The Post-post-post-Otakon Critique.
Aug. 20th, 2002 03:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osarabaTotal spent: I can’t remember right now, but it actually wasn’t so bad. I only spent $100 on stuff. The rest was hotel/food/etc. I think the total was somewhere around $450. The bad part of it is that $80 of that was spent on buying disposable cameras, and getting them developed with double prints, plus the photos onto CD. @_@
Anime showings: While there was nothing I really wanted to see (everything that looked interesting, I’d already seen, and everything I hadn’t seen didn’t seem so interesting), I was impressed and pleased by the variety of anime being shown. There was old and new series, series that appealed to shoujo fans and shounen fans, they brought back YAOI night, which was an amazing big plus!!! (Last year was SO disappointing!) I hope they continue to show a variety of anime and not sink into the rut they were in in 2001.
Badges: Great! They had lots of different anime offered – even one from a YAOI anime! A lot of fangirls (including Angelica and Louie) had that one on (Yami no Matsuei), and although the two characters featured (Tsusuki and Watari) are two of my favorites, I didn’t like how they looked on the badge, so I ended up getting the Noir badge instead. I’d only seen up to episode 15 or so by that point, so I didn’t know the whole story, but I’ve always thought that the art for Noir was superb, and the badge was really well done, so I was really happy with my badge. Liz got the Initial D badge, which had tempted me a lot, but the charas featured were not my favorites – Takumi and his car (if it had been only this, I might have gotten it), with Natsuki in the background, and – of all people – the stupid Lan-Evo racer (not Kyouichi). What the hell? He’s not a main character at all! I don’t get it! (Though I heard that it was from one of the DVD covers.) I don’t remember the other ones, but they were all really great!
Layout: This was the only thing I’m undecided on. It was great being able to have so much space for the Dealers’ Room, the Art Room, etc. But on the other hand… it was annoying as hell (and just as painful for those with 5-inch platform heels on!) to have to walk from one side of the convention center all the way to the other side just to go from Dealers’ Room to Karaoke Room. Then again, they can’t just stay small – the more people that attend Otakon, the more they have to expand in order to accommodate them. ::sigh::
Overall: A great con in comparison to Shoujocon. But also lacking the intimacy that allowed Sharon, DC, and the rest of us to get together. But I wouldn’t change Otakon at all – how could I miss out on all the amazing cosplayers, the sugoi Dealers’ Room, the huge Art Show? Not to mention, the fact that getting stopped every few minutes for a picture goes straight to one’s head!
Anime showings: While there was nothing I really wanted to see (everything that looked interesting, I’d already seen, and everything I hadn’t seen didn’t seem so interesting), I was impressed and pleased by the variety of anime being shown. There was old and new series, series that appealed to shoujo fans and shounen fans, they brought back YAOI night, which was an amazing big plus!!! (Last year was SO disappointing!) I hope they continue to show a variety of anime and not sink into the rut they were in in 2001.
Badges: Great! They had lots of different anime offered – even one from a YAOI anime! A lot of fangirls (including Angelica and Louie) had that one on (Yami no Matsuei), and although the two characters featured (Tsusuki and Watari) are two of my favorites, I didn’t like how they looked on the badge, so I ended up getting the Noir badge instead. I’d only seen up to episode 15 or so by that point, so I didn’t know the whole story, but I’ve always thought that the art for Noir was superb, and the badge was really well done, so I was really happy with my badge. Liz got the Initial D badge, which had tempted me a lot, but the charas featured were not my favorites – Takumi and his car (if it had been only this, I might have gotten it), with Natsuki in the background, and – of all people – the stupid Lan-Evo racer (not Kyouichi). What the hell? He’s not a main character at all! I don’t get it! (Though I heard that it was from one of the DVD covers.) I don’t remember the other ones, but they were all really great!
Layout: This was the only thing I’m undecided on. It was great being able to have so much space for the Dealers’ Room, the Art Room, etc. But on the other hand… it was annoying as hell (and just as painful for those with 5-inch platform heels on!) to have to walk from one side of the convention center all the way to the other side just to go from Dealers’ Room to Karaoke Room. Then again, they can’t just stay small – the more people that attend Otakon, the more they have to expand in order to accommodate them. ::sigh::
Overall: A great con in comparison to Shoujocon. But also lacking the intimacy that allowed Sharon, DC, and the rest of us to get together. But I wouldn’t change Otakon at all – how could I miss out on all the amazing cosplayers, the sugoi Dealers’ Room, the huge Art Show? Not to mention, the fact that getting stopped every few minutes for a picture goes straight to one’s head!
