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Beltane70
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Anime conventions have had a dance of some kind for as long as I’ve been attending, which was ‘94 or so. I remember most of my friends looking forward to the dances of the early (‘96, ‘97) Katsucon and Otakons.
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
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Sometimes they even get guests to be the DJ's for the raves. One of the more notable DJ's being Greg Ayres the VA himself. I never really found them to be out of place or a hindrance myself. Most of all the ones I have seen have been later at night so the only other things going on were a handful of 18+ panels or hentai video screenings.
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Brand
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I've been going to anime cons since 2001 and I always remember raves being a thing. Have I personally gone to one? No. I'll pass on extra nerd stink. But cons wouldn't keep doing them if they were not still popular, so I get it.
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Faceman
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Correction: Anime Boston actually canceled their informal dance (aka rave) after an incident in 2012. They haven't held one since. http://www.animeboston.com/news/article/508
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Key
Moderator
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Anime Central has multiple dances. They claim that their Saturday night event Soap Bubble is the longest-running such event in the country and regularly pulls 3000+ attendance, but they also have a formal dance earlier in the evening on Saturday and a rave-like event on Friday nights, too. For SB they pull in DJs from all over - even guest DJs from Japan, and I'm pretty sure Greg Ayres was one of them one year.
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Lemonchest
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I'd have thought drugs & alcohol would be a given
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ResistNormal
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Yep, AnimeBoston's rave spiraled out of control. When the Mayor's office gets involved you know you F*ed up. http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2012/04/25/police-crackdown-on-otaku-party-at-anime-boston |
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Sahmbahdeh
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Whoever wrote that was either very prescient, or things haven't changed as much as I thought. Age that down about 5 years, and that's basically still true (at least among the more hardcore fans). |
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Zin5ki
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It does surprise me that a fandom associated with introversion would embrace a social environment typical of more outgoing types. Perhaps the 'nerds-only' environment of a convention clears the waters, so to speak, of personalities that would deter otaku from the average discotheque. (I have in mind the standard schoolyard power dynamics here.)
This explains why the Manga UK dub of Dominion Tank Police dispensed with the Japanese synthpop soundtrack in favour of a house number. They gave it their best shot... |
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Jadress
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Speaking of dance music/electronica/anime nerd connections.. I recall in the early 2000s, I visited Leland City Club, an industrial/goth dance club in Detroit, a few times, and they totally had traced anime girl murals on the wall. I think one was of the gal from the Cowboy Bebop movie.
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thenix
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Just through personal experience raves have been going on since conventions existed by me (early 2000s) and it's always been mind boggling to me. Most nerds are introverted and often free thinking. From what I see often (and it's not just the rave but many parts of the anime cons) many people find other people that like the same things they do for once and start wanting to be part of the crowd, part of a mob mentality while at the cons. The rave is infamous around here for being full of guys trying to cop feels of girls, and hopefully take them to their room. I haven't been to cons in 5ish years though so I don't know if it's changed much.
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H. Guderian
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I'm all for extra activities, but when they start to harm the rest of the con I think they need to go. When AB canceled their rave, I was celebrating. On the ground some people pledged there was no longer a point to go to the anime convention if there was no longer a late night dance party. I would have thought anime would be more central to this lad's focus at a con. It certainly brought on more risk than was needed.
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Ouran High School Dropout
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Got that right! I didn't see the police "raid" itself, but I remember how quiet the hotel lobby got all of a sudden. I arrived in time to see a Boston PD officer wearing an "I'm in no mood to deal with anyone's crap" expression, and an ambulance stretcher at the hall door. The attendees nearby were quiet and subdued, and with good reason. |
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K.o.R
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Is this a US thing? The whole 21+ for alcohol thing? The parties at UK cons (which are inevitably 18+ only) are nothing but alcohol 
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Ojamajo LimePie
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A lot of the con raves I went to in the mid-2000s were all-ages during the early hours, so it made sense not to have alcohol around. Also, liability. |
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