Streaming Again: Anime Lockdown 2021
Jul. 12th, 2021 09:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerWhen I started seeing notices the first online anime convention I’d streamed during the hunkered-down days of last spring would be returning for its second year, that got my attention. Things are a bit different now as I count the days until it’ll have been two weeks since my second vaccination, even contemplating a thing or two I haven’t or hardly haven’t done in over a year, but as I’ve supposed before “a passel of fan panels you don’t have to travel to see” can be handy regardless of still not having the online accounts that would let me join in group chats. As the list of panels filled in, spending a weekend tuned in to the stream did get to seem appealing, even if on the weekend itself my certain peculiar way of viewing meant I didn’t see every panel that had caught my eye right then.
I did start off watching a panel presented by Mike Toole about the Giant Robo OVAs. At the one in-person anime convention I’ve dropped in on I did happen to catch the last minutes of a panel on that title, and it was nice to see the whole thing. At the same time, I do keep contemplating the episodes I saw back at my university’s anime club, managing to see the complete series on DVD some years later, my mixed reactions to “greatest ever” claims, and getting around to ordering the annotated Blu-Ray release. The next day I took in a panel on The Rose of Versailles and the reality of the French Revolution; having been reading the official translated release of the manga did make this a bit more interesting. I then made sure to tune in for “Companies That Knew Nothing About ANIME FAN WANTS,” a certain number of which I was familiar with from indignant reactions on the home video-focused message board I’ve read for years even if one or two especially controversial, goodwill-mangling moments didn’t come up. The day after that I watched a panel about some of the religious references in Neon Genesis Evangelion, which steered deftly between “dwelling on religion as the presenter sees it” and “dismissing the references as ‘there because they looked cool,’” pointing out how far you have to delve to reach the original material for some of them. Supposing the “end ceremonies” wouldn’t take long I did pick up the stream again for them, but the three-way discussion did wind up running for some time. It at least mentioned how other people appreciated online conventions themselves; given the opportunity I would tune into something with as much interest to it as this stream.
I did start off watching a panel presented by Mike Toole about the Giant Robo OVAs. At the one in-person anime convention I’ve dropped in on I did happen to catch the last minutes of a panel on that title, and it was nice to see the whole thing. At the same time, I do keep contemplating the episodes I saw back at my university’s anime club, managing to see the complete series on DVD some years later, my mixed reactions to “greatest ever” claims, and getting around to ordering the annotated Blu-Ray release. The next day I took in a panel on The Rose of Versailles and the reality of the French Revolution; having been reading the official translated release of the manga did make this a bit more interesting. I then made sure to tune in for “Companies That Knew Nothing About ANIME FAN WANTS,” a certain number of which I was familiar with from indignant reactions on the home video-focused message board I’ve read for years even if one or two especially controversial, goodwill-mangling moments didn’t come up. The day after that I watched a panel about some of the religious references in Neon Genesis Evangelion, which steered deftly between “dwelling on religion as the presenter sees it” and “dismissing the references as ‘there because they looked cool,’” pointing out how far you have to delve to reach the original material for some of them. Supposing the “end ceremonies” wouldn’t take long I did pick up the stream again for them, but the three-way discussion did wind up running for some time. It at least mentioned how other people appreciated online conventions themselves; given the opportunity I would tune into something with as much interest to it as this stream.