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 23:35:39 2014 No.7438646 Where can I find dumps of pictures taken there? I went on a photobomb spree and would like to see if I could find myself

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 23:43:38 2014 No.7438672 >>7436079 Sorry can't give details on who, she told me in confidence.. but she definitely didn't ask for it. Happened in John's suite. Aren't you glad your hard earned money went towards John's personal agenda?

Anonymous Tue Mar 18 23:44:38 2014 No.7438674
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>>7438646

I've got about 2000 photos but 4chan has a 3mb limit and they're all 5mb. Ergo, it would take me about 30 seconds per photo to resize them and ain't nobody got time for that.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 23:45:08 2014 No.7438678 >>7438674 http://picresize.com/batch.php Batch resize them or upload them to some filesharing site.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 23:46:38 2014 No.7438681 Hey /cgl/, HLC posted a status on their Facebook page asking for criticisms. Now you can all go post like you have been saying other people should, and you don't even have to be part of HLC!

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 23:47:08 2014 No.7438683 The mayor of Houston should come take that "Anime Matsuri Day" bullshit back now. What a joke. Is there even a way to get that retracted?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 23:47:08 2014 No.7438686 >>7438674 Here yuh go bud. I'll be awaiting your upload http://picsurge.com/

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 23:49:08 2014 No.7438694 >>7438678 No he should just use http://picsurge.com/ beause the upload size limit is 10mb per picture and he can upload all at once.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 23:51:09 2014 No.7438696 >>7438694 >or upload them to some filesharing site

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 23:51:09 2014 No.7438697 >>7438683 I think the Mayor went to the J-fashion show, but left since it was 2 hours late

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 18 23:57:38 2014 No.7438706 >>7438697 Oh wow. I could see Annise Parker doing that. I wonder if she brought her wife with her.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 00:02:08 2014 No.7438715 File: 798 KB, 2136x1424, IMG_9667.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7438646 Is this you?

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 00:03:09 2014 No.7438719

>live in Houston
>always hear nice things about the comm but have never made an attempt to join them
>attend anime matsuri in Lolita but don't participate in tea party
>hear all this dramu
I cannot believe the bullet I have dodged by not joining this comm

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 00:06:08 2014 No.7438725

>>7437059
shit girl, if you went all that way (from pennsylvania) just for a con you'd think you'd be able to afford some contacts, or at least some non-hipster ariel frames. also, do you work?! its seems like all she does is play dress up and go to events.

>>	Jebus of /a/ !01jMxbeXFY Wed Mar 19 00:08:08 2014 No.7438733 >>7437606 San Japan has never had a bad con. A-Kon's had 3 in a row. It's your choice. Also, what happened with Teddyloid? I heard people loved him.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 00:09:38 2014 No.7438735 File: 1.01 MB, 2136x1424, titan.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 00:10:38 2014 No.7438741 >>7438715 Nah, I cosplayed loosely as Kira/Light. I had a red tie on with a black long sleeve and black slacks.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 00:11:38 2014 No.7438744 >>7438475 I'd love to have her in my city, but I also wouldn't blame her for not wanting to come back to Texas, or the US at all for quite a while

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 00:13:08 2014 No.7438751 >>7438681 They come on /cgl/, they know what the feedback is, they just wanna know who is saying it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 00:13:39 2014 No.7438750 File: 1.06 MB, 2280x1536, IMG_9834.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7438744 >Fourth largest city in the US >contains one of 'murrika's largest Chinatown populations >isn't allowed to have a quality anime convention Why.

>>	Jebus of /a/ !01jMxbeXFY Wed Mar 19 00:14:38 2014 No.7438752 >>7438733 Nevermind, read the thread.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 00:17:03 2014 No.7438767 >>7438475 >If Reika came to SJ She would never get invited, the con chair only gets guests he's interested in.

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 00:19:03 2014 No.7438772
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>>7437809

He was such a sleaze. I don't usually make judgements from people just based on appearance, as that is usually biased and full of emotion, but in this instance I will pull a Sherlock Holmes and deduce that his bald-assed head, his cheap suit over a Reika T-shirt and his general yuppie attitude make him the worst person to be in charge of any sort of convention, anime or otherwise.

