Usually our convention year is limited to one convention down in Baltimore. This year, due to a new local one in our area, we bumped up to two. And then due to some events in the region, we ended up with three.
Anime Next, normally in New Jersey, shifted...
In an effort to hit a few more conventions in 2005 than I did in 2004, I opted to check out the relatively new one down in Connecticut this past weekend. This is their third year I believe and they took advantage of their overall growth to do two things. ...
... official convention hotels to this year's Anime Expo® 2008 held from July 3-6, 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA.
More information can be found on the website www.anime-expo.org .
Shuttle service is provided between t...
New Full Service Registration System a Huge Success
Los Angeles, California (July 3, 2008) Over 8,000+ extremely ecstatic pre-registered attendees were able to obtain their badges and convention items a day prior to the convention, within a time spa...
Boston, November 16, 2007: The Providence Anime Conference (PAC), Rhode Island's first anime convention, is pleased to officially announce a launch date of October 3 - 5, 2008, at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, Rhode Island. The world's...
Opening Ceremonies, Industry Conference Panels, AMV, Battle of the Bands and More
Los Angeles, California (July 4, 2008) Over 18,000+ extremely ecstatic pre-registered attendees took over the Los Angeles Convention Center for the first full day of fun...
OhayoCon kicked off the 2006 convention season off with a solid
convention that could easily be enjoyed by most anime fans. There
were plenty of sights to be seen as thousands of fans filled the Hyatt
Regency Columbus and Columbus Convention Center over ...
On February 7th and 8th Bruce Schwartz held his monthly convention, but this time comic book fans and science fiction fans invaded the Pasadena Civic instead of the Shrine Auditorium.Fans filled the seats to hear the comic book writers and artists of the ...
Calling all fans of Neil Gaiman's SANDMAN: the character's creator and four VIPs from the award-winning comic book series will be in attendance this fall at a convention held in honor of Gaiman's Shaper of Dreams.Fiddler's Green: A Sandman Convention is t...
BANDAI ENTERTAINMENT TO PREMIERE "ARGENTOSOMA" AND "KIKAIDER" AT THE LOS ANGELES COMIC BOOK AND SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION
Cypress, CA (January 9, 2003) - Bandai Entertainment announced the premiere of two new upcoming anime series, Argentosoma an...
The HIGHLANDER Reunion Convention was held Aug. 24-26 at the LAX Westin Hotel in Los Angeles, marking the 15th year of the existence of HIGHLANDER. Both onscreen and behind-the-scenes talent from the various HIGHLANDER shows and movies attended this year,...
Okay you've seen the convention from a fans view, now here it is from Cinescape's. On June 8th at the Shrine Auditorium Expo Center, Bruce Schwartz held his monthly convention and this month the fans were treated to a special event from Warner Bros. Pictu...
At a lot of conventions, downtime between panels can feel like hanging around in a theatre lobby between acts of a play. The HIGHLANDER Reunion Convention, held Aug. 24-26 at the LAX Westin Hotel in Los Angeles, has an atmosphere much more like a party wi...
...coming UK conventions.
Midlands Expo – 24th February
As I’ve covered this before, there’s not a great deal to add besides the recent guest announcements of Gareth David Lloyd (Ianto Jones from Torchwood), Chris Barri...
The first official FARSCAPE convention started Saturday August 5th, 2000. Approximately 1000 fans congregated at the Burbank Airport Hilton Hotel, in Southern California. Creator Rockne S. OBannon greeted the crowd. OBannon, clearly thrilled to see s...
Boston, MA -- Anime Boston 2007 is pleased to announce its second round of guests. From Japan, the convention welcomes Junji Nishimura, director of "Ranma ½" and the "Violinist of Hamelin", and also Yasuhiro Imagawa, the creator of "Giant Robo" and chie...
It\'s somewhat rare to be late into the year and get new licensing announcements from a convention but with the arrival of first-year con OniCon in Houston this weekend, some new ADV Films information has come out and we have confirmed these licenses with...
Now after having taken some time to get back into the groove of things and
out of the chaos that is being a convention staffer, Andrew Tei has written
up some thoughts on various panels he came across during Fanime Con 2003.
Through an amusing series of relays due to our convention reporter being on staff at Fanime, we\'ve got the Bandai new title announcements that were just announced moments ago at Fanime:Dragon DriveTenshi no Shippo
Vulkon has announced their Tampa line up, for the first Kryptkon - a Superman convention held on August 5-7 2005 at the Doubletree Hotel Tampa Airport in Tampa, Florida. The Special Guests include John Schneider (Smallville's Jonathan Kent), Erica Durance...
Though a bit late, something is always better than nothing and Mariela has provided a detailed and interesting look at her time spent at this years Shoujocon 2002 Convention.
