Geeky Brummie - Year 8 - Issue 05 | AnimeconUK Special

[00:00:00] We are here at Animacon UK, Birmingham halls one and two of the NEC. Welcome to Geeky Brummy and welcome to our adventures here at Animecon. We'll be wandering around doing interviews, having a haul from the hall competition and recording a quick podcast episode as well. So we'll be with you shortly. [00:00:39] Hello and welcome to the Geekborn podcast. Joining me today, Mister Keith Minford. Hello Ryan. Mister Lee Morris. Hi. How are we with. Good, good. Totally anime. Anime. We are anime here today. So we are at Animecon UK. [00:00:55] It's been a fun morning so far. Interviews from around saw the sites, bought a copy of the Necro Hamster. Necro Hamster. [00:01:04] So what is the Necro hamster? It's a card game with some cool artwork and the goal is to resurrect various undead creatures and ranging main hamsters or do we have gerbils? There's hamsters. There's a rabbit when I open the box. So you know, artwork is great. We do have an interview with the artist in the actual show. Awesome. So all the small fairy animals are being resurrected. [00:01:33] Cool. Keith, any highlights you saw so far? Just all the incredible cosplay. [00:01:39] Although my anime knowledge is a bit lacking, not up to date with a lot of modern stuff. What did you think was an anime key? I said dog Tanya. [00:01:50] It was anime in the 1970s and eighties. I think it did have a japanese production company, but I think it was a franco japanese production. It looked like anime. [00:01:59] It might be a franco japanese production. We shall put the real details on screen. Now. Let's claim it, anime fans. Let's claim dogtagon and the muscle hands as anime. Let's. Let's just say what we want it. No, but just the sheer genius of all people that have come in costumes. Yeah. Some of the costumes you can see have taken months, not just weeks, months to put together some really fantastic costumes down there. Any particular favourites? [00:02:27] Not dogs Canyon. [00:02:30] No. Too many to mention really. You know, you saying that you don't know anyone that looks cool? I have no idea who they are, but it looked great. I've seen a few Vashta stampedes wandering around. I've seen a few people in RPD reckon City caresser from. I've seen quite a few Hatsune Mikus running around as always. One guy that I did enjoy, we saw while we were at lunch, there's a guy dressed as King Dedede from Kirby. Yeah, but he's King Dedede. If he lost a lot of weight, it's just a no go with a normal build, dressed as King Dedede. I think my personal favorite so far is clown storage with Saltbuster sword. Stood in the middle, weather spoons unable to sit down. Yes, too big. It's been really good fun. Some fantastic merchants and fantastic interviews. You both have had a run around and grabbed some interviews, so we will cut to those now and we'll see you shortly. [00:03:26] Hello. I am with Crystal Ryan and Alison of the Cyberpass team. [00:03:31] Tell us about yourselves while you're here at Animecon today. So we are cyberpower. We have brought the Cyberbus with us today, which is full of gaming PCs, so people can come on for free and just play all the games that we've got on there just to enjoy what we've got to offer in there. But cyberpower themselves, we do custom built gaming PCs, so we do pre built ones as well. So we're just here to sort of spread the word about that and get people to enjoy the show. Awesome. So is there any kind of like, level of spec that you would suggest for entry kind of PC? Everyone is different, and I know this sounds a bit of a cop out, but honestly, everyone's different, their budgets are different and what they use the gaming PCs for or what games they are. So, honestly, all I would say was get in contact with us, tell us what you're going to be playing the game on. So, what you're going to be gaming on the PC and how much you've got to spend and we will put the perfect spec together for each person. That is amazing. And so you've got a configurator on the website as well, I believe, if you know roughly what you're looking for. Yep. So we've got Cyberpowersystem co dot UK is our website and on there we've got full configuration list so you can pick all the products that you want to be put on the PC. It is then built for you, packed and sent to you so that all you have to do is plug and play. We have people on the other end of the phone if you needed some advice, and they will talk through anything you need to know as well. So to get you the right PC for you. Brilliant. And where can people find you online? Cyberpowersystem dot co dot UK and on socials. On socials? Yeah, well, Cyberpower UK on all of our socials. So, yeah, all of them. [00:05:08] Hi, my name is Kate Meowit and this is my work. I'm an illustrator. [00:05:14] I have been doing cons for about ten years. Yeah, everything is hand drawn at first, and then I've inked everything on the iPad, so I use procreate. [00:05:24] I've got, yeah, I do fan art, but I also do a lot of spooky cats. And we also do card games. So this is our card game where you're a necro hamster and you're bringing undead animals back to life and battling each other. Yeah, I also do comic books, so I've got a comic book called Help. [00:05:43] My cat is summoning a portal to hell. And yeah, everything's kind of cute and indie. You can find me at Kate Mia White. Any like, Instagram etsy? Yeah. And that's it. [00:05:58] Hi, I'm representative for Enrique Martin Studios. [00:06:02] She does all this lovely artwork, shadow art, and she's the guest artist here at Animacon. [00:06:10] You can find any of this art on enriquemartinestudios.com and you can get anything on canvases, prints, t shirts, tote bags, anything. It's a great time. You should come down here and join in the fun at animecon. [00:06:26] So if you're not here, the best place to go [email protected] so hello, I am Gen two cent, currently at Animecon selling all of my different anime and gaming candles. We've got a massive variety of scents. We're doing mystery candles. We're doing wax melts. Anything that smells good, we're doing. If you're not at anime Con, you can find me on Instagram entwears or on my shop at Gen two cent www. Dot gentocent shop. Thank you. [00:07:04] I am here with David Menken and Nina Yundis, both amazing voice actors, both here at Animacon Uk. How has your experiences been over the last couple of days? Pretty amazing, actually. Such lovely people, such amazing cosplay and amazing vendors as well. I managed to buy myself a monado sword, so even better. Yeah. Second, David, I mean, I'm so impressed by the cosplay game here. I mean, we've been to quite a few, like, conventions and comic cons throughout the year, but this one, I haven't seen so many amazing cosplays. So yeah, it's so much fun. So you guys have been lucky enough to work with each other three times? I believe so. Assassin's Creed, Valhalla, Lego Star wars, the Skywalker saga. Yes. Where your mother and son, which is a very interesting combination. And the amazing Final Fantasy 1614 and 14. Yeah. You have done your research. Thank you. [00:08:02] So how did you both get into voice acting? Was it just kind of a natural progression out of stage school, or was it just a way into different type of acting? Or was it. So I studied at drama school, and the first professional job that I got after graduating from drama school was actually a video game. So it was the Game of Thrones telltale game. Ah, yes. And I remember being kind of confused. I was like, oh, is this. This is a thing? I'll roll with it. And then basically what happened was, I think the studio liked me, I guess, and so they just kept, like, my voice on file. And whenever there were any sort of scandinavian roles or something like fantasy related or whatever, I would get invited in for auditions. So, yeah, it was kind of by chance that I got into voice acting, but I'm so happy that I did because, yeah, we didn't really get taught at drama school that it was a thing thing. [00:09:07] So, yeah, yeah, now everybody wants to do it. Now. I went to drama school. I did the, you know, I did the usual thing and then started doing voiceovers and was then asked by a casting director colleague of mine to come in and help her cast a game. And I was in charge of, like, letting people in through the door and, you know, making sure they got out in time. And at the end of the day, she was like, do you want to come in and try? I went, sure. And suddenly I was cast as the player character in Battlefield bad company Preston Marlowe. [00:09:42] And suddenly I had a career in games, and it just sort of snowballed from there. So ba. Acting must be, especially video game acting must be so different from your standard kind of audiobook audio drama style. How do you get yourselves into a video game role? Rajan must be really different to try and get yourself involved. It's. I mean, you've got, you've got voice acting, and then you've got motion capture and performance capture. There's lots of different things. But to give you an idea for, for the last voice acting job that I did, my Fitbit thought that I'd been doing climbing for an hour. [00:10:18] So even though you're standing pretty still so that you're, you know, talking into the microphone, I found myself being very, very physical. It is. You really have to. Yeah. And you have to center your. Your voice. You have to make sure you think about what kind of situation your characters are in. There's so many, so many things. And then you've got to sound natural, which is crazy. [00:10:42] Yeah. There is a fine line between the sounding natural, but then also making sure that your voice is clear and, like, projected at some point. You know, there's like sometimes. [00:10:55] Well, I always use this as an example, but you have, in final Fantasy 16, you've got a scene where it's just your presence. Like, your character is just present in the room, but there's no. No lines. And that, you know, it's easy to just then just sit down and be like, this is my presence. But I guess you had to do some breathing. And so there's, like, a fine line between the natural. You want it to sound natural, but still, your voice needs to carry the story forward in a way, whether it's through breathe, breathing, or. Yeah, lines. So for a multilingual voice actor, how do you guys have to then reinterpret that in your head? You have to retranslate it. You have to then think about the way you're doing it in a kind of different kind of accent, different style, different voice. [00:11:48] I think the, for me, being multilingual has actually helped me find other rhythms. So especially with English, I'm able to maybe use different rhythms in the way I speak for my characters, which then makes them sound very, very different to other ones. So even though I'm playing an american character in something, I might use the same. The same cadence that I would as a Norwegian, more as a Swede or whatever, and that kind of just adds to it. I haven't had the chance to play too many actual norwegian roles or swedish roles. I've had them where they say certain words, but, yeah, I just feel that the more you have with you in life, the more you're able to bring into your characters. Fantastic. Yeah. [00:12:39] When I first moved to the UK, I actually had a very strong foreign accent. And so I spent a lot of hours and a lot of money with accent teachers. And what they teach you is, like, different rhythms, different cadences of the voice, like, where you. Where you basically place your vowels in the mouth, etcetera. So, you know, RP is completely different to, like, an american standard american accent. So I learned how to, yeah, use my mouth and also just place my. The sounds differently, which then it kind of translates really well to being a voice artist because you can then choose what you. What you use for different characters. So they