No, the schedule isn’t out for the 2007 convention, but I was looking at the 2006 schedule (pdf) just to get a feel for what the schedule of the convention was like.
I knew that there would be a lot of stuff going at once, but I didn’t realize that 15 to 20 things were going on at once from 9am to past Midnight. I was thinking about maybe taking the train from Aberdeen (where my hotel is) to Penn Station in Baltimore then taking the lite rail from there to the convention center. It would probably cost about the same as gas for driving and parking would be.
However, while the trains start early enough to get in on time, the last train for Aberdeen typically leaves Penn Station around 9:15pm, so I’d probably want to hop on the lite rail somewhere around 8:30, depending on how the schedule works out. That means I’d basically have to skip the last 4+ hours of stuff on Friday and Saturday.
Also, I kind of had to laugh or whatever at the fact that, at least last year, they showed the first 5 episodes of DNA2 on Friday afternoon (11:30 - 2:00). Given the fact that I run about the only “active” DNA2 fan site (though I neglect it more than I should, not that there is exactly a lot of new stuff to put on it), I would have pumped that up for all it was worth if I had known about it. It’s probably too much to ask for it to be shown two years in a row, though.
I also kind of have to laugh that they showed Kashimashi. How exactly? I’m pretty sure it wasn’t licensed yet, so did the Japanese company that produced it show it, or do they actually show fansubs at Otakon?
Luckily, the convention looks like it ends early on Sunday (3:00 pm last year), which will work well because that’s around when a web conference I’m going to will start right next door in the Sheraton for work that same day.
Josh’s Anime Blog Podcast Episode #30 is now online! In this podcast, I re-review the anime OVA series Video Girl Ai.
While I’m not attending Anime Expo in Long Beach, it does start 1 week from today, and I’ll be paying attention to what things get licensed and the like there.
Now that we’re just one month from Otakon, the announcements of guests and other things are picking up. A few more guest announcements came in this week:
After watching Kanon and enjoying pretty much all 3 Kyoto Animation series that I’ve either finished or are in progress of watching, I thought I’d add a fellow Key visual novel-based series produced by Kyoto Animation to the list of what I want to see.
June 19, 2007
June 19, 2007
