Is Otakon a con you oughta go to? We once again attended Otakon with our good friends from Weekly Shogakukan Edition, Sakaki and Jecka, and we’ve got a lOTA KONversation on this year’s event, because boy was this Otakon eventful! This was THE most attended Otakon ever, and there was good reason for this to be such a big Otakon, because there were some big guests and features at the con this year! With guests including famous voice actors like Toshio Furukawa and Shino Kakinuma, production staff like the Studio Trigger team and Studio Orange’s Yoshihiro Watanabe, great fan-run panels from our MangaTwitter peers, big industry panels from companies like Denpa and Discotek, and premiere showings of the dubs of Cyberpunk Edgerunner, Kaiji, and Gunbuster! In addition to attending panels and hanging around the con, we also conducted interviews with Mariya Ise, Furkuawa & Kakinuma, Yoshihiro Watanabe, and Studio Trigger! I’m including the audio of my interview with Mariya Ise before the main discussion of this podcast, and the interview with Furkawa and Kakinuma with an upcoming Lum Squad podcast episode! You can read the transcripts of all our interviews on our website MangaMavericks.com as we continue to publish them! With so much to do at Otakon, there was so much for us to talk about, and a lot of discussion for you to listen to! So much so that we can’t possible cover all the highlights in the conversation, so check out our Twitter threads livetweeting most of the events we attended in the timestamps for even more details! So listen to our chat on all the panels, screenings, guests, interviews, signings, food, purchases, moments, and the LINES that make Otakon 2022 one of the most memorable and most attended Otakons in history! Con you believe it? Well, you Ota! For a complete list of links and Community Shout-Outs mentioned in this episode, visit this podcast's webpage at: http://all-comic.com/2022/manga-mavericks-ep-212-otakon-2022/ PODCAST BREAKDOWN: Enjoy the show, and follo