{"id":975,"date":"2013-09-08T07:23:52","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T07:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furry.asinglelion.com\/?p=975"},"modified":"2013-09-08T07:31:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T07:31:23","slug":"975","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/?p=975","title":{"rendered":"Con Report Kumoricon 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Con: <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Kumoricon <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Place: Vancouver, W#A Hilton and Rad Lion <\/span><\/p>\n

The Dates:<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>31 Aug \u2013 2 Sep 2013<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Kumoricon is the Portland \/ Vancouver WA premiere Anime convention ; this is my sixth year in attendance. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>All three of my giant plushies were my companions<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday:<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Got down to the convention site early for the panelist meeting. I pretty much stuck to fan met and greet panes including the random panel of doom, which I was not all impressed even though<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>it was fun.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>I had confused it with the often renamed panel which was not present this year.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>I also attended the Kumoricon, Face Book forum meet up Panel before having a seat for the AMV contest and most of the show.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>I went out to Joes Crab Shack<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>for dinner then did lounged around and spends some time in the video room before calling it a day.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sunday:<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Because of a schedule misunderstand, Programming had put my Otaku over 25 panel at 12:00pm only 30 minutes after church. I just got in right on time. We had a good show about 54 attendees.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Later I tried to attend the Manga Hell panel; I was turned was because the volunteer said the room was to capacity. Never mind there were still four rows of chars empty. Latter <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>I attended a panel in the same room without any problems. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I soon had to get my stuff together and set up for my second panel. I did the world of Sanrio and Hello Kitty. I had 54 in attendance; which was a very good number, knowing I was running against the popular Masquerade and Cosplay contest.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>The attendance was 27 time better than the attendance at Furlandia. Feedback has been very positive.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I then went to Toodd Haberkorn Show and Tell panel. I wanted to get a picture of him with my giant Hello Kitty but it was no go.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>I spent the rest of the day picture taking, dinner, video room and art jam until it was time for Guy\u2019s overnight AMV showing.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>I called a day at 2:00 am.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Monday: <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Not much to do in the way of panels. I did both the anime debate and Once Upon an Anime panel and just hung around.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>I attended the closing ceremony and rant and rave before doing my last space walkthrough and calling it a convention <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Good: it was good to be back, but noting stood out.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Bad: skimpy on <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>industry, anime, manga and what to watch panels. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Most were games and meet up.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>What anime \/ manga panels of interest were available happed on Sunday morning.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Ugly: <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>The brats who thrown water on the cosplayes on Monday; they may or were not part of Oxfest group. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In spite of the hiccup I still had a great time<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Click on Picture for larger<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>version<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

All Pic are cover by a Creative Commons 3.0 License <\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t