Ins and Outs of Making a Demo Reel

Join Erica Muse and Justin Cabanting as they talk about how you can create a demo reel that will help improve your voice acting career. ...

Seven Seas Industry Panel – Pre-recorded

Cosplay Spaces: Novel Places for Costume Culture in Japan

with Edmund Hoff ...

A trip through the Electric Town

Akihabara, the electric town, is at the center of a long history that includes home appliances, radios, and pop cultural goods, in addition to computers. Each object left a mark in the history of the area, and of the communities that one would find there. In this panel, Andrea Mariucci starts from Akihabara to present aspects of computing culture around the 1980s. To do this, he uses magazines, works of fiction, and oral accounts gathered during research in an attempt to paint a picture of what it must have felt like to tinker around during that time ...

Konbini Quest

A tier list of Japanese kombini foods for you to try on your next trip to Japan. Jacob Takanashi and Philip Kraaijenhof will rank different items from Japanese convenience stores while sharing their lived experiences. ...

Voice Acting, Content Creation, and Where They Meet

Join Brian Long as he discusses his background as a voice actor and content creator and how to leverage them to forge a career path. ...

The importance of voicing small characters

Join Erica Muse and Charles Nguyen as they discuss why small characters are just as important as major ones in anime, cartoons, and more. ...

Magical Girl vs. Horror

Why do some girls become sparkly and adorable when they transform, while others turn monstrous or grotesque? In Japanese pop culture, the magical-girl boom and the horror boom have repeatedly risen side by side. Kumiko Saito explores how both genres tap into different forms of social anxiety--especially anxieties about girlhood, the body, and changing identities--and thereby reveals how cuteness and the grotesque at opposite ends of the spectrum are deeply interconnected within the same pop-culture imagination. ...

Becoming-Animated in Cyberpunk Animation

Sylvie Bissonnette introduces key concepts of the book Affect and Embodied Meaning in Animation: Becoming Animated. The case studies focus on Japanese animation, examining works such as Ghost in the Shell, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Malice@Doll. ...

When Tokusatsu Meets Anime

Discover how the dynamic world of tokusatsu has been reimagined over the years through the art of animation with Davis Madole and Ace Marrok. ...