idkac Anime Expo 3

Written in 7/15/2026

will this take me a month to write

idkac Anime Expo 3

At this point, going to AX has basically become a yearly tradition for me, so of course I had to go to AX again this year. Similar to last year, I went with my good friends kjason and conservemomenta, as well as 2 additions who I will be refering to as a.r. and 2.6 hog rider.

yes that is what i will be refering to you as you don't get to complain

I think for this year, I am not really planning on having any real in depth retrospectives about anything, so it will probably be pretty similar to my first blog on AX: day description -> image dump -> conclusion.

So without further ado, lets get this show on the road

Day 1

So for some context that will be crutial in the future, for this year I actually didn't get to AX via plane. Instead, I carpooled with some of my other friends (none of whom shows up in any of my pictures so I decided not to include them in the blog) as well as 2.6 hog rider and drove down to AX.

hog riderrrr

The first thing that I was when we got close to the expo location was actually this giant banner for MarriagexToxin, which, if you didnt know, is currently one of my favorite mangas. I low key got jumpscared by the banner because usually these things are reserved for the biggest anime of the season for that year, and I did not think marriagetoxin was popular enough to have that much real estate (so to speak). Regardless, its cool to see a manga (or i guess anime now) I like get so much recognition, and maybe more people would get into it.

also in case you didnt know, i wrote about this manga in one of my previous blogs, which you definitely should check out if you didnt, since it gives you a pretty good summary of what the manga is like

Anyways, after we found parking (after like an hour because LA hates public parking) we split up and I met up with kjason and a.r..

A certain someone (cough cough conservemomenta) forgot their pass and for some reason did not want to wait in line to get a pass so he just decided to not come to AX for a day (even though that was the whole point of the trip, but allg ig).

First thing that we did was get a group picture in front of this Persona statue, half because one of our friends plays Persona and half because we wanted a group picture

On the left is kjason and right is a.r.

After this, as always, the first thing that I did was just walk around the artist alley looking for merch. Since I moved back with my parents this year after graduating from uni, I (unfortunately) could no longer buy anything that I wanted to display in my room (otherwise I may get questionable stairs from my parents). As such, I was mostly looking for stuff like stickers and shirts. In terms of specific titles I was trying to get merch from, it was mostly the same stuff as last year like blue archive, lor, konosuba, league, etc. (i was also hoping for stuff from gayge, 100, relife, heart tune, or one room, but thats mostly just wishful thinking). Though I have been getting into Deadlock recently so I was also hoping for merch of that

rubbing my belly

One thing that I did have to do today was one of my friends wanted me to take pictures of (note that I said of and not with a cosplayer that he really likes (takomayuyi)), so I had to go to the Neverness to Everness booth to get a picture.

I had no idea what she looked like so I had to discord video call him at 5:30 a.m. vietnam local time so he can check for me

I also got them to sign the picture, but its kinda bad quality since I only had markup on my phone

After taking the pictures, I just walked around the venue and checked out all the other booths that were set up. Turns out, there was a IBuyPower stand at Anime Expo (which was completely unexpected), and they had free pc open for you to play counter strike on. Personally, I don't think this was that great of a financial investment since 90% of the people at AX would probably plays Valorant or would never play CS in the first place, but at least the stand is cool.

GOLD GOLD GOLD

For lunch, a.r., kjason and I decided to get food from the soul food restuarant that we went to last year, since it was the closest place from where we left. Since a.r. is a huge enjoyer of soul food, he was especially stoke to try some of the best that LA has to offer.

Other than the errands, not else really happened today. a.r. and I did plan on going to a panel where they were going to screen both Overgeared and Saga of Tanya the Evil 2, but the line into the building where all the panels are held was too long, so we passed on it.

Btw slight rant, but I had 0 idea that Overgeared was going to get an adaptation. I used to actually really like the manhwa, but I unfortunately had to drop the series because of the absolutely abhorrent drop in quality in the later chapters. So I low key thought the studio had 0 faith in the series any more. I guess this is definitely a welcomed surpise, since I think Overgeared is genuinely a pretty damn good series (better than Solo Leveling) and Grid (the goat) is funny af.

The other panel that a.r. and I were planning on going to was the 18+ "Con Crush: I was transported to AX26 and Now I Must Find My Soulmate (or Friend) in Three Minutes or Less" ironically, just to see what its gonna be like

Yes that is the real title

I was kind of hoping for there to be a 60/40 or even 70/30 mix, but when we walked over to the line it was just a sausage party (which honestly was to be expected). So we decided to just skip it. Turns out it was a good idea because I saw a bunch of posts on twitter afterwards where people were complaining about the organization/logistics of the event and the fact that it was all guys (shocker). So I am kinda glad that we skipped out.

Regardless, heres the photodump for the day:

from left to right: a.r. with tanya, Lord Farquad (lore accurate height), Bomb devil

rotten girl miku, ame-chan from needy streamer overload, matryoshka miku (i actually saw multiple people cosplaying her which was surprising, the song's good but its so old (i guess its a real ball knower cosplay))