I mean, no one anything near weeaboo would allow something to get as fucked up as AM was.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 00:24:31 2014 No.7438775 >>7438672 I love how any time people have a shitty time at a con they turn around and claim the con chair is a sexual predator. I guess since no one would buy Denise is one ya'll had to claim it was her husband.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 00:27:31 2014 No.7438780 >>7438772 John creeps me out. He always seems very flirtatious around the lolitas.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 00:29:01 2014 No.7438784 >>7438775 >I guess since no one would buy Denise The fact that she blows all the money that should be spent on the con on Lolita dresses and Hawaiin cruises is bad enough.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 00:34:31 2014 No.7438792 Don't forget she had to model in the fashion show AND do a photoshoot to put her mug on the front page of the program guide. lols.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 00:38:01 2014 No.7438799 >>7438733 SanJapan site, looking...looking...no lolita events or guests listed.

>>	Jebus of /a/ !01jMxbeXFY Wed Mar 19 00:40:31 2014 No.7438801 >>7438799 That look good to you, maybe.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 00:42:02 2014 No.7438809 >>7438799 right? If theres no lolita panels I'll have to go in cosplay :( simultaneous outside-con tea party and swap meet yes?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 00:42:02 2014 No.7438810 >>7438801 Nope, was not being sarcastic, I didn't find any. Where are they listed?

>>	Jebus of /a/ !01jMxbeXFY Wed Mar 19 00:44:01 2014 No.7438812 File: 395 KB, 1600x775, Capture.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7438810

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 00:45:31 2014 No.7438813 File: 2.22 MB, 2048x2048, 1395204311980.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >"23 inch waist" Decided to hunt this girls page down after seeing her at the show, proceeds to laugh my ass off

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 00:51:01 2014 No.7438825 >>7438813 You forgot that she only weighs 110 pounds, anon.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 00:52:31 2014 No.7438827 >>7438812 Yes I saw that, thank you...but I'm not seeing anything Lolita.

>>	Jebus of /a/ !01jMxbeXFY Wed Mar 19 00:53:01 2014 No.7438831 >>7438827 Can't help you there.

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 00:53:31 2014 No.7438830

>>7438087
>>7438087
>>7438087
THE WAY HE TYPES and the way he talks tells me hes been on here before because thats the same shit the weird repetative white knight keeps saying WELL I HAD FUN IM SORRY YOUR SO LAME YOU CANT HAVE FUN

>>7438792
Dont forget that she also has a show in the program guide called "The Denisce Leigh Show" or "Trinity" now or whatever.

Its weird because she is like 40 years old and John is creepy as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 00:59:31 2014 No.7438840 >>7438825 Did she really make that claim? I just don't know how she thinks its attractive to shoop herself so badly, her cosplay looked decent. In the end, I decided not to follow her page. Seems too fake.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 01:01:31 2014 No.7438843 >>7438799 SJ never has lolita events and LOL at anyone thinking they would try to get lolita guests. No one on that staff gives a fuck about j-fashion

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 01:04:31 2014 No.7438846 File: 88 KB, 1024x768, BjCLxowCMAAN5Cc.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] How many place did they took Reika anyway?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 01:05:01 2014 No.7438847 >>7438843 No need to be rude, I'm from out of town and the con is unfamiliar to me. After checking the site I asked here. Seemed reasonable to get a non-shitty answer to a simple question but I guess not.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 01:07:01 2014 No.7438849 >>7438846 Fun fact: Japanese guests at any con always want to go to the shooting range when they're in ammurika.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 01:08:01 2014 No.7438851 >>7438847 I think there's a San Antonio Lolita comm if you want info, there may end up being a panel and a meetup, but they don't really cater to jfashion at all.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 01:08:31 2014 No.7438850 >>7438846 I genuinely wonder if Reika is having fun. So far it seems like a shooting range and a basketball game.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 01:11:31 2014 No.7438856 I was a tiny bit dissappointed that there were no casualties at this con. I made a bet that somebody would die or go crazy (cmon, its right next to a gun convention!) but noooope nothing but sexual harassment and rape

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 01:18:01 2014 No.7438868 >>7438843 They had a Jfashion show last year! It was not like AM's but still a show!

