Anime Conventions: An Honest Guide 

- I went to an anime convention. - What did it cost you? - Everything.

Whatever you do, don't go look at the swords. You'll just cry

I thought weebs not taking showers was just a joke or a stereotype, until I actually met a weeb who doesn't take showers.

Unwritten rule: if you have a sword at an anime convention, any other cosplayer with a sword can challenge you to a sword fight

Did he just implie that a body pillow is an irrational purchase

When you go to a convention, please take a shower.

I have never heard any convention conveyed more perfectly then this

"If you don't have real life friends" It's an anime convention, I think that's a given.

*Looks at anime figure* *Looks at wallet* (John Cena voice) “Are you sure about that”

One of the people giving “free hugs” gave me the flu and I’m never falling for that again Edit: this comment was from two years ago. the actual convention was four years ago. i was not patient zero of covid. please stop talking about me having covid in replies

Favorite con moment was seeing a Baptist convention happening during an Anime convention. The older ladies LOVED the little tiny lolita hats with crosses on them and bough so many from one of the booths.

"awkwardly try to figure out where you're supposedd to put your hands" I feel that

And don't forget this: ASK BEFORE HUGGING SOMEONE SUDDENLY. I've seen people almost destroy someone's cosplay because they hugged without warning.

In Montreal, Otakuthon is literally right in the middle of China town. During the weekend of the anime convention every Chinese store pretends to be Japanese and begins selling bootleg anime merchandise.

You forgot to mention a fact: You can live with 1 kidney.

"It's better to feel regret not being able to pay rent for a month than regret not buying that figurine for your entire life" That is the words of a true genius

Sep 2017 - The con season is almost over March 2020 - The con season won't even start Whoa this has many likes

and don't forget if you're a cosplayer and you dress up as a very idolized character, having a tsunami of people follow you EVERYWHERE!!!!

Imagine being an extraterrestrial anime fan, and watching this as a guide before your first con cosplaying as a human, and taking this 100% at face value.

3:50 ah yes my favorite anime Johnny English

*When none of your friends know what anime is*

2:16 "...so they're almost just like human beings"

The first (and so far only) convention I've gone to had an auditorium. When they began playing the Pokemon Opening I heard many screams while people did cringy Fortnite dances and People Naruto ran into the auditorium to sing the Pokemon theme song in unison. It was at that moment where I knew that I was where I belonged.

Had my first anime convention experience just over a month ago, this guide was so incredibly accurate to the point where it wasn't even a joke And now I'm addicted to them, looking forward to the next one I plan to go to in 5 month

Writing this during the pandemic so future generations will know that there was no anime con season in 2020.

>Makes a Kaneki cosplay >Goes to Con >people asking to take photos with me >social anxiety sets in >I shut down >I see Rize >wtf is going on

Hey remember when people actually went to conventions. this is like a historical documentary now.

A few years ago, I took my fiancee to my first anime convention (Japan Expo 2019, France), not really knowing what I was going into, as the only few people I knew were going to that type of events were perfectly fine people, met most of them at work or at the gym. I wasn't a major anime enthusiast, only the old ones like Ghost in the Shell, and a few here and there once every six months or so. I assumed some people might be a bit weirdish, but they would probably have basic hygiene and social skills. There's no good ending. I was single a week later.

I just went to a convention in a hall shared by a hotel and there was a wedding going on,,,, the poor bride was so terrified

So... The security guards didn't believe me when I said the bullets were for luck... Gigguk help!

This makes me more interested in cons than I already am

Me: an adult weeb My sister:teenage weeblet Me: lets go to an anime con Also me: cosplay and I will disown you

me: that anime figure looks cute my wallet: no it doesn't

This guide is ACTUALLY helpful. I feel oddly very prepared.

The best anime-con regular people interaction was the end of the relationship with the hotel we used for it. Someone had their wedding the same weekend as the Con. Things were off to a bad start when someone asked her who she was cosplaying in her wedding dress, but to get out of paying for the damages they did they blamed the con. So after 17 years we were kicked out of the hotel for all future cons.

Even 5 years later this video is still 100% accurate.

I wanna be a weeb, but my mousepad doesn't have boobs! *Help me, Gigguk!*

everything is a JoJo reference wheelchairs horses walking at another person *breathing*

The fact I get to go my first convention in a few months I will use this guide to prepare and as of now this is one of the most useful things!

I was so excited when I booked tickets for my very first anime convention... which got cancelled. Thank you for preaching the ways of the anime convention - the currently forbidden artform of gathering.

