NYAF Video, Day 1:
Moritheil‘s liveblog of the New York Anime Festival, Day 0:
- 11:44 Attention New Yorkers: Moritheil walks among you. #nyaf #
- 12:19 @misuzulive Wow, how far are you driving to come to #NYAF? (Cars. NYC. Brave soul!) #
- 12:22 Tonight we dine in . . . Hell’s Kitchen? #nyaf #
- 12:55 Darnit, people in the hotel lobby are talking about plans to meeet with @animevice and I can’t place them! Who are youuuu #nyaf #
- 13:40 @s0nified hahaha, where precisely are you? #nyaf right? #
- 13:41 @hisuiRT I’m sure they were going to! One of them nodded at me and I smiled back but they didn’t say anything. Awkward otaku silence! #
- 13:42 @narutakiRT I’m a little shaky on the chronology involved. Are you going to the preparty as well, or just the movie? #
- 13:46 @animemiz Let me know if you’re about 🙂 #
- 13:47 @omonomono So, we meet again! 😛 #
- 13:48 @s0nified This just goes to show – no place is safe! 😛 #
- 13:48 Ni-pah, Yaan, Au, Fuwa-Fuwa (#NYAF) digg.com/u1D3It #
- 13:55 Nobody draw! RT @petertatara: 40,000 officers on the street because of the UN. I’m running an event filled with kids with swords. #nyaf #
- 13:57 @AA_TheHaisho That’s the spirit! 😛 #
- 14:04 @VamptVo Hey, are you in town today? Going to the preparty or anything? Doing dinner? 😀 #
- 14:07 @VamptVo Understandable. I’ll see you tomorrow, then, probably 🙂 #
- 14:21 @narutakiRT I see. I’m going to the party; I’ll see how tired I am after and decide if I can stay awake for the movie 🙂 #
- 14:33 @omonomono Cool. I’ll look for you when I get there. #
- 14:49 I’m wearing jeans and a shirt with rainbow afterimages. You can talk to me. Really. #nyaf #
- 15:05 Guy in a suit just started chatting me up. nothing to do w/anime. I’m too approachable! #
- 16:08 delicious cake is delicious. #nyaf #
- 16:13 w/ @omonomono, @animemiz, @kransomwastaken. #
- 17:37 Rapid search for Yui Makino merch: failed. Trying the dealer room tomorrow. #nyaf #
- 17:39 Fabled NY bookstores, you have let me down. #
Moritheil‘s liveblog of the New York Anime Festival, Day 1:
- 05:49 #NYAF weather: 63 F now, 41 F tonight. Can you believe that?! #
- 05:54 I heard 6 AM. RT @OutOfTimeProd: The #NYAF autograph ticket line for Yoshiyuki Tomino begun at 7am, maybe earlier. Signing is at 7pm. #
- 06:01 #NYAF #followfriday @princetrunks @ronaldhennessy @petertatara @jlhls @omonomono @debaoki @vamptvo @s0nified @hisuiRT @narutakiRT @PatzPrime #
- 06:14 Bandai’s PR guy is staying at the same hotel as me. Huh. #nyaf #
- 08:44 You will know me by my tachikoma shirt! #
- 08:45 Hanging out w/ @sbrblurb. Come say hi! #
- 09:02 Number of compliments on my @jlist shirt: 3 #nyaf #
- 09:04 Cosplayers! Come forth! My camera is ready! #nyaf #
- 09:22 Just met @Yuricon, who dropped tantalizing hints about the next Yuricon. #
- 09:25 Note @sbrblurb is wearing a pedobear getup. It’s easy to spot us! #nyaf #
- 09:56 Had a hilarious conversation with @animealmanac about the finer points of bathroom photography. #nyaf #
- 09:57 Dealer’s room is setting up. Took video but can’t get in yet. #nyaf #
- 11:00 Just saw an MTV agent try to recruit some cosplay girls. #nyaf #
- 11:29 Shook hands with @mpinto prior to his panel. Ganbatte! #nyaf #
- 11:31 #nyaf @animevice arrived fashionably late – just on time for her own panel. #
- 11:33 Correction: that fine gentleman is @michaelpinto. Ganbatte! #nyaf #
- 12:45 Interesting advice from @animevice. Now for Tokyopop. #nyaf #
- 12:47 @debaoki I’ve heard good things about Chorus. 🙂 #
- 13:03 @edsizemore whoops, just saw your tweet. I guess you know what I look like now 🙂 #
- 13:05 OK, why are we at #nyaf looking at clips from SDCC? Is this a metajoke, Tokyopop? #
- 13:06 www.Tokyopop.com/ramenflavor #nyaf #
- 13:11 Haha, 1 out of 50 ppl recognized the Joss Wheadon film Tokyopop is adapting to manga. #nyaf #
- 13:18 Nice catch by @debaoki as to who published what manga. #
- 13:20 “Not just boobs, MILK coming out of boobs!” Oh, Tokyopop. #nyaf #
- 13:37 Audience member just called out Tokyopop on declining amounts of Japanese content. #
- 13:42 Hey neat, I won a shirt. Full disclosure! #
- 13:44 Tokyopop is now 20% non-Japanese content. #nyaf #
- 14:17 In the giant blogger katamari ball by Tomino. #nyaf #
- 14:23 Tomino moved to bigger room; line chaos ensues. #nyaf #
- 14:25 Tomino has struck a victory pose. The crowd is roaring in approval. #nyaf #
- 15:19 Tomino conducted himself with great dignity and gave a high-level speech. #nyaf #
- 17:07 Tomino is the man. Nodded in approval, posed for a photo. #nyaf #
- 17:09 #nyaf Met the @hinano / @jpmeyer gattai. w/ @vamptvo and 17 other bloggers for Cencoroll. #
- 17:14 Too many bloggers to list them all. @wildarmsheero rocking the Strike Witches gear. @starcreator w/@wootshirt. #nyaf #
- 18:46 Cencoroll was very neat. Very condensed. #nyaf #
- 18:51 @mightyatom That WAS you! I wasn’t sure. #
- 20:52 @mightyatom I was with a ton of bloggers outside Cencoroll, and I was like – that hair! It’s her! I yelled at you but you didn’t respond :/ #
- 20:54 @mightyatom Then I thought, “Maybe I just didn’t get a good look; it could have been someone else.” You were moving pretty quickly. #
- 22:49 #NYAF 2009 Karaoke Showdown! digg.com/u1D8JX #
- 22:58 @mightyatom Holy crap, you missed Tomino? Well, I have some HD video for you. #
I don’t know if the editor was kidding re: Fairytale Fights – like wondering what this was doing there – but the developer (Playlogic) is based in the Netherlands.
Looking forward to other videos from this weekend.
Awesome! Keep it up!
Is it me or did the blond lady for Tokyopop panel looked like Jeremy? XD
I guess Pedobear doesn’t want to be profiled by the FBI! XD
Epic.. so that was how the Tomino Line was.. I was at the Vertical Panel.. did you see the Masquerade line.. that was.. well.. overwhelming… it was very much like last year..