Wheh, back home yesterday after a tiring but fun weekend in Denmark.
We (Niels, Michel, Matijs and I) were invited by the organisation of
J-popcon to do a Quiz on anime, manga and Japanese culture in general, as well as doing a panel on foreign conventions together with some of our colleagues fron Germany and France.
On Friday, I saw a live peformance of Haruko Momoi; a Japanese singer and voice actress. Her concert was great, and I took some pictures.
The next day, our Quiz was held, with questions made by Morten and us.
It was a little undercrowded, but that's mostly because the quiz was pushed forward on an earlier time slot at the last minute, making it hard for people to know when to go where.
In the end, 46 people participated.
It was the second live run of our Quiz setup, and we managed to build it all up in just 60 minutes with 6 people. :)
After that, I went to Haruko Momoi's panel, where I managed to snap some pics, had my picture taken with her and asked some questions about her roles in The Soultaker, Komugi-chan and Popotan.
The Cosplay Show this year was a mix of many brilliant and some avarage performances, but all in all, the Danish proved once again that they can perform. (still, us Dutch ended higher in the English EuroCos finale ;)).
We went for dinner afterwards, but due to various circumstances it was well past midnight when we finally managed to get some food. I hope I don't have to endure that again.
On Sunday, the panel on foreign festivals happened, and we got through OK, I guess. A lot of people in the halls told me afterwards that they liked the panel. :)
The Danish AMV-competition apparently runs into the same problems as we do; many, many submissions. Fortunately, they managed to do a pre-screening, filtering out what the judges think is the top ten, and go from there afterwards.
I had a lengthy talk with J-popcon's Tech Crew, swapping war stories and hearing what the others do to solve specific problems. Also had a good look at their kit, and got some ideas for Anime 2011.
I tried to get something from
Humon Comics, but I missed her on Saturday, and by the time she arrived on Sunday, her table was very crowded, and we needed to go back home.
Michel and I went by car to carry the Quiz setup to Copenhagen, which meant roughly 800km of motorway, spread over 9 hours of driving (including breaks, ferries and whatnot). It was fun, though; Michel and I share the same tastes and we're very good friends.
Thank you J-popcon for having us, I hope to return in 2011.
Cheers, K.