The Con: Anime PPDX 2<\/p>\n
The Place : Crowne Plaza Portland-Downtown Convention Center.<\/p>\n
The Dates : 21-23 July 2017<\/p>\n
Anime PDX\u00a0 is an upstart\u00a0 anime convention\u00a0 hosted by the\u00a0 same people who brought us\u00a0 NewCon . Travel Kitty, Kiju Kitty 1 and Chococat were my companions.<\/p>\n
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Friday and Saturday:<\/p>\n
I decide not to take a day off Friday for the con; I picked up a rental car and head down to the hotel. There was nothing going on so I checked out the con space then when out for dinner. I return only the find that the late night AMV viewing was canceled so I stopped for the day.<\/p>\n
Saturday I went out to breakfast then headed out to the con space. I caught the Cyberpunk in anime panel; the person did well even though he was short handed.\u00a0 I checked out Lip Sync Battle Royale, while there were some good standouts, mot contestants seem to be the same old same old, do a dance, take something off, get off the stage.\u00a0 I skipped the cosplay contest. Noting held my interest during the evening\u00a0\u00a0 but I did not want to go home for the evening, so I checked out INUYASHA!!! Sit Boy!! panel. Normally I look at cosplay panels as just webo bait but I was pleasantly suspired how good was their presentation and cosplay.\u00a0 I even got into the act to ask a half demon Inuyasha about his opinion of Hello Kitty; Kagome had to restrain him. I decide to go home get dinner and stop for the day.<\/p>\n
Sunday:<\/p>\n
After church, I headed back to the con and helped a friend who ran the American cartoon panel.\u00a0 I just hung around , did some shopping and\u00a0 checked out\u00a0 Ghost\u00a0 in the Shell screening and\u00a0 Sweet Improv Dance Challenge before closing ceremonies and calling it a con.<\/p>\n
The Good : INUYASHA!!! Sit Boy!! panel<\/p>\n
The bad :\u00a0 Noting<\/p>\n
The Ugly : Not the con but Uptown Cosplay. Yes, the people who run Newcon \/ Anime PDX have some problems, and you do not want be associated with them. That is your thing, but I you are going to tell me and others not to come, you better come up with some proof than a drama queen YouTube post. Well, 750 paid attendees did not listen to you.<\/p>\n
While sparse with\u00a0 the panel content, Anime PDX was a good first year con.<\/p>\n
I wonder the reason for Anime PDX \u00a0is because \u00a0some fans could not attend a PDX anime con\u00a0 during the school year, especially when Kumoricon had shifted its dates to October.<\/p>\n
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