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Greg Dean Panel

He was funny.
Dom was funnier.

Anime Blogging Panel #2

It degenerated into a random memegy/ab-related jokes. Lots of Jason bashing. Some hand-drawn graphs (I commented on the fact that “GTFO” is not a function). I mentioned my love for Drm and Impz’s state as a trap. Uh, we got lots of questions (which was good) and gave lots of answers (which was better) and then, towards the end of the panel, Zalas (guy who did a few awesome MADs, and the MAD panel Pangya panel yesterday) came in wearing a “Gao Gao Stegasaurus” shirt and that was cool. He went on to do a panel about translating visual novels after our panel, and it wasn’t too interesting for me, but hell—the guy knows what he’s talking about. He’s awesome.

Uh… our audience was cool. Calaggie showed up as he’d promised, but Spiritsnare skipped out on us (lamer). A few more of my friends were present than the day before, so that was fun. We actually said some on-topic things here and there, about killer lolis and Suzumiya Haruhi being dead, etc. I refrained from calling Nagato Yuki a helpless slut. All in all, fun. Guy in audience had an Apple logo on his hat. Another random guy in audience was a fan of AIR, which pleased me. Also, we desu’d our own panel. >_>

The last part of our panel was going around the room and asking people what they thought of my sign.

Brief History of the sign

Last year at Fanime, while in line to register, Tanuki Nao drew me this sign that says “<3 ME I'M LOLICON"—some of you may remember the picture of me with it from last year. The sign is also my Facebook avatar. I got lots of laughs, lots of distressed glances, some horrified glares, some people taking my picture. It was fun, so I wore the sign again at AOD in August. There it was confiscated by con staff and when, at the webcomics panel, the topic was brought up, Dom of Megatokyo called me a disgusting human being for the sign (this was while he was talking about his four year old cousin and making groping motions with his hands. Fucker). Anyway, moral of the story is the sign is awesome. Wore it again this Fanime, got a lot of interesting reactions.

Now that we’re done talking about the panels, let’s go on to chronicling the success of my sign-wearing.

lol i loev pizza
One guy asked me what “lolicon” meant so I said I liked people who didn’t like pizza. He was pretty nonplussed, apparently not recognizing the reference. Later on that day, he saw me again and shouted something about how pizza is good and I suck. I stopped to explain that my “fixation” results in my getting more pizza. He then high-fived me.

hardgay plz
The Harutards at the con were gathering for a photoshoot and to do Hare Hare Yukai, so I asked the HG cosplayer to ruin it with random intrusive pelvic thrusts. He agreed, saying,”just for you, lolicon.” (Harriet Susan Meyers is dead)

hugs
Little girl with nekomimi gave me a hug, claiming that she loved lolicons. Later on, she gave me another hug, exclaiming “more heart!!”

<3
Some girl did the little heart thing with her hands in my direction. Awwww.

what the fuck
One guy saw me from a distance, and approached me slowly, all the while removing one of his earbuds very dramatically. When he stopped a couple feet away, he exclaimed “what the fuck?!! so you’re a pedophile?” I couldn’t stop myself from laughing at this, and a man nearby quipped, “does it matter?”

sos brigade = jailbait
I’m sitting outside waiting for the Hare Hare Yukai to start and the head of the Bay Area SOS-dan approaches me. He asks if I’m not by any chance shotacon, too, because he’s only seventeen. I smile sympathetically and shake my head, explaining that I’m only sixteen years old. He bursts out laughing, and, amidst laughs, tells me that it “doesn’t work.” I tell him it does—I get more pizza. He, unlike mr. info desk, got the memeference, and was pleased beyond belief by my joke. My supremacy over Harutards is supreme.

scared
Guy peeks around a support column at my sign, blinks once or twice, then runs away.

livejournal
A woman came up to me, took a picture with her cellphone, said she would post it on her livejournal. I smiled.

/d/
Some time between eleven and midnight, I got photographed by some dude with a real camera and a hearty laugh. I asked him to post the pic on /d/. He didn’t get it at first, but then he did. And he laughed moar.

tentacle’d
I walked through a group of people, one of which commented on how gross lolicon is. I agreed, admitting to the fact that I hurt myself at night for it. Someone else in said group muttered something about shotacon, and then then some girl whacked me with her tentacle-arm.

lots of lulz
Many un-remarkable laughs, stares, etc. captured from unsuspecting people.

ah, memory
Some dude remembered me from last year. Hot, if it weren’t for the fact that he’s a creep. And a noob. He first got on the “internets” with YTMND in 2003. He’s no longer allowed to speak.

stand up
At the 4chan panel last night (Damn you Internets #2) there were lots of loli jokes made. At one point, onii-tama and all my friends shoved me out of my chair and made me stand up. I don’t think the panelists saw the sign, but everyone nearby was like “OMG LOL.”

I’m going to make a post about the 4chan panels later. They were effin’ awesome (my last uninformative post doesn’t do them justice). All I know is that I like Lucky Star because of them, and they’ve made me racist, and … gyah. Mexican guys in maid uniforms are sexy. Also, jason? AND AND AND Jared is fucking awesome.

Also, buttsex.

4chan panel was 4chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan

There was a MAD panel. It was supposedly about MADs.
But it was actually about Pangya.

