Back from Oni-con '04
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fencer_xW00T!
So went on my first roadtrip with the roomie this weekend. Drove down (throught the POURING RAIN I feel I must add) at 8 friggin' AM to Houston where we spent the day wandering around a nice hotel surrounded by other speacial freaks like us. Welcome to Oni-con 2004, Houston's first anime convention.
According to animenewsnetwork.com, the people who organized it had been expecting about 800 people. Over 2000 had shown up according to Saturday's numbers.
I had an awesome time and spent way too much money on way too little stuff. Bought first volume of HanaKimi and "Hikaru no Go" for $15 total (not bad, considering Tokyopop's manga usually runs $10 each. I save $5!) and then splurged on an Ayu-mi-x CD for $30 -_-. Bad Courtney. BAD.
There were a couple of j-pop bands there, Dual Jewel and El Camino, but I didn't get to hear them. Instead, I went and subjected myself to 10 minutes of listening to the ADV panel HOPING for some word ono the DNAngel DVDs due out in a couple of weeks, and left after they ran down a list of "Other Titles" and FINALLY came to it. I popped upstairs looking for the Guys VA Panel and finally found it.
Wow.
I mainly went to this con, you know, with the hope of hearing Greg Ayres and Vic Micnogna in person--the guys who'll be playing the English voices of Satoshi and Dark (respectively) in the DNAngel dub. I'd heard Greg before, as he tends to play the English version of a LOT of Ishida Akira characters (Kaworu Nagisa in NGE, Chrono in Chrono Crusade, and now Satoshi in DNAngel) but it had been a while, so I was curious.
Wow again.
Since I got there late, I missed Greg's intro, and managed to catch the tail-end of Kyle Hebert's (Teen Gohan, among many others) and all of Scott McNeil's (SO frigging funny, he was a riot. Played Duo Maxwell from Gundam Wing and 'Vancouver' dub versions of many DBZ characters). Vic was last, and here was my chance to hear the man who would be playing my Dark.
He sounds like...well, like a teenager! Yes yes, I *know* Dark's supposed to look/sound like a teenager. I know he's got that quality that screams teenager--but I must be WAY too used to Okiayu Ryoutarou's deep voice, and it just doesn't sound the same to me. I'm sure I'll get over it eventually. Maybe, with extensive therapy.
It didn't seem to matter much that I missed Greg's introduction, as he spoke a LOT. The panel (about 7 guys I think) fielded questions from the audience, and he had something to say on just about everything.
Wow, once again.
He's a great guy, and--from what I've heard of the Saiyuki original--PERFECT as Son Goku on Saiyuki. I mean, he sounds almost EXACTLY liky Goku's original voice, it's scary... And even as Kaworu, he was able to effect that creepy-stalker-but-really-calm-and-way-too-into-Shinji-ness that personified the character. But I must say his voice there did NOT sound good for Sato. Sato's 14, Sato's a teenager, a young kid, a reasonably good match for Greg...but it's his personality that's conveyed through Ishida Akira's tone that jiust screams MATURE. You cannot hear that voice and think he's an 8th grader. If you heard Greg's, it'd be perfectly fine to thinkk "Middle School Student". So I hope and pray he tones it down, deepens it slightly, and speaks with the knowledge that he's playing a verey angsty, very distrubed young man with an unnatural fixation on redheads named Niwa.
Did I mention Oni-con was fun?
This, of course, means that I now must go to as many cons as I can get to. A-kon's too close NOT to go to, so I'll be dragging someone along to it hopefully *eyes Amy and Brandy*. Chanelle informs me that she probably won't be able to make it to Anime-Expo with us this year, so we'll probably forgo Comic-con and hit Anime Expo in Anaheim next summer. Chanelle can always go to Otakon ^_^.
A&M has it's own con later on this year, Aggie-con, and I'm gonna check that out too, of course.
Aah, too many cons, too little time and money!
Courtney
So went on my first roadtrip with the roomie this weekend. Drove down (throught the POURING RAIN I feel I must add) at 8 friggin' AM to Houston where we spent the day wandering around a nice hotel surrounded by other speacial freaks like us. Welcome to Oni-con 2004, Houston's first anime convention.
According to animenewsnetwork.com, the people who organized it had been expecting about 800 people. Over 2000 had shown up according to Saturday's numbers.
I had an awesome time and spent way too much money on way too little stuff. Bought first volume of HanaKimi and "Hikaru no Go" for $15 total (not bad, considering Tokyopop's manga usually runs $10 each. I save $5!) and then splurged on an Ayu-mi-x CD for $30 -_-. Bad Courtney. BAD.
