We were in the paper! *REWRITE THE ARTICLE!*

[EcchiSpice]

Portland Tribune Article

Check out the article in the Portland Tribune. They were basically kind, though the title was kind of silly.

[Waffles]

thanks meg for brnging this up!

[Kotoumi]

When I read the title, I almost lost what food I was eating from laughing too hard.
xD

*Reads* "Invasion of anime geek...s..." *snerk*

[anime_lover]

That its very very amusing. Especially the fact they guy who is doing the report hasnt the slightest clue of what is around him.

[Neko_Chan]

HAHAHA,
Who was dressed as a giant bug? xD

OUUUUGGH
He also has no idea what he's talking about when he's talking about Gothic Lolita! >__<
"There are also “gothic Lolitas,” girls dressed in frilly black and white frocks, who have borrowed a Japanese teen fad for dressing like a Victorian doll."
Excuse me while I go rant on my livejournal.

[ambergen87]

"It looks like a high school on Halloween, and the hotel desk clerks do not look amused."
*laughing so hard that she falls of her chair, and sees little pikachus dancing around her head*

*after comming to* I love that line!

[Kotoumi]

"It looks like a high school on Halloween, and the hotel desk clerks do not look amused."
*laughing so hard that she falls of her chair, and sees little pikachus dancing around her head*

*after comming to* I love that line!

Thing is, my High school doesn't even do that.
xD;

My middle school did.

[Trumby]

Hmm..that's cool. Obviously most people don't really know what to write when they write about a con, but cool nonetheless.

[makichan]

lol he sounds like he's visiting earth for the first time...  I understand being new to anime in general, but jeez, this is just ridiculous lol

[Adell]

I say we burn their place of business to the ground. That article makes me mad. The guy took a picture of my friend and I don't see it. He even said that he was going to use her photo. It is unforgivable, they ALL deserve to be punished!!!

Oh, I guess the stuff that was written was neat though. ^_^

[Yuki_Ze_Pwner]

"It looks like a high school on Halloween, and the hotel desk clerks do not look amused."
*laughing so hard that she falls of her chair, and sees little pikachus dancing around her head*

*after comming to* I love that line!

Thing is, my High school doesn't even do that.
xD;

My middle school did.

I so wish my high school did that.  =o  I'd have an excuse to go all con on them!  xD

[anime_fan810808]

"This is Kumoricon, Oregon’s annual gathering of anime fans, a 2,000 person-strong army of self-admitted geeks"

So....this army.....can we like take over the country? Let's start with old folks homes. yosh!

[anime_fan810808]

HAHAHA,
Who was dressed as a giant bug? xD

OUUUUGGH
He also has no idea what he's talking about when he's talking about Gothic Lolita! >__<
"There are also “gothic Lolitas,” girls dressed in frilly black and white frocks, who have borrowed a Japanese teen fad for dressing like a Victorian doll."
Excuse me while I go rant on my livejournal.

Double post.....sorry. But I think maybe he meant giant gir.

[Adell]

"Anime is, simply put, Japanese animation. The basic anime template is fairly familiar: Childlike characters with huge, sparkly eyes and spiky hair get swept up in a save-the-universe fantasy adventure."

I think that description only covers the later part of the DragonBall series... o.o

[leashy]

I think that description only covers the later part of the DragonBall series... o.o

Yeah that description mostly relates to shoujo.. I dunno it is kinda annoying to keep hearing him call us geeks and nerds, it's alright for us to say it jokingly but it is like he is making fun of us ;-;

[Kotoumi]

"It looks like a high school on Halloween, and the hotel desk clerks do not look amused."
*laughing so hard that she falls of her chair, and sees little pikachus dancing around her head*

*after comming to* I love that line!

Thing is, my High school doesn't even do that.
xD;

My middle school did.

I so wish my high school did that.  =o  I'd have an excuse to go all con on them!  xD

Oh man, that'd be fun.  xD

"Hey, let's dress up as anime characters and scare the crud out of people!"
"OKAY~!"

