Escaping Indoors: The Anime Lockdown 2020 Experience

In my scattershot “I haven’t signed up for this service but I will look at these feeds” way, I managed to see announcements of an “online anime convention for quarantine season.” That did get my attention. Last year I managed to work up sufficient motivation to lift myself out of a comfortable enough yet very familiar weekly routine and make a day trip to a major anime convention in my area for the first time. Perhaps I shouldn’t dwell on getting around to sampling a bit of what so many other anime fans make a big deal of one year before those mass gatherings started being cancelled as that considerable amount much unhealthier than before; it risks being another “personal inconvenience dwelt on where so many others have much bigger problems.” Still, a “virtual convention” seeming more convenient than travelling, much less checking into a hotel to make it more than a day trip, was a thought, and as the schedule filled in and some genuine “industry panels” appeared on it I decided I could certainly spend some time tuning into the stream.
( Sitting quietly out of the way )