I’ve decided to flavor the blog with audio under the moniker Department of Alchemy Podcast. Occasionally, I’ll post audio from panels or discussions here, but don’t think of it as a regular podcast, à la Anime World Order.
This past weekend, I took my new audio recorder to Anime Boston 2009, and while I tried to record a number of panels, I had a few mishaps and some of them didn’t save. However, I did pick up a handful of them, so I’ll try to repair the audio a bit and upload them here.
First up is one of the five panels that I spoke at: Akiba Empire: The Otaku Influence. The convention’s booklet reads: “Otaku spending pumps over 4 billion dollars annually into Japan’s economy. Discover how nerdy anime fans went from basement dewllers to a powerful cultural, economic, and political force.” Please listen! Or download here.
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More panels from AB will be posted shortly!
Awesome!
Posting a link to this on my blog.
Given our oddball release schedule, it’s a relief to know there are people out there who consider it “regular”! That said, Show 80 has just been recorded.
Will there be a separate RSS feed for your panel recordings?
Y’know, I was listening to your hilarious (but necessary) Anime 3000 Gundam panel, and I was thinking all day about RSS feeds. Not really sure what I want to do with the audio yet (even if I want to put it in the iTunes music store). More likely than not that there will be a separate RSS feed, but maybe not soon.
I couldn’t make out the last question, can you just repeat what was asked?
I think the material went over in the panel is pretty good, but there’s a lot more that could be expanded upon in terms of using otaku anime to market random things, and the effects of that. I suppose that was not the scope of the panel.
I believe it was a guy asking for a clarification on the sources who state that the anime industry is going downhill. I just told him to look online.
Nice, can’t wait to check this out!