AnimeNEXT 09 - Sunday

Haha, I'm back after a few days of rest from the convention. I'm still pretty tired but pretty satisfied with how everything went. Of course, I only with Sunday, so sadly I wasn't able to experience the other things they had on Friday and Saturday.

Anyway, the new location for this year's convention was lovely. At least the view and area was great for just hanging out and taking pictures. Though, for those in NY it may be a problem for them to get there since it's more in NJ and it's a mile or two to get there from the train station. Lucky AN took that into consideration and provided shuttle buses to make it easier for people to get there.

Highlights:

The Dealer's Room - I didn't find everything I plan on getting but it was still packed with great stuff. Yup, it was great to see some other things like a lot of DBZ, Pokemon and some less popular anime/games. However, I was disappointed when I saw that there wasn't any sales for it being Sunday, the last day of the con. I seriously thought some prices for things would at least go down by 4 or 5 dollars. (At least, it went down last year on a Sunday.) Really, I saw a kitty hat for $20 and while exploring there was also another kitty hat for $27. Obliviously, the cheapest ones make more sales. If only a little more dealers thought more about that.

Panels - For being a Sunday there really wasn't much interesting panels going on. There was only one that I really wanted to go to that was good. The Square-Enix Panel IV which was fun and just
enjoyable to hear what they thought about the games and some insight of them.

Food - There's no good places to eat nearby, and the con food is expensive. We just went to Ruby Tuesday to get something to eat. Oh, and if you plan to get something to eat, somewhere around the convention than expect to be stared at if you're cosplaying. XD Really....the area is not use to cosplayers and anime conventions yet. Haha, totally funny to see people minding their business and suddenly a couple of cosplayers come in and people are like WTF?!

Money spent...

Admission: $30
Demyx Plushie - $20
Kitty Hat - $20
Model Vol. 3 (manga) - $8.00
Large Grimmjow print - $3.00
Vincent print - $5.00
10 Buttons - $10.00
3 posters - $6.00
Devil May Cry Vol. 1 (DVD) - $5.00
Samurai 7 Vol. 5, Vol. 7, Vol 2. - $30.00

GRAND TOTAL: $ 137.00

Thoughts:

I really wish there was some more Devil May Cry stuff (I would have so rob people of Dante stuff with my money first). They at least had a few Resident Evil stuff. Well, I did see some action figures and cosplayers but not much of DMC (only a few cosplayers though). I also thought there would be more plushies but nope, not really. Just the a lot of Naruto characters and well that's all I saw. Maybe it was just me but I didn't see pocky anywhere.

So all in all, I had a great time. At some points I was pretty bored but mostly it was better being there than at home doing nothing.