"One Week to go" editionJanuary 09-12 2025Long Beach Convention Center, CA.https://animelosangeles.org/Badges are now $100 for full weekendCosplans?Ribbons?Parties? Panels? Post here!
I'm still hoping a room opens up
>>10944513I am too shy to room with strangers so I'm dealing with the cost of having a double bed all to myself
I done fucked up and couldn't get any close hotel so I'm staying a couple of miles away and getting an uber.
>>10944505Sunday I'll just repeat something
>>10944528Bring some friends who normally wouldnt go to a con and expose them to a fun time
Do people from the East Coast really come to this shit show?
BAN ALL VTUMOR COSPLAYERS. VTUMOR IS NOT ANIME!
>>10944614Send them to my room. I'll deal with them.
>>10944614BAU BAU
>>10944613Is it really THAT bad? t. East Coast who's been curious but still never went
>>10944632People compare it to Katsucon.
>>10944620VTUMOR SHIT DOES NOT BELONG AT ANIME CONVENTIONS!
>>10944649How so? Cuz I went once and thought people really overrated it but Katsu was fine enough
>>10944650neither do Chinese gacha games but here we are.
I wish I was able to experience the LAX Marriott era of ALA
>>10944652Genshin and Nikke is alright with me. Vtuber shit is not anime.
Still F5ing the hotel page
>>10944688Just rent a van and camp across the street at Marina Green Park.
>>10944505>ANIME LOS ANGELES 2025Imagine the smell.
>>10944632Its mad fun idk why people would talk shit
>>10944655Those days were so peak. Nothing will be able to capture the insanity and charm like those years
I'M GONNA FUCKING BOOK A ROOM AT THE FULL RATE AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
who is the alleged stalker that the femoids keep whining about in the fb group???
>>10944817Me
>>10944817That could be literally anyone with a functioning penis
2 more days or something
Anyone who is going might want to join the Matrix room at #los-angeles:matrix.netho.tk.
>another fire going on in California during a conGood to know Long Beach is safe but shit
ONE MORE DAY
>>10944954Cancel ALA! Rich people and multi-million dollar homes are more important than weeb shit.
I hope we have running water during the con
My brother is a fire alarm dispatcher in LA. He's going to be busy today.
Which hotel ya got?
Air quality is shit right now in Long Beach and there is ash falling. ALA needs to be canceled!
>>10944969picture? evidence? proof of claim?
A FIRE JUST FLEW OVER MY HOUSE
>>10944970Go outside ffs.
doomkeks btfothe show must go on
>>10944974I don't see any fires or ash here its too cold and icy out
>>10944975Wait until tomorrow morning when you wake up and the con is canceled due to the poor air quality.
>>10944977lollmao
I know a few people who are contacting ALA about rolling over their badge to next year since they had to be evacuated. One of them even contaced me that they made it safely to their evac center.
CANCEL ALA! PEOPLE ARE LOSING THEIR HOMES AND LIVELIHOODS AND YOU WANT TO PLAY DRESS UP AT THIS TIME?
same nigga attentionwhoring every AX and ALA
any oldfags still go?
>>10944996I'm a man. I'm 40.
>>10944975Very inconsiderate of ALA to keep the show going when a third of LA is currently on fire.
Doomers are the least powerful, most pathetic race on Earth
>>10945024The show must go on. Wildfires in CA are more common than earthquakes.
>>10945032>The show must go on2 people are dead. Thousands of people evacuated and likely homeless with only the clothes and items they could carry, but let's keep a silly weeb gathering going just 50 miles away while fellow Angelinos are suffering.
>>10945033Yes. Times of crises like this is when citizens need their bread and circuses the most.
How the fuck are people who are escaping the fires able to get rooms at the Hyatt Regency?
>>10945032>The show must go on.Not so fast my friend. I'm sure pic related is going to pull out some shelter-in-place bullshit.
>>10945037
femgulls name your price
You done packing yet?
>>10945046no I'm being slow because I took tomorrow off for the flight. unfortunately no time limit makes me procrastinate
>>10945048You're flying for ALA?
>>10945051Yes and I look forward to taking cool air shots of the burning californian wreckage
Look there is a duality here. 1. You cancel the anime convention because of events that could be a problem already and honestly might be a larger clusterfuck from the people traveling with no place to stay/etc. or the superior option - 2.Dress as FireForce members and/or villains and get some fucking amazing pics.
