#animefest 2019

[jackofhearts-odb]

I got a picture of my Harvey cosplay from my friend! Hopefully after my hair grows out an inch or two it'll look better

[sakevisual]

Important notice for folks attending AnimeFest 2019 in Dallas TX! AnimeFest and GameFest are considered two events (covered by the same badge), so pay close attention to which materials you’re looking at.

We will be on the GAMEFEST side this year with visual novel panels, resources for devs, and the absolutely free Visual Novel Reading Room! All our panels with be in the HOTEL on the 37th floor. The VN Reading Room is also in the hotel on the 4th floor. You will not find any of this information or our schedule in the AnimeFest guide, so please look out for the GameFest guide as well. Thank you, and I hope to see you there!

[docwithtardisfez]

Allowed myself to only make one minor purchase at AnimeFest this weekend, and I went with 3 posters from the amazing @asunnydisposish!!

I love the art style, and she was so nice!!

[sondereber]

Decided to start using my Tumblr again, now for uploading con photos! Gonna slowly be uploading photos from AnimeFest 2019.

Cosplayer unknown. Cosplay is Joker from Persona 5.

[gbr-schreiber]

Earth.

Fire.

...umm

Yo, Watertribe, b*tchez.

[kookyboargonphotos]

GET IN THE GIANT ROBOT SHINJI! - @ AnimeFest 2019

[extraclevermongoose]

We didn’t actually get any photos at AFest this year, and as usual, can’t find any of the ones anyone took of us :( but I think we were beautiful

[starlightfae]

the bakutiddies

[spaicy-project]

Animefest Spaicy 2019

Guys! I'll be at the AnimeFest 2019 -Sheraton Dallas Hotel -August 16th-19th -Dallas, TX www.animefest.org Please come to see us! ^_^

[alienkittyportfolio]

Animefest

Dallas, TX

August 16-19

[himitsusentaiblog]

Story Time With Uncle Tokusatsu

Ok, first off let me say that Uncle Tokusatsu is what my brother calls me to my niblings because I have introduced them all to it.  I also like the moniker because it makes me feel like the older guy who brings the stories of the old days of fandom. That said, let’s take a trip back to 1997.   In 1996 I had begun to attend anime conventions.  My very first was Project A-Kon* in Dallas, Texas.  This was back when the convention was in a relatively small hotel called the Harvey (which is now the Crowne Plaza) in Addison, Texas.  To let you know how small these cons were back then, A-Kon was one of the oldest in the nation and it had an attendance the first year I went of 800 people.  The last modern A-Kon (they dropped the Project from the title after I stopped regularly attending) had an attendance of 34,684.   Needless to say, the modern Kon would never fit in a modest hotel like the Harvey/Plaza.

I knew people on staff at the Kon, notably folds on the video staff.  So, in 1997, when I attended my next A-Kon, I was able to get a special favor.  They had an opening in the schedule EARLY in the morning on Saturday and I basically begged, pleaded and volunteered to work if I could fill that spot. The Harvey had a pretty nice conference room, which was being used as the Main Video room for the convention.  This is where all the big premieres were shown such as Shin Kimagure Orange Road that year and they held special events like Hentai Fest late night on Saturday.  

So, I got a spot on the schedule for what I had brought with me, the first 4 episodes of the newest Super Sentai Series, Denji Sentai Megaranger in raw Japanese with no subtitles. I had gotten it from a local Japanese grocery store as they had a policy of getting new shows on VHS after they aired in Japan to keep the local Japanese diaspora current with what was airing back home.  It also gave us hardcore US fans a chance to see shows we could never get otherwise in the days before bittorrent and digital file sharing.

So, at 6am on Saturday morning my friend who ran the video room, about 12 hearty (or who partied all night and had not yet gone to bed) souls and I watched Super Sentai projected onto a big screen for the first time at A-Kon.  It went over fairly well and I got someone asking me for a copy.  Fortunately, back then people tended to bring VCRs with them to cons so we just hooked two together and I let him copy my tape.   This was my first time showing Toku at a con and since then, I have tried to do it at every convention I can.  I actually still run a Toku showcase late at night at Austin convention Ushicon and in 2019 I got to be on vidstaff at AnimeFEST in Dallas to program and show toku (including Megaranger off of the official DVD release).   So, that’s just one more story of the Early days of Toku fandom.  Now pardon me, I need to take my Geritol and go lie down for a while. *Project A-Kon took its name from the 1986 Parody Anime classic Project A-Ko which was one of the first anime I ever saw back in college in 1993.

[jackofhearts-odb]

Aaaah I got another picture back from AFest! I just now realized how much my eyes look like they're closed whenever I smile lmao

[crimson-chains]

Just realized I met you at Colorado AnimeFest 2019. I am IN LOVE with Arthur and Damien. 😍

OH!! I love doing that con! :D

Happy that you like the Eldritch Boyfriends!!! <3 <3 <3

They’re so fun ;w;

[docwithtardisfez]

Guess whose Steve Harrington cosplay is now complete and ready for AnimeFest 2019!

[natalus-photography]

Atsushi Sakurai X Hisashi Imai (the lead singer and the guitarist of the Japanese rock band BUCK-TICK) Cosplayers: Natália (me) and Kristína Location: AnimeFest, Brno, Czech Rep. 25/5/2019 Thanks to my fellow cosplayer @batspider​​ (@sumichrkr on Instagram) for taking this photo. I edited it myself.

[gaudygeeky]

You're under arrest, Lupin. ;3

From Animefest 2019, Officer Fujiko Mine!!