#tora-con

[siflshonen]

Omg, could you tell us more about your experience at the con? how did they find out about the manga development?

Uh, okay, so some context is necessary here. lemme just copy-paste what I told my friend in the chat real quick.

This weekend I had the pleasure of being a guest handler for the cosplay contest judges at Tora-Con this year (look them up - they're all incredible!) and after the awards ceremonies, me and one of the judges hit up the day-ending Yaoi for 300 panel, which was hosted by the cheerily gay cosplay contest emcee dressed as Alfred Fire Emblem - er, mostly. The panel began with him kicking up his feet, looking to his co-host, ripping off his wig and saying, "It's been a day. Pass me the yaoi!"

Basically, the panelists had organized BL, yaoi, and “yaoi” titles and popular ships into goofy categories (wholesome, doomed, toxic, Baby's First Yaoi, divorced, old man, rivals, toxic and doomed, Komaeda, musical, etc.) with a different pairing (fanon, canon, whatever) per slide. As each popped up, the audience laughed, cheered, booed, whatever-ed in response. “Yaoi” was used loosely and of course there were slides for stuff like Supernatural, Sherlock, the red and yellow M&Ms, Bert and Ernie, Metal Gear Solid, Homestuck, Genshin Impact... Very broad and meant to garner reactions. In many ways it was a retrospective of the Greatest Hits of popular guyxguy ships on Tumblr, so for a lot of attendees it was really more like a walk down memory lane.

So like. They had several “My Hero yaoi” items in there like DabiHawks (which got a big reaction! The people love HotWings!), TodoDeku (got a polite reaction), KiriBaku (a mild reaction and some awwwwwws.) (The guest with whom I was attending with politely claps but shakes their head at TodoDeku, so after I was polite and was like, “I just like Todoroki to be included”, I then was more honestly like, “but dude it’s BakuDeku or nothin’!” and they were like, “Thank you. Thank goodness.” I didn't realize it then, but this moment heralded what was to come.)

Finally, near the end of the panel, BakuDeku comes up (with the anime still of Izuku as Katsuki's cane, of course) and the room FUCKING ROARS.

Our hosts (who evidently don't closely follow the series) go wide-eyed and then, after a pause, wigless Alfred Fire Emblem tries to take back the energy and goes, “Oh, so you make a big reaction for THAT?!” and it turns out I am not the only manga reader in attendance because then like half the room - myself, my escorted guest, and two other folks at our table at the center-front of the room included - scream in perfect synchronicity, “THAT ONE’S REAL!!!!!!!!!"

A person at my table - clearly also an anime-only - says with the playful innocence only an individual with a kind and sugar-sweet romantic heart can possess, “No! They were right with the KiriBaku! :)” and then turns to meet me and my guest's and another girl's eyes, and I watched as theirs widened in fear as we all looked them dead-on and said, “No, you don’t understand. THIS one is real.”

And the room got REAL quiet until the hosts changed slides to, like, I dunno, Gravitation or Yugioh or something and the energy picked back up.

[tora-con]

Surprise, we have even more photos of our lovely guests! Please send extra love to our cosplay guests, EarlCrayTea, ChibiTifa, Lutavia, and Starfall Blade for hosting and judging our Cosplay Contest, and the Chalk Twins for bringing impressive artwork to Tora-Con year after year.

Plus, a bonus Matt Shipman and Matthew David Rudd (and a cameo from AJ Beckles)!

[largeonions]

my catalogue for tora-con this weekend! i'll be at table C5 this year, come say hi if ur there! ^_^b

[sillyfreakingstrings]

HEY WHO WANTS TO RATE MY MAFIOSO COSPLAY??? FROM FORSAKEN NNNNnnsnsndnd

under cause it's a face rev..like..yeah.

this is so booty butt 💔

[crowsbeak-cos]

fantastic news for the madoka magica fans i will in fact be cosplaying mami tomoe at toracon

[catsandcataclysms]

Did you attend ToraCon from 2009-2012? You may remember the Cosplay Mom

From about 2009 to 2012, a group of my friends attended ToraCon, and with them came Mom. She was a larger lady with short, tight blonde curls, and on days she was out and about instead of sitting in the parking lot, she wore a big purple lolita dress.

At around noon to lunchtime, when all the vendor trucks would come in, she would hand out pre-made PB&J and ham-and-cheese sandwhiches in ziploc baggies to anyone who wanted one or couldn't afford the vendor food. She told pretty much everyone who showed up to just call her Mom.

Mom (The Cosplay Mom from ToraCon years 2009-2012) passed away this December. But if you remember her in any way, please share whatever memories you have, no matter how brief. I think she'd like to be known as Mom forever.

[kitsunebis]

heading to tora con with @11osamu ＼(＾▽＾)／♡

[mayonezroulette]

So I'm going to be in a couple ask character panels in March. Making keychains for the panels to hand out and to give to my fellow panelist. The panels are for Hetalia and Ouran Host Club. It's like a dream come true for little Tobi, but like I'm really not into either anymore. Anyways I'm redoing the Ouran Keychains because I don't like the first set, but uh... my tablet broke so I'm designing them on paper so when I get my new tablet I can just scan in the drawings and line and colour them that way. Issue being... I still kinda hate how the twins look. Which doesn't bode well for the other 6-8 keychains. ((Doing a keychain for each character we have: Haruhi, Tamaki, The Twins, Honey, Renge, Nekozawa, Ritsu.)) We are still looking for Mori and Kyoya for the group. Each panelist gets 2 keychains to give to the audience and one to keep. Anything left over uh... I guess I can sell on my Etsy, but I hope we can just pass them all out in the end. Anyways I have the Twins done-ish and their previous design. I like the new one better now I look at the old one. Then I have the 4 Hetlia ones I got done.

[flakytartart]

my Mishima goods have LANDED

Thank you so much @middaymoon!! 🥹💘

[snowiferart]

I had an amazing time at Toracon this weekend! I wish I had more time to meet other vendors, but chatting with attendees was really fun.

[siflshonen]

My sympathies to the anime-only BNHA fans at the Tora-Con Yaoi for 300 panel that had to find out about the manga developments regarding Katsuki Bakugo and Izuku Midoriya like that

[tora-con]

...oops! We might've missed a few Tora-Cons on here... but we're so back we swear! Tora-Con 2025 might've already come to a close, but stay tuned as we share a post-con wrap up! And look forward to finally receiving updates on Tumblr again for Tora-Con :)

[largeonions]

event schedule for da first half of the year..!

[sillyfreakingstrings]

MY HEALTH IS SO MUCH BETGER NOW SHAHSJJS

Also this train is booty butt idk why I just felt like saying that

TORACON WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

[someawesomeamvs]

Warning: None

Title: Let Loose, A Proud Mary AMV. Featuring K-On

Editor: SplewnTewn

Song: Proud Mary

Artist: Tina Turner

Anime: K-On!, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Laid-Back Camp, Initial D, Kimi no na wa (film), Lucky Star, New Game!, Berserk, Death Parade, Himouto! Umaru-chan, Violet Evergarden, Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, unknown anime

Category: For fun

Award: Tora-Con 2020 - Upbeat Nominee

[thepaintedcrow]

Our weekend at Toracon 2025. Had an amazing time, saw lots of amazing cosplays, got many compliments on our cosplays. Definitely will go back again.