Con is only 2 weeks away.
Any one going? Working it? Seagull meetup?
Becoming an extra in the Ayumi Tanaka film?
I really wish they had a better format for the online programming guides. They're so annoying to navigate...
>>8888586
The one year I'm broke they use PVC for badges, I can't bootleg it now
>>8888586
I'm going. As far as I remember, this is my 7th or 8th year I've be keeping up my annual tradition of attending it.
I'll be there all weekend although I'm still debating if I want to skip classes on Friday. If Tokyo Attack brings Dance Evolution, I'll cry the happiest tears I've ever cried in my life.
What are your cosplay plans?
>>8888586
working off my badge hours at the maid cafe! I'd recommend checking it out, idk about a seagull meetup, but I'll be in lolita otherwise.
>>8888906
I know I'll be doing Huey Emmerich and Solid Snake, might do Hotline Miami 2 Tony if I get my parts in time
>>8888906
Going as a generic DnD blood-mage. I'm going for comfort this year more than looks.
I'll be there - getting a badge for running a few panels. Two new cosplays to wear which I'm rather excited about and are nearly finished... finally.
>>8889218
Which panels are you running? I'm running a figure panel on Saturday.
>>8889268
I'm an ass who thinks I'm funny, I'll be on the inprov panel for 'Who's Line' and also doing the Stand Up show on... friday night I think. It occurs to me now I have NO IDEA when either of my panels is happening. The best at planning.
>>8889272
The who's line is it panel is Saturday night at 8pm, I believe, and the stand up one is at 8pm on Friday based on the final draft
This is my first time at AM. Whats it like?
>>8889587
Recently it's been feeling more and more like Acen's kid brother, in much the same way that Milwaukee is Chicago's bastard, red-headed step sibling (if one with better and cheaper beer). There's quite a bit of cross over in the staffing between two so the policies seem similar and it's a lot of the same people - Amke's just considerably smaller.
>>8889599
What's the best thing to do there? chess?
Will there be karaoke this year?
>>8888943
>ill be doing solid snake
Cardboard Nikita?
>>8889702
I'll bring it
>>8889709
I'll show up like hey kid I'm from the internet
>>8889608
I'd say my favorite thing to do is play in the game room. The game room is a lot better than Acen's.
>>8890102
The dude who runs the game room is a hella ligit fellow. Much support.
>>8890039
thats how I met one of my con friends actually, hung out at his place a weekend or 2 ago with a mutual friend and chilled
Should we have a meet up? I haven't been able to go to any seagull meet ups and I'd like more con friends (and friends from the area).
>>8891083
I'd like one, I think there was one last year but I missed it
I work the maid cafe. There's talk that this year the business will end.The hotel doesn't want the maid cafe there anymore. I'm surprised we've gotten away with it for so long
I'd love to meet the fellow gulls
>>8891083
Would do a meet up. Been to a few others at big cons, might be kinna fun to have one at a smaller venue.
>>8891281
What!? That makes me really sad because I usually work the cafe but this year something came up
Does Friday or Saturday work better for you guys? I'm probably more free on Friday but I can make arrangements.
They posted their schedule finally! http://animemilwaukee.org/programming/2016-programming-schedule/
>>8892705
More K-pop panels than necessary imo. I feel like there's more and more every year
>>8894321
I feel like they put kpop panels in the empty slots if other topics weren't submitted (they probably usually have a high turnout).
>>8891471
For a meet up? Friday works better for me too.
So are we thinking Friday? Maybe Friday evening? And, at the bar or perhaps in the game room or someplace quiet like tabletop gaming?
>>8896568
Either of those work for me :D I've got a panel, apparently, at 8pm on Friday. But before/after would be swell.
>>8896568
If we want something quiet then probably not the game room, although I'd love to play vidya against you guys. I think tabletop is best since some people may not be 21 and we can take it easy.
I don't play tabletop games but I like hanging out. We could also go to George Webb if it's still there
>>8897879
Webb's is still there, but it's gonna be a goddamn zoo all weekend. Tabletop room is a better option - if everyone who shows up is 21+ we can always migrate to the bar.
