Category: Conventions

Genericon 2013: Half the Cost, All the Value

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I’m a guest! I’m a guest!
Genericon made the request
It’s been two years since I’ve been here
among the geeky obsessed
With all new topics, with no amount of  ease
Yes, indeed, I aim to please
While the PowerPoint is still glowing
Let me entertain you, I’ll keep going
panel by panel, one by one
‘Til you shout, “Enough! I’m done!”
Then we’ll lecture you off to sleep as you digest
At Genericon you’ll have fun without a doubt
But for now, let’s geek out
I’m a guest!
I’m a guest!
I’m a guest!
At Genericon 2013 I’m a guest!

Well actually I’m a featured panelist at Genericon 2013 but that does not translate into song anywhere nearly as melodically.

But if you are in the area of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY this weekend I am running three panels. It is a fun little general geek convention that is run by our friend from Ani-Gamers, Evan Minto. I have been recruited to provide my special grand of Otaku knoweldge to the convention. Sadly Narutaki cannot attend the convention so all my panels are 100% unfiltered Hisui. That means Yoshiyuki Tomino madness, Hayate the Combat Butler tomfoolery, and of course a Type-Moon panel.

If you want to see what Reverse Thieves would be without Narautaki to balance me out come see me at Genericon 2013!

Come see me at:

The 156,804,000 Yen Panel: Being a Better Otaku through Hayate – Friday at 9PM
Kill ’em All, and Let Sunrise sort ’em Out: A Yoshiyuki Tomino Panel – Saturday at Noon
Unlimited Information Works:An Introduction to Type-Moon – Saturday at 8 PM

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New York Comic Con 2012: Comics & Media Panels

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NYCC is really the only convention where I get to celebrate my love of American comics so I try to take advantage! In past years, I’ve had an eye more toward the superheroes of Marvel and DC. This year saw a change in that for me, I was really focused on Image Comics panels and their current and upcoming titles. So while I still spent a good portion of my NYCC with American comics on the brain, very little of it was big name superhero fare.

As much as the anime and manga coverage is our bread and butter I think we would be remiss in not hitting up some of the panels that most people would say personify NYCC. If nothing else the Ongoing Investigations and APB posts should have provided plenty of evidence that Narutaki and I are at least casually aware of American comics (I would go as far as to say Narutaki is well-informed). If nothing else going to a few of these panels keeps our geeky diet more well-balanced.

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New York Comic Con 2012: Anime & Manga Panels

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Even though NYAF was folded into NYCC, there was still quite a bit of anime and manga programing on the schedule. Of course we’d always like more though! This being NYCC, things were really led by industry guests and there wasn’t any fan-run panel programing that I was aware of. Still, there were plenty of interesting things to experience including special guests and screenings.

I know one of Narutaki’s favorite things about the blog is that when she goes to a convention she can pretty much do whatever she likes and write it up no questions asked. Therefore neither of us is obligated to cover anything or miss out on anything if we don’t want to. That said I think we tend to have tastes that keep us fairly on point for anime and manga coverage at NYCC. Our general schedules align in a way so that we cover most of the interesting panels just as a natural extension of our personalities. So while we did a bunch of cool comic and generally geekery related activities we did not skimp on the anime and manga coverage. I regret missing out on seeing Masakazu Ishiguro (other than getting his autograph) but there is still a good deal that we did cover.

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