You know, what you describe sounds a bit like e3 and GDC. The ‘panels’ seem like one big infomercial. I like Q&A panels which is more like GDC in that regards. Skip the gong-shows next time if you know it’s predictable, and jump straight to the panels where you can learn stuff!

Soul Eater is a really fun series, I think you’d enjoy it. The art stlye really is cool and BONES did a great job bringing the manga’s action and creep factor to life.

I didn’t make it there this year (my track record has been go-to-a-con-every-other-year), but provided some of my friends can make it in ’10, I’ll probably be there. Have to try and bump into each other if I make it.

I totally agree that you cant determine wich Buttons are original and wich are selfmade but my humble guess is that most of them arent legitimate.They are just way too easy too make with very little effort.

I demand a new picture of your armoured bag now!

Now it’s sort of too late for everyone but Funimation to invest in such a thing, but they’re playing catch-up and simply lack the experience Crunchyroll has in terms of delivering content online. Sadly, GONZO really had no other option than to go to Crunchyroll and Crunchyroll needed that deal to legitimize their operation and become the industry leader for delivering legitimate anime content online by default. They had infrastructure. If Funimation were further along, GONZO could have gone to them, I imagine, since Funimation releases most GONZO titles on dvd.

I am a paying Crunchyroll customer. Basically, it’s like if not Crunchyroll, who is going to lead anime companies to put content online?

As to the BRS notepads, I was looking, but didn’t see any. It would have been like $15 for a notepad, but it would have been a sweet way to track hit points for D&D.

Well, that Dub Workshop sounds neat, & would have been fantastic to pull some lines from Gurren Lagaan, as-of which I have just got the Vol 1. DVD a couple of night ago. – Fantastic BTW. Also the AWO panel would have been kick-ass to go too. Ugh, wish I could have been there…….

Not that I know too much about it, but I still don’t like how Crunchyroll has catapulted itself as the, “Go to” spot for viewing anime online. I just never thought that something that virtually cheated the industry of profit, could then stick a feather in its cap & eventually “mask” itself as something “good” & effectively gained favor by the same people who originally tried to get rid of it, because of how it was so obviously cheating them.

From my point of view, I’ve thought the Industry sloppy; that when It came down to crunch time, (“obviously” no pun intended) that instead of looking back at it’s miss fortunes, in regards to the internet being a big golden juicy key for Torrents & unlawful streaming of Anime & the like, that it eventually crumbled (if ever slightly) to the hands of Crunchyroll.
- & sure “now” it seems CR are beginning to wash its hands of its illicit beginnings, but Companies like GONZO should not have sided with them when things got tough. Getting to the point. I feel pretty angered that the Industry, as a collective whole, could not join forces to create their own service to distribute & provide Anime online for the willing masses, in much the same way that iTunes & the like, a.k.a STEAM do for Music & games. Sure studios like FUNimation have that now, but it’s way too little, way too late……

I say get your asses together, start “your own” “STEAM” for Anime & Manga, & boycott the heck out of Crunchyroll. Until it’s dead & gone. It’s like having a “middle-man” between the middle-man. The wrong shouldn’t be rewarded. – I guess I’m a bit off-topic.

Anyway, I dig that coffee mug you got. I noticed there are a couple of BRS notepads out there too. were there any available that you saw? I’m keen now to go find one for sure.