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Otakon 2015 – Aldnoah.Zero Creators Panel
The host of the panel was the Marketing Specialist of Aniplex, Joanna Metoki. Joanna called the staff of Aldnoah.Zero one by one, escorted by ACP cosplayers. What a royal welcome! The director, Aoki Ei...
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Otakon 2015 – Romi Paku Panel
The panel opened with the interpreter announcing some of her highlighted characters with Romi-san giving a line from each starting with Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist,) Nana (Nana,) Temari...
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Otakon 2015 – Masquerade/BACK-ON mini Concert
As usual, they opened with the walk-ons which has a few surprises. The cosplay level at Otakon is definitely nothing to sneeze yet. Though Katsucon and other smaller conventions have boasted high...
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Otakon 2015 – a con in review
Otakon returns for the 17th year to the Baltimore Convention Center. From July 24-26, attendees descend upon the Inner Harbor enmassed to check out the latest in Japanime releases, get a behind the...
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WakuWaku 2015 – saturday
WakuWaku graces Brooklyn Convention Center and the Wythe Hotel for the first time on August 29 and 30. For its inaugural event, dozens of sponsors and guests convened including Dragon Ball Z ad Dragon...
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Book review: The World Beyond Your Head
The World Beyond Your Head By Michael B. Crawford Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 9780374292980 Review copy provided by the publisher Review by Ginger Mayerson I mostly liked and agreed...
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Book review: Citizen. An American Lyric
Citizen. An American Lyric By Claudine Rankine Published by Greywolf Press Review copy provided by the publisher Review by Ginger Mayerson Racism is bad, insidious and ubiquitous, and nothing is ever...
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NYCC 2015 – Crunchyroll Panel
Crunchyroll panel was filled with news and membership giveaways. People who asks questions are able to get a 30 day trial Premium membership. Free membership is also given to those who get trivia...
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NYCC 2015 – Vertical Panel
Ed noted that since he has a full panel presentation for us, we probably won’t have time for Q&A. Since there was still time before the official starting, he decided to open the floor up for some...
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NYCC 2015 – Boruto: Naruto the Movie
The MC noted that the guests will only appear if the audience was hyped up. There was no need to hype up the audience even more when merely saying their names threw the fans into a frenzy. With the...
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NYCC 2015 – a con in review
The biggest comic industry convention on the East coast, New York Comic Con expanded their 3 day convention to a 4 day, rivaling SDCC in content (though thankfully, not in size.) However, the highlight...
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Book review: Sadistic Pattern, by Michael J. Molloy
Sadistic Pattern by Michael J. Molloy Published By: Gypsy Shadow Publishing, 2015 ISBN: 13: 978-1619502758 Review copy sent by author Review by Ida Vega-Landow It’s been said by the philosopher George...
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Katsucon 2016 – Vertical Panel
The panel discussion opened with Ed sharing about the history of the company which began in 2003 in New York. Many of the fans shared their love of Osamu Tezuka which Vertical published quite a few...
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Katsucon 2016 – Masquerade
The hosts were the same as last year, Frank and Sadie Doyle from the graphic novel, ‘Thrilling Adventure Hour’ with a mix of characters to surprise the audience. The ‘ding’ from the clinking glasses...
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Katsucon 2016 – Funimation Panel
A special video of their online streaming catalogue was shown with a variety of series including fan favorite Dragon Ball. The streaming service plans include a sub-pass which gives subscribers to all...
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Katsucon 2016 – a con in review
The focus of Katsucon has it’s share of panels and guests but the highlight has to be the cosplay which takes over the Gaylord National Resort during Valentine’s weekend. Next to the harbor, the...
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Book review: Dark Money
Dark Money By Jane Mayer Published by Penguin Random House ISBN: 978-0-7352-1033-2 Review copy provided by reviewer Review by KM Warner By now it’s well known that Charles and David Koch have been very...
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Anime Expo 2016 Cosplay
Some of the more, um, artistic effects in these photos are my camera acting up.
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AnimeNEXT 2016 – ROOKiEZ is PUNK’D concert
With a mixture of rock, rap and high energy beats, ROOKiEZ is PUNK’D returns to take Anime Next by storm, gracing the first con night with a live concert that shook the masses. The concert opened...
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