Well, my first cosplay was Sailor Moon when I was 6, and I wore that to school.
Man, did I ever stand out.

[Yuki_Ze_Pwner]

"It looks like a high school on Halloween, and the hotel desk clerks do not look amused."
*laughing so hard that she falls of her chair, and sees little pikachus dancing around her head*

*after comming to* I love that line!

Thing is, my High school doesn't even do that.
xD;

My middle school did.

I so wish my high school did that.  =o  I'd have an excuse to go all con on them!  xD

Oh man, that'd be fun.  xD

"Hey, let's dress up as anime characters and scare the crud out of people!"
"OKAY~!"

Well, my first cosplay was Sailor Moon when I was 6, and I wore that to school.
Man, did I ever stand out.

That is so cool.  I'd so cosplay as sailor moon TODAY if I got the chance...  Even though I'm not a fan or anything.  xD  I love making people laugh..  Sacrificing my dignity for others' amusement is just a part of life.  <3

[kairi]

Cosplay puts on the drama

Uhde leads me into a carpeted ballroom, where the cosplay competition is in full swing. In front of an audience of more than 500 people, two young men are acting out a skit on stage. They hold gigantic swords – they’re warriors from a video game – but they decide not to do battle. The audience laughs and cheers.

When a woman with long blond hair and black samurai armor appears on stage, the crowd erupts in applause. I don’t know why.


    yes our skit!! lol yes we cannot  "battle" with those big swords cause they would kill some one
    Oh and yes i was a samurai with a gigantic sword i mean come on who wouldnt cheer for that  ( i am the chibiroth b****)lol

[Negima]

Man, this guy didn't know ANYTHING when he wrote this.  He didn't even know what DDR was.  You'd think it's been around long enough for people to know what it is at the very least.

(My imagined situation)
"What's that?"
"It's DDR."
"What?"
"You know, the Dancing Game."
"No clue."
"The game that makes you tired just watching other people do it."
"Oh yeah."

Still, very entertaining to read.

[MistressLegato]

Oh nooooez, not another article that makes us anime fans look like total jack@$$es . . . why do people that wanna poke fun at us always end up being the ones reporting?!  They never get people who care or know what they're talking about . . .

*grumble grumble*

Poor Sephy-chan, mistaken for a girl!  Well, technically a girl as cross-play, but . . . XD  That part did amuse me.  She was a gret Sephiroth . . .

[TomtheFanboy]

The Oregonian covered us better back in '04. They had a very nice picture of Sean with GitS 2 on his TV behind him. They also put their piece in the paper BEFORE the convention and not afterwards.

this reporter sounds like one of the drunk wedding people we had to deal with, but at least he doesn't sound like one of the drunk BASEBALL DADS!
 :roll:

[BlackjackGabbiani]

Does anyone have the 04 article? I remember that was pretty badass.

[Adell]

Oh nooooez, not another article that makes us anime fans look like total jack@$$es . . . why do people that wanna poke fun at us always end up being the ones reporting?!  They never get people who care or know what they're talking about . . .

*grumble grumble*

Poor Sephy-chan, mistaken for a girl!  Well, technically a girl as cross-play, but . . . XD  That part did amuse me.  She was a gret Sephiroth . . .

Maybe if some girls gave the reporter a hug and screamed YAOI, the article would have been a bit more complementary towards everyone at the convention.

[TomtheFanboy]

Maybe if some girls gave the reporter a hug and screamed YAOI, the article would have been a bit more complementary towards everyone at the convention.

With mundane journalists I think that would have hurt us and they would have written something like "Wannabe Japanese preteens were seen randomly assaulting people around the convention and screaming things at them. Two such girls grabbed me at one point and shouted Japanese obscenities at me. There is word of some of the hotel staff sueing the convention due to this activity."


.............can you tell I don't like journalists?

