Have you gone to or are you planning to go to any world

[animechat]

Have you gone to or are you Planning to go to any worldwide Anime Conventions? What did you like or dislike about being there?

[efaardvark]

I wish.    Work has always been busy and after all the layoffs it got even more busy for the ones who are left.  I'm at my vacation time accrual limit because I haven't had much chance to take time off this year!  (I did manage to take a week in between xmas and NY.)  I'll have to take some time off soon tho 'cause if I bank any more I'll just lose it.  If Artemis goes up on time then maybe I'll take a couple days after the splashdown.  Not much though because there's a new software release to install ASAP after we get out of configuration freeze, and once we have that deployed we have to start using it for HLS testing with BO and spacex.  Getting too old for this shit. 

Anyway, yeah, I'd love to do the con thing but probably won't due to no time.  Not a big fan of long distance travel either, especially these days, but I'm in the Los Angeles suburbs so I do have access to some good-sized cons that happen around here.  I've been wanting to try Anime Riverside.  Bit of a drive for me but I hear it is fairly large and I've never been to that one.  And of course there's the regular Anime Expo (AX) coming up at the LA Convention Center in a couple months.  Tends to be packed and a bit expensive but always something interesting there.  I guess that's to be expected of "the largest anime convention in N. America".

[rony82]

I'm looking at Anime Expo in LA for next year. The size of it is the main draw, though I've heard the "line-con" aspect can be pretty brutal. I'm hoping to catch some of the industry panels that don't usually travel to the smaller local shows.

 

[Moxie]

100% looking forward to Comic con this year!