Anime USA

October 6th, 2008 omo Posted in Anime, Social | No Comments »

I don’t really like to go to cons, besides to:

• Hang out with people.
• See special guests.

This year I’ve already hit my 3-con limit (AZ, Otakon, NYAF) so I think that is all for me. Yet I might drop by AUSA just to say hi to a few people. Not really excited about spending money on that.

As a con, AUSA is a fairly typical of the newer crop of cons where it’s mostly the dealer room, con frenzy and cosplay walkways that are the draws. I don’t really care about that (anymore), if ever did. There are a couple interesting things to AUSA, nonetheless:

• Swap meet–you can bring stuff and barter with other fans, but no cash exchanges allowed. It’s a neat idea if you just have easily-fungible items like R1 DVDs and manga. I know I have stuff to unload, but I think I prefer exchanging them for money instead.
• Versailles–jrock. Not that I like jrock but I’m always interested in checking out bands that have some repute.
• Panels–haven’t seen their panel schedule anywhere, can’t say.

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