New York Anime Festival 2008 – Friday

O.K. I’m pretty much beat from walking all over on Friday. Coming back on the train home, then BACK to Penn Station will be the testing of my nerves. Maybe it’s a good test before I eventually land a job in the city. Maybe not. As stated before, I went with a little different approach in taking pictures this time. I got myself a a bunch of cards…and sometimes I forgot to hand them out! Ouch! I’ll learn from that mistake on Saturday. Much of the attendance on Friday, as expected was sparse. The Bandai and Funimation panels for the most part were business as usual, BUT they have a “secret screening” on Sat and Sun. What it will be I don’t really know. The Maid Cafe did not impress me very much. I felt that too many of the “maids” were congregating and talking to each other rather than “entertain” the guests. I guess many of those cosplayers will never experience what a REAL maid cafe is like in Japan (and I never may either).

This con is a lot smaller than I thought it would be. Most of the lower floor of the Javits is taken for…and that’s that. DigitalLife, the consumer electronics expo was expected to take the big hall on the ground floor, but that was canned due to “economic factors”. So far, the VIP experience has gotten me a free t-shirt, admittance into the mcchris concert and nothing much else. Tommorow, it will probably be much more of a use for me with the bigger Saturday crowds.

Bye for now, I need sleep. P.S. This girl who cosplayed as Nanaka from “Nanaka 6/17″ is the bestest cosplayer…ever. Because she dressed up as a character from the greatest Anime of our time!

EPIC WIN.

Check out all my pics so far.