Are American anime conventions similar to British ones?
Yeah! This is my first British anime convention. This is my first British everything! It’s really cool because a lot of people have been asking me that question. In a lot of ways it’s very similar. Fans in America cosplay. There’s definitely the attention to detail with the costumes. It has the same kind of fun social atmosphere, with people hanging out and wanting to talk with other people about anime and that characteristic that they like and all of that. But some of the merchandise is different, I had a really good time yesterday walking around the dealers’ room, because there’s a number of things here that I haven’t seen in the states. Certain figurines, definitely some of the clothing, some of the different funky t-shirts we don’t get over there. It’s very similar which was kind of cool. It’s nice to know that anime fans are anime fans wherever you go. Everyone’s been really nice. The only difference, really–and this may be the same out here-is that some are much, much larger, so
