Archive for the ‘Convention Reports’ Category

DJ Ranma S Presents – Castle Point Anime Convention 2012 – Close, But Still no Cigar

Over the last four years, I have traveled to and experienced my fair share of anime conventions on college campuses.  Some were great, others not so much.  How would I put this convention?  Not so much, but would go again. Castle Point Anime Convention is held at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ.  So […]

Ari Rockefeller presents PAS SpringFestNY 2012 — One Day, One Venue, All Over the Place

The convention can’t be described without the word “clusterfuck.”  From what I’ve read about their history, they’ve been doing this for ten years. Though it’s run by, essentially, the college’s anime club, their history of doing this leaves them with no excuse for things to be so…disorganized.

Makochan Presents MangaNEXT 2012 – Start of the Season Warm-up!

And now, Mako-chan presents her MangaNEXT 2012 con report! Well, my start of the season anyway.  Mako-chan here with another wondrous telling of small scale con horrors, but this time, I’m at least in my own back yard! The last weekend of February found me in East Rutherford, NJ for MangaNEXT.  Now not my first […]

Ari Rockefeller presents Kotoricon 2012 — A High School By Any Other Name Would Still Suck

                No doubt after reading just the title of this article, you’re probably wondering what something like high school could have to do with reviewing an anime convention. Well, first of all, allow me to sum up my entire four years of high school in a single sentence—“Fuck all of that shit.” My high school […]

Ari Rockefeller presents A Look Back at Whatever the Hell 2011 Was

The year 2011 is in its death throes, and even as I type this, I and the rest of the world are essentially waiting for its heart monitor to go to the inevitable flat line, which is a mere hours away. So with members of my (real, not AJS) family ready to loot the corpse […]

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