9th Comic Exhibition @ Taipei – Last Day

Kumeta Kouji was here a few days ago, apparently.

I said that I was going to take more pictures if I go again. Guess not.

9th Comic Exhibition @ Taipei – First Day

I actually hadn’t planned on going, and in fact didn’t even knew this existed until last week. Unbelievably, it was my mother who convinced me to go, because she wanted to experience an anime convention. She is awesome.

Taipei Show Hall 2 – North(-ish) Entrance

Anyway, I don’t know much about this or anime conventions in general, which is why I spent most of my time gawking instead of taking pictures like I should have; I’ll be visiting again on the last day, though (18th, Monday). In any case, it wasn’t a very big event, pretty much a local (ie. Asian) affair. The seventeen or so major stalls were all manned by publishers and big companies of that ilk – Kadokawa Taiwan, Bandai, etc. so there wasn’t much in the way of doujinshi.

Evangelion: 1.0(1) – an incredible undertaking

I remember something a fan said about Western anime fandom years ago. “There are two kinds of anime fans: those who liked Evangelion, and those who don’t.” I think you can expand on the first one a bit; there are those who enjoyed it, and then there are those of us where the show completely changed our way of thinking, our perceptions, our values. I personally think I belong to the latter group, because Evangelion has so utterly changed my foundation as a human being that I don’t think I can’t even imagine what I would be like had I not watched it.

I probably shouldn’t have watched it at the gullible age of 11, but anyway.