The New York Anime Festival Mascot Contest Sponsored by Del Rey Manga and TheOtaku.com ends tomorrow! If you haven’t submitted a character yet, get to work ASAP. The winning character will not only be featured as the New York Anime Festival’s 2009 mascot — but the winner will get a truck load of Del Rey manga personally delivered to their door by Ali T. Kokmen.
Or not. The manga’s real, but Ali will probably find some lame excuse — like going to Baltimore to eat cake — to get out of it.
Whatever. Enter at nyanimefestival.com.



Mmmm. I have a friend in Baltimore and when I go, we don’t do cake so much as Vaccaro’s cannoli. It’s slap-your-mamma good, as we say back south. But don’t actually slap your mamma, as that’s incredibly rude.
Last year we had some readers who Manga-ized themselves in order to enter to win tickets to NY Anime Fest. I wonder if they have entered this? It’s a cool idea!
Dude. Ix-nay on ake-cay…