Kendra (Whitewater, WI)
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Anime Weekend Atlanta 2023: Farewell to the Cobb Galleria
After visiting my first anime convention in my final months of college in March 2007, DaigaCon in Bowling Green, Kentucky, I knew I needed to seek out more conventions to feed my burgeoning love of anime and the fan community. This led me to wake up my sister super early on September 22nd, 2007 to…
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Costuming a World Apart: Cosplay in America and Japan
by Michael Bruno Even though the art of Cosplay in Japan is based on SF costuming in America, there are only a few similarities and many differences. The inherent reserved nature of the Japanese has strongly asserted itself into their costumed activities; mainly in the realm of costume presentation. In America, cosplayers take their costumes on…
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A Brief History of the rec.arts.anime newsgroup
By Alan Takashita Life before r.a.a.——————Well, frankly, people mostly just didn’t talk much about anime.This was the time period where Robotech was the big anime-related thing. At the time, I was a relatively new anime fan, havingjust watched “Robotech” (due mostly to some raving that I’d heardover on rec.arts.comics about how much “better” this cartoon was…).…
Matt (Anchorage, AK)
@samurairocker55 (Los Angeles, CA)
Corey (Anchorage, AK)
ventuswentus
Lady AVA Designs (Baltimore, MD)
Nick Yarian (Eagle River, AK)
Giggle Maker Cosplay (Atlanta, GA)
Damon & Yancey (Minneapolis, MN)
Convention : OkiCon (Oklahoma) // Videographer : Story Logic
