Anime East would not have its '96, but a few friends wanted to head to other cons. Looked up others in the area, and we would start going to #Katsukon and #Otakon when it was still in Hunt Valley.

My years between 1997 and 2001 would have a lot of con-hopping (along with gaming cons with friends as well), a ton of gophering, some staffing... But that is another story, which we'll wrap around to later on. Today is just about "driving to cons" and my ritual.

See, I would start going into NYC Chinatown on the regular to feed the habits. Your Hollywood Videos selling anime 2 episodes for a $40 VHS was... not affordable for me. (And charging MORE for the subtitled versions just riled me up! 😝 )

$5 VHS dubbing, Import games, posters... Chinatown! But for me specifically, more CDs.