Titles Shown at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2013

Here is a list of the titles shown at AWO’s panels held at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2013. Want to learn more? Listen to our podcast if you aren’t already. To receive new episodes automatically, you can subscribe via iTunes or any RSS feed-based readers using the links above. We’ve been around for years, so don’t worry about listening to every episode unless you really want to. Take a look at the Review Index via the link at the top of this page to see if we’ve covered anything that interests you.

Daryl also writes for Otaku USA Magazine. A free PDF sampler of articles from last year and this year is available if you sign up for the weekly E-Newsletter. If you like what you read, consider subscribing to the magazine either physically or digitally. We’re offered on Kindle, Android, and iOS devices. There are also website-exclusive articles.

Here now is the list of titles shown at each of our panels, in (hopefully!) the order presented. Much of what we’ve shown has been reviewed, so we’ll link to those where applicable.

Great Anime Never Released in the US:
Gag Manga Biyori
Macross: Do You Remember Love?
Macross Frontier
Ring ni Kakero
The Legend of Koizumi
Asura
One Outs
Astro Boy, 2003 series unedited
On Your Mark

Otaku USA’s Anime Worth Watching:
Inferno Cop
Michiko & Hatchin
Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine
The Rose of Versailles
Watamote (aka “No Matter How I Look At It, It’s You Guys’ Fault I’m Not Popular!”)
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
Mazinkaiser SKL
AKB0048
Dirty Pair: Project E.D.E.N.
Detroit Metal City
Demon City Shinjuku
Azumanga Daioh

Great Anime Openings:
(parody) Attack on Thomas the Tank Engine
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Black Lagoon
Overman King Gainer
Full Moon wo Sagashite
Aim for the Ace
Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure
Stop! Hibari-kun
Fate/Zero
Fullmetal Alchemist
Macross Frontier
Detroit Metal City
Kimagure Orange Road
AKB0048
Superdimensional Fortress Macross
Superdimensional Cavalry Southern Cross
Genesis Climber Mospeada
Robotech
(parody) Attack on Miffy
FREE!
Tiger and Bunny
City Hunter
Slayers Next
Gargantia on the Verduous Planet
Card Captor Sakura
Darker than Black
Dirty Pair OAV (or we would’ve; the encode didn’t play as punishment for us picking this over Russian Roulette and Safari Eyes)
The Big O
Mobile Police Patlabor 1st OAV
Dragon Ball Kai
Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt
Ranma 1/2 OAV
Queen’s Blade Rebellion
Baccano!
(parody) Attack on Baccano!
Polar Bear Cafe
Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig
Revolutionary Girl Utena
(parody) Revolutionary Guy Lupin the Third
GaoGaiGar Final
Space Pirate Captain Harlock
Captain Harlock (1980s English Disco Edition)
The Rose of Versailles
(parody) Attack on 4chan
Mobile Fighter G Gundam
Watamote
Panzer World Galient
Space Battleship Yamato 2199
Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger

We only had 90 minutes this year, and we tried to run about 60% new selections compared to last year. So if you’re reading this and are shocked–SHOCKED!–that we didn’t show Cowboy Bebop, Sengoku Basara, or other “obvious picks” past favorites…those are the two reasons why. No fun showing the same clips of the same stuff each year…well, more than half the time, anyway! Depending on your point of view, we then ended Openings/started DOOM! using the promotional video for the upcoming Space Dandy. We’ll try and get a DOOM! report up on the Anime Hell blog soon enough and link to it here.

Titles Shown at Otakon 2013

Here is a list of the titles shown at Daryl’s AWO panels held at Otakon 2013. If you liked the panels (likely, if you remembered to check this site!), consider listening to the podcast if you aren’t already. Take a look at the Review Index up at the top to see if we’ve covered anything that interests you. To receive new episodes automatically, you can subscribe via iTunes or any RSS feed-based readers using the links above.

