MinamiCon 16 - April 16 to 18, 2010 - Southampton

[eva_fan]

Minami Con is the longest running anime convention in the UK, and next year will be it's 16th event.

Registrations open next week, October 1st at 10pm.
Last year it sold out in 8 hours.
So you'll need to decide quickly if you want to go.
When booking you book in blocks of 4 (assume there's enough places available at the time), and you'll have 2 weeks to pay.

Dates - 16-18th April 2010
Price - £49
Location - the Novotel Southampton

http://www.minamicon.org.uk/

[Jade]

Thanks for posting this. As you've been before, would you mind giving a rundown on what happens at Minami each day?

[eva_fan]

would you mind giving a rundown on what happens at Minami each day?

Err.....whoa.
I'll have to collect my thoughts and memories and assemble them in some order that makes sence but sure.

[zack_materia_hunter]

Thanks for posting this. As you've been before, would you mind giving a rundown on what happens at Minami each day?

In short...A LOT.

The easiest way to explain would be for me to post up my Video diaries of Minami 13 and 14. (sadly I went cameraless to Minami 15 simply because carrying a videocamera everywhere can be a slight pain...maybe XD)

Minami 13 - Part 1
Minami 13 - Part 2

Minami 14 - Part 1
Minami 14 Part 2
Minami 14 Part 3

But to describe...
The Con lasts for the whole weekend, starting on Friday afternoon/evening when most of the con attendees will turn up and register. During this time, there's a bar and main lounge area where everyone can chill and have fun. You'll already see a lot of cosplayers even at this stage, and where there's cosplayers, there's people with cameras. XD
At the start of the evening they have the Minamicon Opening Ceremony which will involve everyone going into a room, eating from a buffet table and further socialising (and some fun games, like Pinata hitting and Twister if I recall right..) whilst the staff get everything set up for the speech and whatnot.

Then, the actual opening show kicks off, which is kind of like a glorified game show with events, where volunteers will be made fun of on stage, as you can see in both of my videos (definitely in 14 anyway...)

When the show is over, there's further socialising in the main room, followed by some late night events such as the Anime Disco (basically a nightclub playing all your favourite J-Pop and Anime tracks), and uh...I wouldn't know since I spend the whole time dancing in the disco area all night.
There's also a lot of Video Rooms around where various episodes of Anime are being shown here there and everywhere. These are ongoing throughout the weekend.

Friday Nights are always pretty much the same, they're great and never usually change.

I'll post about Saturday and Sunday later on, but to summarise; Saturday night is always Karaoke Night and the Masquerade. Sunday is the Closing Ceremony and usually the time for us WA chaps to go out into Southampton and wreck up the place.