EVENT 27-29/08/2010 : Nom-con

John Mason

TheChrisD wrote: »

When it comes to an anime con, that's a good thing

i will googling away at the weekend - i have no idea what this anime thingy is

cherryghost

So, who from A&M is going to this?

I shall be in attendance on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, cosplaying as Death the Kid. Anyone here wanna meet up for some A&M Boards drinks? :P

Konata

I'm still not sure what I'm at yet.

Hopefully gonna make it for a day trip on Saturday, doubt I can make the whole weekend

cherryghost

Hotaru wrote: »

I'm still not sure what I'm at yet.

Hopefully gonna make it for a day trip on Saturday, doubt I can make the whole weekend

Boo-urns! :P

The events on Friday and Saturday night run up til 2am also jpop Rave party ftw :P

Konata

cherryghost wrote: »

Boo-urns! :P

The events on Friday and Saturday night run up til 2am also jpop Rave party ftw :P

Want. To. Go.

I'm moving back to Dublin the the week after, BOO not having accomodation for Nom Con (and not being able to afford a hotel >_<).

Trying to sort out crashing at a friends so fingers crossed

cherryghost

Hotaru wrote: »

Want. To. Go.

I'm moving back to Dublin the the week after, BOO not having accomodation for Nom Con (and not being able to afford a hotel >_<).

Trying to sort out crashing at a friends so fingers crossed

Cool, well if ya need any help, or wanna crash at our hotel room then do, im sure the staff won't really notice anyway :pac:

Butterscotch

cherryghost wrote: »

Boo-urns! :P

The events on Friday and Saturday night run up til 2am also jpop Rave party ftw :P

Yep I will be there and now I am going the whole weekend.:D I will be dressed as a generic anime schoolgirl in a kogal vest. I am looking forward to the timetable to be up. I really want to know what events will be on.

BOO not having accomodation for Nom Con (and not being able to afford a hotel >_<).

My mate is coming with me from Cork and she is staying in a hostel which costs her only 12E a night. The hostels in Gardiner St tend to be very cheap. I hope you can find accommodation.:)

cherryghost

Butterscotch wrote: »

Yep I will be there and now I am going the whole weekend.:D I will be dressed as a generic anime schoolgirl in a kogal vest. I am looking forward to the timetable to be up. I really want to know what events will be on.



My mate is coming with me from Cork and she is staying in a hostel which costs her only 12E a night. The hostels in Gardiner St tend to be very cheap. I hope you can find accommodation.:)

Timetable has been up for a few hours now

http://www.nom-con.com/Friday.pdf
http://www.nom-con.com/Saturday.pdf
http://www.nom-con.com/Sunday.pdf

Looking forward to the Karaoke, jpop disco, workshops and ahem... teh Hentai Panel :pac:

Butterscotch

cherryghost wrote: »

teh Hentai Panel :pac:

*gasp* I will be going to that.;)

Konata

Ooooh, that hostel sounds promising, I've off to research now!

And the hentai panel...unmissable I feel!

Xinkai

So whats A&M most looking forward to this weekend?

I'm personally looking forward to BlazBlue on sat & Super Street Fighter 4 on Sunday =]

TheChrisD

I might go for some part of Saturday, but meeting up with a large group of people unrelated to the con later that day, so not sure if it'd really be worth it (or worth €20) for a half-day.

Jengalen

I just saw that Chris Patton isn't going. He was the only reason I was gonna go. This sucks

cherryghost

Got off work Friday so I'll be there all day Friday as well as the weekend instead of just the Friday night onwards as originally planned :P

Monkeyto

I'm good for this! Pre regged quite some time a go so I'm really looking forward to it If you see Monkeyto, feel free to say hi!

John Mason

more questions

is this in Jurys Hotel ? It just say D4 hotels Dublin and there are 3 of them in Ballsbridge.

also i cant see a start and finish time


thanks

cherryghost

As far as I'm aware it's in the Ballsbridge Inn hotel. Starts Friday at 3pm and wraps up at 10pmish on Sunday

Lemegeton

prob going to spend a lot of time in the trade hall. already in the pokemon tourney and prob going to go in for SSIV as well. looks like a pretty great schedule IMO

K.O.Kiki

When's the hentai panel?

