Market Research - Interview with LynnSenpaii on the events at Penang Anime Matsuri

So K-Radio13 is planning to host a booth in this years Comic Fiesta 2016 Malaysia,
And so we had to do some market research on what people are currently interested in,

After finding out that one of our past contributors was back in the country and visited a recent event in the country I decided to ask her some questions,
Didn't plan to make a post out of this but her answers were really good and felt it needed to be in a post.

LynnSenpaii Interview  (Monday, 23rd May 2016)

LynnSenpaii as Honoka Kosaka

Event Image - Penang Anime Matsuri 2016 

[DJK] : Heyhihello, Just wanted to ask some questions about the recent convention you went too.

[Lynn] : Hey! Yeah what is it? :3

[DJK] :
So first question, What Character did you see an abundance of? Or rather according to what people are cosplaying as, what anime would you say is currently popular?

[Lynn] : I think the most popular anime as of now is probably Love Live ! and Zootopia? I saw a bunch of Love Live cosplayers everywhere ! From that con itself, definitely Love Live was the most popular

[DJK] : Hmm ok and how about in terms of merchandise. What anime was most prominent and in what form of merchandising?

[Lynn] : Again I think Love Live was pretty popular ; I think the era of idols have taken over for now to be honest ; and the mystery bags were really popular ; I saw a couple of weird leaf/bird hair clips being worn around and cat/fox ears are also pretty popular among cosplayers.

[DJK] : We're there any sort of product that you've seen that you would consider over-saturated. As in many merchants were selling the same type of goods.

[Lynn] : I think a lot of the stores sold the same things. Mystery Bags, Badges, Stickers, Shirts there really wasn't much variety in the stuff they were selling at the con.

[DJK] : Okie dokie and last two questions, did you purchase any merchandise? And maybe if you didn't was there any product you wanted to purchase but for some reason decided not too?

[Lynn] : I didn't get any merchandise this time round, but I was definitely interested in getting a Haikyuu sticker set by an artist but I didn;t have any use for it even if I bought it so I decided against it ; other than that, there wasn't anything that caught my interest, and if it did it just cost too much ;_;

[DJK] : Ok so final questions, these line of questions were originally just for market research for one of the KR13-Rebirth contributor booth in an upcoming convention this December, But since you've answered with some really great responses would you mind if we used this as a sort of itnerview on your experience during the con. For a post on Rebirth?

[Lynn] : Yeah that's totally fine !

[DJK] : So that was LynnSenpaii, answering some of our questions, Anything you want to say to the readers?

[Lynn] : Cosplaying and going to conventions are not about having the perfect costume, or the perfect makeup but it's about having fun and enjoying your love for the series with other people who love the same thing as you do! So if you've been hesitating to go to a convention, or to cosplay, stop hesitating and JUST DO IT ! You won't regret it ! (;

[DJK] For some of the old readers of K-Radio13 you may recognize who LynnSenpaii is either-way though please support her by following her on Instagram @lynnsenpaii and her personal blog @Sherillicious.weebly.com