Back from Locarno

At last, I'm back from the Locarno Film Festival. Even though anime was only one of several strands, it still saw more incident than several conventions combined across ten-days of multiple screenings and events. There were hundreds of anime on show, including screenings of Summer Wars, Musashi: Dream of the Last Samurai and an open-air screening of Ponyo.

Meanwhile, Isao Takahata and Yoshiyuki Tomino arrived to pick up Golden Leopard Awards; the Pokémon people sent a massive entourage of Pikach