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 01:20:01 2014 No.7438871 File: 682 KB, 2136x1424, IMG_9320.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I forget the name of this DJ but she was 100% better than that 13-year-old rich bitch from the Woodlands.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 01:23:31 2014 No.7438874 >>7438856 Someone mentioned porn being filmed but we've yet to get details

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 01:23:31 2014 No.7438875 >>7438871 Then, after uploading the photo and looking at it, suddenly I remembered her name was on her fucking laptop.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 01:24:01 2014 No.7438880 >>7438874 Someone mentioned a lot of shit but you can't take every gossipy rumor you see in a thread about a con as proof. Jesus Christ I bet you were one of those people in middle school that believed rumors about girls who sucked dick.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 01:31:52 2014 No.7438892 >>7438850 I don't know. Some anon keep saying she looks uncomfortable in some pics but I've yet to see any

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 01:38:52 2014 No.7438903 Oi some of the lolitas from Friday are in my friend's timelapse video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osBd8Z2MElI&feature=youtu.be

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 01:45:52 2014 No.7438908 >>7438780 Can confirm.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 01:50:53 2014 No.7438910 >>7438903 Was that the motherfucker wearing the Colossal Titan outfit?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 01:56:53 2014 No.7438915 >>7438847 how was that rude? I'm telling you as a 6 year vet of the con, they do not cater to j-fashion. AM is the TX con for lolita. Akon had a fashion guest 3 years ago. Other than that cons in TX don't bother to cater to roritas.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 02:05:22 2014 No.7438927 >>7438915 Can confirm, they're called anime conventions for a reason.

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 02:09:52 2014 No.7438931
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>>7438847
We had a Lolita Fashion Show last year- pic related- and normally have your typical Lolita 101 and 102 panels. Nothing is on the site because panel submission is open until May- so nobody knows for certain if any of that will happen again. We had an h.Naoto booth last year as well. Other than that our local comm might organize a swap meet or some outside event.

As for Lolita/J-fashion guests I don't think that's high on SJs priority list right now but the staff is very open to guest suggestions, and maybe if J-fashion gets more visibility it might convince them.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 02:11:52 2014 No.7438934 >>7438915 I was just asking for simple information about the con programming there, not expecting to get 'lol and no one gives a fuck about jfash'. But cool, yay, now I know. Thank you.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 02:13:52 2014 No.7438938 John just announced in HLC that Reika is confirmed for 2015. Also apparently she's still here but the others have left except for Waveya whoever that is

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 02:19:52 2014 No.7438945 >>7438931 Thanks much, this is the kind of answer I was looking for.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 02:19:52 2014 No.7438946 File: 193 KB, 778x779, 1395209984729.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7438938

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 02:23:23 2014 No.7438948 >>7438938 Thanks for posting, with the group closed, why didn't he post it on the HLC page wall so everyone can see it? It's hard to even follow up-to-date news regarding this con if you are an out of towner.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 02:27:22 2014 No.7438956 >>7438946 That actually sounds less than fabulous, only 1 tea may mean fashion guests are only Baby-Aatp and not other brands. Unless they are lumping even brands together at one tea.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 02:28:52 2014 No.7438959 >>7438946 >fixing a lot of the issues we had Start from the top. First one would be firing yourself John. You are the issue.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 02:30:22 2014 No.7438962 >>7438945 No problem! Our local Lolita/Jfashion comm is, admittedly, kind of small, but we do what we can.

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 02:32:22 2014 No.7438965

>>7438614
No shit they're not going to gripe about it, they have professionalism. Plus, do you think that other events would want to book them if they immediately turn around to shit talk the event?

After the fashion show pulled everything back 2 hours, Reika was rushed to her Photo Op and Midori and Akira to their signing. They didn't have food. I heard that Reika's translator found out and ran to get food on her own, and later on, a group of lolitas ran to the food truck to get Midori and Akira burgers, which Akira posted about in her blog. When I got my stuff signed by them, they didn't have any translators or handlers with them. So yeah. Denying your guests food because your shitty planning caused a 30 minute fashion show to be late 2 hours, way to fucking suck AM.

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 02:32:22 2014 No.7438969

>>7438959
Flying 5 members of waveya over and hosting them 2 years in a row wasn't that great and pretty expensive but maybe not for a 3rd year...I hope...with only 1 tea, tickets will be even more limited and both teas sold out last and this year, right? Sheesh.

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 02:37:52 2014 No.7438977

>>7438965
Someone needs to make a list of the major Lolita things that went wrong (in general order of suckage) and present it in an honest and helpful way to the staff. I'm sure it feels good to gripe about it here but if publicly but politely called on the issues, chairs and staff will have to address them.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 02:44:22 2014 No.7438987 File: 114 KB, 616x505, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I can't.

