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The second year of Otakon in Washington, DC was a weekend filled with fun surprises. There were guests of all media from culture with the Shinto Priestess Kanawa Kuniko to Man-at-Arms, cosplayers Serena Dejesus to production with Square Enix Producer Kimura Yasutaka and Studio Trigger President Otsuka Masahiko. Highlighted guests were Conductors Arnie and Eric Roth for the Distant Worlds orchestra with the esteemed composer Uematsu Nobuo and a treat for us all: Cheritz developer, Sujin Ri with the Korean voice actors from the popular, Mystic Messenger mobile game. There was alot to take in, alot to reminiscence, creating a weekend we will not soon forget.

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Day 1: Friday, August 10

dealer’s room chaos

Since it was not even 11am, there was a huge line of ppl waiting to get into the Dealer’s room. The tour of the Dealer’s room by press was taking place so I jumped on to enter the hall. We got to walk around, grab pics and then at 11:48, we were set free. I immediately went to the Cheritz booth to grab their special boxsets for the fanclub.

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inefficient line issues

Otakon’s new autograph line policy is to have a single line where all the fans gather for all the signings. They hoped to trickle the fans into their separate lines for the guests, but it wasn’t a good idea. First, they didn’t know who wanted to get into which line. So there were some lines that were filled with people so they ended up not letting others into the other lines. So some lines became empty. Also, they placed each guest into their own line, even with two or more guests were from the same company or series. Which made no sense since if someone was a fan of the series (Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans), they would want both of the staffers from the series. Instead, they asked them to choose one guest, get them to sign and then go back to the big line. For something like Mystic Messenger, they were expecting fans to go into the line 5 times for the 5 separate guests. Thankfully, by the time we got to Mystic Messenger, they realized the ridiculousness of the plan and had a single giant line for the guests.

signings

Ie got onto the line for Canna Nobutoshi. The signing started a bit late, but it went through very quickly.

I got on the line for Matsukaze Masaya but the wait was very long. When they were letting people sign for Ebikawa Kanetake and Nagai Tatsuyuki, I hopped over to grab their autographs. I told Ebikawa-san that I really thought the Gundam mecha was amazing for Iron Blooded Orphans. I mentioned something similar to Nagai-san, noting that I was a fan of the series.

Then I quickly got Matsukaze-san’s autograph. I told him that Gaelio was a very interesting individual. His motives and feelings for McGillis in the series was very unique and the anime really gave them a lot of time to develop their characters.

For the Mystic Messenger signing, RFA and Special Believer fanclub card members receive a special cardstock with additional printed autographs of the voice actors not at the convention as well as the entire Cheritz staff for the game. Others receive a blank cardstock for the voice actors and creator to sign.

Since we were able to get an additional thing signed, I got the developer and voice actors to sign the shikishi. Kam Sung Meda! I mentioned to the V voice actor that I thought V was such a cool character and he added that V was so sad which is true.

just a bit of shopping

We ended at bit after 4pm so we went around the Dealer’s room. I went off on my own since the others wanted to go to the Cheritz booth. I did my usual round of the dealer’s hall.

The Toei animation booth had a photobooth as they did in AnimeExpo. Next to the Toei animation booth was the DBZ booth with the dragon hanging over us all. I headed back to the hotel after 5:30pm. changed out of my outfit. I took a quick shower and we headed back to the con at 6:30pm for the concert.

Distant Worlds Concert

Press was given seats at the right side front row which is terrible for shooting pics for the Distant Worlds concert, but understandable since it was a classical concert. They allowed us to shoot the first song and the encore. Also, they told us to shoot from the seat, a bit on the floor and then the right side and the back. I stuck to the right side and the floor.

Day 2: Saturday, August 11

early to rise

Started out the day at the Dealer’s room. XD Went to the AnimeNYC booth where they were having a prize wheel. I ended up spinning and won a poster.

Mobile Suit Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans live reading

The live reading was with both the English voice cast Kyle McCarley (Mikazuki,) Johnny Yong Bosch (Orga,) Cherami Leigh (Kudelia) and Robbie Daymond (Gaelio) as well as Matsukaze Masaya, the seiyuu for Gaelio present, reading lines from the anime. The director Nagai and mecha designer Ebikawa was also present. They first play the clip in English and then the voice actors will do their live reading of it. When it is Gaelio’s clip, Robbie goes first. Then they will show the Japanese clip and Matsukaze-san will go up. This kind of stage reading happens alot in Japanese stage shows for anime and dramas. However, as some of the voice actors mentioned, some of them was their first engaging in character with other voice actors. Some of them was their first time doing this kind of live reading.

I was 15 min. late to the live reading, but it was awesome since they highlighted some of the most emotional and touching moments between Mikazuki and Orga. All the bromance is there and makes me smile and cry.

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Mikazuki kisses Kudelia, Cherami and Kyle didn’t have the first part of the script in their playbooks. So they ended up adlibbing. We got a few gems.

Kudelia: What’s that in your hand? Mikazuki: A raisin. Kudelia: Oh, that’s weird…. Mikazuki: You’re right, I wonder why. Kudelia: You should really throw that into space. Mikazuki: It’s definitely a strange. Kudelia: *singing* Let it gooooo….

Then…we went to script. My favorite moments had to be the choice moments between Orga and Mikazuki. Moments like when Orga loses heart and Mikazuki had to get Orga to move on in season 1, or the moments in season two when Mikazuki loses mobility on one side…Orga speaks to him in bed with Mikazuki challenging him still. Hearing those lines live make me love the English dub more and more. It’s just so powerful. The voice actors really brought out their emotions. And it’s rare since voice actors record in a vacuum, away from other voice actors. To be able to play off of each other’s voices, has to be an awesome experience for the actors themselves as well as it is a rare treat to hear it live.

Unfortunately for Matsukaze-san, he couldn’t live read with anyone else though it’s very common for seiyuu to record together if the scenes call for it. Yet, Matsukaze-san’s Gaelio can still gave me shivers from how real it feels from just his voice. Especially his last scene where he monologues about his relationship with McGillis, filled with respect, sorrow and anger. To hear his voice live is also something I’m glad to experience. https://www.liheliso.org/2018/11/15/otakon-2018-a-con-in-review/[4/27/2019 6:01:34 PM] Otakon 2018 – a con in review – The Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society Miscellanea and Ephemeron

Uematsu Nobuo panel

After the panel, I headed over to the Uematsu panel which was already seated. Thankfully, I found a seat in the first row to the left middle. Yoshida Toshifumi was the interpreter and he is amazing. Knowing both English and Japanese perfectly, he was able to capture the nuances of Uematsu’s responses.

Mobile Suit Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans panel

The Gundam Iron Blooded Orphanspanel was held right after the Uematsu Nobuo panel. The voice actors Johnny Yong Bosch (Orga), Kyle McCarley (Mikazuki), Robbie Daymond (Gaelio) and Matsukaze Masaya (Gaelio) were present along with the director Nagai Tatsuyuki and mecha designer, Ebikawa Kanetake.

Mystic Messenger press panel

After the Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans panel, I headed over to the Marriot Marquis for the press meeting for Mystic Messenger at 5pm. Arriving prior to the start of the panel was necessary though there was a little

delay from the guests.

card games FTW

We went to the BL card games night. Turns out, there are different games at each table, possibly over 20 games since the room was very large. Each game had a creative spin on BL. For example, our first game was that each person gets 6 cards and we can make our own BL title. I got a mess of pronouns and couldn’t make any words. With help from friends, I won the first round, “I in Your”. looooool

The next game we tried was trying to think up titles, characters, etc based off of a letter AND has to be within a timer. That was soooo hard. Our first letter was ‘I’ and I had to think up so much stuff. Iason for a seme was my greatest achievement. ^_^

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The last game we started to play a BL mangaka karuta game. We placed all the cards on the floor and someone read out the mangaka’s name and we had to match it with the manga cover. It was tons of fun and we quickly learned that I mostly knows the BL series from the early 2000’s. ^^; It was so much fun… even though I basically mixed up a few series with their mangaka.

Day 3: Sunday, August 12

last day

A New World concert

Otakon had one not one, but two premiere concerts. Conducted by Eric Roth, the son of Arnie Roth, A New World presents new chamber ensemble arrangements to the familiar melodies of Final Fantasy. Ensemble groups are more intimate, smaller yet the music they create is no less powerful to the ears and heart. They opened with the strong beats and tones with Decisive Battle.

Roth: Thank you, everyone! Welcome you beautiful people! Welcome to the A New World, intimate music from Final Fantasy!

Roth introduced Uematsu Nobuo-san in the audience as well as Square Enix and Dog Ear Records and finally, his father, Arnie Roth, the director and conductor of the Distant Worlds orchestra. To start off the concert properly, they played the first measures of the Victory Fanfare theme. Before bringing us back to the first of the games, Final Fantasy with Town. The gentle strings really bring us back to that place so long ago.

Fight with Seymour was only played with the string quartet which is a beautiful and complicated arrangement with overlaping melodies.

Their special version of the Chocobo Theme is fun and playful, and even cuter with each instrument taking up the melody. Roth polled the audience for fans of frequent attendees of A New World concert, Distant World concerts (raise hands), video game concerts or cons (raises hand again). “Thank you for your contribution to science.” Everyone laughed as he commented that FFXV may be not as well known. Safe Haven is a beautiful piece which brings out the wind instruments. A gentle piece of music in the darkening story of Noctis.

Fragments of Memories was played by the string quartet but special mention goes to Rebel Army theme from Final Fantasy II. It is not played very often in concerts, but is a wonderful arrangements with march themes which highlights the trumpets and drums as well as other wind instruments during the quieter moments.

Roth closes the concert with One Winged Angel which is powerful with the different pieces of the music shining through without the usual chorus. As the cheers didn’t end, Roth came on again to grace us with their version of the Chocobo Medley. I love the playful piano part which got everyone clapping along. There were so many surprises during this particular piece that got the fans to snap their fingers and laugh as Roth himself took the role of the chocobo on the mic. A reluctant yet fitting end to the concert. There was no end to the applause.

Final Fantasy VI: Decisive Battle Final Fantasy series: Victory Theme Final Fantasy I: Town Final Fantasy V: Home, Sweet Home Final Fantasy X: Fight with Seymour Final Fantasy V: A New World Final Fantasy series: Moogle Theme Medley Final Fantasy XV: Safe Haven Final Fantasy VIII: Force Your Way Final Fantasy I: Chaos Shrine Final Fantasy IV: The Red Wings Final Fantasy VIII: Fragments of Memories Final Fantasy IX: Danger in the Forest Final Fantasy IV: Troia Final Fantasy II: Rebel Army Theme Final Fantasy X: To Zanarkand Final Fantasy VII: One Winged Angel

Encore: Final Fantasy Series: Chocobo Medley

a bit of shooting

After the concert, I grabbed some photos of cosplayers to close out the convention.

a con in review

Otakon has always been good to press so I’m very grateful to their organization and privileges. For it’s second year in DC, it has slowly grown. Many people who didn’t want to try out Otakon in DC last year, attended this year’s con. with a 5,000 people growth. The convention center and halls were occupied, but it didn’t feel crowded. There was steady movement, even during the bag check lines in the morning. Thursday prereg was empty and Friday prereg stretched down the block but I heard the wait (in the sun) https://www.liheliso.org/2018/11/15/otakon-2018-a-con-in-review/[4/27/2019 6:01:34 PM] Otakon 2018 – a con in review – The Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society Miscellanea and Ephemeron

was nothing to really complain about. Receiving badges through mail is a viable option which many people took advantage of. This year, Otakon tried out it’s ‘trial memberships’ with single day Saturday and Sunday badges. Though I haven’t heard much information about the transition of trial badges to full day badges, I felt that the option was very helpful since I know of many who are only able to attend the con over the weekend. The bag check was efficient and the barcodes in the back of the badge was mainly used during concert events.

My biggest complaint was changing the autographs. Last year, a group line was needed prior to the hall opening so that attendees can stand in a group line and filter into their respective lines. However, after the hall opened, the attendees can go directly into their lines. There was no waiting in an initial line. It was either, come back later or the line was closed. The initial line this year became a hindrance. It kept people from seeing the guest they wanted to see although the guest line was supposedly empty. Also, the separation of guests into each ‘table’ was not efficient since many people want to see the entire group if they are interested in the series/company. Although the Otakon staff changed back to grouping the guests a few hours later after implementation, it still gave attendees undue stress. This was not a first year con. It was not the first year autographs are held. To change the policy and separate guests was very odd. I’m glad that the Otakon staff are always thinking about how to make autographs more efficient, but I hope they realize that there are better ways to utilize the group line and do away with separating the guests.

I was surprised with the absence of a few major players in the Exhibit hall, mainly Viz, Pony Canyon, Kodansha, Vertical and Crunchyroll. The Dealer’s room felt more spread out without them. It was understandable since I heard many of them were preparing for the Crunchyroll Expo which is coming up quickly, but their lack of presence was felt. However, that didn’t mean there weren’t a ton of guests and representation at the con. Viz still held their K premiere of the second Seven Stories movie and they will continue to do so at many conventions as each movie makes it’s release in Japan. Lacking a few players doesn’t mean for a slow con. By how busy the plethora of panels and events were, Otakon continues to grow once again. Next year, Otakon returns to July with dates from 7/26/19-7/28/19. Let’s start planning!

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Since Distant Worlds started in 2007, I’ve been to all their concerts in the New York area. And every concert has been a wonderful experience of music, animation and story. A celebration with fans of music and game. But for Otakon to host the concert was a rare treat for attendees. And it was even rarer for me to be able to take photos to memorialize the evening after only savoring with my eyes and ears for so long.

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The concert started as usual with the tuning of the wind instruments and finally the strings. The audience was quiet as Conductor Arnie Roth and legendary composer, Uematsu Nobuo came on stage. Uematsu-san sat in the audience as usual, a few rows from the front. (Always a surprise for fans to be able to sit near the legend.) The concert opened with the prelude to Final Fantasy VIII, Liberi Fatali, a powerful yet nostalgic piece for many. It was followed by the Victory Theme as Roth mentioned during talks that no Final Fantasy concert can really start without it.

Roth: Welcome to Distant Worlds, Otakon! Thank you for having us! Not sure everyone knows but this is another premiere. This is our first actual performance at a convention. My congratulations to Otakon for pulling it off!

Roth mentioned the 30th anniversary of the Final Fantasy game franchise as well as the 10th anniversary of the Distant Worlds concert series. Roth introduced Uematsu-san in the audience along with Square Enix and Dog Ear Records.

As with every concert, Roth spoke a bit about the music after every two pieces. And accompanied with the melodies were clips from the games. The tempo of the pieces matched the action which shows how powerful the conductor is for bringing it all together.

