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Here at long last is our Anime Expo 2010 review episode of doom. I bring you but a small sampling of the news that came out of the convention, as well as our famous Panel Discussions of Doom(TM) where we talked about AX, what we liked, what we didn’t like, and our thoughts on the event. We’ve also got an interview with Ejen Chuang of Cosplay in America who recently put out an awesome cosplay photography book. And, as always, we bring you the freshest, coolest anime picks.
Today’s Opening Music: “Lion,” Megumi Nakajima & May’n. One of the opening themes of the excellent anime Macross Frontier.
AX 2010 Coverage – ANN and Japanator. AX 2010 Photo Galleries: ANN (cosplay, exhibit hall/around the con); Japanator (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6) Cosplay in America
Our picks:
Me – Highschool of the Dead, Evangelion 1.11 – You are Not Alone (DVD, Blu-ray), Cosplay in America, K-ON! (will be released by Bandai) Danny – Durarara!, Heroman Michelle – Hetalia Axis Powers, Eden of the East (DVD, Blu-ray)
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[…] Two years ago at AX, my intrepid co-host (and girlfriend) Beep had a rather nasty injury. This year it was my turn. At closing ceremonies, Danny Choo started tossing out Moekana cards (ironically the item currently featured as our (increasingly inaccurately named) J-List Product of the Day). And one of them just so happened to impact my forehead at a rather high velocity. He was mortified and was very apologetic, and not only gave me one of their really cool AX 2012 posters (signed even!), but also posed for pictures; and both his “people” as well as AX staff made sure that I wasn’t seriously injured (and took down my information just in case). I took this in stride; things happen after all. And the injury wasn’t severe (it did bleed a little, and my forehead is somewhat sore this morning). […]