 This was a completely brand new panel that I wrote after Fanime. I had just found a source for the complete Oricon data I needed for the 80s (in Japanese) and after I went through all the trouble compiling all the info I needed, and romanizing it, I figured I might as well start on a potential 2000s list since I was already on a roll with the 80s list. It was then that I started seeing all the familiar songs that really took me back, and a few that I was surprised made it into the criteria I had set (such as "Taiyou no Uta"), from there I wrote the outline and submitted to the only con that I hadn't already submitted other panels to, LA Comic Con. I was a little surprised they took it if I'm being perfectly honest, but I was extremely excited to do a panel outside of the normal round of anime ones A-to-J usually attends. Doing this one was really easy too since I had a lot of this knowledge already in my head, and didn't need to rehearse it as much as other panels. Since it was at LA Comic Con though, that meant I had to do a 50 minute version of it, but I've already thought up the ways I'd do this one as a full hour, or even a 90 minute, version. Maybe I'll get that chance at FanimeCon 2024... 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! Lastly, the songs from the opening montage can be found below:
Music of The Lost Decade: A Guide to Japanese Pop In The 90s (San Diego Anime Con 2023) Panel Slides11/20/2023  Even though this panel was written way back at the start of the year, I assumed that there'd be several versions of it by now. Maybe because so few cons took it, and I had to create so many variants of the 80s panel, I realized that the 90s one was barely moving forward. This SDAC one was actually just the Sin City one, but like truncated and with a couple new slides that I never really liked. I had started making a version for ALA that was going to be like 75% different content and even format, but since they didn't take it I only had the outline of it. That said I decided to take the parts I'd actually written for ALA and incorporate them here so that it would be distinctly different from past versions, at least a bit. What's interesting is I almost took out the KAN slides, but decided to just leave them one last time and we LITERALLY got back to our hotel room after the panel when I saw a post from a friend on Twitter that KAN had passed away that day. That's just crazy to me since I was a huge fan of "Ai wa Katsu", and had just been talking about him hours before. 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! Lastly, the songs from the opening montage can be found below:
More Than City Pop: A Guide to Japanese Pop In The 80s (San Diego Anime Con 2023) Panel Slides11/20/2023  I mentioned that I changed the ax chibi panel in several ways right before I went on stage, but with a few days before San Diego Anime Con, and some newly found videos, I decided to rewrite the entire beginning of this panel. Also, I had an idea to use Shizuka Kudo in the 90s panel instead, so I had a use for those Toshinobu Kubota slides I didn't use for ax chibi after all. I finally talked about Monta & Brotehrs and Imokin Trio. I'm not sure if this panel will be retired, but if it is I'm happy with this version. Also this version has a few slides that weren't shown live at SDAC since I made a single PowerPoint for that. 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! Lastly, the songs from the opening montage can be found below:
More Than City Pop: A Guide to Japanese Pop In The 80s (anime expo chibi 2023) Panel Slides11/12/2023  The panel at ax chibi originally started as a version of the one from San Diego Anime Con, but since the cons were kind of close together in terms of location and date, this one got a rewrite. Also, when the panel was first accepted the e-mail started it would be a 50 minute panel, but the schedule showed it as a full hour. This was confirmed at con, so I added in some of the extra slides I had originally cut out (mainly the entire middle section about "Plastic Love") and switched out a slide about Toshinobu Kubota's "You Were Mine" because I just didn't feel like talking about that song after all. I guess I'll save those slides for a future version if this panel isn't retired soon. 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! Lastly, the songs from the opening montage can be found below:
Music of The Lost Decade: A Guide to Japanese Pop In The 90s (Sin City Anime 2023) Panel Slides11/6/2023  We almost did both the 80s and 90s panel at Sin City Anime, but there was some confusion regarding it being a 60 or 90 minute panel that kept us from actually doing it. Seeing as so many panels cancelled just before the con, or even cancelled at the con, I hope that they give us more slots next year. Anyhow, this 90 minute version of the panel was based on the Fanime one, but this time it's tighter, more rehearsed, and there were a few changes just to make it feel neater in general. It's a bit closer to that version than we usually do, but the goal with this panel was to do a "perfect" version before it got hacked up a bit more for other cons. 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! Lastly, the songs from the opening montage can be found below:
 Sometime in Summer 2023 I finally found the info I'd needed for over a year: The full 1980s Oricon End-of-Year lists. This meant that all the older "More Than City Pop" panels were now extremely obsolete. I still stand by that they aren't inaccurate, as the songs and artists presented are/were important, but I immediately started working on a new version that fits the criteria I have for the other decade panels. Seeing as Ronin Expo and San Diego Anime Con were the ones I had a good feeling would accept, I started there. I made two versions of the panel, and this one was only completed very recently as Ronin Expo sent the panel confirmation relatively close to the con. This is only a 60 minute version, so I hope to one day do a full 90 minute version, but either way, I plan to fully retire this panel at some point in 2024, so enjoy it while you can! 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! Lastly, the songs from the opening montage can be found below:
Music of The Lost Decade: A Guide to Japanese Pop In The 90s (FanimeCon 2023) Panel Slides5/30/2023  This panel was originally written a week before ALA 2023 in the hopes of maybe getting a last minute panel slot to debut it at. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately depending how you look at it, that didn't happen. It was previewed at the end of that cons' "More Than City Pop" panel, and since it was a long time to FanimeCon (which turned out to be the next con we were going to), it saw a TOTAL rewrite. This means that while this version of "Music of The Lost Decade" wasn't the "real" first version ever created, it was definitely better for it as all those first-version kinks were ironed out without even having to host it anywhere! Now that isn't to say that there isn't room for improvement in future versions, but this is definitely the most polished debut panel we've ever had at A-to-J. Also, because the 80s panel went a little long at Fanime the day before, some cuts were made to this panel the day of. It turned out we probably DID have time for this version, but as it stands there are some slides here that no one outside of A-to-J has seen. So, enjoy the slides, add some of the songs to your playlists, and catch it at live one day a con near you! Oh, and if you're wondering about that first version, it doesn't technically exist as this second one was just written on top of the old one's files. RIP Lastly, the songs from the opening montage can be found below:
 This is the most recent version of "More Than City Pop" from FanimeCon. This is an interesting panel as it was the first one completely finished before the con since some of the other panels required heavy research. That means that this one sat completed for months and was nearly completely rewritten by the time the convention came around just because better (or at least more consistent) sources on charting songs was discovered in that time. That doesn't really matter though as each of these songs are definitely "hits" so the idea of the panel still stands. With that said, the next version of this will be VERY different, so please check that out. The songs from the opening montage can be found below. It was supposed to be one from each year and listing them makes one notice that 1981 was accidentally left out. Oops!
Also, the interview mentioned after the KABUKI-ROCKS slide can be found HERE. Keep in mind that it's a much older interview (Year One A-to-J) so it may not be up to what we consider our current standards.  This is our most recent version of our "Magical Girls 101" panel which has a slightly different name for Fanime. We created this panel for Anime Los Angeles 2020, and it saw a big change this year since we went pretty far off the deep end when it comes to researching titles to talk about. Enjoy the slides as they are pretty representative of the panel as Manuel and Garwye presented it, with the only noteworthy difference being that each show has its own picture on the multiple show slides and the JPEGs below only show the last one. Enjoy the little bits we can't always cover, and please attend future panels when we have them! Thunder In The East: A Crash Course On 80s Japanese Metal (Anime Los Angeles 2023) Panel Slides1/31/2023  This is our "Thunder In The East" panel from ALA 2023. This is one of our more popular panels and we've been hosting it since 2019. There are about seven different versions of this one and Warren and Manuel have switched off writing it. This version was written by Warren for the 2022 con returns and has pretty much kept going with the usual trims, additions, and changes we always do. We will probably do a big rewrite of this one when it returns to conventions so keep an eye out for that. Until there, check this one out! |
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