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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S.W.A.T. Reviews: Autumn 2012 Pt. 4

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The premise of these reviews is simple: watch the first episode of a series and then immediately sit down to record a review mini-podcast. The reviews are five- to ten-minutes long and entirely off the cuff. As always we only review new shows (so no sequels or continuations) and try to avoid anything that just looks outright awful. Here are our last 5 of the new season:

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Listen – Episode 1 of Chousoku Henkei Gyrozetter from A-1 Pictures with the opening “Let’s Go” by Masahiko Kondo.

Listen – Episode 1 of Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic from A-1 Pictures with the opening “V.I.P” by SID and is streaming on Crunchyroll.

Listen – Episode 1 of PSYCHO-PASS from Production I.G with the opening “abnormalize” by Ling Tosite Sigure and is streaming on Funimation.

Listen – Episode 1 of Robotics;Notes from Production I.G with the opening “Junjo Spectra” by Zwei and is streaming on Funimation.

Listen – Episode 1 of Aoi Sekai no Chuushin de from 5th Avenue with the opening “retrospective world” by Hiro Shimono and Nobuhiko Okamoto and is streaming on Crunchyroll.