Anime Evolution

Anime Evolution is Vancouver’s premier event celebrating Japanese animation, manga, gaming, and every kind of related fandom. Our focus is entertainment, community and cultural diversity in a fun, family friendly, inclusive and accessible setting.

[icestash]

family I needed them to have one of those reunion Oh-gods-my-best-friends-I-am-just-so-happy-you-both-are-alive-and-not-eaten moments I make myself emotional.___.

[vananimeevolution]

<3  #Squad 

[a-rikachu]

just a quick doodle practice!

[vananimeevolution]

Nice :D 

[drawn-2-art]

Please send Eren and Armin to the ocean 2016

[vananimeevolution]

<3 <3 <3 

[nyanpasuminasan]

[bc-phan-deactivated20160701]

Costested Rei Ryugazaki!! I’m actually going to cosplay the Future Fish version but I don’t have everything together yet. Does anyone have advice on makeup for him???

[vananimeevolution]

Wow. Amazing cosplays <3 

[princess-starr]

I FOUND THE MOTHERLOAD AT HOT TOPIC! (But sadly no Ami-chan. Yet.)

They are all so cute! 😊

[vananimeevolution]

OMG <3 TOTALLY WANT! 

[sailorpoot]

[pokedi93]

[sailormoon-episodes]

[rifa]

ACCIDENTALLY I SITH LORD-ED

[manafromheaven]

when u accidentally a sith

[vananimeevolution]

She is one of the coolest people on earth <3 

[genicecream]

the king

[kiniroki]

Sheebs

[camilladerricoart]

This little cutie is “Sour Patch"☺️🎉 If you want to take her home this is your #LastChance!😊 On May 8th she will be gone for good so make sure to pick her up before she disappears! Get her on my store: store.camilladerrico.com 💖😘 #camilladerrico #popsurrealism #popmanga #poppainting #manga #anime #girl #cute #unicorn #rainbowhorn #bananabug #fruitbug #ruffle #pout #print #art #artist #artwork #pinstripes #purplehair #rainbow #big #eyes

[pongguo]

best sibs

[vananimeevolution]

Dear AE 2015 attendeesFrom the entire VACS board of directors and AE 2015 staff we would like to thank all of the attendees who came out and make AE 2015 a success! We had the opportunity to be the first convention held at UBC's new Student Nest, and with that opportunity comes a new set of things to learn and new challenges to face. That being said, there is always room for improvement and we would like to invite all of our attendees to fill out this survey. Let us know what worked, what didn't work, and other things we can improve on to make our events in the future bigger and better! It is through all of your feedback that we hope to continue to make AE a convention that puts all the attendees thoughts in mind.

[vananimeevolution]

Hi there! As someone who wants to be a future artist are your con next year, it's a bit disappointing and discouraging when I see a review like this?: "Apparently the staff is really rude. The artists were on the second floor. You could get in to most panels and the dealers room without buying a pass. You virtually only needed a pass for the artist alley. Artist alley was cramped and hot. Hardly anyone was selling at this con as well." What do you plan on doing to fix this for next year?

Hi Anon, We are very much aware of the issues of badge checking, and issues around Artist Alley in general this year. Regarding Artist Alley space in particular, we had been given the wrong (smaller) table dimensions from UBC AMS, and so that severely affected the alley in a way that we could not address in time, as it was discovered during set up Thursday night.  We now know the proper table sizes that the university will be providing us for the future, and will be able to plan accordingly. This will not be an issue at either of our one-day events Akimatsuri nor J-Fest, as those are held at familiar locations we have worked with before (UBC Robson, and Nikkei Centre). One possible future for the Artist Alley is merging it with the Vendors into one big market place section, rather than separating the two, and hopefully that will address one aspect of the traffic disparity between them. We genuinely would like to showcase our artists better than we did this year, and we have learned quite a lot from the growing pains of being the first large-scale function to move into the new UBC Nest building.

Regarding staff, volunteers, and badge checking though, is a much more complex set of issues that at the heart of it, boils down to: we didn’t have enough people. there weren’t enough volunteers to be where they should have been, and there weren’t enough staff in higher positions to train and manage them, both before the convention and on-site. We are growing faster than our HR pool can keep up with. We are always looking for volunteers and always looking for people passionate and driven enough to be staff.

We will be posting a survey in the next few days and would greatly appreciate it if you and those you know who went to AE can fill it out for us so that we have a more complete picture of how we can continue to improve for the future.

[vananimeevolution]

Post AE2015

Hi Everyone,

I'd like to thank you all for coming out to Anime Evolution 2015. A special thank you to all the staff and volunteers who helped us out this year, many in multiple departments to fill the shortages in some departments this year (we're always looking for more!).

We are aware of several organizational and venue-specific issues that came up this year and will be releasing a survey later on in the week so you can help us address some of these issues in a more concise format.

Once again, thank you very much for coming out to Anime Evolution 2015. We hope to see you again next year!

Sincerely,

Sean Cruz Convention Chair Anime Evolution 2015

P.S. For those of you at the concert, they usually don't give second encores. You folks did Vancouver proud!

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Thanks SEAN! If anyone has any concerns or questions please email us at [email protected] and we will promptly answer them! :D