at the washington state convention and trade center in downtown seattle we attend the fifteenth annual two thousand and twelve anime convention soccer  we are at washington state convention center for the annual quite a lot of people moving around a lot of different character from different folks and i had a mistress went with me he's got a little bit of experience with japanese animation and we'll see him as well takes to bring japanese anime over to english because they had mentioned that they were doing a lot of writing and to me this you know this was a curiosity because you would think that most of it is translated  taking a line or something that should be funny and you're adapting it culturally or for example some comedy animation japanese they're just not as funny for us here in the states they're not as punchy as they need to be they don't have the sarcasm word choice you also have to match words sometimes you have the same line in the right words but you have to change the line for the slapping of the mouth bit better in the  cartoon so there's a lot of writing especially adapting it culturally that goes on in bringing an enemy over and one of those examples was not only does the show have to be a mile a minute in in the united states instead of in japan where they can have a joke every five minutes and it's considered comedy here i should be twenty jokes in a minute so you have to find a way to say everything that they're saying but funny and and so that takes a lot of writing it takes a lot of development it takes a lot of changing and there's quite a bit of work that goes into i don't remember her saying her saying a bunch of that kind of stuff so overall what do you think of the whole panel that was going on there i was there was really really awesome to be a part of the panel itself that was the funimation production behind the scenes i was something i personally had interest in going to a funimation studio that has produced a lot of titles here in the united states and they really gave a lot of insight into how the process where some of the titles from funimation are dragon ball z and other big big titles like that and and a casey an idea of what it takes to bring the shows over what kind of process goes into the editing the production what the international copyright laws are in terms of some of them for example have five when when coming over from blu ray there's a big delay on anime now and the reason is we share region code with  japan released their video because their region card was different so you couldn't just import it from to japan have here d v d s actually cost less blu ray costs less so for example any time a new title comes out the d v d comes out at the same time but the blue ray will come out nine months later so they have a chance to sell the original japanese version of the blu ray in japan and make money off of it so now as i know if i'm not mistaken this is your first time television shows that i've seen in the past i'm more of a mainstream man i'm a viewer so i really just wanted to come here to see what all the buzz is about it's one of the largest most rapidly growing conventions that i've ever heard of and  i really it's you know i see a lot of different people coming here and i think part of the reason is many people are when you have something like animal you know you're isolated in term of you're watching it and there by yourself or with a group of friends and you see lots of groups of friends coming here together to meet new people to really experience of it all together and and show how they all have a common ground and you don't get that chance with a lot of other things you know it's a real good opportunity to make new friends i also saw a lot of people dressed up in costumes who had conditions for example one lady she had a fantastic costume on really well done and then i noticed after she was done posing for the photo which she posed perfectly in terms of the enemy character the way the character would everything she was walking away and she actually was completely pigeon toed you know literally her knees were knocking together she walked which was actually given her an opportunity to come here and not be judged because she had such it's something you would barely notice and and i just think any opportunity for people to really land with other people at the same mind and meet new people make new friends and really not be judged is a great opportunity recommend all kinds of people come to the convention yeah i mean even if you're not in panama you might you might experience something here you really like there are so many different programs going on throughout the day i left  music video where they take anime scenes to our video game scenes that adapted to sales pitches or other things and editing com that's here there's also obviously the dress up which is of interest to many people even if you're not a big anime fan you know it's fun to see how creative people can be most of these costumes are completely handmade i mean you can buy this stuff anywhere you've got to make it yourself and they've got you know the more adult john read anime this is a twenty four hour event and you take all the miners out at one o'clock i mean there's there's so much here you've got your shows for for little kids and you've got i saw a youth karaoke contest earlier where they were singing songs from their favorite  around the corner hour at another room they have a screening for something new and i was just about to get started but once you're in you to recreate those characters and i mean they design these characters with a very tight criteria the research that goes into a is phenomenal and you know how can i help you a long as the repair shop it around the repairs station this is the second year the first year was last year the fourteenth annual convention and we were on the open for between six and nine hours and there was such overwhelming response to it that we became