>just over a month away>no threadSeriously what happened? I heard some BS happened last year but it wasn't bad enough to wipe discussion off the board was it? Just got my room filled and looking forward to it.
>>10964752I'll be rooming with a few other dudes. I'm hoping to have my shit together by next week so I can finish my Kogarashi cosplay and tweak my GALO SENGEN costume a bit more
Damn did the fact they had ALA during the wildfires actually cause people to boycot this or did the LA gull community explode again?
>>10965050If I only managed to meet up with one dude during the entirety of AX25 then this is to be expected
>>10965157I got kinda sick during ALA so wasn't sure what was going on, all I know is the gull discord self destructed shortly after the event. Seeing no posts here, kinda confirms a few things, oh well.
>>10965174Discordniggers deserve to have their shitty walled garden destroyed
>>10965180Not going to defend the CA discord groups, I mean at least it's not the dumpster fire I see the midwest as, but even if you aren't big to discord it's nice to have a place to instantly ask and get replies at. Also a pretty nice way to at least find a few cool people to hang out with.West coast con official discords are abhorrently bad
>>10965224>instantlywhy do you need "instant" replies? If no one is answering then do something else with yourself; it's a goddamn convention there's always something to do
>>10965239>why do you need "instant" replies?Because I work a 9-5 job and don't have the time often to dig around through a slog of random comments or posts to work back what random thing this time changed last minute or got cancelled or whatever. Maybe 'instant' was not the correct word, but nearly instant or within a short time often within a lunch break.>it's a goddamn convention there's always something to doWhich is exactly why the few days off I have for the event I want to ensure I'm doing everything to make the most of it. How is this hard to understand for anyone with a normal work/life schedule in the modern day. If you have the free time to comb through random social media posts that OOPS not on x.com this time now on bluesky or oops this only got posted to facebook! or oops this was only in discord! etc and can catch that's great. Unfortunately I don't have a lot of spare time around this event as a working adult.
>>10965265You're wasting time and energy on a 4chan/discord fag who more than likely doesn't have a job as they are always online.
>>10965265>wah wah im an adult i don't have time like you whippersnappersyeah yeah been hearing that excuse forever
>There's a KPDH cosplay gathering everyday during con.
>>10965050Fires started 2 weeks before con and it was very far from Long Beach. They couldn't cancel.
> Want to do ribbons> missed the deadline to use ALA's service> that one is on me> look at the earliest I can still get ribbons made> late December, okay got a chance> $50 for 100Is that price normal?
>>10965498>ribbonsFucking retarded ass shit. I don't get the hype of this crap.
>>10965581I just think it's neat
>>10965586Ribbons are lame. No one cares if you had to suck someone's dick for that ultra rare ribbon for your collection which will be irrelevant once the con is over.
>>10965588I still like it
>>10965581Community driven souvenirs.
>>10965463Tell that to the angry social media mobs and discord shitposters. I know california discord's for cons like this can be rough but man ALA last year was like the worst virtue signaling imaginable.
>>10965597Simply ignore them
I'm still excited for ALA, it's still my favorite con and I appreciate the chill vibes and the fact that people are very interactive and easy to talk to. Only downside is that if it happens to rain it does get cold as balls.
>>10965827>people are very interactive and easy to talk to
>>10965224>least it's not the dumpster fire I see the midwest as,Midwest gulls are a league of their fucking own in the shitty people department.
>>10965847>anime cons>in the MidwestThey've never made sense to me. Cons in the west coast make sense. They're the ones physically closest to Japan after all. East Coast cons also make sense cause they're near major population centers.Midwest cons make zero sense. Barely any people. Located in flyover country i.e. planes no one actually cares to visit and they're very far from Japan.
>>10965827>fact that people are very interactive and easy to talk toSorry, this isn't the late 2000s-early 2010s anymore. No one talks to anyone outside of their inner circle at cons these days because no one wants to come off as a creep
>>10965845>>10965853you issueeither ugly or shitty personality
>>10965855No it's true. Zoomers are the worst examples of this by far. Anyone chatting up their clique or just saying hi is either a loser creep or a groomer trying to groom them. Which is funny to say because some zoomers are already in their late 20s.
