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Saturday, March 13, 2010

FanimeCon announced on Sunday, their first musical guests of honor: visual kei band LM.C (Lovely-Mocochang.com). The band will perform at the convention's MusicFest on Sunday, May 30 in the Civic Auditorium. They will also host a Q&A panel and autograph session on Monday, May 31.

FanimeCon 2010 will take place at the San Jose Convention Center on May 28-31, 2010.

LM.C is releasing their third album, "WONDERFUL WONDERHOLIC," on March 3 in Japan, with worldwide release dates scheduled after that. On April 3, they will travel to Moscow to begin their second world tour, which is taking them to nearly a dozen countries in Europe and Asia, before their national tour across Japan in May

Sources: FanimeCon, LM.C official site

Australian and New Zealand independent entertainment distributor; Madman Entertainment, has released their attendance calendar for Anime Events in 2010.

Wai-con – Perth. January 23-24
AI-con – Hobart, March 6-7
Supanova Expo - Brisbane April 9-11
Supanova Expo - Melbourne April 16-18
Supanova Expo - Sydney June 18-20
Supanova Expo - Perth June 25-27
AVCON Adelaide - July 24-26
SMASH Sydney - Date TBC
Manifest Melbourne - August 20-22
Gen Con Oz Brisbane – September 23-26
Armageddon Melbourne – Date TBC
iDEF / E-Games Expo Melbourne – Date TBC
Madman National Cosplay Championship Finals – Brisbane Date TBC

Qualifers for the Madman National Cosplay Championship will be held at all Supanova Expos as well as AVCON. In addition to single participants, the contest will also allow teams of two.

Source: Madman Entertainment

VIZ Media, LLC , and affiliate VIZ Media Europe (VME), will showcase a variety of hot anime properties at the 2009 MIPCOM show in Cannes, France, October 5-9 at the Palais Des Festivals. VIZ Media will be located in Booth A0.12.

MIPCOM is the premiere global content event for co-producing, buying, selling, financing and distributing entertainment content across all platforms. It provides the key decision-makers in the TV, film, digital and audiovisual content, production and distribution industry with the only market conference and networking forum to discover future trends and trade content rights on a global level.

VIZ Media and VIZ Media Europe are key master licensors of Japanese anime and manga content to a fast growing international audience. A diverse selection of exciting animated properties for teens and young adults will be on view, including continuations of BLEACH, BLUE DRAGON, NARUTO: Shippuden, and KILARI, as well as new series such as VAMPIRE KNIGHT and INUYASHA: THE FINAL ACT.

The properties VIZ Media and VIZ Media Europe will be highlighting at MIPCOM include:

A PENGUIN’S TROUBLES: 51+ episodes, 10 minutes each
A gag comedy about the daily life of a penguin named Kinoshita Beckham! Beckham is funny and crude. He attends schools with humans and

Day II

Day Two of the New York Anime Festival featured lots of great costumes, competitions, crowds and celebrities! Saturday is definitely the day where NYAF gets its main audience, and those who showed up for day two got to end the day with a treat of a masquerade. This year did not feature the World Cosplay Summit, but the show turned out to be a great one regardless. Read on for more details!

The crowds were everywhere on day 2, and at some points I wondered how well it would fare when NYAF and Comic-con join forces next year. It'll be insanity, but perhaps insanity in a good way. The best costumes appeared today, with people coming in dressed in a range of characters from original and out-of-print series to the current hot shows. I even saw quite a few game, american cartoon, and 'net meme cosplayers. For me, the one that took the cake was a nearly 10-foot tall BumbleBee (of transformers fame) who even came with working lights and a functional loudspeaker. It was awe-inspiring. Check out our gallery for photos of that and all the other awesome costumes we saw!

There were all sorts of competitions and events going

Summary

Day One for the New York Anime Fest can be easily summed up with four words, "Sales, Sillyness & Sushi Poppers!" Being the first day of the con, many vendors were offering a significant sale on their wares. And being Friday for a small con in a big city, the crowd was spread out enough that you could easily navigate the dealer's hall. The usual anime crowd was full of silliness. And sushi-poppers, man, let me tell you about sushi poppers. Some enterprising vendor is actually handing out their new invention, Sushi Poppers. It's like a push-pop, only full of sushi. Made fresh daily, he assured me they'd be free of preservatives and stored well. On the other hand, I can assure you that they're delicious and freaking awesome. It's a little inappropriate to spend this much of a review focused around a single item, but it's sushi on a stick, I can't help myself! (picture after the jump)

Event organisers at Reed Exhibitions have comfirmed that New York Comic Con and New York Anime Festival will share the same date and location next year. The events, which will take place at the Jacob K. Javits Center in Midtown Manhattan on October 8-10, 2010, will feature separate guests and programming schedules, but share a common show floor and one ticket price. This means fans who purchase a ticket will have access to both events.

The 2010 announcement comes two weeks before the event returns to the Javits Center for a third time on September 25-27.

In its four years of existence, New York Comic Con has been mostly held in February, although it moved to April last year. Lance Fensterman, Vice President of the Reed Exhibitions Pop Culture Group, explained that the date move will better accommodate Reed's other major North American pop culture event, Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo. "We are launching the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (C2E2) in April 2010, and we have moved NYCC to a permanent October date, thus providing a spring and fall balance to these two key events which will remain in place as we move forward. Rather than create a

According to staff sources, PAX has just released 1,000 more passes for Saturday and Sunday.

Be sure to stop by the Dark Horse booth #201 and #203 to see the follow comics creators:

Friday 9/4/09

The Goon creator Eric Powell
4:00pm to 5:00pm

Saturday 9/5/09

Hellboy & B.P.R.D. creator Mike Mignola
2:30pm to 4:00pm

Sunday 9/6/09

Buffy the Vampire Slayer artist Georges Jeanty
3:00pm to 4:00pm

Source: Dark Horse

Lead writer of Mass Effect 2, Mac Walters, will be making a public appearance at the BioWare booth at PAX this Saturday, September 5th, from 2pm-3pm. Fans can will be able to pick up an exclusive signing card (featured below).

Working closely with Dark Horse and BioWare, Walters will pen the upcoming comic series. “Reading the series won’t just add to your experience of the universe, it will change the way you look at Mass Effect 2 . . . and beyond.”

Mass Effect: Redemption #1 is schedule to be released on January 6th, 2010.

As a special treat, PAX attendees will have the chance to get an exclusive signing card featuring the cover art for issue #2 with a brand-new and soon-to-be-revealed character!

Source: Dark Horse

The old adage "It's never too late" couldn’t resonate more soundly with me in terms of my decision to attend Otakon 2009. I’ve been an anime fan for almost twenty years now; however I'd only become a regular convention attendee for approximately five years. My first anime convention was the ill-fated Big Apple Anime Fest held during the summer of 2003. Following the collapse of that convention, it would take me another three years before my second, AnimeNext, previously held in Secaucus, NJ (the convention has since been relocated to Somerset as of this year). From then on I made sure to become a regular attendee, and when New York received a new con in the form of New York Anime Fest in 2007 I'd already had more than enough experience to warrant calling myself a veteran. If you haven't already noticed though, my experience with cons was primarily centered within the tri-state area; I'd never attended some of the larger, out-of-state and more renowned ones before. Until now, that is.

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