From what I experienced;
- Ticketing system (Management)
- Massively long queues
- Difficulty to get ticket to enter the venue is S++
(I was lucky i had some friends who came early, by 1.00am) - Crowd Flow control is shit
- Hunger and thirst
- buys a ticket - get chocolate only
- little to almost no cheap, fast food vendor nearby (i'm talking about hotdogs and stuff)
- Doujin/circle booth
- Mostly badges
- Most fanmade merchandise are cheap looking but overpriced/not worth your money etc etc
- mostly caters to fujoshi(s)
- almost no touhou stuff. if available, is either overpriced or not worth it
- Some original content is too western-looking. People would prefer manga style, as it's leaning more towards the niche (anime)
- Most drawing are shit, even if high-quality drawings are present, most of them felt 'empty' during fast browsing.
- Company booth
- eh, keep up the good job
- if possible can add more?
Judging by quality alone, I think it's pretty so-so...
Looking at good artists' booth (idk their circle name)
= Great artworks, love the surrealism in their art. Unfortunately, i could only buy
Looking at shit artists' booth
= Shit price for shit piece. Not worth my shit.
A little business preposition:
Statistics from CF fb page:
Day 1- 6914 ppl
Day 2- 8379 ppl
Total-15293 ppl
I dont know how they did the counting, maybe by ticket sales, but pretty much seems to be legit.
Now, let's say you are a doujin circle looking to sell your stuff.
Remember, this is Malaysia. Hentai and heavy-ecchi stuff are prohibited. Sex sells, but this is not the case here. You can't get too optimistic with your art.
Plus, most attendees only look for merchandises sold at company/anime merchandise store booths. I myself bought comics house' comics worth 75myr! lolol
on a side note, my friends bought a chopper hat. I also bought a set of A4 posters from the doujin booths, intended to hang them up on my workspace's wall but not yet lolololol
SO, HOW DO YOU NAIL YOUR CUSTOMERS' DEMAND? AND GET MAXIMUM PROFIT?
It's a rare event, once per year, held only for 2 days. SO make it worthwile for your target recipient. Don't just make a doujin without a good analysis of the niche. DONT SYOK SENDIRI and fail to profit and/or invest. Or at the very, very least, capital return. "No" to deficit or loss!
*SYOK SENDIRI = eh, kinda like masturbate
If you're a dojin circle who have been/will be participating in any ANIMU event, you should know this!
Me? I have a plan on my own.
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