Katsucon post-mortem

Two colds in two months. Wonderful.

Anyways, Katsucon was alot of fun, as any anime con I go to is. (sorry, it's the weekend, and I'm not ready to think like an ESL teacher on cue) I had hoped to take some pictures of cosplayers to put up on my Japanese blog, but there was just too much running around and too many things I wanted to do besides teaching Japanese (Marble Madness in the video game room, for one).

As for Japanese, the main panel was a success; we were at capacity, and then some. I think I will have to remove some of the extra elements I added this time around to make room for more questions, but otherwise I get the impression that alot of people enjoyed it.

The extra panels...well, not so much. At Anime Boston and Anime USA, the additional lessons were well advertised. Katsucon...again, not so much. I'll just spit it out: only one person came to the final two panels combined. That's because of the reason above, and that one of the panel rooms required a trail of bread crumbs. I will definitely have to step up my advertising of the extra panels at the next con.

Speaking of the next con...Anime Boston is coming up again in April, and Japanese Basics is on the schedule yet again! Hooray!

On top of that, I will be presenting a brand new panel, something I hope other people will pick up on in the future. Once upon a time, I was a fanfic writer who constantly complained deep inside that C&C was, more often than not, nothing more than token "great job!" or "your writing really blows" remarks.

So, at Anime Boston I will be hosting Fanfiction C&C Workshop. Yet another 2-hour panel detailing the elements of anime fanfiction needing to be reviewed, how to review them, and how to define content in fanfiction that is good from that which is not. I'm planning to solicit works from one or two fanfic writers to test out the theories presented at the workshop, so stay tuned for that (specifically, keep your eyes on the AB message boards).

Enough out of me for now. Time to play some Wii.