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)
Two weekends ago, I drove myself and a press buddy down I-80/280/680 to San Jose over the course of about two and a half hours. We checked into our room at around 2pm and then walked down to professional registration to grab our badges. After that, I took a cursory walk through Artists’ Alley and the Dealers Hall before heading to the first panel I wanted to see. Read the rest of this entry »
Seven days from now, I will drive down Interstate 80/680 with some friends and arrive at the San Jose Convention Center. I missed last year’s Fanime in order to attend my brother’s high school graduation. This time around I will have a press badge clipped somewhere on me, if they still make clip-on badges.
However, I don’t know how often I’ll be exercising that privilege since a bunch of potential news might come out of another convention in the east, Anime Boston. (Other conventions that weekend include Animazement in Raleigh, NC; Anime North in Toronto [ETERNAL will be there!], Canada; JACON in Orlando, FL; and NipponCon in Neumünster, Germany.) I’m not going into thinking Fanime there would be a lot of news since the convention isn’t meant to be a wellspring of industry news – hence the “fan” part of its name – but the fact that only one publisher is holding a panel (Dark Horse) depresses me. Thanks, AB, for stealing some of our thunder. (Just kidding, though – I don’t want to start an East Coast-West Coast battle.)
Of course I’ll being stopping by one of my favorite events, the Swap Meet, to see if there are any bargains (I’m a sucker for old magazines) and I might try to get a few artists to draw me and compare their results (something I should. Some better-known names among the list of dealers’ hall vendors are Media Blasters and Aksys Games but there will also smaller operations like Kimonokitsy Studios (makers of the nemu nemu comic) and PMBQ. The maid cafe has reportedly improved since 2007 so I might peek into that and if I somehow get the courage to do karaoke, I’ll try to have someone record it for potential future embarassment.
A pocket guide version of the schedule went live on the convention’s website Wednesday – it’s good that it’s earlier than usual but it’s also a little frustrating that it’s a collection of images with no uniform document file offered, namely, PDF. I’m sure I will get one in a bag upon check-in, anyway.
This is actually the Pangya panel that was before mine at Fanime
I couldn’t think of something not personal for what was supposed to be the tenth thing for yesterday’s intended “12 Days of Xmas” post so I conceded to write about the experience of putting on a panel at Fanime, the steps I had to go through, and why I am reluctant to devise holding another one at any convention unless I have a really great and structured idea. Read the rest of this entry »
After looking around the swap meet and buying some cheap 5-year-old Japanese Newtype magazines, I went to the Shira Oka: Second Chances panel. The panelists from Okashi Studios (the developers) were the main programmer, a marketing person, an intern, and the lead artist. The main philosophy I got from the panelists about how they are going about their project is that they wanted to create a game that had more gameplay than visual novels and had more character depth. It was a pretty fun panel overall and I found out about how the game basically works and some background on its development.
Okay, I know I haven’t made a post in a couple weeks but I am not dead. I was just busy with school and distracted by many things like a trial subscription to Blockbuster Online. Also I didn’t have much inspiration to write about anything in particular. Hopefully there will be a flurry of manga postings over the next week as I try to get as close to finishing the Buncha Manga project as I can before next Saturday.
For those of you who care, my panel at Fanime will be Saturday at 1pm in Panels room #1 (aka the Santa Clara room) at the Hilton Hotel. Some of the other panels I am interested in checking out are Blogs and Anime Popularity (the other blogging one with Lolikit), Mad About MADs, and of course the industry panels. Apparently, there will be a maid cafe as well so I’ll try to stop by and take pictures.
Also, something from the May 11th edition of the Anime Corner Store newsletter caught my eye:
- TOUKA GETTAN ANIME AIRING EPISODES IN REVERSE ORDER -
The creators of the Touka Gettan supernatural anime series have acknowledged on their blog that the twenty-six episodes have been airing in deliberate reverse order from the chronological story. The first episode (which aired on April 2) told the ending of the story arc, and each successive episode has been going backward in time to tell how the ending came about.
I haven’t seen Touka Gettan yet so can anyone confirm that that the ordering is like that and if it works as a narrative device?
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