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Webpage Design: Seasoned veterans of the web world gave helpful
advice to audience members who wanted to build their own anime or manga fansites. Concerned
about quality over quantity, the panelists highlighted issues about copyrights, proper
webpage layouts, web design software, free web resources, use of color palettes, accounting
for color blinded fans, misuse of tiny fonts, and lack of original or pertinent content to
view.
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Adapting and Directing Dubbed Animation:
Industry
representatives from ADVision and Right Stuf International gave an in-depth view into the
American voice direction world with topics involving handling the script, story editing,
voice syncing, references to Japanese voices for clarity, pay scales and voice contracts in
the U.S. vs. Canada, and the requirements of acting school and real non-anime acting
experience.
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AnimEigo Industry Panel: Representatives gave fans updates
about upcoming releases, quality issues, Kimagure Orange Road, more reliance on the classic
anime rather than the more mainstream titles, and answering questions about the laborious
packaging process and use of human resources within the packaging and distribution market.
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All That Yaoi: With a growing female interest, attendees
quickly tuned in as moderators gave analysis on the yaoi world involving fanfictions, the
most desirable anime bishounen characters, and various yaoi details with examples like Final
Fantasy, Evangelion, Rurouni Kenshin, Initial D, Angelink, Trigun, Prince of Tennis, and the
secrets about roadtrips to Yaoi-con in 2001.
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Fan Parody Dubbing: Brought to you by the makers of Anime Hell,
attendees got a chance to see how fan parodies are made with key examples of consistent
humor and great memories of the golden years of anime. Highlights included MST3K
style, cramming process for script ideas, watching entire shows on fast forward, keeping the
audio off, and barring any in-jokes that would break the humor.
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Anime Web Journalism: With experienced veterans in the web
journalism world like Kevin Lillard of Fansview, Mike
Toole of Anime Jump, and Ryan Matthews of Anipike, attendees were given a host of advice involving
subjects on faster than print processes, concerns about instant gratification, delivering
fresh reviews, acquiring advance screening copies of anime titles, debunking the myth that
webzines are all about getting free stuff when it is actually a lot of hard work and
building credibility, and sticking to reviewing items that people can actually buy and are
easier to find.
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