Crowds pack venue despite black rainstorm signal, as vendors throw up last minute offers to entice fans
Comic book fans braved heavy downpours to attend Hong Kong’s annual anime and games festival on its last day, as vendors slashed product prices to clear their inventory.
Despite a black rainstorm signal issued on Tuesday morning, some attendees queued for more than 30 minutes before they could get into the Ani-Com & Games Hong Kong at the Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai.
The forecaster raised the black signal, the highest level in the three-tier warning system, at 9.10am before downgrading it to red at 11.05am and then to amber at 11.45am. The warning was eventually lifted at 2.15pm.
Dickson Mo, 17-year-old high school graduate, said it was his third time attending the annual festival that started on Friday.
