Anime Boston 2014 (blog 17)

Conventions are a fun way to, well, have fun. Anime Boston has been doing just that for about over 10 years now. Since the year 2003 or so, Anime Boston was a place where people from just about any place can meet up and share a common thread for the weekend. This convention had various things from watching different anime to the people dressing up as some of the characters from the anime itself! This was going to be my first year so you already know that my hype for this trip was through the freaking roof! Anime Boston's total number of attendees reached over 25,000 people, and I am proud to say that i was 1 of them.

Now I know what you may be thinking. "But David, how can you enjoy a weekend of just anime?" It is surprisingly easy. Anime Boston has a schedule believe it or not, and it was entirely up to you to decide which activities you wanted to go to. Besides the actual watching of anime, there were things like segments of getting better at cosplaying, meet and greets with certain people of some shows, fan panels , and even a game room! Plenty of stuff to do, so I was certainly busy. The one thing that stuck out to me, and probably the people that went to it, was something unexpected.

                                               Kill La Kill
So there was this panel during the opening day about this somewhat controversial show called "Kill la Kill". Now this panel was suppose to be an introduction to show, so keep that in mind. The first 15-45 minutes was a reasonable and yet simple explanation of how the show is. The next 60-90 minutes was when the fun happened. Q and A's is obligatory in almost any panel, so this one was not an exception. The questions some people had were spoiling the show, to down right insulting the speaker of the panel. If you can have people in their late 20 to early 30's yell and complain at one another over as something as a show, that is what I call controversial!

The Weekend had its own ups and downs, but i enjoyed myself nonetheless. Anime Boston happens every year. you should go to one! As a matter of fact, just to go the one next year. AB 2015 will take place April 3rd- April 5th. If you like to watch anime, or you just want to be loud and crazy as you want, there is nothing stopping you from seeing me there next year!