Dexcon 13 (2010)

Dexcon 13 (2010) Schedule

WEDNESDAY
9PM – 11PM – "Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage": Okajima Rokuro was a completely average Japanese salaryman. That is, until he's sent to the Asian South Seas on extremely sensitive business. Now he finds himself kidnapped, ransomed, shot at, declared dead and hunted by mercenaries, all thanks to the crew of the pirate vessel Black Lagoon. With nothing else left to lose and danger all around Rokuro embraces the fate thrust upon him and does the unthinkable, join the crew and finally starts living his life to the fullest.

11PM – 1AM – "Wakfu: Boufball Hell (Episodes 8 – 12)": A fantasy/adventure series based on the popular French MMORPGs Dofus and Wakfu. Yugo seemed to be an ordinary yet bright and cheerful twelve-year-old villager like any other. All that changes when in a single day his entire world is turned upside down. Not only does he start exhibiting strange powers, but he comes to find that his "father" had adopted him at the behest of the dragon Grougaloragran to protect him from Nox, a merciless Xelor (chrono-mage). Nox is determined to capture the world's greatest sources of wakfu (lifeforce) for his mad ambitions. Can Yugo and his new-found adventuring friends find his true family and defeat the greatest threat the world has seen in over 1000 years?

1AM – 3AM – "Baccano!": In the early 1930's, New York City is brimming with, gangsters, hoodlums, killers-for-hire and...IMMORTALS? A ruthless, undying alchemist has finally assembled the elixir of immortality only to have it stolen by a small-time thug. Passing from one criminal to another without knowing what it truly is, New York's criminal underworld is about to learn what evil lurks beyond the pale of their already twisted ways.

THURSDAY
12PM – 2PM – Nostalgia @ Noon – "Dominion: Tank Police": (Based on the manga by Masamune Shirow, creator of Appleseed and Ghost In The Shell) An action/comedy about a romantic triangle involving a young policewoman, her partner...and her tank! In the futuristic Newport City, the crime rate has risen over 1000%. To combat this surge of lawlessness a crack squad of tank-driving cops are tasked with bringing criminal scum to justice. Enter Leona Ozaki, the newest member of the Tank Police, who's having a hard time fitting in with her new assignment. As much as her partner, Al, would like to comfort and protect Leona, he just can't seem to get her to notice his feelings because of her one true love...her tank, Bonaparte.

2PM – 4PM – "Golderan: The Brave of Gold": Take three mischievous twelve-year-olds, add an alien power stone containing a mighty robot and divide by a power-hungry empire bent on capturing every power stone/robot scattered across the Earth. What do you get? You get the wackiest race across the world to seize the might of Legendera, the greatest power in the Universe.

4PM – 6PM – "Gunslinger Girl": The Social Welfare Agency is a charitable institution run by the Italian government to aid the physically injured...or so it seems. The "Agency" is actually a military organization dedicated to counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism. To this end, fatally-injured girls are artificially enhanced, conditioned and paired with their fratello, an older male supervisor and trainer. Henrietta, the least conditioned of the girls, is caught between her second chance at life and the deadly purpose the Agency has bestowed upon her.

6PM – 8PM – "Wakfu: The Siege of Oma Island (Episodes 13 – 16)": See Above

8PM – 9PM – "Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn": The latest continuation of the original Mobile Suit Gundam universe, set three years after the events of Char's Counterattack. Banagher Links is one of many ordinary students living on the out-of-the-way space colony, Industrial 7. Little did he know that saving a girl from a nearly-fatal accident would propel him into the heart of a dire plot...a plot that could restart the war between the Earth Federation and the re-armed Neo Zeon forces.

FRIDAY
12PM – 2PM – Nostalgia @ Noon – "BubbleGum Crisis": The classic cyberpunk anime. Punk rocker Priss and her powered armor-wielding partners, the Knight Sabers, take on the megacorporation GENOM, and their army of rogue biomechanoid Boomers.

2PM – 4PM – "Summer Wars": Summer vacation is starting to look more promising to mathematics wiz Kenji Koiso when Natsuki, his ultra-popular high-school crush, asks for his help with her grandmother's 90th birthday celebration. But things get complicated when he's introduced to her ultra-traditional family as her fiancé! And if it couldn't get worse, Kenji finds himself implicated in a high-security break-in of the virtual world, OZ. It wouldn't be so bad if OZ didn't play host to over one-quarter of the World's population...or if it didn't act as a pipeline to several governmental administrations and infrastructures...or if a dangerous hacker was wreaking havoc across the worldwide network. Kinda sucks, huh?