There were a couple of j-pop bands there, Dual Jewel and El Camino, but I didn't get to hear them. Instead, I went and subjected myself to 10 minutes of listening to the ADV panel HOPING for some word ono the DNAngel DVDs due out in a couple of weeks, and left after they ran down a list of "Other Titles" and FINALLY came to it. I popped upstairs looking for the Guys VA Panel and finally found it.
Wow.
I mainly went to this con, you know, with the hope of hearing Greg Ayres and Vic Micnogna in person--the guys who'll be playing the English voices of Satoshi and Dark (respectively) in the DNAngel dub. I'd heard Greg before, as he tends to play the English version of a LOT of Ishida Akira characters (Kaworu Nagisa in NGE, Chrono in Chrono Crusade, and now Satoshi in DNAngel) but it had been a while, so I was curious.
Wow again.
Since I got there late, I missed Greg's intro, and managed to catch the tail-end of Kyle Hebert's (Teen Gohan, among many others) and all of Scott McNeil's (SO frigging funny, he was a riot. Played Duo Maxwell from Gundam Wing and 'Vancouver' dub versions of many DBZ characters). Vic was last, and here was my chance to hear the man who would be playing my Dark.
He sounds like...well, like a teenager! Yes yes, I *know* Dark's supposed to look/sound like a teenager. I know he's got that quality that screams teenager--but I must be WAY too used to Okiayu Ryoutarou's deep voice, and it just doesn't sound the same to me. I'm sure I'll get over it eventually. Maybe, with extensive therapy.
It didn't seem to matter much that I missed Greg's introduction, as he spoke a LOT. The panel (about 7 guys I think) fielded questions from the audience, and he had something to say on just about everything.
Wow, once again.
He's a great guy, and--from what I've heard of the Saiyuki original--PERFECT as Son Goku on Saiyuki. I mean, he sounds almost EXACTLY liky Goku's original voice, it's scary... And even as Kaworu, he was able to effect that creepy-stalker-but-really-calm-and-way-too-into-Shinji-ness that personified the character. But I must say his voice there did NOT sound good for Sato. Sato's 14, Sato's a teenager, a young kid, a reasonably good match for Greg...but it's his personality that's conveyed through Ishida Akira's tone that jiust screams MATURE. You cannot hear that voice and think he's an 8th grader. If you heard Greg's, it'd be perfectly fine to thinkk "Middle School Student". So I hope and pray he tones it down, deepens it slightly, and speaks with the knowledge that he's playing a verey angsty, very distrubed young man with an unnatural fixation on redheads named Niwa.
Did I mention Oni-con was fun?
This, of course, means that I now must go to as many cons as I can get to. A-kon's too close NOT to go to, so I'll be dragging someone along to it hopefully *eyes Amy and Brandy*. Chanelle informs me that she probably won't be able to make it to Anime-Expo with us this year, so we'll probably forgo Comic-con and hit Anime Expo in Anaheim next summer. Chanelle can always go to Otakon ^_^.
A&M has it's own con later on this year, Aggie-con, and I'm gonna check that out too, of course.
Aah, too many cons, too little time and money!
Courtney
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Date: 2004-10-24 05:46 pm (UTC)And you! Otakon! Now! This instant!
Nice to see you had fun though. How long was it anyway? Three days?
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Date: 2004-10-24 08:08 pm (UTC)And Otakon! GEH!
Yeah, it was a blast---but we only went down for Saturday. It was a last minute decision.
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Date: 2004-10-24 08:58 pm (UTC)Then again, I always plan ahead.
Always.
And Otakon is... hmm, gotta check to see if they have next year's dates set yet. Might as well start saving up for it if I can.
A-kon
Date: 2004-10-24 07:53 pm (UTC)Re: A-kon
Date: 2004-10-24 08:00 pm (UTC)It's in Dallas, June 3-5--that means summertime! I think we were supposed to go last summer, but Brandy was working, and that was the weekend Harry Potter 3 came out, so we went and saw that, right?
Anyway, Chanelle will probably not be home at ALL this summer (I whined that she had to come home SOME to see us, but she wants to take summer school *rolls eyes*). So if her dad shells out the money, she's not coming home probably.
That means we need someone else to go to Cali with us!! COME, AMY!! It's...umm, reasonably cheap! Really! Ask Brandy!
Would I lie to you?
...Don't answer that.
Anyway, I probably talked to you about A-kon at some point, because we HAD been talking about going last summer and just never did.
VA panel
Date: 2004-11-27 12:09 pm (UTC)about that--would you happen to know where I can find VA audio-clips for Greg?
Re: VA panel
Date: 2004-11-27 04:17 pm (UTC)^_^ Look under the "voice work" section; all the underlined characters have clips you can listen to.
He also has a livejournal that he posts regularly on,
Re: VA panel
Date: 2004-11-27 07:39 pm (UTC)