Do you ever attend anime conventions? Is there any point outside of AX, which has actual industry presence?

No.

no I'm not a normalfag

I went to Katsucon for a while. It’s good if you want art.

>>281328842 (OP)
Generally you go to anime conventions for the following in this order
>After-Parties
>>>/cgl/, find the places, don't get raped.
>Industry Events
These can be a reason to go, but I don't think you should only go to ones with these events. The only time I've ever done that was NYCC's Dragon Ball Daima reveal back in 2022. Was it worth it? I fucking hate Americans so damn much.
>Artist Alley
This is because it fan efforts are often pretty damn good. Last convention I went to I got a bunch of keychains and pins made by fans (I find them more fun to have than prints and posters). Sometimes you'll even see people making doujin plushes and figures, which is always cool.
Also really good if you want to commission something, lets you meet a lot of artists who you can get a name, face, and address from.
>Guests
Usually western conventions are shit for guests, but some of them can get some good picks- big one in Canada was Anime North getting the voice actors of Kai from Gundam and Astro Boy in.
But most of the time its dubshit, so this can be ignored.
>Panels
Panels are a tossup between a fun time or being in a room with the biggest obnoxious faggot of all time.
Generally though, you can tell the best ones will be done by people with an existing presence, stuff like people involved in fan communities for decades.
Also, sponsored ones do giveaways, so go to them if you like the thing being sponsored.
>Dealer Hall
Perhaps the worst reason to go, but still a viable one. It's basically like going to a gunshow. Have a few risque figures or dakis you want? Someone in the dealer hall might have them. Something old and OOP that you'd rather check in person? Dealer hall.
>Official parties
Always gay and lame.

>>281330349
>>After-Parties
normalfags really have to make everything about drunkenness and hook-ups, don't they?

>>281330742
Conventions are basically big extended hangouts/parties, so yeah.

>>281330754
So that's how people like you perceive every social event. That explains a lot.

>>281330349
Thank you for ruining hobbies

>>281328842 (OP)
Depends on if your town has an anime store or not to buy figs/merch, or if you like skeeving on cosplayers.

>>281328842 (OP)
>attending anime conventions
Don't torture yourself like that anon.

>>281330893
I mean, man, every convention where people stick around to the late afternoon is like that and has pretty much always been like that.
>>281331000
>ruining hobbies
Do you guys even go to conventions or do you just whine about how you would go if they weren't "ruined"?

>>281331138
Why are you pretending that you're not reducing the quality of what could be good conventions by making it all about having secret parties with other losers and whores because you don't have any friends?

The only reason to attend conventions is to have hook ups with women met there, because girls who are into anime are nothing more than cumdumpsters. They aren't human. Use them, pump them and dump them. The "I'm such a weeb uwu girl" type deserves to get ran through and become nothing more than cocksleeve.
Nerdy girls are whores, they are for ONS and destroying their confidence.

>>281331266
I mean, they're not like secret parties, I mentioned /cgl/ because you go there, find where people are talking for a given convention, and then meetup. Can end in sex, I added the don't get raped clause since 90% of all people there will be drunk, but it's mostly just partying.
And this isn't "reducing the quality", it's not like the parties happen inside the convention hall- they're in the parking lot or in one of the hotel rooms, sometimes in one of the washrooms if you can get away with it. Really, all of this reads like some seethe about some fantastical idea of conventions you have, and it's very obvious you've never been tone.

>>281328842 (OP)
I went to LA Anime Expo last year and I had a ton of fun seeing so many people in cosplay and getting pictures with them, even if there wasn't much I actually wanted to see there.

>>281331407
>it's not secret because someone might mention it on 4chan
Hopefully you know how stupid you sound. And it is reducing the quality you are literally telling people to go to anime conventions for the purpose of getting drunk at parties with whores afterwards.

>>281331463
>afterwards
Nah, most of those parties occur solely outside the bounds of the convention. That's the last stop for anyone going, and for about half the people at the parties, its their first stop as well, which is why they're typically situated outside areas that require a badge.

And again, it is PAINFULLY obvious you don't actually go to conventions.

>>281328842 (OP)
No I have never attended because I'm a normal person and a closet anime fan, I don't want to waste my money by showing my face there just to be arm to arm with a bunch of smelly autists who never grew up and think they're heckin slaying in their cosplay along with advertising OF thots.

