Anime Conventions

By 11:30 a.m., the line had already bent around the barricades. Wigs caught the sunlight first. Synthetic silver, cotton-candy pink, obsidian black, shifting in the Kolkata humidity. A passing auto slowed down. A tea seller paused mid-pour. Somewhere behind us, someone adjusted a foam sword with the seriousness of a surgeon. Anime India Kolkata did…