Um…
the aniblogosphere panel was fun.
I met Calaggie and Spiritsnare, and they were pretty interesting people. Um, President didn’t come to my panel because she sucks. Someone actually asked if one of us was Jason Miao, and that kind of made my day. Calaggie and Spiritsnare appeared to not be Jason Miao, or at least one could conclude this from the fact that they joined me in bashing AoMM. We talked about the past, and about the present, and about the Impz School of Delegation, and then we took questions. And people asked about things like… uh… anime downloading. And Youtube. And we talked about how anime downloading is bad and Youtube is bad.

I was super-nervous at first, but as the panel went on, I shat my pants and soon felt relieved. Hahahahah pun intended.

Wow I must be the wittiest anime blogger ever to grace the aniblogosphere.

Um.

Nyaaa~?

EDIT: more to come, along with uh… you know, coherence, and shit like that.
Another panel tomorrow. And stuff like that. And now, I’m off to the 4chans panel.

Please… let me back into your life!

Episode seven of Lucky Star has shown me the way!!
What do I do best?
KYOANI KYOANI KYOANI
What is my game?
KYOANI KYOANI KYOANI
Do I love KyoAni?
GUNG-HO GUNG-HO GUNG-HO

More seriously though, wow, the Marimite thing really shocked me. In the like, “wow, this is actually funny. In that they’re parodying Marimite.” And then five seconds later they’re actually discussing Marimite. C’mon KyoAni, I love you, but don’t beat the horse, k?

(this post will be edited with MOAR fanboying once I get past … er, yeah, this is within the first 2.5 minutes of the episode, OP included)

EDIT 1: Miyuki is playing the Rosa Foetida role with the tooth getting pulled

EDIT 2: Konata watches Strawberry Panic (in other words she’s a complete fucking moron, but I love her for it)

EDIT 3: Tsukasa presses cellphone buttons and moans

EDIT 4: Konata’s ringtone is Hare Hare Yukai. This is slipping back into the storm drain

EDIT 5: Konata luvs girls wif glasses.

EDIT 6: was that manga Loveless?

EDIT 7: the guy on Lucky Channel… was Yumi

EDIT 8: this show is fucking awesome

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(This would have been a far more interesting panel topic than “blogging and anime popularity.” Also, my new poll is hilarious.)

This will be an examination of various “styles,” “genres,” or “disciplines,” if you will, in anime blogging.

The Jason Miao School of Fanboyism
Defining characteristics: abundance of /a/ memes in posts. Invents own quazi-memes for propagation amongst innocent readers. Misinterprets anime and squees over said misinterpretation. Tends to make posts about english language anime blogging community, while refusing to partake in said community. Fanboys over shit.
Assorted subscribers: Jason Miao, lolikitsune

The Jeff Lawson School of Fanboyism
Defining characteristics: Fanboys over shit, but is extremely courteous to others in the process. Members of this school are the last proponents of civility on the internet. Also enjoys good discourse.
Assorted subscribers: Jeff, Shirukii

The Stripey School of Siscon
Defining characteristics: enjoys pretty things. And little sister characters. Blogging persona defined by fetish.
Assorted subscribers: Stripey, Yuribou, the silent majority

The Lovely Kitsune School of Youth Appreciation
Defining characteristics: gag posts, preaches Ichigo Mashimaro and Maria-sama ga Miteru, bashes shit anime. (the most entertaining school of anime blogging)
Assorted subscribers: Lovely Kitsune, lolikitsune

The Impz School of Delegation
Defining characteristics: ambitious. Tries to get lots of people to post on site in order to increase posts, readership, popularity, etc. Tries to get one or more post out per day. Worries about stats, page hits, etc. Generally too concerned with appearances to kick potential ass.
Assorted subscribers: Impz, the Kono~Sono staff

The Os School of Not Blogging
Defining characteristics: doesn’t post while bitching about other people not posting. Fix it yourself, lamer.
Assorted subscribers: Os

The Scott Frye School of Not Blogging
Defining characteristics: doesn’t post. Or rather, posts, but nothing of meaning or value.
Assorted subscribers: Scott Frye, lolikitsune

The JP Meyer School of Intelligence
Defining characteristics: valuable posts. Concerned with community, stats, AND quality.
Assorted subscribers: JP Meyer, Michael, Owen S (when he’s not trying to be a gangster)

There might be more. And I didn’t place all the bloggers because that’s not really the point. Basically, the Japanese anime bloggers are better than us, Japan is superior, GRAPHS, etc. etc.
<3 all

Majime na Lolikit

She may have her reasons for what she’s doing (actually, it’s pretty likely) but wow, what a fucking asshole. Dorito-kun should slap her back to her hospital room. Also, brother complex is kind of foul.

As for Matsuri… running away in order to get the protagonist to come after you is pretty bitchy, too. And pansy. And such. But she’s still better than Aono. ’cause she at least pretends she’s doing what she’s doing for other people.

When Aono’s eyes faded to a flat gradient, I thought to myself,
“YES YES YES DO IT DO IT DO IT”

And then Dorito-kun wtfstabbed Matsuri, and I thought to myself,
“WTFSTAB WTFSTAB WTFSTAB”

The show is still pretty, though this episode demonstrated the first major flaw apparent in character animation—the thumbs in the scene where Aono hands the photos back to Dorito-kun. Oh well. You win some, you lose some. At this point, the show’s major shortcomings include and are mainly limited to one thing: it’s too fuckin’ Japanese.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg5lhX1Hcy8

Oh sweet mother of anime blogging.
I laughed my ass off.