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 02:44:22 2014 No.7438989

>>7438945

I know SJ doesn't really cater to JFashion as it's not something that has been asked for as much as other fan things. Dave tends to listen to suggestions a lot more then other cons in Texas. I'll give him that.

As for A-Kon, and even SJ really, I think there isn't as much of a presence because the coms aren't as pro-active as HLC seems to be. At least in relation to having major events at conventions. AM also has the whole thing with the chairs being huge fans of egl so of course they will happily focus on it.

I think if the DFW groups wanted more lolita events at A-Kon they could probably do it. It's just a matter of having people who can pull off quality events. If you don't have the leadership to take over and plan, then of course there won't be any events.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 02:51:22 2014 No.7438998 >>7438938 Man, how long will she stay anyway? Seems like they're spending a lot on her and Waveya (if the group stays as long as her)

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 02:52:22 2014 No.7438999

>>7438989
This is very true about support and leadership. I know the person in charge of DollAkon this year and there is some bjd/Lolita overlap. I may have a word with her afterwards and see about 2015. Haha, my own interest here because Dallas is closer to me. I came to AM last year but I'm glad we skipped this year. Way too many things fell by the wayside in the a Lolita events to make the trip worthwhile.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 02:53:52 2014 No.7439000 File: 11 KB, 265x265, 1395212001752.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7438987 This guy talks like he's a teenager...

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 03:41:17 2014 No.7439058

>>7438987
To be fair, most of the problems stem from tech problems that cause things to start late. It seems like a viscous cycle.

Friday morning: the security are having issues with the badge scanners. This causes the dealers room to open 1 hour later than planned, at 1:30 for superpass and 2:00 for regulars. This means nobody shows up to the putumayo Q&A (canceled).
Friday @ Opening Ceremonies: tech problems cause the ceremony to start ~1 hour late (first event in the main event area). Guests stuck at Opening Ceremonies held back. This causes Nightmare's panel to start 1 hour later than planned, which backs up all events in panel room 3 by an hour. This backs up the Marvel Cosplay contest in the main hall as well. Nightmare's photo op and autograph session get backed up as well.
Friday @ Jfashion Show: Doors open 1 hour late, Fashion Show doesn't start for another hour after everyone is seated. (This is due to tech problems) This backs up Kawehi and Aya's concerts. This also causes the Formal Dance to be (canceled? why?) This also backs up Reika's photo op, and gives her little time to eat in between events. It also screws up the Midori&Akira line, and heavily confuses staff members (when asked, they promptly informed me they 'had no idea, not my problem'.)

Saturday morning: (everything going swimmingly on time actually)
Saturday @ Cosplay Contest: doors do not open on time, contest starts 1.5-2 hours late (tech again?). Reika autograph gets pushed back, more confusion.
Saturday @ Nightmare: concert starts ~2 hours late due to tech issues. this pushes back...
Saturday @ Club AM: starts an hour late after stage is cleared. TeddyLoid starts late as well. @3, security starts forcing people out of the convention center. They also turn the lights on in the rave (supposed to be over, not-so-gentle reminder by security to gtfo). @3:30 Teddyloid is supposed to start doing autographs, everyone getting forced out by security at this point.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 05:45:18 2014 No.7439205 >>7439058 This

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 06:20:48 2014 No.7439243

>>7439058
My question is, why badge scanners? I'm sure they wasted more time, money (having so much security/scanners posted up), and their reputation (what was left of it) than the money they saved from the likely insignificant number of passes that would have been faked. They didn't even check them at some events, and there were places where you could just go around security.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 07:02:10 2014 No.7439272 >>7438998 My pet theory is that they ran out of plane ticket money and can't send them back

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 09:24:18 2014 No.7439384 >>7438934 no one ON SAN JAPAN STAFF gives a fuck about fashion. You know, the people who decide what guests to bring out? You should learn to read more carefully and not assume everything is about you. Good lord.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 09:34:47 2014 No.7439399 >>7439058 dealers room opened late on Friday because AM waited until 11:45 to start setting up their merch booth. Cosplay was late because no one could find the MC.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 10:15:17 2014 No.7439462 >>7438998 She's at the airport / flying out today. Took a picture of the terminal this morning trying to figure out how to leave. My bet is she told them "yes I'll come back" but never signed anything official.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 10:34:17 2014 No.7439493 >>7439384 Why would they cater to a small group of people who go to their con that actually care about lolita when about 85% of their con goers only care about bands and industry guests?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 10:34:47 2014 No.7439495 >>7439462 That's what I was thinking, too, that she said "Sure" to get them off her back but will blow them off later. Too bad coz she was a sweetheart and all the attendees were nice and excited, as far as I could tell...

