Ed Chavez has filed a lengthy report on the CMX panel, and it’s worth reading as he has a very different take than some of the earlier reports. He also has covers and lots of info on their eight new titles, including correct spelling of titles and authors (I corrected the CMX post below to reflect Ed’s spellings).
Anyway, he didn’t sense a lot of negativity. He pointed out that there is a new team running CMX, and only one person from last year’s disastrous panel was at SDCC this year. This may be a good opportunity for change for the better; as Ed says, “the licensed title fans definitely were aware that CMX is no longer run by a computer.” And he didn’t sense the audience was entirely negative:
Then there are reports that the panel had a cloud over it and that fans were still not pleased. This is far from the truth. Actually, fans were very supportive as the audio will show later. While there were issues with TenTen, fans were pleased by the fact that CMX is releasing moving titles. While many of the titles are on the fringe a few like EMMA, Chikyu Misaki and KKJ were very welcomed. Still, it seemed like every title had a fan which is a testement to how diverse this line-up has become. And promises made really had the crowd on an upbeat mood throughout the hour.
We only read a few CMX titles, but it seems to me that the people who brought us Chikyu Misaki can’t be all bad. We’ll be watching.
Audio of the Del Rey panel is now up at MangaCast and audio of Broccoli and CMX will follow.
