Gencon was held again this year at the Indianapolis Convention Center in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. Known mainly as a tabletop-gaming convention, Gencon celebrated its 47th year of running this year. The convention has expanded to include areas such as anime and other geeky categories to its schedule and is no doubt, one of the biggest conventions in the Midwest. Last year, the convention boasted an attendance record of 49,000 individuals from all 50 states and 32 countries. This year, the convention had experienced yet another jump in attendees by more than 10% with a unique attendance of 56,614 individuals at the convention.
On Sunday, I was one of the few lucky people in Los Angeles to attend the premier screening of Aniplex's Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade Works, which was sold out. The location was the Downtown Independent Theater, next to Little Tokyo, and doors did not open until 12:15 PM. Since I had to drive and didn't want to risk getting stuck in LA traffic I left early, but to my surprise there was a long line of fans already in line once I had arrived. At first I wasn't sure if I was at the right place, but once I got closer I heard someone playing music from the Fate/stay series and saw a Rin cosplayer. I signed in and got in line and waited for the doors to open. Once they opened, we were allowed inside the lobby, which had posters of the Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade Works series and people were taking pictures with them along with the cosplayers who attended the event. Aniplex gave every attendee an exclusive "Unlimited Blade Works Memorial Record" lithograph which has Saber, Shirou, Rin, Archer and Kotomine on it along with the locations of the screenings and date at the bottom to commemorate the event.
Read more: Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade Works LA Screening Impressions
Notorious for his talents as a songwriter, drummer and pianist, Part 1 of Yoshiki's 2014 world tour is starting later this month and will include ten different countries: US, Mexico, Russia, Germany, France, United Kingdom, China, Thailand, Taiwan and Japan. In the US in particular, he will be performing in Costa Mesa (4/25) and San Francisco (4/28), California.
Read more: Yoshiki's Classical World Tour Coming to Los Angeles and San Francisco this Month
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