Manga Mavericks EP. 96: Anime Expo 2019 #2: The AX Experience

You’ve been waiting all summer for it, and now the time has come! That’s right, on this behemoth of an episode we’re giving you guys a full rundown of this year’s Anime Expo - an over four hour-long podcast to discuss over four days of events and activities!  Joining me to go over all this goodness is VLordGTZ, co-host of Manga Mavericks @ Movies and editorial writer for All-Comic and Toonami Faithful, and the Shonen Sunday guru himself, Sakaki, webmaster of the Weekly Shonen Sunday talkback blog and twitter. At least, you’ll get to hear Sakaki about half an hour in - there was, unfortunately, a mishap where his audio wasn’t recording for the first hour of our conversation, so we had to trim down some of our earlier discussion points. If he hadn’t lost that first hour, you guys would be listening to a five hour-long podcast instead of a four hour-long one! But don’t you fret - you guys will start hearing Sakaki once we get to the really exciting stuff, from the Dr. Stone premiere onwards!  Yes indeed, we cover the gamut of AX premieres and panels in this podcast, from the historic Japanese-language premiere of Mewtwo Strikes Back: Evolution to Ouran High School Host Club author Bisco Hatori’s first North American con appearance! Plus, we also give you the lowdown on the lines, the food, the convention center, the dealer’s hall and Artist Alley - almost everything and anything there is to know about what our Anime Expo 2019 experience was like! It was a lot of chaos, but did we have fun overall, and would we recommend you attending next year’s show? Listen and learn, as we explore the AX experience!  PODCAST BREAKDOWN: 00:22 - Intro  AX Day 0  03:09 - Picking Up Badges on Day -1 07:34 - Thoughts on Spider-Man: Far From Home 10:04 - Day 0 Badge Pick-Up & Visiting Kinokuniya 13:00 - Copyright Law & Inti Creates Panels 16:32 - Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer Dub Premiere AX Day 1: Thursday, July 4th 30:06 - Getting Autograph Tickets, Wristbands, and Entering the LACC 43:57 - Getting Autographs from Hiroyuki Imaishi & the Trigger Team 52:22 - Dr. Stone Premiere 1:07:18 - Viz Media Panel 1:13:08 - Yen Press Panel 1:17:54 - Eating at AX 1:21:22 - The Frustrations of Finding Friends at AX 1:26:30 - Mewtwo Strikes Back: Evolution Premiere 1:50:50 - Kingdom Premiere  AX Day 2: Friday, July 5th  2:00:11 - The Dealer’s Hall & GKids Panel 2:09:12 - Fire Force Premiere 2:31:50 - Bisco Hatori Panel 2:38:43 - Promare Premiere & Trigger Panel 2:58:32 - Day 2 Wrap-Up  AX Day 3: Saturday, July 6th 3:00:37 - Lupin III: Goemon’s Spray of Blood & Fujiko’s Lie Dub Premieres 3:17:23 - Sakaki’s Final Thoughts on AX 3:23:12 -  VLord’s Saturday Afternoon: Trigger Autographs & Anemone 3:26:25 - Sailor Moon Manga Kodansha Comics Panel 3:31:48 - Anemone: Eureka 7 Hi-Evolution 2 Premiere 3:35:49 - Studio Trigger Live-Drawing Panel 3:39:13 - Kengen Ashura Panel 3:44:59 - Tokyo Ghoul S Premiere  AX Day 4: Sunday, July 7th 3:51:40 - Artist Alley 3:54:45 - Mother’s Basement Panel 3:55:38 - Yu-Gi-Oh! Art Exhibit 3:57:27 - Yoshihiro Ike Concert 3:59:04 - Post-Con Activities   4:00:43 - AX 2019 Final Thoughts 4:09:20 - Wrap-Up Enjoy the show, and follow us on twitter at @manga_mavericks, on tumblr at mangamavericks.tumblr.com, and on Youtube! You can follow the hosts on twitter at @LumRanmaYasha and @VLordGTZ and special guest Sakaki at @kiirobon! If you’d like to help support the show financially you can pledge to our Patreon and receive some awesome rewards like our Patreon-exclusive Bonus pods! If one-time donations are more your speed you can donate to Colton’s Ko-fi here and LumRanmaYasha’s Ko-fi here, and if you want to support LumRanmaYasha’s art and other projects you can donate to their personal Patreon. Don’t forget to also like and subscribe to us on Youtube and iTunes and leave us reviews to help us curate the show and create better content!