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Comic-Con Programming! Filed under: Uncategorized — 6:39 pm

The programming schedule for Thursday at Comic-Con has been released! You can find it here.

Highlights include the Red Sonja panel, 20th Century Fox, Summit Entertainment, Dexter, the first look at Repo! The Genetic Opera and the Annual Super Hero Kung-Fu Extravaganza. Hope to see you there!

~ Stephanie Thomson

Bandai Announces Schedule for AX Filed under: Uncategorized — 1:03 pm

Bandai’s posted their schedule for Anime Expo and it looks pretty exciting. They’ll be announcing the english voice cast of Gurren Lagann and there will also be quite a few panels and signings. You can see more details here.

It’s starting to get pretty exciting with AX less than a week away. Make sure you have your costumes done and ready to wear! The Anime Expo website has some videos on where to eat which I think will be of interest to every one attending. They can be found on the main page.

Hope everyone doesn’t get too stressed out while getting ready! See you soon!

~ Stephanie Thomson

Comic-Con Speculations Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: movies, sdcc, tv — 8:26 pm

With Comic-Con coming up in about a month, a lot of people are getting anxious about what we’re going to be seeing. It is pretty much garunteed that there will be major panels on Star Trek, GI Joe, The Spirit, Star Wars: Clone Wars 2. It’s also rumored that there will be a screening of Fanboys, a film about Star Wars fans who journey to Skywalker Ranch to steal a copy of Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. A rough cut was shown at Celebration IV last year, so the final version will probably be shown at Comic-Con.

Another speculative schedule has shown up, but this time for TV show panels. There seems to be a few scheduling issues on the list, such as major shows like the Sarah Connor Chronicles and Heroes panels being scheduled at the same time which is sure to disspoint quite a few fans. The rumored list can be seen here at G4.

Please note, these are all speculations and there will be an update when Comic-Con International posts their programming schedule. There will be a link posted here as soon as it’s out.

~ Stephanie Thomson

Comic-Con and Anime Expo News Filed under: Uncategorized — 4:06 pm

If you haven’t gotten your Comic-Con 4-Day badges yet it seems like you may be out of luck as they sold out a few days ago. You can still buy badges for the individual days though. More information on Comic-Con registration can be found here.
Some exciting things are happening again on the Anime Expo front! It’s been announced that American Cosplay Paradise will be hosting Lucky Star and Gurren Lagann cosplay events at the Bandai booth. The participating cosplayers will be giving out promotional goods as well as taking pictures. More information can be found here at the Anime News Network.

~ Stephanie Thomson

Anime Expo Announcements Filed under: Uncategorized — 4:06 pm

Just to throw it out there; the Batman event at AX is Gotham Knight, not Dark Knight. It’s going to be like what the Animatrix was for the Matrix. You can find more informaiton here.
Another schedule attendee I’m excited about is Toshihiko Seki. He’s been the voice of: Sanzo from Saiyuki, Mouuse of Ranma 1/2, and Duo of Gundam Wing, among many others. (For a full list click here.) I’ll update again soon about the other guests-of-honor at AX this year.

~ Stephanie Thomson

Royal/T Keeps to Itself Filed under: Uncategorized — 4:07 pm

When anime fans think of the Japanese anime mecca Akihabara, they’ll think of things like 4 story arcades, anime superstores, and maid cafes. The idea of a maid cafe in the US is pretty crazy; maid cafes go totally against political correctness and any feminist ideas people might have. But there is a light!
Recently the maid cafe, Royal/T, opened in Culver City, CA. The front page of their web site says, “Royal/T is a playful collision of spaces - cafe/shop/art space - presented in stunning fusion. An eclectic mix of retail and contemporary art re-imagined in the surrounds of of LA’s first Japanese-style cosplay cafe.” Sounds pretty exciting, right? When I ventured to the store on April 13, the day after Royal/T’s grand opening, we thought it would be exciting too. A small group of gothic and sweet lolitas along with a few friends and I went to the store around 12 PM, two hours after the store/cafe/whatever it is was supposed to open only to be greeted with locked doors. Through the windows we could all see a full art gallery (featuring art by many international artists including Takashi Murakami, Ghada Amer among many others), a small cafe, and a small store. the inside of the building looked quite nice, but not a single one of us got to see the whole thing from our position on the sidewalk outside the door. After 30 minutes of waiting for the store to open, and calling numbers listed on the store’s website to see if they’d said something about opening late, we all decided to leave- but not before taking a few pictures. So, Royal/T, thank you for helping a few lolitas, cosplayers (your core customer base) and photographers waste their time. I can only hope that next time you decide to open late you leave a message of some sort on your voice mail, or even a post-it note on the door. PS- All the pictures can be found here.

~ Stephanie Thomson

ALA Vids and Pics Filed under: Uncategorized — 4:04 pm

Its been a very busy month for me so its taking forever for me to get ala pics up. But just wanted to let you guys know that most of the photoshoots and first day of ala are up. I’ll try and get day 2 and 3 done this week but knowing my insane week we’ll see. Oh yeah, I fixed the vids link cause I had to do some modifications to it but forgot to redirect the link to the new section. In any case, feel free to watch ala masquerade and even PMX cosfest if you didn’t get chance to do that. See you guys at upcoming gatherings and Fanime : P

~ Asian School Boy

Finally done with AM pics, time to prep for Yaoi Con Filed under: Uncategorized — 4:03 pm

Sorry, sorry, I know I took forever in getting these pictures out but hey you can probably sympathize with costumes you don’t quite get done before a con : P I have to say, AM was surprisingly fun. With the same amount of people from last year and not as much nagging from staffers, everyone got a chance to just do what we do best, have fun. If AM stays as low key and “non restrictive” as this year, I’ll consider AM 08. In any case, 2 days from Yaoi-Con and I’m pretty much set to go. If anyone wants to do photoshoots, let me know I’ll have about 5 photoshoot slots open for Yaoi-Con. Anyways, hope these pics might cheer up some of our friends that are dealing with socal fires, hang in there.

~ Asian School Boy

Going to socal on the 18th, Disneyland on the 19th Filed under: Uncategorized — 4:02 pm

Yes indeed, on the 18th I’ll be heading on to the socal summer gathering. I thought it was a lot of fun the last time they had it and I expect the same this time around. I love going to this gathering cause it lets me be amoung friends and cosplayers without the bothers of con staff. Thats the first announcement, the second is Batday at disneyland will going on that weekend, so my thoughts is that we all go there Sunday. Click here for more details.

~ Asian School Boy

Comic-Con Filed under: Uncategorized — 4:01 pm

I had a blast at Comic con this year, unfortunately I tend to go there more as a fanboy than a photographer. I did bring my camera to a few panels and took a few shots of cosplayes. Enjoy : P

~ Asian School Boy