Okay, so since tabletop is in the WI Center, should we meet up at that cafe (not sure the name)?
Just a heads up: Saturday morning is the St paddy's day parade. Just in case people plan on going out for food, plan accordingly.
I plan on meeting up with some of my ffxiv free company at AMKE. We have two coming from Iowa, one from Canada, one from new Jersey, and hopefully our FC leader from Missouri can make it. He got diagnosed with type 2 diabetes last week and changed around his whole diet. Started taking the pill prescribed by his doctor and progressively got worse. Hes currently in the ER as on Monday into today. Hoping they'll release him today so he can make it. He's the one that initiated everyone to go. I'll be pretty bummed if he can't make it.
>>8900992
Idk it seems like Tabletop would have a lot of space in 102ABC, but initially meeting up at the cafe in the WI Center would be nice too
>>8901268
Ah the cafe that's in the WI center, not the HnY cafe, got it!
I'd meet gulls there for sure~ I'll be easy to spot as that white-wigged maid from the Maid cafe. So like 9 pm Friday evening at the WI center cafe?
>>8901736
At 9pm it might be closed... but there will definitely be space there! That's the best idea yet I think. I'll be in the WI center before anyway, do I'll stop by. Unsure whether I'll still be in cosplay at that point or not... We'll see if I make it through my panel or not.
>>8894321
I agree, K-Pop is like Jocks to our Nerd community, they need to stick to the nightclubs and away from cons. Instead these K-Pop merch stands pop up in every con despite the fact that Anime and KPOP don't mix despite my wishes.
>>8902929
Even then, if we know what everyones cosplays are, we should know who's from here. I'm the guy doing snake from earlier, i should be easy to see
Does anyone know if AMKE is doing schedule cosplay group gatherings for photos and what-not this year? I cannot find fucking anything on the website.
>>8903804
http://animemilwaukee.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2016-Cosplay-meetup-schedule.pdf
this?
its also on the schedule too
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>>8903105
REMOVE KPOP remove kpop
Any one else here for badge thursday badge pick-up? It's already a fucking mess.
>>8904846
I'm going after school tonight, probably around 9, hopefully it clears up
>>8904846
I had to leave to go to work before i got mine, rip my saturday
Anyone here yet? Got some bubble tea and its aight
Signed up as staff for free admission and hotel since I'm a poorfag. Also playing in orchestra, all the panels and cosplay meetups I'm interested in are when I'm working/performing. FML.
>all these deadpools
I do not know what I expected
>>8906511
I expected a sea of Undertale to be honest
I expected it when I saw a scheduled "Deadpool only" cosplay meetup.
Did anyone show up to the meetup? Only people who may have been gulls when I went were talking about globalized fetish threads
>>8906798
I kinda forgot? I was exhausted from maid cafe stuff and wanted to go to the video game room. Honestly, me and my friends were playing Dance Evolution and tried out the shooting rhythm game too! The game room is AMAZING... Also, artist alley is pretty top notch (in the hallways this year) and you can ghost thru the main parts of the con if you're only going for artist alley, seeing cosplays, and getting bubble tea.
>>8906839
If you were carrying the sign around, I definitely saw you. I was in my Huey and my Tony cosplay today
If you're going to the rave, don't relax.
>>8906956
He's not coming, he went for a different show lmao
>>8905362
Friday's reg ACTUALLY wasn't bad. Looked like a 15 minute wait at most points through the day.
White wigged Maid cafe seagull, if you're working tonight, you're pretty cute
>>8906956
There's some weird panels this year
>>8907878
My boyfriend wanted to sit in that panel just to kek. The anime white washing one was also strange looking. I competed today so I didn't get to actually do anything fun.
Con was way too packed this year, couldn't take any decent hall shots
JUST
>>8908224
There was also a "body positivity" and "ethics in games" panel
>>8908457
My strategy was to shoot video while walking through halls, when I get home I'll see if I can extract any good frames and do a photo dump.
Pic is something I was lucky enough to get just a few minutes ago.
