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Packing in the attendees,
every panel, event, or activity offered something to learn from,
whether you were into the discussion subject or not, as shown below with a
brief description of each session. This weekend's explorations delved straight into the
heart of current fandom interests, reminiscing about all
of the awesome anime con circuit, as well as
new and exciting venues to focus on for the next year. |
Anime
Expo New York |
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Anime FanFiction: From rec.arts.anime to the birth and maturity of the web medium, fan
fiction has grown by leaps and bounds and panelists talked about the history of the fanfic
community, fan-fiction.net, additional web resources, and trends that authors take
throughout the years. |
Viz
Communications: More Hamtaro? You got it! Viz Communications
representatives talked about their newest titles and releases like Inu Yasha and
Hamtaro as well as status reports on graphics novels, card games, soundtrack work, and much
more. |
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Hana Yori Dango: Marisa Price, Casey Boomer, and HYD friends led a big panel on this amazing drama /
comedy about a girl and her struggles through school. Highlights included raffle
prizes of posters, memo pads, sketchpads, card sets, books, and manga, and even had a cool
screening of Hana Yori Dango Anime Music Videos! |
Con Summit and
Running a Con: Representatives and fans from Anime Expo, Otakon, Anime North, Anime
Boston, Genericon, ShoujoCon, YuriCon, Fanime, Yaoi-con, Anime Next, and Project A-kon all
gathered to talk about their 2 year effort to work together for the first time on making
AXNY a reality for charity and as well as planting the seeds of anime cons for future con
staffers. |
| Additional panels and discussions held throughout
the weekend included: Media Blasters, Right Stuf International, Production I.G. / King
Records' Sneak Preview of Ghost in the Shell TV Series, Guardians of Order, Shogi: Game of
the Future!, Anime Plushies, Studio pierrot, Central Park Media, AD Vision, Raijin Comics,
Pioneer Entertainment, FUNimation, Justin Cook on Voice Acting and Directing, Writing About
Anime, Yaoi / Yuri, Acadmic Study of Anime, Manga, and Fandom, AnimeOnDVD.com / Anime
Boston, Urban Vision, Shonen Jump, Marvel Comics, Super Techno Arts, AIC, AX Tokyo, Drawing
Costumes, and Fanfiction Workshop. |
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