There has been a big rise of these types of events across the country for the past couple of years. 18+ conventions aren't new, but specifically 18+ ecchi events seem to be its own kind of thing. What is more, I see a ton more sex workers at these cons, and it kind of reminds me of a porn convention. However, for some reason they still have everyone wear pasties and no one wants to be nude like a porn convention. (perhaps that is the "ecchi" part coming into play but it feels contradictory to me for some reason).

Do you think these types of events are a blessing or curse for the con scene?

>>10940346 (OP)
A blessing. The cosplays are eye candy and creative. Also they touch you when you take pics with them

>>10940346 (OP)
The further degeneration of our modern society. Likely not a good thing

Hentai Matsuri in San Diego was a blast, towards the end of the night one of the girls let us all have a turn grope her ass and tits.

>>10940373
That's it? No blowjob or anything else? So it's just a strip? kek

More and more conventions have to be strict about 'keep it G rated' which is kind of hard when you're talking about a culture which birthed Kill la Kill. I see the rise in 18+ events as a result of this. Used to, conventions didn't exactly care about being family friendly, that's sort of a recent thing. Booth babes weren't even a problem until way more people's kids started showing up at conventions.

>>10940346 (OP)
Its just further proof that scam artists and creeps can get away with anything in the con scene as long as it looks "professional" and no one gives a fuck in the end.

>>10940346 (OP)
It really boils down what anime intends to do. It's sad but it gets to the point.
HENTAY HENTAY I WATCH PORN LOLZ

I haven't been to a regular anime con in a long time and don't intend to go again, but I have never wanted to attend ecchi cons.
Having said that I do genuinely enjoy naughty anime (sexual themed anime that isn't fully hentai) as long as it's funny or the story is good.
Here's a good example https://myanimelist.net/anime/51678/Oniichan_wa_Oshimai and of course https://myanimelist.net/anime/40010/Ishuzoku_Reviewers

>for some reason they still have everyone wear pasties and no one wants to be nude like a porn convention. (perhaps that is the "ecchi" part coming into play but it feels contradictory to me for some reason).

afaik ecchi just means naughty, not full blown (animated) porn.

>>10940346 (OP)
Over the past ten years, I've watched gooning go from being something shameful to being something like weed where people will just go "they're not hurting anybody!" if you do it, so to me the increase in ecchi cons is just a symptom of gooning turning into a mainstream hobby. Based on what I've heard about ecchi cons, it sounds like it's neither a blessing nor a curse but instead its own self-contained thing for zoomers who prefer the bright colors of cosplay porn over the energy you'd see at normal porn conventions.

>>10940897
>More and more conventions have to be strict about 'keep it G rated'
I've been hearing this sentiment ever since the lockdowns ended, but from what I've seen it doesn't seem like it matches up with reality. Most cons I've been to in my state post-covid still have 18+ porn panels in the evening, and there are still boomers selling doujins in dealer rooms. Maybe I'm missing something that was there a decade ago before I started going to conventions?

>>10940368
>can I have a house?
Society:
No those are only for millionaire here’s your hentai convention with hookers

>>10940346 (OP)
I think it's good to have seperate cons for people that want more adult rated cosplays and I don't think it's a bad thing necessarily, especially if it can be a more comfortable place to try a lewd cosplay out.

>>10940346 (OP)
>kind of reminds me of a porn convention
Porn cons are already full of weirdo coomer people, just youtube that All Gas No Brakes video of him at AVN. Adding weeaboo culture into the mix just escalates everything.

Having a sexually charged con meant to cater to some of the most sexually unfulfilled people in the world is awkward at best and a complete disaster at worst.

tsumicon is pretty cool.
bought a rare doujin.

I'd love to go but I don't think there is anything like that in Europe is there?

>>10942126
dokomi

>>10942127
>dokomi
Any experience? Thought they just had a small 18+ area

>>10942126
Yunicon/Kokorocon in Austria have a whole floor for it

>>10940346 (OP)
I don't know if its the same on all countries but here the 18+ conventions got hijacked by literal prostitutes, not even being an incel, real prostitutes who found out that they can charge 10 times their usual rates by just wearing a 2b cosplay.
The biggest 18+ con here was heavily penalized because the girls would start offering their services inside the con instead of having the decency to rent an motel or something.

I think one of those prostitues even has a video of the whole thing on porhub, so no, it's not a rumor.
It's kind of sad, but if a unpopular cosplayer does ero cosplay here, chances are is that she's indeed, a prostitute.

>>10941313
>afaik ecchi just means naughty, not full blown (animated) porn.
Ecchi, or H, is short for sex in Japan. Ecchi and Hentai have been incorrectly translated into English.

