I went to a one-day con this past weekend. Our state has one big convention, plus this new one that just came out, so we thought we would show support for it and check it out.

About 85% of the attendees were con-virgins.
During the masquerade, this fat kid in an Akatsuki jacket was being obnoxiously loud during performances, saying how 'embarrassed' he was because people were making fools of themselves on stage. He said he thought this was a 'costume contest' and not a theatre show and was bashing on the people that did skits.

. . . Uh . . . .

>>1740086

One-day con. That is the only explanation.

>>1740086
punch him in the kidney. seriously. or just shame him some how.

I wouldn't say this is n00bish but it sure falls under fandom tardation! I personally have issues with fresh cosplayers or any cosplayer who take their characters waaaay too far. at ALA i hosted cosplay chess and one of the pieces on the board made a joking comment about KH2 to a roxas cosplayer on the other team. The Axel in the crowd who i assume was with said roxas got defensive and started calling out the guy who made the statement and started to walk out on the board to call him out. WTF seriously :/

>>1740152

o.O Damn. That would be KH fags for you, though, Maguma.

>>1740152
The more you post, the more I like you good sir.

At an "Obscure Anime" panel at the last con I attended, for some fucking reason they were showing Urusei Yatsura and when Lum came on screen some dude in the front yelled like he was the first guy ever "Oooo! Hall cosplay anyone??"

Glomping.
That's my only problem, n00bs don't know how to respect personal space.
I had a bunch of them jump on me without permission, almost twisted my ankle and when I told them
"Don't do that! You could hurt someone! Ask if you can do that before you do it if you're going to do it at all"
they had the nerve to cop an attitude and say
"Pfft well, GOSH! It's my first time here! I didn't know!"
You don't know not to jump on random people? You pill that on the street and you get arrested.
Bitch, please.

>>1740152
Pah. Too bad one of the other chess pieces didn't "accidentally" take 'tard-Axel out. Guess con security wouldn't like that though.

>>1740168
that is but it's a shining example of people who take their characters WAY too far. It still proves a point.

>>1740176
thank you.

I'm taking note on how not to act. Do the size of cons increase or decrease dumbasses? The smaller, the less, or vise versa?
I figure I'm going to end up acting semi retarded for my first con coming up, but I don't want any major dumbassness. Any tips?

>>1740189
seriously. Personally I wouldn't mind handling an escalated situation. it would have helped when i told people to back the fuck away from the actual people playing chess. I seriously wanna buy like fucking Rope lines like they have at the bank to keep people out. That shit was seriously frustrating

As someone mentioned before, do NOT glomp/hug anyone without their permission. Costumes/props DO get broken that way, tears are shed, etc.

Also, Caramelldansen. Don't do it. God, I'm so sick of seeing that at cons.

Don't scream at someone who is cosplaying a character you like. Compliment them, talk to them, whatever, but don't scream OMGILOOOVEYOUUUU.

I hate it when . . . there are people who cosplay and brag and brag and brag about their wonderful costume, when it doesn't look very good. But that is a huge majority of people at cons.

>>1740230
Caramelldansen is ok, if done 1. CORRECTLY and 2. by a small amount of people not 20+ people.

I hate Narutards.

I hate them even more when they are incredibly 'in-character'.

>>1740504

For such a simple dance, you'd think more people would actually do it right.

When Haruhi Suzumiya first came out, I did her bunny outfit with the guitar. It was easy to tell who I was.

A girl at the con walked up to me and said, "Just because this is an anime convention doesn't mean you get to dress like a whore."

>>1740566

I hope you said, "Yes it does, fugmo."

>>1740571

Haha. Nah. I asked her if she had seen Haruhi and she laughed and told me that I was making up an anime as an excuse.

Whatever, though. She was too fat for that lolita costume, anyways. =/

>>1740566
Ouch. I would have slapped that bitch >:3
Not really, but still. jeez.

>>1740566

Ah! I've had somebody do that to me before, too. I was cosplaying Obito Uchiha from Naruto . . . and some bitch in a Sakura costume walked up and said, "All the Uchiha DIED. Your original character sucks."

>>1740566
>>1740586

Fail. =/

>>1740215
You might assume that small college-based cons would have fewer idiotic screaming teenagers than big cons, but you'd be wrong. It seems that the non-cancer anime con goers have basically retreated to the big cons.

>>1740566
Pics now.

Unless you're ugly, in which case she was right.

>>1740586
HA!
Same thing happened to my friend. She was with a group and they were doing the Akatsuki. She was chosen to be Orochimaru because they wanted to include him too since he use to be part of the Akatsuki.
So she's posing for pictures and having good time while I hold her stuff for her and a Sakura marches up to her like GOD himself sent her and goes
"You can dress like that! Orochimaru NEVER wore an Akatsuki coat!"
and my friend went
"But he USE to be in the Akatsuki."
to where she went
"Yeah, well I never saw it, therefore, you can't dress like that! You need to go up to your room right now and take that off before you embarrass yourself!"

We followed her around all day, throwing paper and empty soda cans at her from the shadows.

>>1740086

What con? Was it Animarathon?

The Narutards were fucking TERRIBLE at Animarathon.

And fat. What the hell.

>>1740586
Had something similar happen while I was dressed as (pregnant) Padme Amidala from SW Ep3 (the Mustafar outfit)....some guy asks if I'm dressed as a character from "Alien" before the alien explodes out of my belly. Gave him a WTF look and told him who I was. To which he responded:

"ARE YOU SURE?!?!?! YOU MUST BE FROM ALIEN!"

Seriously dude, I think I know who I'm dressed as...pic related

A few years back some friends and I were doing Digimon cosplay. We had some of the 01 cast and some Gijinka Digimon.

A guy asked for a picture, and I (being Gijinka Gomamon) posed by Joe.
The guy paused, glared at me, and asked "Who're you?"
"=D I'm Gomamon"
".. No you aren't. Go away"

>O

First and only time I've been told "You aren't cosplaying what you say you're cosplaying"

I was ridiculed by a group of newbies for recognizing the magic wands from Magic Users Club in a trivia game.

They were doing Lucky Star cosplay.

You're doing cosplay from a series full of references to 80's anime, and you laugh at me for recognizing arguably the best OAV from the 90's?

FFFFFFFFFF

The thread is gonna make me rage, also, OP pic made me lol pretty hard.

>>1740642

It's not your fault, if I had been there we could have high fived and eaten pizza.

I almost forgot why I hated conventions.

>>1740230
>>Don't scream at someone who is cosplaying a character you like. Compliment them, talk to them, whatever, but don't scream OMGILOOOVEYOUUUU.

Oh god, this. I took a con-virgin with me to a recent con, and every cosplayer he saw that he liked he yelled out FUCK YEAH ______

>>1740875
"Oh god, this. I took a con-virgin with me to a recent con, and every cosplayer he saw that he liked he yelled out FUCK YEAH Seaking!!!"

Fixed.

Im bringing a con-virgin to a con in november... Should I.... .. Be scared?