Can’t believe it has changed so much

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.

Contracts

Last week’s blog was a little bit of a rant and is something that I try not to do but at the same time I had reached a point last week were I just couldn’t take it anymore and I needed to vent, but let’s not dwell too much on what has happened and move onto this week’s topic.

This week’s topic came to me because of two things, one being that a friend of my other half announced to everyone that she was dating her boss and the other reason was while I was re-watching an old anime series called Martian Successor Nadesico (Nadesico).

So you might be asking yourself what does an anime series and two people getting together have in common with this week’s title contracts, well for me to answer this question I first have to give you some background information on both these topic’s.

First up we have the two that have just announced to everyone that they are now dating, which normally means that everyone should be happy for them but at the same time it can create a headache for others. The reason that this has created a headache for others is because of these two positions within their work and that is they both work in the same area of the business while handling with cash at the end of the day. I should also make the point that this two both work within management with her being this assistant manager.

Now the reason this has becomes a problem for them is the fact that when cash starts to disappear at the end of the day even if it is a little bit the two of them could be accused of stealing money from the company. You could turn around and say that the site manager does trust them but if money does start to go missing, no one is going to believe his word at the end of the day.

Which leads me to why an anime series would be used to link two people dating, the first thing that I want to point out is that this is an anime show which is set on a space battleship called the Nadesico and it follows the crew as they fight a war while at the same time looking at their relationships with the rest of the crew. One said relationships that takes centre stage is between Akito Tenkawa and all the women that are attracted to him but what the anime does point out right at the beginning, when they are recruiting their crew is for them to review their contracts before signing them which they haven’t done.

You might want to disagree with me but think about of all those programmers on your computer or any new programmers that you have installed onto your computer. Those all have contracts that you have to adhere to, or you could take a contract that you have signed which you were unsure about some of the details but still signed it.

Now to get back on to topic, after everyone has signed their contracts you find out at the end of episode four that within the contracts they cannot fraternise with anyone on board the Nadesico.

If we now go back to where the two have announced that they are dating one another and they had a contract like the one in Nadesico, it would stop the situation that has appeared. I should also point out that I don’t agree with these contracts because at least 15% of us meet our partners while at work.

Yes I am happy that these two did get together but just think about what you are agreeing to when you sign any contract in the future but when it comes to work, how long will it be before companies do decide to state that we can’t fraternise with the opposite sex while at work?  

Until Next Time