Also, I want to sell stuff on Saturday but can't make today because of work. Anyone know if this is possible?

Butterscotch

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

When's the hentai panel?

Its on at 12.30 on the Saturday night in the Mezz I believe.

Monkeyto

Just got back home now!

2nd place in the pub quiz. Woot!

cherryghost

Yeah last night was good. Hotaru are you up today? There's a,few boardsies around!

Konata

RARGH no

Couldn't get anywhere to stay in Dublin in the end and I'm entirely broke so couldn't even afford a hostel. Ugh.

Ended up a Street Fighter tourney in Limerick with the boyfriend instead >_<

Hope it's going awesome guys, and I'll DEFINITELY be around for Eirtakon \o/

ebaysellerrob

cosplay in ireland,is this just gonna be a bunch of guys in dresses????what it been like last few days,do you not think the hentai thing is gonna make alot of weirdos(like the one whos wife died and started dressing in her clothes straight away)come to this event which seems like a broad range of ages would go to

Lemegeton

i was there today. enjoying it for the most part. did not stay for hentai panel. already paid too much in parking charges. gonna leave the car behind tomorrow. john swasey was awesome, a really funny guy. his panel was great.

UnionOfV

ebaysellerrob wrote: »

cosplay in ireland,is this just gonna be a bunch of guys in dresses????

Oddly enough my main complaint with cosplay has always been the fairer sex cosplaying male characters (ie Ritsuka, Ciel Phantomhive etc.) but I've never been to an Irish cosplay event so it may be different here :pac:

ebaysellerrob

really how strange I suppose there may not be as many tomboy charcaters for girls???Was hoping to go see the speaker from full metal panic...anyone know if that idea for a film with the guy from high school musical is going to happen or even true,he is a bad choice the person that should be cast is a younger keanu reeves, think about it a wooden(in a good way) acter who is use to doing action films and seems out of place in most situations

Butterscotch

I ended up not going as my mate was sick. I have been hearing good reviews about it. Hope all is going well and will try and defo make it next year.

Sairus

I'm just back in from the weekend there. It really was a fantastic first run as a convention, fair dues to all involved. I tip my bandana to you.

Konata

Sairus wrote: »

I'm just back in from the weekend there. It really was a fantastic first run as a convention, fair dues to all involved. I tip my bandana to you.

Any major highlights?

cherryghost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdIIIWtXCds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM54kiz1L9Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5YO9nQQYQA

My photos on fb are very biased towards me as my friend had the camera :P there should be plenty more popping up eventually. I went as Death the Kid of course.


It was a fantastic weekend IMO. Best Irish con I've been to so far. Some very good cosplaying and some really sound new friends were met :P Definately going back next year

Konata

Delighted to hear it went well!

Cheers for the photos and videos too - really appreciated!

K.O.Kiki

Only went Saturday.

Good bits:
Really open venue.
Enthusiastic con goers.
FANTASTIC cosplayers.
A really dangerous dealer's room (dangerous for my wallet) :pac:

Bad things:
The Tekken setup was laggy as all hell
I lost a Fate/Stay-Night wall scroll...
Staff were too bureaucratic about carding for Hentai panel -- thus I missed it (bros before pron)

Undecided:
Being the only guys buying beer :rolleyes:

Overall, this was a really nice experience. Looking forward to next year.

Lemegeton

good points
the John Swasey panel was my personal highlight. the team giblets panel was aweseome too. agree that the trade hall was very dangerous. i spent waaaaayyy too much money. some of the cosplay was amazing and there was a good balance of guys and gals. got exposed to some new shows in the screening room i had not come across before and will definitely check out.

bad points

more organization needed on the videogame tournaments.
because it was a small con some of the guests cancelling really hurt them.
i ended up going on my own and 90% of the attendees were under the age of 20 and that kinda felt weird. im 29 btw


overall as a first run it was great. i can never make it to eirtakon so this was my first con but i defintely want to travel and see others now. i have the fever for conventions now. totally sucks going back to reality and back to work today.