all sound different. And usually what I do with, if I'm playing, say, an eastern european character, because I'm also Polish, so I speak Polish and Norwegian. [00:13:38] I will try for that day just to speak Polish. Like, if I know that I'm recording something with an eastern european accent, I'll call my mom, speak to her in Polish, and just make sure that I'm like, my mouth is kind of molded in that way before I put on the accent, but I think after so many years of doing it, it kind of just. [00:14:00] I can kind of fall into the accents now without having to do too much prep. [00:14:07] Yeah. [00:14:10] I suppose my final question to you both is, is it weird when you're playing a video game and your own voice comes out the screen towards you? [00:14:19] I have a funny thing. I don't play video games, but my partner does. And we've got a PlayStation five at home. [00:14:29] And the funny thing is, like, how much he loves killing my characters. [00:14:36] And actually, I feel like that is our couples therapy right there. He just needs to, like, kill my characters and then we're absolutely fine. Like, he gets all of his aggression. [00:14:47] Yeah. As well as being actors, our job is to ruin viewing and gaming experiences for all of our friends. [00:14:55] Have you ever slight slidden in joke in anywhere? Just in the. If only we could, but unfortunately, our directors are way too good at spotting when we. When we go off piste. It's very well scripted, but, I mean, the night is young. We may. I may still try one day. One day. Thank you very much, very both for your time. [00:15:18] We'll put your socials in the links. Any projects coming up that you want to tell us about or under. I would love to be able to tell you right now, but we would both be killed. We would. Yeah. And be sued and thrown out from this industry. So we're going to keep our mouths shut. Brilliant. Thank you. Keep your eyes and ears peeled, though. Been an absolute pleasure. I hope you've enjoyed the convention and we'll hopefully see you again soon. [00:15:45] As usual, we're at a convention and this means we have time. Challenge, gentlemen. [00:15:51] Ten minutes. Ten of your english pounds. [00:15:54] Time to find the best item that you can find on the floor for ten pounds in ten minutes. Bring it back here. [00:16:02] This is geeky. Premiere is behind camera. Shall judge the winner for us on second place and third place. But the new title of this feature is hall from the hall. [00:16:14] So we will cut to foothills. Running around like lunatics. Now, I promise I won't get a body pillow. No body pillows allowed. [00:16:22] Any other rules? Are we gonna set about no over 18 items, just in case? Yeah, yeah. Keep it ppp for no booby items. [00:16:34] We'll get three items. We shall return here and we shall get them judged. But we'll see you in a second. [00:16:43] Right. The first challenger off of the hall. Ten minutes. Timer is starting. [00:17:10] All right, Wolf, the hole, which is Europe all right, open the hole. Pasta. Paste it. [00:17:38] No time for the results of a haul from the hall challenge. [00:17:53] They cheated. [00:17:56] We agreed that they cheated, didn't we? Well, he had four minutes wandering around, then he came back with a camera and said, oh, the camera doesn't see to be working, and then went away for another seven minutes. It was not four minutes. [00:18:10] It was almost four minutes on the countdown. But hopefully the reveal is worth it. Yeah. Do we let him off? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think we let him off. Cool. So to recap, we each went around ten pounds each. Did we all spend that full ten pounds? [00:18:26] I spent the full ten. I also spent the full ten pounds. So equal pricing. First time we've done this where everybody's had equal pricing, I think. So it is purely on the item. Misses geeky Brimmy, who is off screen, will be choosing the winner on second place and the loser. [00:18:43] But, Lee, as you went first, do you want to reveal your item? Okay. So spent ages trying to find, like, something that wasn't, like, above a tenner. But eventually this caught my eye. It is a print of team rocket, and they apparently have murdered Ash and Pikachu. But I mostly like just how Mia float, who is my favorite Pokemon. So, yeah, I'm really very fond of this picture. I always think Wopa Fei looks a bit phallic. [00:19:16] I think they have, like, played of the horror wapafay with, like, with the mouth. It is a. It is a gaping war. [00:19:24] But I did like this picture. Do you think Wolverfey and Meow took out Pikachu whilst Jesse and James took out? I think so. Yeah. [00:19:34] We do know how. Don't have a corpse of ash, just his hand. So it could be that he escaped. Well, or he's inside Wobbufa. [00:19:44] He's been eaten. He's inside Boba Fett. [00:19:48] You know who I mean? Yeah. So, yeah, this was from, like, the. The same stand that's doing a lot of their Pokemon terrarium things. So this is geeky. Remy, your your opinion? [00:20:05] I like it for the expressions on their faces. There we go. Yeah. Keith, time to reveal your item. Okay, so. So we all like a bit of anime. And while you're watching anime, what could be better than having a lovely beverage while you're having your. [00:20:23] Just because of the way it's wrapped. I was thinking of it, you know, like the pots of curry sauce you get from chips. That's how I mushy peas I picked up from the lovely looking doki japanese kitchenware stall. [00:20:38] Kind of ghibli inspired, inspired mug with a lovely little kind of. If you spin it around, it looks like it's animated cat. Yeah, I was thinking that. [00:20:48] So it's a bit like a zoetrope, but with cold. Yeah. And it's kind of got. Isn't that designed for. For hot drinks, though? Because you're going, nice spilling it. But you could have a cold beverage in there as well. Yeah. So, you know, you could spill a cold beverage and then have a hot beverage in there. Yeah. [00:21:04] A lovely little bit of earthenware. [00:21:07] Practical. It looks handmade just because it's like. [00:21:13] It looks like Gigi and the soot sprites from Ghibli got combined into one animal. Yeah, a bit of coraline cat in there as well. Bit of Tim Burton esque. So I thought, yeah, what better than a bit of beverage to go with your anime viewing? Over to the verdict from misses geeky brown. [00:21:31] That is very nice. I went and looked at the Doki stuff as well. Very. Lots of different designs. Yeah, they've got one that was kind of above budget, but I would have liked to have got. Which was kind of the raccoon one. They've got raccoon design as well, which are very nice. [00:21:50] So what have you managed to pick up for your ten pound hole from the whole. Brian? I've got a carrier bag. Lovely. An inside said carrier bag is. Did you have to pay for the carrier bag? I know the carry bag was free. [00:22:06] Is some stickers. Oh, okay. From Bandai Sunrise. [00:22:13] It's a global tournament, apparently, as well. [00:22:16] And my new favorite hobby, Gumbla. So I've got a super deficient version of Gunpla kun DXS, which I believe is a recreation of the old granddaddy Gundam that is in Mister RX 78 two, piloted by Amuro Ray. It is the original mobile suit Gundam, but it's an activity as well as a gift because they give people the pleasure of building Gunpla and then having a figurine at the end of it. [00:22:48] Have a beverage after you finish what's happened to Pikachu? Whatever. Yeah. I think he's very cute, and I quite like him. It's very nice. It's kind of in that chibi super deformed kind of style. Yeah. Surprised it was only a ten. Yeah, ten pounds. Good luck. I feel like maybe you cheated. [00:23:10] I found something. Ten pounds. Ten pounds has always been our budget. [00:23:16] Yeah. That's surprising. You got that for ten pounds because gunplan tends to be quite expensive. Anyway, I think there's not many parts in that. I think it's pretty much an integrated kit here, so I think it's a good, fun, easy way to build gunplan. I think it's not going to take more than about ten minutes to put it together. No. But I think it would be just a nice bit of recreational activity. [00:23:39] So who's in third place? Misses Gigrummer. [00:23:44] It's a difficult one because they're all very nice and I don't think there is a bad gift amongst them. So I would probably say joint second is gunplan and the print and the mug gets my first prize. I'm not going to say I was swayed by the judge picking my choices. I know people like this, so they're a bit Kawaii, a little bit on the cheek, but practical as well. I thought, this is quite nice cup. I think this is very much a boy gift. Yeah, I mean, I'd be quite happy with that. I'd be very happy. I'd be a bit scared at that point. I wouldn't mind, really put me out. That's right. [00:24:29] I'm here with the amazing Amy and Sarah from Waterstones. Thank you very much for agreeing to be on camera. Thank you. So we're here at animecom UK with day two, Sunday. How's it been for you both so far? [00:24:41] It's been really, really fun. How are you? Amazing. Like, seeing all the cosplayers, absolutely insane. Like, the amount of stuff that's here as well. And the vibe is really good. And I met Zeno Robinson, so. Yay. There's literally someone tattooing people right across from us and it's brilliant. That's pretty. That's pretty cool thing to watch all day. Yeah. Not tempted either of you to get a tattoo yourselves. Very. We'll see. I'm trying to convince someone to get a tattoo today, but we'll see. [00:25:07] So, Waterstones, Birmingham, massive shop just on high street. [00:25:12] You have a fantastic manga selection. You can probably see it all behind us. [00:25:16] So if anybody's looking to get into manga, don't really have a truck. Don't really know what to get into. Can they come to you guys for advice? Absolutely. So I'm actually the head of manga at Birmingham Waterstones, so I do take a lot of pride in my section. If anybody is looking to get into manga, obviously they can come see me, one of my colleagues, because I do talk about it non stop. This is just a small selection of what we offer in store. We do have some more unique titles, stuff that's a little bit harder to get a hold of that other places might not have. So yeah, come see me. Always happy to help. Yeah. Awesome. We can also order things in if we don't have it in store as well. Even better. And what would be your personal recommendations for your first manga to get into? [00:25:59] I am absolutely obsessed with Trigun, which obviously is very hard to get hold of at the minute. But they are bringing out the deluxe editions from September. [00:26:08] So like Sci-Fi space sort of fantasy, amazing characters, amazing plot. It's just insane. You cannot guess what is, you know, what is going on. Most wanted man in the universe, which means the main gazette and stuff. He is just my favorite. So that would be mine personally though. Well, I would like to recommend the first manga I've read which was recommended to me by Amy, which was the case study of anatas. Absolutely loved it. Steampunk vampires. I don't know what more you could want. Awesome. Thank you very much. Both. Where can you find more information about Waterstones Birmingham? You can either follow us on instagram with Waterstones Bammingham or also on Twitter at bam Waterstones. [00:26:46] But come and say hi to us someday. Thank you. Brilliant. Thanks very much. Thank you very much. [00:26:54] Hi there. My name is Reena. I create handmade soft toys. I make little patches. I have little keychain hold well keychains over here. And yeah, I've been at this con since the first one that they did all the way last year and also the one that they did in London. Honestly, I just look for cons in the area I live. I'm based in the Netherlands and I usually just travel around to all sorts of cons all around Europe. [00:27:23] So