I don't have a very 'good' opinion to believe, since I was only there for a good wholesome 30 minutes, but I gotta say, that sucked. When I went in, I was pretty excited and could only see a small little part of the hall, or so I thought. When I went in, I was like What The F-
I can't believe that they said it was 25% bigger than last years space, in my opinion it was 25% smaller. They didn't use the little corners either, though I didn't bother to go find the stage where the cosplay competitions would take place later today.
Most of all, there were only 3 shops that sold any anime figures at all - probably the most screwed up thing for me. Last year, there were quite a few shops with figures, or at least the shops with figures were big (like the huge one with swords and shit too). Here we have, 3 small shops, one has a TWO figmas, THREE nenderoids and a Asuka figure. The other has THREE nendoroids. The last one I can't even remember. I really got sian after that, also because I was alone.
The other shops all were art shops which I couldn't really buy anything from or had no use for the stuff they had on sale. Like what the heck am I going to do with a button.
In the end, all I bought was a rather used-looking $18 Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu fanbook. After actually walking away with it and spending time looking at it (pretty pictures!), I wish I didn't buy it either. It's a bit dirty, very old and slightly bent at corners.
Sigh. EOY has failed me. Not that the shows that were up seemed very interesting either.
I think it's more of a cosplay event than anything.
-Haruhiist