This 365 days is now not any utterly different, I’m handling a number of events and panels over the direction of the weekend, and preparation for same has taken up the free time I’d normally use to write Let’s Anime columns.
What’s occurring this 365 days at AWA 2011? Thursday evening at 7 we conclude this thing known as the SUPER HAPPY FUN SELL, where anime followers dig thru their closets and produce out their pre-loved manga, DVDs, extinct VHS and laserdiscs, toys, video games, plushies, mannequin kits, prints, cassette tapes, followers, kimono, file albums, and other much less identifiable items to sell to you at slice price costs. I bag natty stuff at this sale every 365 days and I predict this one is now not going to be any utterly different. Utter money!
Then in a while Thursday it’s Dave’s Dilapidated College Lecture room. I wasn’t going to conclude it this 365 days, essentially because at old reveals it’s continuously been this slack evening Saturday thing and I became once tired of spending my Saturday evening catching-up-with-chums time in a video room exhibiting “Narrative Of Marine Snow”. So this 365 days it’s moved to Thursday at 10pm in the Kennesaw room and I’m going to raise the target market thru the anime work of Shotaro Ishinomori, in conjunction with tiny-seen gemstones love Sabu & Ichi’s Detective Tales and 30,000 Miles Beneath The Sea. You’ll need your AWA badge for these events so screen up early Thursday to rep squared away!
Friday evening is definite Eastern Anime Hell; I’ve been doing it at AWA since 1997, a two-hour compilation of spirited and inexplicable figured out video that works contained in the issues of Japan or animation or both. Or neither. To be genuine I by no procedure notion it would become as celebrated as it has, however I could perchance issue that about AWA normally, which is able to beget more than 12,000 attendees this 365 days.
There’s an total bunch of stuff occurring at the screen on Saturday however all I’m to blame for (rather then a obvious gathering for followers of a obvious screen) is a panel at 7pm titled “Stone Age Mecha”, anime and manga robots of the pre-Mazinger Z technology. Search data from some Mitsuteru Yokoyama action on this one.
On Sunday at 1pm I’m on a panel with representatives from other Atlanta anime conventions, and we compare and difference our diverse reveals, discuss about dealing with resorts and vendors, and on the overall swap commerce secrets. I don’t live in Atlanta any additional, so my eligibility as an AWA manual is dubious at most keen, however this presents me a chance to gain up on the overall gossip. And that’s crucial.
At 3:30 there’s a discuss entitled “My Existence On The Magnificent Robot D-List”, where consultants love Richard Hoelsher and Drew Sutton and me discuss about diverse robot anime reveals that by no procedure reasonably caught on with the final public. And there were a surprising selection of these advance-misses, some spirited, some frightful. Then I in actuality must lumber over next door at 4pm and forestall a panel on “Spooky Classic Anime”, all about Shigeru Mizuki’s Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro and Akuma-Kun, other reveals love Yokai Ningen Bem, Obake Q-Taro and Kaibutsu-Kun, and even some Dororon Enma-Kun thrown in for lawful measure. After which before you understand it the con is over for but any other 365 days!
Of direction AWA’s packed with attractions apart from my humble involvement; guests contain seiyu Naoko Matsui (Dream Hunter Rem, Katsumi Liqueur in Silent Mobius), artist Yoshitoshi “Serial Experiments Lain” Abe, issue actors Todd Haberkorn, Vic Mignogna, Amy “Nova” Howard-Wilson and Brina Palencia, industry figures love Carl Horn, Neil “Fully Lame Anime” Nadelman and David Williams, animation director Tim Eldred, artist Bob DeJesus, musical acts MOON STREAM and The Suzan, among others. There’s a formal ball, the famed AMV awards, a huge artists alley, neat costume contest, karaoke, maid cafes, video video games, a manga library, a huge dealers hall, RPG video games, three 24 hour anime video rooms exhibiting damn advance the entirety, an total programming discover dealing with cosplay, Dull evening anime parody Madness, a number of loud dances, and this 365 days a skit tournament, so that you may perchance shut up about your damn skits.
AWA 2011 happens September 29-October 2 at the Cobb Galleria Convention Center/Renaissance Waverly Resort in what’s technically Atlanta GA! Eye you there!