June 8-10 2012<\/p>\n
AnimeNEXT this year was interesting this year,\u00a0 but not because of itself.\u00a0\u00a0 Earlier this year at Katsucon we became aware of another convention in Ohio,\u00a0 Colossalcon.\u00a0\u00a0 We heard a lot of chatter about it from the competing cosplay community that they were going there and it was hosting a WCS preliminary.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We weren’t\u00a0 sure about how it would effect Animenext\u00a0 until we got there.\u00a0\u00a0 This year we missed the press deadline so we didn’t cover the masquerade or panels and mostly ran around taking photos.<\/p>\n
From the start some glaring problems were made immediately apparent that they lost a building and weren’t able to use space previously used in past years, we were told the management broke contract and didn’t allow AnimeNEXT to use it.\u00a0 Only until Sunday at the end of the con did I find out there were severe hotel management problems from one of the hotel security guards.\u00a0 Friday was pretty uneventful and normal, at night people hung out in the lobby as people tricked in for Saturday.\u00a0 On Saturday however, the crowd was different that previous years,\u00a0 over time you get used to seeing familiar faces and a lot of them were missing, the crowd was younger but at least attendance seemed to be normal.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But attendance does not make a convention.\u00a0 For Main Events, the big room, nothing was scheduled until late afternoon, as a first event a fashion show was scheduled.\u00a0 Nothing anime related.\u00a0 A Fashion show.\u00a0 We\u00a0 attended that and ran to the front to take photos.\u00a0\u00a0 So programming on that standpoint was severely lacking.\u00a0 At night we usually have fun doing late night photos, but we realized it wasn’t going to happen.\u00a0 The younger crowd was all gone in their rooms or went home for the night.\u00a0 The normal late night crowd was at a different convention.\u00a0 We didn’t even hear complaints of people not wanting to wait in line for the rave.\u00a0 So definitely a change with the lobby being empty at 10PM on a Saturday night.\u00a0 On the bright side on Sunday, we heard many of the new people that this was the greatest convention they’ve ever been to.\u00a0 So hopefully in a couple years they’ll start to breathe life back into this convention.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Can we say we’ll be back to this convention?\u00a0 Of course.\u00a0 Its one of the area conventions we’re based from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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