PCA/ACA Conference!

lijakaca — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:31:15 +0000

I’m very sorry, I couldn’t post yesterday because I was out of the country, at The National Popular Culture & American Culture Associations Annual Conference where I presented an intro paper to otome games! It was a lot of fun, there were tons of interesting papers, unfortunately I could only see a handful of them.
I was in the Romance section, which had some really interesting papers as well as many great presenters! Jessica at the romance blog Read React Review is putting up summaries of the panels.
I’m going to post my paper up here soon, for longtime otome fans it will seem pretty basic, but maybe it will help some people who haven’t had too much exposure to them, and that’s what this blog is for too!

Things I learned on the trip totally not related to pop culture:
1. When going out of town, double check your route on the other side. I didn’t realize that there was a train link and took a 45-minute taxi ride from the airport to the hotel.

2. Also make sure you will have Internet access. This one killed me, the hotel charged $15 USD per day for internet, not even wireless!!!! AAAAAGH.

3. Don’t go exploring the first night in heels, change to flats even if you think you’ll only go a couple blocks! I don’t know what I was thinking (can I use jet lag as an excuse, even though it was only one hour’s difference?)

Not much happened in the last week in otome games – oh, the Hakuouki anime starts today! Other than that, pas beaucoup…

And my next post, should be up tomorrow or Monday, will be a synopsis of Mizu no Senritsu 2 Hi no Kioku, because I finally went and searched through my old IGN blog, and apparently I never did a full post on it! So that will come too.

And now that my paper is all done, I can focus on making the game! Expect the website to come next week or April 16th!

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PCA/ACA Conference!