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Geek It! Anime Festival Sydney 2020 Spotlight: Shingo Adachi’s Live Drawing Panel with VA Bryce Papenbrook (Kirito)

March 19, 2020 // 1 Comment

Since 2012, SWORD ART ONLINE has been making huge waves in the world of anime. With worldwide success, this is a feat that not many light-novel series can achieve. Anime Festival is best known for bringing Sword Art Online goodness to Australia, and they have once again brought back SAO Character [...]

Geek It! Anime Spotlight: Anime Festival Sydney 2020 Recap

March 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

We previously attended Anime Festival back in 2016 — Madman’s inaugural convention in its hometown of Melbourne. Once known as Madman Anime Festival and now rebranded as Anime Festival, did the Anime Festival Sydney 2020 event (March 7-8) live up to its reputation and fans’ [...]

Geek It! Anime Festival Sydney 2020: VA Panel with Bryce Papenbrook, David Matranga and Ricco Fajardo

March 14, 2020 // 2 Comments

Some of the hottest dub voice actors of the anime industry made appearances at this year’s Anime Festival Sydney 2020. We’re talking about dubbed voice actors David Matranga (aka Shoto Todoroki from My Hero Academia), Bryce Papenbrook (aka Kirito from Sword Art Online, Eren Jaeger from [...]

Geek It! Spotlight: FIVE reasons why you should attend Anime Festival Sydney 2020

March 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

It’s time to get your otaku mania on! Kicking off the pop-culture convention scene for 2020, Anime Festival Sydney is back this weekend (March 7 and 8) at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre. While there are a gazillion reasons as to why you should attend the event, we have narrowed [...]

Geek It! Anime Spotlight: CtrlGeekPod’s Best Anime Films and Series of the Decade 2010-2019 (Part 1)

December 31, 2019 // 2 Comments

Year 2020 is right on our doorstep. Looking back, this decade between 2010-2019 saw a booming decade for animation. Whether it be shonen anime or magical girl or anime with super long names, Japanese pop-culture fans are no doubt living the best otaku life. And what better way to celebrate the [...]

Geek It! Anime: Review: Recovery of an MMO Junkie

May 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

In recent years, we’ve seen the rise of gaming anime, thanks to popular series such as Sword Art Online, Log Horizon, and Btooom!. Many of these shows focus on their respective worlds, gameplay, and rules. The question is: how else could this genre expand in other ways? From the studio [...]

Geek It! Anime Spotlight: Madman Anime Festival 2016 Impressions

September 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Celebrating Madman Entertainment’s 20th anniversary, Madman recently hosted its inaugural convention, Madman Anime Festival, on September 3rd and 4th. The big question was: Did Madman Anime Festival live up to its reputation and fans’ high expectations? CtrlGeekPod finds out! Sword Art [...]

Geek It! Madman Anime Festival Spotlight: Sword Art Online Panel (Feat. Tomohiko Ito, Shingo Adachi, Atsushi Kaneko)

September 11, 2016 // 1 Comment

Since 2012, SWORD ART ONLINE has been making huge waves in the world of anime. For a light-novel series to be adapted into an anime that has attracted worldwide success, this is a feat that not many light-novel series can achieve. Bringing Sword Art Online mania to Madman Anime Festival 2016, [...]

Geek It! Madman Anime Festival Spotlight: Cosplay at Madfest

September 7, 2016 // 1 Comment

Cosplay is a huge aspect of every pop-culture convention nowadays, and it was no different for Madman Anime Festival 2016. For many fans, it was a chance to make new friends; showcase their cosplay talent; and demonstrate their passion for manga and anime as well. From Love Live! to Sword Art [...]

Geek It! Anime Spotlight: Interview with Erased/Sword Art Online’s Director Tomohiko Ito

September 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

From the director behind Silver Spoon, Sword Art Online and Erased, TOMOHIKO ITO is one of today’s renowned directors in the Japanese animation industry. Talking all things animation, Erased and Sword Art Online, CtrlGeekPod recently sat down with Ito-san at Madman Anime Festival 2016. Check [...]