Couldn't make it this year. I'm gonna be 32 next year and far too old for parties at this point. It's over.
why does ALA feel so dead this year, even the thread is dead
>>10945089/cgl/ in general is dead. zoomers went to discord.
>ALA 4chan anons
>>10944817every male at the con.
this will be my first ALA. please treat me gently
>>10945088I'm 35, protip lots of aging weeb millenials who are lonely as fuck so its easier then ever to make friends.
>>10945097Sure bby
>ALA getting "flamed" right now on social media for not announcing a rollback option to next year fir those affected by the fires>Air quality in LBC is going to be ass all weekend Just cancel the con ffs.
>>10945103they wont cancel until the venue forces it orherwise they will lose money. I dont think the babies whining on socials realize how any of this works.
>>10945088I'm 23 and have never been to a convention party in my 12 years of attending these things. You don't need them to have fun, I think
>>10945107It's going to come from county government officials or Gruesome Newsom himself.
>>10945113>until the venue forces ityes anon, and the venue wont lose money until forced.ill be going.
>>10945109Also 23 and haven't been to any
>>10945115>>1094510923 is young and id say to have fun and go to con parties but it seems zoomies dont really do that as much. when I was 23 (over 15 years ago) you could room party hop the entire night any con and it was fun as fuck.
>Mfw there are cosplayers that live in these upper class LA communities that are burning right now
>>10945103>"flamed"LOL!!>>10945088A slightly more fair point, since you're not saying>I just finished high school, and now I'm an old man with old man dutiesbut at the same time, con party goers aren't the same demographic at all. It's noticeably older, sometimes I (32 now) feel like the baby of the bunch>>10945116>it seems zoomies dont really do that as muchAnd this is exactly why
>>10945089>why does ALA feel so dead this yearDay 0 and many con goers having to flee their homes from the fires. This ALA is going to be ass.
>>10945118>It's noticeably older, sometimes I (32 now) feel like the baby of the bunchweeb cons are just slowly turning into how olf scifant cons were with the avg age being 40+ and 300lb.
>>10945120Small, local ones definitely aren't. Those are overrun with really young 'he/they's". I don't even see big guy's for you at the big ones that much, either. Or maybe it's just an illusion, since they're everywhere at western events. Either way, those guys would still be cooler to hang with than TTG fags + there's a definite archetype for the older party going con guy>Slender>Hawaiian shirt>some facial hair>a perpetual, but deliberate goofy expression
TODAY IS THE DAY
>>10945126ALA 2025 IS CANCELLED
>>10945121why would you call me out like this, its not my fault college age girls with daddy issues love those things.
Holy fuck look at that smog
>>10945120>weeb cons are just slowly turning into how olf scifant cons were with the avg age being 40+ and 300lb.Good. Let's make sure we gatekeep properly this time around.
>>10945118I never minded hanging with people older than me, but I'm not nor was ever the party-type. Maybe other zoomers are turning out like that as well
>>10945117Sounds like good gofundme money from their followers
im not a resident of the southern part of CA but is this their equivalent to fanimecon? Interesting parallel.
Bloatware...
Will there be any meetups?
>>10945130While not sure what was meant by this, it wasn't a judgment fren>>10945134I'd say so. Its something I could see even before lockdowns and the oldest zoomies were still in school. The biggest divider seems to be their preference for weed over booze
>Pro photographers are banned from the LBCCKEK, couldn’t happen to a better bunch
Join the ballroom dance
>>10944655I definitely liked the mid-sized con energy of early ALA. I'm kind of afraid it will turn into AX 2.0 in the future.
>>10945055It's an hour drive if you want to see it in person.
>>10945150What?
I'm poorfagging super hard this year with the invention of buying every Comic LO I come across
>>10945158>Invention I'm phonefagging too, if it isn't obvious. Damn XT9
If this was Anime Expo, you fuckers would be calling for the SPJA's heads for going ahead with the show and not canceling it when LA is on fire.
>>10945164No, because I'm not a whiny lib that demands everything stop so the attention can be on themselves
>>10945158ive never once seen a LO comic sold at any con in america but i would too fren
Evan warning cancelled, someone's getting fired.
Family is discouraging me from going on saturday because of the fireIsnt long beach a bit far
>>10945172Yes
>>10945172It's fine besides the shitty air.
>>10945089Far as I'm concerned, ever sincw they introduced Day 1, I always see it as a glorified Day 0.
>>10945172I think long beach is pretty safe. It'd have to be a new fire popping up to cause actual concern to the con. Not impossible though but wind is expected to slow down after today.
