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[email protected] LETTER FROM THE CON CHAIR “For those about to rock, we salute you.” Greetings! On behalf of the New England Anime Society, our honored guests, and the entire Anime Boston staff, it’s my pleasure to welcome you to Anime Boston 2011! To those of you who are new to Anime Boston, we welcome you! We’ve worked hard this past year to organize an event that we hope will become a new tradition for you in years to come. For those of you who have come to Anime Boston in the past, welcome back, we’re happy to see you! Maybe its the adult in me, but usually the time files between conventions. Logically I know that as I write this we’re a only a handful of weeks left until this gets submitted to print.. And shortly after that, the convention starts and these words are in your hands. I know that, and yet the time will come and go faster this year than it has in years past.