I was looking for something fun for Hollace to do before school starts next week. I went about a web search for ideas. I zeroed on to things relating to anime. I was thrilled to find that they had an anime convention nearby for this weekend!
Hollace was beyond excited when I finally told her about our plans. Right away she started thinking about what she could do for a cosplay. New term for me, it means dress up as your favorite character. I suppose if I would of told her on Monday when I first found out about it we could of had time to do something but by now it is Thursday (not sure why I didn’t tell her sooner).
On Friday her dad took her to a costume store to get a blue wig which was the minimum of what she wanted.
I decided we would go on Sunday. Since this was our first ‘con’, I didn’t know what to expect. We hate crowds so I thought our better chance would be to go on Sunday instead of Saturday. We were going to get up really early and get there really early anticipating long lines for registration. By the time I found out about this thing, I had missed pre-registration by a day. When I realized that this is the first year at this location I got the feeling it wouldn’t be as crazy with crowds.
We arrived at 9:15. Registration opens at 9:00, the exhibit hall opens at 10:00. The timing worked out fine. We went to sit on our first panel on Japanese folklore. We were the only ones. It was a good talk with lots of insight on the origins and inside comments with modern anime.
We walk around and bought a couple things. It was interesting to see all the costumes. For lunch we walked over to Gino’s East for pizza then came back and walked around again before seeing another panel of music for games.
There really wasn’t all that much going on at this ‘con’ but Hollace had a great time (though I wasn’t really sure at the time).
Doing a little research for anime stuff in Milwaukee (they have a store Hollace wants to check out) I see there is another more established conference in Milwaukee in February. Maybe we will have to check that one out too.