Anime NYC is the largest anime convention on the East Coast, in the biggest city in the US. Many technical and complex cosplays and lots of skimpy cosplays in this one.

When: AUG. 21 – 24, 2025
Where: JAVITS CONVENTION CENTER

Boring as fuck con that ends before 11pm

>>10950403
I was thinking about going to this one, why's it boring?

>>10950404

I'm just being a curmudgeon. It's fine. If you're within an hour it's a no brainer.

>>10950400 (OP)

Used to be good when it was still NYAF.

>>10951302
>The New York Anime Festival was an anime and manga convention held annually from 2007 to 2011

What happened?

Boy, I can’t wait to deal with narcissistic instagram cosplayers, the Chinese taking up half the entrance for their garbage photoshoots, obnoxious women on 4 antidepressants thinking every guy is trying to hit on them, crappy booths, sold out plamo, and no signal!

>>10953252
>narcissistic instagram cosplayers
The ones with their bodyparts showing? I'm ok with that.
>>10953252
>Chinese taking up half the entrance for their garbage photoshoots
How's this any different from any other event?
>>10953252
>crappy booths, sold out plamo, and no signal
Yeah you're right about that

>>10951427
The New York Anime Festival was run by Reedpop (who runs New York Comic Con). When Reedpop established C2E2, they moved New York Comic Con to the fall. NYCC not only took NYAF's 'time slot', it absorbed/integrated NYAF into NYCC (first year on the merge, the anime/manga vendors were in 'NYAF' marked aisles/areas, then they outright eliminated any mention of NYAF). Leftfield Media runs Anime NYC; and a bunch of former people involved with NYCC and Reedpop were involved in the formation/operation of Anime NYC.

Just bought a 4 day pass, what am I in for?

Don't bother waiting in the enormous line to get in that will wrap around for blocks, just go straight to the intersection of 34th & 12th where the bollards are and walk past whatever staff may or may not be there. Instead of taking hours to get in you walk right to security.

I remember a few years ago there was a lad in a full Gundam costume at this.

>>10950403

More like it ends at 6pm. The second the sun dips low, people leave.

>>10950404

It's a con with a vendor hall and artist alley and nothing else. All the panels are ads. If you aren't buying something or consuming advertising, they will do everything to push you out of the con asap.

>4 day con
>open for 29 total hours

kek

>>10953861
New York gets real dangerous after dark

>>10953871
Maybe in the 1980's, but now it's been completely commercialized and stripped of any sharp edges. Although in retrospect I did see a bunch of black dudes livestreaming themselves beating the shit out of a dude two blocks from the convention center while walking to the subway last ComicCon.

>>10953872
You're off the mark, it did get safer since the 80s but the last 5 years crime has began to rise a lot again, I've had tons of friends who grew up working in the city stop and completely uproot their lives because of it

>>10950400 (OP)
> dress like slut
> NOT A SLUT!
what the fuck do you want?
ignored

>>10953872
>Although in retrospect I did see a bunch of black dudes livestreaming themselves beating the shit out of a dude two blocks from the convention center while walking to the subway last ComicCon.
Point and case. Go home before dark or suffer the consequences of NY at night.

Is New York eternally cursed to have shit cons?

>>10954377
New York is eternally cursed in general.

damn thread is dead, guess no one is going

>>10954607
That’s cause
>chinese fobs use chinese sns
>blacks, mystery meats, and their simps are on discord being edgy pdf’s
>redditors are on their home base
You’re likely to see regulars a month from now, likely that one hoodrat who insists he gets girls socials every time he asks.
And anyone doubting him is tryna keep a nword soft a down.

>>10954707
I don't browse this board much but I always assumed it was mostly used by fat white women

I'm going as Tatsuya Suou, who am I seeing?

>Hotel I want to stay at is sold out for only Friday but not Thursday/Saturday
it's...over...

>>10955326
which hotel?

People talk shit about ANYC where you can watch multiple world premieres and then say Otakon is amazing when some retard stumbles through a powerpoint and they can't figure out the audio in a panel.

>>10955897

Both have bad panels, Premieres are pointless when everything leaks or can be pirated early. But Otakon has parties and ANYC has what exactly?

>>10955928
If you care about vtubers, the biggest vtuber event in America. If you don't IDK because that's what I'm there for. Also Otakon parties are ass I went to a few at Soundcheck and they weren't even on the level of the Rave when it was in Baltimore. If you're watching leaks of premires early you're just cucking yourself and then wondering why you have nothing to do kek.

hang out with the most stuck up uppidy assholes there are besides sports fans
no fucking thank you
couldn't find a more horrid group of people if you tried, just used nycc to buy playmats

>>10954368
Keep your hands to yourself, Rajesh.

>>10953872
NYC , now expect more apes & illegals surrounding the con to rob & beat whoever they think they can beat for fun, hopefully they target the wrong nerd who is packing heat and shoot some of this scum for good
New York is a big piece of shit , over priced, over taxed , over crowded

I was considering going since I'm in the area but this thread combined with the fact that I have no friends or con experience makes me real nervous. Is the venture worth it for a noob liek me