Funky

Was a great performance for a first con. Venue was a nice size, very few issues with crowding despite a decent number of people being around. The staff were pretty cool and with the exception of the hentai panel they pretty much did a perfect job in my opinion. Trade hall was awesome. Cosplay was great and the atmosphere was pretty cool.

Not enough older people(over 18) would be my only complaint but I guess that's not really something in the hands of the organisers.

John Mason

Glad you all enjoyed it.:)

My friends little girl was fair too young for it.:(

i couldnt find a start time so she had me there for 9am, didnt get in the door until 10.15am, by 10.30am she had spent all her money and seen everything.

at 10.45am, we left.

Drove home at 1pm, someone gave another €20 - back in the car, drove for an hour in traffic so she could spend her €20 - we were there for about 10 mins - back in the car and drove home.

she keeps talking about when i bring her next year - she had been told to ask her uncles :D

Missiechan

Thanks all for the feedback, we did our very best and although we had a few hiccups, we had a great time running it and we were glad to see that everyone had such a good time. And now to address the issues:

I was one of the girls running the hentai panel, and I'm sorry if some of you couldn't get in, but we had warned about photo ID being needed several times on the forums and at the con, and once more in the conbook. This is to protect the con, some people (like me) look underage and are much older, and some people look to be in their twenties and are actually teenagers. I even had people I personally know to be over eighteen bring ID to set a good example. Your assurance that you are the right age just isn't enough unless I know you personally, and if we were to get in trouble for having an underage person in the room that means no more hentai panel for next year, and that's not fair on the other congoers.

K.O. Kikki, a lot of stuff was lost over the three days and the majority of it was handed over to a member of staff. Did you check our lost and found? We'll probably have a thread about it soon on the forums so ask there, it's possible we have it and can get it back to you.

ebaysellerrob

was gonna go to this,but then saw hentai on the billing and that mixed with cosplay can go very wrong.I dont see why there has to be hentai at a convention that is open to all ages even if that area if photo id required.It seems like its sending out mixed messages and would prefer to have seen that area used for other things(would have loved a full metal alchemist panel).I doubt comic con has ever had to resort to any sort of adult enterainment(dont bring up any over 18's anime or video games).At least a noticable percentage of the people that went to the con seem to have wanted access to the hentai panel-perhaps you attracted a certain type of audencie that conflicts with the overall vibe of an otherwise successful con.Hope to see this evolve over the next few years and become a little more all ages

K.O.Kiki

Dude, the hentai panel was after midnight -- all the young 'uns had gone home! :rolleyes:

cherryghost

Missiechan wrote: »

Thanks all for the feedback, we did our very best and although we had a few hiccups, we had a great time running it and we were glad to see that everyone had such a good time. And now to address the issues:

I was one of the girls running the hentai panel, and I'm sorry if some of you couldn't get in, but we had warned about photo ID being needed several times on the forums and at the con, and once more in the conbook. This is to protect the con, some people (like me) look underage and are much older, and some people look to be in their twenties and are actually teenagers. I even had people I personally know to be over eighteen bring ID to set a good example. Your assurance that you are the right age just isn't enough unless I know you personally, and if we were to get in trouble for having an underage person in the room that means no more hentai panel for next year, and that's not fair on the other congoers.

K.O. Kikki, a lot of stuff was lost over the three days and the majority of it was handed over to a member of staff. Did you check our lost and found? We'll probably have a thread about it soon on the forums so ask there, it's possible we have it and can get it back to you.

Missiechan you were the highlight of my weekend

ebaysellerrob

you were promoting cheap hotel rooms well if that your attitude then I guess we just dont see eye to eye.Sounds like you just had a load of under age teens there at the con!what exactly dose hentai have to do with anime anyway!

ztoical

ebaysellerrob wrote: »

I doubt comic con has ever had to resort to any sort of adult enterainment(dont bring up any over 18's anime or video games).

