Animazement has never seen the likes of something quite so grand as Cosplay Chess. Essentially you take cosplayers in various outfits, assign them a chess piece and then go have them go stand in their spot on the giant chess board (this year it was caution tape mapped out to make a grid). Once the scene is set, two opponents, one for good and one for evil duke it out on a smaller chess board and the live pieces move accordingly.
I filtered into the room like the rest of the fans, we all looked at each other and wore the same face. Absolute clueless-ness, none of us really knew what Suzuka was, we were mostly there because we wanted to be the first to see a preview and the event was run by the talented Ms. Caitlin Glass (voice actor and director).
JET! Is a story of a ragtag group of graduates who wish to put their degrees to something fulfilling, something amazing, something magical. Unfortunately for them they think the Japanese Exchange Teaching program is the best way to go about it.
