Invasion of the Animelians

Over the weekend I had the pleasure to attend The 2009 AX (Anime Expo) where literally over forty-thousand Animelians descended on The Staple Center in Los Angeles. For those of you who still live in the dark ages and don’t know what this is – it is the largest comic and Japanese exhibition in the U.S. While the droves of Anime fans arrived in costume as their favorite character, I heard one reporter describe the scene as, “The mother-load of virgins.” Mass chaos ensued; however, as the doors to the Expo opened on the first day and security seemed overwhelmed with the numerous fans that began to swarm the convention center. With the (WTF) looks on their faces it was as if they did not know quite how to handle the ginormous Halloween party where their biggest threat was a hoard of hungry cartoon characters with plastic weapons.