Ongoing Investigations: Final Fantasy: Lost Stranger and Blue Gale Xabungle.
Song: Blue Gale Xabungle OP “Shippu Xabungle” by Akira Kushida
Food for Thought: What anime do you keep meaning to watch, but never seem to get around to?
Topics: New York Comic Con
(note: No Type-Moon Weekly News Round Up
or All Points Bulletin this week.)
PRE-NYCC 2017 PODCAST
This year’s New York Comic Con hosts Fairy Tail’s Hiro Mashima, adds new construction to the mix along with more offsite venues, and of course has way too many options for what to do.
Our tentative schedule for the convention:
Thursday
11:15 AM – Wizards and Fairies and Spells – Oh My!
01:30 PM – French Comics Kiss Better: Bande Dessinée 101, Presented by the French Comics Association
02:45 PM – Here Lie Dragons & Eternal Beasties
04:00 PM – The Official VIZ Media Panel
06:00 PM – American Gods with Ricky Whittle, Pablo Schreiber, and Yetide Badaki
Friday
10:30 AM – BBC America Presents: Peter Capaldi Spotlight
12:00 PM – Pacific Rim Uprising
12:45 PM – Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – BBC AMERICA Official Panel
02:30 PM – Kodansha Comics Presents Celebrate Fairy Tail: Live-Sketch and Q&A with Hiro Mashima
04:00 PM – VIZ Media Presents: The Legend of Zelda Manga Creators – Akira Himekawa
05:15 PM – Classic SF Manga Featuring Akira 35th Anniversary Edition, Ghost in the Shell, & Battle Angel Alita
06:45 PM – Anime for Feminists
Saturday
11:00 AM – Kodansha Comics Presents Celebrate Fairy Tail: A Chat with Hiro Mashima
11:00 AM – DreamWorks Voltron Legendary Defender, a Netflix Original Series
01:30 PM – Black Heroes Matter
12:15 PM – Making Ships Set Sail: Fandom & Relationships
02:45 PM – Telling Stories with Patrick Rothfuss, Jonathan Coulton & Friends
03:45 PM – Star Trek: Discovery
04:00 PM – PW Presents: The European Comics Invasion
05:30 PM – William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: The Force Doth Awaken Live!
05:30 PM – Crunchyroll Industry Panel
06:30 PM – Let’s Talk About Our Problematic Faves: Marginalized Fans & the Media
07:45 PM – Invisible Latinx
08:00 PM – Netflix Presents Black Mirror
Sunday
10:30 AM – World Premiere of Batman vs. Two Face
10:45 AM – Kicking Ass, Taking Names: Women of Color in Comics
12:00 PM – Queers for Fears – Understanding LGBTQ Villiany and Who’s Doing It Right
02:45 PM – Here Lie Dragons & Eternal Beasties
03:45 PM – NYCC Team Q&A
03:45 PM – Image Comics: The Future of Storytelling
04:00 PM – Kodansha Comics featuring Fairy Tail and Sailor Moon
Otakon’s move to DC has opened up several new possibilities thanks to the new location. The bigger convention center and more vibrant location have a lot of potential. The fact that they were able to have a Shinto shrine at the convention while having more room for all the other events says everything about how much more that can be done with the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
I’m not exactly sure that the move contributed to the increase in premieres. In fact, I’m fairly sure it a completely unrelated fact but it was still greatly appreciated. This year we got to see In This Corner of the World and Eureka Seven – Hi-Evolution 1 before most people in the U.S. The Eureka Seven movie had not even been shown in Japan before this. That in of itself was amazing. On top of that, the Anisong World Matsuri really added to event cache this year.
Sufficed to say there were so many big events this year that my panel attendance was actually lower than it usually was because I just had so much to do. Otakon was already a convention where you often had to choose which of three panels happening at the same time you want to attend but now the event schedule is popping in more and more as something vying for your time. What a great position to be in.
Somehow there was even more to do at Otakon this year, but I was able to attend more events than usual. If that doesn’t show the advantage of the new space, then I don’t know what else to say about it.
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