I hope you all had a good Memorial Day weekend. We spent Friday through Monday running a booth in the Dealers room at Fanime here in the Bay Area, and running our two panels (Romance 101 and a Shira Oka preview). It was nice to meet community members in our own area for a change, and both of our panels went surprisingly well (especially considering the experimental format of the second one).
Fortunately, someone in our audience taped the Romance 101 panel, so hopefully we'll be able to upload that sometime. For those who couldn't make it to the panel-- we used our in-game engine to run the presentation, with various characters from our game narrating the slides. Then we solicited the help of eight brave volunteers from our audience, to be voice actors for the characters... occasionally with hilarious results!
Also interesting to note, this was also the first convention where we were approached for a couple brief press interviews. I'll post more information about those when it's available.
A-Kon
This weekend will be our first time at A-Kon in Dallas, Texas. We have a space in the Exhibits Hall, which is in the area outside of the Dealers Room. Since A-Kon ends up being the weekend immediately after Fanime, we won't be shipping our full booth setup over there (to avoid paying exorbitant fees). We'll still be taking forum signups though, if anyone's interested.
So if any of you are going to A-Kon, be sure to stop by our our table to sign up for your special A-Kon forum icon!
I don't have much time to talk today, as this is one of my busy nights. After school, I have various club meetings to attend, followed by piano and violin practice several nights a week... it's an exhausting schedule, but that's how you get to be real good at something, right? lol. Lately I've been trying to decide if it would be more fun to try to learn Pathétique Sonata, or if I should work on perfecting Moonlight Sonata for my next recital. hhm, tough choice.
I guess I can take a moment to chat, though... if Aya can blog about her silly manga obsessions, then I'm sure someone out there would appreciate hearing about my experiences in Shira Oka as an exchange student, right?
So as I'm sure you all know, I'm from America. San Diego, California, to be exact. And while I thought I knew a lot about Japanese culture before I got here, experiencing it firsthand has been an entirely different thing! Sometimes the most subtle things get you, like how they don't have some of the snack foods I enjoyed back home (even the sandwiches at burger joints are different!) or how manners tend to be a bit different.
Aya here. I dont have a lot of time to talk but I just had to come and say a few things, which GRAHH hes drooling on my leg again!!
I’m watching my little siblings today and theyre being such a pain!! I wish Kiku would hurry up and get here already, I’m surrounded!!~
ANYWAY!! Ive been so busy lately! Ive been running around like a crazy woman doing this n that for my parents or Hiroshi or for clubs at school and I’m all obsessed with that new card game and my favorite mangaka just started a new series... remember this next time Kiku calls me lazy! Just cause I don’t have time to do my homework doesnt mean Im lazy!! In fact, Im reading all the time! Who says comic books arent educational?? Im learning lots about the complex social interactions between men and women and robots and important things like that! Way more important than finding the square root of water or whatever...
Oh!!~
Im gonna be sooo awesome in swim club this year, Hiroshis gonna go totally nuts!! Especially when he sees how hot I
look in my swimsuit, Naokos gonna have nothing on me~
What else what else what else what else what else what else~~~
Hey, everyone, what's up? It's me, Alice!
Aya here. I dont have a lot of time to talk but I just had to come and say a few things, which GRAHH hes drooling on my leg again!!