Roth inquired about the Final Fantasy XIV fans in the audience before diving into the music composed by Soken Masayoshi-san. A soprano solo accompanied the piece, HEAVENSWARD which was light and beautiful.

What made everyone laugh was the age old question, “How many versions of the Chocobo Theme do you think there are? There might be a thousand, there might be ten thousand?” *audience laughs* Then they played the arrangement from the 25th Anniversary, Chocobo Medley accompanied with the clip of chocobos from all the games, starting with 8-bit chocobo running across the screen.

One of my favorite pieces and definite a favorite of the orchestra is To Zanarkand, as Roth mentioned it’s a piece that must be played at every concert. The beautiful piece with gentle melodies is paired with one of the most beautiful FMVs from the games, Final Fantasyi X.

The credits are played to the Final Fantasy Series Main Theme, but the concert is not truly over…yet. The encore is one that is highly anticipated as Uematsu-san is takes the stage…and joins the choir for the ever popular, One Winged Angel. Prior to the start though, Roth taught the audience how to sing the three notes. Could be out of tune for some people, but for most, we could sing it out without any trouble.

One of these days, I hope to see Uematsu-san take the stage and the conductor baton as he has done so in the past. But for now, seeing him sing so happily in the choir makes me smile. Music creates a bond that words cannot touch at times and these concerts always bring us all to another world.

Set list Final Fantasy VIII: Liberi Fatali Final Fantasy Victory Theme Final Fantasy VI: Character Theme Medley Final Fantasy VII: Cosmo Canyon Final Fantasy XIV: HEAVENSWARD Final Fantasy IX: Not Alone Final Fantasy IV: Theme of Love Final Fantasy XV: Apocalypsis Noctis Final Fantasy series: Chocobo Medley 2012 Final Fantasy VII: Bombing Mission Final Fantasy X: To Zanarkand Final Fantasy series: Battle and Victory Theme Medley Final Fantasy Series Main Theme

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Before Uematsu came out the staff instructed the audience to sing out the Victory fanfare when Uematsu comes out. We really tried, but it was so scattered since we didn’t get the cue. Either way, the energy, love and joy at being able to hear from Uematsu was felt from the fans.

First Yoshida-san polled the audience for those at the concert the night before and fans of the music.

Uematsu: I was very moved by everyone’s reaction watching the concert with you guys in the audience. And I like to express my thanks to Otakon for bringing us out here. This was such a fantastic experience I’d love to repeat over and over.

The floor opened for questions.

Q: I’m curious out of all the Final Fantasy soundtracks you’ve done which one are you the most proud of? Yoshida: Did you just ask him which kid does he like best? Fan: I’m sorry! Uematsu: So as my translator said you did asked me which one of my children I do I like best. But going through all the years, I mean every single work I’ve ever composed I’ve been very satisfied with. But in terms of its growth as a game and the music that accompanied it. I think it reached a sorta plateau at one point and if I had to say where that was I think it would be around Final Fantasy 6 or 7.

Q: First off I would like to thank you so much for writing music that has inspired so many of us, you brought so many great feeling in lives. For inspiring writers like myself to become composer ourselves. My question is throughout your course as a composer I’ve notice your music has definitely evolved over time from Final Fantasy 1 all the way through you know like Blue Dragon and some of your later works. What do you feel has https://www.liheliso.org/2018/11/15/otakon-2018-uematsu-nobuo-panel/[4/27/2019 6:02:19 PM] Otakon 2018 – Uematsu Nobuo panel – The Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society Miscellanea and Ephemeron

inspired you most in your evolution as a composer? Uematsu: What would that be…. Well I mean getting inspiration from other forms of music rock, jazz, classical and everything else I wonder what it is that gives me inspiration. I don’t think you can ask any composer asking them where their inspiration for creativity comes from. The most important thing is when you decide to compose a piece of music you do it, you follow through. It might be a strict way; a rather harsh way of putting it. But if you have to ask a composer how do you compose that person will never be able to compose. I think composers myself included, we have music running through our heads 24/7. So instead of being stuck at trying to find a piece for the scene you’re trying to compose for. You’re more looking for all the music in your head what parts from which part of that song in your head do you pull to apply to the scene you’re composing. So I think is important is to get the ability to figure out what it is that you need for what you’re trying to do. Whether it’s listening to other music rock, jazz, classical; whatnot and you know apply that. I think before you can create music you need to understand music. Like having a conversation you can’t converse in a language you don’t know. So if you learn the language of rock, jazz, classical you can use that in your conversations. I think that’s saying something really deep and profound here.

Q: I’m honored to be able to meet you right now. I got my first playstation way back when I was a kid and the first game I owned was Final Fantasy 7. And immediately I was touched, I’m a forever fan of your work so just thank you so much. My question would be you created so many pieces, and you have done so many character games. The various characters as well as Final Fantasy series. Are there any particular character themes that you created, I’m so nervous. I’ll start my question over. For all the character themes that you’ve done are there any which to this day you’ve feel the strongest connection to in terms of the character themselves. Uematsu: What it comes down to it’s really hard to remember all the character themes that I’ve done. I’m sure there are really good ones that I don’t remember. But one of the themes that keep being told as their favorite is Aeris Theme from Final Fantasy 7. And you know I do like that theme so I guess it really fit that character.

Q: I’m also very honored to be facing you right now as everyone else. He actually took

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my question so I’m going to ask another question. Out of all the composing that you’ve done all the work you’ve done throughout the years and the hardships that you’ve faced the trials, upside. What keeps you going? What motivates you to keep composing? Uematsu: I wonder what that is. So whether it be composing music or for a novelist writing a book or artist drawing an illustration. You find what you’re feeling at the moment and you express it, to music, to art, through words. And it creates a moment where other people who see it, read it, hear it say hey I feel the same way. And it gives you that moment of connection with the audience. And that moment you have connection with another individual, about what you’ve created what you’re feeling. I love that feeling. I think it’s the moment where everyone in the world can be one.

Q: So Final Fantasy 10 is my favorite Final Fantasy of all time. And I was wondering like if you see the video game first and then comes the music, or you write the music first and then the video game gets made. Uematsu: So I think there’s both cases. Lot of the times I’ll get the designs and stories and I compose to what kind of music fits the artwork that I watched. And another times I provide pieces of music what I think will go with the theme of the game. And the artists will create something that matches the music I provide.

Q: Which one do you prefer? Uematsu: I love just getting the story laid out in front of me and just composing, as I’m reading what goes on in the story.

Q: First off I just l want thank you profusely for composing the music to Final Fantasy 8. Those are songs that still give me strength and courage today. My question for you is in the process of composing for a game or project. Have you ever created a melody that you realized was not a good fit that project and you might have like tucked away for later. And then maybe it resurfaced in another game. Uematsu: I wouldn’t say that never happens, but it rarely happens. So when I’m instructed to create 20 pieces of music for a game, I’ll compose 2 to 3 times the amount they ask for. So of the 40 to 60 I’ve created I find the 20 that best fit what they ask me to do. So in essence I do have 20 to 40 songs sealed away in my PC. So but me I create the songs for the moment and for the project so I rarely look back on anything that I’ve created before that I might have saved. I don’t like looking back. I mean there might be a piece of music that I came up with that I really like that I might tuck away for future use. But normally no.

Q: So my question is actually I’m going to Tokyo in November and I was wondering what are some places you would recommend going to. Uematsu: A lot of ramen, and a lot of curry. I’ve never had bad ramen. Can you get curry here? I’m talking Japanese style not the Indian curry. Do you like curry rice? I hear a lot of Americans tell me yeah I love ramen. I’m thinking okay their ramen craze is here, the curry craze has gotta come soon. https://www.liheliso.org/2018/11/15/otakon-2018-uematsu-nobuo-panel/[4/27/2019 6:02:19 PM] Otakon 2018 – Uematsu Nobuo panel – The Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society Miscellanea and Ephemeron

Yoshida: New York has Gogo Curry and LA has a lot of curry houses. Its a good thing. You really recommend someone going to Japan to have ramen and curry. Uematsu: Well you already know tempura and sushi. I mean when it comes to tempura its not like we eat that kinda stuff everyday. I swear I have a bowl of ramen once a day. Maybe we should move onto the next question.

Q: So we all heard earlier this year that you’re working with Square Enix on the Final Fantasy 7 remake. Much to I am sure most of our relief. I would like to ask if there was any of the other Final Fantasies that you worked on, that would be remade. What do you think would be the most fun and interesting to go back and remaster for it? Uematsu: So I’m not really fond of remakes and remasters. But if we’re going to start from scratch I’d love to do the first one again. So this isn’t obviously anything in the plans anything, but when I look back on it all of us got together to create the first game. We were barely good enough to call ourselves professional. Who were professional amateur at the time, and to have all of us come back together to redo the art, redo the music. To see how we’ve grown and to see what we can create now would be very interesting to see how it turns out. But like I said its just a pipe dream.

Q: My question is with the first Final Fantasies , it’s more of a traditional fantasy setting. But like going with 6, 7 was like going for a steam-punk future setting. What were some of the challenges you were looking forward to but also what was it like going to this setting with your music style? Uematsu: So first of all when the world view and world setting changes you can’t help but change the music along with the world. As the artwork becomes more and more realistic and the animation quality goes up, it starts becoming more like composing for a movie. And I think that’s the general direction a lot game are going these days. So I’m not saying composing game music like movie music is not a bad thing or anything. I think maybe composing music for video games needs to evolve as well.

Q: I recently learned that you’re actually or were a fan of Emerson, Lake & Palmer. And which at the same time surprised me but also made sense had a lot the same, similar style motif. I was wondering is there anything currently or like even back then like artist wise or even like prog rock that like inspired your writing and everything in composition. Uematsu: So when I first heard Emerson as an artist. When in the times on the radio you hear Carpenters and Simon Garfunkel’s whose always singing about peace. And to hear their technically , if not violent song it was a big shock to my system. I think could say 99% of the composers working in my generation and I’m 59 right now. Were influenced and affected by Emerson, Lake & Palmer “Tarkus” album. So can’t say, I like progressive rock but I can’t really say I’ve listened to whole lot recent ones and my age group I listened a lot of Genesis, a lot of Pink Floyd, Yes. So I think those were all influential.

Q: So my question is not actually about Final Fantasy but the other games you composed for. Was there anyone that in particular stood out to you that you enjoyed or what do you need? Uematsu: Fantasy Life, it may not very well known here. If I were to be asked to you know pinpoint out key works that I’ve ever worked on. Final Fantasy obviously, but Fantasy Life I will have to include as one of them because it’s another side of me. Totally different from anything I created for Final Fantasy so I would have and was very me when I created it. So it would definitely be one of ones I would point out.

Q: One of my favorite games you worked on is The Last Story, and I was wondering if you have any memories from when you were working on that. Uematsu: So in that game the producer Sakaguchi Hironobu from Final Fantasy, he asked me to write music for his game. So I wrote the main theme, the theme for the town, and the battle music. Then I got an email right back from him saying you got it completely wrong. And I remember getting this mail it was long and it said told me everything that was wrong i about what I handed him in detail. To the point where I was moved by the amount of input that he gave me for the music I provided. When it comes down to it I can’t help but feel happy that someone is so passionate of it.

Passionate about what their creating that they would write such an intricate detailed complaining email about what I had handed to him. I was actually moved. But when I comes down to it whether it’s a movie director or game director they see in their heads what the completed picture is going to be. So being able to be told right at the starting game what it is they’re looking for and what it is your original direction was; was wrong that’s very helpful really.

Q: Can you envision a day when you would have to retire and walk away? I’m sure everybody in this room hopes the answer is no. I will say this if you get old and you can’t move around and need a wheelchair I push my girlfriend around in a wheelchair. And I would be more than happy to push that wheelchair. I offer my services for free. Uematsu: I’m going to reserved that wheelchair right now. You when it comes down to it composers never retire I’m going to be composing ’til the day I not hearing. It’s not really even work so how can you retire if you’re not really doing work. Although I will say there might come a day where I start taking work; stop composing that I make money on. Would I become a truly old man I’ll just be the old man that composes music.

Q: Before you compose your music, what do you do? Uematsu: So I don’t prepare anything. I like composing in the morning, I get up I go to my synthesizer and my PC and start working. So you might not believe me when I say I don’t prepare. But when I first get up, when I’m not completely awake when your brain’s not functioning, fully awake. You don’t get clutter with oh what sounds should I make next, or if I should do this what am i going to have for lunch. None of that happens when your brain still gotta wake and you just start working. I’m not saying details comes out but bare bones the entire composition will come out of me before I stop.

Q: How and when did you decide on what to do with your life? When did you decide this is what I’m going to do? And do you have any advice for those of us trying to answer that question? Uematsu: So maybe when I sorta started wondering if I could do music as my career I was 15 or so in high school. So I mean I love music, I played around with house piano in the house, and guitars, but no formal training. But I did know that I wanted to do something in music industry. And at that point it’s like I would love to be a composer but I wouldn’t have hated being a Tower Records employee. I mean there’s plenty of people whose in a career will tell you if you work your dreams will come true. I don’t think real life is that simple. Working hard doesn’t 100% guarantee the results you’re looking for. But if you don’t try you won’t ever reach your dream. Its hard to really give advice but if there’s something that you love that you want to do give it your all try, cause if you don’t try you won’t know. So giving your 100%, given everything can to it to achieve your goal. And you achieve it fantastic. But if you don’t and you know gave everything you could give to it. That’s going to leave a big hole in your cheast, it’s going to hurt. But that in itself is going to be one of your treasures. So I feel that in ones youth you should try to collect as many scars as you can the deeper the better. And save it for your youth.

Q: My understanding, and I hope I’m correct Final Fantasy 9 was intended to be a call back in a lot of ways to the early entries in the series. Did that have any impact on how you approached it when you went to compose? Uematsu: You’re absolutely right. I mean 7 and 8 was, I changed the way I composed the music. But 9, I sorta went back to the roots of Final Fantasy series.

Q: My question is what is the hardest part of composing? Uematsu: Following your deadlines. I mean if there was no deadline to worry about there ain’t nothing better in life than composing music.

Q: What music takes you back to your childhood? Uematsu: I mean I love the music of Elton John. I remember listening to him all the time. Heck I listen to him right now. Yoshida: What part of Elton John? What song in particular? Which song? Uematsu: Levon, Tiny dancer.

Q: If you could have your one wish granted to compose with any individual, or group you know past, present if not future. Who would it be? Uematsu: Nobody. So I mean in my younger days I might have said I would love to work with my upper classmate my sempai to create something. But at my age I want to complete my musical world before I have to leave it.

Q: Since I’ve been to Japan and have seen the culture and the history of it. What is your favorite place to visit during either where you grew up or when working? Uematsu: Since I’ve lived in Tokyo all my life, I love going to Mount Fuji because its close. But if I had more time, more free I’d love to more of Kyoto. Next time please check it out.

