For those that have been at one, they are fairly crowded and alot of events will be going on, the food and items are expensive so bring money unless you want to starve to death halfway towards the end of the convention. Ok well:
1st. Remember your parking spot, there are alot of cars, and with most places like 5 different parking lots, if you arrive by train or other transportation, its better that way.
2nd. Waiting in line to enter the convention, you don't need to arrive very early just about 1 hour early is good enough because the line will stretch in the morning especially when you need to buy your ticket or receive one(those that buy them online). This is usually the time where you walk around taking pictures of other people's cosplay if you want...
3rd. When entering the building, most people get confused where to go or what to do. If its friday, usually the 1st day of the place opening, most people check out the items they have for sale, there are alot of people that will rush there and lots of people looking at items. After checking out the shops, you can do whatever you want but there are schedules posted up everywhere, or a booklet to look at. These will tell you where to go and what you will see there.
4th. Taking the time for sightseeing... at this point you can goto the rooms to participate in events or watch dubbed anime. If you are not used to it, you will find this part boring but its fun to meet people and goto these places. The food around the area are expensive so advise you to eat a big breakfast before coming. The next 2 days, Saturday and Sunday will have different events so not everything will be on one day. From experience, Saturday is a very busy day, at night people usually have parties or even hentai at night. Advise you to wear your best cosplay on friday and saturday, and sunday, you can wear casual if you want to.
Don't expect these conventions too much because you can get bored at some of these and just watch anime dubbed the whole time. There are always people like you over there so I advise you to talk to people, if you aim high and try to pick up chicks, wear good cosplay and make an excuse to take a picture with them. When I mean good cosplay, don't dress up as naruto and expect a girl friend or even something from halloween, that ain't cosplay...
1st. Remember your parking spot, there are alot of cars, and with most places like 5 different parking lots, if you arrive by train or other transportation, its better that way.
2nd. Waiting in line to enter the convention, you don't need to arrive very early just about 1 hour early is good enough because the line will stretch in the morning especially when you need to buy your ticket or receive one(those that buy them online). This is usually the time where you walk around taking pictures of other people's cosplay if you want...
3rd. When entering the building, most people get confused where to go or what to do. If its friday, usually the 1st day of the place opening, most people check out the items they have for sale, there are alot of people that will rush there and lots of people looking at items. After checking out the shops, you can do whatever you want but there are schedules posted up everywhere, or a booklet to look at. These will tell you where to go and what you will see there.
4th. Taking the time for sightseeing... at this point you can goto the rooms to participate in events or watch dubbed anime. If you are not used to it, you will find this part boring but its fun to meet people and goto these places. The food around the area are expensive so advise you to eat a big breakfast before coming. The next 2 days, Saturday and Sunday will have different events so not everything will be on one day. From experience, Saturday is a very busy day, at night people usually have parties or even hentai at night. Advise you to wear your best cosplay on friday and saturday, and sunday, you can wear casual if you want to.
Don't expect these conventions too much because you can get bored at some of these and just watch anime dubbed the whole time. There are always people like you over there so I advise you to talk to people, if you aim high and try to pick up chicks, wear good cosplay and make an excuse to take a picture with them. When I mean good cosplay, don't dress up as naruto and expect a girl friend or even something from halloween, that ain't cosplay...