What shall we watch at AMKE 2013?

[S-Config]

I forgot to mention Redline - it's frickin' AMAZING! And I would like to see Summer Wars too.

Summer Wars was very good. without giving anything away I have to say it's that movie has the most dramatic execution of hitting the 'enter' button that I have ever seen.

Ohh, and the irony that it was produced by Warner Bros and they use a rabbit avatar.. love it.

[S-Config]

Well, in consideration of the theme of the convention. These would be my pics:

Macross Plus - even though Yoko Kanno's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Kanno carrier is absolutely massive. Singing for many albums for amazing anime's. Macross Plus to me sort of iconifies the concept of music-to-anime. Of course it also helps when you have the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra behind you as your making a film too! That and being able to produce two CD's worth of high quality music out of anime series doesn't hurt either. If you get this film make sure it's the Japanesse release as the American one was edited to make little sense.

./hack//Sign - I guess it started off as a video game. Never played the video game, I guess i really got into this anime because of my affiliation with Secondlife and how there is a lot of psychological aspects of this anime which plays out on SecondLife. A bit long for a series, but still . tons of amazing musical scores.

FLCL - I don't feel entirely comfortable suggesting this anime as there would be a lot of new people to anime and this film is possibly the worst thing you could show a person new to anime. However, the garage band style of grunge rock fused with J-pop works well.

Vexille - Some people really do not like hybrid animation because it's -too- smooth. And because of the detail actions such as violence seem stiff and low-key (in comparison to FLCL where it's the absolute extreme with squash and stretch animation) . However, Vexille instead of relying on musicians in just japan they let the handling of the OST be given to some really great artists around the world (my favorate scene was the introduction of the Jags with Lisa Gerard of Dead can Dance signing) A similar film is the remake of "Appleseed" but when it comes to music Vexille is what I would choose.

Well, there you have it, good luck on the video room.

[JadeShani]

I got some

Soul Eater
Baka and Test
Dance in the Vampire Bund
Is This A Zombie?

Well thats what I was thinking for the con.

[Killgorr]

I'll have to add in Maria Holic - just finished it yesterday and must infect more people with it.

[AlizarinCrimson]

Hellsing Ultimate~ I have yet to see the newer episodes that've come out D:

[S-Config]

Going to get Evangelion 3.33 by the convention?

[orion]

^No. It's not released in the US yet. If it tours near by, I'll post it in this forum.

[S-Config]

^No. It's not released in the US yet. If it tours near by, I'll post it in this forum.

Having it not released in the US has not stopped anime conventions in the past. In fact that is what you're supposed to strive towards in order to get people to the video rooms.

This thread asks what to watch in the video room. My answer is "something i can't buy on hulu/netflix or in hardcopy form." And to request the new Evangelion is not selfish as I'd like to believe there still is people who care for the series. If people didn't care they wouldn't have remade it.

Don't like that answer? Fine, I'll probably spend zero minutes in the video room then as I've already seen everything released though the filtered distributors of the US.

Have a nice day Sir,

- S

[orion]

^No. It's not released in the US yet. If it tours near by, I'll post it in this forum.

Having it not released in the US has not stopped anime conventions in the past. In fact that is what you're supposed to strive towards in order to get people to the video rooms.

This thread asks what to watch in the video room. My answer is "something i can't buy on hulu/netflix or in hardcopy form." And to request the new Evangelion is not selfish as I'd like to believe there still is people who care for the series. If people didn't care they wouldn't have remade it.

Don't like that answer? Fine, I'll probably spend zero minutes in the video room then as I've already seen everything released though the filtered distributors of the US.

Have a nice day Sir,

- S

Well, then you can visit our streaming section on Friday and Saturday in Milwaukee B as we have permission to show titles in that area from the distributor. Those titles have not been released to DVD yet in the US.

We are limited to what we can show by the distributors. If Eva 3 is not licensed in the US or if a Japanese distributor does not want it shown in the US, then we can not obtain permission. Being Eva, it's more likely any permission to screen would be thru Funimation Entertainment. This convention obtains permissions to show titles thru contract agreements. If we do not have a signed contract or mutually agreed upon email documentation then the title is not on the schedule to be shown. *Any title shown without an acknowledged agreement outside of home in the way that I schedule titles is considered a copyright violation.*

Japanese distributors will show titles at US conventions if it does not affect any ongoing negotiations with their products in Japan and anywhere else. And yes, we've tried already for a title for AMKE 2013. And no, I won't disclose which one.

And... for the current streaming slot to be expanded, the attendees need to verbalize wanting this at the attendee convention review meeting on Sunday (Feb 17th).

[Killgorr]

Well, I just hope they release Eva 3.0 soon - I'm kinda frothing at the mouth for it! ARGLE!