Anime Boston 2009: Asian Americans Abound
When I stepped out of Anime Boston this afternoon, it felt like coming out of a time warp, as if three days had just passed in the Hynes Convention Center when just three hours passed in the rest of Boston. While this con — where fetishes are born, fulfilled and transformed — of course isn’t a distinctly Asian American venue, there were a bunch of Asian American cosplayers (yes, including lolicons), musicians (like some members of the Video Game Orchestra who rocked the auditorium with orchestral arrangements of videogame soundtracks) and artists. Among them was Brian Chan displaying Anime origami and drawings as well as rendering portraits. He was completely absorbed in that when I dropped by his table in the Artists’ Alley so I interviewed Brian’s friend Grace for this podcast in which she describes the cosplay vibe, some of Brian’s sketches and the Rozen Maiden origami figure Brian and I talked about in Aural Presence.
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