>>281331515
It's painfully obvious how autistic you are since most people at conventions walk around a few times and then leave and don't even know that some losers use it as a social club. You clearly base a large part of your personality around being a cool anime convention party goer.
>Nah
Nah what? you didn't deny it happening afterwards.

>>281329250
this

>>281331561
>since most people at conventions walk around a few times and then leave
That's not really what makes a good convention dumbass.
Conventions are something you should spend a good while at if you are a fan of the thing they're about. That's why they have panels, guests, events, the official parties, etc.
>You clearly base a large part of your personality around being a cool anime convention party goer.
I said off-handedly that the meetups are the best part mostly as a joke and then provided an indepth post on the attractions at a given convention.
Based on your post, it seems more like you got offended that I said going to the dealer hall is the worst reason to go to a convention.

>>281331736
>That's why they have panels, guests, events, the official parties, etc.
That's pretty much only the high ranking american ones. Since you base your identity around conventions you waste money travelling to get to them.
>mostly as a joke
It certainly didn't seem like it, especially considering how defensive you are.

>>281331804
>That's pretty much only the high ranking american ones.
No, panels exist at most of them.
Guests are at pretty much any convention with any degree of legitimacy (i.e., not being hosted in a restaurant ballroom or a storage unit). The issue is quality of guests, and the vast majority of western conventions only draw in western talent rather than Japanese ones.
Events are also common as that be anything. It is not hard to screen a movie for a convention, you just contact the distributor and get the clearance, and all they'll want is for you to do some ads or pay a fee (or you could just not bother if you're small enough to get by).
Official parties are certainly only a thing at bigger ones, but as I mentioned, they suck.
>Since you base your identity around conventions you waste money travelling to get to them.
You keep saying that solely because I said I go to convention parties. I go to the same couple ones that are a short drive from me and that's about it. I only make exceptions for ones with significant happenings confirmed to be at them, not because I'm going to drink and have a fat cosplayer grind against me.
>It certainly didn't seem like it, especially considering how defensive you are.
I'm just explaining to you. Here's my assessment of your character based on this.
You're a poser. You don't go to conventions, and for whatever reason, anything to do with parties and sex makes you REALLY REALLY upset.

>>281332014
Well not in the UK except for irrelevant attention seekers.
>You keep saying that
Because you said it's the best part of conventions and then got really defensive.
>You're a poser.
Just an ordinary convention attender actually. You're the poser that pretends to like anime so you can try to attract fat cosplay whores who also don't watch anime.
>anything to do with parties and sex makes you REALLY REALLY upset.
Yeah, it's degenerate and pathetic behaviour and the reason western society has become so intolerable. Casual sex is bad and so is getting drunk. It's funny how you come to /a/ expecting everyone to be supportive of your retarded lifestyle.

>>281332143
>Because you said it's the best part of conventions and then got really defensive.
Because you came at me like a sperg for something I wasn't expecting anyone to seriously give a shit about.
>Just an ordinary convention attender actually. You're the poser that pretends to like anime so you can try to attract fat cosplay whores who also don't watch anime.
I mean, I literally provided a guide on conventions in general and what's worth doing at one and probably have more experience with anime then you.
If I just wanted casual cosplayer sex as well, I'd go to the more popular comic conventions, not anime ones.
>Yeah, it's degenerate and pathetic behaviour and the reason western society has become so intolerable. Casual sex is bad and so is getting drunk. It's funny how you come to /a/ expecting everyone to be supportive of your retarded lifestyle.
It's funny how you LARP as some kind of puritan on /a/.

>>281332201
That's such a lie. If it were a joke you'd have said so immediately. You genuinely think that the best part of anime conventions are retarded parties afterwards.
>provided a guide on conventions in general
No one asked.
>It's funny how you LARP as some kind of puritan on /a/.
It's really weird how you think that this board out of anywhere on 4chan wouldn't have people who dislike normalfag hook-up parties, and describes anyone who opposes that as a christian zealot.

>>281328842 (OP)
I went to Otakon back in 2013 or some shit. It was pretty meh.

They were fun to go to back in the early 2000's back when it was actually about anime, plus there was the added utility of it helping to introduce people to anime they might not have heard of yet. The last convention I went to was back in 2012 and by that time it was half anime and half Dr. Who, MLP, Homestuck kind of shit. Half the panels were about videogames or dub actors who hadn't been relevant in nearly a decade. You're basically just going to try and hook up with some hambeast or you're like 16 and just got into anime and are being surrounded by anime merch for the first time in your life.