Daryl also writes for Otaku USA Magazine. A free PDF sampler of articles from last year and this year is available if you sign up for the weekly E-Newsletter, which also features contributions from another Otakon featured presenter, Mike Toole. If you like what you read, consider subscribing to the magazine either physically or digitally. We’re offered on Kindle, Android, and iOS devices. There are also website-exclusive articles. Anyway, here’s a list of titles people are most likely to ask about. I can list the clips shown in the “100+ Years of Japanese Animation” panel if enough people want to know the listings, but again you can go onto Youtube and Crunchyroll and watch all sorts of “moving pictures” from that era.

Anime in < 15 Minutes:
(pre-panel) Macross Frontier: Wings of Goodbye
(pre-panel) Astro Boy 2003
(pre-panel) On Your Mark
Robot Carnival
The Animatrix – Program
Studio 4C’s Comedy (“Kigeki”)
Trava Fist Planet
Osamu Tezuka’s Broken Down Film
Detroit Metal City (Amazon link)
Inferno Cop
Azumanga Daioh
Cromartie High School
Gag Manga Biyori “Harris Impact”
gdgd Fairies
Ippatsu Kikimusume / “Miss Critical Moment”
Mercedes – NEXT A Class

Anime’s Craziest Deaths:
(pre-panel) Ninja III: The Domination
(pre-panel) Will You Be Here Tomorrow?
(pre-panel) Corn Pone Flicks: The Bicycle Thief
(pre-panel) Ball Buster
(pre-panel) Cock Puncher
(pre-panel) Extra by Ken Ishii
(pre-panel) Gag Manga Biyori “Sun God V”
(pre-panel) Fly Bike
(pre-panel) Dumb Ways to Die
Psycho-Pass
Midori [If you REALLY want to know about this one, I’ll just say the creator’s name is Hiroshi Harada. You can look it up based on that! BTW: the music is by J.A. Seazer, whom you may recognize as doing the music for Revolutionary Girl Utena!]
Macross Frontier: The Wings of Goodbye
Attack on Titan
Shigurui: Death Frenzy [Amazon link. I showed the dub for comic effect, but this show’s actually good. Hulu has both the sub and dub available, and given that it’s set in medieval Japan I recommend watching it in the Japanese.]
Hokuto no Ken (aka Fist of the North Star): Raoh Gaiden
Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, Part 1
Black Lagoon [I showed 60 seconds of the live-action film The Rock to contextualize this. I’m told people left because I did so. Complete series is now on Blu-Ray, as is the OAV sequel Roberta’s Blood Trail]
Demon City Shinjuku [Review. I showed 73 seconds of The Last Boy Scout to highlight the cinematic equivalent. Perhaps this Hollywood incursion was unacceptable for some?]
Crying Freeman [Review]
Mardock Scramble: The First Compression [This is just the first movie. Dub-only on Hulu. The Blu-Rays for what I showed and its sequel are dual audio]
Kurokami the Animation [the “child hit by bus” show]
Angel Cop
Asura [this was the theatrical hybrid 2D/3D CG film from Keiichi Sato, the director of Tiger and Bunny, that was released last year. It remains unlicensed, not streaming anywhere, and generally ignored. More people should watch it.]
Berserk: Golden Age Arc III [Viz released the first and second parts, so the third should be out soon]
Humanity Has Declined
Arcadia of My Youth aka My Youth in Arcadia [Followed by excerpt from the new Space Pirate Captain Harlock theatrical film set for release next month]
Space Battleship Yamato 2199
Baccano! [Review. The DVD set is quite inexpensive. I can’t say the same for the Blu-Rays which were released by Aniplex.]
Another [Review.]
Dog Soldier: Shadows of the Past
Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned
Frankenstein: Legend of Terror
Blood-C [FUNimation released the uncut Blu-Rays, and the follow-up movie featuring CG that will be remembered as the modern-day equivalent of that helicopter in Golgo 13: The Professional.]