Heads up, the "free" CD scam is back.
>>10945177i just avoid any nod that interacts with me outside any con
I got invited 2 orgies.
>>10945172long beach is one of the omly areas not in a red zone for 100 miles lmao.
>>10945178>>10945177just avoid nigs and you wont have a issue. imagine relaxing when darkies are around.
How slutty are people dressed this year? Last year's ALA was pretty disappointing in that department (mostly because it was cold as fuck)
Think it will be more active tomorrow?
>>10945189Lucky
The zoomer obsession with Fred Durst is amazing
>>10945189Well I was invited to two GAY orgies
Need to fuck
>>10945204How loose is your butthole?
>>10944655It was amazing. I went to ALA 2012 and we partied so hard and everyone was so nice. I heard the zoomer crowd is more clique.
First time exhibiting at ALA. Is it gonna pick up over the weekend?
>>10945208it should but i heard some people are staying because of the fire
>>10945206There's nothing clique-y about this. Maybe the removed parties are the problem
>>10945151I'd really like to someday if I get someone to bring with
How do I get invited into parties?
>>10945211I went by myself
No luck today
Any girly sluts (femboys included) wanna be friends and get drunk on sugary booze tomorrow?
WTF, someone stole my underwear!
>Everyone in Long Beach got a notification on their phone to evacuate due to the fires>Con didn't shut down immediately >No one fled the area>Americans
>>10945224It was a false alarm. Who's laughing now?
>>10945224
>Doom FUD with a nice side of ObsessionMaybe it'll pay off one day (it won't)
>>10945224kys
I'm crusin around chilling
How's the crowd looking?
This ALA is shit>Lack of good vendors>Shit artists>Inconsistent prop weapon checks>Didn't shut down con when notifications for evacuations went out>Ugly cosplayers>Asthma attack from the bad air quality >Spent most of Day 1 in my room to not get sick and die
>>10945243>Didn't shut down con when notifications for evacuations went outHow much longer will you be a schizo about this?
>>10945243Such a fucking crying liberal
>>10945246Aren't all CA cosplayers lefty libs?
>>10945247Sure but I have hope most aren't the walking stereotype of a far left liberal that used to only exist on the internet
>>10945216Posts like these won't go anywhere because anons are too afraid to show their faces.Hoping to pick someone up at the Plaza tonight to help me spitroast my girlfriend.
>>10945254Sounds like a job for a fat ugly bastard like myself
>>10945209Yeah it's pretty dead in my corner of the convention. I'm by the itashas and it's completely fucking empty.I don't think I'll be coming back unless we get a good spot next year...
>>10945244>>10945246>>10945247>>10945253>schizo>liberal>left libs>far left liberal"False flagging faggot who probably isn't even there at all"
>>10945257Oh but I am. I walk the halls around you.
>>10945254It used to work a bit better back before cgl turned into such a ghost town. I got Ecstasy and Viagra to share too if you wanna party. When/what part of the plaza y'all gonna be hanging around
So can you not change input on the hyatt tvs? Tryna switch here
who /alone/ here? does anyone want to meet up with an oldfag and get food tonight? I'm buying.
>>10945259Probably wherever the smoke circle will be because people who blaze tend to be the most chill
> all the good cosplayers are doing photoshootsFugg
>>10945262I might. What time are you eating?
WORST ALA EVER!
>>10945267I'm having a lot of fun
>>10945268no you arent
>>10945269YUH HUH
>>10945268Brown bricks.
Any other cons like this with ribbons?
just got laughed away from trading ribbons because I was 35 oldbros..
>>10945273I'm 39...on life support here. The ravages of age
>>10945273No you didn't.
I couldn't make it this year Please have fun everyone
>>10945276Nooooooooo. OK. If i must....drank a (4oko)
>give anon a room>"oh sorry I get paid friday if that's fine">okay sure>still not paid>hey anon can you pay me>I GOTTA GO FIND AN ATM>haven't seen himI'm getting played ain't I
>>10945278Nope you aintonly ever allow randos to room if they pay BEFORE the con
>>10945279Dude said he goes to cons all the time in florida so I figured he was good for it... I probably just lost him in this clusterfuck layout.
>>10945267It's kind of lacking but I'd argue the one during lockdown was worse.
ALA Karaoke = Wicked songs
>>10945284Post if someone named "meatwad" is on the queue
>>10945284"Karafun" is fucking cancerous bullshit, zoomers need to learn how to use an aux cable
deadest friday nightlife I ever seen
>>10945288ALA on friday night is always dead
Are the Cosplay Deviants people lining up to see even more women in Playboy Bunny outfits than the ones already walking around?