Q: From all of your work which specific soundtrack would you have play in the background of your life. And why? Or which one do you listen to the most? Uematsu: Chocobo Theme. I haven’t really thought about it, but if I have to think about it, it might be something sad. I have a feeling that I try to lighthearted and very approachable but thats only achieve by kinda pulling myself back and sorta sealing myself off. And that’s how I’ve lived my life, so if there was music depicting it, it would have to be. I think part of me is thinking I always believed that you have to work hard. But I’m wondering now did I really have to. Yes but because with that realization, it might have been sad music ’til now. But starting tomorrow it will be the Chocobo.

Q: We’ve talked about your favorite so far, favorite this favorite that. Which one was out of all the games was your problem child? Uematsu: A lot of problem children in mind. Truth be told I kind of forget what I finish. Because I’m always working going onto the next project. I’m sure there were problematic pieces that I wasn’t 100% happy with, but I move on. I don’t like looking back, I keep moving forward.

Q: You made many beautiful pieces for Final Fantasy 14, including my favorite “Twilight over Thanalan”. How does it feel to be on the team that made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for most original soundtracks for a video game that won’t be defeated anytime soon? Uematsu: I didn’t know anything about no Guinness Book of World Records. I’m really sorry I have no idea what you’re talking about. Yoshida: What do you think right now? How do you feel? Uematsu: It’s an honor. Its great being honored with an award and everything. But you just can’t be stuck on an award someone gives you. I think I’ve won a couple of awards but I really don’t think about it. I try not to get too excited or happy about any awards I win.

At the end of the panel, Uematsu-san conducted us and we were able to have a more cohesive choir of the Victory theme. Still out of tune…but at least we were mostly together.

~ Transcriptions by Pearl A. Thank you! ~

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The concert opened up with May’n singing Chase the World to the screams of the fans. The upbeat tempo started the crowd dancing. May’n had her own crew of backup dancers along with the band. She greeted the fans in English. “Are you ready to make some noise? Come on, Los Angeles!” *fans cheer* It was awesome to see May’n feed off the energy of the fans. “There are so many people! I have alwys wanted to meet you guys. Tonight, let’s make a big memory. Let me hear your voice!”

Northern Cross was a softer number while You and Belief got us all dancing again. Diamond Crevasse is now a classic in our hearts and the cheers erupted when the opening of the song was heard.

“This song is my precious song, because this song changed my life. I was able to meet everyone around the world. We may have different languages and countries, but music makes us one.”

Alas, we didn’t want to see May’n go, but Sayuri came on stage and started with Heikousen. She wore her iconic flowly blue patterned dress with her acoustic guitar. She was accompanied by a keyboardist, yet the melody is all her own. The large screens show the lyrics which shifted to the music. The simple sounds belies the strength and deepness of her voice. Sore wa Chiisana, the ending to Erased was met with alot of applause as was the start of Tsuki to Hanataba. But my favorite was Furaregai Girl, the song written by RADWIMPS’ Noda-san. The song was simple yet allowed Sayuri to express herself the best.

She only spoke in Japanese, but the fans cheered loudly as she quietly thanked us all for listening.

“You guys understand Japanese? That’s so awesome! This was my first time singing in America. I would like to come again so please enjoy life and have fun! Let’s meet again! Thank you so much for today.”

The next singer was a favorite, Aimer whom I followed since her debut Rokutousei no Yoru, the ending in No.6. Unfortunately, she didn’t sing that, but she opened with the ending song to Gundam Unicorn, StarRingChild, followed by Brave Shine. The scenes for Fate/Stay Night was shown on the screens, accentuating the beauty of the song with the beauty of the fight scenes and the quiet moments. Her voice captured our senses. Ref:rain was a soft interlude in between the songs for Fate which are powerful and strong. A contrast to the deep alto melodies.

“I’m very honored to sing in front of all you amazing people. Moments like this make me grateful and I hope I can live with you through music. I’ll definitely come back again. Arigatou gozaimashita! I would like to dedicate my last song to you!”

The moment we were all waiting for, the artist and legendary composer, Yuki Kajiura stepped on stage on the keyboard, accompanied by three famed singers from FictionJunction, KAORI (Oda Kaori), Joelle and Kaida Yuriko. It was amazing to hear them live. The original singers for the sounndtracks…it was an amazing experience. They opened with the iconic ‘the beginning of the end’ followed by Lancer and Assassin. Their voices drew us in and created a world that you can get lost in. Their overlapping voices and melodies are powerful. Truly, I could listen to them for the entire concert. Yuki Kajiura greeted the fans in really good English, not a surprise with the amount of English in her lyrics.

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“Hello, welcome to Anisong World Matsuri! Are you having fun? Great, I am sure that you are enjoying the beautiful song of three divas.”

The awesomeness didn’t end there. After Luminous Sword, Aimer came back out to join Yuki Kajiura for the hauntingly beautiful, ‘Hana no Uta’. It was sad for the concert to end as the singers came on stage for their final bows. I was hoping for another encore, but alas, the lights came on and the dream ended.

May’n Chase the World (Accel World OP) One In A Billion (Restaurant to Another World OP) Northern Cross (Macross Frontier) You (The Ancient Magus’ Bride OP) Belief (Taboo Tattoo OP) Diamond Crevasse (Macross Frontier)

Sayuri Heikousen (Scum’s Wish ED) Sore wa Chiisana Hikari no youna (Erased ED) Tsuki to Hanataba (Fate/Extra: Last Encore ED) Furaregai Girl Mikazuki (Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace ED)

Aimer StarRingChild (Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn ED) Brave Shine (Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works OP) Ref:rain (Koi Wa Ameagari no You ni ED) broKen NIGHT (Fate/Hollow Ataraxia OP) LAST STARDUST (Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works)

Yuki Kajiura the beginning of the end (Fate/Zero) Lancer and Assassin (Fate/Stay Night) Longing (Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale) Key of the Twilight (.hack/SIGN) Yasashii Yoake (.hack/SIGN) Luminous Sword (Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale)

Aimer and Yuki Kajiura Hana No Uta (Fate/Stay Night)

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Q: For gamers, can you tell us how you got started in the business? Soojin Kang: If you want to work as a VA in Korean, you have to go through a test that is conducted by a broadcasting company. So after you pass the test, you become an official voice actor for the company for a set number of years. And once you’re done with that contract you become a freelancer. So everyone here has passed that same exact test in different years and the reasons why they became voice actors should all kind of vary. So he majored in broadcasting in college and he also was educated in acting and dreamt about becoming a voice actor. Young Sun Kim: So his actually major in college was electrical engineering but he was part of a club that was about acting. So he after acting, he was doing a lot of theatre work and whatnot. And he really liked it but the money was well yeah. So voice acting has a lot of similarities with acting, so ultimately he became a voice actor. Sujin Ri: So she was studying computer engineering in Chicago. And she also had a career in it. But while she was doing it she realized that there was a demand for otome games but not a supply of it. And also she realized even a lot of the otome games, the producers were male. So even if it was geared towards women technically it was kind of like just the main characters were swapped just gender wised . It was kind of the same. So she thought to really fulfill the needs of the female gamers definitely. So definitely there should a producer that fulfills that role. So that’s why she started working this business. Ho San Yi: So his original major was information but there was a program request and they needed a narrator. So he ended up taking the narrator role, and the reaction was very positive. And everybody around him encouraged him to become a voice actor. So after researching he found that the 2 voice actors over there Kang Soojin and Kim Young Sun that he, they are the top of their field, and he wanted to be like them. So along with a voice actor Kyuhyuk Shim they studied together to become a voice actor. So right now I’m very honored to be here. Kyuhyuk Shim: So when I was young , I had a lot of interest in theatre and the movies. So instead of appearing he wanted to be part of roles where he wasn’t appearing. So he wanted to do more supported roles. He actually wanted to be a script writer. So fortunately in college there was a programming where they needed a narrators, and that’s where he started getting interest in becoming a voice actor. So through that experience he found that he had a talent in voice acting and so he took the exam and passed. And here he is now. Just like a director he likes being more in the backgroundish, so he really likes this role.

Q: Could you tell us about what you feel the role of same gender relationships in otome games is? And specifically about your position to include one in Mystic Messenger. Sujin Ri: So in relaying the message in the game. She thinks that you have to think about what is currently being portrayed and what the current situations are. Like why is popular currently, and so in making a game. In like making an otome game that she definitely thought a lot about gender roles. She understands that it is a very sensitive issue and when she’s making the game she has 2 set rules that she follows. One is to be fair when portraying all the characters, and two don’t leave the ethical boundaries that has been set. So currently she’s saying there’s a target that she has set for the game and of course because a lot of people are asking about it that target is still what she’s focusing on but it might change.

Q: I wanted to ask did you expect this game to be so popular in the United States and did you expect the kind of reaction in general at Otakon this weekend? Sujin Ri: So usually before this we released Mystic Messenger, we usually made games for computer like PC games. So when we first made it we didn’t expect to have this much of an audience. We expected kind of a similar size in audience as our games on PC market. So it was surprising. So we released the game on July of 2016 and by the time of September there were like so many fans. And we did not expect that popularity so it was just very busy, hectic kind of time during that period. (Her exact wording was like hell) So speaking about tumblr, we were mention we ranked #1 in the game category of the fandometrics. I think that was the thing. And also we didn’t expect this much popularity so there were some issues with the servers we had some data loss and everything. And

trying to figure that out during that period very hellish. And also we didn’t expect to that, so more so I’m like more than half of it’s gone, it’s almost gone. And I kind of feel like we underestimated and kind of feel thankful and very kid of sorry about it at the same time because of that. Soojin Kang: There were probably other Korean games that were released in the States before Mystic Messenger. It’s almost limited that games that would be localized into different languages would actually come out of Korea. It’s very rare that there would be Korean games that would be localized to other languages. And have Korean voice I think that’s the thing that was very impressive. Because usually when you localize it there would English voice dubbed over it but it’s actually just straight up use the Korean voice acting. Even with just the Korean voicing with English subtitles, he didn’t think that it would be this popular, their voices would be this loved. So during our panel he felt so loved by all the fans that came out and he wants to take the time here to thank everyone again. Young Sun Kim: So he said this at the panel earlier, but one day he had a rave of foreigners who were starting to follow him on Twitter and YouTube. From different countries including the Middle Eastern countries, the South Americas. And he was so surprised, he was like what did I do? And when he found out he said it was about Mystic Messenger, and it was making a hit. The things he’s experiencing right now he’s like, he thinks to himself, am I going to be able to feel something like this again in the future. And he’s very happy. Ho San Yi: So for some Korean voice actors, to come out to an event like this, it’s probably a first for Korean. And I’m also very thankful to be with my fellow colleagues. So the I’m older I’ll look back really fondly on these memories. Kyuhyuk Shim: So most of the time Korean voice actors do dubbing for English movies or English speaking movies. So now that we have people enjoying hearing Korean while reading English titles it’s just very fulfilling to me. And I hope this is just not a one time occurrence and that will continue in the future.

Q: Have the current anti-feminist movement in gaming in South Korea affected studio Cheritz at all? Sujin Ri: So currently in Korea the “MeToo” movement has been very active and also in a sense it feels like the anti-feminist sentiment has been the least in a long while or maybe possibly forever. So we feel like we’ve been more supported by people rather than being rejected or resented.

Q: How do you develop each characters’ voice? What do you do to get the mindset of that character? Young Sun Kim: So for his character a lot of the conversations, or a lot of the recording had to do with phone calls he was making with the game. So there’s a lot of recording studios and rooms but because he was recording by himself a lot of the rooms were smaller. It’s a lot bigger than a public telephone booth. So when he’s in smaller booth like that the moment he stands in front of the mic it kind of takes him back to being in front of a public telephone booth. Or being at home trying to call his girl. So for him it wasn’t very difficult to get into his character.

Soojin Kang: His character is a type of character who has multiple personalities. So his character could be divided into three different personalities and somehow a little miraculously he felt he kind of had all three of them in him. So the weak and narrow-minded Ray was very similar to him when he was a child. So for the second character who was more of a chic city boy Saeran, he was probably at a stage when he was trying to overcome that complex that he had. So the third Unknown was kind of like a devil character, and when he was into acting, he’s still into acting but when he was thinking about the roles he always wanted to portray like a bad guy, sociopath kind of character. So he’s always been practicing for this role, so when he got a chance. Even though acting all three of the voices wasn’t easy, it was doable. So he’s a voice over for Sherlocks’ Moriarty in the BBC series, so he thought they were very similar. Ho San Yi: So at first didn’t understand the character. So his character V had a quite different personality from him, so it took a while for him to understand the character. So while he was acting he felt that hisself and the character were fighting so he had to really work hard to overcome it. So there was a scene where he burst into tears because he imagined that his current wife was leaving him so and that really help him get into that role. So after having that emotional breakthrough he began to understand the character. So he wants to thank his wife for helping him understand Vs’ character and also that he loves her. *in character* I love you my honey. Kyukhuk Shim: So as a voice actor when you get your role, you look at the character, you look at the way they talk, and the kind of tempo and you kind of adjust yourself according to that. So usually the director kind of looks for right personality in choosing the voice actor. So for his character Yoosung he’s very soft, he’s kind, he likes to listen to others and he plays more of a supportive role which resonated very well with other voice actor. Though one difference is that Yoosung tends to very honest about his emotions, as for him he says he likes to respect other people so he sometimes hides his true emotions or kind of suppresses them. So for the traits that he had in common you know it’s just very easy to draw out, but for the parts of Yoosung that were different from him, he looked to other people or other characters for reference. So for the character Yoosung he looked at for reference he looked at his own younger sister and also actresses who played the roles of younger sisters. In terms of how to speak like them, and how to act like them. So through acting as Yoosung he was able to also learn you know as a person himself, that he felt that he also developed. And he’s very happy that he was able to learn from this character as well.

Q: So I’d love to ask about the new game Cheritz has been developing. Let me specified, I think it should be pronounced The SSUM. Can you tell us a bit how in what ways you’re going in a different direction from Mystic Messenger. Especially with the art style and of course can we expect a US release. Sujin Ri: So a lot of feedback we received regarding Mystic Messenger, was asking about when will they receive the next story for it. So she thought about what if we made something that doesn’t run out storywise. So currently the goal of the project for us is the writing team for the game in our company will be writing scenario for one days worth of scenario each day. So compare to Mystic Messenger we decided to make it into something more light and also has like this joy of living the everyday life. And it’s kind of application that’s somewhere in between a game and a service. So because we’re trying to make one days worth of scenario everyday it’s kind of hard to use the style, art style of Mystic Messenger cause it takes more time. So the method we implemented right now is we hired a model that can work as a it’s model we can base our art on. And we’ll just render it in a way and just kind of add some additional facial art and really make it . So it’s quicker to really generate the art for it. So it’s a little bit difference in art style, because we’re not starting from scratch, we’re making art. So currently we wish people can really enjoy like the more complex and deeper story of Mystic Messenger. And also enjoy the more simple like lighter kind of everyday life style of the SSUM in the future when we release it. So and our eternal goal is to release the global service version of the SSUM by in this year, within this year. Ho San Yi: As voice actors I hope you would cast us. Interpreter: She can’t say no here. No comment I guess. Yeah she also said no comment.

