FEEDBACK OF DAICON!!!!

[RAGE]

You're going to see another wall of text, of hate.

I HATE DAICON.

Yes, my friend "HATE". I am being very personal here, hence.. it's "HATE". I hated it so much that I had to sign up an account here to BITCH about this event. I hate it because of multiple various reasons which I'm having a hard time deciding where to begin to start talking from. I'm sorry if my words are very vulgar, but again, I'm being very "personal" here and I seriously don't want make like "wall of text of hate" an understatement.

As one of the media I can't VENT OUT MY RAGE in my official article ( because it's going to be horribly boring without intense opinion in it.. and in reports, you don't write opinions ), hence I VENT OUT MY RAGE here.

With this post, I hope to ensure that no SUCH EVENT SHALL BE REPEATED AGAIN. Hence, I'm not going to sugarcoat, I'm not going to play nice, but I'm just going to pour cold hard opinions.

The Fail

DaiCon just FAILED.

The Fail Objective

Seriously? What the bloody point of this overhyped event? Exposure? Education? Entertainment? Wut?

There was ZERO EXPOSURE in this time wasting event. What's the deal with the 'Berlin Wall'? Are the organizers that dumb to NOT evaluate the pros and cons values? What is it to EXPOSE if you have to ACTUALLY pay for it, added with the fact that you're OVERHYPING it?

If I were to bring my MOM to this event to expose her about ACG culture, there's no way she would pay 50 freaking bucks "just" to find out about it.

Let's not even talk about EDUCATION. It's was completely UNEDUCATIVE... and might be bad for kids, also and awsm resource for KOSMO! to add fuel to the controversial nonsense started by them.

Entertainment? Maybe, on the other side of the GOD DAMN BARRIER that is, which you have to pay at least GAWD DAMN 50 GOD DAMN BUCKS to make yourself entertained so that your tiring journey to the lifeless Cyberjaya grounds worth it. There was ZERO entertainment value besides the concert.

Please don't be hypocritical by saying that you're actually "entertained" by the other failed competitions like the fail cosplay competition and the fail karaoke competition ( which was like a major noise pollution in the hall ).

The Karaoke competition was so failed that crowds ( which does not really exist in the first place ) just don't bother laughing at the failed contestant but immediately left the hall instead. They were people seating in front of the stage, but they were just looking for a place to plant their ass on so that they can drool on their newly purchased merchandizes from the awsm KKnM shop ( which mostly had to stand up for a very long awsm queue before they can actually buy something ). Hence, near ZERO entertainment.

The Fail Amplifications

Remember the RAGE of the doujin booth owners in Comic Fiesta 2008, when they found out about the fact that the booths are located VERY VERY VERY far away from the stage? Yes, they werent happy that they can't see much because they were too far away.. and also blocked by a ridiculous+useless HP booth that kept on playing SHREK advert over and over again.

What did DaiCon learn from that mistake? "Let's amplify it"

/start sarcasm
Sure, let's PARTITIONATE the whole bloody hall into 2 sections. Besides, who cares about the side shows like doujin and the other small stuffs like.. gee... cosplay and the games? Let's just focus on Minorin and the sheeps will surely be entertained. Besides, bringing a seiyuu is the IN thing now. Let's just focus on the payers and ignore the freeloader bastards who wants it for free.
/end sarcasm

DO.YOUR.FREAKING.RESEARCH.DAMMIT

The organizers proudly claimed that they were involved with other anime conventions such as GACC ( as stated in The Star ), but seriously it doesn't seem that way AT ALL. Don't these people read BITCHINGS about other event? Don't tell me anything about "this is our first event bullshit".

The Fail Public Relations Guy

I'm sorry, Mr. Tan Jia Ming @ Kurogane, you tremendously failed as the public relations head. You can't even make yourself look presentable most of the time. Remember what you did during DaiCon road show? It was pathetic. What kind of a public relations head SLEEPING at the booth while your "minions" were selling the tickets? We know that you're not good at your job but I'm pretty sure you're not mentally challenged enough to carry out such act... or maybe you are.

Again, the way you apologized, sucked and the aura of insincerity flows strong out of you. It seriously felt like you just wanna get your job done and leave your "side effects" luck to heaven.

