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The Speakeasy: The main podcast where we discuss what we’ve been watching, reading, and playing, plus occasional other topics.

Aug 8, 2018

Be sure to attend Our Panel!

New Anime for Older Fans
Saturday, 5:45PM, Panel 4 - (WEWCC 151A)

2018 is the year of The Mecha at Otakon. Many of the guests are mecha related, and there are a whole slew of mecha panels and workshops every day.  Shoji Kawamori's work on Macross and The Vision of Escaflowne alone...


Nov 14, 2017

We're attending the inaugural Anime NYC! Can New York City truly get a forever anime convention? Anime NYC hopes so!

 

Our tentative schedule for the convention:

Friday
01:30 PM - Anime Fandom 15 Years Ago
03:30 PM - The Simulated Camera
04:30 PM - When Gundam Came to Hollywood
06:00 PM - What is HIDIVE?
07:30 PM...


Oct 4, 2017

This year's New York Comic Con hosts Fairy Tail's Hiro Mashima, adds new construction to the mix along with more offsite venues, and of course has way too many options for what to do.


Aug 7, 2017

Be sure to attend Our Panel!

New Anime for Older Fans
Friday, 9:00AM, Panel 4 - (WEWCC 150)

Welcome to a brand new Otakon. For several years it has become more and more obvious that the Baltimore Convention Center was just not big enough for Otakon. The byzantine layout of the multi building convention center mixed...


Aug 8, 2016

This is the year Otakon says goodbye to Baltimore.

One of this year’s most exciting guest is probably Kazuki Akane. Directing The Vision of Escaflowne alone probably enough to make him a tent-pole guest but his work on Heat Guy JNoein, Birdy the Mighty Decode and Code Geass: Akito the Exiled add some variety.

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