We\'re kicking off our 2002 convention season contest today, which runs from now through October and involves a fair bit of fun I think. Check it out here and keep in mind we will be adding to the prize pile over the course of the summer.
For those participating in the convention season contest, where the pictures of t-shirt wearers are being taken, Riki has updated the stores to add shirts with the pictures on the front and the logos on the back. There\'s also a variety of new things in t...
Paul Jacques attended this convention that was held at the County Hall on London\'s South Bank back on the 16th–19th of December. With a few pictures and some words put together, we\'ve got a report on some of the key events there.
Season's Greetings and Happy New Year Cinescape readers. At the recent Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention, December 21st, which is held by Bruce Schwartz monthly at the Shrine Auditorium Expo Center in Downtown Los Angeles the fans got ...
We\'re gearing up for our next convention stop, which will be Anime Next on October 3rd through the 5th. We\'re lined up for an Anime & Internet panel as well as hosting our own AnimeOnDVD.com panel, which is where we\'ll be giving away a number of prizes...
DAYS OF DARKNESS was a two-day convention, although I only went on Sunday when Cinescape's Editor-in-Chief and Director of BOO, Anthony C. Ferrante, would be on stage to promote his movie. Joining him was Producer David E. Allen, cast members Nicole ...
On September 27th 29th, Pasadena, California hosted a massive STAR TREK Convention to honor the 15th anniversary of the inception of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. Featured guests included John Logan, screenwriter of the upcoming film STAR TREK: NEMSIS ...
... Magazine convention in Hollywood, so of course I approached him and asked for a few comments. He told me a hilarious story about how he almost quit the first Count Yorga movie after the first day of shooting because he was so disgusted with the ineptn...
Ok folks, we\'ve got our next good sized convention coming up soon. Anime Central is taking place on April 19th through the 21st in Rosemont, Il. Courtesy of Fans View, we know that they have the following guests:
Guests of honor: character designer Hiden...
...APTE is a convention where most of the deals are made.
The Japanese are now going to US companies when they produce an anime, since they now count on the additional source of revenue. The Japanese also are worried about grey market imports, like R1 D...
The HIGHLANDER Reunion Convention was held Aug. 24-26 at the LAX Westin Hotel in Los Angeles, marking the 15th year of the existence of HIGHLANDER. Both onscreen and behind-the-scenes talent from the various HIGHLANDER shows and movies attended this year,...
The Fangoria Convention that will be held in Pasadena, CA, on August 11th, will feature a "Boogeymen" panel that will feature a number of well known horror figures. The convention will close with a panel featuring Clive Barker, Robert Englund, Gunnar Hans...
On Sunday May 4th, at the Shrine Auditorium Expo Center the Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction convention held their monthly event. This time the audience was there to greet the star of The WB's ANGEL as well as the men portraying two of the new ...
Excitement Builds for Nation's Largest Anime and Manga Convention
Los Angeles, California (July 1, 2008) With a huge colorful 200 foot long banner proudly facing major L.A. freeways, a fantastic list of talent from the U.S. and Japan, 2 huge concerts,...
(LOS ANGELES, June 25, 2007) " Anime Expo 2007 (June 29-July 2) in Long Beach is almost upon us and Seven Seas Entertainment is pleased to announce its upcoming convention plans.
SEVEN SEAS BOOTH
Booth No. 1021, 1120, 1122
You like sexy maids? How abo...
The cast of the HIGHLANDER TV series will be gathering again to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the franchise. The event will be an upcoming fan convention called REUNION, which will be held on August 24-26 at the Westin Los Angeles Airport in Los ...
On Sunday, November 24th, the Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention played host to a number of genre notables promoting their various upcoming projects. On hand at the Shrine Auditorium Expo Center in Los Angeles, Calif. were Emma Caulfiel...
The HIGHLANDER Reunion Convention was held Aug. 24-26 at the LAX Westin Hotel in Los Angeles, marking the 15th year of the existence of HIGHLANDER. CINESCAPE's extensive coverage of the event continues today with a look at the "Script to Screen" panel, th...
X-Fans got a treat at the Los Angles comic Book and Science Fiction Convention on Sunday May 21, when Tyler Mane (who plays Sabertooth in the highly anticipated film) showed up on stage to answer questions from the audience. Fliers for the event had impli...
Anime Boston has come and gone and the one convention that I ensure that I make every year has by all appearances been just as successful as the previous years have been. Anime Boston is rather special to me since it was something I saw forming from the s...
Emmy Award Winning Show Attends the Nation's Largest Anime/Manga Convention
Anaheim, California (April 18, 2008) The Emmy Award winning and popular stop-motion animation sketch comedy show, Robot Chicken, which airs on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim is...
