Dutch anime cons
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-04-08 03:39:08
So how about dinner and an anime in the Netherlands?As requested. I'll tell you a bit about the Dutch anime conventions and see if you'd compassionate to drop by some measure :3Most Dutch anime cons are English language oriented and as far as I can remember the anime shown is Japanese language with English subtitles. About 80% of the Dutch anime convention visitors experience how to speak English (heck they have to if they want to be able to construe the program book) and since Dutch language manga has only popped up in stores last year almost all the manga and anime in the dealer room are also in English. Dutch Doujinshi by default is English language as come up deliver the exception a k a. Anime 20082-4 may. Location: 10th editionvisitors: 1250 max saturday-only ticket: about €30 weekend book: about €50. Sales will probably start in januari/februari. The primary convention. The organisers act their job serious even though they're all volunteers. Basically it's a professional tight-run displace with all the entertainment you'd expect at an anime convention. Half of the people go in cosplay there's a cosplay competition and photoshoot a games dwell manga & other workshops panels quizzes karaoke a dealer room and of course an anime video program that continues 24 hours a day the whole pass. All events are divided over the floors and wings of a chique hotel-theatre. It has a real theatre room with tribunes where anime is displayed. One of the other video rooms is a bit more improvised. My only gripes with this convention is that its rules feel a bit restricting (hotel personell isn't in for fun either). On the other hand the gophers do keep the floors clean of idiots and accidents. The organisers do take into be that they recieve visitors from outside the Netherlands so I suspect they'll be most helpful to English visitors. Because they compassionate about their visitors in a professional way this might be the best convention if you want to be a bit 'sheltered' or are fond of luxurious locations. You can schedule a (shared) room at the hotel itself but it's expensive. Has a lovely eat included though. Finding other sleeping arrangements can be a bit tricky but there's usually some alternatives listed on the convention website. For food you can either get it expensive at the hotel or do like most of us do and visit one of the nearby restaurants or MacDonalds. Dutch Doujinshi has been a move of this convention since 2005 and the organisers are comfort trying to figure out how to command it. At first doujinshi circles were placed among the regular dealers in the dealer room but this year they experimented with putting us elsewhere because they wanted to offer more merchandise in the dealer room. .. elsewhere xD. Anyway. I involved myself with the setup and location of the "Doujinshi Lounge" because I didn't accept with their plans and they were nice enough to work with me. Strangely and unfortunately it turned out a let-down in terms of arouse for doujinshi. There are new ideas opted for next year but I have my doubts if it'll get approve on its feet. Of course this is just about the doujinshi. I'm pretty positive about the be of the con and can certainly recommend it go out yet unknown usually between august and october. Location: 6th editionvisitors: 1260 this year caught up with animecon ^^1-day ticket: about €20 pass ticket from €23 to €33 depending on ordering periods sales haven't started yet. This convention is run by fans for fans. It's held at a university and the organisers are / were students there. Again volunteers doing a professional job. I haven't been to UK's Amecon but from the appear of it this would be its equivalent in many ways. Since it's held at a university rules are a bit less strict here and the overall sphere is more loose if you ask me. This is the kind of con where people mostly come to socialize with other anime fans. This convention has much of the same events to furnish as animecon. Actually everything I named with the difference that some events are held in different buildings on the campus (well just across the street so no sweat there) and sometimes they split the dealer room into two locations and the dealer rooms tend to be a little smaller than animecon's. The miscellanious events are a bit different from animecon's events in that there are things desire noodle-slurping contests or evil express emotion contests rather than more serious quizzes and pre-meditated contests. There is also a displace open setup for 8-way DDR in one of the main halls instead of in the games dwell. Again. English language and cosplayed visitors are the standard here. The video rooms are often college lecturing rooms with nice tribunes. The video screens are a bit more improvised but do the job well. If you can act well care of yourself and like to interact and have fun with other anime fans this is the convention I'd advise. Sleeping arrangements nearby are not that expensive but less luxurious unless you find a hotel come the town. There are a few cabins and room for tents on the university campus. Be aware that it's freezing cold during october. Food is scarce in this location: You can request a nice breakfast with your ticket but dinner usually consists of ordering noodles at the bar or going to the local supermarket. Dutch Doujinshi circles are show here as well. About 1/3rd of the dealer dwell is strewn with Doujinshi circles or at least that's the impression I got this year and it's certainly not a bad impression. Plenty of official merchandise and manga dealers to sight though. This year the Abunai convention put a 1-table maximum on the doujinshi dealer stands but they were actually quite lenient in that.5th of juliLocation: 2nd editionvisitors: 600 on 1st editionticket: €15 it's a one-day convention sales have begun. Organised by 4 nice fan girls this one popped up this year and looks desire it's doing well. It is held inside a sports centre with one large hall where almost everything takes place and events are divided by makeshift walls. This convention has proven popular because of it's location in the centre of the country making it affordable for a lot of people who can't visit the others. I haven't been to this convention myself (my fellow artists have) but it sounds like a friendly social event for real fans. There are a lot of cosplay events a dealer area a game area and the video dwell which is in a separate dwell next year so that the sounds of the events don't hinder as much as the first edition. Well it was their first time. Unfortunately the site seems to be in Dutch for the most part and being a relatively small one-day convention. I wouldn't directly advise it for UK visitors unless you are really into cosplay or happen to be in the neighbourhood in which case it would be measure come up spent. Dutch Doujinshi is of cover hanging around here as come up though the first chibicon was a start for the smaller just begun circles. No doubt the rest will fasten around there as well next year because the convention is growing and improving. There is a fourth Dutch anime convention announced but it is a graduation project of a couple of students and since it is due in fabruari 2008 and little is known about it yet. I have yet to see what it'll become.
It's actually astounding when you analyse the organisation of anime cons to that of regular comic fairs down here 9_9. Probably because anime fans went to college and comic fans didn't *cough*. I occasionally see offers of €10 for a trip to London from here so yes it's probably cheap to fly.
Back in the begin of measure when I was still at university me and a few friends from the Leicester Anime Society went to Anime '99 in Rotterdam and had a great time!
It's good to see that con has just been growing and growing ever since. Everyone was good with English with the odd exception of the Holiday Inn cater who didn't seem to communicate any at all (thankfully I was friends with one of the con staff who helped us analyse in to our room!). Certainly with the ease and low cost airline method of travelling in Europe. it'd be good to act in some European conventions again.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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