Q: Do you think there is a major difference between a game for girls developed by a female producer, and a game for girls developed by a male producer? Sujin Ri: So she definitely feels like there’s a difference in the games depending on the person. So the games produce by male producers she feels like it seems; there’s seems to emphasis on the

importance of the results of the game. But as a female producer, she thinks it’s like important to talk about like the whys and getting the answers of it. And as a result she tends to she’s be like the process of getting to the results is more important than just the result. And a lot of the games produce by male producers she feels like they put emphasis on how quick you can be or how competitive you can be in a sense. And she feels like the female producers tend to care more about the relationships and just having more comfortable experience playing the game.

Q: When you were talking about when you guys were trying to develop your voice for each of your characters. How much information does the voice actors get? Is it just a profile, or do they actually know, get information about what happens later on in the story. Because there is a lot of backstory that really does affect the characters. So how information do they get? Sujin Ri: So first of all, the key visuals and maybe possibly something very important to the illustrations that’s finished. And if it’s not we try to provide at least a rough draft of the illustration first to the voice actors. So for the case of Mystic Messenger, it’s not that they acted out every part of it. So there are a lot of parts that they don’t act out so we kind of give them a summarized memo of what happens in between this session and this scenario that they record. So when we first started the session, we spent some time trying to figure out what kind of vocal tone fits the character at the moment. Soojin Kang: So from the aspect of acting the visuals are very important as well. So the storyline is also very important, but he believes that for the users to get into the game the voice and the image of the character has to be a good match. So before the recording and after they receive the visuals, they carefully reexamine and examine the art. And so all the characters in the game have a very unique personality. So for his character personally he looked at the past history of the character as well, to build the voice and how to show that character. Young Sun Kim: So in his case he actually during the recording session he would talk a lot with the producer. And ask a lot of questions about like I think this character would do this or does this character do this. And get answers from the producers to develop the character for him. Ho San Yi: So from the perspective of acting, you have to know the goal; the end goal of the role. So for this project, it’s not just the basicles, he wanted, he did not know about the ultimate goal when he started. So as he was recording and the recording was coming to completion, he was realizing more things about the character. And was like “Ah” I just came to; I realized something about this character and that made him very happy. So in this scenario in the world of alpha and omegas, he realized the character was more like an omega. Interpreter: And then he went home happy. Kyuhyuk Shim: For acting I guess everyone has a different way in how they approach acting. So for him personally, like for the character the lifestyle or the life was somewhat similar. So for in his case, he likes to know like the most optimal amount of information. Instead of knowing everything and

that’s how he personally likes to approach these kind of scenes. Just as if you live pragmatically things come to place. Oh when he concentrated on the scenes one by one it just all came together.

Q: This is for the voice actors. You’ve all voiced characters from popular anime. How do you compare that to voice acting for an otome game. Soojin Kang: So there’s a lot of animations out there, various animations including female oriented anime. So for him when he was thinking about it, he thought about like school life, melodramatic shows and just looking at those helped him figure out how to approach the voice acting. So there shouldn’t really be a distinction or a like line dividing game and anime. It should really be focused on what type of project it is and how to approach that. Young Sum Kim: So as a man; as a guy he didn’t really know what women wanted. After getting married, after lots of fights. After all the fighting he kind of started to notice just a little what women wanted, just a little. So he took that just a little part and put that into his acting. Soojin Kang: And he agrees as well. Women is difficult. Ho San Yi: Sorry, I agree with him. So he also agrees in that for anime you shouldn’t really differentiate by genre, although there is a difference in scale. So for Mystic Messenger he focuses more on skill and more on seriousness. So like he said earlier he just felt happy about realizing the whole situation was a alpha omega. Kyuhyuk Shim: So right now he is recording for My Hero Academia, Midoriya and also Kageyama from Haikyuu!! And in those series they’re always about competing, fighting, and winning something in the end. But in the case of Mystic Messenger the true goal is that the player is the main character and your goal is to make them feel happy. Although they’re different goals what made him happy was like the dating aspect.

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Homura Yasobe is an owner of several successful clubs as well as heir to a yakuza faction. It just so happens that his lover of four years, Touji Karasuma is also heir to a rival group. In legal and illegal transactions, Yasobe and Karasuma are enemies. However, behind close doors, Homura and Touji meet secretly. It will not bode well for either of them if anyone finds out that the potential heirs to the rival yakuza are in bed with each other. Homura moves out to avoid such issues…at least that was what he hoped for until one of his hosts discovers Touji….

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TITLE: FIERCE: The History of Leopard Print BY: Jo Weldon PUBLISHED BY: Harper Design, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPubishers ISBN: 978-0-06-269295-5 Review copy provided by author

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This book is dedicated to “the BIG Cats, the people they INSPIRE, and the people who work to preserve their lives and HABITATS.” But it’s intended for all you wild things out there who love to wear leopard print. It’s a historic study of the vivid, spotted fur of a beautiful beast whose strength and independent nature inspired women, who are usually the downtrodden, powerless members of society, to be strong and fearless too.

Being a livelong lover of leopard print myself, I have worn it in every way possible. My favorite loafers and sneakers are leopard print; so is a well-worn pair of high heels, along with one of my mock turtleneck tops, a short-sleeved blouse and a pair of stretch pants. Of course I have a leopard print nightgown, and a sleepshirt, as well as pajamas. I also have a leopard print bra, for which I have yet to find matching undies. I laugh to scorn the conventional notion that women over fifty shouldn’t wear leopard print. I’ve worn it more often since I turned fifty. I use it as an accessory, to set off my favorite clothes. I don’t think I’d have the nerve to wear head to toe leopard print, though certain celebrities, from Peg Bundy of “Married With Children” to Pat Benatar, who regularly performed in a leotard or catsuit, are not shy about doing so.

Jo Weldon, whom I have had the pleasure of meeting, both at her book signing at the Coney Island Museum and at her burlesque show afterwards, can best be described as a woman of a certain age who doesn’t look her age. She is a dynamic redhead who strips beautifully, teaches at the New York School of Burlesque, and is an advocate of women’s rights. She is also a lover of all things leopard from childhood, starting with her obsession with Eartha Kitt as Catwoman on the beloved Batman TV show of the 60’s. The Caped Crusader had a hard time handling this sex kitten; he always defeated her by the end of the episode, but she made him work for it. Even though she always wore a black leather catsuit, her hideout was always lavishly decorated in leopard print. My favorite Catwoman was always Julie Newmar, but I have to agree with Jo Weldon, who wrote in her introduction, “Who wouldn’t rather live in Catwoman’s world, a place where everyone wore brightly colored, gorgeous clothing?” Next to her, the other villains on “Batman” looked drab. (With the exception of Liberace, who played Chandell, aka Fingers the criminal pianist, but I digress…)

Ms. Weldon’s book takes us through the history of leopard print, from ancient times when it was worn by priestesses and Amazon woman warriors to the Industrial Revolution, when it became possible to replicate leopard print on fabric, thereby making it available to every woman who could afford it. From Hollywood in its infancy, when every starlet who wanted to stand out would wear fur or pose with a predatory animal on a leash for publicity photos, up to the present, where leopards and other big cats have been hunted almost to the point of extinction, making faux fur both fashionable and politically correct. Some of my favorite actresses have worn leopard print, including Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft, Barbara Streisand, and Phyllis

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Diller, who made tacky look fun. All of these fabulous ladies and more, as well as a few fabulous men, appear on the pages of “Fierce” wearing leopard print dresses, coats, bikinis, capes, and so on. Even Jackie Kennedy in her famous leopard skin pillbox hat (immortalized by Bob Dylan’s song) briefly wore a leopard skin coat, thereby making it respectable for the American housewife to do so.

The pictures alone are worth your time, as you browse through this book discovering fun facts about leopards and the popularity of their spotted coats, along with other big cat species like jaguar, cheetah, ocelot, and so on. But nothing beats a great leopard print, worn by a woman who’s not afraid to be noticed, and be labeled rebellious, dangerous, outspoken, outrageous, and everything else a nice woman isn’t supposed to be. Or, in one word, fierce!

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Bosch: I’m Johnny, I’m the voice of Orga. I have been doing this for many years now, Got started off as a power ranger and I transitioned into voice over. Vash was my first anime, then Bleach and Code Geass and plenty of other things.

McCarley: Hi, everybody! I’m Kyle. I’m the voice for Mikazuki. I’ve been doing this for a few years now. This show in particular is special to me since it’s my first lead role in an anime series. Gundam Wing was my jam when I was a kid so I was pretty stoked about doing this show.

Daymond: I’m Robbie Daymond and strangely enough, I started out as a power ranger as well. I was nine years old in my underwear. I’ve been doing voice over work for about 10 years. I started dubbing anime in 2014 as Tuxedo Mask in Sailor Moon and I’ve been doing great shows ever since including this one.

Matsukaze: *English* Nice to meet you. My name is Masaya Matsukaze. *Japanese* I’m Mega Ranger and I’m saving the Earth! I’m really happy to be here today.

Ebikawa: I’m actually the mecha designer on the series. My name is Kanetaka Ebikawa. Pleased to meet you.

Nagai: Nice to meet you. My name is Tatsuyuki Nagai, the overseeing director for the series. Again, nice to see you all.

Q: Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans was a new collaboration between you and writer Mari Okada for whom you worked on for titles like Ano Hana and Anthem of the the Heart. Both which were very different from the Gundam series. How did your collaboration on Iron Blooded Orphans compare to working on those different projects? Nagai: So until now, on the titles that we’ve previously collaborated on, it’s always been kind of a shared project. We equally worked on all the parts, kind of split everything half and half. But in this one I think we each kind of took the lead a little bit more on different aspects of the series. For example I worked more on the battle scenes and the sci-fi aspects of the series. While she handled personal scenes which is of course the everyday ordinary life part of the story.

Q: Can you explain how the mecha design process works and do you incorporate specifications from the plot or characters when you create the specific design. Ebikawa: So of course yes absolutely, even from the early preproduction meetings. When I first meet with the director in this case director Nagai to my left I act like. So the mecha that you want me to design what kind of characters pilot these mechas. For example you know if the character’s a very strong character I want to reflect that in the design a little so I’ll create a powerful looking mobile suit. I always think that the mecha should reflect the personality and the status of a character so that’s those are the things I really focus on.

Q: Like Barbatos, Mika goes through so many physical changes in season two but his loyalty to Orga is unwavering. Do you think he actually changes as a character over the series or do you see him as more steadfast and unchanging? Kyle: I think Mika definitely has an arc to him. He experiences a lot of growth throughout the series. Even though he seems to always have that stoic, almost ruthlessness to him from the very beginning of the story all the way through to the end. You can actually see at least in his interactions with the people closest to him a softening throughout the series. And you can see him kind of explore more of his emotional side as he grows.

Q: Orgas’ decisions guide the fate of Tekkadan throughout the series and many of his ideas like becoming the king of Mars are really so wild and desperate. How do you personally feel about Orgas’ decisions and burdens during season two? Did you agree with or understand his position? Johnny: I don’t know I think with most decisions anyone makes, you know it’s that first gut feeling and you kind of go for that. But then eventually you can get tunnel vision and not see really the things that are going on around you. But you’re so determined to reach that end goal and then you start to realize it when it’s too late. You know or think bad things are starting to happen. So I think, my feeling was just that, yeah that just that like he was just going on, continuing to go on this gut feeling. And then he’s seeing things falling apart around him and then it takes you know the rest of the group to kind of help bring it all back together. So they’re on that same path together, for him to https://www.liheliso.org/2018/11/15/otakon-2018-mobile-suit-gundam-iron-blooded-orphans-panel/[4/27/2019 6:03:35 PM] Otakon 2018 – Mobile Suit Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans panel – The Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society Miscellanea and Ephemeron

realize it to you know. If that makes sense.

Q: I guess on that one to did you, when you guys were you know also recording this did you have like any personal feelings about his decision too? Like as playing the characters and being in that situation. Kyle: I think that’s one aspect of Mika that didn’t ever change he was never going to be the decision maker. He was always Orga what do you want me to do, I will do that period that’s it. So which is really not fair to Orga I hate to say. Hey you’re responsible for what I do, but even there was that scene that we did in the live dubbing thing earlier. That we kind of touched on where Orga’s like feeling responsible for Mika. And he was like what are you talking about, no I’m… it’s my fault that I didn’t do what you asked of me. It’s not your fault that you were asking too much or something. And I feel like that’s an aspect of Mikas’ character that was consistent from the very beginning of the show all the way through the end. Johnny: Orga’s like the football coach, You know he’s got a game plan and he’s got to do this to get the touchdown but it doesn’t always work out you know. And you’re the quarterback.

Q: Gundam is a long and historic franchise. What do you think are the essential elements that are needed to make a show truly feel like a Gundam series? And how do you consider those when you’re directing?

Nagai: So I think that the most essential parts of Gundam, what are the essential elements. That you have a youth, a young man who’s the main protagonist and he rides or pilots a cool mecha and wages war. But not only does he pilot a cool mecha but of course he’s in his teens. And so therefore he has a big heart that evolves or matures over the course of the series. Except that of course Mika, his heart never changes.

Q: Which mechas were the most interesting to sign, to design? Ebikawa: Actually when I first found out that I was going be working on Iron Blooded Orphans, my request was actually that for once I want to actually work on designing the antagonist, the enemy like mecha. In particular I think I fell in love with the Graze-Frame. So another thing that’s unique to IBO, I want to say is that there are close combat scenes between the mobile suits and the other mechas. So you know, because there are many scenes with close combat what becomes important are the weapons especially blades, that kind of close combat type weapon so if you have a chance to rewatch the series I’d love if you can also pay particular attention to all the weapons that the different mecha wield.

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favorite it’s the mobile suit that McGillis pilots which is the Grimgerde. It would have to be that one.

Q: Going down the rest of them now, does anybody else have a particular Gundam design that was your very favorite like offhand if you had to say one? Matsukaze: Kimaris Vidar Robbie: Same, the Kimaris for me. I’ve never built a Gundam, I didn’t know what it was at all. And I’ve got all of my Gundam that I could get my hands on and built them. And when you do the panel lining with the pen or whatever I really like that because the Kimaris had all that white on it and the detail on the lining was so cool. So it was a great design and it was fun to built too. Kyle: Yeah I have to say Barbatos. I’m the same actually, I never built any Gunpla and I have a collection now Barbatai. Although it’s kind of a tossup after seeing season two because Bael is pretty baller, pun intended. Johnny: Well I was really hoping that Orga would bust out on mecha at some point, and he’ll be dirty and ugly. And maybe go down in battle, but it didn’t happen.