>>10965855>>10965856You can thank that faggot who dresses up as the Yellow Ranger that burned another cosplayer's car which got ALA booted from Ontario. That's why no one wants to socialize people at cons that are outside their comfort zone.
ALA needs to return to being a hotel party con. Have it back at the LAX Marriott, cap the attendance 10k, and charge $300 for a four day badge.
>>10965856No its false. My 4 person ALA room is filled with me and 3 other people I met at either ALA or AX just this year. Simply have a nice cosplay and don't be afraid to interact!
>>10965845>>10965853It's true, it's easy to strike up a conversation for ribbons or to talk about cosplays. You probably won't make best friends or anything, but it's nice to swap socials and catch the same people at other events.
>>10965974I don't talk to people at cons since Covid. I got sick the last person I talked to which was in 2023.
>>10965974It's also really easy to make a group of new friends just by pulling up to any random table in the lobby after 9PM with a deck of cards and asking if anyone wants to play. If they say no, move on and hit the next table. Doesn't hurt if you have a beer or candy to hand out either.
>>10965993Hey there pedo creep.
>>10965974>see someone last ALA also cosplaying from the game I'm cosplaying>we run into eachother a few times in the halls thursday>turns into running into eachother and chatting a bit on friday>then we hangout and get dinner across the street saturday>we are now rooming together in 2 weekshaving a cosplay is so damn easy mode
>>10965974>>10965993Some of my best memories were made with random people at cons who I know I'll never meet again desu, would recommend
>>10965991Caring about Covid in 2025 going onto 2026 is virtue signaling at this point. Talk to people. Some stupid overblown flue from half a decade ago should not discourage you from meeting new friends and creating great memories with them. Stop being anti social and go out there.
>>10965498It's pretty normal. You can get as low as $0.3/piece or 100/$40 if you don't mind a longer turnaround time.
>>10964752It's dead because cgl is dead. Most people post are in their own discord groups now.Anyways what's everyone cosplaying this year? Any panels you are looking forward too?
>>10966154I haven't been on cgl since ~2018 and it's sad to see suddenly see this board just kinda dead. I miss all the old threads, tripfags, and people posting about cgl meetups. What the hell happened to this place other than "discordfags". Did this board never get new people coming in that actually cares about cons or something? Actually attempt to meet other people, I met a lot of fun people from the cgl meetups over the yearsAnyways, now that I'm doing cons again I still need to plan out cosplays for 2026. Is CWF still a thing? That's honestly the main panel I always looked forward to every con.
>>10966195A large portion is just people not wanting to be associated with 4chan I feel, 2016 wasn't the deathnail that COVID cabinfever made about how bad 4channel is. A large part of the cosplay community also I feel just grew old enough to not deal with some of the 'unique' characters that show up. Last meetup I went to was 3-4 people from pol spouting shit, most people just stopping by to say they weren't dead, and desu was just more glad to do my own thing. It feels like there is no general ~from the internet vibe~ where 4chan was just people who knew meme's and silly takes. Now you have polar opposites, being that of a minority chill and a majority coomer/pol faggots who don't know what an indoor voice is.
>>10966195Adding to this >>10966203 after the hack a few months ago and 4chan being down for awhile also ended up decreasing traffic to the site, a lot of the people that still tolerated 4chan found other places to be.
>It's going to be a wet ALA with a rain storm hitting Southern California that weekend.
>>10966219dw weather changes
>>10966203>>10966215damn.. I guess all that makes sense then. I took a break around the time retards from other boards started to show up but they were kinda pushed to the side for the most part. It's sad to see the problem stuck around. I remember my first cgl meetup, it was busy and lively and I was awkward and quiet. I'm staying optimistic though that this place will get some sort of new life, even if it's only a small one.>>10966219It'll probably be fine. If it does rain bad then keep track of how many cosplayers forget an umbrella.
>>10964752>>10966154>>10966195Most of it is because there's no reason to look here anymore now that every public IP is rangebanned so every con thread dies while the con is happening, so what's the point anymore?I still come to this board because I know a lot of you anons are fun and still more quality than the fags who show up for Dealer's and AA then leave.