this was just another one of the lists and I'm honestly very happy with it this year. So I'm definitely going to be back. [00:27:31] So I have a website, it's renabo.com and at the moment the main focus on that site. I'm selling the patches on the site. [00:27:41] I'm not sure when or if I'll be putting the other stuff up there, but I do, I do take commissions or you can always contact me on the site. So if there's anything that people are interested in, they can reach out to me there. [00:27:58] So. [00:28:00] So this is the pay hold the crap like this handle and stay on. [00:29:12] This is breathless speaker and, and also virtual speaker. [00:29:39] Not just virtual speaker. [00:29:43] So if we're not at Animecon today, where can we find these products if we wanted to buy them later on? [00:30:00] I live in Japan so I have a webshop but shipping be very expensive. [00:30:13] Hi, I'm Savannah, aka Savannah sos. And as you can imagine, I sew, I make plush toys, dolls, mini blankets, everything like that. I've been doing this for a few years now. Cons is a little bit of a newer thing to me, so I was really excited to come to anime Con. [00:30:30] I also do a lot of artwork as well, which is on my etsy, which is Savannah so's. But my main social network is Instagram, where I post all of the dolls that I make. I make a lot of people's original characters and their favorite characters from pop culture anime movies. So check me out if you're interested. I'd love to make it all. [00:30:51] I'm Drayman, the fantastic Natalie van systein. Not just an amazing va. You do a lot of audio ADR and you're a writer as well. Yes. I know you personally as serval from Honda, which I've had to uninstall off my phone because I've been playing it too much. It is very addictive. So that's. It's kind of like a good problem, but a problem. Yeah, it's an amazing game, but you also play your forger in Spain, one of the biggest shows going around. You are starting strike with my hero, academia. You've been in attack on Titan Gundam, the Witch from Mercury. Far too many titles for me to name. You are one of the great vas of our time. Thank you. How did you even get into VA in the first place? Honestly, I was looking for opportunities to do music. I originally wanted to be a classical musician. I was really interested in piano and cello, and I was looking for opportunities to write music as well. And I happened to stumble upon some early YouTube era job requests where people are like, oh, I'm going to make an independent animation, and I need a whole team of people to do things. So I was looking for if I could get in on a project working on music in some capacity, and I found one that also needed voice actors. And I think there's just a little light bulb in my head that went, huh, what if, you know, I have a microphone built into my laptop? How hard could being a voice actor be? [00:32:11] But it was just little as simple as that. But I think it helped that I wasn't necessarily going, oh, I want to be a voice actor so I can be famous and do all these things. It was just like, oh, that sounds like a fun thing to do as a hobby in my spare time. And then I really grew to love it and thought it was so much fun. And as I did more and more with it, I started finding more opportunities to start working in independent video games especially. That was where like, I really got my roots. And then I started working on legitimate, like, not, not that indie games aren't legitimate, but like full studios that had actual money behind them. And I was able to book, like, work in franchises. I think the big, first big one I was in was one of the Degas X games, which was really cool. And so I just kept doing stuff like that and then meeting people. And then eventually someone was like, hey, do you want to audition for this anime project? You'd have to fly out for it. And this was back before remote was really an option. But I was like, anime sounds great. Let's do it. So having that classical music training and working with editing as well, does that really affect how you approach your voice acting? Because you're thinking, I'm not just performing this. How would I edit this myself? Yes. Yeah, actually quite a bit. [00:33:21] For the longest time, I still thought that acting would always be like the side hustle and kind of the fun side thing. So I was trying to look for something that would still allow me to be able to participate in production and still do creative things. And I thought I was developing a real enjoyment for audio engineering as I was editing and working with my own audio. And sometimes I was working on other people's projects too. And I thought, well, this sounds like a cool job. So I went to university for audio engineering and ended up working as a dialogue editor and recording engineer for anime. Eventually, when I finally bit the bullet and made the big move to Texas to start working more in the anime scene directly. And as I was doing that, I learned exactly how anime is recorded and exactly what the engineers are doing to make sure it lines up with all of the animation and to make sure that the performance is synced to the picture perfectly. And so now when I go in as an actor and I'm seeing those things, I'm going, oh, okay, I know that. Okay, I can see that the engineer's gonna have to make a cut in the audio here. And, oh, if I made a mistake, I need to pause for a second and then restart the sentence so that way they can edit. But I also know, like, if I'm in the middle of the phrase, like, where there's a comma pause, I know I can stop there and I can start there. And the engineer should be able to cut that together. Like, stuff like that. I'm like, I know I would be able to cut that. So I think they'll be fine. Look at those pops. Bangs and just breathes. Yeah. So you'll forge you a very young, character inspired family. I really love that she has kind of the different dynamics. Cause when she is an assassin, like, I normally try to make sure because she is very confident that she's kind of got the muscle memory and she really knows what she's doing. And that's, like, the one thing she knows she's doing. Right. So with that, like, I usually try to physically embody that where usually I'm standing straighter and more confidently and I have my feet planted really well and the voice is more supported and confident. And then when she's nervous or having an anxiety meltdown, then I kind of hunch up a little bit more and I can, like, bring my hands and just kind of feel that tension. So that way it starts to creep into the voice and then it starts getting more anxious, and then, then you can cure. Yeah. Having that experience as a writer as well, when you have a pretty much japanese dialogue that's being retranslated into English. Yeah. Does that really support you and how you think and how you would express yourself in the role? Yes. Make kind of quick edits on the fly occasionally. I do. I mean, most of the time, by the, at the point where the actors are in the booth, we're not able to edit a ton unless the, the director's like, I don't know, does that sound right? Should we think about it? So most of the time, I'm not editing on the fly, but it does. If anything, if I am doing it, it's because my brain is, like, autocorrecting and going like, oh, I would have said it this way. So I just say it that way, and then I go, wait, wait, I'm sorry. I'm supposed to just read it as written. That's not helping anyone. But it does really. It does help as I'm writing, though, to kind of have that. It does make it hard for me to watch subtitled anything anymore, though, because I've, I've written or adapted scripts for both animation and live action at this point too. So anytime I watch something with subtitles, my working brain starts turning on and going, would that fit? How much would I have to change it? And then you're like, no, no, stop it. Just enjoy the movie. [00:36:42] So do you listen to your japanese counterparts a lot to get kind of inflection on how they deal with the character? Or do we go kind of fresh? Yeah. So with dubbing, we always preview the japanese audio before we ever come in for a take. Or if you're doing live action or any other language, honestly, Chinese or Russian or, you know, whatever. French, German, all that. Yeah. So when you are dubbing normally, I think there's some exceptions, some studios that don't always do this, but most of the studios I've always worked with, we always watch the scene or a sequence or however many lines we're doing. We'll always preview those in the original source language first. So we get a sense of, you know, how big is the sound that they're making, like, what is the emotion behind the words and how much intensity is the actor bringing? Is it goofy? [00:37:31] Is it relaxed? Is it, you know, sometimes cinematic performances are very understated compared to something very big and goofy. So it always does really help us a lot that we're referencing the original performance. We're seeing the body language and the amount of movement. So that way when we start recording after, as soon as we've gotten done, we'll rewind and then immediately start. I just said rewind, and I realized, I'm like, maybe that's not a thing that people know about anymore. I'm dating myself a little bit here. [00:38:01] But you go back to the beginning of whatever, the sequences or the lines, and then as you're coming in, you have that fresh in your mind what the original performance was. You just saw the visuals, and then that makes it easier for you to go, okay, I know how I'm going to apply my lines to that. That's been absolutely fantastic. Thank you very much for letting us find the curtain. Sure. Absolutely. It's been great to hear more about VA and how the process goes. And people said, I'll take no more of your time. It's been absolutely fantastic. I will. Hopefully you've enjoyed m a con and we'll see you again soon. I hope so. It's been a great time. [00:38:39] Noah. Really good to see you again. It's been a while since Forbidden Planet International. Well, that was Star Wars Day, wasn't it? May the fourth. Yes, it was may the fourth be with you. That's why we were there. Yes. [00:38:49] Yes. And the amazing anime con which is on right now. Yes. Day two. Yes. How has animates gone down? It looks been fantastic every time we walk past. So I've got quite a lot of photos that I can show you in regards to it. So we've had bingo, we've had a quiz. We have had a zine making workshop. And we've also had cosplay live drawing. We've essentially hired quite a few hosts. So what we do at animates is we want people who come to the con either on their own or with one or two friends who want to meet other people with similar interests. We've had quite a few of our hosts who take people around in groups. So it's a lot easier for people instead of. Of having to be one on one, there's a lot less pressure. It makes it a lot easier for people to just relax into it and also have guidance. We do know that we have a lot of neurodivergent people who come to anime con. We want to celebrate that. And we also want to make sure that these people are catered to and that they're able to meet other people who might have differences that make it difficult with social interaction. So we have a lot of people who are well trained, well versed in soft skills and things like that, so we can help other people get along, find each other's interests and hopefully make friends. We've had a couple of emails from people already, like, saying, thank you for my first time at a con. It's been great. I've actually made a load of friends. [00:40:06] Some people have sat around and gone, oh, I'm from this place. And then they go, oh, I'm from there. Oh, I'm from there. And then they all start talking about where they're from. And it doesn't have to be about anime, but we all know that's a good place to start. Yeah. I mean, it's