I had been waiting for this, and I’m kind of surprised there wasn’t an announcement on the Otakon home page, but Otakon has now released a tentative list of panels for their 2008 convention:
One notable panel not listed in the list is an ADV industry panel. At Anime Expo, they said they hoped to be able to announce some things, including their new industry partner and possibly some new licenses at Otakon. Well, that’s hard to do if you don’t even have a panel. Of course, as I said, this is a tentative list, so they might be added later, but the lack of a panel listed right off the bat can’t be a great sign.
Other industry panels I’ll try to hit include the Bandai panel, the Bandai Surprise! panel (since, apparently, there will be a surprise there), the Funimation Announcements panel, the Kadokawa USA panel, since they may announce some of the production and distribution details from their Anime Expo announcements, and the Media Blasters Announcements panel. The Fansubbing and the State of the Industry panels are on my secondary list.
As for fan panels, I didn’t go to many last year, since not many really appealed to me and this year looks even less favorable. I also see that there is no podcasting panel this year. That is one I wanted to hit last year, but couldn’t since the light rail stopped running before that panel ended.
As for guest panels, the JAM Project and Kano Sisters panels look interesting at first blush.
And of course, I may not get to all of these because of scheduling conflicts, while I may end up going to some I haven’t listed since they may be the only interesting thing going on at any given time.
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It’s dead, Jim.
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