By David on April 10, 2007
Yasuhiro Nightow, creator of Trigun and character designer of Gungrave will be attending Anime Central 2007 in Chicago, Illinois, May 11-13, 2007!
An excerpt from Anime Central 2007’s guest list: “Today, he is best known as the writer and artist of Trigun, which first appeared in the February 1995 issue of Tokuma Shoten’s Shounen Captain magazine. It is currently serialized as Trigun Maximum within Young King Ours magazine, published by Shonen Gahosha.
Dark Horse Comics publishes the manga in the United States, and earlier compiled the Tokuma Shoten manga into two volumes. In 1998, TV Tokyo aired Madhouse’s 26-episode animated adaptation of Trigun, which Pioneer (now Geneon) released in the United States in 2003 (and Cartoon Network began airing around the same time). Mr. Nightow is also known as the creator and character designer of the Gungrave video game series, which inspired Madhouse’s popular 2003-2004 animated TV series of the same name.”
We’ll be providing full-coverage of Anime Central this year (we also covered ACEN 2006 last year), and I hope to score an interview with Mr. Nightow! 
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I love anime. Specifically, series involving any of the following things: weird fantasy elements, super-powers, robots, aliens, wicked humor, crazy villains, horror, ninjas and samurai. I guess that means I like a lot of anime. I am pretty particular about the quality of animation and voice acting. If the character designs and animation quality aren't of über-quality, I quickly loose interest.The first anime-related series I ever watched was Battle of the Planets - otherwise known as Gatachman. The first true theatrical anime feature film I saw was Akira. My first exposure to manga was later in life when I read Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy.There are so many incredible elements of Japanese culture. Some of the most exciting to me are the style of design and storytelling. I'm a web designer & illustrator, and I find myself looking to Japanese design for inspiration all the time.Anime blogging has taught me even more about Japanese culture and anime than I ever expected, and I continue to learn more every week. In fact, I'd love to travel to Japan. Rachel and I hope to visit sometime within the next few years.
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