fantastic to have a common interest to share and it's always a great starting point for any kind of relationship. Yeah. And I can imagine if you've come quite far because people have come miles, I think there's people from Scotland down to here today and yesterday. So people have come from all over the UK and there might know, might be somebody said, lives less than a mile from their house. Also here during anime, same kind of interest. This is a really good melting pot and a chance for them to meet and get together and maybe start off something beautiful further down the line. Yeah, exactly. And that's what it's meant to be about. Like, we do understand that a lot of cons have become quite corporate. And what we want to do is we want to make sure it's still about community. We want to make sure it's about our artists and make sure it's about the people who actually attend cons. Being able to make those connections still because it can be quite difficult when you come on your own. [00:41:05] What do you really do at a convention other than shop? Go to places, see what's on? Actually, meeting people can be quite difficult because there are no guided spaces. It takes a lot to approach somebody and say, I love your cosplay, can we be friends? Or, I'm really into this, can we be friends? A lot of the time, some people might not want that, but having that kind of safe interaction space as well, that's such a key thing to hear because I know social anxiety is a really big killer for a lot of people that they wouldn't ever go and approach and say, your cosplay is amazing, or, I really like who your character is, or I'm a massive fan of this series. And this gives them somewhere that is kind of neutral ground to a certain extent, somewhere that people can come, enjoy and meet for that first time, of course. Yeah. I do know that with our community, there's a lot of difficulties with maintaining eye contact or speaking to people first, or being able to carry on a conversation with things like prompt cards and conversation starters. Icebreakers. Having a board game with somebody. Exactly. Brilliant way to have a conversation. Yeah. We've actually had Naruto Monopoly here today, so that's quite fun. We've had a bunch of genshin cosplayers sitting around having a good play of that. So that's been pretty fun. We hope that next time it will be a lot bigger as well. We want more people to come, we want more structure so people know what they're doing. So it's been an absolutely fantastic experience. Animates the first time around. Definitely going to be coming back for the next convention, I assume. Definitely. And if anybody wants to get ready for the next convention, information will be on the Animecon UK website. That's correct. But assuming usually we'll drop an Instagram post out, say, when things applications can start coming in. Yeah. So it'll be through our social media. So we do have applications for our hosts as well. So these are the people who we need to a phenomenal amount of soft skills. We need them to be able to interact with people, to be able to liaise between one on ones with big groups that have the confidence to be able to walk around a convention and speak to a lot of people, introduce people to stuff and get involved with a lot of things. So to get into animates, what somebody would need to do is they would need to have an animates pass to do this. They need to sign up as they need to agree to some terms and conditions, they also need to bring their id to prove their age. We have had a little bit of feedback over the weekend that this might be a good thing for teenagers. We might keep this in mind. We don't have any guarantees as of yet, just due to safety and security. [00:43:26] So for now, I would continue to assume that it is for over 18s, haven't they? As long as you bring your id and you bring your weekend pass, we'll be able to get you in. So this is for anybody who comes on either Saturday or Sunday, vip's or full weekends. We'd love to see you there. We'd love to be able to make some friends for you. Yes. And if you have enjoyed the animated experience, please let Noah know. And please give Noah feedback. [00:43:49] Anything that you really liked, anything that you think might be slight changes for next time. It's all great feedback to get back in so we know how to improve the next time around. Exactly. Yeah. We'd like to have a lot of feedback for everything that we've done here today. We do know that because this is the first time, there might be some teething problems, but next time we should be able to get them all ironed out to make the experience a lot faster and a lot better for everybody who attends. Awesome. Thank you very much. No problem. So when you're ready for your next anime Con UK experience, keep an eye out for animate on social feeds and application form will be on the website. That's correct, yeah. Thank you very much, guys. Enjoy the con. I'm here with the amazing mark from first walls. Tell us all about fuzzballs. So, yeah, so we're one of the cutest brands out there, I like to think. I've been doing this for ten years now and we're in lots of retailers like HMV, Wrxmiths, TK, Maxx. As you can see, we've got lots of products. Got our t shirts and coasters and got enamel pins and bags and a whole range of stuff, plush toys as well. Started doing it as a Tumblr webcomic and it was just for fun, really. And it's because, like, we started going viral on there and people loved our stuff. They wanted more of it, basically. And we started doing the convention scene and that got us into retailers as they saw, like, the popularity of us. And now we're really big on our social media stickers. We've had, like 1.6 billion uses of those on, like, Facebook and Twitter and Instagram stuff. Like that. So, yeah, we get around it a little bit. It's great that you're still doing the convention scene as well. Do you find it's a really different atmosphere versus retail? Oh, definitely. So we have different products in retail because it suits retail differently. But it's great meeting, like, the people face to face. And they're what inspired me to create certain designs. Like, our tea design is really popular because people love tea and they always tell me, like, there's always coffee designs out there, but they want tea. So we made it and it's one of the most popular designs now. So it's really good to interact with people and the customers have that direct feedback that you know you're going to find anywhere else. Exactly. That's amazing. Thank you. Where can we find information about you? Online? So, yeah, you can find us at Fuzzballs dot co dot Uk. We're on Instagram as fuzzballs on Twitter and Facebook, all the usual social media. Find our stickers by just typing in fuzzballs into, like, the little gif icon on your favorite messaging app of choice. [00:45:53] Easy to find us. Brilliant. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, everyone. How's it going? My name is Dennis and I run rivals Corner, which is a gunpla store here in the UK. In London. It's an online store and you can find me at rivalscorner dot co dot UK to get my. To get to buy a gunpla, basically. And you can also follow me on Instagram. Ivals Corner on Instagram. And I'm also on Facebook and Twitter as well. Or X. [00:46:25] Well, we're here just to basically soak up the vibes, basically, the anime vibes. I mean, who doesn't love anime? And we wanted to share gunpla with as many people as possible. And we're trying to bring gunpla to as many people as possible because we know Warhammer is quite big. We think Gmpla, we can be just as big, if not bigger, here in the UK. So we're trying to promote it as much as possible. We're actually running a free workshop here today as well, so people can build their own gunpla, take it home for free as well. So hopefully people that, you know, come and try it, enjoy it and come back for more. So, happy building, basically. [00:47:08] Hi, it's Shel here and I'm at Tokyo Toys. As always, if you've been watching us on our Instagram page and everything else, we are here at anime Con at the NEC. And if you've been to the show. Brilliant. I'm sure we come and saw you, but we have everything, anime, manga and everything related to it. So I'm sure you've seen it. It's amazing. We have a store at Birmingham and Corporation street. It's literally like two minute walk from New street train station. You literally go out the doors, straight up the road and we are right there. You can't miss us. Google Maps finds us as well, so make sure you look there. But we have had a great day and I'm sure we've seen loads of you and I'm sure we'll see you guys in the store. [00:47:51] Hi, we are anime Inc. UK. You can go to our website and this is our hand draw, hand drop poster and one of the original here. Thank you. [00:48:12] I am with the amazing Josie Montana McCoy, named after Josie Wills, the outlaw, I believe is. That is correct, my friend. That is correct. It's my dad's favorite western. Happy Father's day, dad. It is Father's day over here in the UK. Yeah. So you're best known probably over here in the UK for Keiya in Genshin Impact. You're also quiz in bat wheels, which is a fantastic show, especially for young audiences. Truly, it's one of my favorites. Thank you. How did you get into voice acting? You know, I have always wanted to, I always played with voices. I did imitations of people when I was a young kid. I watched a lot of Saturday Night Live, so there was plenty of content to imitate. [00:48:52] And I did musical theater since the age of eight. So it's been a long time. So I've done a lot of theater and then I was able to make the transition, honestly, by meeting some people in Los Angeles who were in the voiceover world. They kind of let me be a fly on the wall, check out the studio while they were doing some stuff. [00:49:12] And I was like, yeah, I want to do this. And the next thing I knew, I auditioned for them, was booked on Monster High. Brilliant. So going from video game voice acting to tv voice acting. Yeah. Is it a completely different experience in both situations? I can imagine it must be like going between stage and film and theater. Yeah. I mean, it's all so different, you know, I mean, stage, with the stage, we have weeks of rehearsal for something and we have to build it and maintain it each night. [00:49:43] But for voiceover, whether it be animation or video game, you got one one day, really. And they can bring you back in if they want to, to record something. But really it's like, you know, understand the story as best you can figure that out with the director. I love direction so much. I love the challenge of actually getting to the point of what someone wants is one of my favorite parts of acting, the intention behind all that. [00:50:09] But, yeah, animation versus video game, it can be very different, especially with video games. Sometimes cutscenes, they've got a very tight window of when you have to say a line because they've already done the animation for it, and they've already got the lip moving. So you have to try to match that as best as possible. [00:50:27] And with animation, the animation I've done, I get to be a kid, basically, which is so much fun. Quiz is just the riddler's helicopter, and he has a blue. No matter what he's doing. And so those are very, very fun things for me to do. Yeah, I was gonna. That's exactly what I was gonna ask you about, because I imagine quiz and bat wheels being on set. Do you get to interact with the other voice actors to get that kind of experience? No. It's very similar to video games. It's like just me. The director will be either on the other side of the wall, on the other side of the glass, or even zooming in. [00:51:03] And the creators are a big part of the show, actually, the creators are there for all of my sessions, and they direct most of the episodes themselves. [00:51:12] And