Animeland Wasabi is Coming

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Animeland Wasabi is back, running from 2/28 - 3/2, and this year they have grown quite a bit. They have moved hotels to the Crowne Plaza at 1-70 and Chamber, which is actually the hotel they used several years ago when they were just starting out. This means that they have a much larger area to state things, and a hotel staff that is used to dealing with conventions of this magnitude. We can also expect an easier place to navigate along with, hopefully, more clearly labeled panel rooms.

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Nan Desu Kan 17 - 2013 Write Up

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Another NDK has come and gone here in Colorado. Even the weather and alarms couldn’t stop the con and keep people away from sharing their like interest in Japanese culture. It is amazing to think how much NDK has grown to “the largest anime con in the Rockies” (minus Texas) in the 13 years I’ve been in attendance. It has gone from having a few hundred attendees for the whole weekend to having attendance caps each day to accommodate the space and the amount wishing to attend. It’s great to see how much the con has grown but keeps to it’s roots as a smaller personalized con.
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Nan Desu Kan is Almost Here

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NDK arrives this Friday at the DTC Marriott. For those that attend the convention each year you know what that means. But what if you have never been to the largest anime convention in the Rocky Mountain Region? What if you just never had the time to get down there? Then you my friend have been missing out on one of the best conventions Denver has to offer for the geeky minded.
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SANA - So Why is Anime so Popular?

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Over the weekend the Rocky Mountain Anime Association (RMAA) and the Japanese Consulate held a summit to find the answer to one of the most important questions that an anime fan can ask. Why is anime so popular in North America? To find the answer to this question six professionals gave presentations on the history of anime in the states and why we are so interested in it.
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Animeland Wasabi Special - David Vincent Interview

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Now to compliment the David Vincent panel with an actual interview this time. David is a great guy and from Arvada, CO. Always nice to talk to a native.  I apologize for the audio in this, but the interview was too good to pass cause of some audio issues.

Animeland Wasabi Special - Jan Scott Frazier Interview

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The first of two interviews we had at Animeland Wasabi. I present to you Jan Scott Frazier courtesy of LionHeartX.

 

 

Me: First off let me say thank you for sitting down for this interview. I have seen you around at NDK and got the chance to meet you a few times. I even purchased the Voices for Peace album Which was amazing to listen to.

Jan: Thank you

Me: The first thing I would like to find out is, what inspired the album?

Jan: Thats a funny question. Well my technical director John Sugarman has a cover band that said you should come up and do a song with us. And I didn’t sing or anything at the time. I love pondering things and I said if you could do a song with the band what song would you do. And I was like that is an interesting question.So I thought about that for some time, I got sick though, a really bad intestinal bug and went to the ER and they shot me full of morphine. I was listening to my MP3 play and the song for what it’s worth came on. and I thought maybe I should do a song like that that has some sort of meaning to it. Keep in mind this happened over the span of 5 seconds. We should do a song like this that is meaningful. It would be better if someone who could sing did a song like this, like Greg Eris for example. We could do a concert, we could do a charity concert, no we could do a charity album. The next day I called john and said dude I had this crazy dream. He goes thats an interesting idea, He called me back an hour later and said “you know that album idea, I have a band” I didn’t know what that meant at the time but I knew it meant work. And so 6 months later we dropped Voices for Peace

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Summit on Anime in North America (SANA) Contest

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Anime, it is a pretty big deal here in North America. We have a big (and mostly accepted) fan base. We have large corporations that deal in only anime. We even have conventions of all shapes and sizes that cater to the different fandoms of anime. But why is it so popular here? Why do we flock to it? Japan wants to find out.
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Animeland Wasabi - Impressions

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Ladies and gentleman, as many of you now I was at Animeland Wasabi between March 1st and March 3rd. What many of don't know is that I was not along. I had a few friends helping cover the con. Here are their impressions of this years convention.

Animeland Wasabi - Year 5

On March 1, Animeland Wasabi started their 5th year running in Colorado. Below are a compilation of notes I had taken while at the convention, after the convention, and setup in a cleaner, easier to read manner than my random notes.

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