A great report on Anime Expo 2006 from Scott Green’s Anime AICN:
From Ain’t It Cool News: “Anime Expo, one of the, if not the, largest anime conventions recently wrapped up in Anaheim, California. Manga creation team CLAMP made a celebrity appearance. Distributors made a host of announcements with classics like Gunbuster finally making their way onto DVD and a range of new licenses from live action Cutie Honey from the creator of Evangelion and the new Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex feature, to action titles like Black Lagoon to drama like the anime adaptation of Paradise Kiss.
In that 40,000+ people who chose to identify themselves as anime fans, who undoubtedly share a set of ideas that could be called a distinct culture, gathered in one place, it is worth looking at a movie about one fictional person who identified himself as an 80’s style Japanese “businessman”. Big Dreams Little Tokyo probably isn’t something you can immediately see/purchase but in that it is both a thoroughly entertaining film and one with relevance to anime fans, or any sub-culture participants, it is well worth keeping an eye on.”
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