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Otakon 2014: Looking for a Mai Mai Miracle

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(note: No Type-Moon Weekly News Round Up
or All Points Bulletin this week.)

It is that time, chaps! Time to get hype for the biggest anime blowout on the East Coast! All the guests, music, and fans you can handle. There isn’t much to be said about the road to Otakon that we haven’t already said before. Hope to see you there!

We got panels, be sure to attend!

New Anime for Older Fans
Friday, 11:15AM, Panel 7

The Visual Stylings of Kunihiko Ikuhara
Saturday, 9:30PM, Panel 1 

The Measure of a Man.
The Nature of a Hero:
A Fate/Stay Night Panel (18+)
Saturday, 1:00 AM, Panel 6

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Pre-Otakon 2014 Podcast

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Our tentative schedule for the convention:

Friday
10:00AM – Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Making History
11:15AM – New Anime for Older Fans
12:30PM – Ninja in Anime: The Sweet and (Mostly) the Stupid
12:30PM – Kaiju or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Cancel the Apocalypse
01:45PM – AnimEigo
02:00PM – Yusuke Kozaki Autograph
03:00PM – How to Pilot a Mecha in Today’s World
04:15PM – Journey To The Stars
05:30PM – Kurosawa: Romancing of the Samurai
07:00PM – ALTIMA Concert
07:00PM – Fire Emblem Photoshoot
07:00PM – Revolutionary Girl Utena Photoshoot
09:30PM – Otakon Game Show
10:00PM – Friday Night Fan Parodies – Classics

Saturday
09:00AM – Amazingly Obscure Anime: Over 30 Titles You’ve Probably Never Heard Of (But Are Awesome)
10:15AM – Satanicartoons: The Devil in Anime
11:30AM – Drawing with Yusuke Kozaki
12:15PM – Yura, Kozaki, Ishii Q&A
02:00PM – Maruyama/Mappa Q&A
03:15PM – Matsubara Q&A
04:30PM – Sunao Katabuchi Q&A
04:30PM – Anime Sols and Crowdfunding Classic Anime
05:45PM – Ramen: Japanese Soul Food
05:45PM – Jump The Shark: When Good Anime Goes Bad
06:00PM – Gundam Series Photoshoot
07:00PM – Ai Yazawa: The Retrospective
08:15PM – A Brief History of Anime: 100 Years in 50 Minutes
09:30PM – The Visual Stylings of Kunihiko Ikuhara
11:45PM – Ninjas, Spider Monsters and Cyber Criminals: The Great Worlds of Yoshiaki Kawajiri (18+)
01:00AM – The Measure of a Man. The Nature of a Hero: A Fate/Stay Night Panel (18+)

Sunday
09:00AM – The Visual Novel: Psychology of the Unrecognized Narrative Art
10:15PM – REAL NINJAS!
11:30AM – From Anime to Live Action: You Can (Not) Adapt
12:30PM – Yoshiki Concert
12:45PM – Maruyama & Matsubara Q&A

BEST 10 TIPS! Otakon Survival Guide Edition

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hisui_icon_4040 Otakon is right around the corner and for some of our East Coast readers this might be the first time they are going to a something other than their local convention. If that is the case I put together a video of the top ten ABSOLUTELY VITAL pieces of con survival that will help anyone. Even if you are a veteran con goer you might not know some of these pro tips that will let of maximize your con going experience!

BEST 10 TIPS!
Otakon Survival Guide Edition

Happy 7th Birthday Reverse Thieves!

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You know that chestnut of a scene in a sitcom where a person totally forgets their anniversary then has to scramble to pretend that they remembered the big day all along? In many ways, that is what this post is.

So yeah, we sort of forgot about the anniversary of the blog this year. In a way, it was the blog itself that made it so easy to forget.

The first five years of running the blog (and then podcast) seemed like more of a struggle; every few months was a desperate battle to build an identity and gain a following. Realizing we got into a bit of predictable pattern by our sixth year jump started a few changes in the site.

The Case Closed and Postmortem podcasts definitely came out of that. They’re not as popular as the SWAT Reviews but these new short podcasts make good and vital bookends to our first impressions.

Alain started the Riot Control Reviews because people love hearing about horrible things. If anything people are probably saddened that he doesn’t watch even worse shows at the start of the new season. Alain has also tried out video reviews of manga chapters with A Chapter a Day Keeps the Doctor Away on YouTube; it is currently on hiatus.

Our big push for 2014 has been to make the content on the blog and podcast more accessible. All the podcasts are now available on Stitcher and YouTube. We recently started a Tumblr account which cross-promotes all our content as well as other original musings.

A minor change but one worth noting is we started using our real names a bit more. Part of it was Kate being more comfortable with using her real name in print and part of it is being mildly tired of people mixing us up. (Also as always Kate trying to point out once and for all she knows next to nothing about Type-Moon no matter how much people insist otherwise.)

We don’t know what the future holds for the site, we certainly aren’t going anywhere, but how much things will continue to change rather than just honing what we have now will remain to be seen.

What do you all think about how Reverse Thieves has changed in the last seven years? How long have you been visiting? What’s the the #1 reason you visit the blog and/or listen to the podcast?

-Alain
~ kate