Anime Contents Expo Day 2
by Ko Ransom,Day 2
Kadokawa Group
Kadokawa Group's booth featuring a host of its subsidiaries and brands including A Letter to Momo, and more. The booth also featured a stage where smaller Kadokawa-related events were held, as well as an area for fans to buy items including signed light novels and manga.
Auction
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Bushiroad's ACE display was a scaled-down version of their TAF booth, once again with large sections promoting franchises including Da Capo seemed to have a stronger presence here than at TAF, not only in the booth itself but also in that the two had a special talk show and concert on day 1, showing a keen awareness of the different kinds of crowds that TAF and ACE would draw.
Nico Nico Douga's ACE booth was also similar in appearance to their TAF showing, with heavy promotion of their Nico Nico Choukaigi (Super Convention), as well as the traveling Nico Nico Shrine where visitors could send their prayers out to the internet and see viewers' responses in real time. However, the website's booth had a small stage inside where they held live-streamed talk and radio shows all day long, featuring various guests from anime series such as AKB0048, and so on, gathering a large throng of onlookers throughout the entire event.
Nitroplus
Like many of the smaller booths at ACE, Nitroplus devoted most of their floor space to selling goods, in their case titles from their "Nitroplus Books" line, including Guity Crown: Princess of Deadpool,a novelized side story to the Guilty Crown: Lost Christmas PC game.
Food Court
In a show of just how fan-oriented ACE could make their entire event, even the menu of the food court was full of official anime-related food and drink items. Smaller items such as 250 yen ($3) bottles of Doctor Pepper that came with a Steins;Gate "Dk. Makise" coaster or 300 yen ($3.50) servings of Idolm@ster bean sprouts, as well as larger entrees like 700 yen ($8.50) Waiting in the Summer sandwiches were available, though the line just to get food reportedly required a wait of as much as 90 minutes at peak times.
Geneon Universal
Geneon Universal's round booth featured a large display at its front that played promotional videos for various titles such as Waiting for Summer and Jormungand anime series.
Good Smile Company's ACE display was similar to their TAF booth, mostly consisting of a large box showing off new and figures from titles such as Lagrange - The Flower of Rin-ne.
Here are the rest of our images from the show. See you next year!
Additional images by Adrian Lozano
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