>>12 I find the idea that you are "meeting" the mangaka &c. ridiculous; it's performative, a performance, a play (at the level of bourgeois theatre). The mangaka at the convention is reduced to a social signifier, an open-ended signifier to be consumed without otherness (the final object of consumer culture is to always reduce everything to the same same-ness, i.e -> liberal universality); in fact, you'd do a better job of "meeting" a mangaka if you were to do a drive-by on them, because at least in this scenario you escape the constraints of exchange.
The enjoyment (in terms of _joy_ not entertainement) of a author's work, is a 10^6 better intercourse, than any convention (enjoyment in-as-much as one is a dividual projecting him-self into de liberal new-man aka individual).
>>11 The world is material, ergo, everything is materiality. Please take your fascism to another discursive Universe. Everything is intercourse, everything is meta-interest, nothing is enjoyed in it-self, but rather for something else, the isolation of the work into itself is correct in-as-much as there is no outside of the text, but incorrect in-as-much as our participation in text must be limited by text, this is to say, we must not allow how participation be limited by the given of text -- there must always be a giving, and therefore, the outside of the text penetrating violently (materially, and obscenely) into the the text "it-self".
>>22 I mean yeah, you don't need anime either. I do agree though that if you are not there go buy anime merch, and to spend ridiculous amounts of money then there is no point going to a convention.
>>16 I don't understand, do you expect the mangaka to give you a blowjob and a privaye meeting? I like to see the creators in the flesh and to hear them speak. Isn't that enough?
>>11 Cosplay is kind of 2.5DPD cancer but it's a key aspect of otaku culture... I hate it but maybe the deluded cosplayer fans are onto something.
Convention panels are useless I agree. Nothing which is said in them couldn't be said better in a youtube video essay.
Ok so I do agree that cons have issues but merely pointing out the problems is not enough. What would, in your view, be the perfect convention? What kind of events should there be at a convention for it to be good? Were there ever any good cons to follow as an example? Daicon maybe?
Everyone in this thread tell us about your ideal convention?
ok dont meet japanese mangaka, anime staff, and video game producers then. ill enjoy hanging out with daisuke ishiwatari and toshio maeda.