It is finally time! New York Anime Festival is upon us! Don’t look for a new Ongoing Investigation this Friday readers, all week will be spent making final preparations for the convention. Along with our Panelist badges and Press badges we will also have these (startlingly realistic) illustrated home-made badges. Please stop and chat if you run into one of us! We can also be found at the panels we are running throughout the convention or anywhere gumshoes are needed.

Narutaki and I will have our digital cameras so if you do catch either of us I’m sure we will place your glorious visage on the blog. Also Skeith and the oft mentioned but never seen Kohaku will be at the convention with Reverse Thieves badges as well. If you run into either of them give them your love as well. If you have any questions you wish to ask any of the guests feel free to send us an e-mail as well. I will personally try to ask any questions you pass along especially if you can’t make it out to New York but wish to ask something of one of the guests.

Being press we are not sure of our time and if we can get interviewers or not but we are sure going to try! But at the same time we want to try and make it to as many events as we can cram in. The NYAF event list is really incredible. Our tentative schedule is as follows:

Friday
Bandai Entertainment Panel
Funimation Panel
Otaku USA Panel
Hideyuki Kikuchi Panel
Gundam 00 Panel
Vertical Inc. Panel
Anime Recruitment Panel (This is our panel!) 8:00PM – 9:00PM

Saturday
Cooking Manga Panel
Media Blasters Panel
Anime Blogging Panel
The Art of Translation
Vampire Hunter D Panel
Del Rey Manga Panel
Top Secret
Yoshitaka Amano Panel
AMV Contest
Anime News Network 10th Anniversary
Rie Tanaka Performance (i.e. the beginning of the Masquerade)

Sunday
Rie Tanaka Panel
I Can’t Believe You Haven’t Seen This! Panel (This is our panel!) 12:30PM – 1:30PM
Ryu Moto Panel
Know Your Creators Panel
Hideyuki Kikuchi Birthday Party

See you there!