Video Programming

Here are highlights from this year's video programming schedule. Full details about these viewings will be posted on our schedule!

Highlights

Friday Night Goth Fest - A selection of horror themed anime titles.

Saturday Morning Cartoon Bonanza - Saturday mornings as they used to be.

Shojou Dreams - A collection of shojou themed series.

Old School Anime - Featuring Matsumoto Night & Disaster with the Dirty Pair.

Dragonball Night in Canada - Saturday Nights alright for fighting!

The Marathon Room - Old and new favorites from over the years shown in blocks.

Magical Sugar Buzz Theater - All the cutest, highest energy series we could find, in one showing.

Spicy Wolf & Her Butler - voice actor showcase featuring our guests Brina Palencia & J Micheal Tatem

The AMV Room - Anime Music Videos and all their aspects. 

The Dub Room - All weekend long, subtitle-free anime and live action shows.

The Blu Velvet Room - Come view the wonders of Blu Ray technology all weekend long. New York Room.

Baby Blue Anime: 18+ - Our all night Adult track, must be 18 or older to attend.

All Night Anime - Can’t sleep? Need to hang or chill out? Or just plain need to OD on Anime? Then join  the All Night Room. Friday and Saturday, midnight to dawn.

Special Showings

Anime Forever!

Anime Forever! is a movie about what it really means to be an anime fan, setting out on an epic journey through the fantastical world of the con ^_^ Take a trip to cons all over the US, Canada and beyond to celebrate what makes our fandom so special, and remember that whoever or wherever you are, the con is the best weekend party anybody could go to!! Check out the trailer at www.kawaiifilms.com

NIS Showcase

NIS America tells you what their company and titles are all about.
Followed by the NIS Spotlight, Sat 3pm to 6pm Int A

AMV Contest Replay

A replay of our AMV contest.

Videoscope Presentations

It’s video, a panel and something more!

Dubs that Time Forgot

Old home video releases, older pilot episodes, oldest movie reels ... anime's been present in the English-speaking world for 50 years, but most of it has fallen through the cracks.  For every home video and TV hit, there are dozens that sit for decades, waiting to be rediscovered. Join Mike Toole and Dave Merrill for a fascinating look at the secret history of anime ... in English!

Tha' Leiji-verse

It started with a comic about war called Senjo Manga (Battlefield Comics).  From there, artist Leiji Matsumoto captivated the world with the likes of Star Blazers, Captain Harlock, and Galaxy Express 999. Never content to rest on his laurels, Matsumoto has defined and re-defined his heroes and stories over and over again; old fans revere him for his classic space opera, and new fans love him for his work with Daft Punk. But what does Leiji Matsumoto's body of work look like, and how is it all connected? Come and find out!

Anime Cult Classics

A fascinating exploration of little-known, unappreciated, and oddly entertaining anime... anime produced by cults, that is! From the Sokka Gakkai's bizarre shorts to the Institute for Research in Human Happiness's big-budget HERMES: WINGS OF LOVE feature film, and to the anime produced by (and starring) Shoko Ashara, who would go on to orchestrate the chilling 1994 Tokyo subway bombing, we'll explore a cross-section of TRUE "cult anime."

Bootleg Anime/Manga

Sometimes a certain anime gets really popular, which leads to cheap imitations. Sometimes these ideas head overseas, leading anime concepts, character designs, and story details to suddenly and illegally pop up in South Korean and Chinese animation and western comics.  These unintended influences lead to wonderful and genuinely
baffling stuff - stuff like SPACE GUNDAM V, JOHNNY DESTINY: SPACE NINJA, and a completely unauthorized take on CAPTAIN HARLOCK! Forget the cheap fakes at the flea market - come to this panel and find out about TRUE bootlegged anime!

Anime Hell

Two solid hours of guaranteed mild amusement brought to you by puzzling anime shorts, confusing clips, improbable trailers, undeniably fake ads, disturbing educational films, commercials too stupid to live, and indescribable audio/visual things you never thought possible or necessary. Don't miss the special LIVE appearance of the star of "Robot King"!Our 8th year.

Space Battleship Yamato

The Japanese anime classic comes to the big screen in this 2010 live action big budget box office spectacular starring Takuya Kimura!  Can the resurrected Space Battleship Yamato reach Iscandar in time to save the Earth? This screening features custom fan-made English subtitles.

Osamu Tezuka's Animation Legacy

Osamu Tezuka, the God Of Manga, produced over 150000 pages of manga in his lifetime. But when he wasn't drawing comics he was producing anime! Join Helen McCarthy and Dave Merrill as they take a look at the decades of animated TV and movies Tezuka produced, from Astro Boy to the Amazing Three, from Phoenix 2772 to Blue Blink, from Kimba The White Lion to Microid S, from Princess Knight to Jetter Mars, as well as experimental films, pilots, live-action series, weird failures, and offbeat hybrids of live action and animation. When did this guy sleep??

Mister Kitty's Stupid Comics

Take a penetrating look at the world of Stupid Comics with recognized Stupid Comics experts Shain and Dave from "misterkitty.org". Six decades of bad writing, sloppy draftsmanship, inept plots, confusing stories, and insulting characters all designed to separate children of all ages from their allowances will be paraded on the big screen for your amusment and derision. Special attention will be given to the misguided attempts of Westerners to appropriate the Japanese manga and anime styles!

Spooky Classic Anime

Take a spooky trip back in time with classic Japanese anime all about ghosts, monsters, spirits, haints, and spooks! Can the mythological folklore of a nation make the translation into black and white (and color!) scary cartoons in the 1960s and 70s?  Is it true ghosts don't have to go to school?  Are you brave enough to handle ultra-scary anime like GE GE GE NO KITARO, AKUMA-KUN, YOKAI NINGEN BEM, VAMPIRE, and DORORON ENMA-KUN? Sure you are.

TOTALLY LAME ANIME

Join Neil Nadelman as he opens his drawers and lets you in on all the unhealable deep-hurting examples of the rock-bottom worst the animation industry can try to offer your eyes. It's a carnival of terrible animation, ugly character design, confusing storylines, complete ripoffs, and other offenses against good taste and decency. Now in glorious 2D!

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: Ponyrama!

Neil Nadleman discusses the popular franchiseAlong with clips, trailers and other surprises. All ages and Equine classes.  Tell them Wilber sent you.

The Chill Room

Checked in and registered before the con officially starts? Come on down and set a spell at the Chill Room with some old favorites. Plus surprises, screeners and premieres throughout the weekend.

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