Ahoy, I'm Peter Tatara. In brief, I'm left-handed, a vegetarian, and my blood type is A. I work for the New York Comic Con and New York Anime Festival and have a cute girlfriend and a Space: Above & Beyond boxset. I'm generally a happy guy.
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Nippon Jazz NYC
Like Japan? Like jazz? Well, then, you may like Nippon Jazz NYC, a concert series at the Blue Owl Cocktail Room (196 Second Ave) in NYC. The next event takes place April 19th and features Yuka Mito (www.myspace.com/yukakomito). For more, visit www.meetup.com/nippon-jazz-nyc-meetup-group/.
NYAF Registration Is Live
I hope you're doing well and enjoying the spring. After a long, grey winter, the sky's turned blue again and -- gasp -- I think I can even hear a few birds sing in between the honks, whistles, and rustles of Manhattan. I'm excited to have spring here as it means warmer weather, flip-flops on casual Fridays, and the start of the lead up to the 2009 New York Anime Festival.
I'm very proud to announce that tickets are now live at newyorkanimefestival.com. We got tickets up early this year, and all are available at special, discounted prices. Online, Friday tickets are $35, Saturday tickets are $40, Sunday tickets are $35, and Weekend tickets (good for all three days) are $55. At the Javits Center, all tickets will be priced $5 higher. Further, if you pick up your ticket online, you'll be able to bypass the registration lines on-site -- meaning registering online will save you time and money.
And, for the first time, I've got a special bonus for all fans who sign up for tickets at www.newyorkanimfestival.com -- two free weeks of premium service at anime video portal crunchyroll.com through a special offer located in NYAF's registration confirmation e-mail. If Crunchyroll is new to you, it's an online video community that offers licensed, legal full-length episodes and movies including Gintama, Naruto Shippuden, REBORN!, and Shugo Chara! We're excited to be working with the good folks at Crunchyroll this year and hope to do a good deal more with them this spring, summer, and fall.
Expect news about guests, VIP packages, contests, and programming in the coming months, and to make sure you stay on top of things, keep your eyes on NYAF's official website (www.newyorkanimefestival.com) and blog (www.mediumatlarge.net).
Now, though, I've got to go as I've got to pick out which flip-flops I'll be wearing on Friday.
Hashin!
KRAZY (Online) Cosplay Contest
NYC’s Japan Society put together a cosplay party only a few weeks back to celebrate their KRAZY anime and manga exhibit, but while the party’s now over, its spirit lives on an online cosplay contest! Click on over to Japan Society…
http://www.japansociety.org/krazy_cosplay_online_contest
And vote for your favorite cosplayer. The winner will take home a copy of Street Fighter IV, and just by voting, you’ve got a shot at winning some Naruto and Bleach DVDs!
What Do You Want In The NYAF Store?
So, we’ve done NYAF and NYCC for a few years now and produced a number of fun, exciting, and often times terrible things to sell in our show store -- including plushies, sake sets, pins, and underpants. As we ramp up to this year’s NYAF, rather than locking myself in a conference room with the brain trust, I’d love to toss this out to all of you. What kind of items would you like to see available at the NYAF Store? Think it over. Sleep on it. Then, if you think you you’ve got a genius idea, post it in the NYAF Messageboard here...
http://newyorkanimefestival.yuku.com/topic/919
If you come up with something we actually decide to make, I’ll make sure we get a box/bag/stack/pile of it sent over to you.
Geoff Johns Comes To Jim Hanley's!
Geoff Johns will be signing at Jim Hanley's in Manhattan tomorrow -- Wednesday, April 1 -- in celebration of the release of Flash: Rebirth. Geoff is signing from 6 to 8 PM, and before that, he'll be doing a panel open to 50 lucky fans! For all the details, visit jhuniverse.blogspot.com.
