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NEWS: Anime Expo 2009 Tops 44,000, AX 2010 Set for July 1-4




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daedelus



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:32 pm Reply with quote
Up by 1000, eh? Way to go!

I wonder if they could do an informal survey next year by adding a simple question on the registration form. "Do you pay for your anime(DVD or DTO)?"

I'd be curious to know what percentage do.
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poehitman



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 1:29 pm Reply with quote
It was pretty pathetic in the way of anime license announcements.
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bleuster



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 2:41 pm Reply with quote
daedelus wrote:
I wonder if they could do an informal survey next year by adding a simple question on the registration form. "Do you pay for your anime(DVD or DTO)?"
I'd be curious to know what percentage do.
I was just about to say the same thing.
Cons keep getting bigger, yet, the industry keeps getting smaller. Hmm...

Anyway, I remember doing charity for C.H.O.C. Good times!
I'm glad they're still going strong.
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They had a lot of boring events like manga cafe and playing pokemon card game.

Also not a lot of free giveway, what's up with that?
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:40 pm Reply with quote
darkhunter wrote:
They had a lot of boring events like manga cafe and playing pokemon card game.

Also not a lot of free giveway, what's up with that?


Yeah, it's kind of disappointing. I don't know about Anime expo, but it seems like with some of the smaller anime cons I've been going to on the east coast, anime viewing rooms are going extinct, and the grab bags (baggies with the convention guide and lots of little flyers and adverts and the likes) you get with registration... well I didn't even get one at a recent convention.

Prizes are getting sad too, and I think it's because sponsorship with the actual anime companies is probably down. When previously I would win maybe a DVD for a panel game, this year I got small little pack of Naruto playing cards. Ah well, at least the panel game was fun. Shame I don't know anyone who plays the card game to give the cards to.

Positively conventions seem to do the local economy good in these troubled times. I know a recent study in Atlanta claims that the convention Dragon*con brought in over 25 million dollars of revenue to the area in 2008.
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walw6pK4Alo



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:23 pm Reply with quote
littlegreenwolf wrote:
darkhunter wrote:
They had a lot of boring events like manga cafe and playing pokemon card game.

Also not a lot of free giveway, what's up with that?


Yeah, it's kind of disappointing. I don't know about Anime expo, but it seems like with some of the smaller anime cons I've been going to on the east coast, anime viewing rooms are going extinct, and the grab bags (baggies with the convention guide and lots of little flyers and adverts and the likes) you get with registration... well I didn't even get one at a recent convention.

Prizes are getting sad too, and I think it's because sponsorship with the actual anime companies is probably down. When previously I would win maybe a DVD for a panel game, this year I got small little pack of Naruto playing cards. Ah well, at least the panel game was fun. Shame I don't know anyone who plays the card game to give the cards to.

Positively conventions seem to do the local economy good in these troubled times. I know a recent study in Atlanta claims that the convention Dragon*con brought in over 25 million dollars of revenue to the area in 2008.


It probably is the economy, but it kinda makes it clear that DVD sales aren't the one thing that makes the anime community thrive in the west. Fansubbing and internet piracy have little to do with a dwindling market of merchandising and con-going, don't they? I'd say people are probably just trying to hold onto more money, and the first thing to cut out and be these cons, which get very costly, even if you're going locally. I'd say better prizes than DVDs are physical things, because those aren't replicable, and they're nicer than DVDs anyway. I won a DVD of Welcome to the NHK Volume 1 at a panel, and while it's nice, it's an incomplete thing, figures and plushies and what have you are not. Maybe it's just because I like going to cons to see what vendors are selling, rare or obscure things, not abundant like manga or DVDs.
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