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

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!

>>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.

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>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
> 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

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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

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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

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Me and my girlfriend are going as our first con ever, hope its decent
>>10956412
Bit dramatic, just don't wander the city at night and you're fine

I went to otakon this year as my first con, got excited and looked into more shit and now I see this con ends at 7pm on a Friday? There's no way man. Stuff at otakon was going on until 2am the next day then started back up at 8. Is it really because NYC is dangerous? My new standard for cons is otakon, so I dont know what to expect from other places.

>>10950400
Anime NYC is such fucking trash, man.

>>10956117
>If you care about vtubers
lol
No. I'm an anime fan, not a parasocial gambling addict.

Not really an anime fan, but I'm having a super depressing summer (mourning a loss) and my friend is trying to convince me to pop out for this to cheer me up. People like cosplay other things right?

>>10959001
Nah you don't have to cosplay anime. Go with your friend and cosplay as one of your favourite characters from a movie or video game or something. You'll have a great time I'm sure.

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Great con for prostitutes

>>10958995
VTubers aren't gacha retard.

>>10958987

It ends early because they want you gone so they don't have to pay the people working there. This is corporate, no-fun-allowed, no-party con. which is the exact opposite of Otakon. Otakon is shit in other ways, though.

>>10950400
fucking onlyfans advertisement campaigns irl
when will it stop?

>>10959299
>Otakon is shit in other ways, though.
may I ask in what ways? I have not been there before

>>10956412
You can tell this is some suburbian kid from middle america typing out his fantasies, those "vendors" are harmless, you literally just have to look like you don't take anyone's shit and you're fine

>>10954368
This might surprise you but the girl in the photo isn't the one who put the sign there.
I've told this story before but I think she might be the same girl who openly told me she would've been down to fuck if she hadn't known I was interested until the last day of the con. Definitely the same costume, looked similar, and was from NY.

> didn't get into the signing for tsuda
Time to cancel

I don't understand what the thursday is for. It starts a 4pm and it's only 4-5 hours for 50$. I guess its just supposed to lighten the load on friday morning?

Are (You) planning to go to any of the Hololive shows?
>go back, ew vtubers, fuck off, etc...
That stuff runs Friday night, Saturday evening, and Sunday evening, so anybody who is mostly there for vtuber stuff will probably clear out by like 3PM on the biggest days of the weekend.
Whether that makes the vendor hall a ghost town or just lets the con breathe a little I have no idea.

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>Jojo and BL pannels at the exact same time as the AMV contest on friday
Where the organizers retarted? Why did they schedule two of the three pannels that I wanted to attend like this
To anyone whos been to AnimeNYC: do the AMVs shown use niggerbabble music? When i think of an AMV i still think of shit like three days grace and disturbed, but the N in NYC stands for NIGGER, so i dont want to be lured into the jungle based off my pretenses of good culture

>>10954377
Everything besides the night life and the amount of specialty stores in the city fucking sucks. Anyone with a brain is moving upstate or somewhere half way across the country.

>>10950400
Excited to go to one of the best cons in the country

its only been 1 day and its already a banger

>>10953811
Oh yeah, that was pretty great. I'll see if I can't find the photo I took of him.

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>Friend bailed on me last minute so ended up not going

>>10959554
I'll go with you

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Is New York the bad state? What gives?

>>10959576
It's gotten really bad the last 5 years

The crane game spot is charging $10 for 5 tokens to win fake figures

I enjoy this convention but core issue still persists doesn't seem to be a lot to do when you look past the surface

>>10959558
>>10959554
did you guys meet up and become friends?

>>10959576
Walgreens and CVS have everything on lockdown thanks to certain people.

>>10959597
Can't even buy a water or deodorant

>>10953872
oh my sweet summer child

I was just there
I bought a couple of hentai books
Played Mahjong
All the panels are kinda boring
It's really catered to women and friend groups
As a lone single guy, not cosplaying anything I was bored as shit

The games booths were kinda cool though

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>>10959456
I don't understand what the purpose is?
They all just crowded together and yelled
>YIPPEE
at the anime girls on the screen for an hour

Actually explain it to me, why would anyone line up for hours for this

>>10959576
>50% of the entire attendants are Nigga's in Naruto headbands and Akatsuki cloaks
I'm surprised there wasn't a mass causality event DESU

Anyone going Saturday looking to bum around? Im thinking of going but none of my friends are around. I am not obese or smelly (if you are its cool though)

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>>10959609
SeriousMainEmail123@proton.me

here's my email if anyone is interested, going to try to sleep but I'll check it by 11am

>>10959605
>>10959558
If you anons are still around see
>>10959610

>>10959610
Ignore this

>>10959606
thats vtuber culture for you

How has this not turned into a gooner thread??

