Sangawa Project 2026 – page 5
So, I feel like my urge to draw the funniest picture might have gotten in the way of factual accuracy a bit here. And I don’t just mean that there’s clearly more than seven floors in that tower. The whole “waving to attract attention” gag could easily imply that the museum wasn’t getting any visitors due to the high up location, and I don’t actually mean that. Sure, there were a lot fewer people than came through at Animazement or Otakon… but that’s because this was a MUCH smaller convention than either of those, so of COURSE there were fewer people. For an event of this size, thought, I think the turnout was fine. I don’t think there were any fewer people than would have come through if the museum were down on the convention center floor.
HOWEVER, the point here isn’t to talk about the actual number of warm bodies crammed into the room at any given time. I’m talking about the FEEL, and I FELT removed from the action in a way I haven’t in a looooong time. Even with stuff going on in the other office/rooms around us, that whole area felt WAY too quiet and sequestered away to “really” be a part of the convention. I mean, most of the time, I could actually hear myself THINK!
You were 7 floors from the ground, and it felt like 17 floors (based on the number of lines on this page). Yeah, that sounds reasonable. I take it you were also around the top of the Con, if not on the highest floor of the Con?
Even weirder. It was a hotel with convention space, but only on the lobby level. Yet they also had the aforementioned “office space” on several floors up. Technically, we were in the middle of the building. Like, our actually hotel room was two floors UNDER this, in between the two ends of the con. It was strange.