i just wanted to say i really love watching your videos! my algorithm doesn't show me many convention vlogs outside of USA, so it's really interesting to see the differences in set-up, organization, and merch diversity in your vlogs. i also find your voice really pleasant to listen to and your art is wonderful

I think your rant/complains are actually valid & have a lot of point. I never been Doujima or any oversea event but I do boothing in local events few times for years now (I'm from Malaysia). what you're ranting is actually what organizer should and must provide to the boothers. I was actually shocked to see the boothers have to set up the table even have to figuring out where the booth number before setting up the display because I never seen boother have to do that since the organizer usually setting the table and we just have to setting up the display. The number booth setting is actually doesn't make sense as well. I agree that Boothers should put their table label so the visitor can easi;ly track which boother they want to go. Really nice video btw!

YAY NEW VIDEO!!!! I really hope that this encourages more and more people to speak up about their qualms with conventions these days ;;; The lack of signages really hurt a lot of people and Sunday is already the dead day for every convention, so it falling on Mother's day this year just makes it worse. Last year, doujima kind of cemented itself in the SEA creators' space so it really enticed a lot of SEA artists to want to sign up for this year's and from what I can see online, a lot of them were just very disappointed in the outcome and have been very vocal about not wanting to return. 500+ booths is way too many booths to not do signage or even grouping by fandoms. You mentioned becoming your own competitor with your table partner so I'm unsure if fandom grouping is as good of an idea as I was thinking but I do feel that it allows visitors to more easily zone in on what they want rather than they have to walk through all the tables just to maybe find something. And they might get tired and not find it anyway only to realize what they missed after the event. There is such a huge convention burnout, gst is getting higher and no one wants to spend as much money anymore. All this just combines together to create disappointing sales for most tables. I do think your advice on getting your own table if you can afford it is very helpful and something that I don't see a lot of people say. I agree, it's kind of like reverse 1999 (haha) where some dps characters do better solo because they just get all their cards HAHAHAHAHA. But that also brings up the issue of the huge hurdle in joining these events since a small artist who just started will definitely not be able to cover the cost themselves unless they have a full-time job and are willing to drop that kind of money. So it's either they drop a lot of money, or they risk getting cannibalized, or they luck out and somehow make it work. Boothing is getting harder and more expensive to start and it just saddens me that so many are stopped short because of stuff like this. It can't rly be helped I guess unless prices go back to the way they were in the old days. Thank you for always sharing your experiences via these vlogs! Happy 1 year anniversary and I hope that your channel only grows bigger and your future endeavors only get better!

Just found your video by chance, thanks for showing us a boother's insight on this event!! I'm a buyer who went on day 1, and yes it was super confusing to navigate even when I planned my route in advance 😭 It was too huge too, I was super drained after completing a HS stamp rally and didn't manage to go through all the booths... Missed out on many stuff ;-; Hopefully next year is more organized, and works better for both boothers and buyers 🥲

I never been to conventions before, your videos are greatly appreciated, helpful and inspiring to be one of the boothers like you. JIA YOUS

thank you for this video!! i also faced all these issues that you mentioned ;; as a first time boother sharing the booth with friends i was pretty surprised with the lack of booth numbers, social media marketing, and some of my otaku friends told me that they didn’t even know this was happening 😢 hopefully neo tokyo project will take all of the feedback well and improve next year

awesome vlog, man! really enjoyed watching it and seeing the experience overseas. currently prepping for my first event and this was a delight to put on in the background while i worked, hope your future events go well too!

highly agree about the table sharing part, to shout out ur brand a solo table is really a need, but it is just very sad that most booth in sg is simply too ex

Enjoyed the vlog!! I couldn't walk around much so I get to see what i missed out on :D

Spotted myself in your video at 3:49, wearing the Ado Wish shirt and flat cap! Really enjoyed your video and I had a good time at the event as I was visiting my wife's family in Singapore around that time. I also totally felt the same about the tables and I had to save a map on my phone to find the ones I wanted to visit. I felt bad having to ask, but like you, everyone was friendly to show me the way. I also only found out about the event by just randomly searching for things specific to Suntec City. If I am visiting SG again and there's another event going on, I'll be sure to come by and say hello.

Well said for my issues with Doujima! You said it well and better!! The signages are part of the troubles I think we all face, and as boothers, not giving enough space for us to enter and exit the booth is a huge issue that I think can be done way better without the troubles of even mentioning it. Although I do think that marketing is one issue that we face as boother and is a constant need to do, Doujima hasn't been good to many of my others friends (Entrance buff is really strong) and I think the reviews from many different artists speaks for themselves about how disappointing this event has been. They have done the bare min, and I do think their response for most things that we complain about, has not been good response and instead felt like sarcastic comments. If the boothers have to rely on getting near the entrance to earn, and that the ones who doesnt means they get the short straw, I think that this event is basically a fail for the ones who didnt get good spots, which is half of the boothers. Events has to ensure that every corner of the place gets their fair share of earning, If they are unable to ensure so, that means that the set up and the way they are doing is totally wrong.

thank you for the video! i wanna try going to dojima next year and got a good insight. hopefully the admins improve after this

Yes that is a well made video and it is true that the table number is pretty much missing and literally hard to find but overall that was an awesome vlog over at Doujima and nice meeting you too 😁👍

Somehow stumbled your video and love it! So well-made, informative and on-point! I was also boothing at the event, and I agree with your concerns, especially about the lack of signages combined with the weird block naming. My table was far on the back, block D, and as I got a corner table, I had multiple visitors asking for directions and saw some others clearly got lost. Some even thought my block was block A 😅 I'll be also boothing at Doki Doki, though I don't win the table gacha, wish us and everyone luck there 🙏🙏🙏