[Adell]

Maybe if some girls gave the reporter a hug and screamed YAOI, the article would have been a bit more complementary towards everyone at the convention.

With mundane journalists I think that would have hurt us and they would have written something like "Wannabe Japanese preteens were seen randomly assaulting people around the convention and screaming things at them. Two such girls grabbed me at one point and shouted Japanese obscenities at me. There is word of some of the hotel staff sueing the convention due to this activity."


.............can you tell I don't like journalists?

I was injecting the topic with some dry sarcasm anyway. xD

[leashy]

When a woman with long blond hair and black samurai armor appears on stage, the crowd erupts in applause. I don’t know why.


    yes our skit!! lol yes we cannot  "battle" with those big swords cause they would kill some one
    Oh and yes i was a samurai with a gigantic sword i mean come on who wouldnt cheer for that  ( i am the chibiroth b****)lol

Kairi I love that you have WHITE hair and you are playing a guy but he has no clue haha

[Negima]

Does anyone have the 04 article? I remember that was pretty badass.

I'm sure I have it lying around somewhere.  Problem is I have no clue where to start looking.

[kairi]

lol thanks that wig that i had was a piece of crap

[superjaz]

Does anyone have the 04 article? I remember that was pretty badass.

so do i and yeah read what negima wrote...
my rooms such a mess after k-con sewingnesss

[pieisexactlythree]

Oh nooooez, not another article that makes us anime fans look like total jack@$$es . . . why do people that wanna poke fun at us always end up being the ones reporting?! They never get people who care or know what they're talking about . . .

*grumble grumble*

Dude, don't kid yourself.  Just accept it, with the realization that there's probably all sorts of worse kinds of jackasses you could be.  Besides, I prefer to be called a geek.

[Kotoumi]

"It looks like a high school on Halloween, and the hotel desk clerks do not look amused."
*laughing so hard that she falls of her chair, and sees little pikachus dancing around her head*

*after comming to* I love that line!

Thing is, my High school doesn't even do that.
xD;

My middle school did.

I so wish my high school did that.  =o  I'd have an excuse to go all con on them!  xD

Oh man, that'd be fun.  xD

"Hey, let's dress up as anime characters and scare the crud out of people!"
"OKAY~!"

Well, my first cosplay was Sailor Moon when I was 6, and I wore that to school.
Man, did I ever stand out.

That is so cool.  I'd so cosplay as sailor moon TODAY if I got the chance...  Even though I'm not a fan or anything.  xD  I love making people laugh..  Sacrificing my dignity for others' amusement is just a part of life.  <3

xD
I'd just gotten my hair cut from it being below my waist, so I had short hair.  It was funny trying to get in the buns.
Eventually, we just made me some mouse ears out of the top layer of my hair and I went that way.
It was bad, but I loved it.

Yes...I agree.  <3

[kylite]

regardless the paper could have sent someone with atleast SOME knowledge of anime or video games to do the article.  Sending this guy made us look bad in alot of ways.  Its truely sad to see that the paper is more about slander and less about covering whats really going on.

[MistressLegato]

regardless the paper could have sent someone with atleast SOME knowledge of anime or video games to do the article.  Sending this guy made us look bad in alot of ways.  Its truely sad to see that the paper is more about slander and less about covering whats really going on.

*high-five*  EXACTLY.

[goldy496]

whatever. There will always be critics, there will always be non-critics (Find me a word for non-critic, and I'll change it here)

But the article was definitely biased.

[Rushifa]

lol, what I love is that if I tried to write an article about football or something, it would basically sound just like this article.  

"These self-titled 'fans' gather, occasionally adorned in face paint or coordinated colors, to cheer for their favorite players.  They fill the stands, watching a group of uniformed men run back and forth accross a field, jumping on each other."

[Nekochi]

Maybe if some girls gave the reporter a hug and screamed YAOI, the article would have been a bit more complementary towards everyone at the convention.

