March 29, 2008
Missed it.
I knew I was missing something this weekend. Friday it seemed like I had places to be... and so today I check on Anime St. Louis. It goes from the 28-30...
Well then, fine then! Maybe next year. I missed all the events I was interested in. But, uh, what exactly is Anime St. Louis?
It's a fine, fine weekend of anime, video games, comic books and gaming all put into one place for a few days. San Diego Comic Con, New York Comic Con and Otakon are the biggest conventions of them all, but I'm probably missing a few.
Anime St. Louis has been around for a couple years, and will hopefully go on. It's a joint venture between the Webster University Anime Society and the Maryville University Anime Club. And maybe it will get bigger? There's no large anime conventions in the midwest remotely close to St. Louis, so Anime St. Louis seems to have the market cornered.
So the "anime" part of the convention doesn't appeal to me that much. I liked Japanese cartoons and movies, but the interest died as soon as I discovered good manga (Japanese comics). Although it made sense for me to watch them, since I studied the language for three years. (Still not sure why.) Anime, however, is not the only thing present at the conventions, but it is rather prominent and colorful and sometimes extremely confusing/annoying/just plain weird -- it depends on its presentation.
Perhaps around this time next year you can catch me at Anime St. Louis. I'm sorry I missed this year, but I had to work today anyway.