>$45 for a Glowstick
Is this fair?

>>10959606
It's called having fun, you remember how to have fun, right anon?

>>10959630
What is fun about it? Actually asking

>>10959639
parasocial relationships

>>10959641
How can you have that when there are thousands upon thousands of other sweaty weebs around you
What is the relationship, it's not like she knows you.
Talking to an Ai would be infinitely more social

>>10959623
I went and didn't get laid, so out of jealousy i'm suppressing all coom posts

>>10959645
How do you get laid

>>10959651
find a girl thats desperate for attention and give her attention
the lewder the cosplay the more attention she wants

>>10959643
the same way people develop parasocial relationships to streamers, local teams, and celebrities lol

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>>10959630
This format of asking a smug loaded question is embarrassing enough. You took it to another level. Christ almighty

>>10959651
Lift up your armpit and let them smell your pheromones. I couldn't do it because my costume blocked my pits :(

Is anything open in this garbage city!?

>>10959494
lol

>>10959001
Please don't go.
We don't need assholes like you cosplaying non-Japanese stuff and ruining everyone's good time.

>>10959660
1 dollar pizza shops

Saw a Chris Chan cosplayer and he was spinning around and whatnot.
Anyone get a pic of him?

>>10959666
Why didn't you get the pic coward?

>>10959667
I have autism

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>>10959668
>Smoke crack
>lose cowardice
>???
>Profit!

>>10959669
Thanks for your sarcasm Mr. Homo.

>>10959668
Help me make my Chris Chan cosplay and you can be my Sonichu next year

i dont use instagram but i still have it
i took pics with a cosplayer
we followed each other, she asked me to send her the pics later
i got home and tried to dm it to her
her dms have disabled image sending
am i missing something

>>10959675
she probably forgot she had it off don't read too much into it

Anyone get that umbreon with the fat ass making tiktoks everywhere?

How popular is Apothecary Diaries? Everywhere I turn, there is sone cosplaying as Mao Mao?

Im curious what the final attendance count will be

>>10959699
120,000+

It's so fucking crowded you can't breathe
My best experience was playing mahjong

Having never been to this and being out of state, it seems like a hell of a trek to make but also would be nice to experience just once, but it also seems like people have pointed out you're just going for vendors and to sight see. Is the surrounding area worth seeing after the con closes for the day?

>>10959704
As a NYC resident, no. Manhattan fucking sucks dick unless you're some yuppy hipster who enjoys drinking overpriced IPA's. Wait 2-3 years when prostitutes become legal.

>>10959704
NYC is one of the worst cities in terms of things to do. Everything is needlessly expensive, it's absolutely filthy, and there are too many homeless people. Even the con sucks compared to other cons

Cons over so how was it everyone?

>>10959675
you needed to be approved to send pics
she'll approve it when shes free, sounds like shes busy
or getting piped by her bf/manager/photographer

Vtubers are cringe and those "concerts" where absurd, and this is from someone who likes to put some of them on as bg noise. At the very least i hope next year theyre not crowed up by a main entrance.

>>10959698
It was that and french people with baguettes everywhere and I dont k ow what thats from and im too scared to ask.

>>10959719
Meh

I barely did anything because me and my gf had work but sreamcon was better, and I say that as a guy who lived in nyc his whole life

Maybe im missing something because some people seemed to have the time of their lives there

Just makes me feel more disappointed honestly, like im really missing something, and ill get no redo for animenyc until next year (or new york comic con i guess)

>>10959719
Eh, it was alright. I'll have to try and be more sociable at my next con.
>>10959732
I too live in abject terror of the french.

>>10959719
In general it was a great con. Considering the travel and hotel ontop of the ticket price idk if I can fuck with this again. Otakon is so much busier partially because of venu constraints but it just felt like it had more going on, likley partially because of it not closing at 11.
The dealer's room was humongous, for sure a big magnet (met an artist I've seen online for a while). Good indie dev showcases too. Console gaming looked weak, but maybe the state of console gaming at a con in 2025 is just
>smash
>project diva/ persona dancing
>2d fighters
>mario kart
Arcades were good. Didn't play ttgs or tcgs but looked healthy.
I like the one giant panel room hall even if those room numbers are a pain to keep track of. Getting into the building from the side took a minute of walking but I'm so damn pleased at how easy and flowing the crowds were in getting in.
8/10, I wasn't let down but I was told this would put Otakon to shame. I saw a lot of Viz snd other major company brand representation with events and booths but in general felt like it had less programming and shorter hours of op than Ota.