... FARSCAPE convention. Although the show has been off-the-air, FARSCAPE fans still enjoy coming out and seeing stars from their universe. Gary Berman and Adam Malin from Creation Entertainment held the recent three-day FARSCAPE Convention in Burban...
So far, we\'ve received two confirmations and a clarification from the studios on the ace reporting our folks did this week. Media Blasters confirmed late last week that all the new licenses are accurate and noted no other issues.
Pioneer contacted us tod...
The latest MAGIC apparel industry show in Vegas has come and gone, and as always there was a plethora of licensed clothing on display, including a booth for "The Dark Knight" licensed goods featuring the Batpod, Harley Quinn's line of clothing from South ...
Back on September 1-3, the 2nd official FARSCAPE convention was held in Burbank, CA. The event brought together the program's fans with much of the series' cast as well as those behind the scenes creators.Attending and participating in panels were Brian H...
The con reports from our team on the ground are starting to roll in from Anime Expo 2005.Right Stuf has licensed 2x2 Shinobuden and will use the English language name of Ninja Nonsense. Be sure to see the specific report for that and more on the previousl...
The Organisation 'Vulkon' will be holding their first annual Smallville event in Tampa, Florida this weekend. It will feature stars from Smallville and other incarnations of our favorite super hero
First, just a little bit of background. Prior to AN2002, my
only convention going experience has been Otakon in Baltimore since 1999,
meaning that AN was the fourth convention I\'ve attended. On the plus side,
there were no gas main breaks this t...
...s Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA. More information can be found on the website www.anime-expo.org .
Winners of the 2008 Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation Awards
are:
Best Voice Actor (Japanese)
Tomokazu Sugita - The Me...
Forum regular Geoduck has posted some sweet news coming out of Animefest related to FUNimation (which had additional pieces posted over at Dub Review as well):FUNimation has licensed Galaxy Railways (it will be a late 2005 release).Spiral and Full Metal A...
Our stalwart con reporter Andrew Tei has continued to upload new Anime Boston 2003 convention reports today, reports that were written as he travels via plane back home to California and uploaded while waiting for a connecting flight. That\'s dedication!
We\'ve got two new reports up this morning, but in an amusing twist, they\'re the final reports from Anime Expo. Check out the Masquerade piece as well as Mariel\'a Closing Thoughts.
...idea of a convention dedicated to the show, which would be held in New York during January of 1972. Episodes would be shown; merchandise pertaining to the show would be sold, and fans would be given the opportunity to meet and listen to the creative ta...
...s Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA. More information can be found on the website www.anime-expo.org .
The Kage is the leader of the Village and Naruto CCG Players are separated into different Villages based on where they live. Anime Ex...
...ited to a convention or I take it upon myself to go to one, because I'm a fan too, I see the thousands of people who are into it, and that's just the minority of people who show up at these conventions. I'm amazed by the number of people who have opene...
...ime/Manga convention and win amazing prizes! Anime Expo® 2008 will be held from July 3-6, 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA. More information can be found on the website www.anime-expo.org .
Anime Expo® 2008 atten...
I just can't believe it took so long, but at last Baltimore has its very own comic book convention...and it looks like it's here to stay. Organized by Marc Nathan, owner of a local comic book shop in Reisterstown (that won't mean anything to those of you ...
Over 34,000 Attendees Registered So Far on 2nd Day of Nation's Largest Anime and Manga Event
Los Angeles, California (July 5, 2008) Rave reviews of the convention performance continues with high praises of the successful registration system, programmi...
The Providence Anime Conference kicked off this past weekend in its inaugural event. The conference – a convention by any other name – was put into reality by the people behind the New England Anime Society. Though that name may not be too fam...
... FARSCAPE convention, so I`d like to ask our guests how they are enjoying their visit to the United States?gigiedgley [smirks, smiles] hey guys....thanks for having me..hehehheeee. am having a very surreal adventure. lov`n itlanijohn I`m happy to be he...
Be sure to check out the convention reports page for an additional Geneon report and some new information from the FUNimation panel and FUNimation Channel.
Seeing people dressed up in costumes at conventions is just an accepted reality now at anime conventions and larger comic shows, even at trade shows with the notorious booth girls. The practice has its origins at sci-fi conventions where fans showed t...
...s Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA. More information can be found on the website www.anime-expo.org .
Interested bands can enter the event beginning March 14th, 2008 via mail by submitting a video recording of their band's performance to...
Metrocon has set up their plans for 2009 and sent out that information today for the growing convention. Billed as the largest anime convention in Florida, their 2009 plans have them open for fans during the weekend of July 19th through the 21st at the Ta...
...e fiction conventions do you do
in Japan?
Morioka: Japan Science Fiction Convention is the
main one. Aside from that, there are many local science fiction conventions. I
go to a few every year.