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 10:39:17 2014 No.7439503

>>7439495
Yeah... I think she was excited because it was her first time in America. A lot of us came to see her, but I think a different convention is trying to ask her to come. I really hope SJ or even a different non-Texas con gets her, just so she can have a better time.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 10:44:17 2014 No.7439514 >>7438827 >>7438799 I've only been to SJ once, but from what I've seen, it focuses on anime a lot more. AM is the only con I've ever been to that splits with lolita. You can try suggesting lolita guests to SJ, but I'm not sure how far you'd get.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 10:44:47 2014 No.7439513 >>7438813 That Roger looks nightmarish.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 11:24:18 2014 No.7439556 >>7439462 I'm glad she was able to catch her flight! I bet after AM she was terrified she might be stuck in texas with john...

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 11:34:48 2014 No.7439564 >>7439058 Putumayo Q&A wasn't canceled, but the crowd was very small. It was poor planning to put a guest panel at that time.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 11:40:47 2014 No.7439573 File: 95 KB, 960x720, BjGXKpVCYAEwygj.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 11:59:47 2014 No.7439587 >>7439573 It's pretty funny reika is going incognito to a rockets game. Realistically no way in hell is anyone there going to recognize her there.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 12:02:17 2014 No.7439592 >>7439587 Honestly, it just looks like she dressed normally. Did you expect her to go as Levi or?

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 12:20:17 2014 No.7439614

>>7437341
and yet she's still just a damn cosplayer. Plenty of people have been cosplaying for more than 10 years and aren't cosplay famous because they aren't an asian slaughtered in make up. I dont understand the fanscination with cosplay guests unless they are doing a helpful panel or work shop and actually bringing something to do the table. It's ridiculous what the new gen of cosplayers like.

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 12:28:48 2014 No.7439619

>>7439614
I don't think it's the Asian bit that matters (as much..), it's that she cosplays so damn much.
With over 500 costumes, nearly any anime fan who cares about cosplay has probably seen her at some point.
Plus the fact that her outfits actually look good helps her more (I mean if someone else had over 500 outfits but they were all broadcloth and hot glue, they'd be famous too, but not in a good way).

What I'm trying to say is that.. okay, if someone cosplayed a lot but they only did characters from one or two series, they'd be popular among those fans, but no one else knows who they are. Reika cosplays from nearly anything (anime-wise, I guess), so tons of fans from tons of different anime have seen her. She has a broad scope. And I think that's the biggest factor to why she's so well-known.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 12:29:47 2014 No.7439620 >>7438197 this guy is such a gross skinny fat, it's not even funny

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 12:33:17 2014 No.7439626 >>7438830 is she actually 40? i know Kaname is in his mid-late 30's.. I think he's 36?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 12:36:47 2014 No.7439629 >>7439626 From previous Reika thread, Kaname's 38/39 and Reika's 36/37.

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 12:39:47 2014 No.7439635

>>7439619
I actually only found out about her from some random AOT cosplayer at katsu this year. Before that, i havent seen her name around. Either way, it's interesting that she has so much damn time and money to throw around. her cosplays are well made as well, but it just seems annoying to praise a cosplayer for what everyone else does. She isn't bringing anything new to the table. I guess it's nice to be able to sew all day and not have a real job like most people.

Cosplay is about fans showing love and it makes me sad to see it turned into a D celebrity status now a days. Reika is a good cosplayer, but she's just a cosplayer. Not a celeb. It feels crazy to fly her all around for the world for autographs, but i guess i'm just an oldie who doesn't think giving cosplayers fame is relevant.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 12:40:47 2014 No.7439636 >>7439629 Thank you. I guess it's possible to keep cosplaying younger characters as long as you look the part. That's pretty awesome.

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 12:44:47 2014 No.7439642

>>7439635
From what i read, she works for a fashion magazine? (That's what anon said in her thread before)

She's huge among cosplay fandom in Asia and only in recent years cosplay fans in western hemisphere started to notice her. It helps that she also cosplay popular series.