Q: When did you find out McGillis’ betrayal of Gaelio and how did you react? Matsukaze: In Japan we do a weekly reporting according; as the series goes on. You see that the script for next week, at the previous week showing; recording and that was when I found out. Robbie: We also recorded in order, and I hadn’t, they would not clue me into the plot. I feel like sometimes the show’s really well written and that tricked me. I thought these guys were homies until the end. And I was hurt a little bit, when i got to see my robot in pieces. But I thought it was a very

great turn that in essence fuels the second season.

Q: How would you describe Mika and Orga’s relationship? Kyle: I feel like we started to touch on this on the last question that we answered. I think there, it’s definitely a familial bond but it’s not something you can really put a specific label on. It’s not like they’re brothers but it’s also not like Orga’s the father figure, somewhere in-between those two I think. Because they share a bond as equals but at the same time it’s like you’re the boss tell me what to do and I’m going to it period. Yeah that’s how I would describe it. Johnny: Yes. Very close , they’re very close. They’re like I don’t know parts of a body, the right hand and the left hand, you know they need each other to work together or whatever. But yeah It’s you know it’s almost, it’s in-between there, cause it’s like brotherly but not quite. And it transforms a little bit too, you know, but I don’t know, they kind of need each other to be whole I think.

Q: And then Kudelia’s relationship Mika seems pretty complex, how would you describe their relationship? Kyle: I don’t know if I even know how to answer, what they’re relationship really is, because it’s it’s it is really complicated. And it’s something you never really get at understanding of where Mika’s thought process is with her. Even the first time that they SPOILER kiss in the middle of season one, I hope you’ve seen that. That like, it comes out of no where and it’s when he offers cause she gets all flustered and when he offers the explanation it’s just like you’re cute, so I thought I’d do it, sorry if you didn’t like it. But it’s not really that apologetic about it, and it’s like does he actually have romantic feelings for her and at the end of it all it’s that whole will they won’t they between him and Kudelia and him and Atra. And we know where that ends up I think. We’ve all seen the show, but so yeah I’d say it’s a really difficult relationship to understand, to explain and to understand even as an actor.

Q: In your own words we did, Robbie you explained it a little bit earlier but how would you describe Gaelios relationship or feelings towards McGillis? Matsukaze: Oh yeah totally so many things that I had to deal with during the series. And now that it’s done and I’m looking back. I feel mostly, how does a military man as a friend and as a man. I think that’s how to best express my feelings. Robbie: I think I heard pride in there a little bit more than once. Yeah they were close as you could be with two people. They work together, they were almost family, he was suppose to marry I believe it’s the younger sister at some point. They were sort of had a arranged relationship, they were best friends, they grew up together. He was so, well we talked about betrayal, he was so hurt by the betrayal, and I don’t think he gets over it. And a lot of times one of those anime tropes where like you’re just not quite as good as this person you’ve looked up to right. And they’re always like I’m going to be better, but rarely do they ever get better. Like let’s be real, like y’all just never going to do it. But not always sometimes in a well written shorter anime, you get a full arc, where the character gets their arc, and not to spoiler season two but things happen. And so I think it hurts so bad because he thinks of him as a friend, he thinks of him as a brother, he thinks of him as a coworker. And then he is betrayed and to the worst kind of betrayal because it is. He’s a realization that they value themselves more than you know. And I think that’s the worst kind of betrayal that you can have in any kind of relationship. And have it become so clear to the point where I’m willing to fully kill you just to satisfy my needs that’s the worst kind of betrayal. So I think he deals with those feelings all through season two. Which I hope you guys buy and watch.

Q: This, many Gundams do not have happy endings, but the ending of Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans season two stands out as first class particularly dark with a lot of death. Was this the ending that was envisioned from the very beginning? And then there’s some follow up. Nagai: So well to be honest to be very frank, yes when I first was thinking of the story my initial kind of idea was that everyone, everyone would die in the end. But you know over time I was like well maybe everyone doesn’t quite have to die. Not quite everyone and so I firstly then of course sifted to the story to have the characters who did not die live very fulfilling lives. Ebikawa: Actually I don’t know if I can really add anything to this question because I’m kind of in the same boat as a lot of the voice actors are, where I just find out what the next plot line is as the script is prepared. So I’m kind of on a weekly basis so I wouldn’t be able to tell you how earlier, how late this was determined. Although I did hear from director Nagai that at the very beginning that he was envisioning that everyone’s going to die.

Q: So with that decision being made, what were the emotions that you hope the audience left with at the end of it all? Nagai: Well you know I myself kind of struggled with how, how was I feeling writing the story as the story unfolded onto paper. And I kind of, you know I wasn’t sure you know like I said I first envisioned all the characters dying and then all of a sudden they weren’t going to die so I kind of want each of you to take what you want and what you feel is you felt to be your opinion and not necessarily impose what I felt. Because I can’t really say myself what I wanted to feel out of this story so just take out of it what you will.

They opened the floor for audience questions.

Q: Do you find that Mika’s usually one of the easiest roles to do? Like performance wise. Because there’s not a lot of vocal strain you have to do with it. Kyle: I suppose physically yeah, probably one of the easier ones, because you’re right it doesn’t get super loud or screaming most of the time, it’s all kind of contained. But emotionally he’s actually a little trickier than some other characters because of the fact that he is feeling something underneath that stoic resolve and it’s, it could be really tricky to try and capture that without showing too much of it or too little . If that makes sense.

Q: I’m just curious about why you decided to use a medieval demonology X Ars Goetia to name the various Gundams for this story? Nagai: Well the simple answer would be cause those names are cool. But I mean the other part of that is that you know many recent Gundam series there’s a kind of set number of mobile suits that we have to put into the series and therefore we have to come up with names for all them and so it becomes really difficult to keep coming up with original names and you know in this case I figure I need 72 mobile suits that come up with. So it’s easy kind of pick up that tome and to pick things out of it.

Q: So in season two we through some mini character arcs for the members of Tekkadan, and there’s a flashback between Eugene and Shino, where Shino finally like comes to realize Eugene has an attraction to him. And it’s really ineffective how he reacts to it. But to have arcs like this, was it an unanimous decision or was there some kind of pushback for this? Nagai: So I originally came up with the arc, for that particular arc but in the end it is a group decision, so we would discuss it in the production meeting and or course we made sure that everyone was on board with it before we proceeded.

Q: Were there any alterations that you made to your characters to kind of make them your own when dubbing? Johnny: Well I actually, when I saw some of the stuff with Orga his range is deeper, than my natural range and so I had find way to add that kind of characteristic to my voice without making it sound to fake or whatever. And this is a bad idea I wouldn’t recommend for anyone, but when I would drive to work I would shout all the street signs. So that I come into it and whenever I would speak then it sounds like I’ve been through wars, or been tired or exhausted. So I wanted to have that kind of in my voice, like you maybe hear it. I wanted at least for you to be able to feel that when I speak. I can’t really get that range unless I wake up early in the morning, and that’s the first thing I do. But there wasn’t an opportunity for that to be the first thing for me. Kyle: Seriously!!? Johnny: Bad idea though. Kyle: It’s a terrible idea. But that’s cool. I…I… come back to me. Robbie: We have a unique job because we have the framework of the Japanese and picture in front of us. And one of our main jobs is to stay true to that, but we also have to infuse it with our own acting and make it howable and easier for an English speaking audience to take it in. To be able to truly watch it, and it’s different than a sub you know what I mean. And they each merits but we have a wonderful framework to work on, but then we have to give it out own. Our own interpretation of it and that’s our main job. Kyle: I actually, cause we were recording this series both seasons kind of trailing just a few episodes behind as they were as the Japanese subtitles were being released on Hulu, Crunchyroll, wherever.

And I was watching everything just before what we were recording, so I was kind of seeing it all, the whole develop as we were recording. Which is not something you always have the opportunity to do, when you’re recording a show like this. But I think that helps to try, hopefully stay true to what that Japanese framework was.

Q: In the show the Gundams are depicted as much more brutal and frankly terrifying, than in other Gundam series before since. So what did you do as a director, to kind of infuse that into the show? To make someone you know feel scared of the Gundam almost, as you watch. Nagai: So actually as an example one first weapons that I tried to envisioned visually was the mace and you know with an actual mace too it’s a direct impact and direct pain. The pain sensation and I was kind of thinking in my head how can I depict that visually in an animated form. And so I think the way it was to focus especially on weapons and the direct kind of sensations that one would feel, obviously the mecha don’t feel but what would the audience like feel on themselves watching it.

Q: I personally have almost all the suits to be very signature and unique. My favorite being the cheetah. When designing the suits themselves did you take any inspiration from armor or real life any body armor from ancient past or anything like that or very weapons for that matter. Ebikawa: So sure I mean the mobile suits are essentially armor, they’re just larger than life armor for the pilots. So I definitely draw inspiration from actually armor pieces, whether it’s ancient armor, art

armor, body armor, like you said I try to keep on top of the latest innovations in body armor, and try to incorporate some of those. But in terms of Iron Blooded Orphans in particular, I guess I did draw more inspiration from the armor.

Q: One of most distinct aspects Iron Blooded Orphans is the lack of vision weaponry and much more focus on physical weapons; swords and things of that nature. And what I was curious about was at what point in the planing process did that decision happen and how did that in form the show going forward. Nagai: So actually the decision I made from quite early on, almost the very beginning. And the reason why is I felt there are too many series that focus on beam weapons and not only that but with each subsequent series the beam weapons are getting more and more powerful. And it’s kind of like “Oh come on!!” I mean the sky can’t be the limit, so I was like why don’t we take a break from the beam weapons and focus on more physical weapons. And then you know the next series can maybe go back to that. But truth be told, personally I do prefer beam weapons.

Q: My question is though even like in the show, physically and storyline wise you know Orga was older than Mikazuki, but Mikazuki seem like he had a deeper voice in himself, older sound. I was wondering like why does Mikazuki sound older than Orga even though he’s clearly like older than him. Kyle: Really, thats’s interesting, I don’t know if I heard anybody express that opinion before. I don’t know, there is least one moment I can think of where Mika, there’s a little bit of role reversal where

Mika has to come and kind of snap Orga out of that thunk in season one. But no I think Orga is the mature one of the two of them for the most part. Johnny: I tried to make that pretty clear. Maybe one day I’ll walk in like this and it’s ah Mika come on. Sorry Orga. Actually I audition for Mika, my first thing was I was sent I think both for Mika and Orga. And listening to both of them, I was like Mika is definitely the one that is more, easier for me as far as my range and didn’t want to like do anything to the voice. I’ll just do the Mika one, and then next thing I know they’re like, they never received it or something and they’re like you didn’t send the audition in. So I scrambled and I had the Orga one, I was like oh I’ll just do this one. And then ended up getting that one.

Q: In an interview with Mari Okeda, she said you worked on the show for years before she was brought on. What decisions about the show had you already made during that period. And was there anything she changed your mind about, once she was brought on? Nagai: I’ve to say probably the most obvious change or evolution from before Mari Okeda was part of the project and after she joined the team was you know I was just kind of going for the very battle focus; war focus story she brought the whole idea of family and bonds into the story. So I think that was her biggest contribution was the friendships between and the relationships between the two characters.

Q: Watching Iron Blooded Orphans one thing I really liked was Galelios voice acting especially when he’s very prideful, very honorable like always on top. Do you feel his personality in Iron Blooded Orphans mirrors his person or is that something in the show?

Do you feel Gaelio’s personality is a make of you or do you think Gaelio’s just some character you’ve voice acting? Matsukaze: Obviously I’m not a military man, or a little rich boy. I’m just a common person, commoner. But in working all my roles I have to expand the commonality that I might have to the character diminish the differences I have.

Q: As a director and story teller what is it do you usually find creatively fulfilling out of working on projects. And where did you find that in this show? Or did something else about it like speak to you in that way? Nagai: Well of course it’s my job, I mean it’s what I do for a living. But in addition I mean I think it makes me feel that something was really worth it, or was most fulfilling to me. Is to watch these characters that I came up with, who are all like my children live out their lives or act out their lives on screen exactly the way I initially imagined them in my head. And so it’s always, it’s what keeps me going day after day and probably the better part.

Q: How do feel the story could have changed if McGillis had actually trusted more in his companions like Gaelio and Carta and actually brought them onto his quest against the corrupted government. I was just wondering how the story could have changed if McGillis had been more trusting and involving in his friends instead of being frank? Robbie: Well if you think he’s antithesis to Tekkadan, then I would say that it would be antithetical for McGillis to trust anyone. But if we’re in hypothesis land, I would say it would be tough I think the difference between McGillis and Gali Gali, Gali has a moral compass I think, it might be a little buried but he has ideals and morals. And I don’t think McGillis has any, he is after one goal. Even if McGillis asked him I don’t think he would have joined him. But could they, oh man they’d just decimated. Yeah I don’t think they would have stood a chance. I think the only thing that could have went up against McGillis was Tekkadan. Matsukaze: Definitely would have managed the Gjallarhorn much better.

Q: I was wondering what was your inspiration for the character of Iok? Nagi: So actually when I first came up with the concept for him, he was supposed to a be a little bit more intelligent. But you know it was the brilliant acting ability of the Japanese voice actor Shimazaki- san who kept the, making the character kind of more more over the top and so initially I had for the character kind of ended up evolving along with them. He’s my kouhai by the way, he started after me.

The host mentioned that with all the death and political situations at the end of the series, what are the messages they wanted the fans to walk away with at the end of the series.

Johnny: War is ugly. Don’t do it if you can avoid it. Kyle: I would say don’t lose hope. Robbie: Rise up, fight the power. https://www.liheliso.org/2018/11/15/otakon-2018-mobile-suit-gundam-iron-blooded-orphans-panel/[4/27/2019 6:03:35 PM] Otakon 2018 – Mobile Suit Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans panel – The Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society Miscellanea and Ephemeron

Matsukaze: You know there are so many things, the most important thing is life is precious, and even if you’re risking your life, you have to protect your life and then therefore. People who are living in peace here, you really have to take care of the people Ebikawa: You know Gundam series are most well known forgiving cool mecha. For Iron Blooded Orphans in particular it’s not just that full mecha, it’s the story is quite brutal in some ways, but also very real and raw. And it goes places where a lot of, not just in Gundam but a lot of anime doesn’t go. And it touches on subjects that many series will not touch. So I think for those of you, even who have seen it already. Please go back and watch it one more time and really appreciate those aspects of the series. Nagai: So, what I want to say is the series is just full of adversity, but as Orga says himself in the story. Don’t ever stop, don’t stop and just keep proceeding forward, keep going forward no matter what obstacles are in your way, what problems you end up facing. And I think that’s the message I was really trying to relate to.

