Dragon Con: Chaos, Costumes, and Questionable Decisions

In my last post, I casually mentioned that I’m finally going to check off a bucket list item with my first trip to Japan. You know, the one that could potentially end with me attending a once in a lifetime concert if the lottery gods work in my favor? Yeah, that one.

Well, what if I told you that about a month and a half before I even board that flight to Tokyo, I’m crossing another item off my list?

Not a “that would be nice someday” item. A core memory loading item.

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Anime Los Angeles 21 – A belated recap

If I told you I went to an anime convention for four days and barely attended any programming, you’d probably assume it was a terrible con.

Honestly? Fair.

But that’s the thing about Anime Los Angeles (ALA)—it’s not the kind of convention where your weekend lives and dies by how many panels you hit. ALA has programming (mostly fan-run, aside from guest events), but for me, it’s always been about something else entirely: the people.

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