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Once more into the breach! It's the: Anime North 2023 Con Report! FRIDAY I had a meeting Thursday night, so I had to drive into TO on Friday morning again. Luckily the drive was uneventful, if not just more traffic than I expected at the time. Got to J's, we unpack the car, chat a bit then repack and head out. Took the longer route because the construction was still on the shorter route, but aside from rush hour starting earlier than I would have thought, we did pretty good. Got a decent parking spot too. We head in, and get our passes in like, 5 minutes (BIG improvement over last year) and head in. We toured the Dealer's room right away, trying to get a lay of the land. Found the big manga booth super early, but because we didn't want to have to carry the heavy books around for long and didn't want to do an immediate run back to the car with them either, we didn't go in. But we get a good look and figure out what we might want to come back to later, and then head to the

The End. The Flash has come to a close, and with it, the Arrowverse. This is a sad day. Oh, I knew the shows weren't going to go on forever. But I hoped the universe might. They had created such a rich tapestry of Earth Prime, and the surrounding multiverse that they could have made all kinds of shows and just given us the odd hope of a cameo with the originals when the actors felt like it. But I guess it's good that they all ended before DC just cast it all into flames. I mean, they haven't exactly brought a full season of A-game episodes, so you can see the smoke, but there was some good stuff. The Red Death arc ended badly, but the premise (and most of the build up) was pretty decent. And I thought it was cool that they did it with Batwoman. (Fuck, as great as it was to see Javicia Leslie again, it's too bad they couldn't have worked in that this was how Kate Kane disappeared. I mean, I know that fucks up all of Batwoman's continuity, but it would have made more sense to

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! I was so excited to see this trailer (teaser trailer?) drop. The first look at the "Live Action" Optimus Primal had me bouncing off the fucking walls. It's good. I mean, it's not like the cartoon where they look full animal and then full robot in the different forms. It's obviously a robot gorilla, but it looks good. And the brief shots we got of Airazor, Cheetor and Rhinox have me excited too. Haven't heard anything about Predacons in the movie though, and I hope that's still a surprise to come. I mean, it feels like if we have one faction, we need the other. Or, if the Maximals are the only ones we get this movie, I need a post-credits scene teasing their own movie with a Predacon appearance. Gotta do this right. (Yes this is a little bit just about getting us Dinobot, but we deserve the best the Beast Wars had to offer, don't you think?) Also saw the GotG vol. 3 trailer, which lead to more excitement, and I was