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It was so good to see you again at Anime Weekend Atlanta, and really enjoyed your Horror anime panel. Thanks for another year of good recommendations!

It’s been quite some time. The past two years have been an experience for us all, and I hope that you and yours have been safe and well.

After the unplanned 2+ years break from conventions and paneling – I’ll be making my way back to San Jose this coming weekend for Fanime and will be presenting again.

The con will look a bit different, with new safety requirements, panels being moved to the convention center (due to the closing, sale, remodeling, and re-opening of the former Fairmont), and the absence of both in-person international guests and some past-programming standards. Everyone involved with the convention though has been working extremely hard to ensure a fun and safe environment for the return to in-person conventions. I know that it will still be a great experience!

If you’re going to be at Fanime this weekend, please feel free to say hello if we bump into each other. It will be good to return and see everyone having fun in their element again.

Fanime 2022 panel schedule below, listed chronologically:

(New content for 2022 for all returning panels!)

Anime to See Before You Die (18+) – Friday, 8-10p, Panel Room 1
Anime’s Fiercest Females – Saturday, 1:30-2:30p, Panel Room 2
Anime’s Biggest A**holes (18+) – Saturday, 8:30-10:00p, Panel Room 2
On Roses, Revolution, and Oscar – Sunday, 6-7p, Panel Room 3
Oh the (Animated) Horror! (18+) – Sunday, 8:30-9:30p, Panel Room 2
The World of Cyberpunk Anime – Monday, 12:30-1:30p, Panel Room 4

Definitely. Here's hoping his final film does get completed someday...!

dope horror panel at awa

Great Kon panel at AWA. Here's hoping this works eventually get another release here.
I know the UK is getting a new special edition of Perfect Blue with the new HD transfer sometime in the next year, if I'm not mistaken.

Fanime 2017 panel line-up:

Anime to See Before You Die (18+, new material for 2017), Ballroom 2 - Friday Night 9-11p
Oh the (Animated) Horror! (18+, all new material for 2017), Ballroom 1 - Saturday Night 10-11p
Outlive the Otaku Expiration, Ballroom 3 - Sunday Afternoon 3-4p
Anime's Fiercest Females (all new material for 2017), Ballroom 2 - Sunday evening 7-8p

If you are out in San Jose for the convention: Enjoy!

Hey bud, loved your fanime panels last year, was wondering if you could list the times names and places of panels for this year as fanime's guide sucks and I wanna see as much of them as I can. Thanks, excited you're back again.

I watched a fair amount of other Lupin series/movies before getting to The Woman Called Fujiko Mine. Really liked how much that show fleshed out her character and how it served as a prequel story. Gave it a 10/10 without hesitation and bought the blu-ray. Sayo Yamamoto definitely impressed me as a director, so now I'm on the lookout for anything with her name attached to it.

Kino's Journey was interesting, but I think it's for the best that it ended when it did. It was starting to get a bit stale. The places she went to and the people she met were all interesting, but the lack of recurring characters made it feel a bit too disjointed. It nailed the tone it was going for, but it was not really the kind of show that left me craving more.

I did :D My Outlaw Star and AKB0048 panel got accepted.

Did you hear back about your horror panel for AWA? :)

Hello again, sir. I was thinking of doing a panel in the future. I will probably share the details with you in the near future. Well, provided we can communicate more. Perhaps you can send me your e-mail address?

Btw, MoNgR3L, if you still want that video, I sent you a message about downloading it off of my personal server. I re-encoded it, and managed to shrink it down to 2.1 GB.

Wall comments are fine, if you don't mind; I've never 100% figured out MAL's PM system ^.^;;;;

One of my favorite things about Evangelion, really, was the characters and the different ways they portrayed self-hatred, depression, a desperation to achieve a sense of connection to something greater than themselves. I think that's something so many people go through and so many (shounen, in particular) series lack: an acknowledgment that sometimes when you're told you need to do something huge and scary to save the world, maybe you're simply not emotionally able to do it. Too many shows portray a character being unwilling to answer the "call to adventure," as Joseph Campbell puts it, for all of half an episode before suddenly being willing to put themselves into the risk asked of them. I don't know for how many real 14-year-olds that would be true. There's a sense of loneliness to all the characters of Evangelion (it actually, a little bit, reminds me of a fascinating article I read once about how each of the characters in Sailormoon portrays loneliness in a different way) that really resonated with me.

One particularly striking image, for me, was Asuka (who, I'll admit, was probably my least favorite character, but...) sitting in the rusted out bathtub, unable to bring herself to do anything, she was so lost in her sense of self-failure.

I'm also very interested in what director Hideaki Anno has said about Eva being, in some elements, a condemnation of Aum Shinrikyo for losing touch with reality. Aum Shinrikyo happens to be a pet interest of mine: I find the psychology of cults so, SO interesting, particularly when looked at from a cultural perspective: why did this happen in Japan? what made Japan such a ripe ground for it? I happened to be living in Tokyo at the time the final perpetrator of the sarin gas attacks was caught and Aum was back in the news, which led to a lot of talk with students about what they felt about how their country might have bred something like Aum. (Have you seen, by the way, Mawaru Penguindrum? It's from the director of Utena and hugely inspired by the gas attacks. Great show.)

What are some of the things that so draw you to Evangelion? I'm still trying to sort out what, precisely, I do or don't feel about the movie ending!

I was at your science fiction and anime discussion, the 2nd panel. We talked for a brief second after. But lots of people had questions. I did have time to tell you i missed the 1st panel lol. Thank you so much for the list . I for sure hope to get the opportunity again to actually be at the panel. ^^ i got alot anime homework to from both of your panels now

Good evening! We met at Fanime; I was one of the three girls with whom you chatted for a while after your sci-fi panel, before walking us over to the Black and White Ball. Inspired by the con, I decided finally, finally to watch Evangelion. I'd love to discuss it! I know I'm in the minority on this, but I really liked Shinji as a character; I found him to be refreshingly realistic for a shounen protagonist. What's your take on the ending (both episodes 25/26 of the series and End of Evangelion)?