Otakon Scheduling
I guess I can post what I’m going to cover at Otakon. I tend to only do a bit of the US industry stuff since it’s so well-covered by everyone else. Plus it doesn’t interest me as much as actual, mid-production stuff being shown-off like what will surely happen at the Madhouse panel.
Anyways, their full finalized schedule is up. It’s subject to change and it will change, as always, all the way up until the actual panel/event/whatever.
And my own schedule will change too, I can almost guarantee it…
Friday:
- Panel 3 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm - Lantis, Opening Ceremony, Madhouse
- Panel 1 from 6:00pm to 7:00pm - Touhou (maybe)
Saturday:
- Panel 1 from 9:00am to 10:00am - Anime is Serious Business
- Panel 2 from 11:00am to 12:00noon - Bandai
- Panel 4 from 12:30pm to 2:00pm - JAM Project
- Panel 2 from 2:00pm to 3:00pm - Kadokawa (not likely)
- Panel 2 from 4:30pm to 6:00pm - Pony Canyon (meh?)
- Panel 4 from 5:30pm to 7:00pm - Fansubbing/Industry (maybe)
- Panel 1 from 6:00pm to 7:00pm - Satoshi Kon Fan panel (maybe)
- Panel 2 from 9:00pm to 10:30pm - Bandai Surprise (probably)
- Otacafe from 8:00-ish pm to 9:00pm - Waiting from random internet people to say hi
- Otacafe from 9:00pm to whenever pm - LOL Karaoke
Sunday:
- Panel 1 from 1:00pm to 2:00pm - ADV (maybe)
- Panel 2 from 1:00pm to 2:00pm - Udon (maybe)
Sometime Saturday afternoon, I am predicting, is the autograph session for JAM Project.
And sometime Friday (possibly before, or after the Touhou panel) I’ll be in line for the concert. Only if someone would hold my place in line for like an hour and a half.
And hopefully operation glowstick will pan out.
I would probably go to the dealer’s room after the Madhouse panel or before the Lantis panel on Friday, only just so I can scope out the place and make sure I don’t miss anything super obvious and good to know.
There is actually no video programming I want to watch this year at all, which is somewhat unusual. I always at least want to see one thing. Otakon has ditched their 35mm programming and oped for HD projection. Not a bad choice this year I suppose.
And if it wasn’t obvious, I’ll be at the JAM Project show at 8pm Friday and probably at the Jrock thing Sunday. The latter I’ll just show up and see, not going to line up.
I would like to go to the Kadokawa US Premiere panel but I don’t think it’ll fit. I know, nothing’s conflicting with it on the schedule, but this is a total hunch/foresight through experience. Likewise with Pony Canyon. Why is that panel 1.5 hours long anyways?
And while I don’t particularly harbor any ill will towards anyone, it seems fitting if something violent and awesome happened at the fansubbing panel. I suppose it’s a good panel to go meet internet peoples; you got a large room and not enough people interested to fill it up, and hopefully they’ll do this very chill. Tofu-sensei should not disappoint. This year, Otakon is hosting these people, and I cut/paste:
Featured panelists include John Sirabella, CEO of Media Blasters, Lance Heiskell, Director of Marketing for Funimation, and veteran representatives from Live-eviL, Shinsen, Anime-Empire, and Dattebayo fansubbing groups.
That is awesome. Of course Sirabella is a different kind of beast, but I don’t think a whole lot of Lance Heiskell from what I read. Hopefully that’ll change.
Besides my own Touhou panel, I’ll be hitting up JAM Project panels, Anime is Serious Business, Lawrence Eng’s Otaku Studies panel, possibly 1-2 Mike Toole panels, and I’ll play the rest by ear. Daryl Surat is supposed to be doing a few panels, but I don’t have any idea which ones. Maybe industry panels, if people feel like it.
Most of my time every year is spent wandering around the con center as it is with internet people, so that’ll occupy me.
Sounds like a good o time as usual. To be honest my schedule, with so many “maybes” are just a guideline rather than anything to stalk me by :3
I’ll gladly hold your spot on Friday for a cheeseburger on Thursday. ;) Seriously, if you could get me a $2 meal on Thursday night I’d do just about anything for you. I’m going to have to live 4 days on less than $100 … and I only have 3 cans of ravioli and one box of pop tarts. (._.)
I’ll probably hold your spot for you anyway. XD Without you, I wouldn’t have been able to go. I got the ball rolling early and was able to get my schtuff together juust enough to get my plane ticket and badge. XD
Oh, wow. Nicely done…