Thanks for sharing your views on Doujima and I must say I do agree with your thoughts on the event. The lack of signages is really disappointing and artists have to print their own signages so that visitors know where they are. The setup on Friday night was so bad as there was no signage at all and most artists were just confused and worried if they set up on the wrong tables. Surely an experienced organiser like Neo Tokyo should know that they need to provide simple zone signages. Perhaps they know but is just unwilling to. Let's talk about the event itself. I am a pretty new boother. This is my 4th since I started last September. My past 3 events were all very decent. I was really excited to be part of such a major event - Doujima and to be able to be in the same room as many famous artists. But because of my table location which was pretty far back into the hall, the traffic around me was pretty low and hours into the first day, I realised that the sales will be disappointing and the fact is, there were too many choices for similar fandom merchandise. Oh, and I had a booth partner who was also selling similar fandom merch. So we were indeed cannibalising on each other. But then again, if I didn't split the table cost with another person, I will have to bear the entire table cost which was a big amount (we didn't apply during the early bird period so we had to pay for the full cost). Anyway, long story short, the sales for both days are short of what I normally earned for previous events and I've decided that no more Doujima until I've got a lot more followers/merch/improved art... One thing's for sure, Doujima is not for the new and small artists. The crowd is there definitely, but most of these visitors already have in mind what they are looking for and which booths they are going to. Whatever left over money they have (which unfortunately, isn't a lot left), are then distributed to the smaller artists. Or from what I've observed, if a potential customer like what they see at my booth but perhaps still unsure about it, they will make a mental note to come back after they have seen other artists' works. Sometimes they do (and I'm super grateful for that), sometimes they don't (which I'm not surprised as who honestly wants to walk back to the other end of 3 halls just to get a print unless it's oh-so-beautiful-and-i-can't-do-without-it). Well, if you or anyone has good advice for a new boother like me, please feel free to comment. Would be really happy to receive any.

Honestly I agree of how they placed the tables I had a hard time looking for the artist that I wanted to buy from as some booth didn’t have the numbering on them and I walk and walk until I manage to get to the booth that i wanted.

I think all your problems were valid and I hope they fix it next year. 500 is alot and almost too many artist alley tables. I doubt most average visitors would buy stuff from 5 booths. The talk at the end was the most interesting part, alot of good stuff for artist to keep in mind when they doing conventions.

Hello! I’ve also just started my small business selling stickers and prints (not necessarily related to anime) and I’m planning on boothing soon too! I’ve stumbled across your videos and they are all extremely helpful so I was wondering how do you find these fests/cons to booth at? Currently I’ve been searching online but I can only see info about makers market 😢

That floor layout is wild, not to say it doesn't make sense, it is just backward. If they just swapped the entrance and exit, all the lettering and numbering would make sense.

Hello. I was randomly recommended this video and both the comments and video itself were very informative in a natural way! I have very little knowledge of what’s going on besides this being an art convention it seems..? I am sorry that you and others are experiencing grievances with it… it must suck.

Hello!! TQ for the video!! Your observations of DJM were very thought out and well-articulated imo, agreed with many of them. The entire issue with the event's (lack of) signages and the weird placement feels a lot like a massive UI/UX issue, it's kind of ????? that the I row is between D and E?? Like what? And H is at... the exit?? Nani???? As a somewhat baby boother (last time producing merch was before covid...) It's also nice to hear your post-con analysis regarding sales cannibalizing, especially if you're producing merch with a lot of competition already (ie hoyoverse) the last thing you want to do is cannibalize your own friend;;; Having big signages marketing not just yourself but your merch is a great idea as well, will look into that C: All in all great video, you've gained a new follower from me and I'm off to watch your other videos on other cons (੭ ᐕ)੭*⁾⁾✧✧✧✧ (Randomly me and my friends got caught on your video in front of our booth at around the 7:43 mark and we were like （＊〇□〇）……！ wwwwwww)

reformmating my last comment, if you saw that no you didnt. But an event like this is my dream. I love anime conventions but a big part for me and my con circle is the AA. id love to hit up an event thats solely about supporting local artists and buying fanart and original works I like. Whole the cons i usually hit up over here in the US have AAs. it varys. Some will favor vendors over artists, some will go all out, and some will select the same 9 people for every con. and while theyre works nice, i want variety, i want to see all the amazing artists.

Poor Currynoodle cant get his Ipad ,I agreed on boothing on your own when you have more item and experience ,it does worth investment for a booth with a good display.I do heard of Doujima sales drop on day 2 this is not the 1st time i heard from boother from MY exp there.Reason can be day 1 shopping burst and Sunday mass.Thankyou for the insight in SG ACG scene.

The map was so bad and the font was awful... I didn't know you were there 😭 I want that kueh tote bag! Hope to see you at a future event!

I can’t blame you for oversleeping, what a super late set up time! I know here in America, artists typically get to set up much earlier the day before. It’s also okay to complain if things aren’t as they seem. I was shocked how crammed it was between artists that’s not fair to those with disabilities or something and seems like a safety issue!! Not all events and cons will work for you or everyone. I do hope you try others though it’s interesting to see how different the con and market life are over there compared to the states 😊

I navigated using the map on my phone but like you said, the letters were confusing it's not consistently back to front. The sections kinda mashed into each other too, one second I'm in A then the next, I'm in B.

Dude , You need to film properly (you gave me vertigo), otherwise goodluck buddy