staff this year and so now it's twenty four hours friday saturday and sunday so we have an open o'clock seven am not so much not so much in here but our club members who are here manning the stations were making their own costumes so they're exhausted because they got to make that four credit class that happened because i had an opportunity to teach in the summer and i wanted a introduction to the sewing class and i work in the drama department but the majority of the people interested in s costume club at the university of washington we meet once a week we have demos mass making it work on your own costumes fundraising come and workshop those materials so everybody gets to learn how to paper mach how to sew on a sewing machine how to but i read a pattern take a contemporary pattern and remodel it to their  it's really exciting and it has build a community of people who want to learn how to create their dreams create their  find that most of your students are younger or older what age group we've had in the class the class has been offered every summer for the last two to be the fourth here the oldest student was sixty five the youngest student was eighteen so i would say the twenty two to twenty five range i mean it's very attractive for already enrolled university washington because if they're already taking a summer overpass area so i'm with the assistant director of public t v here at sakura con and why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got involved with chicago well my name is penny i understand and i got involved with soccer economy out ten years ago when i went to my very first convention and got it good really bad and what convention was that it was soccer con ok gotcha ok wasn't i know that soccer con started as part of  the airport and nobody was ready for us it was our first year there seven eleven across the street had sold out in fact we cleared their shop and that's just when my husband and i became you get started well for mud now from what i understand what happened is a group of gentlemen got together after a afternoon last time and they decided they want to run a convention for anime that was twenty four hour because they wanted to be able to not have time to have you know run from event to event to event so excited and they weren't getting now with the for profit con so they decided to say ok let's start our own con let's have a fan run let's have it let's have a sin control and see where it goes so you mention for profit concept does that mean that secretary don is not for profit right soccer con is a five a one c three nonprofit organization and every single person that works for soccer con is a volunteer so you're not getting paid i am not getting paid ok and it's a three day convention that's a lot of time and energy to gotcha so tell us again you know what kind of what kind of events would want to expect to see when they came here well we have our cars play events which of course are people dressing up and going on stage we also mean have h nato this year which is a huge coup we did not expect to get them but we got them and we also have canon and here i know i'm going to miss now in two so pronunciation is kind of a big deal here at  is and i'm just really lousy at it ok so how do i how do you how do you properly pronounce the convention name stuck in a common ok and and why why is that different than say for example so for a common either way it doesn't hurt to pronounce it their own way but it sounds really cool different right and right ok i gotcha and so with with some of the events here i've i've had some time to wander around at this point i saw some gaming gotcha so they've got card games for games pretty much anything animated not just animated with the japanese style but animated that's right what what types of genres of anime are there oh my gosh anything you could possibly want we've got lot of people get involved with phantom a for different reasons what do you think a convention like this allows people to experience well i can mention like this allows us all to all get together i mean let's face it we're not we're all gamers too we like to be in front of the computer we like to be in front of the t v but you know we need social interaction as well in this definitely provided i just watched an episode of have you seen the show the guilt oh i love to they had a big convention and you know i noticed in that show that some people were they were running around place a place like you said out of breath not if somebody wants to experience everything here do they have time to eat sit down and relax or do they really have to go this be a good place to go if people were looking to learn more about voiceover work or production or to maybe drawing not so much it's always good to ask the guests about it they're kind of used to the questions that they have they have a respons people taking pictures staff i don't know i shouldn't be doing super does it explores kind of a marriage of sixteen bit adventures you played in your video game when you were a kid and a little bit of the tabletop miniatures gaming hobby that's going on pretty strong right now to produce and explore is a opportunity for players to get together and just kind of be the only target of each other looking figures in a real fun slick combat system to bring a lot of people into play so if you don't have a lot of experience it's breaking to get in and start your hobby and hell i've been around that stupid as it were launched last year good stories about november we sold absolutely everything that we had on the marketplace except for a couple karaoke contest we've got video games a huge dealer's room i mean the list goes on all we've got almost it feels like twenty four hour program needs i know it's not but it's so much programming that you will not be able to figure out what to then i don't believe there is a dash and th will ever free northwest is 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