Kumoricon 2006 Exhibitors Hall / Main Events Console / LAN / Live 1 / Karaoke Panel 1 Panel 2 Panel 3 Workshop 1 RPG Room Video Art Show Fan Creation Station - 2 - Pocket Programming Guide Kumoricon 2006 Pocket Programming Guide Table of Contents Policies Change and Reference 4 Convention Programming Hours 6 Tickets, Guests, and Exhibitors 7 Video, Panel, and Event Schedules 8 Con Tips 19 Art Contest Entrants 20 Survival Guide 23 - 3 - Kumoricon 2006 Props and Costume Policy Change We regret to announce that due to last-minute changes, Kumoricon policy must be amended as follows: • Absolutely no metal props will be allowed within Kumoricon convention space. This includes but is not limited to prop swords and stage steel. • No masks or other items which obscure an attendee’s face from view may be worn while in the corridors and common areas of the hotel. • No airsoft guns will be permitted. Plastic toy guns are acceptable, if not designed to fire a projectile. Guns must be obvious fakes at a distance of ten feet. • As always, props cannot be brandished in any way. Only when posing for a still photo may props be held in any manner that could be deemed threatening. The staff of Kumoricon extends our apologies to anyone adversely affected by this policy change. If you have any questions, please ask at the peacebonding desk. These policy changes supersede the policies printed in the main convention book. All other policies in the convention book remain in effect. - 4 - Pocket Programming Guide Policies Please be sure to read the full policies in the main convention book. Details of selected policies are repeated here for your convenience: Content • Panels and events marked “18+ only” require state ID to enter (not just badge check). Minors • Age 12 and under: Must be accompanied by a badge-holding parent or legal guardian at all times. • Age 13 and up: Must have a legal or appointed guardian available at the convention site at all times. Appointed guardians must be age 18 or over and have permission from the minor’s parent or legal guardian. Curfew • Between 12:00 midnight and 4:00 AM, minors age 17 and under must be accompanied by a legal or appointed guardian at all times. • The City of Portland curfew differs slightly and is not enforced by Kumoricon inside the convention space. - 5 - Kumoricon 2006 Convention Programming Kumoricon programming runs from 8:00am to 2:00am on Saturday and Sunday, and 8:00am to 4:00pm on Monday. Saturday open Kumoricon Friday) 7:30-9:30 (also Registration Exhibitors Hall Rooms Gaming and Video Station Fan Creation Show Art RPG Room Karaoke Ceremonies Opening Show & Contest AMV Dance Sunday open Kumoricon Registration Exhibitors Hall Rooms Gaming and Video Station Fan Creation Show Art RPG Room Karaoke Cosplay Show Concert A-Key-Kyo Dance Monday open Kumoricon Registration Exhibitors Hall Rooms Gaming and Video Station Fan Creation Monday) (closed Show Art RPG Room Karaoke Auction Charity Rave & Rant / Ceremonies Closing 8:00am 8:00am 8:00am 9:00am 9:00am 9:00am 10:00am 10:00am 10:00am 11:00am 11:00am 11:00am 12:00pm 12:00pm 12:00pm 1:00pm 1:00pm 1:00pm 2:00pm 2:00pm 2:00pm 3:00pm 3:00pm 3:00pm 4:00pm 4:00pm 4:00pm 5:00pm 5:00pm 5:00pm 6:00pm 6:00pm 6:00pm 7:00pm 7:00pm 7:00pm 8:00pm 8:00pm 8:00pm 9:00pm 9:00pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 10:00pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 11:00pm 11:00pm 12:00am 12:00am 12:00am 1:00am 1:00am 1:00am 2:00am 2:00am 2:00am = open = closed = 18+ only (ID checked) How to read: Blocks in a row marked “8:00am” are the 8:00am to 9:00am hour. - 6 - Pocket Programming Guide For over a decade, Toshi has been a video your ears, tails, paws and don’t forget your Tickets producer for VIZ Media, working at the home office swimming suit. Come down and meet at the hotel The following events require free tickets. in San Francisco and the recording studio in pool Sunday at 3pm for the only sun you’ll need all Pick them up at the info desk: Vancouver, Canada. As of last year, Toshi con! completed the recording of the entire InuYasha TV series for both Cartoon Network's Adult Swim and Anime Madlibs: AMV Contest & Show for home video release. Write an anime fanfic drabble. Leave strategic Cosplay Show blanks for things like “action hero”, “bishie”, In October of 2004, Toshi left his full-time position A-Key-Kyo Concert “romantic gesture”, “fighting stance”, etc.