>>10944105
More like "perverted" or "dirty." The Japanese actually usually use "ero," short for "erotic," for the kind of stuff we'd call "hentai" or "ecchi" - "ero-cosplay," "eromanga," and so on.

>>10940346 (OP)
The only reason to visit an "ecchi expo" is if it had a cosplay is consent policy with legal and civil waivers to sign.

>>10945959
I would pay hundreds of dollars to experience this

More pics from these ecchi expos please

>>10945987
or learn to keep your hands to yourself like any other toddler

>>10946042
Cosplay is consent

>>10946021
>>10946041
look up failninja
somehow he has hundreds of girls stepping and sitting on him despite being sort of a chud

>>10944084
What country is "here"? I need to know so I can... avoid cons in... that country in the future...

>>10946065
>>10945987
based

>>10940373
are there recordings for stuff like this? i wouldnt even mind a bit of a paywall to watch this stuff. cant really find anything of the sort on youtube and porno sites have soulless whores getting fucked in shitty cosplays of characters they dont know or care about

>>10946066
>somehow
they get paid to do that. theyre not doing it out of the good of their hearts. he pays them money to sit on him

Are the cosplayers at these kinds of cons chill?
I mean the cosplayers that arent literal prostitutes.
I mean its kinda obvious why males intend to go there: buying ecchi and henti stuff and to take pictures with good looking cosplayers and I hope in a polite and no creepy fashion. It would be a real shame if you would go there and the majority the cosplayers have a stick up their butt and dont want to be photographed when u ask them for a picture.

I'm kind of interested in going to one of these. I've gone to similar events in Japan such as cosholic and cosplay rom complex. It's a lot of fun taking photos of the cosplayers and buying their photo books along with all the other simps.

>>10946830
I wouldn't recommend going unless its tsumicon in Vegas. The some of the others are kinda subpar and trashy. Especially the ones in Texas where people were using the community sex toy for every one to see. I think the one japan is the best it will get.

>>10946309
Unless you're a female, dressing sexy or there to really simp for these cosplayers, you may feel like an outsider. A lot of the cosplayers there don't mind their photos being taken like at a regular con.

Also making money at these ecchi con is super easy if your a photographer. FOMO really kicks in because this is like the one time they'll wear something a very reveling outfit in public.

>>10946830
Oh wow, I thought I was the only anon on /cgl/ who'd even been to cosholic, I was certainly the only Westerner there the one time I went.

>>10940346 (OP)
They haven't made it to my country yet

>>10944084
>the 18+ conventions got hijacked by literal prostitutes
So same as normal conventions then?

>>10946066
>>10946265
I would pay money for that. He's lucky.

Maybe, in a few years, the people behind YuniCon and KokoroCon will also do an hentai/ecchi-con
Who knows

>>10942126
A few years ago, there was an anime convention in berlin, while they had a porn-convention at the next hall

It's the closest I can think of

>>10946309
Asking for photos is always ok

>>10947669
Bro, can we meet up at the next yunicon? What will you be cosplaying?

>>10947852
Won't go to Yuni-Con this year
I want to visit the grave of my grandpa, and one day doesn't sound enough for
But I will go to Aninite, and Hanami
And Lori-Con

Maybe Austrian Comic-con too

Might go as Gregor Eisenhorn

>>10948332
Bring grandpa to Yuni-Con

>>10948353
>imagine Phil at the anime porn con dude holy shit

>>10948353
Well yeah, it is a Halloween themed Con, so bringing a skeleton would make sense
But I doubt my family would be ok with that
And I doubt the con would be for my grandpa

Tsumicon Vegas was fucking wild this weekend. Witchyhime rode horse dildos infront of a group of people while cosplaying as some girl from an asanagi doujin

>>10948663
I wish I wasn't in the middle of moving into a new house so I could've gone.

>>10948663
Well damn, wish I had seen that. Closest I saw was a lap dance at one of the meet and greet booths.

Has there really been a "big rise" in these? I've heard of maybe a half dozen of these, tops. A few in Cali, the one in Vegas, and the one in TX. Is there a list of a bunch of these anywhere?
I haven't heard of any of these anywhere near me (northeast/mid-atlantic region).

>>10948717
Last time I posted the pic (no nudity) it got removed. Guess janitors thought it wasn't a cosplay because she removed the wig idk.

Very glad I went. Wish I was brave enough to use one of the dildos on her like other people did.

>>10948730
Post on one of the NSFW boards maybe? I've got a whole bunch of lewd cosplay from Taiwanese cons that I've gotten off Telegram groups and could contribute to a thread.

>>10944084
>I think one of those prostitues even has a video of the whole thing on porhub, so no, it's not a rumor.
Do you expect me to believe you without posting a source?

