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Yes you would have to have microscopic vision to see it, but in a nutshell, the image above was my schedule for MangaNEXT. The purpose of this entry is to highlight a portion of panels I was able to attend, yet do not have as much notes or tweets about, so I can easily sum [...]

Vertical Panel was an industry/Publisher panel ran by Ed Chavez (@vertical_ed), who has been dangling the announcement of three new titles prior to the convention via twitter. He had a similar presentation to last year’s industry panel at AnimeNEXT. Here are some of my notes: Chi’s Sweet Home with vol 8 has caught up with Japanese releases. [...]

I am glad that this year I was able to attend MangaNEXT. It is an intimate convention held this year at the Sheraton Meadowland Hotel & Conference Center that was one train ride from New York City on the New Jersey Transit paired with a complimentary shuttle from the hotel. MangaNEXT is known as the [...]

Guest correspondent Shizuka’s last report about Anime USA, which is a con in transition that’s perhaps gotten a little too big for its venue. Fortunately, it’s moving to a bigger one this year. Find out more!

Guest correspondent Shizuka’s second report about Anime USA in Arlington, VA from late last year. This one is about the strikingly authentic maid cafe and host club events, with some really great pictures!

Guest correspondent Shizuka contributes the first of a 3 part report about Anime USA in Arlington, VA from late last year. Here’s an overview with some great pics!

How many Anime Diet readers are HOME MADE 家族 fans? I realize that it has been a while, but after clearing through some of my photography archive, I realize that there was one more Otakon article that Anime Diet has never ran. Flashback to Otakon 2010, this was the first year that I was at [...]

With the abundance of Social networking tools avaliable for people to use and probably get information overloaded over. Anime Diet has been keeping apace with getting the word out. If you noticed on the bottom of posts now, Mike had fixed the share bottoms on the bottom. So here I am going to tout about [...]

For Professor Layton fans in the United States, they are quite well aware that the second DS game, Professor Layton and the Last Spector released on October 17. The release of its movie on DVD Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva by Viz is going to be on a later date at November 8. At [...]

Guest correspondent Mary Yau took one for Anime Diet and experienced geek speed dating at New York Comic Con. This is her exclusive report.

I have reached a point where I simply can’t refer to New York Anime Festival as just that, when it has become merged into the melting pot of New York Comic Con. Observing from this year and last year’s, the state of New York Anime Festival has been pretty depressing. The Javits may have expanded, [...]

Known to American readers as the creator for Rave Master and Fairy Tail, Anime Diet gets the opportunity to interview this Japanese mangaka at New York Anime Festival. Hiro Mashima made time in his busy schedule to be a guest at this year’s Festival. Through the helpful assistance of an interpreter, here’s an 18 minute [...]