…and at VIZ to continue his career as a contract translator, have others “fill in the blanks” just like old-fashioned writer, and producer-for-hire. This allows him to “Mad Libs”. I giggle just thinking about it! work from home and spend more time with his wife, Guests of Honor Trish Ledoux, and with their son, Hajime. Biography supplied by AnimeCons.com. Kumoricon welcomes our guests of honor Exhibitors to the convention. Please see the Panels Please visit these vendors in our exhibitors convention book for full bios and photos! hall! Dark Horse Comics Michael Gombos is Director of Asian Licensing at Tiffany Grant Dark Horse Comics. An experienced translator and Digital Discs Kirk Thornton interpreter (he is a former radio DJ in Japan), he Sean's Anime & Other Things Brad DeMoss has the main responsibility for Dark Horse’s Datura zoku Greg and Elizabeth Dean acquisition of all new manga and anime-related Borders Express Bakazoku titles, including Japanese artbooks, non-fiction, and novels as well. He is also the translator of the Anime Kingdom Piano Squall English edition of Rei Mikamoto’s series Reiko the Imagination International A-Key-Kyo Zombie Shop. Seams Like Magik Toshifumi Yoshida Carl Gustav Horn has written professionally on Anime Palace anime since 1993 and has been a manga editor for Comic Cellar nine years, including on the first translated series to Yesanime Inc. Last-Minute Additions be published in right-to-left format, Yoshiyuki Anime Pavilion Additions after our main book went to Sadamoto’s Neon Genesis Evangelion. He has Cartoon Passion press: been at Dark Horse Comics since 2004, and is currently editor of the English-language editions of Sun Anime Cosmic Monkey Comics Toshifumi Yoshida, Guest of Honor Kosuke Fujishima’s Oh My Goddess! as well as Eiji Otsuka and Housui Yamazaki’s titles The Kurosagi Uwajimaya Anime producer Toshifumi Yoshida got his start in Corpse Delivery Service and Mail. the anime and manga world during the late '80s as Kinokuniya Bookstore a founding member and staff translator of the gone- Beyond Reality but-not-forgotten smartass anime magazine, Cat Girl Pool Party! Animag--although of course he grew up watching Are you a cat girl or cat boy? Would you like to the stuff as a wee spanker living in Shizuoka, Japan. meet others like you? Water and cats don’t usually mix but we’re here to make an exception. Come to a Kumoricon first—the Cat Girl Pool Party! Bring - 7 - Kumoricon 2006 Saturday morning/afternoon Panels, events, workshops, and open rooms Main Live 1 Karaoke Console LAN Gaming Fanfic Workshop 1 Panel 1 Panel 3 8:00am open open gaming gaming 8:30am 9:00am 9:30am 10:00am Opening Ceremonies 10:30am 11:00am Volunteer Day of Defeat Art Contests: Pocky Club Meeting Rules & Supplies 11:30am coloring contest begins 12:00pm Soul Fanfic Sewing Parent’s Calibur 3 101/102 Basics Guide To 12:30pm Ninja of the Anime Night 1:00pm AMV Kaiju Big open Brainstorming Creative Battel gaming 1:30pm Process Anime Copic Mini Skirt Madlibs Markers Army Meet & 2:00pm Karaoke open Beta Time Workshop #1 Greet auditions gaming 2:30pm Seating 3:00pm AMV Contest Dark Horse Naruto 4 Dolly Making Gothic Lolita An Artist’s Comics Workshop #1 How-To Journey 3:30pm Manga Panel Using Leather In 4:00pm open mic Cosplay So You Want To 4:30pm AMV Show Battlefield 2 Crossplay? Mechanized Propulsion (4:30-6:00) (4:30-6:00) Systems - 8 - Pocket Programming Guide Saturday morning/afternoon Video theater rooms Viewing 1Viewing 2Viewing 3 8:00am AMVs AMVs J-Pop PV 8:15am Magic User’s Club 8:30am Keroro Gunso (Sergeant Frog) 13 Up 8:45am PG 9:00am J-Rock PV 9:15am 9:30am Magic Knight Rayearth 9:45am Yakitate Japan 13 Up 10:00am PG Visual K PV 10:15am 10:30am Girl Magical 10:45am Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: 11:00am Sakura Wars: The Movie The Sealed Card Anime Open / End 11:15am Shounen 13 Up 13 Up PV 11:30am 11:45am 12:00pm Martian Successor Nadesico Concerts 12:15pm Mahoromatic 12+ 12:30pm 13 Up 12:45pm 1:00pm Soul Link 1:15pm 13 Up 1:30pm 1:45pm Sci-fi 2:00pm First Guest DVD / Pick 2:15pm Episode Cluster Edge 2:30pm Theater PG-13 2:45pm 3:00pm Hello Project PV 3:15pm 3:30pm Azumanga Daioh Mythical Detective 3:45pm 13 Up Loki Ragnarok 4:00pm PG-13 Morning Musume 4:15pm PV 4:30pm Princess Princess Mystery School Life Life School 4:45pm PG-13 Tantei Gakuen Q – PG-13 - 9 - Kumoricon 2006 Saturday afternoon/evening Panels, events, workshops, and open rooms Main Live 1 Karaoke Console LAN Gaming Fanfic Workshop 1 Panel 1 Panel 3 5:00pm AMV Show open mic open Battlefield 2 Cross-Over Mechanized (4:30-6:00) gaming (4:30-6:00) Contest Propulsion 5:30pm The Hello Kitty Systems Bakazoku with Tiffany 6:00pm Show! open Ren’ai Grant gaming (Romance 6:30pm Super Smash Gaming) Cat Ears Voice Acting J-Rock Panel Bros.