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Fanime 2010: Mostly Panels and Some Socializing

July 18, 2010 in Conventions, Events by Tom Langston (calaggie) | No comments

Saw this stylish tiger on my way back from eating out

Fanime 2010 was Memorial Day weekend (May 28th-31st) and even though it felt like the same sort of convention as in 2009, it was more personally entertaining than last year because I met up with many of the other writers/bloggers there for lunch and other times over the course of the weekend. I also attended some interesting panels as well as a few that weren’t as compelling.

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Selections from Fanime 2010 Schedule

May 26, 2010 in Conventions by Tom Langston (calaggie) | No comments

This Memorial Day weekend, Fanime is happening in San Jose (and so is Anime North in Toronto) and the schedule has been posted for attendees’ planning purposes. I’ll be coming in Friday evening hopefully around 8pm so I’ll miss the FLOW concert that goes from 7-9pm. I’m also going to miss eigoMANGA’s panel about “Manga on the iPhone and iPad” (Fri. 4-5pm, Panel Rm 1) but I hope someone else covers that.

Update 5/27 12:45AM PDT: Be sure to check Fanime’s mobile schedule – m.fanime.com - for updates and changes! For example, I just noticed “Being A Strong Woman in the Industry” was added at Friday 9-10pm in Panel Room 3 as well as “Fandom, College & Career” on Saturday 10am-11am in Panel Room 2.

Swap Meet (Friday 8pm-1am, Exhibit Hall 3)
I’ll be looking for cheap manga and magazine back issues. It’s also operating on Thursday night with the same 8pm-1am hours.

Akira (Saturday 3am-5am, Stage Zero Concourse)
I suppose it would be somewhat appropriate to see this in the pre-dawn hours. It’s also being shown at the more manageable time of Friday 6:30-8:30pm in Video Room 2.

Evangelion ?.?? (Saturday 8am-10am & Monday 10am-12pm, SJCC Ballroom B)
This seems to tease the second but it could just be the first. (Eva 1.11 is being shown Friday 1-3pm so maybe it *will* be the 2nd remake film?) There will also be Summer Wars screened in the Ballroom on Saturday 1-3pm and Monday 8am-10am.

Hiroyuki Yamaga presents History of GAINAX (Saturday 10am-12pm, SJCC Ballroom B)
I believe this has been presented in the past but I haven’t been to it. I feel like asking about Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt.

Dark Horse Manga (Saturday 12-1pm, Panel Room 1)
You wanna see Carl Horn talk about CLAMP, Evangelion: Campus Apocalypse, and other projects? Carl recently wrote a piece called “Love & Wonder” on Dark Horse’s site that I’d recommend reading. (There’s a mainly manga bloggers’ lunch meetup planned for Saturday so that will be after this.)

Intern in the Manga Industry! (Saturday 7-8pm, Panel Room 2)
Even though I don’t have intense desires to work in publishing, I would want to listen in for advice being given about networking and workflow.

Sex Trade in Anime and Manga – 18+ (Saturday 10-11pm, Panel Room 1)
Gilles Poitras is also presenting “Anime for Parents” (Fri. 7-8pm, Panel Room 2), “Anime and Manga for Grownups” (Sat. 3-4pm, Panel Rm 1), and co-presenting “Older Titles for Newer Fans” with Jonathan Osbourne (Sun. 10am-12pm, Panel Rm 3).

Anime, Illustrations, and Manga (Sunday 12-1pm, Panel Room 3)
Guest of Honor Mamoru Yokota will be presenting this panel.

Work as an Anime Critic (Sunday 2-3pm, Panel Room 3)
Tom Tonthat (aka K Valentine) has written anime reviews for The Escapist and earlier this year, he put on a “Criticizing the Anime Critic” panel at Animation on Display. (Panel on YouTube: parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

The Psychotaku: import gamer (Sunday 4-5pm, Panel Room 1)
I’m mildly interested because it’s games that weren’t brought overseas. Wondering if he’ll mention the Sailor Moon fighting games.

Rest In Beats: Nujabes Tribute (Sunday 5-6pm, Panel Room 2)
The hip-hop producer/composer who met an early death in February will be remembered. There’s also a “Tribute for Jun Seba” at Stage Zero on Saturday 5-6pm.

Touhou Hijack LOL (Sunday 9-10pm, Panel Room 1)
This is one of two Touhou panels happening on Sunday – the other is “What the Hell is Touhou?!” (Sun. 3-4pm, Panel Room 2). I think one of my friends is doing the later one (Hijack) while another is doing a panel on Umineko (Sat. 8-9pm, Panel Rm 2).

I don’t think I’m going to make an honest attempt at cosplay this year because I didn’t plan ahead aside from picking up a dark green jacket recently from a thrift store that’s a little long in the arms.

Tags: Conventions, fanime, schedules

Twelve Moments 2009 Day 6: Hanging Out at Conventions

December 19, 2009 in Specials by Tom Langston (calaggie) | No comments

Never again.

Sixth of 12 entries for this year’s “Twelve Moments of Anime” project.

Like last year, I attended both Fanime and Anime Expo but I liked the 2009 visits more because I had an easier time talking with people I knew who were also attending, particularly at AX. Admittedly, I lost a digital camera at AX so that was a bit of a downer but I still managed to take adequate pictures using the camera on my phone.

I was mainly rolling solo during Fanime, save for a brief walk through the dealers’ hall with lolikit & his friends and watching Spring and Chaos. Even though I was sharing a room with friends from the anime club, the things I want to go to rarely overlapped with what they were interested in, like the cosplay masquerade. There were a couple times where I sat alone and finished an entire volume of manga because I had nothing else I wanted to do. The blogger meetup pizza lunch and the nice dinner a block away from the convention center were among the high-points of the weekend because I was able to have good conversations with those whom I considered peers.

I was also staying with people I kind of knew for AX but since we were carpooling to the convention center from our hotel, I tended to go to more things with one of those people. I met a few more people in person whom I knew from online like Randall, sabas, and Alex. (You can read a few more names in the con report from July.) There were also a few social gatherings: one where I walked with some people to a Subway and we ate on our way back to the LACC, another which could be pegged as a semi-proper meetup since it had more bloggers (unfortunately, I sat near the end of a long table so I missed out on much of what the rest were talking about), and a third where we ate at an IHOP.

Both of these convention experiences have proven to me that I’d rather hang out with friends than be a lone, roving reporter type, especially for meals. A few months later, I expressed a similar sentiment in the week after NYAF of wanting future convention experiences to be more meaningful, though that was mainly wanting to attend more concerts/creative panels and fewer industry announcement panels. I still want to attempt to conduct interviews and try to do a conversational podcast at a convention – I hope most of the people I have in mind for the latter won’t be too busy during the weekends.

Tags: 12moments2009, anime expo, bloggers, Conventions, fanime

Panel Recordings from Fanime 2009

July 2, 2009 in Conventions by Tom Langston (calaggie) | No comments

While attending Fanime 2009 in late May, I recorded most of the panels I went to with the exceptions being Meet the Anime Vice Squad (forgot) and Nerd Courting (because it was 3 hours!). You may hear some rustling noises caused by when I was shifting around or, in the case of Carl Horn’s panels, flipping through the samples he gave the audience pass around.

Music during lead-ins: “Blue Little” by 10:32 (album: Ghostly Swim – link)

Editing Manga (by Carl Horn)