To quote you to describe your mentality : "On a side note, I got a soft drink bottle that tj_han, the RIUVA blogger drank from! ". OH WOW! I'M IMPRESSED, OH WOW! You got a soft drink bottle from a guy who BITCHED about your event. Impressive. So proud. What a great way to be sarcastic AND to promote yourself how close you are to the guy who BITCHED about your event.

Now with this PR disaster, what ARE you going to do? Keeping quiet wouldn't help you, boy... another example of you're not doing your job well.

I also heard various stories from the various GACC committees about how annoying you were to them during GACC as press, but I think that's too personal to be stated here. I'm sorry gacc committees if I'm not supposed to talk about this, but at this rate, I just don't care anymore seeing how this event has been butchering the idea of a good ACG event.

It's very sad thing to see the President of the Club had to apologize to EVERYONE. I had shock to found out that he actually was shut out from the organizing committee and only did the design. Not only that, I noticed that there his speech is not in the booklet too. It's very very pathetic to see this, Mr. Tan Jia Ming. Shouldn't it be you who to the apologizing? I mean like, "sincerely" apologizing, not faking it because it's just your job? Trust me, there's a lot of individuals who would LOVE give you a big slap in the face.

Very pathetic. VERY VERY pathetic.

The Fail Layout

Berlin Wall was stupid. Really, whole heartly agreed by serious ACG goers. Don't say I was jealous that I didn't get in because I was one of the media ( which has the same "powers" as bloggers in the event it seems ) who can go in and out FOR FREE. but I choose to go out and never return.

Also, THEY ACTUALLY USED THE SPONSOR BANTINGS AS BARRICADES! WOW, so brave... I wonder where they got the balls to insult their sponsors like that. Also, whiteboards, as the entrance blockage? That's silly, come on. Don't tell me that's last minute, come on. It's a big convention and... that whiteboard as a blockage? Seriously, come on. Ridiculous.

There was only ONE entrance and ONE exit ( ignore the side exit near the toilet which 99% of the crowd don't know ).

The floor planning was ridiculous. WHAT A WASTE OF SPACE! Comic Fiesta would utilize 50% of the hall for doujin booths! Have you seen how GACC floor layout was? They were suffering with their ridiculously small venue but they were efficient enough to add a lot of content ( and they have more crowd than DaiCon too ). GACC was able to fit in 10 doujin groups in that claustophobic hall!

I felt the doujin groups were completely disconnected from each other and the atmosphere of "art community" is just not there.

The atmosphere outside of the hall was awkward too. It seriously doesn't feel like anime convention, but more like PC Fair due to the out of place mainstream music played by DELL booth.

The Hotlink booth was ridiculously annoying, I had to actually say "Upgrade my fucking current existing hotlink line because I won’t buy a new youth club line, OR GET OUT OF MY FACE". Pity the guy, his days doesn't seem to be right ever since DaiCon gave em the spot right in front of the entrance.

The Food bazaar was OK, at least we weren’t starving like how we were in Comic Fiesta 2006 but I had to do some personal campus tour before I "accidentally" found out about it due to the lack of sign.

The fail EMCEE

DaiCon EMCEE was brainless instead of inexperienced. First, she sucked. Second, she refuse to work with a notable emcee who's affiliated with Spirits of Music who agreed to work with them? Third, she doesn't have common sense. Forth... she just sucked. That's retarded, I'm sorry but yeah, that's retarded. I have a feeling that the top comm didn't brief her properly too.

What's with the if-you-happy-and-you-know-it-you-___________ nonsense!?

I thought the combination of Shaun and Edo back in GACC2008 was bad as emcees, but this just SUCKED HARD. But thank God it doesn't suck as much at the Taylor's Anime Event emcee.

DaiCon Top Comms sure love to see their event destroys itself slowly. Still, it's was a brainless act to turn down an offer from the notable emcee, at that very morning itself right after he came straight to DaiCon after his 12 hours night shift.

The Fail Minorin Q&A

A REAL Minorin fan crowd needs no orders to cheer. They WILL cheer automatically, hence, forcing people to cheer for her PHAILS!

