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Thomas Stidman and Mark Pope from Anime USA join us for a discussion on Anime and the Anime USA convention. Thom is a long time Anime fan and runs the dealer’s room at Anime USA. Mark is also a long time Anime fan, he is the convention chair for Anime USA 2007.

Anime USA will take place Nov 16-18, 2007 in the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Virginia.

• The pain and joy of running a convention
• How we got into Anime
• Hayao Myazaki
• Why the early dubs of Anime were so bad
• PROMO: Aliens You Will Meet podcast
• PROMO: Asian Variations, free web album, by MoShang
• Good starts in Anime
• Why do we see more Japanese animation than live action?
• Anime USA, 2007
• Guests of honor, concerts, voice actors, live action
• Showing some high-def anime on Blue-Ray disk
• Licensing issues with Anime music videos
• Costuming panels, panel tracks, lots and lots to do
• Programming runs almost 24 hours a day
• Taiko drums
• Lots of cultural things
• Tee Morris, podcasting guest
• Lots of places to eat
• They’re expecting 3500-4500 attendees
• MUSIC: In Development, by MoShang’s Asian Variations free download album

The list of Anime we talk about in no particular order:

• Speed Racer
• Star Blazers / Gatchaman
• Marine Boy
• Robotech
• Battle of the Planets
• Akira
• Nausicaa / Warriors of the Wind
• Princess Mononoke
• Spirited Away
• Kiki’s Delivery Service
• Gundam Wing
• Peach Girl
• Ergo Proxy
• Neon Genesis: Evangelion
• Cowboy Bebop
• Trigun
• Naruto
• Happy Feet
• Card Captor Sakura
• Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo
• Air Gear
• Ghost in the Shell
• Elfen Lied
• Howl’s Moving Castle