This week I went to my first anime convention: Anime NYC. It was alright. I don’t regret going, but I probably wouldn’t go out of my way to go again. It’s like 90% people selling stuff. I’m more used to gaming conventions where there’s a bunch of stuff to do because companies are showcasing upcoming games.

I did enjoy seeing all the cosplayers though. There were so many. A LOT of them were either from gatcha games or really popular stuff like One Piece/Demon Slayer, but I did also see quite a few from shows I liked.

A few Jojos ones, but save for one Star Platinum, only from part 5/6. I guess it’s easier to cosplay the characters that don’t have muscles that put bodybuilders to shame.

One Violet Evergarden. I was with my mom who I recently introduced to anime and she loved this show, so she was happy to see that.

There was a Frieren meetup that we went to see. (It was weirdly difficult to find lol.) Funny thing is the character composition. There were only two Frierens in the entire group. Most were Stark or Fern, then one Himmel and I think two Eisens.

There was also a meetup for Apothecary Diaries, but it was at the same time as a panel we went to instead.

On the way over to the Frieren meetup we saw the Blue Lock meetup and I found it kind of funny because I’m reasonably sure literally every cosplayer there was a woman. I didn’t really consider it’s appeal to female audiences, but now that I think about it I guess it makes sense.

There was one person is a big Garfield mascot costume with a bikini on top of it.

One guy was David from Edgerunners.

One Megumin.

And some others, but you get the idea.

Also holy shit, I haven’t been in the Javits Center since I was a kid. I did not appreciate just how fucking MASSIVE that place is. It takes like a minute or so to walk from one end of the building to the other.