AnimeiCon, Central Coast's New Upstart

It's been awhile since I've had a chance to get on here and I have a lot to say. We were invited to come down to this first year and check out the sites. Half the team arrived Thursday night and got to crash out in the condo provided by AnimeIcon a couple of miles from the beautiful Monterey State Beach. After they crashed out, they headed out to the Monterey County Fairgrounds to set up shop for the weekend.

The DJ RSkee and DJ DubDeuce spun music,  met the oh so kind staff lead by Elyjah Mercurio, and drank How ya Bean's "Volcano Drinks" with a TLH twist.  Myself and the other half of the Team didn't arrive till late friday night. We all piled into the condo after grabbing up some groceries and got ready for the weekend ahead of us.  

The convention had a lot potential with their many food vendors and good sized vendors hall. AnimeiCon's plus's were the the amazing staff and welcoming vendors. Although we didn't see tons of people gathered in one place, the fairgrounds huge layout had cosplayers and otaku scattered about. If they do a second year, hopefully they will have a smaller venue to keep everyone together. 

 On the third day we able to setup next to each other and hangout. We held a silent charity auction and raised some money for American Red Cross Japan Earthquake and Pacific Relief . We took some great photos with the  Funimation guests, Jamie Marchi, Trina Nishimura, and Chris Cassen. Enjoyed some Tako drumming, martial arts demonstrations and various other panels and events. As the convention slowly ended, we were asked to give the guests of honor a sort of escort through Carmel and down Cannary Row. We had a blast!!! Finally we pulled away and took some time to ourselves on the beach and even had a chance to do a mass owling. Too much fun. To see all the pictures Click here for album one and here for album two.

We all agreed that we would attend and participate in AnimeiCon 2.0 next year so keep an eye out for updates from TLH.

Next up on our tour... San Mateo's HyperCon. 

AnimeiCon, Undead Cosplayers and Guinness Book of World Records

Hello everybody! As you know, Team LoveHATE will be showing at AnimeiCon located at the Monterey Bay Fairgrounds this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.


We hope to see you all out there.
We will be attempting the first ever Guinness book world record for largest number of undead cosplayers in one area. We will have a booth setup outside where you can sit down and get your face painted for five bones to transform your cosplay into zombie and become part of history.


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Saturday night, DJ RSkee and DJ DubDeuce will be spinning at Club iCon so you dance freaks better come through!



We'll be holding a charity fundraiser for Japan Relief and hosting a panel on Sunday at 1 PM on the "Western Revolution of Itasha" so keep an eye out for us... all weekend.



We hope to see you there. So when you come out, drive safe and have a great time. Talk to you later!


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Team LoveHATE's Anime Con Tour Schedule

Oh yeah. Here is a updated schedule and all you need to know about the conventions we are attending. Hopefully you too can come out and party with the Original Urban Otaku! Check out each one and see what events and our affiliates have in store for you.

Kintoki-Con: We will be helping out our neighbors at the Sacramento Hyatt Regency Downtown and Japan by holding a silent charity auction, sponsoring Capital Root's Hip Hop Dance Competition Shobu Shodown. Loki's Planet's 24-hr gaming lounge, "Cars 2" screening promo and the Filipino Martial Arts Academy Performances.

AnimeiCon: Will will be rolling out to the cool Monterey County Fairgrounds for this amazing event. We will be holding a panel, having an indoor showing and be providing anime/hip-hop mashup music with DJ RSkee.

HyperCon: We will be headed to the San Mateo Fairgrounds for HyperCon. We will be providing Matsuri Festival Games, bringing our Filipino Martial Arts Academy buds for demonstrations all day, DJ RSkee will be MCing and spinning tracks all weekend long. As well as helping hosting Capital Roots Dance Studio's b-boy exhibition. 

Ani-Jam: Then we are off the Fresno for Ani-Jam. We will be showing the rides and holding a dance party during the day featuring DJ RSkee.

SacAnime: Finally to finish the years con scene, it's fitting that we end up where we started it all. Sac Anime. We will be having a special cosplay event and panel with Jason Dube outside and unveiling our newest "Panda Days" Itasha while DJ RSkee spins out by the fountains for a special SacAnime Summer Day Jam.

We hope to see all of our fans and make tons of new one's as we travel all over Cali. Please stop by and say hi!