Surah Al-Waqi'ah informs us that on the day that which is coming arrives, we will be sorted into three groups. Those in the front will live among the clear-eyed houris in an eternal anime convention of 2014, with everlasting youth and Iori petites on every windowsill. They will be served cups of pure wine that cause neither headache nor intoxication and will have any manga meat they desire. Therein they will hear no nonsense, and no accusations, but only the greeting: “Yay, peace, peace.” All of this shall be theirs as a reward for their good deeds.

As for the people on the left... how miserable they will be! Those who reveled in filth, who praised baseness and vulgarity, they will dwell amid scorching wind and scalding water, in the shadow of black smoke. They will win none of their lotteries and their favorite characters will be made to appear old and decayed. Then they will be made to drink boiling water as they watch AI generated adaptations of defunct mobage. Thus will they be entertained on the Day of Judgement.

The Tube

2026

Sakura-Con 2026 — Gallery
A photo gallery without an overdose of words.

2025

Sakura-Con 2025
Anime Expo 2025 — Still I Remain Tied to the Mast
I return to Ramadi.

2024

Sakura Con 2024 — FIELD REPORT
A two-way mad dash across the state to funmax and still prepare for my defense.

2023

Sakura Con 2023 — What U See Is What U Get
Recon ghost-mission after the end of the world.

Classical Era

Conventions from antiquity to just before the fall of Rome.
Please pretend I have a nice drawing of an Apollo or Dionysus statue here.

2020

Anime Los Angeles 2020

2019

Anime Los Angeles 2019
Sakura-Con 2019
Anime Expo 2019
Otakon 2019

2018

Anime Los Angeles 2018
Sakura-Con 2018
Fanime 2018
Anime Expo 2018

2017

Anime Los Angeles 2017
Growing pains.
Sakura-Con 2017
Fanime 2017
Anime Expo 2017
Otakon 2017
Dimensional sidestepping and a bad attitude punished by the only time I ever fell asleep with a wig on.

2016

Sakura-Con 2016
Fanime 2016
Anime Expo 2016

2015

Sakura-Con 2015
Fanime 2015
Anime Expo 2015
Aki-Con 2015

2014

Sakura-Con 2014
Idol Matsuri 2014
Anime Expo 2014
The convention I showed up for a week early.
Aki-Con 2014

2013

Sakura-Con 2013
Anime Expo 2013
Aki-Con 2013

2012

Sakura-Con 2012
Aki-Con 2012

2011

Aki-Con 2011 — Memory's Folly
In which I wake up at 5am to make it to the last day of something called "anime convention".