When I'm visiting Tokyo it is always kind of fun to see all of the anime pop culture elements shown on posters and signs everywhere. On the LRT awhile back, I saw this poster for Animethon in Edmonton, which is Canada's longest running anime convention, celebrating 20 years. Wow. Twenty years of anime conventions that spanned a media timeline from bootleg VHS (pre-internet) ripoffs of shows you couldn't see here to the DVD boom and bust, to Internet fansubs and piracy, and finally legit viewing sites like Crunchyroll. Anime has come a long way in the overseas markets.
I always liked mechas, and Pacific Rim is going to get the genre some new fans, but I have to admit that I wasn't all that into ten years ago. Mechas are not really all that realistic as they probably can't maneuver the way you see in anime and take the punishment that they do. But they are fun and big and who doesn't want to pilot one as I've said before? To me it is a genre that is like scifi fantasy, and I watch it for pure entertainment. In my writing for Neo-Ace I've tried to up the realism as I'm a military buff that does recognize the shortcomings of actual mechs in combat and I've tried to address some of these things. Have a read of Chapter 14 at Wattpad for free and see if I've succeeded.
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I also have two published shorts on Amazon titled HARM and Raid on Kahamba if you want more. Neo-Ace will be published on Amazon late this year.
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