>>10966272I hope you do anonI'll attempt posting if it'll let me
I will post about how my feet hurt and I'm thirsty and about the burrito with fries in it from the restaurant directly across the street to the west
>>10965331I don't get the hype for it. It wasn't a terrible movie, and the only thing that is carrying it is the soundtrack.
>>10966248At least for CA, can't speak for the rest of the country. Years of shitthattotallyhappened.txt finally caught up with this group and others. I remember 2014-2019 virtually every CA con was the worst thing ever and all kinds of drama would happen that turned out to nothing burgers. I can't recall the amount of splinter discords that were made what felt like after every con.Will be coming from Japan hope it's fun long time since been to ALA
It is time. One more day.
>>10966613it is not yet time
>>10965331This is exponentially worse than the genshin boom from 2021/2022 despite not being as large
>>10966303>the only thing that is carrying it is the soundtrack.If the shitty mass-produced kpop soundtrack is "carrying" then I don't even wanna know what the rest of the movie is like
>Fire sprinkler went off at the Hyatt>Everyone had to evacuateNice start already
>>10966644Theres a fire outside the hyatt in back
>Day 1 is thursdayWUT, wish I had time to take off for today but man not sure what attendance is today
I finally got my computer working.The line wasn't too bad. There was a dude fully decked out in Haruhi gear and we talked for about 45 seconds.Seeing parents shield their kids from the J18 booth was funny. Extremely basado.The ballroom dance might be fun. I'm tired as shit right now from prepping last night but the quiet room is being run by trannies playing FNAF shit, so no rest for me.
I really liked this woman's merch just from the variety of it. Or it's just because I actually know who the characters are and where they're from. Anyways I bought a print, which I never do.Is anyone going to the ballroom dance tonight? If you are I'll be extremely conspicuous.
Another funny: The English Haruhi VA (old) bought and used a drawing of Haruhi that's clearly from a pornography set. I recognize the artist.
>>10966720found it lolhttps://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/103130547
How is it?
>>10966777the dance? It was a clusterfuck, then I ran all over the fucking joint being misdirected to the swapmeet despite knowing where it was, then I completely botched my karaoke thing I waited hours for.I might skip Saturday for meguc/a/
>>10966778what does meguc/a/ mean?
Did fountain con get killed! after the slutty cosplay contest on Friday I went to last year's spot but no one was there
Only went one day (friday) but one of the better "small" cons still around. People are friendly, the lines go quick, enough panels and industry to not just be a complete party con, lots of free shit to do, location is super pretty with lots of places to eat and relax, and the artist alley was absolutely massive. Also the bathrooms were clean
>>10966718I miss when the only parents at cons were the kind who would look at smut and laugh and not some moral karens. Retards shouldnt bring their kids to cons if they are afraid of a bit of anime tit n dick.
i wish i could attend ala, magfest, and ikkicon all at once
These assholes crowded out some little girl singing her song>>10966810They weren't karens but they obviously weren't trying to show their kids cartoon smut
Why yes I do attend robotech panels. How could you tell?
> shown up late on all three days I can attendI did this to myself for not prepping better.
I'll go next year...
Anyone down for a meetup on Saturday?
>>10966835I mean, sure kinda too late though.
>>10966836I was thinking of doing a late night boozey meetup near the end of Saturday for any losers who can't find a party
>>10966819Hot, is that you?
>>10964752I finally mite be financially stable enough to start conning again. All I wanna do is play some werewolf, eat kbbq, and drink some CONK! I've even got a group that I mite show up to Sakuracon with.
I was depressed a lot of the con, my mental was not good. I am sure I didn't show it between friends but a lot of the time I wanted to break down and cry. A few events made me happy. I had a lot of fun doing some dtuff but my mental was not in a good place this con. I was constantly worrying. I still want to cry but I made new friends so I am happy I came. I'm saving my sanity and skipping
>>10966859skipping Sunday. I'm just different. I am unsure if anyone notices but I don't think any of my friends really know who I am. I've always been kinda distant
>>10966860Are you Shadow the Hedgehog?