~ Transcriptions by Pearl A. Thank you! ~

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Posted on April 2, 2018November 8, 2018 by Ida Vega-Landow Book Review: “FOOLS AND MORTALS”

TITLE: FOOLS AND MORTALS BY: Bernard Cornwell PUBLISHED BY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2017 ISBN: 978-0-06-225087-2 Review copy purchased by reviewer Review by Ida Vega-Landow

I was pleasantly surprised to find this book as one of my selections in the Doubleday Book Club. I was also surprised to find that I knew the author from one of his previous works. Bernard Cornwell is the creator of the Saxon Tales, which served as the basis for “The Last Kingdom”, a TV show I was fond of about the dawn of the British Empire, when the Anglo-Saxons and the Danes were still fighting over England.

The story is about William Shakespeare’s younger brother, Richard. He is an actor, or player as they called it back then, in his brother’s company at The Theatre, a forerunner of the Globe. (In real life, the Bard of Avon was the third of eight siblings, so it’s possible he might have had a brother who was as talented an actor as he was a writer.) You’d think that being related to the head of the company, who’s also its scriptwriter, young Richard would be one of the stars. But alas,‘tis not so.

It seems there is no love lost between William and Richard, the older brother being constantly under pressure to write a good play by his biggest fan, Queen Elizabeth I, while being hounded by the Puritans, Elizabethan England’s self-appointed guardians of the public’s morals, who fear the Catholic Church means to dethrone Elizabeth by murdering her and putting a good Catholic princess in her place, like her late sister Mary. You remember Liz’s big sister Mary Tudor, also known as Bloody Mary? She didn’t get that name because of her fondness for a certain drink. She got it because she was a devout Catholic who tried to save England’s souls from sin by imprisoning, torturing, and executing Protestants. Now that Liz is firmly on the throne, she intends to stay that way. So she turns a blind eye to the Protestant extremists who hate the Catholic Church and will do anything to keep it down, even to the extent of recreating some of the same cruelties the Catholics practiced on Protestants.

Due to the Puritans’ disapproval of anything morally questionable which might affect the public’s morals (Translation: Anything that is fun), all the theatres are located outside of London, a short walk from the town’s gates during the day, a long walk home at night, especially after curfew. Women weren’t allowed on the stage in those days, so women’s parts were usually played by boys or young men whose voices hadn’t broken yet. Young Master Shakespeare, only three years younger than his brother (about thirty-two but already with a receding hairline), has been playing women for so long he’s getting restless. All he wants to do is play a man, for once. William promises him a man’s role after the company receives a commission from Lord Robert Hunsdon, the Lord Chamberlain and Queen Elizabeth’s cousin, to put on a play for his daughter’s wedding. The play is “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and the part is that of Francis Flute the bellows mender, one of the peasants who put on a play for Duke Theseus’ wedding day, in which Francis must play the part of—you guessed it, Thisbe, a woman. So poor Richard is playing the part of a man who pretends to be a woman, a cruel bit of drollery on William’s part.

Richard decides to pay a visit to the new theater being built across the Thames by the Earl of Lechlade, to be called The Swan, to see if he can get a better acting job that pays more (big brother Will is so cheap, he only pays Richard a couple of guineas a week, barely enough to pay his landlady and still be able to eat,

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which is why little brother Richard is also a petty thief). While at The Swan, he meets the earl’s man of business, Christopher deValle, who offers him employment as an actor if he will steal his brother’s latest play, as well as the new one he’s working on, which is set in Verona and is about two young lovers from rival houses.

You would think that after being scorned and humiliated by his brother for so many years, starting when he came to London at the age of fourteen to escape his apprenticeship to a cruel master back home in Stratford, only to be sent to Sir Godfrey Cullen’s choir school to learn acting, and be abused physically and sexually for three years by this fat old hypocrite (a pedophile in priest’s clothing, the title “sir” being a mere courtesy given the ministers of the Church of England), Richard would jump at the chance to further his acting career at a more prestigious theater, as well as get even with his brother. But strangely enough, Richard still feels enough loyalty to his brother to say “No” to Lord deValle. But his brotherly loyalty is really put to the test when his old tormentor Sir Godfrey, now working for the Puritans to root out Catholicism wherever it rears its head in England, convinces another player in Shakespeare’s company to bring false testimony against Richard and William to make it look like they’re plotting sedition against good Queen Bess. The only way to avoid being charged with treason is for Richard to steal his brother’s plays for the earl’s new theater.

Happily, all’s well that ends well, with the help of Richard’s sweetheart, a pert lady’s maid named Silvia in the lord chamberlain’s house, and some quick thinking on the part of both Shakespeare brothers, after they stop quarreling long enough for Richard to confide in William. I can see this book being made into a movie; it has many comic elements, as well as a great deal of suspense caused by both religious and political conflict.

It may affect your romantic view of Elizabethan England once you read about how dirty and corrupt it was behind the scenes, not to mention your view of William Shakespeare as a creative genius who wrote immortal plays that are still acted to this day. Bernard Cornwell’s portrayal of Shakespeare the playwright is certainly far from the jovial Bard of Avon that I’m accustomed to seeing at the local Renaissance Faire. To be blunt, he makes Shakespeare look like a jerk, from the way he treats his brother to the way he abandons his wife Anne and their three children, dumping them on his parents in Stratford, while he goes to London and kisses up to any nobleman from Liz’s court who he thinks can help his company rise above every other group of players in town. No, William Shakespeare is not a noble man in this story, but he is an honorable man when he finally stops fighting with his brother and helps him escape the clutches of the corrupt Sir Godfrey. While helping himself escape a charge of sedition at the same time, of course. Cornwell has already established William Shakespeare as an opportunist from the beginning. So why shouldn’t he help his little brother if it helps himself too, while at the same time throwing the Puritans into an unfavorable light?

So if you’re in the mood for something Shakespearean that isn’t written in iambic pentameter, and you’re into historic fiction that doesn’t whitewash well-known historic figures, if you’re tired of romantic accounts of the past that leave out all the unpleasant facts, like chamberpots being emptied out of windows and live animals being tortured to death for sport (aka bear baiting), as well as all the religious rivalry between Catholics and Protestants that made them kill each other in the name of Jesus, then treat yourself to a copy of “Fools and Mortals” by Bernard Cornwell. It may make you curious enough to check out his Saxon Tales as well, or furious enough to read or watch all of Shakespeare’s plays on DVD to wash the bad taste out of your mouth. Either way, you get to enjoy the history of old England without actually having to live through it.

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Posted on August 7, 2018 by I-hsiu Lin Anime Expo 2018 – a con in review

Anime Expo kicked off the summer with the biggest Japanime bash of the US. Every year they get illustrious guests from Japan from creators, producers and seiyuu as well as famed musical guests. There was a ton of things going on including Deku’s seiyuu Yamashita Daiki with the My Hero Academia movie as well as seiyuu Yuki Kaji with the premiere of Attack on Titans season 3. For music lovers, there is the 3 days of Anisong with Cinderella Girls live, May’n and the famed composer, Yuki Kajiura. Couldn’t see everything and this is only a glimpse into the weekend…

Day 1: Thursday, July 5

First look of the dealer’s room

I got to be in the Dealer’s Room during prep hours which is a rare opportunity. Got to see how hard everyone works to set up everything before the hall officially opens for attendees. With the anticipation of the crowds outside, I got a few pics of the empty aisles and booths. Instead of going to panels today, I decided to stick to knowing the lay of the land and exploring the dealer’s room. It took me from 10am to 12:30pm to see the entirety of the Industry area.

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Actually, everything had a huge line and they got longer during the middle of the day with there being no lines (with stuff sold out) at the end of the day.

Klab’s Uta no Princesama booth had three large touchscreens where fans can play 4 songs. No matter the score, they will receive a postcard.

Viz held their usual stamp rally. It’s something that I look forward to every con. The prize was a Pegasus pin of sorts…as a reward clip. Pegasus and Chibusa were the ones who were giving out the prize as a promotion for Sailor Moon Super S releases.

Kodansha outfitted their booth as a museum of art with a ton of Card Captors Sakura and Sailor Moon pictures on display. Depending on the manga, Kodansha also gave out mini shikishi.

The Sailor Moon fanclub display showcased their new membership card as well as the communication watch. Lots of awesome fanclub-only merch.

At 12:30pm, I started exploring the other side of the exhibit hall and stuck to it until it closed at 6pm. The hall was huge. I was surprised when I found Guilt Pleasure. Creator Jo Chen was not there but Kichiku Neko was present. I spoke with her, mentioning that I saw them at Comiket so many years ago. I bought her newest books, Luminosity a novel which she graciously signed. Also bought a bunch of mini clear files that were from Taiwan and the newest post cards. I spoke about how I was an old fan, followed her since her initial publishing in English, bought her Japanese doujins (during Comiket) and her series is one that I always looked forward to.

I finally got into the Bluefin booth which had a huge line before. Saw the doggie Bearguy but no Gundam 00 Bearguys.

Day 2: Friday, July 6

Seeing the crowds waiting for the Exhibit doors to open daunting. Again, I used the early more access to grab pics of things easily before the halls opened up.

Funimation was holding a bunch of signings at the booth and the only way to attend was to obtain an Eventbrite ticket. It was free and the link was on their site. Tickets were available a week before the convention. Since it was the seiyuu, Yuki Kaji’s only autograph session at the con, tickets were gone shortly after their release. However, an hour before the signing, tickets were made available on Eventbrite once again. With the help of my friends, I was able to snag up a ticket the last minute.

No photos were allowed and there was security blocking the view of anyone who tried to grab a pic of Kaji’s sweet smile and soft wavy hair. Voice actor Bryce Papenbrook was also present at the signing. It was not the first time Bryce voiced one of Kaji’s characters. They are both the voice of Meliodas from The Seven Deadly Sins, also featured at the con. During the signing, I mentioned to Bryce that I really liked his voice for Eren. For Kaji, I told him in Japanese that I was a huge fan of his and mentioned that I really like Wotakoi. I thought that Nifuji’s younger brother was very cute as Kaji was his voice.

Entertainment Hall

Separated from the Exhibit hall and located in a different wing, the Entertainment hall house the TCG tables as well as most of the demos featured at the convention. There were many video game companies there, many more than ever seen at east coast cons. Understandable since many of the companies are in California.

Afterwards, I headed back to the exhibit hall before it was time to change for the concert.

Anisong Concert

Got to the Microsoft Theater and waited a while to get inside. There were metal detectors and bag check. Turns out, my DSLR needed to be checked in. At least it was free. Checked in, got our seats, Really good seats in the Lodge which is not overhead view, but just slightly higher. Throughout the concert, we were seated, but my hands were moving the entire time. *waves penlight*

Day 3: Saturday, July 7

all K all the time

The goal of the day was the K signing. The Viz booth had a limited number of tickets. Thankfully, I was able to get there early. Hung out in the hall before the signing.

The signing was at the Industry autograph area in the artist alley. Originally shikishi were allowed but then they stuck to the poster for the upcoming K movie. It was signed by the planning producer Nakanishi Go, Tsuchiya Shimba-san (seiyuu for Kusuhara Takeru,) Patrick Seitz (voice actor for Munakata) and cosplayer Kaname dressed as Munakata. He was so perfect in the role, very stoic, looking very carefully at his sharpies, putting the tips of his fingers together (in a very Ikari Gendo-like pose.) No photos allowed of his https://www.liheliso.org/2018/08/07/anime-expo-2018-a-con-in-review/[4/27/2019 6:04:58 PM] Anime Expo 2018 – a con in review – The Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society Miscellanea and Ephemeron

antics but they are forever in my memory.

To Go-san, I said that I was looking forward to the movies. He replied that he was very excited about it as well and spoke about the action scenes and quiet moments, the feel of the movie. To the Tsuchiya-san, I said it was an honor to meet him. I simply said thank you to Patrick Seitz. I mentioned to Kaname that I met him some time ago in Japan, at the Royal Servant butler café (currently defunct.) I couldn’t finish my sentence since I was so nervous. But I meant that I was happy to see him again.

Close to 2pm, I went the Staples Center building where they were holding the photoshoot. The cosplay gatherings have locations, but there isn’t a map on the app for them. No idea how people know where they are. Eventually I found the site. Kaname was part of the gathering. First the kings, Scepter 4, Homra, Hakumai and then group, followed by requests. When requests came on, Kamamoto took charge. Pointing at Fushimi and Misaki, he asked them to “come at him”. Turns out, he is strong enough to heft them over https://www.liheliso.org/2018/08/07/anime-expo-2018-a-con-in-review/[4/27/2019 6:04:58 PM] Anime Expo 2018 – a con in review – The Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society Miscellanea and Ephemeron

his shoulders.

Then Kaname asked him to pick him up….after playing around with him.

Kaname is awesome. Although we were shooting in the shade, it was still hot. He had his hand towel which he used a lot. I asked for single shots which he gave. (I’m glad my Japanese was understandable.)

Day 4: Sunday, July 8

chatting with Kichiku Neko

I went to see Kichiku Neko at the Guilt Pleasure booth and got to talk to her for a bit. Kichiku Neko met Jo Chen at Yaoi Con. Jo had read some of Kichiku Neko’s writing and wanted to collaborate with her which became In These Words. Kichiku wrote about the police in New York since she used to live in New York. Libre/Beboy Gold saw their collaboration at Yaoi Con (the year Yamane-sensei was there) and wanted to publish them in Japan. I inquired about the creative process. Kichiku Neko does all the writing herself and it is novel first which Ms. Chen turns into chapters. They had to edit out a few chapters and they hope to publish the novels as well in the future. Ms. Chen works on the art alone, with no assistants and she is perfectionist with her own work. We got into a deep discussion about the thin line between abuse and obsessive love in BL stories, mentioning Konohara Narise-sensei’s stories and Ten Count. Kichiku Neko noted that she wants to continue to write stories that are realistic in their emotions despite being serious and BL. We ended up chatting about BL live actions and laughed over how hard it is to find good ones. (She doesn’t really watch them since it’s hard to do BL in real life which is so true. ^_^) Still, I recommended Doushitemo (manga by Kou Yoneda) and Seven Days as it was some of the few decently shot BL live actions.

