2:37:29very corpo these days and very mobage heavy
2:37:34Young uns don't know the hare hare yukai anymore
2:37:44we'll never have 2009 Sakura con again
2:37:48everything's been commercialised to hell and back now tbh
2:37:492023/2024 were probably the worst years. this year is the first year we’re feeling the corpo and normie feelers in AX
2:37:56I was always jealous of the US peeps of my age that would mention being brought up with Space Battleship Yamato, Astro Boy and Speed Racer etc. And here I was stuck with nothing until the mid 2000's.
2:38:54You're not mid 30 yet you still have a few years left in you
2:38:59seems like something that will always happen as cons get larger
2:39:27may I recommend the american killifish association convention (ye I really go to cons as you can see)? :p
2:40:09smaller conventions are so much fun. i also love smaller art walk events
2:40:31isn't that dashcon or something?
2:40:39Power rangers used to be the thing when I was a kid I even had the toys and everything
2:40:41PowerMorphiCon!! They usually line it up with a couple anime cons
2:40:48everyone keeps talkin about itttt and their games look soo good
2:41:00my aquarium hobby made me learn that the american livebearer association's con is may, killifish con in june, and cichlid con in july, also macna august but they're gone now
2:42:07do they collect each other's hats?
2:43:13I'm skinny and french I could be the spy :face-blue-smiling:
2:43:18seriously though, my go-to ("hometown" as I call it) convention is a smol one, saratoga comic con in saratoga springs, ny (yes I grew up in nyc but I have more frens in upstate than in the City oop)