Hosting its afterparty half way through the weekends proceedings, NemaCon presented Machina Shogunate and Alice Moving Under Skies; two bands who couldn’t be more different but between them maintain a melodic goth vibe at the core of their vocals. First up was the Steampunk influenced Alice Moving Under Skies with vague ethnic sounds of the [...]
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This summers North Eastern Manga and Anime Convention has now long since passed but this June’s offering made bold strides ahead from its début. Now in it’s second year as a full blown convention, NemaCon has developed its own identity and sense of community as regular guests and attendees have emerged along with a few additions to freshen things up
This weekend, the trailer for the newly revived Trigun anime was released online. Entitled ‘Trigun: Badlands Rumble’ the trailer is now available to watch via Quicktime.com Due for an American release on 27 September on DVD and Blu-ray through Funimation, the anime seems to be hotly anticipated, with all manner of twitter-buzz on the #Trigun hashtag over [...]
In just over a week all manner of cosplay and anime inspired antics descend upon Middlesbrough with the second annual Nemacon convention. The event has a number of returning guests and panellists like Akemi Solloway, the well respected Japanese culture and etiquette specialist and Manga-ka such as Chie Kutsuwada, but Nemacon also builds on last [...]
Nemacon’s first precon event of their 2011 run of events was a roaring success with wall to wall revelers and cosplayers. The event took place on the afternoon of the 4th November, the Sunday following Halloween due to a number technical issues, but still managed to maintain a spooky atmosphere. Despite being marred by electrical [...]
Perfect Blue and Paranoia Agent director, Satoshi Kon died at the age of 47 this week. Before dying of a severe case of Pancreatic cancer, which had paralyzed Satoshi, the creator of a wealth of mind bending works of genius for a number of months he left an expansive and heart wrenching blog which reads [...]
Last Monday marked the first episode of a nerdy institution in the making. Fronted by the trio of “Moley” and the two Robs, The Geek Show on Community Voice FM (105.5FM in the Teesside area or available for online streaming here). The inaugural episode featured discussions on problems and practicalities of motion sensitive gaming like [...]
This month Middlesbrough saw its first North East Manga and Anime Convention and it certainly made an impact. NemaCon was an event 18 months in the making running in 3 venues across the whole June 19th weekend. That is not to say it all went without a hitch. Staff were seen running from pillar to [...]
