Otakon 2012

Otakon 2012 Panel Schedule

Oh yeah, Sentai Filmworks panel on Sunday!

The programming, in general, this year is (as expected) significantly worse than last year. Bandai was a big player, and it doesn't look like AoA is stepping up, and Funimation seems to be "dialing it down" compared to previous years. That said, Otakon 2012 will officially go down as being more awesome than it has any right to be as it showcases ADV's return to form by hosting its first industry panel there in years.

Hmmm, with little in the way of interesting late night programming it looks like I'll actually get some sleep during this year's Otakon. A first.

What will they announce at tomorrow's panel?
Hmm...

Sword Art Online?
Nichijou?
Mawaru Penguindrum?
Ladies VS. Butlers?
Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko?
Maybe another girl/mecha show...Sky Girls

Or an R1 release of a previously CR-only title...
Skip Beat
Natsu no Arashi!


We'll find out tomorrow...

Whatever it is, I'll be on hand to bear witness to the momentous occasion, the first Sentai/adv panel at Otakon in years. Will anyone else from here be there?

I suppose I should thank AnimeExpo for, according to the staff at the Sentai booth, and I quote "not having room" for Sentai in its schedule.

Frustratingly, the selection of Sentai and adv shows at the booth is almost the same as what is available on rightstuf. Both are missing disc 2 of Gilgamesh, both lack any more of milk chan than vols one and two. Oddly they have The Skull Man dvd @ 30 bucks when just a few months ago it was 5 on rightstuf.

That said, they have a MUCH better selection than Funimation does. Funimation is slacking off on the booth front. Sentai has early releases like World God Only Knows (I havent yet seen number 6 there) while funi has no early releases that I've seen, and it has only a small selection.

I can't believe they're premiering steins gate without selling the blurays. They're blue balling us, for lack of a classier term

Well after Funi's recent announcements, Sentai's can only go up...?

I hope so, I was disappointed in Funimation's lame announcements at this otakon.

They were borrrrrrrrring; I didn't expect them to be good, but they weren't even the gleeful evil announcements that funi has used before, like the infamous otakon 2010 revelation that they were instrumental in killing One Manga, and that they pissed on its grave.

Sentai could announce anything and it would be more exciting. Shoot, the freebies at their booth were more exciting.

I thought it was odd that they got Akira. Akira is like the black spot for anime companies in the USA...

Sentai Panel text form
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Sentai Panel video
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I'm not sure that I want to see the video as, especially if it's the one recorded by the Fandom Post guy in the front row, there's a decent chance that I'm in it. That'd be weird.

I was actually happy with FUNimation for once because they announced Fairy Tail season 2 and the movie. That was probably their best panel in a bit (others were disappointing, especially Otakon 2011).

Yeah, Otakon was awesome again. I live near Otakon, so I'm pretty close to the convention and other cons in the Baltimore/DC area.

I still remember the 2010 panel when Funimation told the fans that they were proud of their part in killing OneManga. I thought I was going to get to see a riot


Nice of you to post the video.

Sadly the video confirms my fears. When the dude in the front row who was the mouthpiece for The Fandom Post was moving his iPad around, I thought I avoided getting caught on virtual film. I did not. Brutal.

celestial_being wrote:

I was at the Madoka Magica panel where they intentionally took pictures of the audience, and I still managed to somehow elude the cameras

I was at that panel too. The only pictures I saw from the event were some blurry ones posted by Aniplex that were taken when the crowd did NOT have the kyuubei masks on. Fail.

Luckily I sat out of camera range for that one. I think I wore my kyuubei mask for almost the whole panel. TBH the only thing that interested me in the whole panel was the dub outtake bit. Everything else was the same boring tripe we get in Japanese video commentaries, only with English actors. I remember being pretty darn tired too, so my standards were higher lol.

The panel even ended early, which was pretty lame IMO.

I wore my mask so no one would see my face gruesomely spasm whenever the American actors pronounced "magica" as a slow, drawn-out and Engrish "MAH-gi-KAH". Weeaboos on stage