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The Good: Being back at Otakon. We missed you all last year Overall good traffic flow and management of con attendees Stayed at the Marquis for the first time - a definite good thing The Bad: The much smaller number of dealers in the dealer's room No Japanese food eatery this year. Will it come back next year, I hope? Not as much variety in anime screening rooms. It would be nice to see more new shows, but I mostly saw a lot of older shows. We also had a lot of panels on similar topics The challenges of panelists trying to talk through a mask into

Has anyone heard about badges being mailed out yet? We rolled over our Otakon 2020 badges, but we haven't received them yet.

Good Fun panels, and a good mix. I brought my wife this year (who isn't into anime), and she found a lot of panels to interest her. In particular, some of the food panels and the Japanese commercials were mostly good. Smooth lines, rarely needing to wait (except to queue up for popular workshops) Bad Friday night autograph line for Erika Harlacher stalled for 20 minutes while someone monopolized her with conversation. The staff should have moved things along Some popular panels (e.g., Japanese Commercials) should have been in one of the big panel rooms. There's a

Has anyone received their badges in the mail for Otakon 2019 yet?