Cel-Depot at AnimeNext!

[Killua]

Cel-Depot will be at AnimeNext this coming weekend. Come visit us at Booth 335!

We have lots of brand new art for this show, including the Hellsing OVA, Sankarea, Hakuouki, Inuyasha, Yuu Yuu Hakusho, Tenchi Muyo, Queen's Blade, Vampire Knight, Tactics, Get Backers, Rave, Saiunkoku Monogatari, Samurai Deeper Kyo, Tenjou Tenge, Naruto, Bleach, Slayers, Amatsuki, Kyo Kara Maou, Ren & Stimpy, Rugrats, Beavis & Butthead, Doug, Rocko's Modern Life, TMNT, Ah! Real Monsters, and many more!

Here's a non-exhaustive list of the art we'll be bringing:

Naruto
Bleach
Hakuouki
Hiiro no Kakeru
Inuyasha
Tenchi Muyo
Rave
Get Backers
Tenjou Tenge
Amatsuki
Nana
Kyo Kara Maou
Samurai Deeper Kyo
Vampire Knight
Eureka 7
Queen's Blade
Ranma
Evangelion
Ah!! My Goddess
Ai Yori Aoshi
Slayers
Hand Maid May
Azumanga Daioh
Rozen Maiden
Hunter x Hunter
Berserk
Platinum Hugen Ordian
GTO
Mezzo Forte
Tokyo Underground
Hajime no Ippo
Dragonball
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
TnN
many others!

US cartoons:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Aeon Flux
Ren & Stimpy
Doug
Ah! Real Monsters
Rugrats
Beavis and Butthead
The Simpsons
Family Guy
King of the Hill
Rocko's Modern Life
Care Bears
He-Man MOTU
Disney
Conan the Adventurer
Captain Planet
The Real Ghostbusters
Sonic
Stargate production art
Dilbert
My Little Pony
The Land Before Time
and many others

I also have a ton of production backgrounds!

Sensei, I'll be expecting you to mention as at your panels.

[sensei]

I'll do that ... though sadly the one that deals with collecting runs Sunday at 11:30, about when you'd be closing up. However, I'll mention collecting in my 10 AM "Anime Under the Radar" panel and that will give me a chance to mention your booth. And certainly I'll be wandering by on Friday to see what Rozen Maiden and TnN you might have handy...

[Killua]

We're in booth 120 now.

[sensei]

Looked in the "Various" box and there was Baaaaaaaaad Girl! (with her translucent air-brushed bad-girl cape and a somewhat more lethal weapon than the sword she makes out of her breast implants).

Yeah, just turn the dealers' room map upside down and you'll find Killua just where he was supposed to be all along.

[teggacat]

hey Sensei and Killua, I sure hope to hear a re-cap from AN,
hope you guys are having a great time and the weather cooperates!

[sensei]

I got my registration reimbursed Saturday afternoon (as a panelist who came, presented 3x, and always got out in time for the next panel). So I trotted down to Cel Depot again and found Killua doing a brisk business, including two of my panelists, one of whom had already made a substantial Hajime no Ippo/Hunter x Hunter investment. I got some more stuff, including a "Detective Kun-Kun" sketch and a weird background with floating strawberries over a stark black cityscape. I hope K is happy with his business. The Anime Art Collecting panel drew the smallest crowd of all (as usual), but they were very serious, intense attendees who asked good questions and looked the art we brought over with keen interest.

Overall, I thought it was a good con, better run than last year, with more attention given to crowd control before popular events. The usual glitches (unannounced schedule changes) but nothing as dramatic as last year's blackout in the artist's alley. Excellent panels, professionally run and on interesting topics, with lots of clips and visuals.