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The post-Shoujocon critique.
Okay, now that it's been over a week past Shoujocon 2002, I've finally gotten around to posting the last installment of the Shoujocon Chronicles. >_< It's actually a short one:
(1) It was surprisingly boring at times. There was nothing to do between registration and the opening of the Dealers' Room... if we hadn't accidentally run into Aaeth, we'd have been bored out of our minds. I mean... I had just started to think that I should have been working that day. That's just wrong. Anyway.
(2) The fact that the con was held inside the hotel was a first for me -- and boy, let me tell you -- it was great! I wish that somehow Otakon could be the same way! Do you know how huge the Baltimore Convention Center (hereafter to be referred to as the BCC) is?! Walking, walking, walking... that's all you do there! But the hotel! Ahhh. You could take a few minutes (not more than 5, if the elevators weren't packed) to drop some stuff off at your room, and then go right back to what you were doing and hardly miss a thing!
(3) The panels! They were actually interesting and somewhat fun, except for that little Crossing Over mishap -- to which I still have not received a reply! Bastards, what's wrong, they can't take any constructive criticism? I wasn't mean in my email or anything! ::pouts::
(4) The Dealers' Room. Aside from the kawaii guy screaming, "Get your red-hot YAOI doujinshi here!" it was sort of boring. Just the usual DVDs, CDs, etc. Not too many interesting novelty items, and I don't recall seeing any cel tables (except for one that was mainly CDs, but had 3 small cel books... I think).
(Overall) I'd go back again, but only to meet the fellow fangirls, and possibly the panels where I'd meet more fellow fangirls. But at this point, the Dealers' Room is hardly a consideration. The theaters were decent, but not interesting... there was hardly anything new. Of course, once Shoujocon gets bigger I'd probably stop going (if I even last that long). Once it gets bigger, it would be redundant to go to both Shoujocon and Otakon... and Otakon is so much better, there's absolutely no comparison. The cosplay was almost non-existent and sort of disappointing.
Okay, next are the Otakon Chronicles, which I have a feeling will not be as detailed because there was so much more to do (and so much more that was done, squeezed into 3 days), that I couldn't possibly remember it all like I did for Shoujocon. But I'll try my best and I'll at least give the fun accounts... and, of course, the account of the damage that was done to my wallet (which I'm definitely going to have to hold a funeral for).
(1) It was surprisingly boring at times. There was nothing to do between registration and the opening of the Dealers' Room... if we hadn't accidentally run into Aaeth, we'd have been bored out of our minds. I mean... I had just started to think that I should have been working that day. That's just wrong. Anyway.
(2) The fact that the con was held inside the hotel was a first for me -- and boy, let me tell you -- it was great! I wish that somehow Otakon could be the same way! Do you know how huge the Baltimore Convention Center (hereafter to be referred to as the BCC) is?! Walking, walking, walking... that's all you do there! But the hotel! Ahhh. You could take a few minutes (not more than 5, if the elevators weren't packed) to drop some stuff off at your room, and then go right back to what you were doing and hardly miss a thing!
(3) The panels! They were actually interesting and somewhat fun, except for that little Crossing Over mishap -- to which I still have not received a reply! Bastards, what's wrong, they can't take any constructive criticism? I wasn't mean in my email or anything! ::pouts::
(4) The Dealers' Room. Aside from the kawaii guy screaming, "Get your red-hot YAOI doujinshi here!" it was sort of boring. Just the usual DVDs, CDs, etc. Not too many interesting novelty items, and I don't recall seeing any cel tables (except for one that was mainly CDs, but had 3 small cel books... I think).
(Overall) I'd go back again, but only to meet the fellow fangirls, and possibly the panels where I'd meet more fellow fangirls. But at this point, the Dealers' Room is hardly a consideration. The theaters were decent, but not interesting... there was hardly anything new. Of course, once Shoujocon gets bigger I'd probably stop going (if I even last that long). Once it gets bigger, it would be redundant to go to both Shoujocon and Otakon... and Otakon is so much better, there's absolutely no comparison. The cosplay was almost non-existent and sort of disappointing.
Okay, next are the Otakon Chronicles, which I have a feeling will not be as detailed because there was so much more to do (and so much more that was done, squeezed into 3 days), that I couldn't possibly remember it all like I did for Shoujocon. But I'll try my best and I'll at least give the fun accounts... and, of course, the account of the damage that was done to my wallet (which I'm definitely going to have to hold a funeral for).