it's so much fun. Even though it's just me, it is fun every now and then to be able to hear some of the other voices. They're like, okay, actually, we're gonna have the BB's voice read you into this next line. And so I get to hear some of their stuff and then go into it myself. So it's really fun, no matter what. Yeah. And that's the other thing I was going to ask about. Being a va, it must be very physical as well, because you're still emoting, you're still having to do those hand movements, you're still having to do those gestures to get that voice across. Even though you're in your ADR booth. Do you still. Are you exhausted by the end of the day? Because not just a sore throat, I can imagine everything. He's aching. Yeah, it's a. It's a body, mind, and soul kind of situation, you know, with something like Kaya, he's a little calmer and collected, if you will. A little mysterious. So I'm never too exhausted after those. Vocally, perhaps, but with quiz, I mean, it's everything. It's a full body experience. And, I mean, I love it when I get the creators and the directors laughing at what I'm doing and they're like, dude, your face is doing some really funny stuff. We're gonna, we're gonna make sure quiz can do that facial expression in this episode. So being able to, being able to feed into some of the stuff that they're doing in the animation is very fun as well. And put together a character like quiz, how do you get that kind of Riddler vibe into what is a helicopter, to be honest. Right. [00:52:36] It's a funny story, actually. My wife happened to be talking with some colleagues of hers about, like, their experiences on different helicopters and everything. And my wife has been on a helicopter with Santa Claus. Actually, believe it or not, that was her one experience. And that was a fun thing. I was there for that and she told me this story and I was like, well, did you tell them that I've never been on a helicopter, but that I play one on tv? [00:52:59] Unfortunately, she didn't. She was very upset. She was like, why didn't I think of that? [00:53:04] That's such a great line to have in your pocket. I was like, when do I get to say that this is it? This is my one chance? [00:53:11] But yeah, I mean, working, finding out and digging into the Riddler and his helicopter. [00:53:19] I watched a lot of Jim Carrey as a kid, so I grew up with, I believe it was Batman forever that, that Jim Carrey was the riddler in. So not only in that, but he's been a hero of mine in so much of the physical work that he puts into everything. So it's hard not to put that physicality into quiz, but digging into a character that is iconic and has been for 60 some years and then being able to kind of create something alongside of it is an honor, a true honor. Thank you very much. You've got a queue forming, so I'm going to wrap this up really quickly. Yeah, but I was just going to say I saw in your socials you were playing with a few droids recently. Oh, yes, I was. I'm a cast member at Disneyland and I had the fortune very recently during star season of the Force to work with brand new BDX droids. [00:54:14] And oh, my gosh, they're so cute. And it's actually a lot of ad libbing for that gig, but it's so much fun to get to play with kids at the park and teach them binary through the droid. And the droids are incredibly interactive and it's kind of like walking around with little toddlers just all over the park and teaching them like, no, come on, let's go this way. Don't worry about those stormtroopers. Come on, let's go. And in the beginning, I was like, man, this is gonna be tough. I have to come up with a lot of, like, ad lib material. And then I went home from rehearsal and I saw my cats and I was like, oh, hey, boys, how are you? Oh, yeah, no, you can't do that. And I was like, oh, my God. I'm just talking to my pets. I'm talking to my cats. It's the same thing. And I've been doing that for 30 years. So it was really, really fun playing Star wars droids. Probably slightly more misbehaved than your. Yeah, believe it or not. Believe it or not. Yeah, they are. It's been absolutely fantastic. Thank you. Really, really do appreciate you taking the time out. Of course. We look forward to seeing you in a lot more stuff soon, especially continuing quiz and bat wheels. Yeah, well, pop your socials in the link if you want to follow you. You're a fantastic guy. Love your social feed, and we'll see you soon. I love it. Thanks so much. It's been a pleasure. [00:55:32] I'm here with Bon Idol from koguchi. Thank you very much for joining. Geeky brimming. Absolutely. How has your anime con experience been this year? It's been great. It's been great. It's been great to see so much variety, so many different sellers. The artist's alley looks incredible. [00:55:46] Yeah, it's been really fun so far. Been a great, great day in a whole. Yeah, thus far. Really good. So how did you get into creating your own manga? Like, most people just kind of, you know, making it as a, you know, as a kid, just for myself mainly. And then you kind of start making some zines, going to zine fairs, publishing that way, just kind of, you know, photocopy stuff. I got really into rice graph printing, which is a very kind of low cost diy print method. Yeah. From there, start making more copies, and then it's suddenly you find yourself doing like a hundred books instead of ten books. And then you taught some friends and then they want to publish, and next thing you know, you kind of, oh, I think I'm a publisher now, so I've kind of gone a very odd route to it, but I think it's a quite common route as well. I think a lot of people. Yeah, get, get to it that way. You know, they stuff themselves, start printing other stuff for other people and working together. Yeah, I mean, creator publisher is kind of that perfect scenario, I suppose, to get all your friends involved, etc. Oh, yeah, for sure. So how do you get involved with Saturday? So they approached me in 2020. It was right around the time we were about to relaunch Koguchi rebrand that they were just about to launch them do digital magazine Saturday brunch, which has a slightly different kind of demo demographic from Saturday am and Saturday PM. They're kind of, uh, the first two digital magazines. Um, from there, I started publishing Henshin in Saturday brunch quarterly. Um, and then the opportunity to do a print book came up. Um, Saturday am start to launch their, uh, print line of graphic novels. Um, and Henshin was one of the ones that was kind of put forward for that. You are here with Henshin as well today. I mean. So do you want to tell us all about Henshin? I mean, looks absolutely amazing. I love this cover so much. Thank you. [00:57:39] Yeah, I was really happy with the COVID as well. [00:57:43] I've had a lot of compliments on it. It's. Yeah, so Henshin is a. [00:57:49] It's originally a webcomic now print book. It is very much a love letter to tokusatsu. So, you know, big fan of like, Kamen Rider, super sentai. Yeah, Ultraman, stuff like that. [00:58:01] You know, like, a lot of people grew up watching power rangers. [00:58:05] You know, what's not to love? Monsters, explosions. Yeah. Color coded outfits, what can go wrong? Ultraman, all those kind of things. It's so good. [00:58:14] So that's kind of the influence on it. The book itself. It's the first volume, volume two, you know, is being worked on. [00:58:24] It follows a journalism student investigating a cataclysm that happened to his city ten years before the story. And a kind of rich tech company that kind of came in to save the day. He never really felt like it quite all added up. And then giant monsters start attacking. He becomes a kind of masked hero, and it's all kind of running away from him. And he's just trying to figure out what's going on. [00:58:53] Having that real good kaiju vibe at the same time. Yeah, because that's the thing. We talk about it and reference super sentai a lot. And you see that in the design. You know, it's very sentai esque in its look, but I would say in its vibe, it's definitely more of a rider kind of thing, you know, lone hero for now till the rest of the gang. [00:59:15] I don't want to spoil anything, you know? So how did you get involved with Saturday was just. They picked up your art, was it? Yeah. So it was white mango who actually approached me, the creator of Apple Black. He reached out, said they were launching a new digital magazine. And then I started talking to the editor, started talking to Frederick, the CEO, who's also the creator of clock striker and massively multiplayer online world of ghosts and yellow Stringer. [00:59:45] Man of many, many talents, Frederick. [00:59:49] So I got talking to him. We started blocking out the story because, you know, when I first saw it, it was gonna be like a real goofy kind of Saturday morning cartoon. Yeah. A bit. That bit of a gag manga kind of thing as well. Just, just real bit of a send up rather than a love letter. Yeah, but still with a lot of love. But, you know, like, the main character is gonna be like a salary man who was gonna be all kind of, you know, going for the full stereotype trope. Yeah. But then it kind of just became its own thing and it kind of grew, and now it's kind of like a, I wouldn't say it's like a serious, like, yeah, you know, grim, dark kind of thing. It's not gritty at all in that sense, but it definitely takes itself, plays it a lot straighter. Yeah. Than was originally the plan. And that's one of the benefits of working with a company like Saturday am, because you get to work with the editors, you get to get feedback from the readers as well. You know, being serialized, you get that not quite real time, because I'm public. It's quarterly, my magazine. But you do get that kind of engagement, that feedback, and you can kind of get, this works. This doesn't. Yeah. And figure it out. And then the opportunity to do the graphic novel came a little bit later. So you can kind of go back and go, well, this worked. This didn't. Let's craft this as a, as a volume of the comic rather than individual chapters, because that's a very different beast. Yes. Suppose when you go for an episodic thing that gives you that chance to kind of said on a quarterly basis, tweet, great training for errors. If you're going for a full novel, it's got to have that kind of beat. You've got to have a narrative thrust through it. Nice, satisfying conclusion. Even though the story continues, you want to finish that volume and feel like, yeah, I enjoyed that. Like, I'm not, I don't feel like I've been short changed or, you know, like, oh, well, now I've got to wait and, like, kind of feel because it's like, not that it's the same at all. But, like, the first dune movie. Yes, I loved it. Incredible film. Then it kind of just ends. Yes. And you're like. [01:01:42] And then part one comes up at the very end and you're like, what? [01:01:46] Like, I knew there was going to be more, but, like, I kind of thought there'd be at least, you know, an end. Yeah. And, you know, sometimes volume ones ain't. They're a bit like that. You know, it kind of just finishes and you go, yeah. If you think about the big cherry jump titles like Bleach, Naruto, one beat, it's not necessarily crafted like that, you know, which, when you come out every week is fine, but when you come out four times a year. Yeah, yeah. It's hard to justify. Yeah, definitely. So if anybody's not here today or they've missed Animecon UK, where can they pick up your titles? So Henshin is available basically wherever the manga is sold. So you can pick up Henshin from Waterstones Wh Smith. You know, if you're overseas, it's available from Walmart, Barnes and noble, places like that. Koguchi. [01:02:36] You can pick up my books on koguchipress.com or find us on Instagram at Kiguchi Press. Brilliant. I'll put the links in the description. Yeah. Thanks so much for having the time out. Thank you