OMG can I say how excited I am that you're recommending pretty much all of my panels!!! That's neat. I'm glad you're coming. Especially to the CLAMP panel. I need more people who aren't just fanboys in my discussion of what's wrong with Chobits.
Also, not that I didn't help pick out ALL of the anime, but the ones you mentioned (except Higurashi) are all ones that I was like....seriously we're showing this.
I also think you will like Gurren Lagann. It's Gainax and it's silly. Kinda like Abenobashi silly...but with robots and sexual metaphor.
And I also second Haibane Renmei. I really like it. It's beautiful at the very least.
Oh, right, I was going to comment on your mention of us showing the first few episodes. I'm going to say that as long as I'm in charge of viewing we will ALWAYS show the first few episodes of a show. There were a ton of things that I really wanted to check out for the first time when I went to CONvergence and I ended up watching episodes like 12-16 and didn't know what was happening. I didn't like that. I figure that if people have already seen a show to the point that they could jump in in the middle and be just fine, they probably aren't going to be more inclined to watch it at the con rather than do other stuff. So first episodes it will remain.
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Also, not that I didn't help pick out ALL of the anime, but the ones you mentioned (except Higurashi) are all ones that I was like....seriously we're showing this.
I also think you will like Gurren Lagann. It's Gainax and it's silly. Kinda like Abenobashi silly...but with robots and sexual metaphor.
And I also second Haibane Renmei. I really like it. It's beautiful at the very least.
Oh, right, I was going to comment on your mention of us showing the first few episodes. I'm going to say that as long as I'm in charge of viewing we will ALWAYS show the first few episodes of a show. There were a ton of things that I really wanted to check out for the first time when I went to CONvergence and I ended up watching episodes like 12-16 and didn't know what was happening. I didn't like that. I figure that if people have already seen a show to the point that they could jump in in the middle and be just fine, they probably aren't going to be more inclined to watch it at the con rather than do other stuff. So first episodes it will remain.