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Got 5,000 Genki Business Cards in the Mail

Hecko X — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:30:47 +0000

So… just got 5,000 Genki business cards in the mail… Friggin’ insane…

Anyway, I’ve added a scan of the front and back of the Genki business cards to the bottom of the post. The concept is that it’s just a ‘template’ and then people write their own names and contact info on the back when handing them out (getting everyone personal ones was too expensive for the union). Also, we’re giving some to stores to put in each manga they sell as a form of advertising.

How do you like them?

So, What’s Up with Genki?

Hecko X — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:28:59 +0000

I just realised that I hadn’t posted anything about how work for our convention, Genki 2010, is coming along, so I figured I’d rectify that!

Truth be told, the last few weeks have been paperwork hell for me. Being the accountant of the union, Genkai, which is behind events such as our convention Genki, it has been my job to balance the books. This means that I have to daily check the bank accounts (yes, plural, since I also manage books for the associate company), balance the books, send out confirmation emails to all the people who have joined, and then take note of who joined, when, and so on. I’ve probably sent out +500 mails in the last 3 weeks. Receipts and stuff like that also go through me, so I have to approve and organise all of them OTL

But despite me totally emoing over paperwork and deadlines, we’re doing pretty well. Our last deadline is on my birthday, July 23, because I’d probably forget otherwise and I most likely will anyway (random factoid: The last deadline we had was actually Kurikku’s birthday, May 27, when we open for registrations). But when we reach that point, we’re only gonna be working on making sure stuff run smoothly during the convention itself so we don’t have to stop parts of the convention because something broke down, but could have been avoided. We’d rather not have to fix stuff in the middle of the con and possibly cancel events; that sucks T^T

Our top priorities right now is to get permissions for weapons display and setting up the stage (since it’s an outdoor stage and we have to think about noise pollution), and making sure that eeeeverything is 100% legal by the time the con starts. For this reason, we (Kurikku and I) have gone on many trips to the tax office, the Copenhagen municipal office and to several police station departments. It would really suck if we held the most awesome con ever and then had our egos get groin-kicked by getting arrested and/or fined for something totally redundant… =.=;

And that’s all for now~. The next Genki 2010 update will probably come during the convention which is only a month away now 8D

Btw, all the drawings, which are of the Genki mascots (Ping&Pong), we’re drawn by the rovery Kaiki of hybridcage.net. I think their new designs are pretty cool *nod nod* And now if you’ll excuse me, I must be off; my bananaphone is ringing! >:3

Genki @ Komiks

Hecko X — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 02:47:52 +0000

Okay, truth be told, this event is almost a month old which is why I’m a bit “hnnngh… ;>.>” about posting it, BUT HEY!! I haven’t really posted for ages because I’ve been busy with exams (which are now over), scanlations (which are partially on hold due to either vacation or licensing), and Genki work (which is now far more manageable), so I figured what the the hey~.

Anywho, Komiks is probably the largest comic book convention in Denmark. Compared to the comic conventions in the US or the manga conventions in Japan, it’s not; like comparing an ice cube to the iceberg that sank the Titanic, but here, it’s pretty effing big! Anywho, Genki were especially invited because the Komiks organisers had apparently heard about us (wuuuw) and wanted us to give their participants a taste of the East (mainly focusing on manga, but also other things).

So we essentially had us a miniature Genki convention with a manga lounge, a game room (organised by one of our Swedish partners, Terebi Ge-mu), a chill-out café with drawing and Perle bead making, and even an anime showing. The only thing that sucked is that we had no flyers for Genki to hand out and our banner wasn’t up until Sunday, so PR-wise, we crashed and burned (people didn’t know who organised it XD). But people at least had fun at our little corner of Komiks, so it’s all good.

I myself had buck-loads of fun too; I got the kick-assatastic drawing of Young Flaming Ninja from Kaiki (seen on the left; she gave me the original sketch), met this chick that I’m currently ’seeing’ (it’s a very casual relationship/arrangement, we’re not actually dating), and lost Kurikku to Samir from Sweden in a game of Super Street Fighter IV XD

Kurikku in turn, in a vain effort to win back his freedom, lost me, the chick I’m seeing, and aaaaaall of Genki to Samir, so now, we’re all Samir’s bitches until I get a chance to win everything back in a game of Tekken 6. And I’ll win his girlfriend and cat from him also, JUST BECAUSE!! JUST BECAUSE, SAMIR!!! >:3 /shakes fist at Samir

Oh, and one last funny story about the event: Terebi Ge-mu, the dudes from Sweden setting up our game room for Komiks, had prepared and safely locked away their consoles to get them to Komiks. They get to Komiks, and when they’re just about to unpack, they realise that they never got the keys from the guy who helped them pack their stuff. So now, we had like 8-10 consoles locked away in two red whatevers from IKEA and no key.

Kurikku suggest that they go to the IKEA 45 minutes into town, buy the same “metal cupboard storage”-thingy so they can get an identical key, and come back and unlock the ones they brought from Sweden with the consoles in them. I tell them no, since I can get them open without the key. Kurikku liked his idea better, so off to IKEA they went, and 30 minutes into their road trip, the van BREAKS DOWN in the middle of the highway, leaving them stranded for hours. And guess who had manage to pick open the locks with a hairpin and a screwdriver only a few minutes after they’d left XD

HANAMIII!!!

Hecko X — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:39:40 +0000

Long story short: We had a Genki meeting yesterday (which went awesome), and at some point, someone (it might’ve been me or Kurikku or someone, I forgot) was all like:

“SHIT, GUYS, SAKURA FESTIVAL, TWO WEEKS FROM NOW!! GENKI SHOULD SO DO SOMETHING FOR THAT!! O.O”
“…”
“O.O”
“…”
“O.O”
“…”
“O.O”
“O.O”
“YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!”