When Masakazu Morita appeared in GACC, i heard ZERO instruction about cheering for him other than "give him a big round of applause" for speech's sake. Certainly there was more crowd and the bodyguards were fighting their way for a clear path... unlike Minorin's clear entrance who supposed to be more crazily crowded because of her populariyu but because of the Berlin Wall, crowd's mood were turned off.

Also, you don't ORDER the media to stand up or watever. The PRESS can do ANYTHING they like, they can even wear singlet and slippers into the hall while doing their report if they want to, because "it's the press".

The Minorin Concert

It's wasn't a failure, but I'm not interested in it.. so I'll pass it.. Uh-oh, there's NOTHING MUCH on the OTHER SIDE of the barrier. I don't wanna go inside again and watch it until the end ( I'm sorry, Minorin. I prefer Nana Mizuki more than you ). Outside, it's a total MESS.

Serious ACG fans were on RAGE, Vendors were on RAGE, Sponsors were on RAGE, Booth vendors were on RAGE and finally... kiDChan was on RAGE! Realistically, nobody messes with kiDChan, she'll bring shitstorm to you if you bring shit to her. If a very talented artist like kiDChan with international fame who bring the nation's name with her everytime she attended international conventions wasn't being respected, might as well not have any doujin groups AT ALL.

It wasn't fun at all... especially with people on RAGE everywhere.

Now now, don't call these people are overreacting just because you had fun seeing Minorin on stage. I felt that these people were "punished" for not paying for the concert that they don't want to attend.

You see the point now? Yes, DaiCon is NOT "a celebration of modern visual culture", but "a celebration of Chihara Minori". I felt like the vendors and "side-shows" were used to cover up the costs of bringing the overhyped Minorin in.

Btw, I think having a Seiyuu concert is a STUPID idea. Getting proper panel talks by anime producers like Comic-Con in San Diego is BILLION times better than organizing a pointless EXPENSIVE concert.

The Fail Other Side of the Barrier

The organizers finally proved themselves that they REALLY don't give a shit about the "side-shows" by killing the lights. Wow, this is a new experience to me really. For the first time in my life since 2003 attending ACG conventions, it get to experience ACG event IN THE DARK. Congratulations to the DaiCon Committee for organizing the first ACG event in the dark in South East Asia, wait.. I'm sorry, IN THE WORLD. Also, congratulations to the DaiCon Committee for organizing the first ACG event with epic protests in South East Asia, maybe in the world too.

I seriously don't accept the fact that they found some flaws in the central lighting systems. There are just a lot of multiple ways to fix the problem, but again, WHO CARES!? We have Minorin!

..right

On the other side of the Berlin Wall, it was GOD FORBID BORING.

There was a GACC fans cheering "go to gacc", which was kinda scary but it sure does spice up the boring atmosphere. I find it stupid, but the method works and people HAD fun seeing it. At least it was a source of "entertainment", other than staring at the idle stage and reviewing my photos taken with my sweet D300 filled with pictures of people BORED of the event.

During the concert, the "outsiders" packed and slowly closed their booths. Once the concert ended, there was nothing left outside for them to see.. so, go home LAH.

... yeah, who cares about the prize giving ceremony, when we have Chihara Minori.

The Fail Director

It's no longer a hidden fact that the Director of the event, Ms Pauline Ooi is just trying to fulfill her "personal desires", proven in many ways although she sugarcoated the objective of the event with the intent of Japanese cultural exposure bla bla bla.

During the Q&A, she was acting ridiculously weird like she had an orgasm on stage at times, which make some go "what the hell is going on with the girl sitting next to Minorin?"

I seriously didn't see the one with the face labeled as "Director" in the event booklet around the event much ( Not as much as the director of Comic Fiesta and GACC ), leaving to conclusion that she's having personal fun time with her beloved Minorin.

She FAILED to be at the event DIRECTING the event. Your event is too awsm that you have less people coming for the second day. I still remember CF's Boss Elaine making rounds in the hall making sure things runs well.

Honestly, I thought only the visitors, vendors and sponsors were on RAGE, but the working committees themselves are not happy with you. You think that you can torture them with unorganized plans and bribe them with free show of Minorin?