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 12:50:17 2014 No.7439652

>>7439635
Ahh I see what you were complaining about now.
Well like I was saying, what separates Reika from other cosplayers is that she does it so much. That's why she's famous and most others aren't.
She is still a fan showing love though, don't ignore that.
As long as she doesn't turn into JNig, who cosplays for attention and doesn't pay much attention to the source material, I don't think it's an issue.

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 12:54:17 2014 No.7439656

>>7439652
It's good to hear she's a fan of what she does. I would definitely love to meet more people like her who like the series they cosplay from since it seems to be more of a rarity now a days. I can appreciate her work, since she is very good. Thanks for all the info. I'll be sure to look more into the costumes she's done in her history.

My personal feelings aside, it's terrible to hear that AM treated her poorly, especially since it's a habit of the japanese to not complain about their conditioners out of 'cultural respect.' I hope everything works out.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 12:57:47 2014 No.7439661 >>7439656 I think the only reason Reika might come back is because she's picking how excited her fans were over how the AM staff treated her.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 13:01:17 2014 No.7439675 >>7439652 yeah, it also helps that she looks good crossplaying and her costumes are well-made

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 13:05:17 2014 No.7439681

>>7439493
I don't know, because that very small percentage of people spend a fuckton of money. Loon at AM, lolitas dropped cash on super passes pretty much just for early dealers room access. $30 on photo ops and $40 a day for tea party tickets. That before you include the money they spend on hotel and other vendors, all of which help the con. There might not be a large number of them, but lolitas spend cash like its pocket change.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 13:21:47 2014 No.7439702 >>7439681 Dropped 500 at the btssb booth on top of that so yeah. Money flying out of pockets, don't forget the photo book too.

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 13:27:47 2014 No.7439710

>>7439681
I didn't say they weren't loaded, because i've met rich lolitas myself. I'm just saying they probably wouldn't make up the money the con spent on the lolita guest if they got one, meanwhile everyone would be crashing their website buying passes for guests like people from SHAFT.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 13:33:47 2014 No.7439715 File: 61 KB, 508x755, shaft.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7439710 I know you mean the studio, but still...

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 13:37:18 2014 No.7439718

>>7439710
Actually considering tea party tickets were 40 per person with 200 people per 2 teaparties, that's what, $16,000? Plus baby can probably justify the cost with the money they make selling old stock dresses at the booth, so they don't relatively cost as much since they're advertising a product. Baby had 2 guests, Putu had 1, then the 3 models. I think that's 12000 worth of plane tickets at the high end and maybe 1000 in food. AM makes a nice profit imo.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 13:42:48 2014 No.7439727 >>7439718 >maybe 1000 in food HAHA. You have no clue how much catering services mark up their food. Try again.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 13:46:17 2014 No.7439736 >>7439727 They had sandwiches and tazo, they may as well have gone to Sams club considering the quality.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 13:56:59 2014 No.7439752 >>7439715 God dammit, anon. 10/10.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 14:38:05 2014 No.7439815 File: 298 KB, 354x502, 1395254296220.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >this

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 14:59:04 2014 No.7439853 I still want to know why they decided to buy all the dresses from the fashion show for themselves.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 15:13:05 2014 No.7439883 >>7439853 Because Deneice is a selfish bitch, obviously.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 15:14:05 2014 No.7439884 >>7438962 do you guys have a page or something? if you don't that's cool, it just wasn't showing up.

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 15:25:12 2014 No.7439903

>>7439884
Different anon, but there's "San Antonio Texas Lolitas" on FB (4ch won't let me post the link).
IDK If there are other Jfashion communities on fb/in town. Our page is kind of bogged down with itas and general bullshit, but when stuff happens it gets posted there! We're admittedly not the most active comm.

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 15:26:12 2014 No.7439908

>>7439815
what about this?

>>7439853
>>7439883
can we get some proof? I'm a little pissed too if this is true, but what dresses did they buy? I guess being the person who runs the con they would have special privledges to buy before anyone else, but its misleading to present the dresses as being for sale only to snatch them up.

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 15:27:12 2014 No.7439913

>>7438849
Everyone does. One of my friend's family hosted a Russian foreign exchange student, and he was fucking astonished that you could just walk into a store a buy a gun, just like that. The US is one of the few highly-developed nations that has such free access to firearms

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 15:28:12 2014 No.7439915 guest of honor and he's pretty obscure. Why is he a guest? Probably because Dave likes silent hill. Even shit cons like ushicon and anime fest used to get/get more legitimate Japanese guests. Hell, somehow onicon has had uemetsu for 3 fucking years

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 15:32:40 2014 No.7439925

>>7439656
It looks like the mistreatment continues. This morning, Reika was just dropped off at the airport in the wrong terminal, without a translator to help her get through check in. She was tweeting about not knowing what to do, and thankfully someone was able to help her on twitter. What the actual fuck are you doing AMshitcon?

