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New York Comic Con Coverage Thread « Thread Started on Feb 5, 2009, 4:48pm »
This weekend, I'll be in New York covering New York Comic Con for Anime3000. What's New York Comic Con, you ask? Why, the largest comic book/videogame/anime convention on the East Coast! Due to current technical restraints (albeit Anime3000 still running on mad-ghetto Web 1.0), we've decided to get innovative do all of our event coverage on the board. So keep your eyes peeled on this page all weekend for a slew of updates, photos, anecdotes, and just some good ol' tomfoolery. Some updates will be very informal, some may be uber-formal. I don't know. I can't promise live updates on the board, but you chances are that I'll be updating the Twitter feed round the clock. As always, comments, criticism, and banter are appreciated.
The Master Plan:
Here is the way the tentative is looking right now (totally subject to change, things marked with an asterisk I'm not sure about yet/pose a scheduling conflict):
FRIDAY: 1:30 -- Arrive in New York 2:15-3:15 -- N'Gai Croal and Stephen Totilo Panel 3:00 -- Wait in line for Yatterman tickets (didn't end up getting press access, pah) 4:30-5:30 -- Interview with Cryptic Studios, developers of Star Trek Online *7:00-8:00 -- Prototype roundtable *7:00-8:00 -- Graphic Novel "acceptance" panel *8:00-10:30 -- Yatterman world premiere and roundtable (also going to try to interview the director, Takahashi Miike) Ehhh, early bird gets the worm
SATURDAY: 11:15-12:15 -- Del Rey Manga 12:30-12:30 -- Bandai ENT. 1:45-2:45 -- Yen Press 2:45-3:45 -- FUNimation 4:00-5:00 -- Appt. with Atari producers 5:30-6:30 -- Random House *6:45-7:45 -- FUNimation "Sneak Peek" *6:45-7:45 -- CMX Manga (Which of the last two would you like to see covered?)
SUNDAY: 11:00-12:00 -- VIZ Media *1:30-2:30 -- Dark Horse
UPDATE #1: So apparently, wifi at the Javits center runs about 30 bucks a day, so see that Twitter link above? CLICK IT!
And if you're at New York Comic Con, drop me a line at andrewchoi@anime3000.com and let's see if we can meet up. Cheers!
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Re: New York Comic Con Coverage Thread « Reply #1 on Feb 5, 2009, 6:55pm »
I would say CMX Manga seeing as how everybody will look into what FUNimation has to offer. It's best to get a look at something that isn't always covered. (and put out the info first )
By the way, New York Comic Con is going to be invaded by games. Kinda wish I could attend.
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Re: New York Comic Con Coverage Thread « Reply #2 on Feb 5, 2009, 8:07pm »
Updated the schedule, looks like I'm going to be heading out at 11:00 instead.
And yeah, while there are a bunch of games, I'm still unsure of whether they are games we really want to play. I've got appointments set up with Atari, Hudson, and Cryptic, and save the Ghostbusters game, there is nothing I am really excited about. Pray for some surprises, though!
MADWORLD AND THE CONDUIT PLAYABLE ON THE SHOW FLOOR
You better play those games Andrew if you knows what good for you.
You didn't get my text? Played MadWorld, didn't play the Conduit. I'm getting to the Exhibition Hall early tomorrow to try it out.
Anyway, I'm at my New York flat now. As I said, Javits wi-fi is thirty bucks a day, and we're just way to ghetto to pay for something like that. So still, the best way to see what I'm doing and get quick impressions is through Twitter. An actual "formal" update on the show? Coming within the next couple of hours.
By the way, totally bumped into N'Gai. Yeah, I'll admit it--I came.
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Re: New York Comic Con Coverage Thread « Reply #6 on Feb 7, 2009, 8:36am »
Fuck! Fell asleep at my keyboard last night while I was typing all my shit up. So kids, shit's coming soon. I promise.
Ah, yeah. The cell phone coverage at the center kept going in and out yesterday, so that's why you probably didn't get it. I have to say, I was pretty giddy.
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Re: New York Comic Con Coverage Thread « Reply #7 on Feb 8, 2009, 12:28am »
I guess I'll come back to day 1, I'm kind of scatterbrained/exhausted at the moment, quite frankly. More to come.
DAY 2:
Del Ray Manga:
Del Ray chooses to play it safe this year given the economic situation, though not nearly to the degree that Vertical Publishing chose to (e.g., two Black Jack editions and a plethora of sudoku and o’ekaki volumes). Immediately upon introduction of their “new acquisitions”, Del Ray noted that they are “very proud to the publisher of CLAMP in the United States”, setting the stage for a slew of CLAMP stuff which, for the most part, is not original content (a Tsubasa art book and xxxHoLiC: The Official Guide). However, besides these safe and rather obvious additions to the Del Ray library, we see the release of Clamp in America, written by one of the editors at Del Ray, which could present an interesting look at the collaboration between CLAMP and Del Ray over the years. Non-CLAMP announcements included Nighthead Genesis, Four-Eyed Prince, and Only One Wish, and based the presentation of these by Del Ray, these are expected to receive moderate sales at best. There was a tremendous shift in tone, surprisingly, when Del Ray rolled out their new OEL manga announcements: King of RPGS, written by Otaku USA writer and manga encyclopedia Jason Thompson. It’s more than probable to say that given the audience reception as well as Del Ray’s apparent excitement, the series will be marketed heavily when it hits later this year. Del Ray also presented their manga collaboration with Marvel Comics, something they project to be very successful. The first entries into the series, based off of X-Men and Wolverine. They have been allowed huge creative freedom from Marvel, and based on what was shown, that really seems to be the case: a bishie Wolverine and a Cyclops who was jokingly inspired by Tim Gunn from Project Runway are pretty strong indications that Del Ray will try to market to a much wider audience than simply the comic book demographic.
Bandai Entertainment:
Bandai gave us a lesson in the way to stay above water when you’re hovering two inches above the deep end. They refrained from setting dates for some of their biggest releases, including volumes of Lucky Star (volume six), as well as Gundam 00, simply commenting “soon.” Surprisingly though, they set an incredible amount of releases for July of 2009, to which one blogger mused, “will they even be around by then?” Titles planned for released this July are .hack//GU Trilogy: The Movie (what a title on that one), Sola Complete Collection, and True Tears. A title at Bandai that are seeing a consistent amount of marketing and release are, obviously, Code Geass, which the Director of Marketing commented will be “Bandai’s next Cowboy Bebop”, and Gurren Lagann. The Code Geass manga, as well as the light novel series are planned for continued release. Gurren Lagann will also see a continued release of their bilingual editions, and notably the special edition of volume three will come with the first volume of the manga. Given their venture into digital distribution as well as their financial situation, there is no justifiable reason to release so many SKUs of Gurren Lagann, even if it is one of their most financially secure franchises. A bilingual edition? A bilingual special edition? Arbitrary and wasteful, even if they own a huge chunk of the market now (though that may not even be saying much). Bandai’s newfound excitement about digital distribution should hopefully be contagious, given that it doesn’t backfire on them—they don’t have the resources like Funimation does to relegate distribution to just YouTube and Joost—especially Joost. Joost has proven to be only moderately successful and Bandai needs huge success with digital distribution to continue doing it. It should be noted that their partnership with Joost is tentative and has not been confirmed. So far, it’s clear that Bandai is only testing the water and have yet to fully immerse themselves like Funimation has. Only dub versions of Code Geass and Gundam 00 have been confirmed for YouTube
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