She do fail in a lot of matter, but the best thing is, it does not matter for her anymore because she got wat she wants and your BITCHINGS does not matter to her. Why? Because in the end she STILL got to have fun time with her beloved Minorin. She STILL got to have dinner with her Minorin. She STILL got to do her voluntary job of being a local guide with her Minorin. She STILL /insert action here/ with her Minorin.

About the next DaiCon? Oh, she graduated from the university and this was her final year, no wonder she doesn't care much about DaiCon's future.

And yeah, awsm signs of nepotism in selecting staffers and friends to spend time with the celebrity can't be ignored too, like the shitty translator who failed fulfilling their task miserably or maybe the drivers too.

Wow. The director is really awesome at plotting this great CON.

Do you know how many people wanna bitch slap you now? What if I tell you that the sponsors are part from the large horde who would do it for free?

Finally, I would love to say to the director: "Give me my fucking 2 days back!"

What They Should Have Done

Blood cancel the bloody Minorin nonsense. ADMIT IT, they're not capable of running such attempts of running an exhibition AND a concert at the same time. Masking the concert by calling it is an INSULT! They're doing this so that they can ESCAPE the foreigner artist concert talent fee tax?

If they STILL wanna call Minorin in, they BLOODY CHARGE THE GAWD DAMN ENTRANCE FEE! Don't be so pretentious by putting up a "free entrance event" hype only to INSULT the serious ACG goers by giving not even a half-assed event. Even Comic Fiesta CHARGES, and they attract THOUSANDS!

Or have the concert in other hall within the campus especially for the seiyuu! That would be DEFINITELY BILLION TIMES better, unless you intended to make the non-payers "jealous" for not being part of the concert.

And for you sheeps who worships Minorin alone and doesn't care about the nation's growing ACG platform and say DaiCon was great... please stop destroying the efforts of real ACG platform pushers.

Imagine a so-called BIG event with a SHITTY cosplay event? Please don't use the excuse of "we are clashing with CosFest" nonsense. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED by the community that you're clashing with the World Cosplay Summit sanctioned event. You seriously think serious cosplayers would go to your event?

It's hard to imagine that Cosplay is usually the biggest highlight in every ACG event wasn't the biggest highlight in this so-called BIG event.

Again.

DO.YOUR.FREAKING.RESEARCH.DAMMIT

Think logically. Do you seriously think you wanna fight with an established event? SERIOUSLY? You and your first time event? Just because you have Minorin you think you can drag people to Cyberjaya? Rubbish. Selling your event with Minorin and not caring about the other contents of the event is extremely INSULTING.

Get Better Emcee. Period.

Was it really important to make the first event grander than Comic Fiesta? Even GACC who bought seiyuu from Japan for 2 years wasn't as big as Comic Fiesta. The overly ambitious plans killed the event.

I believe Comic Fiesta Committee can come out with a better event with the same budget used by DaiCon. Seriously, what did DaiCon achieve in the contribution the the nation's ACG platform? Encourage other event to blow their budget so they can bring in my Nana Mizuki so I can fap to her in front of my eyes? Discourage other small event by indirectly telling them "your event suck because they don't have a seiyuu"?.

Now, don't tell me that I never organized an event before hence I don't know how it was like in the background. No one asked the organizers to make their first event on an EPIC SCALE rivalling Comic Fiesta itself ( and CosFest too! ), fools. There's nothing wrong with small but enjoyable events. Humble beginnings pays for CF and GACC. Animangaki ROCKS more than this DaiCon nonsense.

I fucking regreted coming for this event. I SHOULD HAVE GONE TO COSFEST INSTEAD!!

Also, have a good read from a notable blogger about the event here: http://www.riuva.com/?p=1454

GIVE ME MY FUCKING 2 DAYS BACK!

[FieryAeon]

@RAGE: Why don't you go jump into a pool of freezing water? You seriously need to cool down and layoff the over-the-top insults. Also, watch your language man, no situation gives you the right to be a rude asshole.

[mamoru_sama]

rage>>thanx for your freaking long comment~which only rolling and rolling back to same point

but please aware of your language

[Ay_Ike_Jay]

rage>> wow.. first time of reading a freaking long hate feedback. It'll be a future reference for the Daicon comm.

[Aoshi_88]

If there ever will be another event.

To quote from my own Shrine report...

