Sunday did not start anywhere near as early as Saturday. Thank God in Heaven!
Praise the Merciful Lord of Flighty Deliciousness!
We got in around noon, maybe a little later. There weren’t in particular panels we were gunning to see but we always wait until Sunday to hit the dealer’s room. We headed straight for the dealer’s room and picked up all the merch we had been eying up the day before, which we quickly hauled back to the van.
Unfortunately one of the places we frequent for purchases, Far East Boutique, has decided to go out of business. They decided it was just too much and they were getting too old for the convention circuit. So we went back closer to closing time and got some huge deals from them. On the one hand it sucked that they were closing down, on the other hand…we got bunch of stuff for way less than we normally would have. And I finally got the statues they’ve been selling for years that I figured were too expensive. Yay, me!
So, what did we do while we were waiting for things to get a little nearer to closing time?
Yup, just lounged around in the Premium…well, Lounge. While we were in there a local act, a lady by the name of Nancy Kepner, was going on. We’ve heard about her and one of our friends actually has a huge crush on her and wanted to ask her out a few years ago, but he backed out of hitting on her at the last-minute. Needless to say, we’ve never actually managed to make it to one of her shows.
She was rather amusing, a bunch of humorous songs. I think my favorite was her song about filler episodes with the awesome line about, “…following a ninja ostrich up a hill…” but she had a bunch of great songs in her repertoire. Highly suggest giving her a listen if you have any interest in Anime, Humor, and/or Music.
And that was pretty much Sunday for us. I always like Sunday being kind of an easy-going day to recuperate and ease out of the convention atmosphere.
So that brings us to the overall review of Tekko 2015!
Ultimately it was pretty cool. There was a limited number of panels we were interested in, but that was mostly our own fault. We are so far behind on watching new anime that we couldn’t go to half of the panels because they were about shows we haven’t seen, yet. Like Attack on Titan, Madoka Magica (which are watching right now to fix that issue), or Kill la Kill. Hell, we just finally watched Death Note like three months ago.
The panels we did attend were done well, there weren’t any crap-panels and the only panel that seemed to have any unaddressed tech issues was the one we watched at 9:00 am when the staff was trying to get everything else fixed up.
Actually our main problem was that the Premium Lounge didn’t seem to be stocked properly. Almost every time we went there for a snack or a drink it was empty, especially if you were looking for a bottle of water. So, since our biggest complaint was that the Premium Lounge was poorly stocked, I think the folks at Tekko have definitely improved greatly from what they were just a few short years ago.
The staff seemed professional and helpful. I had an issue with my first panel on Friday that I needed a staffer to answer a question. The issue was whether or not each panel room had separately registered lighting; you see the last year there was some issues that Panel Room 2 would try to lower their lights for a video presentation and the lights in Panel Room 1 would shut off. I wanted to make my presentation easier to view, but didn’t want to shut the lights off on other panelists.
They had already learned from last year’s kerfluffle and each room had their lights separated. The wife went to Con Ops while I was setting everything up and they had a staffer there to help me out in a matter of minutes. Much better than I’d seen in past years. The staffer knew what he was talking about, too; that’s always nice.
So yeah, overall only superficial issues. I hope that Tekko continues to remain at this level in coming years. I really can’t even think of anything for them to improve upon for next year, except for a better system of keeping the Premium Lounge well-stocked with victuals for the foppish pricks full of first-world problems like myself.
So, that’s it. We enjoyed the convention immensely this year and can’t wait for next year. The videos and the merch post will begin going up some time this coming week.
Thanks, again all!
~RCS
Richard C. Shaffer 