Andrew: Are they panels or signings?
Morioka: There are...
... a sci-fi convention. There, all expressed a willingness to join with Hatch if his trailer, which has been receiving consistent standing ovations at the conventions, should spark interest in a feature film or new series. Production of the SECOND COMING...
... exchange convention! Jostled by the crowds, what will happen to Kazuki and Mizuki?The Review!If you\'re into doujinshi (anime-inspired fan art), \"fan boys\", \"otaku\", and its larger-than-life, but still unknown world, you won\'t want to miss this ...
Otakon has come and successfully gone. The Otaku Convention's fifteenth year was a success, breaking attendance numbers with over 26,000+ anime-crazed souls bouncing around the Baltimore Convention Center. The special guests were a hit, especially Japan's...
Nation's Largest Anime and Manga Convention Welcomes Famed Character Designer
Anaheim, California (June 4, 2008) Anime Expo® proudly announces famed character designer Akemi Takada as an official Guest of Honor to this year's Anime Expo® 2008...
Nation's Largest Convention Welcomes Famed Pokemon Director
Anaheim, California (March 12, 2008) Famed director Masamitsu Hidaka is the first addition to the hottest line up of Anime Expo® 2008 Guests of Honor for the highly anticipated 2008 conve...
Amecon, the UK's largest and most successful anime convention, was held last weekend, returning once again to the campus of the University of Leicester. As the third instance of the convention, there was a degree of familiarity to the proceedings from rep...
Boston, April 2, 2008: On October 3 - 5, 2008, Rhode Island will receive its first anime convention when the Providence Anime Conference (PAC) makes its debut at Providence's Rhode Island Convention Center. Open only to attendees 21 and over, PAC features...
...the Hynes Convention Center, Room 100.
This First Night anime screening program is family-friendly and includes first episodes from shows both old and new, such as Hikaru no Go, Prince of Tennis, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, and Tsubasa Reservoir ...
Nation's Largest Anime and Manga Convention Launches New 'Sneak Peek' Videos
Los Angeles, California (June 16, 2008) Anime Expo® 2008 and Alternate Vision Productions presents a new promotional video with a 'sneak peek' of Anime Expo® 2008 wil...
One of the topics often discussed at this year's World Con was the fact that so few new, younger readers are becoming interested in science fiction. "Look around the convention," said David Brin at one point. "You don't see that many younger faces; and ye...
New York, NY - June 27, 2008 - Del Rey Manga, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, announced today plans for popular Fairy Tail manga creator Hiro Mashima's first-ever US convention appearance at Comic-Con International in ...
...about the convention January 5 & 6 at the Brooklyn Marriott Hotel - was the vast amount of space; it seemed empty. Last year's convention - held in the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan - was an entirely different scene, jam-packed with fans lining up...
Superstar artist J.G. Jones has been a guiding creative force at DC Comics for years and is now being named the Guest of Honor for the upcoming Wizard World Philadelphia comic convention. His wide breadth of work and iconic depictions of the company&rsquo...
Death Note and Fullmetal Alchemist leads head an impressive group
Boston – Anime Boston, the largest anime convention in New England, announced its second round of guests today. Guests include voice actors Colleen Clinkenbeard, Aaron Dismuke, Todd ...
CPM and the NEAS Ring in the New Year from Boston's Hynes Convention Center
BOSTON, MA (December 23, 2005) - Boston is home to America's longest running First Night celebration, and for the past two years, the city's New England Anime Society has proudly...
...7;s first convention in Northeast.
Robert DeJesus is an Indiana-born, self-taught artist. In 1990, he got his first art career break when he sent an eight-page short story to Antarctic Press' anthology, Mangazine. From that, he was asked to work on ot...
... 7 at the convention, and by Sunday, there was one
subtitled VHS left that hadn\'t been bought. I was pleased. ^^) Fortune Quest
isn\'t doing that well, and it was an experimental title for them. He mentioned
that they had no real master for M...
...ong Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, Calif. June 29-July 2, 2007. More information can be found on the website www.anime-expo.org.
Bandai Visual USA, exhibiting throughout the show at booth #1605, will be offering "FREEDOM" volume 1, which will ...
...el at the convention. He mentioned some titles from Sojitz will stay with ADV, but others will not. The break-up with Sojitz has been long and slow, so they are still not sure which titles they will be able to keep. After the introduction, Matt took s...
...ated 2007 convention June 29-July 2 at the Long Beach Convention Center.
Releasing nationwide on July 4, 2007-Anime Expo® 2007 attendees will have a first glance look of the entire film on July 2, 2007 in 35mm print at the Long Beach Terrace Th...
