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I picked up a few items from them too. I kind of feel bad since I thought it the stuff they had hanging up belonged to the booth behind them. So I was flipping through their portfolio book and was thinking wow I really like the items up there better. So I asked the girl if I could buy those and she's like oh it's the booth behind me. Whoops sorry.

I just realized I bought some stuff from them last year too. I guess that's to be expected. I'm a big fan of original art and most stuff in the stuff in the artist alley is fan art.

I actually know exactly who you are talking about. There work was very good ( I purchased a few prints myself) but I need to disagree with you about moving them into the dealer hall since what they are selling is pretty much "fanart" of copyrighted works and having them in the dealers hall could cause some legal issues for them as fanime is a bit stricter than sac anime as to what can go into the dealers hall. I do agree that it seems unfair that they can get so many tables, especially if other artists were unable to get one. However if there are plenty of spare tables then I see no reason fanime shouldn't be allowed to sell as many table spots as possible even if they are to the same people. Fanime does need the money for more stuff like those new walkie talkies alot of staff had with them.

I hope you were able to attend this event. It was quite amazing as a ton of staff from Gainax showed up for the event. I was lucky enough to get Sadamoto sensei to autograph one of my evangelion reproduction cels even though he was not suppose to sign anything.

1) Mabinogi Black Succubus Figure $65-70 - Only one I saw, bought from the same dealer I got a Sgt Frog plush last year. They were very friendly but I could not remember their name.
2) DNA2 Cel $25 - Nice guy right across from the Broccoli booth. He had an amazing collection of older cels. I was very tempted to blow a few hundred on his Maison Ikkoku cels.
3) Fan Art from Artist Alley $13 - Picked up both original art and some fan art. I really loved the higher quality of stuff available this year.
4) Alice 19th 3-7 $15 - Good find at the swap meet.
5) Maison Ikkoku Manga 3 vols $5 - Another great swap meet deal. Only needed one gave the other two to a friend. I bought all three because I didn't remember the one I needed.
6) Ranma Manga v6 $1 - Swap Meet Deal

Pretty low total for me. But I spent alot at Super-Con the weekend before.

I had issues with the people manning the doors for the Artist Alley. In particular there was a guy there with a beret saturday morning who would physically grab people which I thought was highly inappropriate. I don't recommend using him or any of the beret wearers in a staff position in the future as such actions could be considered assault. On sunday there was a kid who looked at my preregistered members badge and asked if it was a badge from yesterday. Seems like there was a huge lack of communication between con ops and the staff/volunteers.


Another huge issue I had was with the Gainax tickets. No one at any info booth on Friday or Saturday had any idea. I talked with 3 other staff members and they said to wait in the An Cafe line which after 2 hrs did not have any Gainax tickets. An asian staff member was telling people to go to the gainax booth in the dealers room. Which of course there is no gainax booth there. Talking to the info booth in the dealer room referred us to brocolli. So we talked with the brocolli booth who had no idea and had us to go to con ops. Con ops called the ticket booth and said that the gainax tickets should of been available earlier in the An Cafe line which was a blatant lie. We did eventually get our tickets 8 hrs later after spending 3 hrs of foot work trying to track down information.


Another issue I had was with the swap meet. Plenty of staff said that a few minutes after the swap meet opens they should stop taking preregistered sellers. But a female staff member with long brunette hair said that they're gonna keep taking people that preregistered even when they show up hours later and that everyone else is just fucked. I think the fact that only one person
is processing sellers was amazingly bad.


In fact I think I was pretty much fed up with every staff member and volunteer I saw with the exception of the people handling the badge pickup for preregistered members on Friday.