Big news for all you anime buffs this week–we’ve got a whole bunch of new and interesting things lined up over the course of the next couple days that starts right here, with a nearly live report from the depths of Kuzuricon, a new anime convention that just wrapped up in Battle Creek, Michigan.

And when I say new, I mean it–this is the first one they’ve ever had, though I had thought that there were more than this one.

Today we’re going to kick things off with a couple of photos I brought back–you can see from them why I’m not a photojournalist.  Though it’s not hard to feel a little like Frank West walking into this thing–you can see from the shot at right that the whole thing was taking place in an environment that felt downright terrifyingly like the Willamette Parkview Mall.

However, there was one great sign, that you can see right here, as the game room which was kept open almost twenty four hours daily invited patrons in in the grandest Kevin Smith style.

Anime buffs out there, you’re likely to want to keep an eye on Kuzuricon–once it gets its feet underneath it and pounds out its many dents (the Smash Brothers tournament, much like the game itself, was epic-scale lunacy on par with herding cats on heavy doses of mescaline and paint thinner, and the promised Rumble Roses tournament failed to materialized due to a double-dip curse of a lack of participants and a nigh-total lack of anyone over the age of eighteen) it will likely be the same kind of grandiose anime bacchanal that the word ACen brings to mind.