/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>3056596
Talking to the ppl I met at AX, it seems the convention really varies year-to-year: there was the Hirano Aya debacle (screwed up her concert so much she cancelled her autograph sessions and left in tears) and the Halko Momoi rebuke (swore to never return on her blog) in '07, and then in '08 David Hayter leaves 400 ppl happy with autographs.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record (I've posted about this about a month ago) I'm suspecting a revolving-door executive. One guy in particular said this year's execs were so new and so bad that the veteran volunteers stayed away and didn't help out.

>>it was all pretty well a clusterfuck.
Agreed that's bad.

worse: they kept repeating the clusterfucking for 4 days straight.

worse yet: the GR Manager actually yelled at me when I tried to tell her how bad things were (I staff a con, so I at least know a little bit about what goes on)

So no more.... I didn't spend all this money and fly all his way just to be given lip. Never coming to AX again.

>>I don't know how AX manages to get any of the guests it does.
I think just by sheer draw -- all they say is "yeah we drew 44,000 in '09, and it'll be even higher in '10!!", and I guess the Japs are attracted to numbers and PR like that.

Plus I suppose the bad news never really gets around over there....

some GAika to lighten the mood