#anime banzai

[painfully-bitchy]

Return of the ballpit

[eevee-91]

Anime Banzai just vaporizing itself wasn't in my 2024 bingo card but here we are

[wonderland-valley-cosplay]

*cue "I'll Be Watching You" by The Police*

[thegreatmoof]

Feels kind of weird that my local anime convention, Anime Banzai, is finally just sorta dead after something like 20 years. And I can't even pretend to be sad or surprised.

It used to be a real anchor in the calendar, an annual serotonin fest that I looked forward to year after year, but as it moved out of the city center and into the distant suburbs, hard to get to and attendance-limited in a pretty tiny space, it's just sorta stopped being something I was even remotely excited for even before COVID broke both its kneecaps.

The event this year is cancelled; we don't even get to say goodbye. But this year's schedule was like 80% cosplay tips (a really niche demographic) and the only actual fan panels were the 3-4 usual suspects that've been there way too long: Dragonball, Fullmetal Alchemist, Bleach, and RWBY. No Jujutsu Kaisen, no Frieren, nothing new or interesting and just the same boomers making the same arguments and jokes after 20 years.

Anime Banzai was poorly run & stuck in a terrible location. I really want to be sad that it's dead, but I stopped having any fun there a decade ago.

[st4rryskiesc0]

The October-November con chronicles

That last post had me thinking about all the convention moments running around in the little brain of mine, so im posting them all there. MY BLOG MY POSTS!!!

FanX

I met a mumbo jumbo and I remember my big ear wings was in their face in the photo and i felt so bad. At least they had a little pesky bird plush they let me hold!!!

I was exhausted and nervous and saw a quackity cosplayer and so I ran up to them and said "oh my god i love your cosplay it looks so good!!" and they had friends around them and i said "all your lcosplays look so good oh my god its just so good all of you" and i just kept rambling because i was just so tired and didnt know how to human and they looked so awkward and they gave me a little casino coin as a gift and i felt so bad so im sorry if you ever see this quackity cosplayer in the pit :sob:

I met a tango and we stood in the middle of the stands area and he came up and shook my hand and we just kept shaking hands while we talked it was so fun !

THERE WERE SO MANY DREAM SMP COSPLAYERS MY GOD!!! all of them were so good though

I met a skeppy and I was like "oh my god have you found a badboyhalo yet?" THEIR FRIEND WAS BAD SOBBING CRYING THROWING UP I DIDNT EVEN REALIZE THEY WERE THERE!!! we laughed about it and moved on so it was okay :3

i met a double life impulse and Bdubs and i asked them "so ive noticed most people this year that are matching cosplay are partners, are you guys partners or just friends??" because i was trying to get a grasp on the FanX cosplayers economy and norms if that makes sense??? they were going as just friends they both had separate partners i was so embarassed sobbnig crying they understood though it wasnt a big deal

Anime Banzai

As soon as I got there I saw a wilbur soot cosplayer and went up to say hi and THERE WAS A CODFATHER JIMMY THERE!!! They recognized my Etho cosplay as *etho* and not kakashi and we just hung out the entire day it was amazing

When I first got there my spirit halloween kakashi mask was too tight because duh spirit halloween and you could see my entire mouth outline it was HORRIBLE i took back ups just in case but my only picture with codfather jimmy is with my too-tight kakashi mask and it kinda sucks ;w; it's alright though, we had so much fun it doesnt really matter

There was this little girl outside where there was a DJ type thing and she danced and the DJ danced with her and it was so cute. One of the singers from the Idol competition earlier came up and taught her how to do some dances and it was absolutely adorable, I loved it

This little kid also came up to me, codfather, and their friend cosplaying as toadette (? im not sure, i didnt ask what exactly they were all i knew was that it was amazing cosplay) with their little pochita stuffie they got and made gave us a bonk on the head with him and it was incredible and adorable

