For those that have been following or reading my blog’s
on a weekly basic I would like to apologise for the lack of blog’s that I
created last month, I original had five blog’s planed for the month but in the
end I was only able to create three of which one of them was crap in my
opinion. So to start this week’s blog I am going to give you a bit of a history
lesson which will lead up to my views on how this May’s London Comic Con went
for me.
I have been going to the London Comic Con since all the
way back in 2004 when I first discovered this exhibition with a friend of mine,
back then exhibition was completely different to how it is today due to the
fact that back then it mainly stuck to film, television and comic book and
because of this the show didn’t really get any bigger. If anything the number of
people that where attending the show was starting to decreasing up until 2005
when the show began to include parts of Japanese culture like Anime and Manga
and each year since this inclusion the show has gotten bigger and better.
With the show getting bigger and better the number of
people that were attending the show was also going up and by the last time that
I went which was back in 2010 you could see that this show was something that
people wanted to go to.
Now after being away from the exhibition for over three
years I was surprised to see how much the exhibition had increased in size, a
good example of this would be back in 2010 there was at least a handful of
illustrators but this year there was some were in the region of about forty,
which just goes to show how much bigger the exhibition has become over the past
three years.
There were two things that caught me off guard while I
was at this year’s exhibition and one of those was just how busy the show had
gotten, a good example of this would be the fact that there were places in the
show room on the Saturday were we were packed in like sardines. I am not saying
this is a bad think at all it because if anything it just showed how many more
people were interested in the show than the last time I was here.
The other part that caught me off guard was now much
the Anime and Manga scene had changed over the last three years. When I look
back at 2010 we had not long lost ADV films but we still had Beez Entertainment
along with Revelations films and the two biggest Anime distributors in the UK,
Manga entertainment and MVM. It wasn’t until I got the exhibition and had spend
the best part of Saturday trying to find where Beez Entrainment and Revelations
films had gone. When I couldn’t find them and after I had gone home that night
I began to do a bit of research to find out what had happened to them. It wasn’t
long until I discovered that both companies had ever gone under or had handed
their licensers over to another company.
If this weekend had taught me anything, it was the fact
how much a hobby like this can change so much when you haven’t been following it
for some time.
If there was one question that needed to be answered
after this year’s May’s MCM London Comic Con it would be did I enjoy myself at
the exhibition? The answer to that question is yes I did and I look forward to what
October’s Comic Con has in store for me along with what this year’s London Film
and Comic Con is going to be like July.
Until Next Time.
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