Lastly, I asked about Kichiku Neko’s pen name. She said that she has a cat who is kinda mean which is where she got her name. I mentioned that I heard something similar from Tateno-sensei. ^_^ I spoke with her until close to 2pm. XD

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I still don’t feel knowledgeable about AX enough to give a thorough review. However, here are some highlights. People are truly nice. Someone bumped into me and I was worried that they bent my K poster. They must’ve heard me draw breath since they immediately turned and apologized. A friend mentioned that Japanime fans are definitely nicer than most and I would agree. However, there were still some incidents of thieves at the con. People making out with shirts and even a figure at one booth and some attempted stealing at my friend’s booth. That is everywhere sadly.

Public transportation exists but it is sparse. Not enough to truly get around. Ubering is the best unless you have friends. ^^;

I give alot more credit to the vendors now that got to see behind the scenes. I will not be so careless with my clothing at shops and cons and now. All that folding and folding. I don’t touch things unless I’m serious about it, but I’ll be even more self aware now. ^^; Truly, my friend’s booth, All Blue Anime has some of the most extensive shirt collection ever. I know how the booth breaks down, have a better idea about how it is maintained and I give them a lot of props for vendors working so hard.

AExpo is huge and I only saw a small sliver of all the action. Can’t see everything since something awesome is always happening. However, the proximity to Japan promises for amazing guests and there are always a few surprises to look forward to.

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So, I went down to San Diego see Dr. Kelly S. Taylor, who was attending the National Communication Association Convention at the unfortunate Hyatt Hotel. Being communication experts, the NCA did issue a strongly worded explanation of why the convention was going forward at the Hyatt, mainly because the convention which was booked five years ago for this meeting and there were many excellent protests by communication experts at the hotel. Many of the meeting rooms were empty because as many panels as could be moved to other venues were moved to other venues. It’s really a shame the manager of that Hyatt, the swine, is such a hater because it’s a very nice hotel. So I was in there, but didn’t buy anything.

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The Elephant in the Room: Sharing The Secrets For Pursuing Real Financial Success Written by Ed Baker Published by First Command ISBN10: 0979365414 ISBN13: 9780979365416

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Michael Davidson is a successful business executive who questions about his financial choices, so with the assistance of his seventy year old Aunt Katherine, he and his wife will go on a journey to develop a sound mind and attitude for learning financial security. Sounds corny right? This is the purpose of The Elephant in the Room, a self-help financial book under the guise of a fiction novel.

There are nine chapters in this book. At the conclusion of each chapter, there is a small recap for the financial/life advice that is learned by the protagonist. This is a book to read if you take it with a grain of salt. There are sound tips to be reminded of, learn or remember. Such as having the right attitude, having stated goals, and an emphasis on values with discipline.

I was highly amused by the title, because it serves as a mental reminder – similar to feeling as if there was a bull in the china shop. The reminder is this: with worry and concern for paying bills, an elephant might be a consistent reminder. But as the problem may ease, upon taking the advice of this book, then the elephant may grow smaller, until it disappears.

As I mentioned earlier, this book should be taken with a grain of salt. My worries are became pronounced when I learned that the author is actually a composite of financial advisers, and also when I saw the publisher’s website. Technically this is an organization publishing this book, so there is a push for consulting and hiring financial advisers.

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Hanky Panky Story and Art: Koreaki Kamuro Published by the Deux Press Imprint of Aurora Publishing, Inc. ISBN-10: 1934496251 ISBN-13: 978-1934496251

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Here we have yet another one-shot collection. This time it is in a Deux Press release. Koreaki Kamuro-sensei has created Hanky Panky for our enjoyment.

The first tale, Hanky Panky, is about Manaka. Manaka is a college student but he’s living a double life. At night he goes by Itsuki and he and his cousin run a hot host club. To hide his identity he plays up the nerd role during the day. There is one student who treats him with contempt, Masanari Doi. While he and his cousin are interviewing prospective new hosts the last person Itsuki (night name, remember?) wants to see applies for the position. It’s Masanari Doi. Now Itsuki has to worry about keeping his identity hidden from this man who shows interest in him. Continue reading “Yaoi Review: Hanky Panky” Posts navigation

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A Gentleman’s Kiss vol. 1 Story and Art: Shinri Fuwa Published by the Juné Imprint of Digital Manga, Inc. ISBN-10: 1-56970-581-x ISBN-13: 978-1-56970-581-0

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Or more like Touji discovers the host.

The story opens with the two yakuza heirs already in a four year relationship. As Homura tells it, their relationship began simply with an encounter several years after graduation from school and they have been together ever since. Touji fits a fun loving seme. Tall and easy going to the hard working and stern Homura. Though he doesn’t say the words, Homura attempts to show Touji how he feels through actions alone. However, that doesn’t seem enough as the mere appearance of Homura’s number 1 host, Kyoya Kuramoto makes Touji act. Insecure about Homura’s feelings towards him, Touji precipitates himself more into his lover’s job and life. Possession takes hold of Touji as Homura is forced to face himself and the newfound issues in his relationship.

Tension builds not from the lover’s alone but from issues concerning the yakuza. True to the descriptions in the back of the book, ‘Romeo and Juliet, Yakuza style’, the two are tied to their own responsibilities. Though a serious story, Kyoya moves as buffer with humorous antics in his love confessions to Homura. Homura is more concerned with the wellbeing of the young host rather then of the threat of blackmail in the revealing of his relationship to Touji. But, at the end of the day, how does Homura really feel towards Kyoya? And there is Touji….

The first volume A Gentleman’s Kiss is only the beginning of the problems that the two lovers are facing. Though it was given an 18+ rating, the few pages of intimacy barely reached that point. Perhaps the second volume will prove otherwise. The plot isn’t completely new as I reviewed something similar to this before in Hate to Love You by Makoto Tateno. However, the setting is different and the art has a flavor all it’s own. Also, a third character in Kyoya presents a rare obstacle in this relationship. I have not read much from Shinri Fuwa so I can’t imagine who Homura will ultimately choose. One of thing for sure, I look forward to finishing volume 2.

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1. arama motoru says: May 9, 2009 at 11:45 am

Thank You..

2. buy umbrella says: April 9, 2010 at 6:29 pm

Oh, so unexpected, so surprise! Very touching, so well written and I have some perception, learning very much. Thank you for sharing. Very happy to see these and believe that your point of view.

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To recap my previous review, rival yakuza heirs and successful club owners, Homura Yasobe and Touji Karasuma are secretly lovers. However, a host, Kyoya finds out about their affair and decides to step up his plans to make Homura fall for him. That ended the first volume. In the second volume, Touji has plans of his own with a sudden marriage proposal to a daughter of one of the yakuza leaders in Homura’s group. What is really going on? Touji is still in love with Homura who can’t even face him. Instead, he turns to Kyoya. To kill time or to seek support? Continue reading “Yaoi Review: A Gentleman’s Kiss vol. 2” Posts navigation

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Posted on April 2, 2018November 8, 2018 Book Review: “FOOLS AND MORTALS”

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Posted on April 2, 2018November 8, 2018 Book Review: “FOOLS AND MORTALS”

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Posted on April 2, 2018November 8, 2018 Book Review: “FOOLS AND MORTALS”

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Posted on December 4, 2017 by I-hsiu Lin AnimeNYC 2017 – a con in mini review

AnimeNYC hits Jacob Javits for the first time November 17 to 19. The convention center is no stranger to anime cons, the last time New York Anime Fest being there in 2011. Helmed by Crunchyroll, the event was even bigger then NYAF with participating studios including Pony Canyon, Funimation, Viz, NYAV Post and more. An industry con with a heart in the fandom with a plethora of guests from directors, producers, voice actors, cosplayers and singers. Anime Diva night kicked off the weekend on friday with classic singers, masquerade on Saturday and the highlight of sunday, two movie premieres, Gundam Thunderbolt: Bandit Flower along with the sold out Fullmetal Alchemist live action movie. Hit the link for photos and fun….

Day 1: Friday, November 17

Hitting the dealer’s room

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As mentioned on their site, AnimeNYC gave out a gold animenyc pin available at booths near registration doors. They also gave out landyards, a Shingeki game clear file (limited supply). On the next table, there was a booth to pick up the FMA movie ticket. Further down, there is another booth to get a Crunchyroll premium card which had early entry privileges. I’m sure many got the premium membership just for the weekend so the lines for both were significant. However, the lines for Crunchyroll members get in first.

After that was done, we hit the Dealer’s room. Crunchyroll was giving out bags for members as per usual. Finally got one for YOI! So glad we got them first since certain series ran out by Saturday. I first bought the Gundam Thunderbolt OST for the signing on saturday. Then at the anime diva booth, I bought a cd each for the female singing guests. Can’t wait for the concert tonight!

After taking a selfie with the Gundam standup boards, we get a set of trading cards. There were so many awesome booths to hit. The dealer’s room also had an arcade corner as well as the UFO machines. Didn’t

see any purikura machines though.

concert time

At 7pm, the Dealer’s room began to close up. We headed down to the 1C hall for the main events. Thankfully, we all had the premium membership so we got in early. Found seats in the middle. Spent the concert dancing and waving my light stick.

SETLIST Yonekura ChihiroxIshida YokoxTRUE Moonlight Desnsetsu (Sailor Moon)

Yonekura Chihiro WILL (Senaki Houshin Engi) Butterfly Kiss (Digimon) Fairy Tail ~Yakusoku no Hi~ (Fairy Tail)

Yonekura ChihiroxTRUE Just Communication (Gundam Wing)

TRUE Hiryo no Kishi (Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle) STEEL-Tekketsu no Kizuna- (Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans) ailes (Junketsu no Maria)

TRUExIshida Yoko God knows… (Haruhi Suzumiya)

Ishida Yoko OPEN YOUR MIND?Chiisana Hane Hirogete? (Ah! My Godess) FOREVER HERE (Fairy Tail) Otome no Policy (Sailor Moon)

Ishida YokoxYonekura Chihiro Zankoku na Tenshi no Teze (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

Yonekura Chihiro Arashi no Naka de Kagayaite (Gundam: The 08th MS Team) TRUE

DREAM SOLISTER (Hibike! Euphonium) Ishida Yoko STRIKE WITCHES ~Watashi ni Dekiru Koto~ (Strike Witches)

Encore Yonekura ChihiroxIshida YokoxTRUE Sailor Stars (Sailor Moon)

Day 2: Saturday, November 18

early for autographs

Woke up at 7am today in hopes to leave at 7:30. We got to the con a bit after 9am since there was no 7 train and we had to take the shuttle bus from times sq. Still, there was sufficient tickets for us for the Anime Diva signing. However, Princess Principal signing was already gone.

I went to the signing for the Gundam composer. It was only 10:30am when I sat down. I was the first one. Next came Nobita with a Doraemon plush.

When the signing started at 11:30am for Kikuchi Naruyoshi, I told him in Japanese that I was looking forward to tomorrow’s concert.

I headed to the artist alley. The front of the artist alley is spaced out while the back area is very tight. Turns out, they were not able to move more tables to the front due to fire code space regulations. Still, the area around the Artist Alley is bright by the floor to ceiling glass windows and has a beautiful view of the water.

autograph 2

The next signing for Anime Diva started a bit late, but not by much. I had all three of the signers sign their respective cds. I said to Yonekura Chihiro-san that I enjoyed yesterday’s concert. To Ishida Yoko-san, I mentioned that I was moved when she sang ‘Otome no Policy’, adding that I was a fan of Sailor Moon. To True, I said that I look forward to new songs from her. (I’m very moved by her song ‘STEEL’ from Iron Blooded Orphans.)

Day 3: Sunday, November 19

trying to rise early

Got to the con a bit before 9am. However…the Iron Blooded Orphans tickets were all given out. I heard it was given out by 8:22am. O.O Princess Principal thankfully had a lot of signings. Considering that there was only one signing for Iron Blooded Orphans, I’m not surprised that it was gone so fast.

Walking around the Dealers room for the bit, I started talkin with Mangagamers. They noted that they actually released drama cds by having English subs on top of video with static pics which is a wonderful way of localizing the product. They also spoke about their yuri title Kinder Heart which sounds wonderful.

Bandit Flower screening and jazz concert

At 11:30am, I headed down to the Bandit Flower screening which is the next installation of the series. They left part of the way through but I finished the movie. Afterwards, I stayed for one jam session of jazz with the composer Kikuchi-san on the saxophone with piano, bass, drums and trumpet. They played awesome music with Gundam scenes flashing across the screen in toned colors that remind me of Cowboy Bebop. It was perfect, Needed to leave early but since video recording was allowed, I hope to be able to find it online. Bandai posted on youtube the anime mix clip that was shown in the backround during the concert as well as short clips from the concert itself.

Fullmetal Alchemist live action movie

Priced at $10, the movie was sold out prior to the convention. It was my first movie screening at a con that I had to pay for, but with the following this series had, I’m no surprised. Director Sori spoke a bit and then they show a clip of Arakawa-sensei and Yamada Ryosuke (Edward Elric) greeting the overseas fans. Unfortunately, they didn’t utilize the side screens so there were initial complaints, but it was awesome still. https://www.liheliso.org/2017/12/04/animenyc-2017-a-con-in-mini-review/[4/27/2019 6:08:09 PM] AnimeNYC 2017 – a con in mini review – The Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society Miscellanea and Ephemeron

I could see majority of the subs I knew the story and even the lines due to being a fan of the series.

The hilarious thin about Arakawa-sensei, Funimation noted that since she is always a cow in her self drawings, the put a cow on her face in the clip.

The director chose specific story lines to focus on to tell the story. It drew from key events that we all knew and pulled together a single cohesive story. Some changes included the timeline of where the key events came from but the context as a whole was all there. The elements of the scenes were taken from the manga/anime and we could see it come to life. It was awesome. The music was great and had it’s own style blending in and the acting was awesome. It was comedic, real and sweet. Characters were not included but doesn’t mean there won’t be an appearance by them, in the future. Yes they hope to make more! (The end of the scene credits was omg….so awesome yet so gross. XD)

When the Q&A between the host and director Sori was finished, the fans were encouraged to stay to speak with the director directly about their feelings about the film which is sure to be placed in the media releases.

a con in review

For the first year, animenyc was a really fun con. There were tons of programming that I wanted to hit with tons of awesome guests. Mainly an industry con, there were a ton of different guests promoting the latest from Japan along with the news and their experiences.

Organization of the con as an attendee was great. Autographs were released at 8am every morning with the con starting at 10am. Which meant that people knew whether or not they could get their autographs. And the wait was not long at all for any of the signing…but that could be depending on the guests. They had an hour signing each rather the 30min. on the schedule. There was also 2 lines, premium and regular since this was a Crunchyroll con, premium membership got priority…but there was alot of people with premium. ^^; It was only slightly better but still good. So in the morning, the queue hall/main events hall had two lines to everything that was going on as soon as the things opened up at 10…mainly the dealer’s room. And unlike NYCC, there were not long lines waiting to get in. The bag check in process was from entering the queue hall, the Dealer’s room and more. There were dogs checking large packages and prop checks and marked with a yellow tab. It was very organized, efficient and made us feel safe.