The idol competition was so cool but the announcer was ABWHEYGUTF it was... strange... between every performance they said "can i get an uwu?" it was horrible SOBBING CRYING it was still so fun though, he was very charming besides for that whole fiasco

during that same cosplay ocmpetition i didnt really know how to cheer???? i dont know, same thing as Fanx where I was exhausted and nervous and i just completely forgot how to person

this older guy came up to me and said "okay whats with the canada??" because for my etho cosplay I had a canada patch on my arm and I had to explain to him "im so sorry im not kakashi its a completely different character" and he walked away so confused and i felt so bad because he was an older lad and i felt like id just blown his mind and it was so awkward

thats it, fanx and anime banzai were so fun and im so glad I went :DD i met so many fun people and everyone was so nice !!

[charlesfoxtrotswife]

my understanding of epithet erased characters view of santa claus

molly - lorelai told her santa isn’t real. she cried herself to sleep that night.

giovanni - he knows santa isn’t real but will live in delusion.

sylvie - pretends he doesn’t believe in santa. absolutely does.

mera - she knows he isn’t real

indus - he does NOT know. mera was the first person to tell him.

every banzai - giovanni is trying to gaslight them into thinking santa’s real. ben is the only one who believes it completely.

percy - she knows he’s fake. she’s percy.

ramsey - he knows santa isn’t real. he’s the type of guy to dress as santa on christmas.

zora - she figured it out when her parents died and all the sudden no more presents.

lorelai - martin told her like a whiiiiiile ago. he did it on accident opposie poopsie.

trixie - believes it. getting skeptical. just thinks they’re on the naughty list.

feenie - ONE BAJILLION PERCENT CONVINCED SANTA IS REAL.

rick - “what is a santa?? a fat man breaks in your house and leaves gifts?? what a joyous holiday!! :3” he’s odd.

stink and stonk - santa defenders till the GRAVE.

yoomtah - knows he isn’t real. doesn’t care. still very merry around the holidays.

naven - knows he isn’t real. FORCED to be merry on the holidays.

bonus- charles and moot - charles knows he isn’t real but still absolutely loves christmas and that mistletoe shit. moot knows he isn’t real and doesn’t really care.

[princehoneytea]

thanks to the ppl who took pics with me at fanX!!!! :3 i didnt stay in my partial for long because of the heat (i also was hoping to cover all my Human Skin but it was too hot so i dressed summery instead LOL) but it was super fun and im looking forward to anime banzai next month too <3

[caspalooza]

i was not sleeping the night the banzai blaster designs got revealed

[magicalscrewup]

My favorite epithet oc of mine! Meg O’Fone! The extremely clingy and enthusiastic banzai blaster cheerleader!!! She has lots and lots of friends! (She is lying, she has no friends)

[witchpuppies]

(via GIPHY)

[witchofthesouls]

Isn't Banzaitron Yokotron's twin brother. I think he's a decepticon? Because if he is that somehow that makes things funnier.

(Searches on TFWiki)

WHEEZES

Apparently, he isn't in TFA, but I'm digging the character.

I raise you that Banzai-tron is actually part of the Decepticon's attempts at cloning Yoketron to steal his teachings and skillset.

Instead, they got Banzai-tron, who has a very warped distortion of Yoketron's ideals. ("The strong will eat, the weak are meat.")

The true beast is actually Brother.

Yoketron was Brother's leash, and the mech isn't there...

[peepongos]

more milk boy and also a little bit of he homies

[raccoon328]

The Three hyenas from The Lion King as mightyena from pokemon

[velolceraptor]

WIPs I wanted to share

[transstuckywriter]

one of my local comic cons is absolutely imploding and it's so funny to me

[fabricatedgeek]

Y’all ever have drama pop up that you’re entirely not involved in but it’s still in your periphery?

Anyway… the anime con I helped staff a decade ago just imploded. I have no details. I want no details. But the little bits I keep hearing are wild.