My thoughts on Kinyoobi-Con

Hello everyone, today I would like to discuss what I partially help bring to existence. Kinyoobi-con. What do I have to say about it all as it just recently passed. Do you really want to know? Okay... Here it is:

IT WAS THE WORST CONS I HAVE BEEN TO AND OR HELPED BRING TO EXISTENCE!

and believe me.... That is like adding insult to injury upon myself!

So what makes it all so achingly bad? Well here is a bigger question: "What did not make it achingly bad?!" To start I would first like to apologize for myself even being a part of the staff at the catastrophe, and this goes out to all of the fans. I wash my hands (my DIRTY, DIRTY hands) of the situation! I would like to thank Eddie Ballar for at least working alongside me and giving me pointers on how this mess could be avoided. But here are my reasons as to how I am driven to such madness!

1. Mr. Robert Axelrod: You would think that the guy who graced the screen as Lord Zedd in Power Rangers, and the guy who played as Armadillomon in Digimon as well as a host of other notable and classic anime such as Cowboy Bebop and Metropolis would have gained much more respect and admiration along with notoriety. But here is the poor old man sitting at his booth... SLEEPING! he should be treated like a man of nobility. I was about the only one talking to him and that payed off! I felt ashamed to even be a part of a convention that treated my favorite television villian as a child like he was a disposable item! For crying out loud, he was supposed to have a panel! But that never came to fruition as he sat in his corner in his slumber of boredom! They decided to hold his panel upstairs. Being an elderly man with weak bones, such an action as constantly walking up and down stairs would be a detrimental to his health. Think people... Its not that difficult!

2. The Karaoke room: This was a rage inducing piece of mediocrity. The Karaoke room was supposed to be one of the highlights of the convention for. I was expecting to see a room that was bursting with anime song delights. But what did I get? A room full of songs that had nothing to do with anime! There were thousands of songs yet only ten of them involved anything that even remotely related with anime let alone Japan! What a Gyp!

3. Disorganization!: This con was frustrating, pedantic, rushed, clumsily, unprepared, incompetent, and bursting with shortcomings! Everything was in a state of disarray! It was like watching a Dane Cook stand-up routine; Its frantic, and he tries hard, but in the end you feel empty and question why you were there to be a part of it all in the first place! The schedule was posted on a giant board when there should have been papers of the schedule printed out for the fans just like all of the other successful conventions! What are you trying to do? Commit Con-icide?

4. Artists Gallery: What convention does this? Tell me...

5. The dating auction: Come on! This is an anime convention and here you are auctioning off fans to other fans in a dating auction which is meant to hook-up fans with other fans, but in the end it seems more like a eighteenth century Southern slave auction! With such words as "bid" and "prize" which actually made my skin crawl. And the worst part is... THIS WAS THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE CONVENTION! Conventions are not there to hook-fans up together, conventions are there so that we, as the fans, could indulge in our passion for the anime arts. But here we have fans gallivanting around and buying and selling one another (albeit roleplaying) like cosplayed cattle. What is the world fan world coming to?

Well... There you have it. Putrid fan vomit which needs to be burned from our memories. Please keep reading on for more anime insight and remember folks. Anime is the way!