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 [...]
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 [...]
Its a glorious day of summer sun. The fountain blasts forth between the art gallery and a reveling crowd sat beside the town hall. You’d hardly know this was Middlesborough. The North East’s latest annual event is gathering steam as I enter the basement club room of Blu and am immediately confronted by lolitas and [...]
The world of anime gets Metaphysical/philosophical yet again with the reboot of the Evangelion franchise. Neon Genesis Evangelion first surfaced nearly ten years ago in anime and manga form, posing deep questions about individuality, the meaning of the soul, self worth and giant robot versus monster battles. This head mash of an anime also threw [...]