All I do is dress up as a girl and enjoy the Chaos I can cause by revealing my secret

I went to a convention with my friend we were cosplaying sayori and natsuki from ddlc and people kept screaming just monika at us and it was hilarious

7:58 that’s actually a pretty decent cosplay

Just finished going to CrunchyExpo and this video is timeless. Thanks again, Gigguk.

no one with a "free hugs" sign is someone you want a hug from.

I've gone to 1 con. It was a small con, but HOOOOLLLY SHIT it was hell. Fun, but hell, since *I made the rookie mistake of bringing ONLY 20 dollars*

prepping for my first proper con later this year, figured I may as well rewatch this for a refresher

“Dont go as deadpool” *shawn kept that in mind*

Parents scream: *AND THATS WHY YOU SHOULD STAY IN SCHOOL TO BE ABLE TO AFFORD STUFF*

The more I watch this video, the more I want to go to a convention even though I'm not a full weeb. Forgive me master, for I must go full weeb, just this once.

That was fantastic bro! I've been a massive anime/manga fan forever but never thought about going to a convention. This sounds like an epic time!

My favorite cosplay to be : The Background Character that no one will never notice :)

dont you apply bodyspray AFTER a shower

*How to make friends in an Anime Convention:* *Step 1:* Say, "Omaewa mo shindeiru" in public. *Step 2:* Keep saying it until someone replies with, "NANI?!"

Going to a convention for the first time in a couple weeks, thanks for the advice 👍

Watching this reminded me about how much info i could cram in my head for my AP exams the next day

"For small conventions" _showes a pic of the _*_cursed_*_ convention_

We goin hard with that pocky and smirnoff

Let's enjoy this year!!!

I love the way u talk about serious stuff, but in a non-robot voice so u can make jokes. You made me laugh while also informing me, good job.

Dad: here's $200 have fun! Me: *comes home half naked* Dad: wtf happened? Me: I had to gamble some stuff bc I ran out of money within the first 20min

3:51 johnny english is my favourite anime

There is an annual con that close to where I live and it has been a tradition for me and my friend to watch this video before heading there.

These guides are amazing

>otaku >breed you already failed, Gigguk. This guide is not legit.

It's not the wallet putting a hit on me. It's the loan sharks that got pissed I took $500000 from them to buy some fucking weeb trash. Oh well. Time to change countries again. I hear Noth Korea is beautiful this time of year.

I'm going to Come-on tomorrow and the next day for the second year! This advice is what I live by. Thanks you Legend

2:08 I love how you added Ladybeard 🤣🤣🤣 That guy’s a legend 😂 An Aussie wrestler who also used to cross-dress in a Japanese Kawaii Metal band along with two Japanese girls (which unfortunately disbanded)

Thanks you. Now I'm convinced to.... Stay at home. It's much much safer here

" It's better to feel regret not being able to pay rant for a month than regret not buYing that figurine for your entire life " - Gigguk

The entire video is so real Started going to cons last year. I want to visit as many as possible

I love how this shows up on my feed 3 days before anime expo in LA. My partner and I live in downtown LA so don't need a hotel but we already spent a fortune. The tickets for both of us were 300 and our costumes together were about 400. I only went to a convention in Canada twice many years ago and it was about 800 people. AX is huge and it's my first time so we are really excited

My weirdest anime con experience: turning up at the reception desk and finding that all the attendee badges had some of my artwork on them. They hadn't told me they were going to use it. :/

"Go to Anime Expo", he said. "You can meet me", he said. Now I'm broke. Thanks Gigguk. Seriously though it was fun.

I was having a really bad day at work and this made me smile

As someone who has gone to a convention; I can confirm that one of the lines of a panel had to wrap around itself a total of 4 times.

Another possible factor of the post con period is the sudden realization that your throat feels like it got put through a blender and you body temperature is hotter than the surface of the sun. You have most likely contracted the _"Con Flu"_ , an epidemic caused by a handful of hopeless weebs who prioritizing indulging in a con over their actual physical health resulting in them inadvertently spreading their germs to everyone they pass by. You might think that since you're too sick to go to work this is the perfect opportunity to catch up with all your unfinished anime and games, but you'll soon find yourself in too much excruciating pain and discomfort to even indulge in your precious Moe collection. This illness will only worsen your depression as you begin to become aware of the crushing fact that no one is there to care for you because you're lonely and have no real friends. You can try various methods to avoid catching the dreaded _Con Flu_ via various means such as the aforementioned hand sanitizer or the irrational consumption of cough drops but all it takes in the stray uncovered sneeze or a rampant glomper to ensure your inevitable infection.

yea this is why i only cosplay irrelevant characters. makes it much easier to leave with my life

I just loved how he explained it all

Wow 5 years and still enjoyed 😊

I went to my first anime con when I was 13 with my mom because I knew no one who like it. Bless that woman she was so confused but she still took me anyway.