The artist alley was the only place I felt crowded and that was because the end of the hall had all these tables right next to each other. Otherwise, there was sufficient spacing everywhere else. There were bathrooms which were predominantly empty due to being at the end of the hallway. And thankfully, they were actually clean. O.O

For a home con, I had so much fun. The cosplays were good and the con did not feel small or empty which was sometimes I felt about NYAF despite liking the intimate feel. Also, I enjoyed hanging with my friends and bumping into them. Looking forward to next year!

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Posted on November 24, 2008November 26, 2008 by Ginger Mayerson The National Communication Association Convention 2008

Well, onward.

Only for Kelly would I get up at 6:30 to make an 8:30 train. She very kindly met me at the Santa Fe station. We had lunch at the Tin Fish across from the Convention Center. That was interesting because I’ve only eve eaten at the Tin Fish during Comic Con when the lines are out the door and the place is packed to the gills, as they say. Very, very good food, crowds or no.

At the Hater Hyatt, Kelly had to attend a business meeting and I, rather belatedly, realized that I didn’t have a badge to go to Kelly’s panels. Intrepidly, I asked for a press pass, and on the strength of my J LHLS business card, they gave me one, which was damn nice of the NCA and is why you’re getting a report on the afternoon I spent at their convention. Actually, I wish I’d been there for more of it, as you will see from the highbrow con reportage to follow.

First off, they gave out a really cool neon blue tote bag in which to carry around the phone book-size event directory. I kid you not, this sucker is 400 8.5×11 pages of panels, symposia, and all that kind of thinky stuff people do at these kind of conventions. I learned some things, let me tell you about them.

I decided to wait in the back of the business meeting for Kelly to finish whatever she had to do. For some reason I had thought she’d be on the podium, but there were only four officers up there, so she was in the audience with the rest of us. I must say that this was the least boring business meeting ever because everyone in the room (except me) was a highly trained public speaker, so whatever they said, no matter how boring, had the most delightful delivery. Actually, I was riveted anything anyone said into a microphone that afternoon; it was all so well said.

At 2, I went to hear Kelly speak on a panel called “Horrifying Visions.” Now, I hate horror movies, the only one I sort of like is “Night of the Living Dead.” I love “Alien,” but somehow I never realized it was horror. I have never seen “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” or “The Exorcist” and have no burning desire to do so. But horror is fascinating to me now; to think about, not actually watch.

Dr. SE Croft examined the fan interactions in the “Fang Mail” section, of “Famous Monsters of Filmland” magazine and how the community reacted to changes in horror from 1958 through the 1970s. Dr. Croft https://www.liheliso.org/2008/11/24/the-national-communication-association-convention-2008/[4/27/2019 6:08:26 PM] The National Communication Association Convention 2008 – The Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society Miscellanea and Ephemeron

pointed out that this magazine is for fans of monsters, not unlike the Tiger Beat of horror. She had a slideshow of the magazine, which was pretty cool.

Dr. PJ English-Schneider read her paper on how “The Exorcist” made her think she was possessed. She saw it when she was twelve years old, much too young. I remember when it came out and there was all kinds of coverage about people freaking out at the screenings. This might be why I never sought it out later on. I’m not a big Linda Blair fan either. I did see the Exorcist sequel with Richard Burton, but I’m trying really hard to forget that.

Kelly read her paper on how horror has moved into survival monster-killer quest-like games. Dr. Taylor convincingly suggests that young men in our society need those long-lost initiation rituals to prove themselves as adult members of society. I guess typing 100 words a minute isn’t really a ticket to full adult societal membership and the monsters we have now—Republicans, poverty, sickness, injustice—are not solo quests. Although not all games are solo quest games, they are usually played in solitude. After the panel, two really cute gamer boys came up to politely argue with her about something. Oh, the things gamer scholars must endure to contribute to the fabric knowledge.

Something new for me was the whole “Respondent” thing, where another scholar, sitting in the audience, blending in with us spectators, discusses what was just said. Wow! Academia! It’s exciting! The respondent for this panel was Tracy Stephenson Schaffer, and she put Little Red Riding Hood in the horror genre. I totally agree! She went on to talk about how the woodsman is the hero/rescuer in that story and how over the years the woodsman has gone away and there are no heroes in horror. I disagree with this; I think Red has become her own hero/rescuer. Wasn’t Ripley the hero and her own rescuer in “Alien”? But I don’t think too hard about these things.

At 3:30 I attended The Hillary Panel! Actually it was called “Hillary ’08: Feminist Opportunities and Challenges.” The link for this is broken on the NCA website, which is a shame (I like to be thorough). This panel didn’t tell me anything I didn’t know about why Hillary’s campaign failed, but there was some interesting elaboration. There were many fine presenters, but I’ll only go into the ones that stand out in my weary mind. John M. Murphy talked about GWB’s disjunctive, disastrous, callous, and cruel presidency and how Hillary apparently didn’t realize that the country wanted “new” management, not “better” management. Susan Schultz Huxman played the Katie Couric clip where Katie discussed how negative coverage affected the Clinton campaign. Katie glossed over this, but Dr. Huxman read Couric’s incredibly stupid, sexist questions Hillary had to answer civilly in an interview when she was still a candidate. But poor Katie: she gets slammed for asking Hillary stupid questions and gets slammed for asking Sarah Palin intelligent softball questions. Ms. Couric just can’t catch a break, can she? Vanessa B. Beasley had examples from Hill’s speeches where Hill had to speak in tough masculine speech and then in the next paragraph speak in sensitive feminine speech. I’ve never enjoyed Hill’s speeches, but until yesterday I never realized the reason for that was I had a bad case of rhetorical whiplash from listening to her. (Sarah Palin, on the other hand, was allowed to use only masculine speech for her 15 minutes of fame. But we all know Hillary has always been held to a higher standard of everything. Often unreasonably so.) Justin L. Killian, one of Hillary’s Hellcats in Iowa (some book sez that Hillary wants to rule the world, emasculate all the men, and keep the population in line with her Hellcats [no, I don’t get it either, but this kind of thing gets published a lot]) and he saw reasonable people go mad with Hillary Derangement Syndrome. He also said, and this had an impact on me, that the country is ready for a female president, it’s just not ready for what that woman as candidate would have to do to get elected. Running for president is not easy or lady-like, and is pretty scary to watch. Then the double standard of what’s acceptable behavior for men vs. acceptable behavior for women kicks in and the party is really over. But Hill’s failure will make it more possible and sooner for a woman to be POTUS, so history will thank her, if no one else ever does. Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, and Bonnie J. Dow, and Shawn J. Parry-Giles said great things about misogyny, media bias, and just the stupid things Hill’s campaign did with whatever Hill’s message was at whatever stage in her campaign. What is odd now, here in Obama President-elect-land, is that the foreign policy experience Hillary was mocked for on the campaign trail is going to land her the top diplomat spot in Obama’s cabinet. As Diane S. Hope pointed out in her talk, we all might have hated the ringing telephone ad, but apparently it impressed Mr. Obama on some level. So, hooray for us! Oh, and by the way, if these panelists publish any of this stuff, I highly recommend you read it. I know I’ll be doing so. It was a fabulous hour and fifteen minuets of insightful, well presented thinking on Hillary’s campaign. It’s hard to do it justice in a report like this.

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Next up, I found my way to the sixth level and into a, um, suite or something (it had a couple of tables shoved together and arm chairs for the audience) for Crossing Conventional Boundaries: Nonwestern Performance Events, in which all the panelists were or had been Kelly’s students. I even knew some of them from my visit to Denton for the DASAV performances. They were great papers! There was a great respondent! Brent A. Saindon! He wrote, like, a whole paper responding to the papers presented by Courtney Bobb, Cindy K. Gordon, Kristin A. Tucker, Christina E. Wells, and a special guest star appearance by Gigi Perez. More papers here on this nifty website.

After this Kelly took me to the LSU, where Kelly got her PhD, party where several people told me how much they liked “Darkness at Sunset and Vine,” and this made me very happy. After schmoozing for a while, we had mediocre sushi at Sushi Itto and called it a night. Kelly had a 7AM flight back to Denton the next day and I was operating on about 4 hours of sleep. And I don’t operate at all well on less than six hours of sleep.

After a restful night at my usual San Diego hotel, La Pensione, and banana walnut pancakes (mmmmmmmm), I caught the 10:35 train back to LA.

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Posted on December 12, 2008May 23, 2011 21st Annual Indie & Small Press Book Fair

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On the weekend of December 6-7, and held at the General society of Mechanics and Tradesmen was the 21st Annual Indie & Small Press Book Fair. This was sponsored by New York Center for Independent Publishing and was a way to showcase the city’s small press and independent book publishers, during this holiday season.

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Posted on December 16, 2008December 15, 2013 Manga Review: Sugar Princess vol. 1

Sugar Princess vol. 1 Story and Art: Hisaya Nakajo Published by VIZ Media ISBN-10: 1-4215-1930-5 ISBN-13: 978-1-4215-1930-2

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Every once in a while you come across a book that really endearing. For me Sugar Princess is one of those stories.

One day Maya Kurinoki decided to take her little brother to the local ice skating rink. Her little brother had never been ice-skating before so to give him a little confidence she decides to try a double axel. To Maya’s surprise she landed the jump, sort of. It so happens that the local ice skating coach witnesses Maya’s miraculous jump and scouts her. She was a bit suspicious but shows up at the rink anyway. The coach was indeed serious about being a coach and wanting her to skate. He is looking for a partner for one of his skaters. Shun Kano was a pairs skater at one time but recently he’s been a soloist. Of course Shun is a very handsome high school student. Continue reading “Manga Review: Sugar Princess vol. 1” Posts navigation

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Posted on July 5, 2016July 8, 2016 Anime Expo 2016 Cosplay

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Posted on July 24, 2012July 24, 2012 Book Review: Seasons of Infidelity

Season of Infidelity: BDSM Tales From the Classic Master By Oniroku Dan Translated by Chris Violet Vertical Inc. 2010 Copy supplied by Publisher

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Controversy and intrigue may surround the topic of eroticism and nudity. It is quite the lucrative business. There’s an audience, and for those who corner the niche in the SM market, infamy occurs. Sadomasochism is not for the fainthearted and it has carved a place in Japanese society. Continue reading “Book Review: Seasons of Infidelity” Posts navigation

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My Kid Brother’s Band, aka The Beatles! By Louise Harrison Published by Acclaim Press, 2014 ISBN: 978-1-938905-52-0 Review copy sent by publisher

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I first saw Louise Harrison at this year’s Fest for Beatles Fans in Rye, N.Y. She spoke about her brother George with so much love and affection that I decided I had to read her book to learn more about the man we Beatles fans call The Quiet Beatle, but she called her little brother. I was half expecting a puff piece making George look more angelic than was humanly possible, like another Harrison bio I read (see my earlier review, “Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison” by Joshua M. Greene). Instead, I found an honest, in-depth history of the author’s life during World War II as well as before and after her little brother became famous. Continue reading “Book review: My Kid Brother’s Band a/k/a The Beatles!” Posts navigation

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Women are Crazy, Men are Stupid The Simple Truth to a Complicated Relationship By Howard J. Morris and Jenny Lee Published by Simon Spotlight Entertainment, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2009 ISBN: 9781439109748 Review copy provided by publisher

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Oh boy, talk about Venus and Mars! This literary labor of love was written by a co- habiting couple in Hollywood, both writers of popular TV situation comedies, both divorced, both crazy about each other, but not so crazy about the little differences between men and women that keep popping up whenever they try to have a serious discussion. Continue reading “Book review: Women are Crazy, Men are Stupid” Posts navigation

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Hanky Panky Story and Art: Koreaki Kamuro Published by the Deux Press Imprint of Aurora Publishing, Inc. ISBN-10: 1934496251 ISBN-13: 978-1934496251

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Here we have yet another one-shot collection. This time it is in a Deux Press release. Koreaki Kamuro-sensei has created Hanky Panky for our enjoyment.

In the tale The Truth is… Miki has a huge crush on his friend’s brother. Kensho is 26 years old and owns two host clubs. Miki on the other hand seems to be very apathetic towards his life. His only bright spot is meeting up with Kensho on a regular basis. With Lovers, Only Tonight Suzuki gets hammered and wakes up in some stranger’s apartment. Yet this stranger seems to know him, he even calls him “Coach”. At one time Suzuki coached an elementary school soccer team. Just when he was confident with his coaching abilities one of players, Makio to be exact, started complaining about all kinds of things. This crushed Suzuki’s confidence and he quit coaching. Could this man be Makio? We meet Ehara and Saki in A Kiss and Beyond. This is your typical old childhood friends fall for each other. Jealousy arises in regards to their other relationships. One Sweet Position has the typical salaryman feel to it. Kei is attracted to his coworker, Tatsuya. But it seems that Tatsuya is married and has a kid. In A Lovely Punch we return to our lead couple Manaka/Itsuki and Masanari Doi in a crazy situation.

Hanky Panky is a one-shot collection where the stories are short, sweet, and to the point. Which means that the story is slightly rushed so you get to the sex quicker. Then once the sex is over the story rushes to the ending so you can move on to the story which flows the same way. I prefer to have a little plot involved with my smut. It’s a tad difficult to get the character development that I prefer when it comes to sex. I’d say that some of the stories were enjoyable but overall it’s just OK. The thing that redeems the story is the art. Koreaki Kamuro-sensei has a wonderful eye for detail. The eyes are expressive and the lines are clean. Kamuro-sensei has done a great job with the art for this manga.

Deux Press does a great job when it comes to the licensing and printing of their titles. This volume is done very well. The only beef I have is that the binding hasn’t been scored. Now I have an ugly crease on the cover. I’m sure that this isn’t a problem for most manga readers. I just happen to have some weird OCD about it. I know, I’m strange.

This title, Hanky Panky, is not bad but it’s not super awesome either. I enjoyed it mostly for the art and

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some of the stories were compelling but others were lacking something that I just can’t put my thumb on. If you enjoy one-shots that truly encompass yaoi (stories that don’t have much story, but it has plenty of hot, sweaty, manloving) Hanky Panky may be your answer. But for someone like me I really only liked it for the beautiful art and Kamuro-sensei’s style and layout.

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Book Review: Seize The Night

Seize The Night Written by Sherrilyn Kenyon Published by St. Martin’s Paperbacks Imprint of Macmillan ISBN10: 0312992432 ISBN13: 9780312992439

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In a world that reminds me of various vampire series, Seize The Night is book seven in Kenyon’s Dark Hunter series. This book features Tabitha Deveraux, a human who lives in New Orleans and owns a sex shop. By night, she is a experienced hunter of vampires and Damions. Continue reading “Book Review: Seize The Night” Posts navigation

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