GO AWAY BOY: Japan's All-Female Metal Revolution (Anime Los Angeles 2025) Panel Slides

The idea of doing an all-female Japanese metal panel has been floating around for several years. Warren and I discussed doing one just on '80s metal bands at one point, and I'd talked to Rose (who has also co-hosted the '80s Japanese metal panel in the past) about it too. I guess the idea to do it really kicked off last year when I was thinking of new music panels to do. I knew I wanted to do the '60s/'70s J-Pop one, and I knew I wanted to do one on Johnny's idols, but wanted to work on more. I believe we submitted the Girl Metal one to either ax chibi or Comic Con LA first, but we'd always hoped to debut it at ALA. We thankfully got that wish this year, and I think the panel was one of the best "first versions" we've ever done. I've stated several times before that I consider the first time we do a panel as a sort of "beta", or even an "alpha", version, but this one felt like we did a decent job right out the gate. The funny thing was that it originally was supposed to be a 90-minute panel, and by the end of our writing I really wished I'd made a bigger fuss to have kept that time slot. I guess that at least means there's plenty of room for growth! Here's hoping that FanimeCon and AX take it too, because this one was a lot of fun! Anyhow, be sure to come to a panel near you, and thank you to everyone who has either attended one or somehow made it to this page!

Oh, this is the ALDIOUS interview we mentioned in the panel as being a very good read for those looking for more background on the topic. Also, this is probably the only panel we've ever done that had several extra notes on the slides that only we could see. I chose to not include those here for practical reasons, but if anyone would like to see them just drop us an e-mail and I'll send them over in some fashion.