>>10942128
stuff like picrel on the left is a normal sighting at dokomi

>>10944084
>It's kind of sad, but if a unpopular cosplayer does ero cosplay here, chances are is that she's indeed, a prostitute.
We've reached a point where popular streaming groups have girls who are the designated slut who makes porn and fucks the streamers, this is nothing new. And to be fair, ero cosplayers were always separate from people who cosplay for fun.

We have one near me that I always want to go to, but it's over the weekend of my wedding anniversary and my wife isn't as interested in attending.

That and the amount of hard drugs I've heard about, it sounds like this con won't last much longer...

>>10940346 (OP)
If its 18+ its 18+. Ecchi having its own meaning in the west is so retarded. Like just call it ero cosplay. People still lack respect like >>10946065. This why I think its a bad idea to have special 18+ conventions. Society isn't ready for it yet.

>>10940368
Oh shut the fuck up, let us at least have something in this shitty era were living in atm

Nobody said that you should come to those. Way more and worse degenerate stuff out there for a longer time and nobody has said a word either

>>10942136
Nah, its just one room. People there are really nice and chill though and its mostly just nsfw artists

>>10940346 (OP)
there was one recently in my country (ecuador) sadly I couldn't attend but there were lots of girls wearing string lingerie cosplays. wonder if anime or OF are to blame for the rise of these types of cosplayers, not like I'm complaining but a few years ago cosplaying meant being a weirdo, now some péople might think you're an OF girl instead

>>10949517
i'm also from south america but girls have been thotting it up at cons basically since anime got really popular at the late 90s. this ain't new, onlyfans just gives them a platform but it's not like weeb girls were a bit sluttier than the average girl.

>>10949570
weren't a bit sluttier*

>there's an ecchi con in Alabama of all places

>>10949615
>there's an ecchi con in Alabama of all places
>Really finding that weird when cousin fucking is a hobby for them

>>10949617
Holy based !

>ecchi expo thread
>anons having a mental breakdown over the most entry level fetishes
No wonder this board is dead

>>10948663
>Witchyhime rode horse dildos
like actual penetration?

>>10948769
it pops out if you search ah con on pornhub or xvideos

hentai matsuri is around the corner for those of us in san diego, what are you waiting for?

>>10940346 (OP)
hmmmm.....

>>10940346 (OP)
>for some reason they still have everyone wear pasties and no one wants to be nude like a porn convention. (perhaps that is the "ecchi" part
Yeah. Duh. Ecchi is softcore, implication of parts sure but almost never full showing. If you want full on nudity, as you said, you want porn/hentai conventions, not ecchi. Your brain is whats being contradictory here.

>>10954354
going to be the pedant here and point that technically thats only the sterilized western borrowed context of it. it means full blown erotic nudity and suggestiveness, just maybe without sexual acts

I haven't been to one, but I do like the idea of just not having to censor oneself because children may be around. That means lewd figures, doujinshi and hentai manga, hentai panels all the day, and so forth. I'd even want it to be 21+ to allow for better alcohol access and not having to have any worries with that. I guess excluding 18, 19, and 20 year olds would cut about a bit too much of the core demographic though?

>>10944084
I see what you mean about the literal sex workers. I'd hope they'd at least have good cosplay, the fun of these cons is actually liking the shows and games.

>>10954354
I feel like the distinction between an ecchi anime con and a porn convention is that the focus would still be on Japanese media, and not just seeing OF creators selling themselves.

>>10954354
>>10954448
"Ecchi" is literally just the Japanese pronunciation of "H," as in "hentai," and just means "perverted" or "lewd" without implying hardcore or softcore. It's also not used much in Japan anymore, "ero" is much more common.

>>10950137
those sites' search sucks and I get nothing

>>10954551
I found a Sailor Jupiter with no panties flashing her pussy, but I think that's unrelated.

>>10954547
i was doing to make the comparison to ero, but ultimately ive seen plenty of nipple and cunny associated with those terms on japanese sites in the past

Is hentai matsuri like cosholic where it's more organized with known cosplayers and tables and upfront pricing or is it more like comiket or anime expo where everyone is just standing around shilling their onlycucks.

>>10954553
I know that one but it's fake as fuck, I mean clearly at a con but it's some porn chick doing it as a job, not cause she's actually into it. It sucks, girls going commando in cosplay at a con makes me diamonds and I've gotten flashed IRL like that before but never been able to get any of my gfs to do it and there's pretty much zero amateur material of it online except some Asian stuff where it's only sorta amateur cause they've all got OFs or Fantias or whatever.

>>10940346 (OP)
Curse

>>10941320
You rarely just got a free house throughout recorded history, you know. The concept of work is not new and didn't even start with agriculture. You really are spoiled beyond belief.