Tag: Otakon 2013
TM Revolution. Home Made Kazouku. Chiaki Ishikawa. Yoko Kanno. Each one of those artists could headline a convention in and of themselves, and this past summer Otakon featured all of them. Saturday's headlining concert at the Baltimore Arena had...
Perennial Otakon guest Masao Maruyama returned to the convention once again in 2013 to do several Q&A sessions. This panel in particular centered on his work with his new production studio, MAPPA. The panel opened with a total of...
Renowned Japanese voice actor Tomokazu Seki returned to Otakon 2013 to participate in a Q&A session Friday afternoon. Among his many roles are Domon Kasshu from Mobile Fighter G Gundam, Kenichi from Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple, and Kyo from...
Hana has a problem. Her whole life has gone to the dogs...err...wolves. Her husband is/was a wolf. Her daughter is a wolf. Her son is a wolf. It makes it very hard to keep an apartment when every time...
On the morning of Sunday August 11th Director Shinichiro Watanabe held the second of his two public panels at Otakon 2013, where he addressed the gathered crowd on his newest project: Space Dandy, a sci-fi comedy series from the...
Few figures in the anime industry today can boast of a career as rich as that of Shinichiro Watanabe. A successful screenwriter, music producer and director, Watanabe got his first big directing break co-directing the admired OVA series Macross...
At its industry panel late Saturday afternoon, FUNimation Entertainment brought Sunrise's Masayuki Ozaki on stage to make further announcements on titles FUNimation will be distributing from the studio. Chief among the announcements was a trailer announcing director Shinichiro Watanabe's...
During studio Sunrise's industry panel at Otakon 2013 Saturday afternoon, the studio's Masayuki Ozaki announced that many Sunrise anime previously distributed by the now-defunct Bandai Entertainment have been picked up for home video release by anime distributors FUNimation Entertainment...
At Otakon 2013, Aniplex of America announced the licensing of the "Kill la Kill" anime series from Studio Trigger (Little Witch Academia, Inferno Cop). The series will begin airing on Japanese television this fall and be streamed online for...
At Otakon 2013 today Viz made several announcements at its Saturday industry panel, including the rerelease of the "Ranama 1/2" anime starting in the fall of 2013 on both DVD and Blu-Ray disc. Viz also announced that they...