... Creation Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and the audience reacted in awe. Later, in November, 1998, when Digital Stream succeeded in completing the entire episode, the results were screened at a convention in Philadelphia, for 500 fans. `The ...
Robotech fans in both Texas and California will have an opportunity to find out the latest information on the future of Robotech when the Robotech Convention Tour makes a stop at A-Kon in Dallas and Super-Con in San Jose during the first weekend of June! ...
...the Hynes Convention Center.
Daisuke Moriyama is best known as the creator of Chrno Crusade, one of the most popular manga serials featured in Comic Dragon and Dragon Age magazines. He began his career in the video games industry drawing illustrations...
There's going to be a lot of movie screenings at the San Diego Comic-Con this year. All movies are FREE for anyone attending the convention.
Friday:
Convention Center Room 5AB
7:30pm Hellboy
9:45pm Blade: Trinity
11:45pm The Punisher
Saturday:
...
...will be a convention-exclusive item, possibly starting at A-Kon. Suzuka volume 1 and the starter set, and a picture of a convention-exclusive patch. Beck, with a picture of the "amplifier" box and bonus sticker sheet, and a note about the exclusive g...
Popular Anime Convention Will Be Held July 3-6 in Anaheim, CA
NEW YORK, NY (June 30, 2003) During Anime Expo 2003, Bandai Entertainment, the premiere distributor of Japanese animation in North America, will introduce three new, highly anticipated anim...
...akura-Con convention out there in Washington. We\'ll be eagerly awaiting details of that panel and others and hope that folks that are attending the convention will take a few minutes to let us know what\'s going on as I don\'t believe I have anyone at...
...ive comic convention. Lost amidst hoards of buyers, sellers, and cosplayers, Kazuki is about to be baptized by fire, all in order to lead him toward his true calling: to take over the world through fan comics!
Meanwhile, Kazuki?s childhood friend Miz...
The next convention in the 2003 convention circuit is getting underway this morning, and we\'ve got several folks from the site there checking out things (wish I was there guys!). We\'ll be updating the main page when reports do come in (though likely not...
...hough the convention doesn\'t start until Friday, we\'ve got events going on starting on Tuesday and Wednesday, so we\'re going to be out of touch for the majority of the week. We\'ll be checking in when we can and when I can nab net access from someon...
We\'re still getting settled back into the way of things here after our trek up to Toronto this past weekend, but the first thing we\'ve got up that\'s from the convention is the pictures, as taken by staff convention photographer Riki LeCotey. You can ch...
...tors to a convention.
Audio:
For our primary viewing session, we listened to this show in its English Language dub. To be more specific, we listened to the English language version on the 100% Whole disc. All the language tracks available are in ster...
What They SayBeing a god is a lot of hard work. Yurie must find the time to communicate with an old war-vessel, run for student office at school and locate Matsuri\'s missing little sister. Her hands already full, she is then requested to attend a god con...
Creation Conventions eighth Grand Slam STAR TREK and Sci-Fi convention, held the weekend of March 31st through April 2nd, 2000, offered something for everyone. In the main auditorium, actors from every incarnation of TREK appeared. This included VOYAGE...
...San Diego Convention Center.
Bandai America's new toy properties Jagun Fighters and Superior Defender will be previewed, as well as perennial fan favorite Gundam, now in its fifth year in the U.S. Bandai Entertainment will give convention attendees ...
Hiroki Kanno Making His First North American Anime Convention Appearance
BOSTON, Mass. - March 13, 2003 - The New England Anime Society is proud to announce that acclaimed anime character designer Hiroki Kanno will be attending Anime Boston 2003 as the ...
...jor anime convention in the Boston and my first anime convention ever. Among the myriad of activities was the ever popular panel for AnimeOnDVD.com; at one point, Chris was asked about his review pace; his answer included the statement that he wished h...
...e tale at conventions, my main goal was to pick up some HTML skills and gain a little familiarity. I had just come off of a four year huge commitment as a GameMaster for a pay text-only MUD game where I got to spend my time building up a world of evil,...
BOSTON, Mass. - February 26, 2004 - The New England Anime Society is pleased to announce that voice actors Johnny Yong Bosch, Melissa Fahn, Cynthia Martinez, and Chris Patton will be Guests of Honor at Anime Boston 2005, New England's largest anime conven...
...er to the convention scene, actor James C. Leary plays Clem, a "loose skinned demon" in BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. He was first seen in Season 6 during a card game with Spike and two other demons. The extremely "nice" demon was a success and the charact...
DRAMAQUEEN ANNOUNCES NEW YAOI & MANHWA TITLES AND STREET RELEASE DATE FOR RUSH YAOI ANTHOLOGY AT OTAKON 2006
Baltimore, MD- August 07, 2006 - Alas the Otakon 2006 is over. The DramaQueen Staff had a wonderful time at this marvelous convention and wants t...
