How well did Fruits Basket handle the Chinese Zodiac? Do the Sailor Scouts have an equivalent zodiac? Where the heck does Saint Seiya fit into all this? We'll look at the portrayal of the Chinese Zodiac archetypes in anime and some of our favorites. 

A panel about geikomi, yaoi's older, beefier brother. Written by and for gay Japanese men, these stories feature guys who're bold, brash, bodacious and decidedly burly. If you're looking for an LGBT History panel with a heaping helping of gratuitous male nudity, you're sure to love this panel!

A professor at Marshall University offers a language lesson with greetings, numbers, useful words you hear often in anime, some songs and games in Japanese. Please join us to brush up your Japanese!

Join us as we spill the tea on LGBT+ topics and hold Q&A’s all while enjoying some savory tea.

We all know about Bigfoot, Yeti, Chupacabra and even Nessie the Loch Ness monster from Scotland. What do we actually know about the Native Americans legends/myths? This panel will discuss few of those, and also go into West Virginia’s very own Mothman and Braxxi the Flatwoods monster. If time allows, there will be a discussion of the ones that you know/heard about.

Just when you thought it was safe the wildest collection of the strangest films returns to Tsubasacon! From action, to science fiction, to exploitation, to animation no genre is safe! Witness the lost action film "New York Ninja!" You will be baffled by mind melting science fiction/action/virtual reality thriller "Savage!" Plus international oddities like "Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell," "Felidae," and the totally unauthorized "Alien 2: On Earth!" Hold on tight because this promises t...

Anime cons have a long history in the U.S. dating back more than 30 years. In that time some cons have grown to unimaginable heights while others have slowly faded away. We’ll be looking back at the early days of cons, what they had to offer and the many lessons learned along the way to form the modern-day con scene. Join us, won’t you?