>>10959606
why do people go to a football game when you can just watch the game on tv? why do people go to concerts when you can just listen to the songs at home?

I had a whole ass amicable conversation with someone before i realized why they sorta looked familiar, they had an OF briefly during the pandemic and i still goon to them regularly. Im glad i hadnt realized it sooner i would have made things weird.

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>>10959719
UMAZING

hardest part is keeping contact with new people i met at the con
like what do i talk about now
theres a few i have to send photos to, afterwards, i dont know

Who was that one cosplayer years ago who had a legit rainbowdash cutie mark tattoo? I saw her there, thought she was loong out of the game.

i couldn't make friends again...

>>10959777
go to the making a friend panel next time they had 2

>>10959606
How is it any different than the retards screaming "YEEERRR" at the Rooster Fighter panel, or the giga autists in the Panty and Stocking panel laughing like retards at one line?
You're all loser nerds cosplaying/getting excited over chinese cartoon girls. Get over it.

>>10959719
It was really annoying hearing the zoomer virgins/spiritual virgins crying about the "gooner corner" or spazzing out when they'd see anything remotely ecchi.
Zoomers killed anime conventions. If it isn't hoyoshit or popular on crunchyroll after the girl cosplayers christened it safe, it's gooner shit to them.

>>10959769
Ask them if they want to get lunch or dinner together some time and continue to build rapport. The key part is making the effort to stay in regular contact.

>>10959777
What did you do to try and make one?

>>10959576
It has the most people, which means it also has the most minorities. Not the highest proportion of minorities, but the most individuals by number. New York and California are the money pits/population pits on their respective coasts, that's why anyone with half a brain stays away.

There were so many cute little girls showing off their bellies in Manhattan. God it was such a feast for the eyes and imagination.

And all those foreign girls...

>>10959789
Sure cuh, keep yapping
>>10959797
Mans cooming

>>10959760
upload her stuff?

>>10959778
They scheduled that shit during the Trigger panel for some reason. Oblivion

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>>10959817
I mean I would but where? Pic related?

>>10959719
vtuber fans ate good
3 nights in a row of concerts + the prominent hololive booth live stream events. many many meetups
The con was packed and the cosplay was everywhere, just spilled onto the streets before and after on the way to and from the javits center. Locals were very friendly. But yeah the food was needlessly expensive.

>>10959760
thats crazy lol

>>10959831
Never mind.

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>>10959871
That area is brutal for food prices. My rich friends live there. It's a bunch of millionaires in condos and tourist traps for MSG and stuff nearby. There was a Whole Foods a few blocks from the venue that did 13 dollar stir fry, enough for two meals. I always go there when I'm down in the area

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>>10959719
Wasn't bad. I bought my Sunday pass from a scalper, missed the shiwasu no okina panel Saturday sadly. Other than that, I thought the artist alley was great, exhibitors are crazy overpriced though. I know that's how it is usually but still. Exclusive merch was alright, nothing special. I feel like it's mainly becoming a cosplay con

>>10959891
>cosplay con
Really? Glad to hear that. I stopped going due to a lack of cosplay in prior years.

>>10959901
you stopped going cause you were chased out

>>10959918
What? I felt it wasn't worth the effort cosplaying if it's just tourists and families

>>10959891
impossible to have a good shoot with these crowds especially on saturday
cosplay meet area cramped as hell since half the river pavilion was just portioned off

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>>10959576
>"HOOD WEEBS could be here" he thought, "I've never been to Anime NYC before. There could be HOOD WEEBS anywhere"

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>>10959780
those people are always hypocrites because the moment the thing they want to coom over is deemed "safe" they'll turn into gooners themselves over it. seriously it's retarded though how zoomers have gotten so puritan over fiction, it's probably that deep down they don't want to be judged by their peers and cancelled for being a "diddy blud pdf file"
>the girl cosplayers christened it safe
i've seen many female cosplayers get harassed for cosplaying sexy versions of "underage" characters like marin, asuka, raven, misty, etc. doesn't matter that it's an ADULT WOMAN doing the fucking cosplay, or that in many cases the official creators did ecchi of their own characters, that canon age is all that matters even if the only source on it is some fandom.com wiki page that anyone can edit, and more importantly that it's a fictional character that's not fucking real

>>10959780
>>10959928
Where did this happen? That's upsetting to hear about

>>10959925
you fucking stupid bro? the entire hall up there was filled with backdrops for anyone to use

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Anyone here remember a girl named Valeria? She used to go by @sludgetears on twitter

>>10950400
who the fuck is that character anyway?

>>10960970
what a fucking newfag