I had an absolutely wonderful time at Fanime, though I admit I didn't do much except fangirl over An Cafe. X3 Thank you to all who put so much time and effort into everything. I wish I could come back next year but I unfortunately live across the country. XD
Pros:
1. An Cafe. Simple as that. Thank you to all of the people who made this possible. It was so exciting. :D The concert and autograph session were simply marvelous.
2. As people have mentioned, the water stations! How excellent of an idea!
3. As much as I was annoyed by everything leading up to An Cafe's autograph session, they had it running smoothly when the time came, and for that I am eternally grateful considering I needed to catch a 12:30 flight. Thank you so much. <3
4. Haha, I absolutely adored the music playing throughout the convention center!
5. Though some staffers were quite rude to us in line for the concert, there were others who were so very nice and understanding. I'm sure we all appreciated that a lot.
6. Registration went fantastic for me. Very smooth and timely.
I cannot add more general things to my pros list considering I did practically nothing except things related to An Cafe...
So here we go...
Cons:
1. Now, I do trust that this took a great deal of time and planning spanning over countless hours...but honestly, even if that is true, sometimes it was just an absolute mess. Especially the matter of tickets and lines. My dear friend and a ton of other people basically waited for 12+ hours for tickets, sometimes getting them and sometimes not. I know the quota thing was supposed to help, but I don't know if it did more harm than good.
2. The autograph session for An Cafe was simply poorly planned, at least at first. I had an early flight, so I arrived at the convention center at 7:30 in the morning to wait. And absolutely NO ONE seemed to know where or when the session would be. Seriously, my dad and I asked countless people and no one knew. That was mighty irritating. And then we could not form a line at the supposed place. The reason for this was basically "If you form a line, it'll look like a line." Pardon me, but... no shit. Of course it will. They just kept shuffling us around for reasons unknown to me. I'm sure they were trying to keep us safe or something, but it was absurd. And when we finally moved to the right place, it happened that people I am sure were not there at 7:30 were ahead of me. And that upset me on a personal level. I guess to solve that there should have always been a set place and lineup area for the session, as well as better communication, since for the longest time the staffers seemed to know very little dealing with the session.
3. The concert was great albeit a bit short. But my main problem was the staffers constantly screaming at us like we were retarded. The whole line thing was absurd. I am perfectly aware that we were supposed to line up around 2, but having us "disperse" only made us walk up and down the sidewalk waiting. How is that any safer? Honestly, I don't know how that could have been solved. But it annoyed us all, and a lot of the staff merely yelling at us instead of helping us was not pleasing. This concert was sort of a big deal, so they shouldn't have just assumed we wouldn't be dreadfully anxious.
4. Through no fault of Fanime or the staff, the crowd at the An Cafe concert was absolutely DREADFUL. The selfish, violent attitudes and the pushing and shoving and crowd surfing was horrible. I felt like I was going to faint on more than one occasion. For all of you who were actually civilized individuals, that comment is in no way directed at you. And if I happened to bump into someone, I truly truly apologize for it. I tried so hard to keep from hurting someone, but it was so difficult when we were all jostling each other like mad.
I cannot add more than that, and a lot of the cons merely dealt with An Cafe...but I expect it was hell to plan this entire thing and keep things in order. So putting aside all of my complaints, I want to thank everyone who made such a thing possible and actually tried wholeheartedly to have everything run smoothly. It was a dream come true for me. :3
Pros:
1. An Cafe. Simple as that. Thank you to all of the people who made this possible. It was so exciting. :D The concert and autograph session were simply marvelous.
2. As people have mentioned, the water stations! How excellent of an idea!
3. As much as I was annoyed by everything leading up to An Cafe's autograph session, they had it running smoothly when the time came, and for that I am eternally grateful considering I needed to catch a 12:30 flight. Thank you so much. <3
4. Haha, I absolutely adored the music playing throughout the convention center!
5. Though some staffers were quite rude to us in line for the concert, there were others who were so very nice and understanding. I'm sure we all appreciated that a lot.
6. Registration went fantastic for me. Very smooth and timely.
I cannot add more general things to my pros list considering I did practically nothing except things related to An Cafe...
So here we go...
Cons:
1. Now, I do trust that this took a great deal of time and planning spanning over countless hours...but honestly, even if that is true, sometimes it was just an absolute mess. Especially the matter of tickets and lines. My dear friend and a ton of other people basically waited for 12+ hours for tickets, sometimes getting them and sometimes not. I know the quota thing was supposed to help, but I don't know if it did more harm than good.
2. The autograph session for An Cafe was simply poorly planned, at least at first. I had an early flight, so I arrived at the convention center at 7:30 in the morning to wait. And absolutely NO ONE seemed to know where or when the session would be. Seriously, my dad and I asked countless people and no one knew. That was mighty irritating. And then we could not form a line at the supposed place. The reason for this was basically "If you form a line, it'll look like a line." Pardon me, but... no shit. Of course it will. They just kept shuffling us around for reasons unknown to me. I'm sure they were trying to keep us safe or something, but it was absurd. And when we finally moved to the right place, it happened that people I am sure were not there at 7:30 were ahead of me. And that upset me on a personal level. I guess to solve that there should have always been a set place and lineup area for the session, as well as better communication, since for the longest time the staffers seemed to know very little dealing with the session.
3. The concert was great albeit a bit short. But my main problem was the staffers constantly screaming at us like we were retarded. The whole line thing was absurd. I am perfectly aware that we were supposed to line up around 2, but having us "disperse" only made us walk up and down the sidewalk waiting. How is that any safer? Honestly, I don't know how that could have been solved. But it annoyed us all, and a lot of the staff merely yelling at us instead of helping us was not pleasing. This concert was sort of a big deal, so they shouldn't have just assumed we wouldn't be dreadfully anxious.
4. Through no fault of Fanime or the staff, the crowd at the An Cafe concert was absolutely DREADFUL. The selfish, violent attitudes and the pushing and shoving and crowd surfing was horrible. I felt like I was going to faint on more than one occasion. For all of you who were actually civilized individuals, that comment is in no way directed at you. And if I happened to bump into someone, I truly truly apologize for it. I tried so hard to keep from hurting someone, but it was so difficult when we were all jostling each other like mad.
I cannot add more than that, and a lot of the cons merely dealt with An Cafe...but I expect it was hell to plan this entire thing and keep things in order. So putting aside all of my complaints, I want to thank everyone who made such a thing possible and actually tried wholeheartedly to have everything run smoothly. It was a dream come true for me. :3