Anime Conventions? I've never heard of that show

Im watching this before going to colassal con east 2021 next month and comic con NYC in 2 months. This really helped and i could tell is really accurate

I just got back from my first con and i had the time of my life. I got to cosplay my favorite character, go with my friend, meet two of my favorite VAs, get a lot of cool merch, and take many photos. I loved every second of it

When you can't physically continue the video because "and sometimes even breed with their own kind" has you dying.

Weeb-Boltzmann Law: "The weeb density is inversely proportional to the distance traveled away from the convention in miles."

2:03 is my ex on a cosplay she wanted and I financed. I wasn't expecting seeing her in a random video am watching at 6:26 in the morning after Halloween, she really broke my heart ;-;

I always watch this as a ritual before a con and have for the past years

There was this one time where I desperately wanted to take pictures with DDLC cosplayers. The day before I went to a con last February, my best friend was sleeping over at my house, and I was telling her about what I really wanted, and she was telling me that I'm gonna see my Dokis. The next day, at the con, my friend, other friend, my mom, and I were waiting for the merch hall to open up in a huge crowd of people, and all of a sudden, I saw a Monika cosplayer in the distance behind me. I started yelling, "MONIKA! MONIKA! MONIKA!", and my mom was like, "We're not going anywhere until these doors open up!" and then I said to my mom, "Mom, if you love me, you'll let me go over there!" and my mom reluctantly agreed. My best friend and I speed ran to the cosplayer, and we were fangirling really hard about her cosplay. The cosplayer seemed to appreciate us loving her cosplay, and let us take a selfie with her. First I had one with her, and then my friend mushed me in her selfie. The cosplayer was holding a box of heart shaped cookies, and you know what she did? She gave us each a cookie! I thought that was the nicest thing a cosplayer has ever done for me, even if I was a complete stranger to them. The cookie was really good, too!

3:05 Thank you, Gigguk. Thank you very much.

I went to my first convention last month and it was AMAZING but we waited in line for 4 hours and i couldn’t feel my legs for 2 days after it.

Never been to an anime connection or even considered it but this video (and probably the pandemic) has changed my mind. It sounds like the people-watching alone is worth it

I remember back in high school, before I ever went to an anime convention, I once walked around my school with a "Free hugs" sign. There were apparently quite a lot of people who wanted those hugs. One of them was the principal.

After attending two anime cons, this is 100% accurate

Never been to an Anime Convention, nor do I regularly watch it but this truthfully looks like a completely seperate universe and man, ich wish I had been into that stuff when I was a teenager.

Sharing this now with some events slowly coming back this year even though there are still some health and safety protocols.

Tips for staying healthy at a con! 1. Take vitamin C supplements (like emergen-c) or eat v.c rich foods before, during, and after the con, this will help your body bounce back from potential illness from all the close contact with hundreds of people 2. Even if you're cosplaying and it's not canon to the character, bring a bag that's at least big enough to fit a standard sized plastic water bottle, and drink the contents of said bottle. It also helps if you can fit a snack in there so you can take some granola or another snack that you can munch on to help prevent shopping on an empty stomach (trust me, it helps reduce cost of snacks by a lot) 3. If you have a lot you want to do and not a lot of time left over to actually eat, drink nutritional shakes! They will help you meet your nutritional needs for the day if you wind up running out of time to actually eat (don't use them to replace meals though, it's just to help keep your body functioning until you can eat real food) 4. If you're cosplaying, at least try to keep it seasonally appropriate, I made this mistake last con and boy did I regret it. It was like 100+°F outside and I was wearing so many layers... so many layers..... If you can't bring yourself to vote down a cosplay due to weather, make sure that you have a way to either cover up (for winter) or cool off (for summer). Bundle up with easily removable layers for winter (you can take them off in the bathroom and stuff them in a bag and vice versa for exiting the venue) and for heat, make sure you have fans. Not one, but multiple ones. You can get one of those slim battery operated ones that hang around your neck and hide it in your shirt (or armor) so that you have a consistent flow of cool air, and bring a second (manual or battery operated) fan. The second can serve as backup should the first fan fail, or if it's two manual fans, then you can make twice the breeze. (Or lend it to a friend or someone in need, they'll definitely appreciate it) Hope this helps!

It's even worse for the volunteer staff, normal staff, etc.

Thank you. Bookmarked! Now im ready for my first convention!

Taking my niece to Kumoricon in Portland, OR, USA soon and was looking for a fun guide to send her. Perfection.