Move over, Hollywood. Eat your digital heart out, Japan. Queens is activating.
The Museum of the Moving Image hosts AniTOMO’s NYE Anime Rewind on Saturday, Dec. 28, at 12:30 pm.
The one-day conference celebrates the outgoing year’s most popular anime stories with a live panel discussion featuring diverse digital content creators, a Q&A with experts, an interactive watch party based on a Dandadan episode, a Dandadan cosplay contest, and an early New Year’s Eve countdown with giveaways.
General admission is $10 with 50 percent discounts for students, seniors, and teenagers. (The event is recommended for those above age 16.)
Keeping It 9000, an NYC- based company that creates all kinds of anime-related content, headlights the panel. Other big name participants are Funsizedsmall, a manga collector from Brooklyn, and Brunch X Bros, an NYC-based collective known for its popular con yearbooks. (The organizer, AniTOMO, presents free or low-cost events celebrating Japanese culture.)
Anime began as a hand-drawn art form in Japan in 1917. Now internationally famous, the mostly computer-generated genre combines graphic art, characterization, cinematography, and storytelling. Comics (i.e. Japanese manga), films, light novels, television broadcasts, and video games are the most common platforms.
The Museum of the Moving Image is located at 36-01 35th Ave. in Astoria’s Kaufman Arts District.
Images: Museum of the Moving Image