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ANNCast - Vowlesemort Lives!

In the podcast I heard a lot between the lines that indicated you got chewed out by someone at AX about your rant Zac. It is unfortunate and I know you are honest about your feelings about AX not becoming a strictly business run, corporate greed entity, but I think that's partly what AX is meant to be. Whoever it was from SPJA that responded to your comments, I have a great deal of respect for him or her for standing up for their convention and what it represents.

AX represents the premiere event in North America for the anime industry to showcase all that is great and wonderful about anime and manga. I'd expect it to present a good deal of professionalism and not just be a super-sized version of your typical fan-run event. Sure it's staffed by fans and they put their enthusiasm for the medium in their work to make AX the best it can be, but you have the expectations from all the Japanese guests and professionals that primarily see anime as a business and take it very seriously. They come here with the expectation that we do too and in order to have that presentation there must the business equation involved.

Ok thanks for responding, Zac. It seems if you express your views on a podcast and come back next episode with less bold statements, but maybe more concise ones, someone must have responded that prompted you to do so. Otherwise there would have been no reason to revisit the issue in your next podcast. You should stand by what you say, and you do, but to just decide to rephrase things runs the risk of sounding flighty and un-confident.

I plan to attend your ANNcast at Expo so if you'd like to talk about more later afterwards I'd be glad to.