A bit of context: at several points during Viga’s Idolmaster panel, points of obvious fandom contention were dealt with by bringing two audience members (one from each side) up to the stage to have a rapid-fire debate on the subject.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes, Kurt played Simpsonwave videos as a lead-in to all his panels. I will make no further comment on the matter, I just though you should know. Oh, and check out the Shoujo Rock Heaven page to see what ACTUAL[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is part of the reason why I’m so bad about keeping up with new anime. There’s already two lifetimes worth of OLD anime that I still need to get around to watching, dang it! …of course, the OTHER reason[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ryo seems to get brought up a lot in Digimon panels, mostly because he’s got a lota s’plainin’ to do, what with all his continuity hopping and such. And yes, there was whole other Digimon panel that weekend that I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been so long since I’d actually attended panels that weren’t purely of a fan nature, I’d forgotten how awkward it can be when this happens. And yes, you really can tell when these people have had practice at moving[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was one of the neat things about not having an Artist Alley table to worry about: I could actually attend panels OTHER THAN ONES I WAS HAVING TO RUN. Like, say Tony Oliver talking about working on the early[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I seriously don’t think I’m ever going to hear the end of this… which is KIND of cool, since that was the whole idea. If you’re wondering what the heck I’m talking about, last year I attended Ichibancon without a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Awesomely Bad cosplayers actually aren’t a new development, but this was the very first time any of us managed to actually get some pictures of the wondrous event. Hurrah! (Now, when is somebody gonna cosplay as the robot from that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m sure there are actual videos of what we got up to at the panel this year, but I haven’t had time to look anywhere other than the Awesomely Bad tumblr and Facebook pages, and nobody posted anything there. Poke[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Every year that goes by, I find myself sinking deeper and deeper into my roll of “Old Otaku Who Only Talks About Anime The Younger Fans Have Never Heard Of”. Then I tell them to get off my lawn. Oh,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…