...ine anime convention. Attendees of the show can look forward to more anime with events such as video premiers and sneak previews, anime music videos, celebrity appearances, live panels and hundreds of vendors dedicated to the art of anime.
"We are ...
Be warned, Anime Boston attendees: Danger Can Happen at this year's convention!
BOSTON, March 22, 2006 " The New England Anime Society is pleased to announce that Kaiju Big Battel will headline Anime Boston with the bruising bouts between giant monster...
CPM and the NEAS Ring in the New Year from Boston's Hynes Convention Center
BOSTON, MA (December 23, 2005) - Boston is home to America's longest running First Night celebration, and for the past two years, the city's New England Anime Society has proudly...
FIRST ROUND OF GUESTS ANNOUNCED FOR ANIME BOSTON 2005 New England's Largest Anime Convention Warms Up Its Guest List With Some Big Names In Voice Acting
BOSTON, MA - December 4, 2004 - The New England Anime Society is proud to announce the following Gues...
...ong Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, Calif. June 29-July 2, 2007.
Bandai Visual USA will be screening "FREEDOM" volume 1 (episode 1) and volume 2 (episode 2) on a continuous basis in a specially built 30-seat theatre located within the Bandai Vi...
... American convention. Both series are published domestically by VIZ Media and BLEACH is currently serialized in SHONEN JUMP Magazine. Comic-Con International is renowned as the nation's largest comic book and science fiction event and takes place July ...
...s Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA. More information can be found on the website www.anime-expo.org.
As the third in the popular DC Universe series of original, animated PG-13 films, Batman Gotham Knight is a fresh and exciting new entry i...
...t
of the convention's position.
"Comic-Con International
received a letter in early June from Warner Bros. requesting that we honor their
intellectual copyrights by not screening films which may infringe upon those
copyrights. Needless to say we h...
Friday, July 2nd
Convention day at last! Being the prompt people that Melanie and I are, we head off from outside of Philadelphia around 7 AM and drive down to Baltimore. While driving down I-95S, I shake my fist in the direction of Washington D.C. and ...
Saturday, July 3rd
Bright eyed and bushy tailed, we head off in search of... McDonalds! Success! A quick trip to there and CVS to stock up on Coke and some new toothbrushes (curse those cleaning people!) and we're back at the Convention Center.
Video Ro...
...ck to the convention center. I think walking to the convention center would have been faster. I still got there ten minutes before the convention center was open at 10:00. When the doors opened everyone rushed inside to head upstairs. I wish I had foll...
... going to conventions-which I love, I guess that's my recreation right now-going to conventions, and meeting people, I'm spending all my time working either in the studio or at the theater. I work as a marketing director for a local theater in Houston....
As you can tell from the tidbit above this, this coming weekend is Anime Boston 2005 and it\'s our hometown convention so we spend a lot of time there. It\'s been a full year since I managed to get to a convention due to a lot of parental medical issues b...
...C - Games Convention 2003 (www.gamesconvention.de) in Germany on August 20th, and will be performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra at Gewandhaus (www.gewandhaus.de), Leipzig. The event is being launched by the GC - Games Convention organizers...
...nd gaming convention, this reviewer had his first and only encounter with the conquering horde that is Anne McCaffrey fans. McCaffrey was the guest of honor and her "riders" were out in droves. They seemed to dominate the whole convention, constantly s...
Can you feel it? The energy crackling in the air. The anticipation hovering in the wind. The rush of insanity. The stench of unwashed fanboys. Yep, that can mean only one thing in the summer: convention time! As convention season really swings into high g...
...ard World convention in Chicago.The convention takes place August 17-19, 2001 at the Rosemont Convention Center, and the ACTOR auction will be held on Saturday, August 18 at 6pm in the Hyatt Regency Hotel.President Jim McLauchlin and CrossGen Comics Se...
It was convention time again this weekend, as the University of Leicester played host to the second bi-annual Amecon event. After the first Amecon was held in 2004, incidentally becoming the largest anime and manga convention ever held in the UK, expectat...
...Doujinshi conventions are regularly held, the largest being Comiket in Tokyo, which is held in the Big Sight convention center during the summer and winter. Over 20 acres of doujinshi are bought, sold and traded at the convention. Comiket is also kn...
...ut on the convention circuit to meet the fans and speak about the film. Many of their stories repeat over the new bonus features but it seems as if Anchor Bay recorded a lot of these interviews during the same convention. What’s fascina...
...to Horror Convention in the wilds of New Jersey. At the convention, Anchor Bay, the film’s distributor, was promoting ‘Hatchet’. They handed out T-Shirts and kept saying, “Join the Hatchet army”. They also h...