for having me. Enjoy the rest of your convention experience. Thank you. And we'll see you soon. Thank you. [01:02:56] Hello, I'm Eva. So I'm from Lootloon, Co. And this is my first time ever doing a big anime con. [01:03:04] Me and my mom and my sister, we made all of this handmade by ourselves. [01:03:09] So I've been crocheting for about three years now, and my mom been crocheting for, like, the past ten years. So I was like, instead of sitting home doing nothing, why don't you make something cute? And then we start doing lots of inventions of things like the sweet squishy bits and all different sorts, so big and small, anything that people requested. We started run a business, and this is like my second month doing it. So it's still very exciting for me. And if you want to find us, you can find us on Instagram. Lookloom. Co. [01:03:41] Hi. Hi, hajimaj. [01:03:44] My name is Kathy, and I are on zusetu here today at anime Con. Our specialty is bringing beautiful textiles across from Kyoto in Japan, the old capital. And so I'm here to do Furoshiki wrapping workshops. We've had a great time around the corner learning different styles of furoshiki. And as you can see. We also sell beautiful tanigui wall hangings from Yokohama which are screen printed by hand. And yeah, we're having a fantastic time. It's just been amazing seeing everybody dressed up in their amazing anime costumes. I've been trying to identify where they're coming from and I think I'm a bit old school with anime, so I know Swankatsu Norway on and Noragawami and Sora online. [01:04:35] That's my era. But I've seen link from Zelda and no face from spirited away. There's been just the most amazing people here. It's been so much fun. Please come and find us. We're on www.zusetsu.com or you can follow us on Instagram. We'd love to see you. We've got a fantastic community of people who love the culture and tradition of Kyoto and you can find find us on at Zusetsu Underscore store. So that's Zusetsu underscore store and we'd absolutely love to see you. [01:05:17] I am with the fantastic, the amazing Alejandro Saab. Thank you very much for taking a little bit of time out. Kiki, Birmingham, a very busy anime con weekend. Yeah, thank you for having me. Have you enjoyed it? Yeah, it's been crazy. Didn't expect the insane turnout that I ended up getting. Is this the first time in Birmingham? First time. First time in the UK. First time in the UK. Awesome. Hopefully the airport wasn't too painful. No, no, I actually. So I flew into London and drove out here because I first of all didn't even know there was a Birmingham airport. [01:05:47] So I know you've done YouTube previously as caggy Films and you've done VA acting, voice and music as well under Kaggy Rand. And then you moved into VA. Or was that before or after? I definitely started off YouTubing, then I went into voice acting and then I went into v tubing. But yeah, the YouTube stuff as kaggy film started first, for sure. Have you been in some fantastic franchises? Genshin impact. I know you was Jingyeon, from which I've had to uninstall from my phone because I was playing it far too much. I get that. And they've been in Pokemon journeys as well. [01:06:22] So what led you into Va? Was it kind of the YouTube spiraled into that or. [01:06:27] When I was in like middle school, I had a buddy of mine, we would make these things called machinimas. Yes. He was from the UK, funny enough. And we would just. We were inspired by like red versus blue, that kind of thing. And we'd make our own movies using Halo. And he one day asked me to be a cop. I was 14, going through puberty, and that was kind of like my first exposure to voiceover. And it wasn't until, like, my junior year of high school that I was like, oh, I kind of like this. And I started doing more and more research on it and I was. The more I researched it, the more I realized, oh, this is a lot of fun, and I kind of want to keep doing this. And one trip to college university later, I dropped out because it was the most miserable I had ever been. I moved to Texas, and the rest is kind of history. Yeah, Texas seems to be a really big hotspot for the anime scene in the US as well. Yeah, that's kind of a. Because that's where crunchyroll, like, their dubbing studio is located. So. [01:07:21] So when you prepare for a VGA roll versus just a VA role, is there a kind of different mindset to you and how you work on that one, like Jingyeon versus another? Kind of like a video game in comparison to, like, anime or anything like that? It depends because, like, with Jingyuan and certain video games, normally you're just like, oh, you have freedom. Like, go ahead, do whatever you want. But if it's like a JRPG, usually they'll be like, okay, so this is the amount of time we have. You can, you don't have to match the exact pacing, but it has to start at this time and end at this time. Similar to anime, but with anime, it's a little more technical because then you have the mouth flaps to also match on top of the timing, so. [01:08:04] But like most triple A video games, you don't have to do that. Like, when I worked on the last of us or God of war, we. It was just like, you know, go crazy, be weird, whatever you have to, and we'll match to you. Yeah. That must be a nice, easier, bit more free. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So how did that transition happen from VTuber to VA? Was it kind of you just knew people, you moved to Texas or. Well, I was dabbling in the indie space of voice acting since, like, 2012. And friends I had worked on indie projects ended up getting into, like, funimation at the time. And when I was first moved to Texas, I moved because, yes, Funimation was there, but also I had friends there. And those friends were like, oh, they're looking for people to audition for, like, this thing. And I was like, oh, okay, well. And I threw my hat in the ring and it was around the time when Samuel dubs were first starting to become a thing. Yeah. So then, you know, folks were starting to hear me and I don't know, they just thankfully just kept using me. Like, I mean, I kept auditioning for any opportunity they gave me the chance to audition for, but yeah, yeah. And then that swallowed into the, was it hoyoverse with Genshin. Well, that was years later. I mean, I had auditioned for Hoyo stuff for since the beginning and nothing, like, was panning out. And then eventually, like, even the sino one, like, I had auditioned and then I didn't hear anything until August. And they were like, we need a callback. And I was like, okay. And then that was the longest week of my life, waiting from the callback to when I got scheduled because I was like, I didn't get the part. I didn't get the part. And a full week later, they're like, hey, it's 09:00 a.m. you got the part. All of next week you belong to us because this character's supposed to come out the following week. So. And it's unheard of. Like, people don't normally, like, record it so last minute. [01:09:49] And for Sino, we recorded literally everything, like a week or two prior to him, his release. And having that vtuber background, did that help you? Because it kind of. No, no, not the, not the vtubing stuff. The vtubing stuff, honestly, is just for fun. The youtubing stuff, if anything, it, like, just helped with cold reads and just improvising more than anything else. But it didn't prep me for, like, the vo stuff maybe at most, like, because I'm. I was so used to already yelling, like, through commentary. Like, maybe that helped in that regard. So I don't know. Alejandro, it's been absolutely fantastic. I really appreciate taking some time out. Absolutely. I hope you have enjoyed your first experience I hope you enjoyed your first experience in the UK, and hopefully we'll see you again soon. Hopefully. Yeah, if they have me. Thank you very much. Yeah, it's an absolute pleasure. Thank you. Thank you. [01:10:38] I'm with the amazing Wendy from Animange Hill. Thank you very much for joining the geek with me here. How was your anime convent con UK experience been? Oh, my God, it's been so busy, so fun. It's probably one of the most fulfilling parts of my life thus far. [01:10:55] Like, the ramping up to it was just as busy as the weekend. So I'm very, very happy I did this. Cool. So I know you guys have been running the anime and chill stage in the corner as well. But you also got involved in the legendary anime Con UK afterparty. Yes. So anime Con asked us anime and chill to do afterparty. So basically what we did was sort of knowing the anime con audience, we invited artists including Pian Munergy, Schwabi con request, as well as DJ Fitz and level up Leroy. Yes. [01:11:36] And we basically put on a banning show. So it was sort of a matter of finding out what the best flow would be for the party. So yeah, it was really good. Cool. And how's it been being able to engage with the audience here at Animecon? Because I can imagine having a stage getting people down. I saw some of the idol dancing earlier that looked absolutely fantastic. So it's been good to get involved and meet new people, get them interested in anime and chill. Yep. So with anime and chill stage, what we were aiming to do is sort of give a platform for performers to come up, perform for what they love. So in this case, we had a two hour idol festival dedicated to just idol cover idols and it was amazing. I had a lot of people come up afterwards saying, thank you for letting us have this opportunity. [01:12:30] Hope you do it again. I hope we do it again. So, yeah, as well as the random playdance, which is like one of the most popular activities that we do here. [01:12:42] So that's basically an hour of sort of dance clips and people join in, jump in the middle, do the dance and sort of again and again. And that gets a lot of people interested, a lot of people moving and it gives everyone something to do here at the convention. Awesome. So Animecon UK, is this your first time at Birmingham or were you here last year as well? So this is my first time at Birmingham, but anime and chill did help with London. London, yes. So honestly, we're really, really happy that we're back and. Yeah, awesome. And if anybody wants to find any information about anime and chill, where's the best place to look online for you? Yes. So we are on Instagram mostly. So that's anime and chill UK. We recently opened our TikTok, so that's also there. We have our twitch. Something's upcoming with that one. So yeah, we are on most platforms as anime and chill UK and you can find us there. We have lots more events coming, lots of ideas. Yeah. So there's a lot of stuff like cooking. Awesome. Thank you so much for joining us. Really appreciate you having some time and look forward to seeing you again next time. Yeah, I look forward to see you soon. Some of the hottest VA talent in the world at the moment. Mister James Day. Hello. Hello. This has been your first convention? Absolutely, it was. Is this your first time in Birmingham or have you rented this farther north before? I know you're London based nowadays. I've been norther than this. Come on. I've been based in the UK for over half my life now. Yep. So are you british? Malaysian. That's right. So I was born in Malaysia and I grew up in Malaysia, and then I went to school here in the UK from when I was 13 onwards. And then after graduating, I went straight to drama school when I was 18. But yes, I've been sporting him. I've had the pleasure of coming here, coming here quite a few times. So I know you've done silver ash in Arknights, which is probably. Most people may know you from Final Fantasy XIV, endwalker, modern ways. There we go. Yeah. Which just came out. Just came out. Just came out. Such an incredible, successful launch, you know. Yeah. 30 million pre registers and stuff. So it's been the moment that came out. It's. The response has been monumental for me. You