With mundane journalists I think that would have hurt us and they would have written something like "Wannabe Japanese preteens were seen randomly assaulting people around the convention and screaming things at them. Two such girls grabbed me at one point and shouted Japanese obscenities at me. There is word of some of the hotel staff sueing the convention due to this activity."


.............can you tell I don't like journalists?

Not all Journalists are bad. I wrote this awesome article for my school paper reviewing a J-Rock singer.

[Adell]

whatever. There will always be critics, there will always be non-critics (Find me a word for non-critic, and I'll change it here)

But the article was definitely biased.

I don't think there is a word for non-critic. Maybe two though. Unbiased professional?

The article wasn't very professional though. Unless that column is supposed to have the writer's personal opinion on something ooze in from all directions. Maybe Anne just thought that he/she was above things like this convention and this was an insult to an elite reporter such as himself...

I still wanna know who from the hotel wasn't amused by what was going on. From what I saw, alot of the employees had smiles on their faces. Unless that is in their job description. Were their eyes sad, or filled with such rage that anyone who was in cosplay could not recognize the fury that burned in their hearts?

Anyway, yay for being a cynic!

Okay, I'm done on the lite bashing of this article. The ignorance is kind of cute, so no reason to be upset. ^_^

[Vondan]

... Maybe Anne just thought that he/she was above things like this convention and this was an insult to an elite reporter such as himself...

"Anne" was a she.  I talked to her for a moment when she was in the creation station with the con chair.   She was polite but this was all new to her and she had no frames of reference.  Half of what Meg was saying to her was explanations of terms and activities.

Maybe it’s my fault she did not take it serious.  They came by my area and Meg said, “This is the new repair station ware con goers can get their costumes and props repaired”.  And I said “Yeah as long as I had to bring all this crap here to teach a class I figured I could fix any junk that get broke.”

Meg rushed her away before I could ask about her glasses

[Adell]

... Maybe Anne just thought that he/she was above things like this convention and this was an insult to an elite reporter such as himself...

"Anne" was a she.  I talked to her for a moment when she was in the creation station with the con chair.   She was polite but this was all new to her and she had no frames of reference.  Half of what Meg was saying to her was explanations of terms and activities.

Maybe it’s my fault she did not take it serious.  They came by my area and Meg said, “This is the new repair station ware con goers can get their costumes and props repaired”.  And I said “Yeah as long as I had to bring all this crap here to teach a class I figured I could fix any junk that get broke.”

Meg rushed her away before I could ask about her glasses

Yeah but, after the convention Anne could have easily just googled some of this stuff for a couple of hours and then written her article. Instead the whole thing looks silly.

[Kotoumi]

lol, what I love is that if I tried to write an article about football or something, it would basically sound just like this article.  

"These self-titled 'fans' gather, occasionally adorned in face paint or coordinated colors, to cheer for their favorite players.  They fill the stands, watching a group of uniformed men run back and forth accross a field, jumping on each other."

You have no idea how hard that made me laugh. :''D
My cousin used to be a football player before he decided to be a lawyer, so I've had experience at a game or two...

But anyway, coming from someone who took a journalism class last year, it's really hard to write something about what you like because it'll definitely be biased.  This article, unless an opinion column, is extremely unprofessional.
Either that, or s/he had major writers' block considering 1: how short it is and 2: how many negative words they used to describe us.  >>

[Rushifa]

lol, what I love is that if I tried to write an article about football or something, it would basically sound just like this article.  

"These self-titled 'fans' gather, occasionally adorned in face paint or coordinated colors, to cheer for their favorite players.  They fill the stands, watching a group of uniformed men run back and forth accross a field, jumping on each other."

You have no idea how hard that made me laugh. :''D
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yay, that makes me happy  

[Vondan]

lol, what I love is that if I tried to write an article about football or something, it would basically sound just like this article.  

"These self-titled 'fans' gather, occasionally adorned in face paint or coordinated colors, to cheer for their favorite players.  They fill the stands, watching a group of uniformed men run back and forth accross a field, jumping on each other."

