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Katsucon 2011 - page 5

Blitzkrieg1701

on Feb. 23, 2011

If you're not sure what I'm getting at, feel free to hop back to the Otakon 2010 comics and see for yourself

Seriously, though, this was a really cool panel, in ways that you really can't plan in advance. That's not to slight the hosts (Eric Stehmer from Toonzone with Charles Dunbar of Study of Anime on backup) in any way, though. They unloaded a mountain of really interesting information about stuff I'd previously only heard about in myths and legends (or gossip)

But what was REALLY fun was hearing how many stories the folks in the audience had. I've heard some wild con stories before, but it'll be hard to top a 17 year old girl who just got her licence getting completely lost on the mean streets of Baltimore in the middle of the night AND GETTING INTO A WRECK IN THE PROCESS.

For comparison, the worst thing that's happened to me at a con so far was the one time at AUSA that I forgot to bring a sleeping bag and was too shy to ask anyone for a blanket. Living dangerously indeed.