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June 28th, 2010 - 9:01 pm § in Conventions

Animazement 2010

Grow­ing from its roots as 3-day anime marathon in 1997 with 200 atten­dees, this lit­tle con has grown in to a mas­sive event with over 7000 atten­dees. Two years ago, it took up res­i­dence in the Raleigh Con­ven­tion Cen­ter after out­grow­ing its pre­vi­ous hotel con­ven­tion cen­ter home. Accus­tomed to oper­at­ing with a tried and true sys­tem of run­ning the con in a smaller venue for so long, adap­ta­tion to a new venue takes trial and error, and Ani­maze­ment is still exper­i­ment­ing to make the most of its new home. Some of the events logis­tics are still under con­struc­tion, but the Ani­maze­ment expe­ri­ence over­all remains a smooth run­ning oper­a­tion, with few delays, most prob­lems quickly solved, and an eye towards con­tin­u­ous improvement.

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June 9th, 2010 - 10:25 pm § in Conventions

Wyrd One — Upcoming New Con

South­ern Cal­i­for­nia now has another con for us all to look for­ward to. The con is Wyrd One, the West Coast LARP Con­ven­tion being pre­sented by the groups LARP Alliance and Live Effects. From their web­site: “South­ern California’s Live Action Role Play (LARP) con­ven­tion Wyrd[...]


April 17th, 2010 - 10:05 pm § in Anime

Death Note– Or– How I learned to love L.

Death Note took me by sur­prise. Given that every anime that I’ve watched so far has taken me by sur­prise, this shouldn’t sur­prise any­one but me.  Death Note required more absorp­tion time for me than any anime so far. It’s taken me a cou­ple of weeks to fig­ure out whether I really[...]


March 25th, 2010 - 6:19 pm § in Cosplay

Tools for Cosplay that You Should Know About: the 2x18” clear ruler

I’ve decided to put together a run­ning list of items that I have dis­cov­ered that can save cos­play­ers a lot of time and frus­tra­tion, but that you prob­a­bly would never think to buy or uti­lize. This week’s item is sim­ple: the clear 2x18” ruler.[...]


February 26th, 2010 - 11:20 am § in Hot Cosplayer

Hot Cosplayer of the Month — February 2010

Sorry every­one that this one is so late, but here is our Hot Cos­player of the Month for Feb­ru­ary 2010, Shiya. 1. What is your name, and where do you hail from? My real name is Shantel, but I go by Shiya a lot more! From South­ern Cal­i­for­nia (Fontana) mid­dle of no where.[...]


February 24th, 2010 - 9:13 pm § in Anime, Movies

Tokyo Godfathers– Sweet Action and a Baby

Ok. Tokyo God­fa­thers just about blew my mind. I still haven’t got­ten used to the idea of Anime movies tack­ling sub­ject mat­ter that you’d expect to find in the realm of live action drama or action films. In my mind Anime still occu­pies a space reserved for more “chil­dren friendl[...]


February 10th, 2010 - 12:07 pm § in Photoshoots

Summoner Yuna Photoshoot

Our final Anime South pho­to­shoot this year comes from Spook­loops and fea­tures a gor­geous Sum­moner Yuna cos­tume, which received a judge’s award in the cos­tume con­test. Pho­tos were taken both on the beach and amongst the foliage to cap­ture the beauty of this costume. A full gal[...]