With the hangovers from Amecon fading, the pangs of longing kick in for the next convention where you can drain your wallet and damage your liver. With that in mind, let's take a look ahead at what the rest of the year promises in terms of cons and events...
The warm weather arouses dreams of baseball diamonds and beer for sports fans. And, well, even happier dreams for everyone else. But spring brings something else for otaku: The Con season.
Dozens of anime conventions take place in N...
...rtainment convention in the world will host the premiere of a feature film version of DETECTIVES INC., written and directed by McGregor himself. Starring Alex Simmons, Richard Douglass and Marsha McGregor as familiar characters from the graphic novel,...
...after the convention ends:
Two Grand Prize Winners: Autographed copy of Enchanter + limited edition convention poster
Two Runner Up Winners: Copy of Enchanter + limited edition convention poster
Izumi Kawachi's panel is Saturday July 1, 2006. She will ...
Dynamic Musical Duo Attends the Nation's Largest Anime/Manga Convention
Anaheim, California (April 15, 2008) Anime Expo® 2008 is proud to announce the attendance of Jyukai-the musical duo consisting of Manami (vocals) and Dewa Yoshiaki (compositi...
Latest Guest of Honor Announced for Nation's Largest Anime/Manga Convention
Anaheim, California (May 9, 2008) Anime Expo® 2008 announces the attendance of Masahiro Ando as an official Guest of Honor to this year's Anime Expo®
2008 held from Jul...
Song Siren to Perform at Nation's Largest Convention
Anaheim, California (March 26, 2008) The new Japanese "It-Girl", television celebrity, blogger, voice actress and illustrator Shoko Nakagawa ("Shokotan" as her fans call her) joins the hottest lin...
Northeast's largest anime convention announces latest additions to all-star lineup.
BOSTON, April 1, 2007 " Anime Boston is pleased to announce its final round of guests. From Japan, the convention welcomes Hiroshi Iwata, producer of Macross, and Kenji ...
This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending my local anime convention, Denver's Nan Desu Kan. Now in its tenth year, Nan Desu Kan (and yes, that is Japanese word play) has grown into a multi-faceted festival of Japanese culture, including anime and...
...s Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA. More information can be found on the website www.anime-expo.org .
As the third in the popular DC Universe series of original, animated PG-13 films, Batman Gotham Knight is a fresh and exciting new entr...
...and manga convention and takes place July 3-6, 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA. Bang Zoom will also have copies for sale of its new DVD release, ADVENTURES IN VOICE ACTING- Volume One, at its booth located in the Main Exhi...
As with so many things, you make plans and life, in this case death, gets in the way. This week, I was going to bring you all the news that's fit to print from the seventeenth Gallifrey convention in Los Angeles, but I'm afraid that will have to wait. A...
Anime fans, rejoice and be merry, for next Thursday marks the start of Otakon. For one weekend, Baltimore will be transformed into a humid seaside Mecca. Otaku will make the pilgrimage to the city's giant Convention Centre, dragging their time-battered co...
The folks at Flashback Weekend once again presented the most innovative convention idea ever this past weekend in Rosemont, Illinois, just outside Chicago. The Horrorama was conceived as a cross between a horror convention and a film festival something t...
When is a convention not a convention? The HIGHLANDER Worldwide (formerly known as Highlander Down Under) L.A. Workshop, held at the LAX Hilton in 2004, addressed that issue. It resembled a convention in many ways it had a lot of guests from the TV serie...
...ttend any convention/film festival in Germany/Europe this year?Jeffcombs: It looks as if I am coming to Berlin. In the first weekend in September for a convention.Nebula_7: When and what can we expect from Beyond Re-Animator?Jeffcombs: Well, there is t...
World Con, the seminal SF literary convention is in full swing. The 2002 convention, called Con Jose, is currently being held in the McEnery Convention center in San Jose, California. The five day event began unofficially with a round of parties last Wedn...
...r’s convention hosted over 125,000 fans. The numbers are still out for this year’s con, but every single pass was sold out in advance of the event. It began in 1970 as an event with 300 fans at the U.S. Grant Hotel to see Jack Kir...
The Flashback Weekend Horror Convention & Drive-In continues to offer innovative convention ideas with their fifth annual show this year on July 28-30. To celebrate the first convention appearance of instant cult star Brabara Nedeljakova who played the f...
...side of a convention, a well-tailored costume can make you a king as attendees kneel before you and fumble with their digital cameras for a good shot. Outside of a convention, a well-tailored costume might get you pelted with a Big Gulp. You are also c...
It`s common knowledge that Chelsea Clinton is a Star Trek fan, but last week U.S. citizens learned that Vice President Al Gore may be as well. At the Democratic National Convention, where he accepted the Democratic party`s nomination for president, Gore`s...
