anime
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This year Otakon celebrated its 20th anniversary and I celebrated my first Otakon! According to Wikipedia, Otakon is “one of the longest-running anime conventions in the United States, and the second largest North American anime convention as of 2012.” That’s a great achievement but what I think is a greater achievement is that (according to
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Click J-Pop singers, Yuimino, for more 2008 NYAF pictures. I geeked out last weekend and took the boys to the 2008 New York Anime Festival at the Javits Center. The challenge of conventions like this is determining the “age appropriateness” of its events. By “age appropriateness,” I don’t mean the form enhancing costumes that some
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I have been rediscovering my love of anime. I was a big fan in the 90’s after college. I went to see Urotsukidoji and Akira at midnight showings at the Angelica in New York City. I bought my first series – Bubblegum Crisis – from a then fledgling anime distributor, Animego in North Carolina. My
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