Nana | Department of Alchemy

The scent of Convention Season 2010 is in the air. Memories of former hastily-thrown-together cosplay are plaguing my brain.

Yes, I sacrificed my hair once upon a time for the success of a costume.
(Yasushi Takagi, NANA; Anime Boston 2007)

But my girlfriend and I are prepping a costume set for Anime Boston 2010. We’ve already started playing around with the DSLRs…

Oh, the shame… Oh, the camwhoring…

… but we’ll need to drag our sewing machines out of storage and get practicing. We’ve decided on Paradise Kiss. I swear I don’t have a thing for Ai Yazawa shoujo manga…

Must grow out my hair.

We have to sew this?!

Foreshadowing the cosplay or the work involved? >_>

It’ll be a bit strange cosplaying three years from the last event, but perhaps this year is the time to embrace the fun aspects of anime cons just a bit more. Oh, right, I have to get those panel applications in…

(Panels for Anime Boston are due next week!)

This is about 1/2 of the room in our Sunday panel.

We at the Department of Alchemy (aka. Alex) would like to thank everyone who decided to come out for our/my panels this weekend at Anime Expo 2009. All two of our panels (as well as the two academic panels in which the Department participated) were thoroughly attended! The Problem with Otaku (photographed above) purportedly held more con-goers than the Crunchyroll panel in the previous one-hour time slot! Sorry that the panel had to be cut off; the presentation held a bit too much information. Also, after being featured in AnimeEXPOSURE (Anime Expo’s official newsletter) on Friday as a highlighted panel to attend, Without Watching the Anime: Opening & Ending Themes featured a full panel room, with a line extending around the bend in the hallway! Rumor has it that about two dozen people were even turned away, since as we neared about 400 members in the audience the fire code seemed about to be breached (though we still had a good number of people lining the back wall and even sitting on the floor in front). Unfortunately, our camera equipment wasn’t working during the panel, so we couldn’t nab a cool snapshot.

For those who attended the OP/ED panel, the list of videos shown is listed below. Thanks again for coming to see us! Remember, we’ll be speaking again at Otakon in two weeks! Check out our three panels:

1) Without Watching the Anime: Opening and Ending Themes – Sunday at 10:15 am in Panel 3
2) The Impact of Evangelion – Saturday at 9:00 am in Panel 1
3) Anime & Manga Studies – Saturday at 11:30 am in Panel 1

So, on to that list:

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