Is it 2017 already? It seems love appropriate the outdated day that we were sorting out containers of VHS tape and wiring together laser disc avid gamers and striking flyers in the total comic e book stores, selling our first Anime Weekend Atlanta, manner lend a hand in 1995. Smartly, time flies must you presumably would be having fun, and without note it be 22 years later and we’re gearing up for essentially the most up-to-date version of our native anime con.
AWA has been at its most up-to-date role since, let’s take into yarn, 2003, and it be been charming to take into yarn the Galleria diagram plod from being a chic upscale mall (Eighties) to a likely Olympic venue and convention heart (1990s) to a ghostly dull mall connected to a convention heart (2000s) to now, a share of well-preserved retail dwelling subsequent door to a contemporary Braves stadium. How will this baseball invasion affect AWA’s suburban mall vibe? Smartly, I guess we are going to salvage out, may presumably perchance presumably no longer we?
Within the meantime you are going to be in a collection up to heed your calendar or use the useful AWA schedule to bid when I, your Let’s Anime host, will be are residing and in person doing a diminutive bit anime con panels. And what am I as a lot as?
Smartly, Thursday evening is the SuperHappyFunSell, AWA’s garage sale yard sale closet-cleansing match whereby anime fans segment with previously-loved DVDs, manga, toys, video games, and other outdated retail items. It be a enraged three hours of hearth gross sales, bargains, and the fun of no longer incandescent what’s been unearthed from storage gadgets and garages throughout three or four states.
Friday evening Anime Hell is lend a hand for its Twentieth screening at AWA! Two hours of rapid-rep video fun difficult Japan, animation, hell, and generally all three mixed together. Hell is preceded by Fully Lame Anime at 8 and adopted by Hour of darkness Insanity at 12 nighttime, so select a ecstatic chair, you may presumably perchance perchance presumably simply be there for some time!
Saturday at 2:30 I may be taking you through thirty years of Eastern comic strip feature motion photos in American theaters, a are residing panel version of this Let’s Anime column from just a few years lend a hand. Bring your personal popcorn!
Saturday evening it be time to come out of your shell and rep to know your fellow fans! Yes, the AWA Mixer is lend a hand, this time mixed with the Bebop Lounge, to lift grownup fans together to combine and mingle and knock lend a hand just a few Cowboy Bebop-themed drinks. Within the occasion you presumably would be a Let’s Anime reader tumble in and jabber hi there!
And on Sunday, Neil Nadelman and myself will be exploring what may presumably perchance presumably simply be the worst Eastern appealing television sequence of all time, Chargeman Ken. Neil appropriate translated the final sequence for Discotek and me, well, I if fact be told accept as true with somewhat just a few ride with horrid cartoons, so it be obvious to be an afternoon of harsh truths and animation failure!
Other than all my events, AWA is a weekend jam packed with anime pleasure – whisper actors, manga artists, song performances, costumes, distributors, and the total swirling nonsense that has turned into the hallmark of the anime convention in traditional and AWA in assert. Why no longer tumble in and take into yarn AWA for your self?
Anime Weekend Atlanta is September 28 – October 1 at the Cobb Galleria Centre / Renaissance Waverly Lodge, Atlanta GA.