Hey everyone! I hope y'all are enjoying the start of Fall. I'm happy things are coolin off a bit, but it's a little too chilly for me in the morning. Anywho, I realized that I still hadn't wrote about my time at AnimeNEXT! The time has really flown by. I can't believe we are almost done with September. Watch winter feel super long lol It was my first time attending an anime convention and it was a good experience. The con consisted of three hotels that were in close proximity to each other. There were a few things that I wished staff had done differently, but I'll get to later in this post.
Friday
Tiff and I made it to pick up our badges at around 10:30. Traveling in wasn't so bad. We took a train from Penn Station and then took a taxi to our hotel. We were excited to find out that our hotel had the gaming room! We weren't pumped to stand in a line in the heat for an hour and a half waiting to get our badges -_- It was hot as a mug!
Don't ask me where I'm looking lol
Pic from when I tried my wig on the night before. I was feeling myself haha
We headed straight to our hotel across the street from the convention center. As soon as we get in our room we start hearing these porno sounds, and we're like tf?! Is someone just watching porn really loudly, but then it kept going so we decided to be rude and make noises back lol I tried on my maid outfit that I had to fight tooth and nail to get from Bodyline (long story short they're customer service sucks). It was my first time trying it on; it was too big and there were stains on it -_- Tiff helped me salvage what I could of it and headed over to grab food before losing ourselves in the dealer's room. The food at the convention center was okay and nicely priced.
Maid outfit looks
The dealer's room was really nice and there were so many things that I wanted to buy. I decided to fully look around before dropping any cash. The artist alley was pretty sweet and Lolita fashion accessories, art, and other accessories. After exploring artist alley and the dealer's room, we headed back to the game room in our hotel because we wanted to kill a little time before heading to the Flow concert. . They had some consoles, DDR, Taiko Drum Master, and a few other Japanese arcade games. I was so happy that they had the taiko drumming game. I had seen people play it online and thought that it looked like a blast. The line to play a round was super long but worth the wait. And you know I had to hit up DDR!
Uh huh this my sh**