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 15:43:41 2014 No.7439946

>>7438856
She's since taken down the post but http://thecreepyhime.tumblr.com mentioned something about being assualted. She exaggerated about a lot of things though so who knows if it really happened. She also was the one who was supposed to run the Lolita 101 panel.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 15:43:41 2014 No.7439948 >>7439903 ah it's a closed group. I was thinking about checking it out, since I'm a fairly new lolita and HLC is kinda scaring me off. really love that rule about no anime profile pics though, wow.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 16:27:37 2014 No.7440038 just barfed in my mouth a little.

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 16:33:12 2014 No.7440045

The only event that started on time was the thank you dinner for guests and staff on Sunday night of the con. Had a big cake and everything. Of course J&D would make sure their pat me on the back party would start on time, can't lose an opportunity to jack off in front of the guests!

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 17:14:12 2014 No.7440133

>>7439948
Yeah, we consider people with fake-ass anime/kawaii names and no sign that they're actual humans, like a photo, to be spam. There's 160 people in the group with 8 active members, we had to cut down on bullshit somehow. Other than that we let basically anyone in, so feel free to join anon!

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 17:34:12 2014 No.7440167 >>7439925 Seriously? They didn't have an interpreter at least check her in? What the hell is wrong with these people?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 17:42:12 2014 No.7440178 can we have less bitching and more pictures? did that person with the photodump ever upload it anywhere?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 17:47:12 2014 No.7440193 I wouldn't take that to heart. The deadline for submissions is still a ways off. A lot of lolitas were probably waiting til after AM to get the ball rolling. In the past I know there have been panels, swaps, and last year there was a fashion show.

Anonymous Wed Mar 19 18:28:12 2014 No.7440267

From AM Staffer:

>The GRB and the Hilton have never dealt with an anime convention of this size and both entities needed to adjust accordingly.

Are you fucking serious? Comicpalooza been at the GRB for plenty of years and they're doing fine. Why not just admit that AM is run by a group of incompetent fuckheads who'd rather be all flash and steal all of your cash.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 18:39:12 2014 No.7440294 >>7440178 No I didn't. But I'll make a thread. Just get off my back goddamn it I have a day job. Which I'm at right now. Sent from my phone.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 18:41:12 2014 No.7440297 >>7439925 All you have to do to prove this is provide a twitter screencap but you can't even do that. Thus, the phone game continues.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 18:48:12 2014 No.7440317 >>7440297 Are you so lazy you can't even look at her twitter yourself? The tweets are all there. >https://twitter.com/reika2011

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 18:52:12 2014 No.7440328 >>7440297 she even posted about it on her facebook- she must have been panicking. you're lazy as hell anon

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 19:22:12 2014 No.7440395 File: 78 KB, 960x720, am2014inanutshell.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7440178 Sure thing, anon.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 19:38:12 2014 No.7440437 File: 867 KB, 686x562, roofiewater.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7440395 That's the 2nd best AM photo. Here is the best one from 2011.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 19:40:12 2014 No.7440441 >>7440437 You win. AM's come a long way, it seems.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 19:40:12 2014 No.7440444 If you ask me, AM was a real "Nightmare." (cue groans in 3... 2... 1...)

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 19:42:12 2014 No.7440447 >>7440437 Didnt someone put acid or x in it last year at the rave?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 19:52:12 2014 No.7440471 >>7440267 >Comicpalooza >barely fills the entire dealer's room >Panels are all behind curtains No it's totally the same thing. Yeah, AM is shit, but so is that comparison.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 19 23:17:12 2014 No.7440794 >>7435843 i was out of town and im never coming back. it was terrible.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 20 07:45:12 2014 No.7441399 >>7439503 >I think she was excited because it was her first time in America. You mean besides being flown out to Hawaii to hang out with Denisce and John before Matsuri. Unless Hawaii doesnt include America now. >No money for schedules.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 20 16:52:12 2014 No.7442157 >>7441399 Hawaii is a normal vacation spot for Japanese, and that's like saying your first time in America was going to Alaska or Puerto Rico. You know full well it isn't the same thing.

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