Thank You For Attending Anime & Gaming Con - Photos, Stories & Reactions

friends2025 · Post by **friends2025** » 23 Jun 2025, 08:21

Firstly I just wanted to say how much my daughter and her friend enjoyed this convention. Everyone is always supportive and friendly and welcoming, and I know they will be back.

I do however need to express my concerns as I was made aware of a security guard working at the event kept staring at my daughter and following her, to the point she felt so uncomfortable and un nerved and it just creeped her out. I was not there otherwise well it's a good job I wasn't but her friends mum was with them and even commented on how much he was staring at her. They did I think tell a female member of staff, but I just wanted to make you aware of this as I would hate for this to happen to another persons daughter.

Thank fully this did not deter from the overall experience my daughter and her friend had.

Thanks.

Murray99 · Post by **Murray99** » 29 Jun 2025, 18:17

Very disappointed in today’s event. Prices were beyond a joke and raffle I wouldn’t bother waisting your money with there stingy prizes

Kayniz · Post by **Kayniz** » 29 Jun 2025, 19:51

I've been attending Norwich anime con for 4 years running and this year just was not as good as previous years. The heat was quite overwhelming but there's absolutely nothing that could have been done about that in a venue with no air conditioning.
The timings were off, with one event 20 minutes later than scheduled. One event was changed last minute and announced at the time of starting. I take my autistic daughter with me and she really struggles when things aren't timed when they said they will be and when things change suddenly. She wasn't able to enjoy herself as much this year.
The vendors need price checking, too- or at least have guidelines for resale prices. One stall was selling labubus (which I bought for £17.50 on popmart) for £69 a piece! Another was selling them for £60!
The vibes downstairs were great as usual though, it's a nice little nerd cave and the karaoke and quiz are one of my favourite parts of the day.

Zuladvtuber · Post by **Zuladvtuber** » 03 Jul 2025, 16:17

this was my first time going to a anime league event, and there were some things that are making me want to avoid them in the future. while some bits were nice. the fact that a saturday judge was a minor and cassualy smoking/vaping was disgusting, and I do have to agree with another person that some of the vendors prices were outrageous. not all, but some were defo marking up the price to the extreme

and hearing another mention about that security guard, I am really glad I did not bring down my nephew to the event

FangSword · Post by **FangSword** » 06 Jul 2025, 19:13

Me and my friends had a great time at the convention in Glasgow! However, one of my friends was in a wheelchair and at one point we went up to the video game floor to have a look around and the space to get through the door was quite small, if it was any smaller, my friends chair wouldn't have gotten through. Also, there were chairs dumped all over the room which staff her to move out of the way just for my friend to be able to move in the room. I appreciate the staff moving the chairs but perhaps in future it would be nice if it was more accessible.

Rich-Allen1976 · Post by **Rich-Allen1976** » 07 Jul 2025, 10:45

FangSword wrote: ↑
06 Jul 2025, 19:13
Me and my friends had a great time at the convention in Glasgow! However, one of my friends was in a wheelchair and at one point we went up to the video game floor to have a look around and the space to get through the door was quite small, if it was any smaller, my friends chair wouldn't have gotten through. Also, there were chairs dumped all over the room which staff her to move out of the way just for my friend to be able to move in the room. I appreciate the staff moving the chairs but perhaps in future it would be nice if it was more accessible.

And that's an issue at the Sheffield event IMO, lack of disabled access.

OK the Hotel has lifts but that's beside the point innit? All the good stuff's downstairs.

Bayomaxpal · Post by **Bayomaxpal** » 07 Jul 2025, 14:24

2nd time of being ripped off. The £15 conicon add on was not even worth £5. Total rip off. Never again will I be adding this on. My kids were so disappointed in the provision and with the con in general. So sad as last year was great.

Jessmc · Post by **Jessmc** » 10 Aug 2025, 18:11

Whilst the day was great, i was really annoyed at the food choices. I had expected there to food vendors either inside or in walking distance. We travelled from the South West to attend and the only thing my 10 year old could eat was a bag of popcorn. The hot food at Edgebaston was shocking, hotdog/chicken burger/chips/jacket potato might be ok for cricket fans, but is lacking the inclusion these events should be thriving on. I actually wouldnt come again purely because of this issue, which is a shame as the rest of the event was easily a 9/10 day

jennax · Post by **jennax** » 10 Aug 2025, 18:46

Hi i thought everything about today was great. the gaming room was alot of fun, and so was all the stalls.

However, im very disapointed in the shows. We got there half an hour early to the cosplay blind date to ensure we got a seat at 3:05 nothing was happening and the room was full of others waiting. I asked the man in front only to be told that it was cancelled, being told this would've been very good alot sooner. Very frustrating, for the price of the tickets for a family of four wasn't cheap. Also the talent show we went to also had no one willing to perform other than one person. Shows very dissapointing and not ran well..

The man doing the gaming tournament was by far the most entertaining.

jennax · Post by **jennax** » 10 Aug 2025, 18:48

Also £8 for a hotdog and £11 for a burger? with the original prices on the board covered up hmmm..

Shame because a part from waiting around for cancelled events and high food prices, the rest was great.

Anyway thanks very much for putting together such a great event. We look forward to coming to more, and hopefully seeing these small improvements

x

lilkitten · Post by **lilkitten** » Today, 15:23

We went to Birmingham, my daughter loved the stands and autographs but I would have liked more gaming stalls for myself. I was confused about food and drink, I thought there wasn't any so we went offsite and came back (the last comic con I attended had three cafes and I expected similar). I didn't realise the raffle would be drawn late, so we weren't around for that. We went to one of the sessions about starting cosplay, but about 10 minutes after the start time we left as nothing was happening, there were just children dancing and not the advertised session.