>>8889599
Oh god, staffer here we are trying to be different than acen. At least in the areas they seem to do poorly in.
>>8908862
There was finally enough room to shoot today, but not many cosplays
>>8908457
Definitely felt crowded. I'll be curious to see what the numbers look like at the end. I heard a few estimates - all CLAIMING to be official that were ALL over the place.
>>8909661
Some staff members were saying 10k, but that's absurd. I'm thinking 5 to 6k but I'll update when they post the "official" count in the staff group.
The rave was absolute trash, no one I talked to had anything good to say except one guy who said the second DJ was alright. Round of applause for jeffito.
>>8909966
lmao u sound like a certain someone who didn't get vip but who knows
>>8910183
vip means nothing to me and especially not when it comes to jeffito.
Incoming dumbp.
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>>8910554
I am the terror that flaps in the con.
>>8910594
Sorry about the slow uploads, my connection is shit (think my roomates are hogging the bandwidth with torrents).
Lol I think Kpop is cool to have at a convention. I was basically at that Kpop booth the entire time, dancing and stuff. I was in a black turtleneck and black shorts if you saw me, but idk I still like nerdy anime stuff like Tokyo Ghoul and shit, so I wouldn't say Kpop fans are jocks to a nerd community, because Kpop fans are hella nerdy as well.
>>8910631
Sorry the interruption, helping a friend move.
We now continue our regularly scheduled photo dump.
>>8911299
Convinced the roommates to turn of their torrents for an hour, hopefully now I'll stop getting those "cannot contact the reCAPTCHA service" errors.
>>8911310
Also don't know why these portrait-oriented pics are showing up sideways, they're properly oriented when I open them in Irfanview.
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>>8911356
No such thing as too much Kiki.
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>>8911421
Somebody's mom slapped on a wig and a "Random Background Character" sign. I saw one other mom with the same sign, but didn't get a photo.
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>>8911466
Gundam cosplay of the year, every year.
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>>8911488
And I'm spent. But there were lots of great cosplays I didn't get pictures of though (that cute Ika Musume was camera-shy... or maybe just me-shy) (I totally would that chubby Morrigan), any seagulls care to fill in the gaps?
>>8911503
My cosplay wasn't particularily condusive to whipping out a camera. But I nabbed a few.
>>8907782
Omg that's me lol. thanks.
>>8911936
Did you do any cosplays in addition to the maid cafe? Thought I had seen you in a different outfit as well
>>8911370
my boy vega
>>8911524
YAS GOD
>>8912136
I think there was a decent amount of One Punch Man cosplayers I saw. But none were at the actual photoshoot - It was pretty early on Friday so the photoshoot was like... two Saitamas and a Sonic.
>>8912058
yeah I wore a basic lolita coord. it's in the cof thread.
>>8910460
He didn't even play so I'm ?????
>>8914148
He coordinated the rave which is why it was shit. You don't have to play at it to kill it.
>>8914171
I dunno I don't understand that entirely cause first anon said jeffito clears rooms but now it's just cause he picked the artist?
So he has bad taste in music? Or what?
>>8915041
He's very narrow-visioned when it comes to rave planning. He tend to pick a bunch of DJs that all sound the samish and all play the same weeaboo happy hardcore/nightcore w/ anime clip drop garbage. He doesn't have any idea how to actually plan something with any scope. It's all same soundy weeb garbage... no one above the age of 19 likes his raves for a reason.
Hay Vegita, wat does the scouter say about the attendee count?
>>8915055
But none of the djs listed play night core or happy hardcore ?_?
Here's some pics that I took!
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>>8915209
These Up guys were great! I feel bad since they got stopped for a pic every few feet though...
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>>8915219
The Howl on the left told me that he used a feather skirt to help make his cosplay lol
>>8915055
None of the DJs played anything like that this year, and all of the complaints were about the lack of happy hardcore/nightcore. I get that you don't like his raves, but you obviously didn't go to this one or even read any of the complaints.
More curious than anything. Did anyone see my Yarny on my shoulder? I wore him Friday and Saturday.
