We’re starting off this decade of the podcast by discussing a bunch of stuff we did last year! That’s right, it’s time to extensively cover all our adventures at the third convention we attended in 2019, Anime NYC! You’ve heard us go over all the news out of the con a few episodes ago, but this time around we’ll be going into what we personally did there - all the panels and events we attended, and all the people we met! It was a big con for us in many ways, and we got to hang out with a bunch of our friends that you’ll be hearing on this podcast, including Sakaki from the Weekly Shogakukan Edition twitter and blog, Jecka from the same blog, and Marion from Good Friends Anime Club, the Haikyuu podcast View from the Top, and an upcoming Dorohedoro podcast I’m excited to listen to!

As you might have guessed, having five people on to discuss what they did at an incredibly busy event takes a while, which is how we’ve ended up with the 4+ hour long podcast you’re about to listen to. Believe it or not, this is but the first of a series of long podcasts we’re starting off 2020 with, as the Best of Manga 2019 episode we recorded also ended up being nearly five hours long, and we have several other incoming podcasts that have ran long besides. Suffice to say, one of our New Year’s Resolutions for Manga Mavericks this year is recording shorter podcasts, both for your listening convenience and our time and sanity!

But let me ask you, are you a person who prefers long podcasts like this, or wants them shorter? Do you enjoy these convention report episodes, or are there types of episodes you’d like us to do more of instead? You can let us know all this and more by taking our annual Manga Mavericks podcast survey, which is currently live through February 1st!

SURVEY LINK: https://s.surveyplanet.com/UpCz9Mfs

This year we wanted to give our survey-takers a little treat as thanks for their feedback, so we’re running a giveaway contest that all survey-takers are automatically entered in. Just fill out our survey, and you could win a FREE volume of manga that we have on hand to give out!

Besides the survey, if you want to support the show and help us keep doing what we’re doing, throw us some love over at the Manga Mavericks patreon. Supporting us on Patreon also gives you guys special rewards too! For example, you may have heard the interviews we recorded with Pokemon voice actresses Sarah Natochenny and Lisa Ortiz as well as Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino on our previous episode, where we included an abridged version of the interviews that included just the questions we asked. We’ll be uploading the full, unabridged interviews exclusively to our Patreon, so if you want to hear more questions and conversations with Sarah, Lisa, and Tomino pledge to us for just $5 or more for complete access to those as well as ten of our monthly bonus pods EXCLUSIVELY available on our Patreon! We also have full transcripts of our interviews with Sarah and Lisa written up on All-Comic.com for you to check out as well!

PATREON LINK: https://www.patreon.com/mangamavericks

There’s more to say, but I’ll let you listen to the rest in the podcast proper! And trust me, we have A LOT to talk about...

PODCAST BREAKDOWN:

00:22 - Intro & Updates

09:08 - General Impressions of Anime NYC 2019

15:30 - Day 0: Karaoke

Day 1: Friday, November 15th

21:24 - Conducting Interviews at Anime NYC
26:52 - Lines, Crowding, and the Press Room at the Javits Center
42:15 - Press Line Hiccups
48:30 - Shonen Jump Panel & Dr. Stone Panel
1:00:06 - Conducting Interviews at Anime NYC, Revisited
1:11:08 - VLord and Sakaki Buy Hypeland Hunter x Hunter Coats
1:15:58 - Dr. Stone Autographs
1:20:20 - Exhibitor’s Hall & Artist Alley
1:31:23 - Marion’s Friday
1:35:04 - Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Panel
1:39:55 - AMV Contest
1:42:13 - 100 Years of Yuri Panel

Day 2: Saturday, November 16th:

1:46:20 - NHK’s Rumiko Takahashi MegaPoll Special
1:50:08 - Denpa’s TAa Panel
1:55:12 - GKids Pan