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Anime Boston 2012 day 1
2012-04-07 00:52Last April was too soon, I guess, but this year Madoka has become as popular here as it is in Japan. Cosplayers everywhere. I have a few cool pics to put up some time. The Madoka panel was given an entire exhibit hall. This was overkill in a sense, we didn't even half fill it, but that's a lot more space than the typical panel room can provide. Good panel too; one point was Madoka deconstructing both Magical Girl and Moe fetishism, but only reconstructing Magical Girl at the end; getting off on suffering and vulnerability is left in uncomfortable pieces.
This year I saw more T-shirts about specific anime, but of course most of them are for stuff like Naruto, not stuff I watch. There was a Haruhi Suzumiya shirt... with her pulling her shirt off and exposing her bra. Who of either sex wants to walk around with that in public? Similarly there was a Spice and Wolf shirt with nice art... of naked Horo. From behind, mostly showing buttcrack and underboob, but still, not the identify statement I want to be making. I got a Firefly Venn diagram instead.
Other cosplayers: Dalek. Tardis. 10th Doctor. Ouran, Bleach, Death Note, Suzumiya, and Avatar are still running around.
Someone thought Japanese curry actually came to them via the British, not directly from Asia. Someone else said it uses turmeric and cumin, but leaves out the red pepper. Makes sense, given that the only hot thing in Japanese cuisine is wasabi, if you call that hot. I'm not sure what it is.
This year I know people! Yay!
This year I saw more T-shirts about specific anime, but of course most of them are for stuff like Naruto, not stuff I watch. There was a Haruhi Suzumiya shirt... with her pulling her shirt off and exposing her bra. Who of either sex wants to walk around with that in public? Similarly there was a Spice and Wolf shirt with nice art... of naked Horo. From behind, mostly showing buttcrack and underboob, but still, not the identify statement I want to be making. I got a Firefly Venn diagram instead.
Other cosplayers: Dalek. Tardis. 10th Doctor. Ouran, Bleach, Death Note, Suzumiya, and Avatar are still running around.
Someone thought Japanese curry actually came to them via the British, not directly from Asia. Someone else said it uses turmeric and cumin, but leaves out the red pepper. Makes sense, given that the only hot thing in Japanese cuisine is wasabi, if you call that hot. I'm not sure what it is.
This year I know people! Yay!