Anyone else get sick? I was having a good time on Thursday but I ended up super tired on Friday and woke up sick on Saturday. Didn't get to talk to too many people this time around bc of that. Makes me kinda sad
I like the ALA Long Beach con vibe. The con feels like Anime Expo in 2002 before it became a normie clusterfuck.
>>10966719bought her yotsuba and osaka charm, neat stuff>>10966817dude they literally invited them up there were you seriously willing to sit through some little girl sing mcr
>>10966859You should talk to your friends about what's eating you without having to feel like a burden. Finding someone to talk to can make you feel better, don't bottle it up.
>missed out during the LAX days>went through the Ontario days>50% on the Long Beach daysAnyways how was it?
>>10966817i follow the miku on the left from a cosplay meetup I attended with them before. they were ranting about volunteering at the con this year and basically getting banned because they acted like a shizo towards one of the volunteer leadsthey're a total weirdo that went viral for meeting bbno$ and are still trying to ride that popularity wave. not surprising that they decided to sing over a little girl
What the hell were these brands and why were they there? It feels like they were scraping the bottom of the barrel for brands, I’m surprised ACDC rag wasn’t there seeing as they’d be in little Tokyo a week later. Even Venia is an outlier because their pieces are beautiful but I think local sweaty weebs wouldn’t drop $500 on a jacket at a convention.
Damn, is /cgl/ truly dead if there has been only one ALA thread this year?
I wanted to post more during the con but the hotel wifi was blocked :(
>>10967248you mean 4chan blocked the wifi. theyre trying to censor us
>>10967245everyone that isn't old is on d*scord
>>10967367Why need to hate on their cosplays? You sound incredibly resentful and likely made no real friends at the con on account of your chuddy energy.
>>10967357>>10967359>no pictures>took a pictureBased spook denier
Sorry all the photos got deleted. Some faggot ass moderator got mad at me for posting Epstein on /u/ and deleted all my fucking posts from this year.
>>10967844You should post all of them again!
>>10967844>posting Epstein on /u/Y tho
>>10967915He posted there , and not ironically
>>10967844okay
>>10967846misclick
I made a few postcards to send to some friends who couldn't make it.Neither of them watch anime.
Some faggot was trying to charge money to take a photo with his owl. I wonder if the owl knew it was being pimped
A cool bunnysuit made from old ribbons
I don't know who these people were from. I just thought the shot was good
Okamoto Money Laundering Kitchen
I was talking to a very clearly autistic guy who was being taken for a ride by these maid cafes. They have the same mannerisms as strippers at ghetto strip clubs pretending to like the customers; one even forgot is name right in front of him and he didn't seem to care.I wonder why they're still trying to make these cafes despite the fad being unfashionable in Japan for over fifteen years now. The target audience in America is exclusively waps that don't have the money/desire to go to Japan. Whatever, it isn't my money on the line.Also I don't care if the cosplay is bad, only three people recognized it anyways.>>10967188That means it's that easy for you to get your fashion line in
>>10968060Also, 25 bucks for this shit
The Amazing Digital Shitass
The meal I shared with the hobos outside Ralphs. I wasn't paying for the foodtrucks.>>10967248My phone got raped by the new captcha. It doesn't even load.
>>10967915so you don't know
Finally, outside the hall on the first day.
ACTUAL final post: Having to walk two miles to my car to change cosplays wasn't very fun, but there were a few zoomers that liked my costume
>>10968066based. Too bad it seems that the "con community" is getting so extremely PC or else i'd cosplay something like that. All it takes is one seething black chick to post a blurry photo of you while complaining about "cultural appropriation" or "racism" or "nazi" and suddenly you're basically banned from every con ever.Maybe i just need to find a black guy to do a "pool's closed" cosplay while I do a "pool's open"
>>10968073>complaining about "cultural appropriation" or "racism" or "nazi" and suddenly you're basically banned from every con ever.Maybe that was the case in 2015, but I don't think it is anymore. Also that wouldn't affect me since no one caught my name anyways.
