Talk:Anime convention

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I'd like to propose either removing the "Specific Conventions" section and just having the link to the List of anime conventions page or changing the list to be the ten largest anime conventions in the world. The conventions that are listed there now seem to be randomly selected and follow no selection criteria that I can determine. --PatrickD 17:08, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

I concur with the idea of the ten largest anime conventions. There's already a list of multigenre conventions, so multicons like DragonCon, AOD and the link shouldn't be on said list, regardless of how large their anime sections are.--み使い Mitsukai 12:28, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

this article seems to only refer to the western, or even english speaking world variety of con. Should it be more global? or be sectioned off?RCHM 00:52, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

It's a good idea. Now, looking at how many anime conventions there are in the US (over 90) with just a population just short of 300 million, while Europe has a population of over 700 million less than 20 anime cons. The very home country of anime, Japan, has a population of 130 million and 0 anime cons (Comic Market is not a convention to begin with). It leads me to think that anime conventions aren't even Anglo-specific but very specific to the nature of US American fans (ie, the numbers tell the story).--24.5.125.75 21:12, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

by what standard do you come to this conclusion? Comiket is most certainly can be called a convention, even if it doesnt share as much in common with western anime conventions, having more in common with a gun & knife show of the south...

my only point was that they are distinctly different convention flavors & such should be mentioned.RCHM 16:11, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

There's no anime at Comic Market. It's all printed materials in the form of fanzines and dojinshi that's at Comic Market. It's also all market, so it's as much convention as a flower show or a PC swap meet would be a convention. I don't know if you've ever been to Comic Market or if you spend your time browsing and buying dojinshi if you go there. Comic Market's name is not a misnomer. It describes what they are very precisely. I don't think it's a good idea to project wishful thinking that there's is a huge convention in Japan just because it's the place where anime and manga come from.--209.250.158.226 23:11, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Much of Comiket's source material is in fact Anime. I don't think its unreasonable to list it here simply because it is an extremely focused event with only a couple things in common with other shows. Plus... if we wanna get super accurate, we could call Comiket a flea market, but that seems derogatory...RCHM 01:42, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

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There's this intro text that I'm re-writing:

Historically the focus has been on the written form rather than audiovisual media representations, but this may be changing. People in attendance at an anime convention are traditionally known as members of the convention; invited celebrities including authors are commonly known as guests of the convention, though many professionals, including authors, will simply attend as members

This reads like a copy-and-paste from a general science fiction convention intro. Anime is all about "audiovisual media." Anime doesn't come in written form, unless one is talking about the script. Anime convention GoHs predominantly animators and voice actors, as authors exist outside the anime industry. While it's common for authors to attend a science fiction convention as general members, most industry professionals would get an industry badge at an anime convention.--24.5.125.75 21:31, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Also never heard of "bid parties" at anime conventions. Delete that.

[edit] Cosplay Picture

Maybe we could get a good group picture in for the cosplay section... I will try to look for one in the public domain. Kopf1988 01:49, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

I see this still hasn't been addressed, there are several images link at the Cosplay article that could be used. AtaruMoroboshi (talk) 19:03, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: "this still isn't needed and what idiot will think that "anime convention" means something else?"

In response to Farix's edit summary - Well, apparently this idiot! ;-) I really think given the similarity between AnimeCon and Anime convention article names and considering that conventions are often referred to as "cons" it would be fair to note something like "This article is about anime convention in general, for AnimeCon, a defunct anime convention, see AnimeCon." I'd like to open this up to further discussion. Thank you. AtaruMoroboshi (talk) 18:57, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

There is no way that someone will type in "anime convention" expecting to go to the article on AnimeCon or Animecon (Finland) unless they are a complete idiot. While you can justify the other way around, the fact remains that no one is going to land here while looking for the other articles. There is no convention named "Anime Convention" and probably never will be. You justification for the hat note only justifies place one on AnimeCon, but not the other way around. Therefor, adding a hat note to this article is completely unnecessary. --Farix (Talk) 19:45, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Despite your particularly incivil way of putting it - I do see that your reasoning is valid. At the time, I was looking closely at articles with similar titles. As you said, my reasoning applies for the hat placed on the AnimeCon article. Cheers. AtaruMoroboshi (talk) 20:29, 13 April 2008 (UTC)