>>10945291HOLY HAMPLANET BATMAN
As someone who's gone to every single one of the ALA slutty cosplay contests...this was easily the shittiest one so far
Why the fuck are there 2 party gatherings? One outside registration and one on the othet side between the LBCC and Hyatt Regency? That's some high school clique shit right there.
I wanna kick the guitar faggot on the second story off the railing
>fountain con completely deadplease tell me it'll pick up tomorrow
I hate myself for taking a Lime scooter 2 miles. $15. More expensive than a taxi. Kind of fun at least but what a ripoff.
Only the tifa/aerith duo and zzz trio are good. The rest is meh, feels like a generic stripper show
> all the bunny girl cosplayers I wanted pictures of were busyFugg.
Ok whats up with these robotech panels, there’s like five of them, they book the biggest rooms and everytime i go there its like 5 guys in the audience. So sad
>>10945300They moved it to outside registration in front of the LBCC.
Is there a discord for ALA? what's the word around there?
>>10945313The word is "go fuck yourself"
>>10945302Some of the guys were funny, and one looked like he walked off the set of the Dragostea Din Tei music video
Social battery used up. Staying in room all day.
This event sucks. I hate interacting people in-person.
>>10945302Any video?
Need a goonsesh
>>10945325Are you a cute girl?
why are there a lot of troons
>tfw you spend all ALA in the AMV room alone
>>10945331The real question is why are they such prudes who won't let me grope them
lord i occasionally go to LA but never long beach.Good lord what is that slog from the 405 exit to the actual convention
>>10945336https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZb9Hv0hQY4&t=108
> Panty and Stocking cosplayers pole dancing in publicInto the spank bank you go.
>Tfw my next con isn't until AXIt's going to be a long 6 months.
>>10945344Work on another costume
>>10945343Vids?
Rate this ala/10
fuck I saw a cute Emilia cosplayer with huge tits but I didn’t get to ask for a picture…
Why are all the performing Cosplay Deviants fat?
>>109453497/10Good times, good cosplays, good layout, panels were meh, scheduling was weird, and vendors were meh
I wish I wasn't awkward and could actually like talk to the cute Remilia cosplayer and not just ask for a picture. Like hey worst case we just end up as civil con 2hu mutuals. But nope, always gotta spaghetti and run away, sad!
The "Anime Memes" panel was half unavoidable GRIDS and half genuine fun.I never thought I'd desupost IRL here
>>10945355There were biofem 2hu cosplayers?
>>10945358Touhou panel had a few but didn't see a Remilia there.
This was my first time at a mid sized anime con and i had so much fun. I wish i could stay a bit more.I’m definitely going to AX this year Pic related is a personal highlight for me
Its over...
>>10945369Truly
>>10945334They should make a clear high viz ribbon to put on their badge that gives us the all clear to grope them in public
>Sudden surge of Ranma cosplayers this year
>>10945378Hmmmm its like there was a remake anime recently, not that im complaining about ranma because its one of my all time favorites.MHA, JJk, Demon slayer ending sure brought actualy diversity in cosplay.
>>10945201Fred Durst is a God among men and the 90s will never die.
The party van is here
>>10945380hoyoverse gacha plague is stinger than ever though fml
Surprised me to see at the contest that ALA hasn't reached 20k attendees yet, because it felt larger
There's no way any of these vendors can break even, right?
>>10945386If i see a character that has too many bells and whistles ill assume its from genshin/honkai
>go to premiere of new Watanabe anime Lazarus>loud as fuck dudebro sitting in the very front talking like he's in MST3K during the while introduction
>>10945397How come fucking watanabe cant fill one panel room? Are the nu anime crowd this young now?
>>10945400they're holding it on the last day past the check out time for the hotels
>>10945401oof
>Rumor mill going around that ALA may not renew contract with the LBCCAnaheim Convention Center it is! Who's ready for AOC?
>>10945307ALA trying to become AX : winter ed.Invite good jpn guests, but no one goes to their panels. Invite a large amount of dub whos, who sit around sadly next to booths selling knock off temu merch and prize figs.ALA is a one day con for ribbons and AA unless you are there to cosplay in a group. This year was really lacking for some reason.
Great con. Had a lotta fun. I was in cosplay 3/4 days and they need those cool photoshoot backdrops / sets where cosplayers can take pics. Like the ones at AX or something. Cosplayers love taking pics in those. It always seems that the places to get good pictures are limited unless you get creative.
