I kind of struggled with the writing for this one, and I’m still not sure I made myself clear. The point isn’t that writers who don’t go to anime conventions are boring (remember, we began all this with a Hunter[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I always attend this panel, but this was the first time I actually helped host the thing (which means Otakon is reimbursing my admission fee. YAY!!!) Holy cow, people make interesting faces when confronted with forces they can’t begin to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To be fair, I could see well enough to tell if this gentleman was wearing an actual dress or not, but it WAS a Visual Kei panel, so I just kind of assumed. Besides, how often to you get to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Gina Biggs, creator or Red String, did a panel on Creating Webcomics for a Living, something I have an understandable interest in. It was mostly a cool panel, but this one bit did hit kind of close to home. Back[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This year’s Animazement was the first time I ever helped host a panel, which was pretty darn fun. Hopefully we didn’t shock to many fangirls with the knowledge that there are rock bands in Japan who DON’T wear five layers[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now, I know absolutely nothing about how computers work, other than how to use them for stuff like this. Thus, I have absolutely no idea what was going on whenever the tech guys tried to get a computer and a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“The Thursday Night Endurance Test” is well named. I couldn’t make it all the way through, though in my case it was due more to my lack of sleep than the sheer awfulness of the videos we were watching. Not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, so time for a little story. One of the panels I really wanted to attend was the Dominic Deegan Q&A panel. Like everyone else who came by his table, I was told by Mookie that the panel would be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m not sure which was more ironic, the fact that I actually chose to go to “What the Heck is Steampunk?” instead of “How to Make a Living off Your Webcomic,” or the fact that I correctly guessed I’d get[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There were two J-Rock concerts and two dances (not “raves,” just “dances”) at Animazement, and I think I was at a panel in a room directly underneath for EVERY one of them. It was like being in the middle of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…