The second JAMPcon recently held in Chattanooga, TN, has been the best JAMPcon in its 2nd year! At a new location from the Chattanooga Choo Choo in 2008, the Chattanooga Convention Center was perfect: everything you need from panels to the manga library, and Artist Alley was a walk away from each other, just like [...]

Let’s see… I’ve taught people the way of the ガンダム (or “Gundam” for the Unicode-less). What’s next? A panel at an Anime convention on Aniblogging? Yup. Promoting my blog offline, I was asked on how I’ve come this far (and getting awesome stuff in the meantime). I will now share my secrets with everyone in [...]

For a few years, Japan has embraced the option of offering digital copies of popular manga series via Playstation Portable, iPhones, or other methods of digital distribution. The US is slowly beginning to accept the choice of reading manga on portable devices. With plenty of manga to go around on the Japanese Playstation Network service, [...]

Since 2008, I really, really, really wanted to check out Tennessee’s then-only Anime convention, the Middle Tennessee Anime Convention, or MTAC. In 2010, the dream came true. Adding the 10th anniversary of MTAC and the severe storms that hit Nashville during the weekend, it was one MTAC to remember. Friday Leaving on the road to [...]