And now Genki is having a picnic with our Swedish partners, Mangakai Lund, where we’ll have music, food, fun, photo shoots, more fun, and just a Genki old time~.

Wasn’t that a beautiful story? Brings tears to my eyes T^T Epic storytelling, I know…

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About the picture, here are the credits:
Composite by me
Genki logo by eskdecay with minute modifications by me
Original photo of sakura pathway, no idea, but it was in the gallery of a person called sexyshinobi

Genki Websites Update Done

Hecko X — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:23:44 +0000

Finally done with updating the God forsaken Genki sites after like… just little over 21 hours now. Me and Kurikku spent half the night making the English site; adding content, fixing coding glitches (damn widgets…), uploading images, and whatnot. After that, we had to do everything one more time and translate it into Danish *sigh!*

Kurikku mostly did visuals (gallery, content, design), while I did mostly behind the scenes stuff (coding, grammar/spell checking, rephrasing, and making sure both sites had the same information). It’s absolutely splendid teamwork, if I do say so myself; he’s the front of the convention and I’m the guy in the shadows complaining about the visual editor wrecking my precious coding ;_;

But that’s the way I prefer it, as dealing with people creeps me the fuck out, so I stick with the information aspect of things. In anime terms, he is the the Tamaki to my Kyouya, and Genki is our precious host club ♥

Anywho, before and after shots (click for bigger):

Before	After

First Big Genki 2010 Meeting =D

Hecko X — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:29:32 +0000

Yeeeeeah, just got back from the meeting, wasn’t feeling too well, so left early. The meeting actually started yesterday, September 12, and should be ending just about know, as I started writing this.

Long story short, we made pretty good progress on the con, actually planning tentative budgets, what events to have, event placement, time schedule, and much much more. For a few new features this year, we’ll hopefully be having fan-made panels, a live Genki Radio that people can call to using Skype and talk with the hosts, and we’ll also start a Vide-Log thingy called “G-News” so that updates on our website won’t be text-only, but actually have videos of important Genki news and issues (as well as some… not so serious stuff XP). And we are keeping it all at the low, low price of only 150 DKK, which while it is twice the price of Genki 2009, is still the cheapest ticket price for a Danish anime convention, and that is kickass =D

We had a lot of people coming over, which was way nice~! Thanks to that, we really got some work done and covered almost all bases. Kajsa from Sweden unfortunately didn’t come (*heartbreak*), which is why my hair is not purple now ;_; But we did get Heavy (yiiir~, Chinese loverboy ♥ XD) as well as the chairman from Mangakai Lund to come, so it was all good. Kaiki also showed up on Sunday, but I dunno, she seemed kinda distant towards me at times and then at times we joked liked no time at all had passed (I guess we just have to get used to eachother again or something) :/ I hope it was just because she was tired (which I was too…) and not because she thinks I still have romantic feelings for her or something, cause that would make things kinda awkward… But I doubt that’s the case though; Shroomie’s a bright chick, so I think she knows by now that I like someone else and that I’m not interested in her as anything other than a really awesome friend I can be relaxed around ^^ (EDIT: She thought I still wanted to date her… =.=;)

Aaaaaaanywho, my failing love life (or something..?) aside, it was kinda nice seeing her again for the first time in over a year and have the chance catch up a bit. Hopefully, we can do that on a more regular basis (and not just once per year XP). That also reminds me that I should hang out with Heavy more often, and maybe Kajsa too. We’re like the three musketeers of perverted misunderstandings, it’s so great XD Roadtrip to Sweden it is!!

But yeah, back on topic, Genki stuff are going smooooothly for the time being, hopefully that will continue, and we will end up being the best convention in Denmark, yaaaaaay~! Updates on our site, genki.dk (English version here), should be coming soon, so look forward to awesome videos of awesome. AWESOME, I SAY!

Wenki and Genki News

Hecko X — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:39:38 +0000

So, these past two weeks or so, I’ve been busy doing stuff for Genki; most notably making stuff for Genki’s brand-spanking new wiki, Wenki. It has reached a point where I think we can justify making it public and have people helping with adding stuff to it, such as images and videos from the respective cons and events, not to mention descriptions and guides. While the primary focus is on Genki, it is meant to be an overall convention wiki for conventions in Scandinavia.

Of other Genki news, we are gonna be having a major meeting on September 12th-13th (yes, lodging included, that’s how long it’s gonna be) where the planning for Genki 2010 officially kicks off. It’s may seem to some people that we are starting way too early, and there may even be some truth to that, but we are trying to get coorporation from the Swedish Mangakai Lund, Finish Animecon Finland, not to mention sponsorships from Coca-Cola and other international companies + financial support from the European Union, and that shiz takes time!

I’ll try to take some pics and make some vids during the meetings or the breaks and upload them in a post to keep those of you who are interested up to date. Hope things will go well for us.

Genki 2010, Initiate!

Hecko X — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:05:16 +0000

I must be out of my mind… I’m still quite literally beat up from Genki 2009; bruises everywhere, gashes on my right leg which I’ve only just recently been able to walk on again since my spine got all fucked up because I lacked rest, and now, I’m already planning Genki 2010 with the rest of the organizers. I am insane, just insane, it’s the only possible answer, duuu duuudududududu.

First meeting is on this coming July 4th, but Eskdecay, Click, and I have already talked together and made the Danish website which debuted 2 hours and ~~4 minutes~~ 5 minutes ago, as I write this, and we moved the old one into an archive. We’re gonna have English and Swedish language sites up as well, eventually. Hopefully, Genki 2010 will be even more awesome than this year’s Genki was!

Edit: English site is now up. See it here!