But in my honest opinion, the vendors and doujin booth owners were obviously a cover or smoke-screen for what was essentially the event tried to obscure… a Chihara Minori concert. This writer has no qualms agreeing that once the concert was in session, vendors and sponsors were sidelined. Case in point, try asking the owners of the KKnM booth. And the GameAxis booth. And the MDEC booth. And doujin booth owners. Justifying that this was an ACG-related event in order to solely promote Minorin’s concert is the wrong way. If that were the case, it should’ve been labelled not as Daicon but a CHIHARA MINORIN LIVE IN MALAYSIA concert.

[WeN]

rage>> chill bro chill bro.....

1st, i wana say arigato to u....for your hardwork on writing out all the mistake n bad points out on your feedback....on behalf of daicon commitees, i thx u for tat....we will bring your comment into consideration....^^

2nd, i m soli tat the up-come of daicon is not expected.....but plz mind your language ^^

ikki>> u got a point there...tatz wat me,hikaru n chabu needs

[Naoko Kensaku]

Rage, I understand that you are angry, but please do not scream too much. It hurts the eyes.

Please be a bit more coherent next time. Thank you.

[toonikun]

RAGE>> dude~! I COULD NOT PUT IT BETTER!!! you rock!!! <3

[flame13th]

Take a chill pill dude.

Oh yeah, to the cosplayers that I accidentally take a snapshot at I want to apologize because it is my habit to take candid picture. I did apologize to some of them like Solomon.

[HolyCow]

DaiCon, DaiCon... Where to start?

Yes it certainly does live up to its name, DaiCON - A HUGE CON. And not Con as in Convention - Con as in confidence trick. To quote wikipedia:

A confidence trick or confidence game (also known as a bunko, con, flim flam, gaffle, grift, hustle, scam, scheme, or swindle) is an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence.

Pre-event
The event was very much hyped. It was the talk of the ACG-nation in Malaysia, it was scheduled to be the "next big thing", it was the "Malaysian AFA - only less commercialized". Or so it seemed.

The website was impressive (even more so due to the fact that it was 100% hand-coded), the promotions (Animax spot, the AWSM catchphrase) were effective; I can guarantee that there was not a single serious AniCon goer that didn't know about DaiCon.

As I'm not a DaiCon committee, I don't know (nor do I wish to comment) about the planning and all. Suffice to say, in the eyes of a normal person, DaiCon was going to be one of the grandest events in Malaysia, giving CF a run for their money.

The Event itself
The Event itself was a MASSIVE LETDOWN.

Let's not mince words - DaiCon had ZERO RESPECT for everyone.

The Berlin Wall was ridiculous. Not only did they have to erect seven feet tall barricades to lock everyone else out, they also "plugged" the various holes in the wall with SPONSOR BUNTINGS, namely the Animax ones. Do you guys even stop to think about them for one second? Blocking everyone's view (including the sponsors and doujin vendors) with the wall was insulting enough, "plugging" the holes with sponsor buntings was like spitting them in the face. And that was just the tip of the iceberg.

The Berlin Wall also alienated the crowd from the stage. I pity the poor cosplayers and karaoke singers who had to perform to such a small crowd. The PA system screwing up was another issue, but let's not go there.

The "Extended Earth Hour" incident was just plain insulting. DaiCon was more like an acronym for "Doujin Artists Idiocized! CONvention" - I have NEVER seen an event treat its doujin vendors (and sponsors) with SO LITTLE RESPECT. It's as if the organizers don't give two shits about the vendors. "O HAI THAR WE GOT UR MONEH AND THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS YOU SUCKERS". I lost whatever remaining respect I had for the event when the Blackout occured. That was a very selfish, very retarded move to make.

If you just consider the concert alone, then I must say it was pretty impressive, what with the professional lighting and sound system and all. Put into the event's perspective, and I must say it was a WASTE. A BLOODY WASTE. You guys sought to organize two major events in one - a massive ACG convention, and a Seiyuu Concert. I believe most have already pointed out the failings of DaiCon as an ACG convention (if you could call it one), and I've addressed the major issue above (the Berlin Wall), which leaves DaiCon with nothing more than the Chihara Minori concert. By constructing the Berlin Wall, you killed off any potential crowd that could have gathered around the gate, like the May'N concert in AFA. Did you not notice how big the crowd was, OUTSIDE THE FENCE?? It was easily 5 to 10 times bigger than the crowd inside the gates. Wouldn't having a larger crowd delight the singer/seiyuu even more? Larger Crowd = louder applause, louder cheers etc. Look at AFA08, people were calling for May'N all the way till she appeared on stage. Your Minorin Cheer fell flat not just once, not twice but a total of THREE TIMES during the Q&A session. If you were Minorin, what would you think?

