#anime central 2023

[tartecosplay]

When I tell you I had SUCH a wild time at ACen this year

Thank you @blushnik for inspiring and letting me do this cosplay HAHA

#trigun #this is how you lose the time war #bigolas dickolas wolfwood #wolfwood #wolfwood cosplay #nicolas d. wolfwood #my cosplay #anime central #acen #acen 2023 #anime central 2023

[girlwiththegreenhat]

buncha photos of all the cool The Owl House cosplayers this year at ACEN!!! the meetup was so much fun 🥺 there is nothing funnier than somebody dropping one of their fake ears and everyone instinctively checking at the same time to make sure it wasn't ours

(+ me at the end as the last lilith!)

harpy lilith: @shadowluv101-blog

#liz blogs #toh #the owl house #toh cosplay #acen #anime central #acen 2023 #anime central 2023 #the owl house cosplay #toh meetup #might be going to anime midwest too which is a surprise but The Opportunity Is There #kind of want to get a wig but they give me migraines because so many of them are so tight #and theyre also. hot as all hell and conventions are already incredibly hot ordeals. i would Die #first photo taken by my brother because I Was In That One!!! #if anybody recognizes anyone here lmk and i will tag them #dat me #lilith clawthorne #lilith cosplay #lilith clawthorne cosplay #my ears were constantly falling off because i was wearing glasses and had a mask on almost the entire time #that's a lot to have on your ears #i dont think i photograph very well usually but i actually think i look ok in a lot of the pictures im in :) #everyone was literally so nice and so much fun to be around!!!!! that was the most fun i've had in years i swear

[pieroscit]

Part 3 of ACEN 2023! Let me know if you can figure out which one I am! Let me know if any of these are you so I can tag you!

Hooty - @nintendostar64

#mario #princess peach #princess daisy #peach #daisy #acen #acen2023 #anime central 2023 #anime central #eclipsa #svtfoe #doom #doom guy #doom daddy #hooty #owl house #kisshu #toyko mew mew #tmm #black rock shooter #the liar princess and the blind prince

[alexis-royce]

Hey all! I'll be at the Anime Central artist alley in Rosemont this weekend, at table D11! Stop by for some prints I didn't have last time, real watercolor paintings, and playable demos of four of my visual novels!

#ACEN #Anime Central #Anime Central 2023 #conventions #Lupin iii #trigun vash #akeshu #shuake #botw

[polyamzeal]

“Polyamory In Anime” panel at ACen 2023

Over the weekend at my favorite anime convention, Anime Central (ACen), I attended a panel called, “Polyamory In Anime” by @hiriajuu-suffering​ . So I wanted to give them a signal boost and talk about my experience at the panel.

Anyone that knows my backstory will know that I was actually introduced to polyamory during a panel at an anime convention, Geek Kon 2015. “Non-monogamy in Pop Culture” is a panel that changed my life. So I toyed with the idea of doing a polyamory panel at an anime con as well. But I was skeptical about how much that would pull people in. Even though that panel at that small con was really full. I think I just figured that the world was very different in 2015 compared to now. So I ran a panel twice in the past year that has a section talking about non-monogamy in anime but focuses more on sexual orientations and gender identities portrayed. And in it I pretty much just assume by this day and age that all weebs know what polyamory is unlike me in 2015.

Hiriiajuu-suffering made a very different assumption about the anime community and I think he made the right call! He focused a lot more on the basics of polyamory and especially defining various different terms. Maybe I just have a good brain for memorizing vocabulary words because I never found polyam terms confusing but it is quite a meme that they are overwhelming. And from what I could tell, the audience was very interested in this and eager to learn. I realized that the mistaken assumption I made is that while yes a lot more people in 2023 have heard of polyamory than in 2015, most people are still newbies that just starting off and learning! I have been in my own bubble of non-monogamous weebs for so long that I kind of forgotten that most people have only heard lots of these terms in passing.

To back up these terms and different styles of polyamory, several anime titles were listed off and briefly talked about. Unsurprisingly there are a lot more negative examples of non-monogamy in anime than positive examples. But I don’t think this is necessarily a bad thing since we touch upon where some of these shows went wrong and how they could have fixed themselves into more positive polyamory.

And then the shows that do show positive polyamory (which for me are Girlfriend Girlfriend and My Next Life As A Villainess) felt like so much of a triumph. I really enjoyed when we got to cite these examples. 

There were a ton of shows listed that i had heard of but never really thought of through a polyamous lens (check out my series) so that gave me ideas for future anime reviews on this blog. I never thought the list would be so long. 

If I had one gripe it would be that some of the definitions of those pesky terms and labels I personally disagreed with. So I guess I do see why people say they are so confusing after all. But they were explained well enough that I got the point being conveyed.

