Otakon 2009 panel audience.
Anime Boston is almost upon us! If you’re coming up to the city for a weekend at the Hynes, be sure to drop by one or more of my panels to say Hello!
Update (Thursday 18 March 11:30 pm): Time for “Hentai Manga” panel has been moved later into the night.
Update 2 (Monday 22 March 9:30 am): Location for “Anime Themes” panel changed. Also, time for “Cowboy Bebop” panel moved earlier in the afternoon.
Update 3 (Monday 29 March 11:10 pm): Time for “Intro and Ending Themes” panel has been moved earlier in the day.
Friday 12:00 pm noon (Panel 302) – Introduction to Anime Intro and Ending Themes
Friday: 5:30 pm (Panel 306) – After Cowboy Bebop: The Works of Shinichiro Watanabe
Friday/Saturday 1:30 am (Panel 202) – Chains, Trains, and Happy Endings: Japan’s Underground Sex Culture (18+)
Saturday 6:00 pm (107 Panel 6) – On the Road for Anime Pilgrimages
Saturday 10:00 pm (Panel 202) – Impact of Evangelion
Saturday/Sunday 1:30 am (Panel 202) – Hentai Manga: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (18+)
Sunday 1:00 pm (Panel 202) – From Antisocial Loser to Economic Hero: The History of Otakudom
Sunday 2:00 pm (Panel 202) – Anime in Academia
Im going to at least one of these, but two are scheduled during my panels. And its two i want to see. Especially the Impact of Evangelion one, I’d love to see if it meshes with my Religion in Evangelion one.
Charles: Awesome to meet you, albeit extremely quickly. We should sit down and chat more.
Great panel of Impact of Evangelion by the way. You were well-spoken, insightful, and hilarious to boot. This was my first anime convention and I was a bit dubious by what I would encounter there, but I have to say that your talk was a pleasant surprise. Eva was really the first anime I got into not because of its typical mech aspects or “hot girls,” but rather because of its deeper philosophical questions and messages. I was really impressed with the way you blended academia with anime (I also would have liked to have gone to your panel on this on Sunday but I couldn’t attend that day :s) to understand it further is amazing. Hope you’ll be there next year and will definitely keep an eye on your blog~
Thom, thanks for stopping by the panel. :) I’ll probably be presenting at Otakon and maybe New York Anime Festival as well, so if you can make it down there…!