The only few good things I can say about the event are,
1- Awesome products KKnM. I <3 my Rena Shikitaji~ Also thanks for the FREE T-SHIRT!!! You guys have AWSM prizes, no joke :3
2- Some of your committees, thankfully, were very hospitable and at least made my stay there less painful.
3- Meeting up with old friends and people from EMiNA Cyber. Oh wait, that's not related to Daicon. Shi--

Post-event
The casual event-goers are disappointed
The doujin vendors are pissed
The sponsors are furious

Remember in the case of a certain anime convention, which was bashed to hell for "overhyping themselves but failing to deliver"? DaiCon does that, only 10 times worse. Hearing about all the internal politics like how you treated a certain club president like dirt was even more saddening. But that's a story I'm afraid I don't have the privilege to share.

Animangaki, a similar first-time event held not too long ago in Sunway College, was MUCH BETTER than this. And they weren't exactly small-scale either. An ambitious two-day plan. An indoor Matsuri. Live Bands. They planned out so many things and managed to achieve every one of them. I can honestly say that I had more fun in Animangaki than I had in DaiCon, and it was overall a greater success. Animangaki was daring, but they were well-organized and well-prepared. DaiCon? It was ambitious, but failed to deliver, and fell flat.



EDIT: To everyone who was unhappy with the GO TO GACC cheer, I apologize. We did so in good faith, trying to promote our event but I guess we kinda went too far. Sorry for the ruckus, it won't happen again in the future.

[Reno-san]

PS. I <3 Cosfest =3

The events sounds really bad. Its being dubbed the Transformers 2 of the Anime Cosplay Convention world. Given decent reviews by those whom attended the concert and really freaking bad ones by the rest. Honestly, the lights being shut off was a big low blow I think to the booth owners. I mean come on... a lil respect please? I've attended events where there was a concert going on and it wasn't necessary for the event hall to be pitch black. The 'Berlin Wall' as it is named was a very interesting part of Daicon... i can't really comment much on this but I felt it was a lil extreme. I mean, at AFA where May'n performed they also had barriers but at least those of us who did pay could still enjoy the performance from a distance. Those who paid obviously had a better and closer view which they are entitled to. Why couldn't you do that here? Meh, but whatever... I didn't even go to Daicon so I'm sure my 2cents isn't worth much. I just hope it improves next year (if there is even a next year) *anxiously awaits GACC*

[Ranmaru90]

agree with RAGE-sama. i hate daicon too..

[Eien]

i won't put it up to hate level, but i'll certainly think twice about coming again. But to be honest, it was fun mostly due to friends being there, thanks again Solomon, Mitts, Doru and d K-ON girls XDD

[gen_tiger]

Wah, so many comments on the event itself....

Before heading to my comments, I would like to clarify that i am not purposely register this account just for this comment >_< People that still recognize my nick will have an idea who I am

I do feel that this event is "Encouraging, but areas of improvement needed". I have seen lots of events (ACG related, non ACG related) in the past and some of them died before the event date itself. It takes a lot of hard work, courage and also resources to open that event venue door. For those who had been through will surely understand. So guys, give them the credits for able to organize such an event

So now, for areas of improvement part:

1. The "walls"
I believe this is something that could be done better. Lack of announcement on this causes a lot people feel that their trip is wasted. I personally did ask the committee weeks before and i received an ambiguous answer =.= If you have decided make it exclusively only for the ticket holder, announce it loud and clear, at the website, at the venue, inside the booklet. After all this, if people still complain, screw them.

