Zenkaikon 2018

This year my dad and I went to Zenkaicon again, you can see my post from last year here.

-Saturday

I got up pretty early to go, I decided not to cosplay this day. The first panel we decided to go to was all about Anime from the 1990s. It was honestly pretty funny to see what kind of crazy shows they had back then, and it wasn't even that long ago! The dubs were awful, and they didn't even get good voice actors.

After that, we headed over to our next panel. Last year we went to some panels featuring Charles Dunbar. He's this really entertaining guy who talks about all things Japanese. This panel was about the Anime trope of "Magical Girls." Basically, it's your "Sailor Moon" type of character. It showed the effect it has in Anime and Japanese culture.

We headed over to the shopping area after that. We both got some pins, then ate lunch. Nothing special, just a burger and fries.

Next up was a panel about Cosplaying and how it helped this woman with her depression. She brought along her cosplay buddy, which just so happened to be a corgi. It was an interesting panel with a good moral, but it was also fun to watch the corgi sitting on the table.
 
We then went to this really great panel about Rankin and Bass and their impact on the Anime world. In case you don't know, Rank and Bass created such films as "Rudolph", "Santa Claus is Coming to Town", and all those animated "Lord of the Rings" movies.

We headed over to another Charles Dunbar panel all about Yokai. Yokai are those weird ghosts and spirits in all of those legends and stories you hear about, in Japan. Something I found interesting, was that there is a story about a girl that died in a bathroom, and now she haunts it as a lonely ghost. The bathroom stall and floor were the exact same as the ones from Harry Potter, meaning J.K. Rowling based Moaning Myrtle on this Japanese Yokai tale.

We headed home after that.

-Sunday

We woke up a lot earlier on this day. I cosplayed as Blake from RWBY, which was my Halloween costume this past year, and my dad went as a Military man from Fullmetal Alchemist.

The first panel we went to was about rage quitting in games, and how developers have to create a system that works around quitting. He used lots of examples from competitive Overwatch games, which is pretty fitting. I know first hand how it can be.


The final thing we went to was autographs with two voice actresses from the Anime "Dragon Maid." I really enjoy their characters in the show, so it was really great to meet them in real life!

This day was a lot shorter, so there wasn't as much to do; but we still had fun.