A Kickstarter Project worth noting.

[jeriendhal]

Or, "Yet another reason to hate one of my friends."

Crisis Heart Brawlers an old school side-scrolling 2-D fighting video game based off of Otakon, the East Coast's largest anime convention. The Evil Doctor V pic near the bottom is inspired by my friend Jim Vowles (jvowles)* a past president of the convention.

Bastard.

* AKA "Vash the Stampede's heavyset brother."

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Wonder if Rob Lantz is in it anywhere.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Sorry, whom? Google didn't bring up any hits I recognize.

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Rob Lantz, fairly big in anime fandom, especially cosplay, back in the early days and continuing for quite some time. First known for his "Neo-Vader III" skit which was popular enough that he was called back and even asked to MC *AS* Neo-Vader a couple of times; Otakon, Katsucon, and the short-lived AnimeEast convention were some of the known venues.

He was also part of our cosplay group which was known for a couple of years for our very large elaborate skits -- the Great Dragonball Skit, the Sailor Stunt Doubles skit, and the Saint Seiya skit, all of which won best-of-show (despite, in the first case, our being supposedly INELIGIBLE; the judges and the audience overrrode us).

Rob's activity in fandom continued for some time after that and he seemed to be active enough that I thought many people would know him. Certainly DeJesus would know him, as would Steve Bennett (who was actually in the Sailor Stunt Doubles skit as Sailor Mercury).

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Ah, I'm not that big into anime fandom (or any darned fandom) these days, especially costuming. Too much Real Life to deal with. I'm sure Jim knows him though, and the guy buys in at the right level he'll certainly be in the game.