2. Event planning
Lack of consideration for the visitors/vendors/sponsors. Period.

Many complaints in going around the campus due to lack of direction. No direction to the food stalls behind the hall (I was informed by my friends only know that there are food stall behind the hall =.=). Lack of activities to stir up the atmosphere of the venue. Many people wandering around due to have nothing to do. Lack of communication with the sponsors and vendors. "Always think from their point of view", that is something that most of you guys have learned in the "other" event. Is kinda disappointing me for what you have show me.

3. Internal politics
I have no comments on this as i do hear stories from both sides and yeah, "Rome doesn't build in one day, which is the same as personal relationship". I will leave that to you guys to think.

Overall, I disagree people saying that this event is failed, sucks, no respect and etc. The committees deserve credits for organizing this event. It might not perfect, it might have a lot of flaws, but it is encouraging, since they are able to endure all the hardship, voluntary spend their free time (which they can just goyang kaki at home) to make this event happen. If anyone disagree with this, please do prove it to me.

[Key]

@Amex_Yohko: Are you like, copy-paste from a blog to here? Cus the way you wrote ain't direct, from the beginning till the end (that goes "Unfortunately I am dead broke to go to the second one to see the closing ceremony since getting there is too expensive...." to "Unfortunately for me, I cannot go the closing ceremony next day since I spent too much money just to get there...") o.O;
And what's with the spoiler photos? Dude, this ain't a blog man. =___=;

And what others had mentioned, do your homework before you post some childish reply. Unless you wanna sue Japan for making pvc female models which you call it "sex discrimination".
A suggestion, you should've post it in a blog, not here. Your post pretty much offended all of us in this forum right now.


Heard the ruckus...there's a lot of cons in this thread... o.O;
I hope there won't be any of this sort of incidents if Daicon continues on next year, since I wasn't able to attend this year's event.

[taki_yuki7]

I spend lots of effort to do costume...to come..even got day off for sunday...I dnt care about the concert....I jst want to have fun....I hate daicon...*cries*

hopefully could improve next time TOT

[shawn_kazu]

Actually there are lots other cosplayers that I did not get pics of them. Some of them are Mario Bros. and Stormtrooper guy. I didn't take their pics because they are not anime characters. It was a shame that they actually better than most other cosplayers. There also lots of Naruto and Bleach cosplayers but I just don't want them in my camera. No offense to Naruto and Bleach fans but if I get their pics, people will think that I also one of them. I don't want to be a Narutard.

[Reveal] Spoiler: Read over here. Contain some "ugly" statements.

YOU ARE TOTALLY INSULTING, ESSPECIALLY FOR US WHO ARE COSPLAYING AS NARUTO/BLEACH CHARACTERS!!
If you don't want to take, that's fine, I don't care much about that, but please, your words really directly insulting my friends, my group members and me, or are you thinking that we cosplayed as Naruto/Bleach characters are really suck for you? If yes, please get away. There's many other peoples still wanna with us. I'm not standing any side, I just put my comment as one of team leader of Naruto group. PLEASE again.

For certain people, just a gentle remind that please care your words while you want to give negative statements... Or you really can't endure it, put in spoiler. Less problem. =D

[wgfai]

this is going to be a thread of hatred instead of feedback

[RAGE]

I'm sorry if I'm being too rude again, i was trying to ensure that i wasn't understating myself again.. oh well, I'll use more bombastic vocabulary to describe the event then. Again, I'm sincerely apologizing if my awsm RAGE post was too rude ( which was the point, btw ).

Please send your "watch-your-languages" posts to my PM instead of spamming here with something along that line, because I seriously spent a lot of my time writing that and I am highly anticipate more constructive comments.. so please don't pollute this thread with your 30 seconds efforts of post to tell me to cooldown. Again, I'm sorry for the my previous RAGE. Sincerely.

I have no comments on this as i do hear stories from both sides and yeah, "Rome doesn't build in one day, which is the same as personal relationship". I will leave that to you guys to think.

Overall, I disagree people saying that this event is failed, sucks, no respect and etc. The committees deserve credits for organizing this event. It might not perfect, it might have a lot of flaws, but it is encouraging, since they are able to endure all the hardship, voluntary spend their free time (which they can just goyang kaki at home) to make this event happen. If anyone disagree with this, please do prove it to me.