You have no idea how hard that made me laugh. :''D
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yay, that makes me happy  :D

you forgot the part about how Football is realy Yaoi as the are all young healthy men and when they get done jumping on each other they take a shower together and hit each other with towles.


Von "Letterd in Video not a sport" Dan

[leashy]

non-critics (Find me a word for non-critic, and I'll change it here)

try FANS or SUPPORTERS  =D

[goldy496]

lol, what I love is that if I tried to write an article about football or something, it would basically sound just like this article.  

"These self-titled 'fans' gather, occasionally adorned in face paint or coordinated colors, to cheer for their favorite players.  They fill the stands, watching a group of uniformed men run back and forth accross a field, jumping on each other."

You have no idea how hard that made me laugh. :''D
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yay, that makes me happy  

you forgot the part about how Football is realy Yaoi as the are all young healthy men and when they get done jumping on each other they take a shower together and hit each other with towles.


Von "Letterd in Video not a sport" Dan

ROFL!! hahahahaha wow that's my laugh of the day. but it's kinda true depending on how you look at it XDDDD

[Rushifa]

lol, what I love is that if I tried to write an article about football or something, it would basically sound just like this article.  

"These self-titled 'fans' gather, occasionally adorned in face paint or coordinated colors, to cheer for their favorite players.  They fill the stands, watching a group of uniformed men run back and forth accross a field, jumping on each other."

You have no idea how hard that made me laugh. :''D
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yay, that makes me happy  

you forgot the part about how Football is realy Yaoi as the are all young healthy men and when they get done jumping on each other they take a shower together and hit each other with towles.


Von "Letterd in Video not a sport" Dan

lol, don't worry, that was going to make it into the next paragraph-had their been one.

[Faery]

I resent some of that, I mean, I'm not in high school, while a lot may have been, there were a lot that are not... Stupid press generalizing...

[pieisexactlythree]

I resent some of that, I mean, I'm not in high school, while a lot may have been, there were a lot that are not... Stupid press generalizing...

I hope you can at least understand why that generalization was made.  My initial reaction upon arrival at the con was OMG! Everyone here's ten years younger than me! WTF?

[EcchiSpice]

In defense of Anne (a very nice woman) -

She has to sell this stuff to an audience that knows even less than she does. And she meant no disrespect with the term "geek". Lots of us anime fans (myself included) refer to ourselves that way with pride. I guess it's kind of like the word "queer". *Some* people who are in same sex relationships can use the word, and own it as a form of empowerment. But it's just plain wrong to use it if you are straight. (Unless you are saying something is odd.)

As for bias - bias is what you receive when someone is trying to influence your decision one way or another for personal gain. Like the a phamacuetical company giving data that there product is safe. They would benefit from that information, and therefore are biased. I doubt Anne had anything to gain from calling us geeks, or not knowing much about anime. Quite the contrary. She was able to present a niche culture to a larger audience by presenting what she actually SAW without use of jargon or too much inside info. As much as we hate to admit it, most people in the big world don't know anything about anime. I learned that just talking to her.

I hope this is helpful and informative, and I don't want to slight or guilt any of you. Just offering a different perspective.

[superjaz]

*hail meg*
as i was gonna say but she beat me to, when did geek become a bad name peoples? we wear our names with pride
ink in the paper is ink in the paper, true it  could of been better but you know it could of been a lot worse, as long as it's good for the convetion, its not we've never been called geek before
and remeber normies as nice a openminded as some are still tend to be scared of us

[MistressLegato]

It's one thing to self-proclaim you're a geek and your friends say you're geeky, but when some chick who doesn't even know you throws the term around in such a way it's super insulting.

I really don't think there's any way around that fact that the article was more insulting than informational and if you have to make fun of all of us and pass judgement to entertain some lame@$$ audience then I'd rather you didn't write about us at all.'

The Oregonian article a few years ago was really great, as was the Columbian's article on anime cons in genearl.