Salem Anime Convention

[Kimiski]

Does anyone know about an Anime Convention thats supposedly supposed to start in Salem Oregon?
I heard a group of people talking about it at Kumoricon but didn't catch the name or any specfic details. I'm really interested in this because I live in Salem.

[AllyKat]

[sarcasm & humor]

Cereal? Kumori-con ended barely a day ago and already you are looking for love elsewhere!?!
Is your lust for convention never satisfied?!! How dare you!?? She Loved you! She gave you
everything she had and then some! And now you are looking for someone new? Just like that?
Just because she is younger and smaller... so WHAT if Kumori-con has gotten a little big! It's
just that much more for you to love! Can't you see you are killing her by treating her like
yesterdays garbage!!???

[/sarcasm & humor]

This is an interesting development, it would be very schway to have a willamette valley area
convention, as we here on the west side loves us some anime, but hates us some portland
traffic! Hehe... Keep me posted!

~Allykat

[princessmoon]

[sarcasm & humor]

Cereal? Kumori-con ended barely a day ago and already you are looking for love elsewhere!?!
Is your lust for convention never satisfied?!! How dare you!?? She Loved you! She gave you
everything she had and then some! And now you are looking for someone new? Just like that?
Just because she is younger and smaller... so WHAT if Kumori-con has gotten a little big! It's
just that much more for you to love! Can't you see you are killing her by treating her like
yesterdays garbage!!???

[/sarcasm & humor]

This is an interesting development, it would be very schway to have a willamette valley area
convention, as we here on the west side loves us some anime, but hates us some portland
traffic! Hehe... Keep me posted!

~Allykat

That was just tooooo funny! LMAO!  Wow, Salem, huh? That would be close to home for me! Google didn't tell me anything..

Momma said Google has all answers!!! lol, j/k

[Kimiski]

[sarcasm & humor]

Cereal? Kumori-con ended barely a day ago and already you are looking for love elsewhere!?!
Is your lust for convention never satisfied?!! How dare you!?? She Loved you! She gave you
everything she had and then some! And now you are looking for someone new? Just like that?
Just because she is younger and smaller... so WHAT if Kumori-con has gotten a little big! It's
just that much more for you to love! Can't you see you are killing her by treating her like
yesterdays garbage!!???

LMFAO!!
What?!! Other people can go to Sakuracon, Anime Expo, Fanime, Mew con, and Kumoricon and I can't go to another one? lol
I've only ever gone to Kumoricon. I can only afford so much, which is why I haven't been to Sakuracon yet, I'd rather go to K-Con. But if theres one starting up in Salem, I could stay at home and attend! Plus, if it gets bigger, I can claim I was there from the start! I missed Kumoricons start by one year T____T I was told about it only a couple weeks after it's first time in 2003. *crys*

Sister says I should reply to this, "Well thats what Kumoricon gets for starting relationships with so many new people and stealing the con virginity of so many noobs!" LOL

I googled it too, and found nothing.

[SiderAnne]

yeah! I'll be Googling once a week to find out if there will be one in Salem!
Would save me much on transportation and lodging and babysitting needs. 

[AnimeMatrix]

Wow- I live in Salem too but I haven't heard anything about this. It would be interesting though.

Totally random and off-topic (sorta) as I read through the thread, I didn't know there were so many K-conners that lived in the Salem area. Maybe we should all get together for anime (or something...)

[Blue Leader]

I've never heard anything about this, and to be completely honest I doubt there's much truth to this rumor. I mean... How many other states have two conventions of the same thing? None that I can think of. I can't see them having two competing anime conventions in Oregon... Not unless one was way on the other side of Oregon, at least a few hours away from Portland. But I can't even see that.

[oslapedo]

There's two anime cons in WA...

[GinNTonic]

There's two anime cons in WA...

3 if you count MEW

[AllyKat]

Just off the top of my head... we know Anime-Expo, Sac-Anime, Fanime and Yaoi-con are all in California.

I know there are at least two in Utah, Texas, Florida and Ohio...

It depends on what each Anime convention offers, where K-con dotes on the fan and less industry,
a seperate convention may be ALL about the industry. It may also be a smaller niche group that want to
build there own style convention seperate from K-con, it could be people who like K-con but are so con
happy they want to make sure there is a convention in oregon every 6 months!

Who knows!?

~Allykat

[chelseahavoc]

that would be cool to have a salem area  one but a con in southern oregon would be cooler (less driving for me)

[AnimeMatrix]

There's two anime cons in WA...

3 if you count MEW

I thought MEW was an anything convention- not just anime.

[BigGuy]

A friend of mine emailed me a couple of months before Kumoricon asking for our(Kumoricon exec board) blessing to have an anime con in Salem. Their plan was to put it sometime between Sakuracon and Kumoricon and aim it at people who could not make it all the way to Seattle for Sak.
 I don't know if anything is moving forward with this or not, a lot of people get all excited and say"we love cons! Let's do our own one!!!!" and then it falls apart in the planning.
I'd like to see another con in Oregon, but since I haven't heard back from him and no one can find anything on the almighty Google I don't know if this is going to happen or not.

[Hazuza]

There's two anime cons in WA...

3 if you count MEW

I thought MEW was an anything convention- not just anime.

It is, but the majority of people that go there are into the anime side, and I can only remember one or two non anime/japan/videogame-oriented panels... *_*;

[Mr Silmero]

Ah yes but this year I believe there will be a lot more sci-fi/Fantasy things going on.

[RemSaverem]

A friend of mine emailed me a couple of months before Kumoricon asking for our(Kumoricon exec board) blessing to have an anime con in Salem. Their plan was to put it sometime between Sakuracon and Kumoricon and aim it at people who could not make it all the way to Seattle for Sak.
 I don't know if anything is moving forward with this or not, a lot of people get all excited and say"we love cons! Let's do our own one!!!!" and then it falls apart in the planning.
I'd like to see another con in Oregon, but since I haven't heard back from him and no one can find anything on the almighty Google I don't know if this is going to happen or not.

If it works out, it would be exciting, but most likely, what others will be able to organize would be one-day events using free campus space, via college anime clubs. It simply takes not only a lot of planning but start-up funds, that in the present economy might not be easily obtained....

[AllyKat]

True that... well, it's nice to know there was more than just a RUMOR of rumors of a convention in salem... now we just have to wait and see what really evolves from it I like the idea of something a little closer to home then Sak-con, (I just love saying "sock-con" it sounds sooo fun!) so... cheers to the possibility!

~Allykat

[Roddy Manic]

I think there is a steampunk con in salem. But have not heard of an anime con. would be fun to have another in oregon.

[Simon Young]

Just off the top of my head... we know Anime-Expo, Sac-Anime, Fanime and Yaoi-con are all in California.

I know there are at least two in Utah, Texas, Florida and Ohio...

If you want to see an almost complete list of every anime convention, go to www.animecons.com

There's close to about 280+ anime conventions around the world every year...many do differ in little ways but all focus on fandom culture