You're not the only one who heard stories from the both sides boy ( assuming you're a guy, sorry if you're a girl actually ), and obviously it was a massive miscommunication problem within the committees itself which they show no intent to solve due to personal egos, the need to assume bad stuff about other committee members and all. They have zero have intent to actually fix the problem supported by the fact that the event got worse on the second day. I don't see this in Comic Fiesta, which managed to fix a lot of problem on the second day after some disaster on the first day.

But again, certainly does not really matter because the visitors don't really care about how the committees royally screwed up the event in the background. Also, there's a need of me to clarify my previous post: I ain't bombarding the whole committee, but to the top organizing committee. The working committees did their job and just execute their poorly ordered tasks... and they did overly good with it. I'm impressed, and these people are extremely suitable for Comic Fiesta volunteers.

Again.. there's still no "clarification" or "official cover up story" to respond all the rage from the visitors. Or maybe at least say thank you to the ones who actually "enjoyed" the concert ( which is quite logical since they only care about the concert , and don't care about other like the doujin booth owners who actually paid THE MOST EXPENSIVE DOUJIN BOOTH in Malaysia ).

Don't tell me that they haven't read any of the posts here, because it's obviously stated at the "Who is Online" status below that 2 of them are reading this thread. I even capture a screenshot of it.



I'm anticipating your reply, Kurogane. Your post would be "astronomical", believe me, you will want it to be "astronomically" good, since it took you a very long time to reply. Anyhow, no matter what you post after this, it's going to be "astronomically" amusing to me. Feeling nervous now? Pale face? Sweating? Do not worry, it's all part of the Public Relations job.

I am representing the enRAGEd visitors who are so enraged that they just don't bother posting. With that all, I'm signing out.

I should stop here, I don't want to turn this thread into a personal flame war.

PS: Anyone who think I had fun writing this, please re-think again. Writing this, it's NOT fun. It constantly remind me of me witnessing an ACG event imploded and I suffered for 2 days.

[Animetor_Lily]

I don't have much to say about the event, but mostly of what has been said here, I agree to. I can't say I enjoyed the event 100%, but it's not a total loss either. More like a 'so-so' state that I'm in.

For a first time event, I guess your mistakes are forgivable. But if taken into account of the many previous ACG events held in Malaysia, I believe DaiCon's organizers could've done better research and careful planning to not repeat mistakes done by other previous cons. According to the opening speeches, you had an entire year to plan this event, whereas in the outside world people have had to deal with 3 months or less of planning for events. Somehow, looking at DaiCon seems like it was done as a 'last minute' deal. O__o

Take a good look at the event booklet you passed out to everyone. What is that 'Insert awsm booklet title here' printed on the cover? That smells like 'last minute work' to me. ^^;;;

Getting food vendors in was a good idea, considering that the event venue is pretty far from any restaurants and many visitors probably came by public transportation. The only glitch about it is that there was no proper signage/etc apart from the emcee's short announcement (through a bad sound system). I was lucky that I came from the back, that I saw the food stalls first (and thus knew of their existence) before I saw the con's entrance.

The event schedule was pretty slack. I think the DaiCon team relied too heavily on the CM slot to concentrate on other, equally important things that are happening parallel to it such as the doujin booths, the card game, Gundam area, and most importantly the sponsor booths (always treat your sponsors with care, lest they decide not to sponsor you on your next event). Not everyone who came to DaiCon is there to see CM, so please pay more attention to that point next time. Try to think of some way to convince the visitors and audience to pay more attention to the booths and other events rather than herding them to always 'come sit in the stage area'. And I'm sorry to say, the emcee is rather disappointing. She made a lot of mistakes, and did not pay proper attention to her audience.

The floor layout could use a bit more work as well, but there's plenty of space to move around and it's comfortable. Air conditiong was okay, but I heard some cosplayers complain that it's a teensy bit warm, which is understandable because they're wearing many more layers of clothing than I am. ^^;;

Overall, it was okay. I wasn't deathly bored and neither was I totally hyped.
I was amused to later see the 'Disclaimer' on your event buntings : “EMINA will not be responsible for any epileptic seizures caused by the extremely exciting nature of our events.”

Edit: p/s: Oh, I forgot to mention that I am severely disappointed by the 'theft of the sponsor prizes' incident. >__< That's some bad security you guys have there.