Just finishing up with STAR TREK: VOYAGERs sixth season, Robert Picardo (the Doctor) takes some time to talk about his upcoming visit to his first horror convention. He says, `The Chiller Theater Convention, in Rutherford New Jersey, goes three days, an...
Hah, trust it for our friends over at Wizard to do a step by step breakdown of the Wizard World Chicago Convention footage shown by Warner Bros... There may be no video footage to post yet but columnist Kiel Phegley at Wizard Universe did ...
AWA isn\'t your typical convention and in a sense, it\'s a convention that\'s often considered the closer to the summer convention circuit and the audience it draws is always just a little bit different. With something of a reputation as a party conventio...
...omic book convention?
Dallas: My first comic book convention, oh god, I think I first went to the San Diego Comic Con…no, my first would have actually been WonderCon when it started back in nineteen…ninety? I think?
Ed: Was it in Oakland...
...efore the convention, letting everyone just hang out together and have a good time. This year was no different in that regard. It also went off extremely well, thanks to the able hand and planning of our social coordinator, Rebecca. It was probably the...
By Chris Beveridge
Otakon 2001 has come and gone, and much like the past two
conventions, this one is just as varied as those.
Be forewarned that we\'ll ramble a bit here. The convention, as
is unfortunately typical of Otakon, lacked any serio...
...s Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA. More information can be found on the website www.anime-expo.org .
All Main Events will be held at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live (Past, current and future events include the Grammy Awards, American Music Awa...
One of the Biggest Talents of Anime and Video Games Comes to Nation's Largest Convention
Anaheim, California (March 20, 2008) Famed American voice actor and writer David Hayter is the latest addition to the hottest line up of Anime Expo®
2008 Gu...
Voice Actors from Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Pokmon, Gravitation to Attend
PORTLAND, Maine - March 9, 2008 - PortConMaine, New England's longest running convention for Japanese animation, gaming, and pop culture, has proudly announced that stars of the hi...
...animation convention that will be held April 18-20, 2003 in Boston, Massachusetts. Anime Boston's diverse programming schedule includes a masquerade contest, game shows, music video contest, art show, role playing games, karaoke and more. Panel progra...
About a week or so ago, on May 10-12, Wizard World debuted its brand-new comic book convention at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in downtown Philadelphia. Wizard World East was, as most comic insiders know, the work of WIZARD Magazine, one of the hobb...
...23 at the convention center in San Diego, CA.
Among the notable news for this year's convention will be rare at-show appearances by internationally renowned manga artists Matsuri Hino and Nobuhiro Watsuki. Hino has created several critically acclaime...
...ong Beach Convention Center June 29-July 2, 2007 at Anime Expo 2007 ®.
They will join their voice acting counterparts from Japan: Aya Hirano (Haruhi), Yuko Goto (Mikuru), and Minori Chihara (Yuki) in a live concert on Saturday June 30th 2007 at ...
... at their convention. After we had posted the link to the Pirate Anime FAQ in the days following the convention, we got a number of emails from disgruntled convention goers who had unknowingly bought such things. This has spawned an interesting debate,...
...le into a convention? Well, you ask them to form a line, and they do it- queuing, it's something we Brits still do well.
Having got my room (yes, they also lost my pre-registration), unpacked what little items I brought- it was time to join the maddin...
Con Coverage
There were two conventions of note this past weekend that, annoyingly enough, I was unable to attend due to real-life constraints. First was the Bristol International Comics Expo, which I’ve devoted a bit of lead in coverage to...
...le into a convention? Well, you ask them to form a line, and they do it- queuing, it\'s something we Brits still do well.
Having got my room (yes, they also lost my pre-registration), unpacked what little items I brought- it was time to join the maddi...
...d fans at conventions have heard him sing everything from his VOYAGER version of the GILLIGANS ISLAND theme, to his own music, backed by the Neil Norman and his Cosmic Orchestra. They played at last years Grand Slam Convention, and they will again t...
MGM Television has announced plans for a special STARGATE panel at this year's San Diego International Comic Convention. Beginning at 11:30 AM on Saturday, July 24, cast members and key creative personnel from both STARGATE SG-1 and the new spinoff series...
Anime Expo is the ultimate candy store for Anime fans everywhere. It's 4 days of sights and sounds that tease the senses as well as the wallet. This year's Anime Expo was the first time I attended a convention in the guise of Press. My experience with ...
Spider-Man 2 by Corona's Coming Attractions (Thu 07-01-2004)
...ego Comic Convention. Thousands of fans will be the first in the world to get a taste of what's to come next summer.If you were quick and you knew where to look yesterday, a look at Ock's arms was posted online yesterday. Savvy readers of Superhero Hyp...