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krpalmerAs spring has worn on into summer, “online fan conventions” have kept streaming. After sampling one of the first of them, though, I more or less lapsed into letting them pass me by the way I let in-person conventions pass by in healthier years. With the way my spare time evaporates, I suppose watching “commentary videos” seems a bit tricky to fit in whether they’re on demand or “now or never.”
Hearing the area convention I managed to get to last year (not imagining back then the quite imaginable about what might happen next) would be offering its own online substitute a few months after its usual month and date did get my attention even so. A part of that might have noticingdavemerrill would offer several presentations, although I did get around to reading the schedule and wondering what other segments might be interesting too.
I started off with a photo retrospective of conventional conventions from past years, just happening to notice early on someone in a T-shirt from my university’s anime club. It didn’t seem to take that many years until Anime North was at the convention centre I went to last year, although from the pictures I was ready to suppose most years had had better weather than the rain I remember waiting to get inside. With that presentation finished, I took a break until logging back in for a talk about “anime of the 70s, 80s, and 90s.” That might seem a rather large topic to cover in thirty minutes, but the presenter took a tack I hadn’t quite considered and talked about the anime that got over to this side of the Pacific in those decades, beginning with “localized” TV shows (not looked down on) and moving on to a good number of laserdisc sleeves.
From there, it was straight on to an instalment of “Anime Hell.” Although a mere half-hour long, it packed quite a lot of variety that did seem to have more “anime” mixed in than the one I’d previously seen streaming. Perhaps, though, recognizing a certain amount of material (some of which I hadn’t even seen before) mattered a bit more to me than it should have.
The next day I tuned back in for a presentation with a title just a little provocative. I’ve seen anime fans toss off the phrase “Chinese cartoons”; to me, it seems the sort of apparent “joke” with a universal putdown curdling behind it. As I’d half-thought, though, the presentation was about actual animation made in China with a definite “anime-esque” look to it. I’ve taken casual note in the past few years of several anime series that seem to offer nods towards the Chinese market, but I’m also aware of older warnings outsourced production may only create substitutes a few too many people find good enough. The presentation, though, was generally positive.
I’d hoped to finish with a presentation about “the anime of 1980,” but following the schedule had me start the stream again only to discover there’d been a rearrangement of segments due to connectivity issues. Then, though, I happened to see a notice the stream had been officially recorded; it wasn’t a “now or never” deal after all. I managed to go back and watch the segment, realising I haven’t seen much from forty years ago and getting the distinct impression that anime back then only stretched a bit towards what fans over here would fixate on over the ten years that followed, and ready to suppose “and that was perfectly all right.”
Hearing the area convention I managed to get to last year (not imagining back then the quite imaginable about what might happen next) would be offering its own online substitute a few months after its usual month and date did get my attention even so. A part of that might have noticing
davemerrill would offer several presentations, although I did get around to reading the schedule and wondering what other segments might be interesting too.I started off with a photo retrospective of conventional conventions from past years, just happening to notice early on someone in a T-shirt from my university’s anime club. It didn’t seem to take that many years until Anime North was at the convention centre I went to last year, although from the pictures I was ready to suppose most years had had better weather than the rain I remember waiting to get inside. With that presentation finished, I took a break until logging back in for a talk about “anime of the 70s, 80s, and 90s.” That might seem a rather large topic to cover in thirty minutes, but the presenter took a tack I hadn’t quite considered and talked about the anime that got over to this side of the Pacific in those decades, beginning with “localized” TV shows (not looked down on) and moving on to a good number of laserdisc sleeves.
From there, it was straight on to an instalment of “Anime Hell.” Although a mere half-hour long, it packed quite a lot of variety that did seem to have more “anime” mixed in than the one I’d previously seen streaming. Perhaps, though, recognizing a certain amount of material (some of which I hadn’t even seen before) mattered a bit more to me than it should have.
The next day I tuned back in for a presentation with a title just a little provocative. I’ve seen anime fans toss off the phrase “Chinese cartoons”; to me, it seems the sort of apparent “joke” with a universal putdown curdling behind it. As I’d half-thought, though, the presentation was about actual animation made in China with a definite “anime-esque” look to it. I’ve taken casual note in the past few years of several anime series that seem to offer nods towards the Chinese market, but I’m also aware of older warnings outsourced production may only create substitutes a few too many people find good enough. The presentation, though, was generally positive.
I’d hoped to finish with a presentation about “the anime of 1980,” but following the schedule had me start the stream again only to discover there’d been a rearrangement of segments due to connectivity issues. Then, though, I happened to see a notice the stream had been officially recorded; it wasn’t a “now or never” deal after all. I managed to go back and watch the segment, realising I haven’t seen much from forty years ago and getting the distinct impression that anime back then only stretched a bit towards what fans over here would fixate on over the ten years that followed, and ready to suppose “and that was perfectly all right.”