Not another Otakon 2007 post! Last Otakon post, promise. For all the things at the con that could have been run better, I still had a good time and was glad I made the trip. Most of the panels were amusing or interesting in some way and blowing lots of money on useless stuff in the dealer’s room is always fun.

Free mini pencil boards and Paradise Kiss postcard.

Panel Highlights

The most entertaining panels for me each year are the English voice actor panels. Far fewer people this year asked the annoying question about how to get into voice acting, so the panels really stayed fun most of the time. The guests could just tell stories and be funny. There’s always a few creepy questions asked by obsessed fans that earn a collective what the hell, but it’s funny to talk about it afterwards.

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Paradise Kiss is the story of Yukari, a high school student going with the flow — she goes to cram school to do well on her exams, so she can get into her reach university if she aces, her target university if she studies hard, or if she totally bombs out at least she makes her fall back university. The only problem with Yukari, cram school, and university, is she never actually decided that is what she wanted to do with her life. Yukari was just doing it because that’s what students do.

Then one day she meets a group of fashion design students who want her to be their model for an upcoming fashion show. These designs students are foreign to her, bizarre, and somewhat frightening, in part because they have done something Yukari has never done. Paradise Kiss is a story about people making the choices and working toward be who they want to become, rather than letting the choices be made for them by someone else.
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