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Much thanks again to Metal Mike Mullenix for shooting this.

I guess I'd define "anime" as japanese animation and other media associated with or derivative of it. 
 
That deadpool cosplayer is really awesome, I sorta wish he had come with other people cosplaying as characters from mvc3. That afro guy was a little pretentious, but I think his main point was that anime is japanese concepts, which is interesting. Also, that girl who does a lot of things, her voice sounds familiar...
 
Anyways good work going around interviewing people Geo!

Way to represent, Mr. Deadpool.  A mostly insane anti-hero person among... blue haired people, also pirates.
 
I liked the video Geo. I'm relatively new to the apparent ocean of anime stuffs. It's cool to see what some veterans of such exposure, around this site and at this convention, (I really want to go to one now) have to say about it. 
 
I really like anime, but I think games will always be my truest love. Those 2 interests have similar roots, so I enjoy both for similar reasons. 

@craigbo180: I was also impressed by Mr.Sparrow. and pretty much all the cosplayers, it's an awesome expression of fandom with which I am as yet unfamiliar. 
 
@FoxxFireArt: I have it on reliable authority that it might actually be nay-roo-doh, Ok, I actually don't. I'm being silly. 
 
also there was no audio split in this video, if that is worth noting. (there was in the last one, for me at least.)

@FoxxFireArt: Yeah, the first guy to tell me a bit about Naruto was actually an old buddy of mine who is half Japanese and, while he was raised in the US, his parents used and taught both english and japanese. He said if you understand both languages that the japanese versions were always much better, that often things got screwed up in translation, he explained to me about Naruto's old catchphrase in one of the english dubs,"Believe it!" and how that was pretty poor. He said something about the bit in Japanese just meant to put emphasis on something, is how he explained it to me. 
 
The way he said Naruto always threw me off until I've started watching stuff like this myself, I have a decent grasp on romaji pronunciation but, yeah, certainly don't understand it nor could I write/speak anything with it. I do have an old Japanese Rosetta Stone thingy my younger sister let me have, maybe I should eff around with it some more. =P

In regards to anime, I guess I just sort of notice that there are ideas that are distinctly Eastern, and among those ideas are ones distinctly Japanese. I certainly have no formal exposure to any of those concepts, but there's enough philosophy/history literature laying around to read the gist of it.  
 
I have always been in love with the aesthetic that is modern anime or Japanese art, even when I didn't know it's origins. Some games and shows had a 'look' that I really liked, was really all I could articulate about it growing up. 
 
I never thought to ask where those awesome looking single edged swords came from or what it was about Vincent Valentine that made him look ethereally beautiful to me or why some had names (Ryu was a mind blowing one to discover its real pronunciation =P) that didn't pronounce like English words, etc etc.   
 
Many years later, I am just now exploring my fascination with those things and I love most of what I've found. If for no other reason, at times, than it looks really neat to me.

@AURON570: @Newten: Thanks!

@craigbo180: Roy is actually a voice actor.

@sotyfan16: I wasn't there for more than a day so it was hard, I didn't really meet a lot of people in the industry that weren't in Funimation.

@Tom_Pinchuk said:

Much thanks again to Metal Mike Mullenix for shooting this.

Yeah! Once again, Metal Mike, you rock!

I see anime as Japanese animation, using a unique style of story telling, character design and behavior, and  a charm that can't be done by other media.  
Nice video btw.