As someone whose been to comic con [NYCC and SDCC] I can say there's a fair bit of adults only material at these shows in fact it's a big a focus as the people who have money and spend it at shows like that are guys in their 30's. Running a show that's all ages doesn't mean making everything PG friendly but rather keeping everything clearly marked and separated. The big apple anime con in new york has hentai and yaoi panels at it. MCM and the London film and comic con have several Yaoi only tables at them. Just because something doesn't appeal to you doesn't mean it doesn't appeal to others. I wasn't at the event but from the sounds of it the panel in question took place at 12.30 at night and people where carded at the door....what possible issue could someone have with that? Had it taken place at 2 in the afternoon right after a One piece panel or the like and the doors left open for people to walk in and out I could get concern but given you weren't at the event it seems a little trait to nit pick about it.

The age groups at Irish anime events is always going to be lower then you'd normally find as we have a much smaller population and it tends to be younger people who are into Japanese comics and animation. The last Dublin City Comic Con that was held in 2008 had very few people under 20 at it because the people who are mainly into mainstream american comics in this country are in their late 20's and early 30's [this is on average of course there are people from across all ages into comics] Also due to population size any events that happen normally have to cover as wide a net as possible. To rely solely on one market would cut into a cons appeal greatly. In the states you have the population so you can have yaoi or hentai only focused events, here and even in the uk which has a much larger population it's very hard to have such narrow events.

As long as adults only events are clearly marked and monitored what is the issue with having a hentai events for those over the age of 18 who are interested? No hentai doesn't appeal to everyone but then comics and/or animation doesn't appeal to everyone so try not to judge

monkeyfudge

ebaysellerrob wrote: »

you were promoting cheap hotel rooms well if that your attitude then I guess we just dont see eye to eye.Sounds like you just had a load of under age teens there at the con!what exactly dose hentai have to do with anime anyway!

eh... it's a pretty large part of the anime industry. I wouldn't be crazy about it myself, but I would have been interested in the panel.

Raging I missed the weekend though. Looking at the videos and photos it looked like a lot of fun.

Just had a crazy week and couldn't make it. Oh well... roll on Eirtakon. I'll be sure to make that one.

Missiechan

ebaysellerrob wrote: »

you were promoting cheap hotel rooms well if that your attitude then I guess we just dont see eye to eye.Sounds like you just had a load of under age teens there at the con!what exactly dose hentai have to do with anime anyway!

???

We were promoting cheap hotel rooms so people could stay at the hotel for the con that was taking place, not on the off-chance that they might hook up with someone at that one event we had after midnight on one of the days. That's just....strange.

And as it happens, it was a very informative talk that went into the history of hentai and ecchi and its place in anime culture just before we launched into the 'lawl, here's a picture' stuff.

cherryghost: *smooch*

ztoical

monkeyfudge wrote: »

I wouldn't be crazy about it myself, but I would have been interested in the panel.

several years ago channel 4 did a big anime themed weekend and one of the last things they showed [at midnight] was a program on hentai and I have to say it was one of the most interesting of the programs they showed that weekend. From a cultural and historical stand point it's actually quite an interesting topic wither your interested in watching hentai itself or not. A panel is usually a discussion of the topic not just screenings of hentai material, people don't need to travel and pay into a con to see that, you can find plenty of it in a two minute google of the internet.

thefinalstage

This convention was pretty fun! I loved it. The atmosphere was friendly the games were a lot of fun. will definitely be attending next year .

P.S. I will play you again anytime Rachel. Maybe next time you can beat me at soul caliber .

Konata

ebaysellerrob warned for flaming.

ebaysellerrob wrote: »

you were promoting cheap hotel rooms well if that your attitude then I guess we just dont see eye to eye.Sounds like you just had a load of under age teens there at the con!what exactly dose hentai have to do with anime anyway!

Please DO NOT make implications or accusations like this on forum - if I see behaviour like that again - from anyone - I'll be forced to hand out infractions and/or bans.

monkeyfudge

Now I can't help imagining the poor maids clearing out tentacles from the budget hotel rooms the next morning.

Lemegeton

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Now I can't help imagining the poor maids clearing out tentacles from the budget hotel rooms the next morning.

LMAO:D:D

Butterscotch

There is nothing wrong with liking hentai, porn or doing a hentai panel along as it was late and was id-ed which it was. Does a girl who models in fetish clothing and who works in the porn industry has no self respect? In the end of the day, it is only acting, roleplaying and just a photo like hentai is only a medium, but yeah people have their views against these things and I respect that.