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I actually have to respectfully disagree with Tatsuha_chan on the tickets at the Murakami panel proper: the ticket distribution to the first two rows only at said panel might not been the greatest thing in the world (trust me, I was in the back), it was at least orderly in a sense. Now, what really got to me was the ticket distribution later at the autograph line (the lady handed them out very randomly and basically told the rest tough luck, you won't get in), but I got lucky and managed to see her anyway. Alas, however undesirable ticket distribution was, it might simply be a fact of life at the bigger panels/events at the con.

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I've been going to Otakon since 2002, but for some reason I just never really went to panels until this year. WTF was wrong with me? For the most part they were all pretty awesome, with the exception of the Bandai Visual and Maki Murakami... she was unexpectedly dull for me). Thank you SO much for bring Seki Tomokazu, he was beyond awesome. And the chicks that ran the Yaoi panel were pretty hilarious.

I have only two gripes with how the panels were ran. There was no consistency with how the question and answer sessions were executed. Sometimes people would get in line, other times you would have to raise your hand and have a microphone brought to you. I prefer the line method. At Maki Murakami's panel, my friend's hand was up the entire panel, but he was never called on. There were a few hands that I saw that never went down. But then, the people with wigs and such got picked rather quickly because they are much more noticeable. At least if there's a line, you wait in the order you arrived, you know?

Also, the autograph tickets. Again, there was no consistency with how they were given out. I believe that for the first Seki panel (?), they were given out the the first 25 or so people in line, but for the second Seki panel they were given out to anyone who asked him a question. Then at the Murakami panel they were given out to the first 2 rows of people seated. A uniform method of distributing tickets would have been be nice, then people would have known what to expect. There were people who got in line like crazy early for the second Seki panel with the expectation that tickets would be distributed the same way they were the day before. If you get in line early, but don't get a ticket because they only have so many to pass out to people who made it there before you, that's one thing. It's like "Damn, shoulda got there earlier. Oh well, I tried." Whereas if you get in line, but that's not how they distributed tickets, then it's like "Well that f-ing sucks, I wasted my time!!"