On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 09:29:38AM -0600, Chris Davies wrote:

@>	Second, AnimeThon has always been, and (unless something 
@>unprecedented happens) always shall be a smaller, more intimate 
@>convention/festival than the big American conventions that many of
you 

This is what makes it appealing, I think. It's a festival of
animation, not a festival of rampant commercialism. The emphasis is on
the many rooms of anime showing, something that I never hear about the
American Cons.

@>overcrowding, or humourous anecdotes about the hotel.  I live in this city, 
@>for heaven's sake.

Oh, but aren't there some funny things to say about Edmonton?

@>	This is the third consecutive year that I've been to AnimeThon 
@>(sixth year it's been running) and I made a decision not to watch anything 
@>that I'd already seen.  I didn't really keep to this vow, but so it goes.

I've been to all six. Damn few of us left.

@>and have some breakfast before the 10-15 minute walk to Grant McKuen 
@>Community College.  Nope.  Make that time to have a shower and figure out 

MacEwan.

@>	Need I really review that movie?  It's Ghibli; they couldn't make 
@>a bad movie if they *tried*.  I loved it, of course.  My one real 

They could, if they tried. Anything that they apply their minds to,
they can do. And it would be *spectacularily* bad, if they wanted it
to be bad. A great piece of it's own right.

@>	Anyway, people start coming out of the theatre and I head in. "X" 
@>is over, moody music by Japanese Kurt Cobain-wannabes is playing, and I 
@>sit down expecting to spend half an hour waiting for "Sakura Wars" to 
@>start since it's only 4:30.  Much to my stunned amazement, the zombie 
@>projectionist starts the show, meaning that it'll end half an hour before 
@>scheduled too.  Oh well.  And another weird moment.  The first episode of 
@>"Sakura Wars" is a fansub, while the second is from ADV.  What gives?

The early start was really irritating. I complained about it, in
fact. The staff assured me that the projectionist would be annihilated
in a most humorous way.

@>field of computer games art gives her creation by Fujishima Kosuke a 
@>certain ominous element.  So I like "Sakura Wars", but not without a 
@>twinge of concern.

A good assessment, I think. I agree.

@>	Anyway, that's the end of AnimeThon VI.  I check in with Ophelia, 
@>and she promises to come to the next one, and I promise to do the same if 
@>I live.  Kotori had to leave around 4:00, so I can't pat her on the head 
@>one last time.  So I pat Megan's head instead and she beats the crap out 
@>of me.  Fun!

Indeed. That's why I keep coming back. That's why I helped organize a
couple of them.

@>	All in all, it was really a good time.  Not as good as last year, 
@>but I really did have a good time.  I really am looking forward to next 
@>year's event.

An event worth looking forward to, really. I may even start helping
them again, next year. Then again, maybe not. :)

Maybe I'll stick some random C&C here at the end.

Uh...plot was thin, character development was weak. ;)

JS

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