At long last, we bring you our coverage of Anime Expo 2013. (Part 1 of 2)

Fortunately, this time the delay was not caused by a hard drive crash. (After last year’s fiasco I learned my lesson; this time I made about five different backups of all our AX files.) However due to some audio glitches, editing this turned out to be harder than usual. Also I’ve just been incredibly busy, back on a job that requires 3+ hour bus commutes, and haven’t had a good solid block of time when I could sit down and record and edit. And of course there was the week or so I was out thanks to good old Con Crud.

We managed to gas on for over 2 hours, so I’ll be turning this into a two-parter. In this first part we talk about our impressions of AX, what we saw and did, and what we liked (and didn’t like).

I still intend to finish processing our video and photos from AX, so those will be coming out piecemeal over the next few weeks. So keep your eyes on our YouTube and our Photo Gallery.

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Today’s Theme: “YÅ«kyÅ« no Tabibito ~ Dear boy” (æ‚ ä¹…ã®æ—…人～Dear boy) by Snow*, ED to the anime Idolmaster Xenoglossia.

On today’s panel:

Danny Barer

Michelle Klein-Hass (TOKYOPOP, LessFatChick, Otagenki)

Avi (personal Tumblr, Fashion Monster Blog)

Beep

Stuff we talked about:

Hidden video controversy:

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• Anime Expo’s statement about the video
  
• AX Forum discussion about the video
  
• AX Cosplay Etiquette statement and video
  
• TTDILA Article about the video
  

AM2 Announced 2013 Convention Postponed

Anime Expo Announces Record Attendance for AX 2013

Millennium Biltmore Hotel (so famous that it has a Wikipedia article!)

Yesss! Anime Expo 2013 schedule is now available in the Guidebook app!

Guidebook App

MTV Geek article with a list of guests and events that were at AX 2013

“Little Witch Academia” Kickstarter Hits Stretch Goals

“Kick-Heart” Crowd-Funded Anime Reaches Initial Kickstarter Funding Goal

New Streaming Site “Anime Sols” to Launch in 2013

Anime Sols

Osamu Tezuka’s 24 Hour TV Specials on Anime Sols

Shazam app for iOS and Android

The Lobos Truck

Cousins’ Maine Lobster Truck

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