>>10945419You do not want that. The entire section will just get taken over by chinks
>>10945411>This year was really lacking for some reasonin crowds?
>>10945425>taken over by chinks Its an anime con, chinks are kinda the reason we're there?
>>10945425Pretty sure it would still be cool. I have fun using them at AX.Just punch Genshin cosplayers in the head if they hog the set for more than 5 min
>>10945425It'll give them a designated spot to infest instead of taking up random spots in hallways and stairwells (they still will but not as much)
Official pose of the con
Based ALA security made this con unejoyable.
>>10945434The security was mad funnyLet me in multiple times with unpeacebound weapons, dranks, and they never check the small pockets on bags.One security bitch tried to hassle me about a piece of my cosplay that was weapon shaped and ig the supervisor that was standing right there was a fat black dude who was just like "naw stop trippin, he good. Thats part of the cosplay"
>>10945407I hope this aint true. I hate the Anaheim Con Center. Whats the reasoning for not renewing? Source of your info?
con called anime los angeles isnt in los angeles city
>>10945444LACC is too expensive for ALA. Pasadena is too small. LBCC is fine. Let it stay in LA County.
>>10945407Just like AX was for sure leaving to go to the Anaheim Convention Center, right faggot?
>>10945393most of the vendors are just trying to get outreach.Our booth didn't do very well this year but we still made our table back. The people selling candles and shit have got to be money laundering or they are just retarded
Ribbon haul
>Open spaces every whereDid vendors dropped out?
>>10945419We had those back in the Ontario location. No idea why it was never brought back.
what's the next LA locals con?
First con I've been to, was pretty fun but I spent so much of my time there competing against others at DDR. Shout out to whoever was that Princess Peach cosplayer, she was kicking my ass
>>10945482The arcade is kinda lacking. No drs when anime impulse have it
>>10945481anime impulse LA
>>10945434the funniest shit is ive worked for allied security, those scanners and shit do nothing. lit just random beep every X times. security theater. also they cant legally open your bags and rifle around, they are suppose to use like a metal rod and you can decline them spreading their hand germs in your shit. but they hire -200iq retards so lol.
>>10945463I think i saw a vendor just selling plain old jewellery
>>10945489the scanners they had at ALA were ass. I've seen them used at other events like EVO and the crowd flowed through without ever needing to stop, it was rare for someone to get called out.
>>10945574the scanners are all a sham. they require a ton of energy + someone who knows what they are doing not some stoner retard. its amazing how many people believe security accomplishes jack shit.
>>10945582One year at AX i walked thru the metal detectors in cosplay with a full metal airsoft pistol under a cape I had and I was so sure it was gonna get confiscated. When i walked thru it didnt beep. Turn around and see the metal detector plug was just laying on the ground next to the socket.>mfw
Every bikini cosplayer was fat.
Who was the retard vendor selling $40 used keychains, I think they were near the huge open space by the itasha cars.
>>10945602>used keychainshow? are they like japan exclusives
First time attending ALA, went the full 4 days. Played a bunch of mahjong, rhythm games, checked out panels, cosplay gatherings and the ribbon gimmick was a lot more fun than I thought it'd be.I've gone to AX previously and I thought the general ambience in ALA was better, less packed as well. Is there anything else aside from industry presence that AX fares better at?
This is a 4 day convention?Should be 3
>>10945612Jpop J rock artists Aidoru
ALA should have still been canceled.
>>10945613I liked it being 4, even arriving on Thursday it felt like a really long weekend where typically thursday is a slow boring chill and drink day during 3day cons.
>>10945649keep seething
>Day 0 was a week agoTake me back...
>>10945612The Industry panels that are glorified shitty commercials are what makes AX dogshit
>>10945692I love how people here insist those should be the only panels and that any fan panel is stupid and cringe
>AX delays badge and hotel sales by 2 weeks due to the fires>ALA didn't cancel
>>10945739>>>/r/ope
I didn't get laid. Again.
>>10945739why would ala cancel lol
>>10945756You must understand, zoomers are illogical.
>>10945763While this is true, you're also applying too much sincerity to an insincere doomer (the least powerful, most pathetic race on earth)
who was the shadman with the trans cape I know you're in here mother fucker
>>10945770It was Shadman...obviously
>>10945763I was there and i didnt even see a puff of smokeits like people didnt learn from COVID that you cant just cancel events spontaneously without the risked of being sued