know, I've. [01:15:03] It's been such a wonderful experience trying to, like, navigate that and having so much support from other voice actors, like, especially shout out to Colin Ryan, who's the voice of Alphano in Final Fantasy 14. He really helped me and gave me a lot of words of inspiration and just making sure I'm okay handling all this. Random favorites come out, and also the voice of Angkor from Wuthering waves, who's in all the scenes with alto, she's been a great support as well. So. Yeah. So is it kind of weird when you're doing something like that? Because I imagine you're pretty much in the ADR booth on your own, and then maybe piping the voice through, does that kind of give you a bit of inspiration and help and support knowing those actors behind the scenes? Oh, absolutely. Like, it's the voice acting industry itself is a very lonely one, you know, so everyone's NDA'd up to their eyeballs. No one could talk about anything. And most of the time, you. You know, you go to a booth by yourself. The director is in another room, you know, or sometimes even on Zoom. So you don't really talk to anyone in person, face to face. Yeah. The audio engineer, who's always lovely, is great to talk to you as well. So it's always good when you can talk to other Vas. Bonus if you're in the same game as you, just so you have a shared experience. You could talk about you actually. Yeah. David Menken and David, Nina and Tracy. Like, I've known. I've known David this past year and I met Tracy a couple of months ago during the launch of Baller's Gate and stuff like that. And they've been great to chat to as well. And especially a seasoned van like David, it's just so inspirational to just hear. He seems to voice literally every single video character in the world. Yeah, I mean, I know him as Luke Skywalker from Lego Song. Absolutely. Lego song. There's the peak of your career there. Mark Hamill, who's an amazing va as well. But you're vain. Your interpretation, Mark. And then absolutely. Being here today, this week on the lead up to this convention, I felt so much imposter syndrome. You know, I just, like, I've had bolts of anxiety just like, what am I doing? [01:17:07] What is this line of incredible voice actors and just me, you know, and last night we went for dinner together, me and the other voice actors like Josie and Alejandro, David, Nina, and it was just so wonderful how, you know, all of us, deep down, a lot of us are pretty geeky. You know, we have a lot of shared interests and we all know what the industry is like. Yeah. You know, and it's, uh, it's just. It was such a brilliant moment where just we're able to just like, connect and just talk about things we know we couldn't talk about with anyone else. Yeah. Because I know VA is like a global industry nowadays and it's. That's right. It's kind of doesn't really suppose matter where you are. I suppose being based in the UK versus being based in Texas, where a lot of crunchyroll finimation stuff gets absolutely. Do you feel like this is still that kind of bit of a disconnect between the british VA scene and the american VA scene? I think it's. I do think so. [01:18:02] Just because. Another reason for that, it's like I can't speak from experience because I've never been based in the States. My accent is very deceptive. It's very deceptive. A lot of people assume I'm american. I could definitely pass as american, I'm sure. But most of my roles are american. But it's. There's a difference in culture when it comes to voice acting and the appreciation of voice acting in the US compared to the UK. You know, like, I think in the UK, the lines are very blurred when it comes to voice actors, which is why you find, like a lot of voice actors in the UK are also like stage and tv and tv and film actors as well, or radio actors. And however, in the States, it's. [01:18:48] I just from experience, you know, it's more common that people are very specialized within the voice acting field and voiced hundreds of characters within the voice acting field as well. Of course, there are very talented voice actors who also do tv and stage and film work as well in the stage. But I think in the UK, I think there's still, like, an attitude that you are an actor, you know, rather than just a voice actor or just a screen straight actor, as they call it. Yeah. So you're allowed to be versatile, you're allowed to swap between screens. So, like, I know Tracy definitely had very much a blended career across screen, stage, tv, film, and now moving into more video games. Absolutely. And, like, another thing is that it's a do for studios. You know, there are not many animation voice animation studios, like, for anime, especially uncutural, it's not based in the UK. Yeah. So that's very much a limiting factor. Sure, there's a lot which could be done online and there's a lot to be done from home, but, yeah, also talking about it, quite a few voice studios, the cast injectors really look for people who are, like, classically trained in stage and stuff. And it lends itself to a lot of different video games, especially western based video games. So having that drama school background, probably a bit of a leg up in the first starting, or do you think that was. I don't think it's necessary. Yeah, I do not believe it's necessary. I'll be wrong to say, like, it didn't affect the trajectory of my career, of course, because I know that me personally, if I didn't go, I would have been lost when it came to how do I go about tackling and getting a foot in the door in the industry, it definitely helped a lot with when it came to stage, film and tv. However, for voice acting, I did have to find, you know, I had to learn a lot of microphone techniques through YouTube. I had to find a lot of different ways to just to develop specifically that craft in voice acting because it's a very different technique when it comes to staging tv. Yeah, I was saying that to some of the guys earlier. Yeah. It's a very physical performance. It's not just. [01:20:58] It's not just reading a script like that. It's kind of embody the personality of the character. You all. That's right. That's right. And there's a lot about carrying yourself can affect the way you speak. For example, like Silver Ash. He's such a grand character, right? He has such. He has such an overpowering presence in the game. And I remember the voice director for that told me that to imagine that I had a cane. And for other recordings, I did bring a cane in because, you know, he has his cane. He also has a bird. I want a bird. I want a real life Tenzin. I love birds. I really love birds. See the flower? Yeah. Anyway, back on topic. So, like, he very much stands with so much presence. And you have to be able to embody that for it to translate to the voice. At least for me, I know people are very different. That being said, I voiced multiple characters underneath a blanket with my microphone, just squat on my coffee table and somehow managed to pull out some incredible performances just from that. So, yeah, because it's a very restrictive performance on the screen because you don't get to control the face, you don't get to control the animations, but you get to control the spirit of the person. You have to embody that voice. Absolutely. Like, I started my career voicing military grunts and stuff. Like, especially in the division, the division two. And that's really where I found my feet in the voice acting world because they would throw so many characters at me. I think still to this day, I've done the most voice lines in that game than I have in any other games I've done. And I voiced loads of true suns, black tusks. So many different ways to die, so many ways to be set on fire. And, you know, if you're screaming into a microphone, shouting swear words for three to 4 hours, it not only kills your throat, but, like, you need so much support in your diaphragm, your ribs, your head. [01:22:55] It's a full body, full body workout. So somebody who's relatively, I would say relatively new to the industry, I know you've been acting quite well. What kind of tips would you say if somebody wanted to go, especially in the UK, look at how to get into the VA world? [01:23:10] I think you could definitely start by getting a good voice reel, I think. And I think, you know, a lot of voice actors are looking to get into it and eager to get into it. You know, have passions in video games and in anime and stuff like that. So one recommendation I would do. So what I did is I got a collection of all my favorite video game characters. I got my favorite lines that they did, and I just tweaked the lines a bit to make it my own creation. I was inspired from them. It's not so just, you know, so you're not plagiarizing anything. And if you could do an impression, great, you know, record that, record something, get something on tape, you know, for yourself and specifically so you could send it out to many people. There are different websites you could go to to find different open calls and stuff. There are people you could reach out to in regards to like how to get set up as a voice actor. I think there's a website called howtobeavoiceactor.com which actually, even though the name is very on the nose, it's a really good advice. It's really good advice. Yeah. Get yourself a good microphone to start, like a good starting microphone. [01:24:11] And use your closet, use your cupboard. Sound dampening, get a blanket over you. [01:24:18] That's the main important thing. Just so there's no echoing. No what's the word response from not having soundproofed walls and stuff like that. And honestly, one of my number one tips again is just to be kind to yourself because especially when you start out and you're not used to getting so much rejection and you're not used to getting so many people criticize your voice. It could feel so personal, like, it could feel like an attack on like you personally and your talents, but it's not. You should be able to figure out a way you could take criticism professionally and analyze it from a professional point of view. And that's definitely a muscle that take, that takes time to train and develop. Like, I very much still struggle with rejection and it's all a learning path, you know, like it's all, it's all a learning curve. Well, I'm still learning. James, it's been an absolute delight to talk to you. Thank you so much for taking some time today. I hope you have enjoyed your first convention experience. Oh my God, I loved it. It was so much fun. It was just, it's crazy just being able to meet so many people who are so passionate about the games in real life. And I recently started streaming as well at hey James Day on Twitch, little plug. [01:25:31] And it's crazy to meet some viewers in real life too. And I can finally match a face to the username and yeah, honestly, such a supportive and such a wholesome day where I could literally just geek out about games and anime. What's better? Honestly, such great to have a space like that as well and getting some direct feedback as well. Yeah, what they love and yeah, that common interest bond with people, especially since this is a convention I would have went to regardless, you know, like, I'm very. I'm very much proud to be a fan first and voice actor second. It's absolute delight. We look forward to your career with great interest. Thank you so much for everything and we'll hopefully see you again soon. Absolutely. [01:26:17] Hello, my name's Nick. I'm from Wells Park, Birmingham. We are here at Animacon, which is absolutely incredible. We're here because we sell lots and lots of manga. We sell lots of anime stuff. We have a big passion for it as well. So we're having a really good time interacting with everyone. As you can see, we have loads and loads of stuff back at the shop. We have an even wider selection of manga. We sell gunpla, we sell anime figures, sell anime backpacks, t shirts. If you can print anime on it, we probably sell it. [01:26:54] And we're just here having a really, really good time this weekend. It's been fantastic so far. The crowd is incredible. Everybody's really, really enjoying it. It's fun. It's just been a really, really good day so far. So if you are not here, physical store 14 to 16 smallbrook Queensway in Birmingham city centre. We are a two minute walk around the corner from New street station. If you can't get into our store, you can find us at Walter Park, Birmingham on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. We also have a manga and anime dedicated discord server where you can just chat to us, you can chat to the community, and we also take orders on there as well. [01:27:43] I'm here with the fantastic, the amazing, the superlative, Zeno Robinson. Thank you. Superlative. I don't think I've been called the superlative before. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Taking a little bit of time out of your day here. How's your weekend been at anime Con UK? It's been great. I've had a lot of fun. Everybody's been so nice and, you know, it's always fun getting new cons with your friends and table it right next to Alejandro. So it's just been a blast, honestly. So you probably need no introduction, but I'll introduce you anyway. You are hawks in my hero academia. You are dj in Street Fighter six. Fantastic game. Thank you. You are going Pokemon go. Pokemon journeys. I can never get that right. It's all good. And Victor Stone slash cyborg in young Jessica, amongst many hundreds of roles that you've been doing. Thank you so much. I'm currently doing fighter d in go go lose the Ranger, which is Hulu or Disney, depending on where you are in the world. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So amazing career. You won an award last year, best english language actor at VA at the 2021 anime award. Yeah. 2021, yeah, yeah, I think so. Was it 2021? 2021. I think it might be 2021 of those years I did. Yeah. That was really crazy. The craziest, I mean, I'm gonna give really funny friends. I was like, it's really crazy because the craziest part about it is they started getting plaques and trophies the year after I won. So, like, when Zach won the next year, he got a trophy and then, like, ride. Cole Levy just got a trophy, but I don't have one, so it's like crunchyroll. Just. Can I get one? [01:29:09] Like, please? I got a congratulatory email, which was nice, but I also won a physical trophy too. Now that I see that you're giving them away, I think they should redirect them. Trophies just like a little back black put me in the backlog. Awesome. So how did you get into voice acting in the first place? Was it kind of a conscious career choice or was it kind of a sideways move? It kind of was a sideways move. I mean, the career choice was always acting. [01:29:33] I always wanted to do it as soon as I discovered what acting was. [01:29:38] But I think the voice acting thing just kind of was a culmination of my love of acting and my love of this medium of anime and video games and just, like, pop culture, like comic books and things like that. So it became something I became passionate about once I realized that it was something that I could do, combining my love for acting and combining my love for all these other things that I grew up consuming, like watching and playing and things like that. So was anybody a big part of your childhood? Grown up? 100%. Yeah. Yeah. Like, pokemon was very foundational. Dragon Ball, dragon Ball Z, very foundational. Naruto, you know, things like that. Like, I was, I was, I was four kids, so that's like Sonic and, like, Sonic X and you, you know, Shaman king and fighting Fudon, stuff like that. Ultimate muscle and all that stuff I loved as a kid. Yeah. So when you got the call from my hero, academia, imagine. There was a bit of. A bit of an interview process in getting through that. But when you got that call, what did you think? [01:30:41] Oh, God, I had already, like, I was already in my hero for Deidor Sakaki in season four. So I was like, oh, I can do. Anime was my first thing, right? I mean, I had done something before, but, like, I think I was like, I did some before, so I was already, like, you know, kind of making my way through the anime space. [01:31:04] And at first when I was Sakaki, I was like, okay, well, I was in my hero. I can say I did that. And, like, that's really cool. You know, I'm happy with. With that. Like, not a lot of people get to be in my hero at all, so I was just honored to, like, take up space in that world at any way, shape, or form. [01:31:23] Then Hawks happened, and I was like, oh, God, how will people, like, I'm a nobody. Like, how will people, like, accept this? You know, what will people think when it's me? Will I sound cool enough? Well, will I sound what, like, what people want for this character? [01:31:43] And, like, you know, my director, Colleen, she was like, he's a big one, so get ready. So I, like, I just studied a lot. I was practicing a lot. I was reading the lines out loud. I was reading the manga out loud a lot. [01:31:57] Yeah. There was a lot of worry and anxiety. It was like, happiness. It was like, whoa. [01:32:04] Oh, no. You know, so. Yeah, but I put 100, like, 50% in. I really, really wanted to leave a good impression. That's fantastic. I mean, and kind of, you've done video games. You've done live action. You've done a little bit of. You've done lots of voice acting as well. Does the transition between those, it. Does it affect your acting style? Does it affect how you're going to perk a role? Do you have to, like, reset your mindset when you're going between something like DJ and hawks? [01:32:35] No, I mean, something like character changes. Yes. But usually, like, when you've played a character for enough time, and they usually play references for you, too, so your body can remember what it feels like to be that character. And so, like, hawks, playing hawks, has certain physical mannerisms that I do that allow me to sort of get in the space and the mindset. And the character of hawks, just, like, DJ has, like, certain body things I do with my body, subtle things. Like, I try to be bigger when I'm playing DJ, so he sounds like he has a bigger voice, where I try to be cooler when I'm more laid back when I'm hawks. So he can. His voice can sound laid back. So I try to incorporate all the elements of every acting style I've learned. So I try not to approach them differently because I want the same quality of work to be across the board from what I do. [01:33:24] But there are different sort of kind of activations I try to do to get into each character. Yeah. And I suppose last question for you, because I appreciate you've got loads of people who really want to see you. [01:33:38] Western animation. So young justice, big stone snyball, fantastic role. Thank you. Versus anime, do you think there's a kind of cultural difference between the shows or do you think they get. Sometimes I think it's all in the storytelling. I think, like, there are some anime that is intended to be wacky and not light hearted and sillier and like, just like how western animation does. There's some western animation that's tended to be really complex and nuanced and deep, just like anime. But I think some of the biggest ones are in the storytelling, the actual story. I think anime tends to be a bit more metaphorical and symbolic with the way they tell a story. My hero is sort of this sort of look at and sort of analyzation of hero and hero culture for superheroes. Right. And like. And you compare that to a show like young justice, which is more of a character show. It's this deep analyzation of each character as they're growing older and, like, taking on this, like, role of sort of following after their super, their. I don't say their superiors, but they're the star. The. They were the sidekicks who formed their own team and sort of was competing. Not competing, but, you know, like they were doing the things that the Justice League couldn't. And so it's always like a cool angle that like. But a lot of it's in like the storytelling and how those stories are told, you know, the character growth. [01:35:06] Yeah, those are the biggest differences, I think so. You know, it's been an absolute pleasure. Thank you for so much for your time. Thanks so much. I hope you enjoyed your experience in the UK. I'm having a great time. Thanks for having me. Hopefully we'll see you over here again soon. Hopefully. Oh, I just like kissed the mic. Hopefully. [01:35:19] Been a pleasure. Thank you very much. Thank you. [01:36:17] Thank you for joining us here. I'm geeky from this issue. Thank you very much to animecon UK for giving us said studio for us to do our recording and I hope you enjoyed it. If you were here and saw us, I hope it says fine. Don't forget Birmingham anime film Festival, where we had a few films screening is back September, October this year. More details on the bug website coming soon. [01:36:38] Keith, where can we find you online? You can find me now. Even though I forget myself just as Hardwick hotel everywhere. No underscores anymore. I got rid of the underscore. Yeah, I know. That's broken like eight years worth of tweets now. Yeah, well, I don't know. I thought it was only fair to give it back to Elon. You know, you can have the underscore back. Elon. It's about time. Did you trade him for our likes? Was that what it was? Well, you said I can have my underscore, but you gotta private my likes. Yeah, that's what the deal was. Yeah. [01:37:07] So, yeah, so just hard work, hotel everywhere. And then regularly on Wednesdays, I pick my comics of the week. Well, comic of the week, usually. Just the ones. Yes. With more comics that I'm reading and nowhere to start and then some others that I'm picking up in digitals or trades because there's only so much money and so much room in the world for comics and comic news in the meanwhile. Yeah, occasionally when there's something good and juicy, there's a new piece, particularly for british based stuff like the Kickstarters or stuff that rebellion treasury of british comics putting out or some of our friends and neighbors from around the area got new comics coming home. It's the first time I've ever heard paper based items called Juicy. [01:37:50] That's if you left them in the bag too long. Maybe that's why you bag and boredom. Lee, how about yourself? Where can I find you online? You can find me on YouTube at Petferetta and on Twitter heepferret. I also do a bunch of freelance writing, primarily at Silicone era. You can also find me on geek memory website every Friday, mostly every Friday, doing games releases of the week, which I also pick again week. But unlike Keith, I don't actually play every single game because there is not enough time in the day to do that. I just highlight what looks cool. Cool. Thank you very much. You can find me parish on Twitter. You can find geeky Brummie on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube. All eekybrummy. Don't forget our sister account, geeky games on Twitter as well. For the best of what's coming up in Birmingham in the local area, which is run by misses geeky Brimming. We thank her very much for our balance with that one. Don't forget there's the film roundup as well by Sam, who's not with us today, but that made it sound very funny. He's still with us. He's no longer with us. He's still with us. So is Matt. Just not available today. But Sam does his film roundup on a Thursday. As well picking out the best new releases and trailer of the week. They pick that up for the Geeky Premium website. And Thursday. [01:39:12] Thank you joining us for anime Con UK here at Birmingham this weekend. It's been an absolutely fantastic few days. I really hope you enjoyed the content. Don't forget to follow us like subscribe, share Geeky Bromi, et cetera. But we'll see you again next year.