Coverage of anime conventions.
Japanese music was the theme of Anime Expo this year. The con featured a number of standout j-rockers, and TheAnimeBlog.com was lucky enough to attend Anna Tsuchiya’s press panel! Most of the questions focused on Ms. Tsuchiya’s solor music career, but she’s also a model and actress. You might have seen her in the ever-so-awesome [...]
ORESKABAND performed live at Anime Expo 2007 on July 1, 2007 at the Long Beach Arena.
ORESKABAND is an all-female ska band from Osaka, Japan. They have released one full album, in July 2006, titled Ore. They have performed both in Japan and the United States, including the Fuji Rock Festival. Their songs have been [...]
For J-Rock fans at Anime Expo 2007, the Pop Shock Masquerade was a great event to see your favorite music-related cosplayers up on stage. The costumes were great and there were even a few performances! We have video featuring one the groups that did an excellent job cosplaying as Dir En Grey – they even [...]
Anime Expo is the nation’s largest (some argue it’s second only to the Tokyo International Anime Fair) anime convention and it’s growing larger every year. With the huge and diverse amount of attendees who cosplay at AX, there are bound to be some truly phenomenal costumes on display. While we couldn’t be everywhere [...]
The Geneon Animation panel at Anime Expo 2007 was podcast live from the Long Beach Convention Center.
GeneonSpot.com is a fansite that will be relaunched later this year. One of the features of the site will be exclusive fan club merchandise. The first item announced was the Hellsing Ultimate Fossil-Brand Pocket Watch. This will be limited [...]
This Keynote Panel brought together representatives from different media outlets to predict and discuss where anime is heading in all its varied forms. The panelists included representatives from:
ADV
ImaginAsian Television
Comcast/Select On Demand
Spike TV/ MTV
GDH International
Bang Zoom! Entertainment
Zac Bertschy of Anime News Network was the moderator. Debra Kennedy, Senior Vice-President of Marketing and New Media for FUNimation [...]
Anime Expo held a panel this year to discuss “Anime in America“. Some of the big names in US anime distribution were present to weigh in on the topic:
GDH International
Right Stuf International
Bang Zoom! Entertainment
Bandai Visual
ADV Films
FUNimation
Geneon.
Gary Steinman, Editor in Chief for Newtype USA moderated the panel.
The panel started with the keynote speech by Keizo Tsuchiya, [...]
One of the (not so latest) announcements for Showgate was their name change from Toshiba Entertainment to Showgate in June of this year. Showgate’s line-up for 2007 are:
Ghost Hound
Kyoshiro and the Eternal Sky
Nana Tsurio
Cool and Sweet
Black Blood Brothers
Project Blue, SOS
Karas, Episodes 4, 5, 6
Tokyo Zombie
Devil May Cry
The highly anticipated Devil May Cry anime series [...]
Reader Comments