It's Summer Convention Season! You think it's not, just because it's winter? Well, tune in to find out why it is! Jelli takes you into the world of our summer conventions by presenting one of the panels we held this year, at Anime Texas 2024, in Spring, TX from Fandom Events. This panel was also presented at San Japan in San Antonio, TX but the audio got too blown-out sounding to put out the full episode...but the Q&A portion of that event is retained here. The panel was also presented at Fan Expo Denver, in (of course) Denver, CO from Fan Expo HQ, the audio from that was unfortunately entirely unusable.
In this episode:
Jelli is on his own.
We delve into the background behind the Toei Manga Matsuri – Toei Cartoon Festival and its inception in 1969 and other such festivals around the country such as Toho's Champion Festival
Contextualizing the box office of the films
Going through all of the original movies and looking for what interesting facts and value they possess
Curse of the Blood Rubies - notes on censorship and references
Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle - Ghastel and his relationship with Prince Nezha
Mystical Adventure - Similarities to the movie The Last Emperor
Dragon Ball Z Movies
Dead Zone - The Phantom Zone and Garlic Jr's unique properties
The World's Strongest - Hal 9000
Tree of Might - A possible Tree of Life
Lord Slug - Super Saiyan and Pseudo-Super Saiyan, or False Super Saiyan
Cooler's Revenge - Predator
Cooler Returns - The Death Star, the Big Gette Star, the Borg Cube, and Star Trek's Vger
Super Android 13 - Don't Lecture Me with Your $30 Haircut
Broly the Legendary Super Saiyan - Meme culture in Japan and Nostradamus
Bojack Unbound - Stan the Lariat Hansen and WWF/WWE references
Broly Second Coming - Toribot and Nata de Coco
Bio Broly - Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Fusion Reborn - The Dictator, YIKES
Wrath of the Dragon - Hirudegarn and kaiju
Q&As
and more, including some general pop culture, trivia, and editorializing, as usual 

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