Going to an anime convention

Some of the characters we know them from childhood, I remember myself at 12 years old watching the TV raising my hands to help Goku to produce a genkidama (Dragon Ball Z). And now I am seeing a lot of cosplays of these anime characters in one place "La Conve". Everything started at work with a discussion among my colleagues about Japanese language. They told me they learned the basics of Japanese by watching certain anime series, after this talk and the magics of smartphones I started to receive promotions about an anime convention in the city. I have never been in one, and I particularly never thought about going to one, I just knew they existed through tv shows like The Big Bang Theory.

However, I consider this could be a good opportunity to take photos and also journalize my experience in one of these events.

So the arrangement was done, me and one of my colleagues were going to get into the anime convention. We drove to the venue and it was no surprise that the parking places were full. We drove to one of the further parking places and started to walk to the building. During this walk, my colleague started to explain everything about this type of convention: what I'm going to expect, how people can sometimes be a bit too intense in the personification of characters, plus the amount of money they paid for the cosplays. While we were walking I started to recognize characters like Pokemon, but at the same time, I saw people dressed with things that I had never seen in my life.

Once we got into the convention building I was surprised with the amount of people dressed in different types of cosplays. I could see video game characters, Star Wars Jedis, and even a Barney dinosaur. It was a party, everyone was making friends, talking about how they got their cosplays, and taking pictures of themselves.