Otakon 2006 Recall

Well Otakon 2006 was a big success, this year we had two booths located at 409 and 508. We sold somewhere around 520 diecut keychains, over 60 different kinds of plush, and who knows how many other things...we really had a lot crammed into two little booths.

My sister and I visited artist alley for the first time at otakon and we were pleasantly surprised. The artist alley at anime central is just a gallery where you place bids or purchase artwork. At Otakon, there are artist booths where you can purchase buttons, prints, cosplay items all made by an artist. I was very excited and if you were there...I was the one screaming that everything was so cute...there were a couple people laughing at me. haha

Saturday was the cel gathering at the holiday inn across from the convention center. I spent most of the time talking to Robert from Frozen Time and Jenn from Starlight X and the infamous Curt from Asylum Anime. I had seen Robert last year but got formally introduced this year and I had seen Curt about 6 years ago when he brought some of his oversized pan collection (drools) to anime central. I met Jenn for the first time this year and we flipped through her collection a little. She showed us her cel that she gots signed this year (honestly i dont remember who the guests were...i dont really know too many artist names) but she was second in line and so she got a cool drawing done in addition to her two signings.

In addition to those three, I also go reaquainted with Syan (who im not sure if i ever learned her real name) and deanna the meeting creator (foechadan). I also got a slight introduction to the curator of mei's world cels. He is a mostly miyazaki collector. I saw but didnt get a chance to talk to sensei until he stopped by our booth and I met his lovely daughter whos name I already forgot...forgive me -_-. She was very kind and cute because I gave her a discount (she bought a momo plush) btw if you do stop by our booth I will always give a small discount of some sort. Just mention rubberslug and of course ill ask who you are and stuff but ill know.

I didnt really stay that long at the meeting I wish we introduced ourselves again because I didnt really know who everyone was and I'm good with faces but not with names. You RS east people are lucky to get to meet so often -_- I almost didnt go too because I was so tired from working all the time. Really glad I went though even though I left early. Because we're not from around there...my ride needed to move his car at around 11 so we just left because otherwise hed have to pay for parking again and I would feel bad about that.

Next years otakon was also announced it is july 20-22. We find it weird how close it is to expo and comicon...so we will see we were planning on going to expo next year...but who knows I'd like to continue to go to otakon because I find the people very nice and our customers very kind. So I'd like to thank the staff at otakon and the people that make it a success.

~Katie