4PM – 6PM – "Wakfu: The Brotherhood of the Tofu (Episodes 17 – 21)": See Above

6PM – 8PM – "Rebuild of Evangelion 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone": A newly animated retelling of the modern-day classic by Studio Gainax. Years after the Second Impact, a cataclysm that claimed the lives of half the human race, Angels are attacking Tokyo-3 and it's mysterious organization, NERV. Fourteen-year-old Shinji Ikari is summoned by his estranged father, the chief administrator of NERV, to pilot the biomechanical combat unit Evangelion. But beneath the obvious threat is a tangled web of conspiracy that runs to the heart of Mankind's evolution.

SATURDAY
10AM – 12PM – Saturday Morning Cartoon Revival – "Pole Position": Tess and Dan Darret are the daredevils of the "Pole Position Stunt Show", a traveling festival of automotive daring-do. However, this is merely a cover for their real job. They, like their parents before them, are secret government agents engaged in the even-more-dangerous world of counter-espionage.

12PM – 1:30PM – Nostalgia @ Noon – "Project A–ko": Teenage friendships and rivalries clash head-on with superpowers, super-science and super-strange aliens in the mix. A-ko is a normal girl, except she's as super-strong as much as she's always super-late for school. Her best friend is C-ko, an outrageously cute dingbat and culinary terrorist. Their friendship is challenged by her fellow student, B-ko, the obsessive rich-girl who will resort to any and all methods to steal C-ko's affection. If Machiavellian underhandedness won't do, there's always powered armor, transforming mecha and hoards of giant robots to eliminate the competition. Oh, did we forget to mention the looming alien menace coming their way?

1:30PM – 3PM – "A Certain Scientific Railgun": A side-story to the series "A Certain Magical Index". In a world of psychics, espers, superpowers and magic, Academy City is still thirty years ahead of the rest of the world. 80% of it's population is made up of students and 60% partake in the Power Curriculum Program to develop, test and enhance one's supernatural abilities. People's talents are ranked from Level 0 to Level 5. Only seven people possess Level 5 power and one of them is Mikoto Misaka, an Electromaster nicknamed "Railgun". Underneath the idyllic city life lies a growing resentment of those with greater power and abilities. Between a gang of anti-esper thugs and a growing network of power-enhancing drugs how's a girl supposed to have a normal school life?

3PM – 4PM – "G.I. Joe: Resolute": The slick, super-cool (and surprisingly violent!) re-imagining of the classic 80's kids cartoon. Cobra Commander has resurface with an ultimatum for the world...surrender all power and authority to his organization or city after city will perish by fire from their newest secret weapon. Despite a near-crippling blow to their base of operations, the Joes will give it their all to defeat Cobra, once and for all.

4PM – 6PM – "Wakfu: The Final Battle (Episodes 22 – 26)": See Above

6PM – 8PM – "Rebuild of Evangelion 2.22: You Can (Not) Advance": See Above

SUNDAY
10AM – 12PM – "Cats Don't Dance": An animated tale set to the musical tradition of the Golden Days of Hollywood. Danny, a singing and dancing cat from Indiana, has finally made it to Tinseltown. However, his dreams of the big screen can't easily contend with the D-list treatment of animals by human film producers. But even more treacherous is the ill intent of Darla Dimple, the spoiled and black-hearted "America's Sweetheart", who will gleefully crush any sign of talent that could threaten her place at the top of the Hollywood elite. Only someone who doesn't know "the rules" can defy all conventions and give the talented animals the spotlight they deserve.

12PM – 12:30PM – Cherry Hill Experiment Awards Ceremony

12:30PM – 3PM – Nostalgia @ Noon – "Galaxy Express 999": Space Opera at its finest by Leiji Matsumoto (Star Blazers, Captain Harlock). Young Tetsuro's quest for revenge becomes a voyage of discovery as he travels across galaxies aboard the Galaxy Express 999. His companion and benefactor, the beautiful and mysterious Maetel, holds the keys, not only to Tetsuro's vengeance and salvation, but to a dark secret that holds sway over all humankind.

3PM – Dead Dog Anime

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