Getting Ready for Masquerade

Is not as big as Anime Expo or Comic-Con, but I am sure is going to be lots of fun.

Roberto Ramirez
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Aniplex Panel at AX

You might not recognize the name of the company, but I am sure you have heard of projects like: 009, Angel Heart, Bleach, Blood+, Eureka 7, FullMetal Alchemist, Naruto, R.O.D. and Submarine 707R , just to mention some.

Established in 1995, this company has helped in the production of almost 200 different projects. In this panel we will hear updates not only about their current projects, but also their newley acquired licenses, release dates and much, much more.

See the Aniplex Panel here.

Beto Jubei

Opening Ceremonies at AX

Last year's opening ceremonies for AnimeExpo was held at the Petree Hall.

When I has a little bit disappointed we did not have this event at the Nokia theater, on the bright side, I think the guests of honor were able to feel the full range of emotions that 2,000+ attendees can convey when their favorite actor, directory, artist, etc. steps into the spot light.

Check out the Opening Ceremonies.

Beto Jubei.

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Maruyama and Katabuchi at AM2

Another couple of big names in the animation industry came to AM2:

Masao Maruyama is a veteran of the Japanese animation industry and he has helped produce an incredible amount of titles in the last 40 years including Barefoot Gen, Card Captor Sakura, Devil May Cry, Death Note, Ninja Scroll, Perfect Blue, Record of Lodoss War, Trigun, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, just to mention some.

Sunao Katabuchi has worked as an assistant directory for the film Kiki's Delivery Service, he directed the hit series Black Lagoon and the OAV  Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail. He has worked in the video game Ace Combat 04: Shattered Sky.

Check their panel here.

Beto Jubei

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Akihiko Yamashita and Miho Shimogasa at AM2

AM2 stands for Animation, Manga and Music and this is the newest convention to hit the busy Summer calendar in Southern California.

This convention is not exclusive to Japanese animation, music and culture but expands to the entire realm of the Asian market including China, Japan Koreana and South East Asia as well.

Since 2011 was the first year for this convention, Kim and I skipped one day of AnimeExpo (forgive us Maki) to check out the new kid on the block.

In this day we attended the panel for two great guest Akihiko Yamashita and Miho Shimogasa:

Yamashita-san is a celebrated director and has played different roles in the production of dozens of movies, from Stroryboard, to Key Animator, to Character Design, to Designer, to Director. His more recent works are Howl's Moving Castle, Arriety, Ponyo and  Kokuriko; all of them under the Studio Ghibli flag

Shimogasa-san has worked as an Animator Directory for many anime series including for four different Sailor Moon series and TV series of Cutie Honey Flash, she worked as a Character Designer for Ultra Maniac, Psychic Academy and Gravitation just to mention a few.

Most recently she got the task of converting the U.S, based cartoon of the Power Puff Girls into a Japanese spinoff called Power Puff Girls Z

Take a look at their panel

Beto Jubei

 

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