Con Season 2009
Despite my best efforts, con season gets the best of me yet again.
What’s special this year is that I’ll be more broke than ever, gone to more places than ever, and probably have the least amount of time blogging than ever. It is fun and frustrating, but hopefully it will also add to some good times at the end of the day. Here are some of the stuff I’m looking forward to.
First there is our blogging panel at AnimeNext, hopefully. I am done just putting the ppt together today and we’ll polish it off over the weekend when the panelists convene. Those of you who saw JP & Hinano’s panel at NYAF last year might find it both familiar and disorienting. Also make sure you catch Brad as he stares down the NEET precipice while covering grounds for Jtor. He’s a good man and I hope what little I can do to help him actually helps him :3
There is one surprise brewing this summer and it’s at the point where the whole thing feels magically unreal that if I speak of it, I fear it would turn into fairy dust and disappear like firework sparkles. So I won’t until it’s a done deal. At least not here.
And there is always Otakon. Otakon’s got Becca, Naomi Tamura and Kanon Wakashima. It’s also got a Japanese director coming, in all likelihood. It’s supposedly someone who has made some huge splash recently. From the Jim Vowles clues I gather it is likely someone who’s relatively new, with established works. That means this person has been doing it for a while and was just promoted to the position in the past few years.
Otakon this year is at least wheeling and dealing despite H1N1 and all that nasty buggerness. Also in the books is a possible seiyuu pick, and the fourth Japanese musical act is going to get announced most likely next week.
Lastly, we go round to September for NYAF 2009. I don’t really want to think about that. Not yet anyways.
director whose work made a huge splash? PLZ BE SHINBO!!!
That is my first instinctive guess too, but Shinbo is old cat relatively speaking.
It’s H1N1 rofl rofl
The guest list at Otakon sucks. Seriously a con who brought Kawasumi Ayako, Koge Donbo and Tomokazu Seki, this is pathetic. I’m glad I’m not going although I’ll never go to Otakon ever again for the rest of my life anyway.
Perhaps this year’s NYAF will be my last one too, I’ll get that Pangya panel thing out of my hair and that will be in it for me.
A visit from Yutaka Yamamoto wouldn’t be unwelcome, especially since he seems to fit the above-mentioned criteria.
In the thread at the otakon forums I linked, someone made the same comments about Yamakan. It would appear to me he is the guy, too. And it would not be unwelcome to say the least.
Hinano: They’re not done yet. There’ll be a seiyuu guest; there pretty much always is one since like, 2003.
This time, the thrill would probably be more in meeting up with people again than in the guests at the moment. :v
Scratch that. lolol Crispin Freeman. :P