I think the more important part was the concepts and ideals. There was a lot of “why someone might want to be polyamorous” weaved throughout the whole panel and I think it was so good that even fully monogamous people could learn a lot of lesions from those ideals. It was really beautiful!

I wish there was more time at the end for discussion. I had a lot to say but I mostly tried to patiently wait until the end as I didn’t want to constantly be interrupting during it. And then even at the end I wanted to make sure that other people got their input in first since again I didn’t want to steal the show and already felt like I did say a decent amount during it. I was in the front row with part of my polycule so that alone felt like I was contributing to the visibility of polyamory people. Although I honestly wish my entire polycule could be at a polyamory panel at an anime convention together. New goals!

I had decided a few weeks ago that I want to take a break from running panels at all cons but this one really inspired me and got me thinking that maybe I would run a polyamory panel at a small Midwestern anime con and stay away from running at the big ones for a little bit. I don’t know, we’ll see. I am really happy that Hiriiajuu-suffering did this panel and put so much hard work into it. The community, both anime and polyamory, really need content like this.

#Hiriiajuu-suffering #Anime Central #anime central 2023 #ACen #ACen2023 #Polyamory #Anime #non-monogamy

[susielavoies]

wild frank spotted stomping out a boon at anime central

#dead by daylight #the legion #legion dbd #legion dead by daylight #frank morrison #frank dbd #frank legion #dbd #anime central #anime central 2023

[roirence]

gonna be tabling at ACEN this weekend at table C8! If you’re attending come by our table I’ll be there with Kir and Amph!

Kofi / Twitter

#acen #anime central 2023 #acen 2023

[awesomecos]

10th Generation Black Dragons Execs

Koko // flaircosplay Inupi // @awesomecos

#tokyo revengers #tokyo revengers cosplay #inui seishu #inupi #seishu inui #kokonoi hajime #koko #hajime kokonoi #black dragons #cosplay #acen #anime central #acen 2023 #anime central 2023

[femmefaeryboi]

the ✨sassiest✨ fae in ramshackle~

(they/them)

#twst cosplay #twisted wonderland cosplay #twst oc #twisted wonderland oc #acen 2023 #anime central 2023 #shut up silas #mobile hell #anesidora (twst) #🌸flower’s face🌸

[riewiggles]

Bless ACEN.

#anime central 2023 #acen #Acen 2023 #anime central

[togetherinhellforever]

𝓎𝑜𝓊'𝓇𝑒 𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝑜𝓊𝒸𝒽,

𝒾'𝓂 𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒

————

angel devil: me

aki: @/soylentlee

photography: @/floweraria19

#chainsaw man #acen 2023 #anime central #csm #aki hayakawa #angel devil #akiangel #cosplay #anime central 2023

[mikimoonflow]

Wow first tumblr post I think WHATS UP

made a new account in 2023 for a fresh start.

Went to anime central in rosemont, IL for the first time over the weekend! It was absolutely incredible, gonna be posting a bunch of pics.

#sakura haruno #haruno sakura #anime central #anime central 2023 #acen #acen 2023 #Naruto #naruto cosplay #sakura cosplay #Sakura haruno cosplay

[girlwiththegreenhat]

connor before and after telling him to get the evidence out of his mouth

#liz blogs #dbh #detroit become human #acen #anime central #acen 2023 #rk800 #connor rk800 #anime central 2023 #dbh cosplay #i was very pleasantly surprised to see a connor first thing saturday morning #they were very nice! 💙 all the cosplayers i met were nice actually #everyone's nice :) i love conventions #if anybody recognizes them lmk and i'll tag them

[pieroscit]

Part 2 of ACEN 2023! Let me know if you can figure out which one I am! Let me know if any of these are you so I can tag you!

#acen 2023 #acen #anime central 2023 #anime central #eclipsa #svtfoe #sonic #fma #edward elric #winry #wolfwood #trigun #yato #noragami #toyko mew mew #code lyoko #maleficient

[alexis-royce]

I'll be at the Anime Central Artist Alley in a couple weeks! You can order a watercolor commission from me then, but if you'd like to pick up your commission during the con, now is your time! Shoot an email to me at [email protected]

Commission prices over here: https://www.alexisroyce.ink/commission-information/

#Anime Central #ACEN #Anime central 2023 #commissions #watercolors #Also if you wanted a commission any time before October #NOW IS THE TIME

[super-mario-rpg]

At Acen this weekend? Come check out @ericstuffandart and I's Artist Alley table at J41! We're easy to find cuz we're in the back and have NO NEIGHBORS!!!!!!!

#acen #acen 2023 #anime central #anime central 2023 #Eric is more excited than he looks I promise