Weirdest and best experiences at anime events [Tell me yours]

InJ_Mataga said:
Weirdest : I was 20 at the time. I met a weird girl who attached to me for unknown reason. I was in an online manga club. And this girl as well, but she never attended offline gathering so it was the first I saw her. I dunno why she seemed so attached to me. She even asked me to play hide and seek inside the mall far away from the crowd and we explored the mall together while playing hide and seek for hours. She was really attractive but I felt that she was really weird tbh. Even until today, I still wonder if it was just my illusion, but I have her picture from that time. I had a chat with her that night but we lost contact after that. The fb she used to join the manga club wasn't her real one I think. It was fun, but weird.

Best : Hm.. I think it was the first time I got to be on the newspaper, lol. Our manga club got a section on the newspaper.

haydenluvsanime said:
Finding the hentai booth out in the open and browsing through it all without even trying to hide what I was doing. It was awesome.

Poulain said:
The best memory I had may seem weird. This was more than 10 years ago, but I encountered this drummer on a social media site who belongs to a band which covers Japanese songs. They're not popular or whatever, but I followed their content and eventually became casual friends online due to my relentless comments lol. Needless to say, I had a crush on him. We never really spoke in real life, and he doesn't know how I look like. Unfortunately, due to school, I can't find ways to attend conventions they participate in. But there's this one time that I attended one weekend, and to my surprise they were there. I didn't introduce myself because I'm shy and I was alone, and also he's 22 at the time while I was still a minor. But I stood there amidst the pool of weebos cheering in as they play a song from supercell which I was a fan of. It was magical yet bittersweet, admiring someone from afar like that.

I don't have any weird experience from conventions, although at the time I find it odd that there are grown-ups during events, which of course I understood as I grew up.

InJ_Mataga said:
@TrveAnimu
Kinda, lol.
But tbh, I was so innocent at the time, and she really made me curious about her.
I knew that she had a close someone (a girl) in the club because how they interacted in real and I tried to find her real fb by searching through that person's friend list , but I couldn't find a pp resembles her ( lol, really, I wasn't trying to stalk her, I was just curious about her)

@TallonKarrde23
I think I didn't dodge anything at all looking at how I followed her game, lol.
I can see what you mean though..
But I personally think that maybe she had rough days before and wanted to do something fun and unusual for stress relief..
I think she was just emotionally unstable at the time
Whenever I tried to be serious she always dragged me then ran
Maybe she chose me because my appearance ( I looked so innocent despite my age)
Either way, I don't think she wanted a friend
But well, I don't know and maybe will never know her true reason doing that

_Dusty_ said:
I've only ever been to a con twice, and both times it was Manchester Anime Con.

The first year (2017) was great. They have this small stage set up to do shows or contests on. I headed back to that area after everything was over, and I got to meet this bunch of cosplayers just dicking about to the background music. No clue what any of them were cosplaying as, but I took a photo, so if anyone recognises anything, please tell me. There was also a guy dressed as the Joker, but he'd already fucked off by that point.
They were lovely and we ended up in an impromptu dance session on the stage which two or three people came to watch. I saw one guy filming us, so I know that somewhere out there, there exists footage of me and a bunch of cosplayers dancing badly to YMCA on a plywood stage on an indoor basketball court. I want to see that footage.
Also made friends with an Okabe cosplayer and one of the staff members was nice and paid for my drink when the vending machines were card-only and all I had was cash. Thanks, good samaritan guy.

Less happened in the second year, but it was still fun. I played a bunch of kids at Smash Bros and filmed an (official this time) dance contest on that same plywood stage. There was a female-Natsu Dragneel dancing to 5, 6, 7, 8 and Pour Some Sugar on Me, and a Tokyo Ghoul cosplayer dancing to Shout Out to My Ex.