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Does anyone living in the San Jose Area know of any good and reasonably priced places to eat during Fanime Con.  Hotel food is serving arms and legs of atrocious prices and it would be nice if the con can put up a map of highly recommended places to eat in Downtown San Jose.  

THAT IS NOT FAST FOOD OF COURSE

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I am from San Francisco and I was lost in finding a good place to eat back in 2004 when the con moved from Santa Clara and I missed out last years Fanime due to Cancer.

Anyway please post your recommendations and prices of food to us con goers on a traveling budget.  

Domo!!!!     :wink:

P.S. I wish Fanime would put up a map of Downtown San Jose with places to eat inside the program guide because it will help us starving and drooling otaku.

Ashley Akaihi     
PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 11:31 am    Post subject:

How can I get in touch with whoever is in charge of Volunteers this year?

Hi Ashley!

Here is the info you requested for.

The name of the guy in Charge of Fanime's Volunteer Department goes by the name of James.  

James can be reached at [email protected]  He will gladly answer all your questions that you need to know.

[Please bring I.D. If pre-registered. Show some I.D. (Optional like a California I.D, Passport, Birth Certificate) You and your Parent and or Guardian MUST sign a waiver form contract of age concent letting you (the child/minor and or teenager) have permission to work Fanime Con as a department volunteer.]

To all the people that are under the age of 18 that want to help and become a volunteer.  

The age minumum to volunteer is 13 Years old.

You have to either have been pre-registered or have bought a full  4 day pass paper badge to volunteer.  If you are just going for the day or two and have paid up front, Fanime's Volunteer Department will still accept people provided if there is a shortage of volunteers needed in other departments of the con.

Please bring I.D. If pre-registered.  Show some I.D. (Optional like a California I.D, Passport, Birth Certificate)  You and your Parent and or Guardian MUST sign a waiver form contract of age concent letting you (the child/minor and or teenager) have permission to work Fanime Con as a department volunteer.

We do not want any kind of trouble of lawsuits. Just kidding,

You can find the Parental Concent Forms to Work at Fanime at the Volunteer hole TBA.  

Otherwise you can click here to fill out and print the parental concent form

http://www.fanime.com/staff/fanime_waiver.pdf

Anyway just asked registration where the Vol Hole is and take it from there.

If you work the full volunteer hours the con requested you to work, 100 percent of your registration money will be refunded.  Half the hours worked then half of your registration money is refunded and so forth.

Complimentary Room and boarding will be provided to Volunteers on the first come first server basis.

Please note that Volunteering will start this year the thursday night before the convention starts so you can work very early to get your hours out of the way.  This is optional though.

I hope this helps.

[YOU HAVE UNTIL MARCH 31st TONIGHT 11:59PST TIME LEFT TO DO ONLINE PRE-REGISTRATION TO GET THE 50 BUCKS DISCOUNT AND COOL LAMINATED FANIME BADGE WITH YOUR NAME ON IT.]

Just a reminder for anyone that is very last minute in trying to get the pre registration discount of 50 Bucks:

YOU HAVE UNTIL MARCH 31st
TONIGHT 11:59PST TIME LEFT TO DO ONLINE PRE-REGISTRATION TO GET THE 50 BUCKS DISCOUNT AND COOL LAMINATED FANIME BADGE WITH YOUR NAME ON IT.

After 11:59PST Prices of 4 days as of APRIL 1st 12:00AM on that time will be 55 bucks and you will get the Paper Badge Instead of the Laminated Badge.

Do not miss out if you want the Elite Anime Laminated Badge only Pre Registrants get so hurry tonight or else miss out in this small souvenier as a attendee of Fanime Con.

Just a friendly reminder from a convention vet who has been attending Fanime for 6 Years.

Hope all of you enjoy this years convention and have the time of your life to make new friends and memories for future Fanime Con's to come!!!!

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Thanks for the replies Fanime video gamers.  My name is Jason and I have been attending Fanime for 6 years.  After being an attendee for so long I decided I wanted to Staff Fanime to enhance the convention and give back my gaming knowledge and community services to Fanime.

The reason why I posted this poll is to get feedback from the die hard otaku to casual american video gamers to see if they know or heard of the game Para Para Paradise and the 411.  

I have played Para Para Paradise long time ago back in 2000 at my friends video game party aka CHUG for the people out there who attended Recca Con.  

Craig Rose is my friend and he introduced me to the game.  I was still a Import Newbie for 2 years trying to learn the ins and outs of Import gaming and learning games that are out in Japan that will never come out here and I learned alot about Import gaming thanks to Craig Rose of the Recca Society.

Anyway I later visted Milpitas Golfland and tried out the actual PPP machine there which was second mix.  I loved it and very sadly only played it for that fated visit at MGL.  I haven't been back since due to me being busy and all.

I will be bringing the console version of the game to this Years Fanime Gaming Room.

But if I do I have to request the Fanime gamers to please use common sense and not bring food and drinks into the console and PC gaming room.  Also do not step or kick the Para Para Paradise Controller sensors as they are irreplacable due to its rarity.

Fanime has never had Para Para Paradise brought into the convention and I would love to show it off to the people who haven't seen the game.  I request a gaming Para Para Dance lession from the veterans since I am not a really good Dancer.


By the way to the poster above, I have met Oniko for the first time at one of the past Fanime Con Staff meetings that passed this year.

I haven't had a conversation with her as of yet to get to know her in person but if she knows how to Para Para I would like to ask her to teach me the dance.

Ok we have a huge problem in getting the Arcade Machine of Para Para Paradise to Fanime.  Apparantly the manager in MGL from what I heard is very mean/anal from what I heard from my friend and will not let anyone rent out their PPP 2nd Mix Machine out to any event that requests for it.

Plus the Fact MGL's  PPP 2nd mix machine is the only one in the Bay Area and no other arcade in the entire bay area has an extra machine for gamers to play.

To anyone that can forward requests of Arcade Machines to Fanime's Arcade Department, Please talk with Craige in order to request and hopefully rent out in the US or Import from Japan a PPP Machine.

PPP arcade machines are very difficult to find now that the dance is dead in Japan.

Anyway I hope I answered all your requests and questions in this thread.  I wish this years Console and PC gaming room of Fanime a success.

Any other questions, please feel free to E-mail me or leave a message in this thread.

As they say in Fanime this con is By Fans for Fans and E-gaming is gladly willing to consider gaming requests.

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I would like to know if you guys want Para Para Paradise at Fanime.