Welcome everyone, once again. We are sitting with Peter Payne, the founder of J-list.com, the website

that you and I and everyone and their anime-loving mothers all know and love and shop from.

Say hello.

Hello everybody love you guys.

I love the AAA podcast.

You're an awesome group of people and I love anime.

Oh thanks Peter.

You were just telling me about some anime conventions that you went to and you're

over here in the states then is it or are you back in Japan?

Yeah, I'm actually in San Diego right now.

I've got, so basically we do our summer conventions

and recently we've been doing the Phoenix Comic Con which is a really outstanding show.

Then we do Anime Expo of course which is humongous and San Diego Comic Con which is far beyond, you know, words, it's just amazing.

Those are the three shows we do, and we're always trying to sort of figure out how we

could do a couple more shows here and there because anime conventions and really like it's

first of all they're really fun I love anime conventions because you get to meet

so many people and you get to shake a lot of hands it It's really the only area of anime that's

really just growing fast and you know every enemy convention breaks its

records every year. Lots of fans just love going to them so it's a really fun place to be. I didn't even realize that

J-Liss came to conventions in the state if I had known I would have been like all right got a

plan got a plan this better. Yeah I basically have to like like a small but non-zero

percent of the of the of the mail I answer is people asking me to come to their

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