New York Anime Festival 2008 - Saturday

Now with moar Mudkips.

Since I have to get on another early train out to NYC, I’ll make this entry quick. Compared to Friday, a lot more people were attending than Friday. Still, it was a rather medium-sized crowd compared to the likes of Otakon. Cosplay improved somewhat dramatically, but still the same tired series are still being overused like a heroin needle. This is why my count is so low. I should’ve got some more cards to hand out and I was afraid not to give them to multiple subjects. Well, at least they can be reused. Perhaps I should’ve made the link to my Flickr set a bit more easier to read.

I attended panels such as Anime Blogging, the 10th annual Anime News Network Panel, saw “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time” and a Hentai dubbing panel. If I hadn’t spent so much time wanting to get a question answered at the ANN panel, I would’ve be admitted into the World Cosplay Summit Masquerade. Thus, I missed Rie Tanaka sing and some actual pro-level talent from Japan. As a substitute for this, I decided to attend the Hentai dubbing panel. Needless to say, I will not think of Tuna Casserole in the same way ever again. As for the ANN panel, I liked hearing a lot of how the site came to being and how the much of the staff create magic every day. However, I would like to reserve special comments for Zac Bertschy. Not only he sounds like a douchebag, he also looks like a douchebag. Just because you have a little corner on the internets doing editorial commentary on an anime news site does not make you hot stuff. See the eventual video up on ANN and you’ll see what I mean. Maybe you’ll get to hear my comments about him being uttered under my breath.

BTW, Saturday pics are up. Now, I must catch another 7:40 am train for the Rie Tanaka Panel/Autograph session.