yeah you totally should; I'd suggest AX since Aquors is there this year but that's literally the biggest one in the whole country and obviously cross-country for you and it's also like just over two weeks away
I'm actually looking at going to more cons next year because just meeting and hanging out with people is great (I've gone to two this year, and looking at least one more local one to the two I went to this year for my 2017 calendar).
hell, I'd be interested in coordinating a meetup of PC staff and members who are hardcore into anime at a con sometime in 2018 if anyone else is down for it
yeah ordering from japan does get costly pretty fast; I've got 3 Aquors bags (first years) for me and 1 (Kanan) for a friend on the way in August and that was like $300 for them all and there's like 3 figures made by Alter (the new PanaRin duo announced earlier this spring and the Halloween Yohane) that are burning holes in my wallet with how badly I want to order them and shipping on those is going to be brutal
you should see if you can bundle your orders together for shipping; CDJapan and AmiAmi, my two personally preferred straight from Japan retailers, let you bundle all preorders in a given month together in one shipment
and how is allunajapan? I've never heard of them but are they good?
no i have not but I have saved it and set it as my desktop wallpaper