tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954985364832387420.post8387009858709997421..comments2023-10-15T08:47:16.191-04:00Comments on Spiral Reverie - An Author's Musings: Animazement 2009: Wait, What?Benjamin Fennellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03969365899812684110noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954985364832387420.post-85189158841412514212013-01-29T13:16:49.170-05:002013-01-29T13:16:49.170-05:00Sorry to bump an old post, but the question I want...Sorry to bump an old post, but the question I wanted to ask you relates to this topic. <br /><br />I've never been to an anime or comic con, but they do sound like a lot of fun. Your experience sounds awesome. Big surprise indeed that they didn't abuse the shows or games you talked about with the fmv videos. <br /><br />I watched deathnote and found it pretty boring honestly. I thought the concept of it was interesting, but the episodes I've watched are just the same thing with slowness and poor execution. Luckily, it's only 30 something episodes long. To be honest, I really like shows or things with supernatural themes, but a lot of the ones I've read about or seen come off really goofy or just to convoluted as if it was pulled out of a wet dream or fanfiction. (Oh look, I can destroy an entire planet with an energy ball. I have the power to go to the underworld with the swipe of a sword.)<br /><br />Which animes have you seen and which ones are your favorites? I can assume One Piece is one of them since you said you like it. From the ones I've seen, I like One Piece and Avatar the last Airbender.<br /><br />Have you ever seen Inuyasha by an chance?<br /><br />Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12462725891370386104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954985364832387420.post-15075374208194168502009-05-27T05:43:42.194-04:002009-05-27T05:43:42.194-04:00No kidding. I hung my head in shame after realizin...No kidding. I hung my head in shame after realizing who I'd been connected to online. I'm not sure what's been worse - being mistaken for a high school student (Or freshman by kids younger than me who happened to tower over me in college), female (Pretty much just by old people or people with glasses who weren't really looking at me), or Bo Bice.Benjamin Fennellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03969365899812684110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954985364832387420.post-68119695605158548282009-05-26T20:59:49.576-04:002009-05-26T20:59:49.576-04:00Haha, Bo Bice!
lindsay || newyorkwords.netHaha, Bo Bice!<br /><br />lindsay || <A HREF="http://www.newyorkwords.net" REL="nofollow">newyorkwords.net</A>Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18143993209515462136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954985364832387420.post-25899284278233878972009-05-25T07:20:35.879-04:002009-05-25T07:20:35.879-04:00It was indeed. The con's always a surreal, amusing...It was indeed. The con's always a surreal, amusing experience, even if I'm only there for a few hours like I was this time. When there with my friends, half of it's just finding places to hang out where we can most effectively observe and make fun of people.<br /><br />Yeah, for most people, I imagine they could be fairly nightmarish. It didn't feel AS crowded as in the past this year though, largely due to being in a much bigger space - there was actually room to walk and breathe, and they even had a little comic library room run by the local public library where people could get away from the constant noise to someplace quiet. A definite good addition. When set in hotels in the past, I'd often spend at least a few hours of the con hanging out with friends in their room, just to get away from the craziness on the first floor. But yeah, at least with scientific conferences are much more academic. At anime cons, you've got a bunch of - frequently hyperactive - people (Mostly teenagers) dressed up in costumes who're obsessed with Japanese animation, comics, and video games. There's a lot to be made fun of in that, obviously, but if one is interested in any of these things, there's still fun to be had. And the cultural panels tend to draw a more interesting crowd than the typical over the top pop culture panels.<br /><br />When doing the shibori panel, a rock group who'd come from Japan and performed a concert the previous night was in the next room over, and people kept cheering loudly, drowning out my mother's attempts to explain the art. That got grating fast.Benjamin Fennellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03969365899812684110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7954985364832387420.post-24928253659324695722009-05-24T07:55:08.478-04:002009-05-24T07:55:08.478-04:00SOunds like an interesting weekend to me!
I have ...SOunds like an interesting weekend to me!<br /><br />I have trouble imagining what these big conventions must be like... from what I've read online they actually sound rather nightmarish due to the insane amount of (often insane) people! But on the other hand they sound like they could be an entertaining experience... The only thing I've remotely been to along those lines would be scientific conferences with multiple sessions running in parallel (which always leave me frustrated 'cause there are invariably several talks I want to listen to going on in different rooms...) but event though they can be chaotic they don't seen as crazy as the Cons...CrazyCrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17512240982215608638noreply@blogger.com