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Table of Contents
Convention Map...................................................................................2
Welcome from the Co-Chairs............................................................ 4
Guests of Honor................................................................................... 6
GAINAX – Hiroyuki YAMAGA – Yoshiyuki SADAMOTO – Masahiko OTSUKA
Ryan Gavigan – Carl Horn – Hidenobu KIUCHI – Reuben Langdon
Ric Meyers – Maika NETSU – Jonathan Osborne
Gilles Poitras – Dan Southworth – Richard Waugh
Feudal Stories
Stories................................................................................... 12
The art theme for Fanime 2008 is feudal Japan, and Guest of Honor Gilles Poitras
has kindly agreed to write some material about the theme.
MusicFest........................................................................................... 14
An Cafe – Ramen & Rice
All Ages – Thee Out Mods
GHOST TOWNE – LYV
Convention Essentials...................................................................... 16
Code of Conduct – Weapons Policy
Registration – Safety on Site – Emergency Services – Lost and Found
Food – Volunteers
Events................................................................................................. 20
Cosplay – Fanime Music Videos – FaniMaid Cafe – Stage Zero – Game Show – Charity Challenge
Artist Alley – Art Gallery – Fanime Artist Pool – Arcade Gaming – E-Gaming – Tabletop Gaming
Swap Meet – Open Mic Karaoke – Karaoke Contest – Karaoke Gong Show
Dance – Black and White Ball – Real People! Real Kimono! – Lolita Kisama Fashion Show
Panels.................................................................................................23
Meet the Guests of Honor, get the scoop on Industry news, and hear from fans like you.
Panels range across everything from anime and manga to cosplay, music, culture,
demonstrations, workshops, and social gatherings!
Video Programming
Programming......................................................................... 28
It’s time! FanimeCon’s innovative video programming is back and better than ever!
It’s our goal to bring the latest from Japan, as well as the best parodies and anime music
videos. Having tons of rooms with unique content means that there is always something
for you. At FanimeCon, we set the standard in anime video programming!
Asian Films........................................................................................ 34
With content from Hong Kong, Korea, and Japan, these rooms screen some of the
latest movies from the Far East, as well as recent classics and older films. We keep
our programming fresh and are open all hours of the night, so come check us out!
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What kept me here
is the discovery that
there are so many
people who share
my enthusiasm –
and the feeling of
“home” that Fanime
brings.
Will Warriner
FanimeCon Co-Chair
2006, 2007, 2008
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s the saying goes, “The third time’s the
charm”, and I certainly hope it holds true for
us. Welcome, everyone, to the third and final year of my tenure as Chair of FanimeCon. Like
all things in life, my time as Con Chair has had
many high points, and some low points. Throughout them all, I did my best to hold the convention
motto in my heart –“By Fans, For Fans” – as I led
our band of merry staffers on to bigger and better
events each year.
Let me take a moment to reminisce: FanimeCon was founded for the sole purpose of sharing
the joy and fun of Japanese animation with likeminded people. I seriously doubt that the founders
ever expected their little convention to grow to be
the huge success it is today. Last year, for example,
approximately 10,000 people walked through the
doors of the San Jose Convention Center to share
the fun with us. I can only guess at how many people we’ll be able to touch this year. Finding ways to
keep that many people entertained for four days
can be exhausting work, especially considering
that every one of the 500 staff members are volunteers. So, what is it that drives us, day after day,
to keep this semi-ordered chaos afloat?
You!
Well, that’s mostly the reason. Without all the
members who come to the convention year after
year, there wouldn’t be much of a point. However,
that’s not the only reason we’re here. The other
very big reason we’re here doing this is the same
reason you’re here, which is out of our love/passion/obsession/insanity for all things related to
anime and Japan.
What drove me here was watching Robotech
when I was younger. What pushed me forward was
watching Ranma 1/2 on my twelve-inch TV with
my sister. What got me on staff was wanting to
see and own everything and anything dealing with
Aa! Megami-sama. What kept me here is the discovery that there are so many people who share
my enthusiasm – and the feeling of “home” that
Fanime brings.
So cheers to whatever it was that led you into
our humble community! Welcome home to all our
dedicated fans, and to those of you who are first
timers, know that there will always be a place for
you here with us.
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bout the same time every year, something
amazing happens. In Downtown San Jose,
between Guadalupe Parkway and First
Street, a transformation occurs inside the San
Jose Convention Center and surrounding areas. To
the general observer, this magical metamorphosis happens overnight, but to those caught in this
marvelous conversion, they know it was well over
a year in the making.
Welcome to FanimeCon 2008. This is the time
of year for fans of all different shapes, sizes, colors,
and backgrounds to come together from all over
the world. The spectacular change that happens
overnight is a community is reborn. We may know
each other from chats across the globe, each one
behind his own computer screen. But now is the
time to meet face to face and have a lively conversation over lunch in the hallway or sing a duet in
the karaoke room. Here is a place where everyone
surrounding you has something in common with
you: a love of anime and the culture of Japan. We
may all enter the building for different reasons,
but it is that core commonality that makes us feel
like we’ve come home.
Once more we grace the halls of the San Jose
McEnery Convention Center, the Hilton, the Marriott, and other surrounding hotels. We come by car,
train, plane, light rail, or any other means necessary to get here. We bring back old familiar faces,
as well as new ones just entering the scene. We
even bring in those completely unaware of this
community by allowing them to see brightly colored costumes or simply large groups of people
having a ball. In these halls, 2-D characters come
to life through the hard work of our members,
treasures and rarities can be found in the Dealers
Room, and maybe new stars can be born in our
various events.
Fanime has been and always will be “By Fans,
For Fans”, and I would be remiss in my duties to
not mention the ones who made this whole transformation possible. Though we couldn’t do it without the thousands of members that pour through
our gates every year, it is our staff that I would
like to recognize. Even before Fanime 2007 came
to an end, this staff was already gathering ideas
to make Fanime 2008 even better. For an entire
year, this staff has worked hard to make sure that
this is the best Fanime there has ever been, and
that every year we are going to get bigger and better, while maintaining our core ideas. “By Fans, For
Fans” means that we are trying to share with others what we like as well. It means that in the end,
if we wouldn’t enjoying watching, reading it, listening to it, or buying it, then we wouldn’t try to force
it upon you, our members. And just as we have a
diverse group of members with different tastes and
interests, we have a diverse group of staffers to
help you out.
So this year, as we bring back old favorites and
try out new things, bear with us if there are a few
bumps along the way. We are constantly trying to
improve as we grow, and we hope that you continue down this path with us.
As always, take care, be safe, and have a fun and
fantastic Fanime.
Sam Warriner
FanimeCon Co-Chair
2006, 2007, 2008
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GAINAX
Twenty years ago, anime fans were
awed by a ground-breaking animated
movie, Royal Space Force: Wings of
Honneamise. This was GAINAX’s first
title. GAINAX began as a group of
amateur animators who funded their
own projects. An inexperienced crew
in their twenties started up their own
animation studio, made their debut
with an animated movie, and left a legendary mark in animation history. For
over twenty years, GAINAX produced a
wide variety of graphic titles in various
genres. The dedicated staff members
strove to create titles that were truly
entertaining.
GAINAX has released many popular
favorites, including Gunbuster, Nadia
– Secret of Blue Water, Neon Genesis
Evangelion, and FLCL. GAINAX staff
members poured their blood and souls
into each and every title. Though each
creator is a talented individual, GAINAX
couldn’t have created these wonderful
titles without the collective efforts of
all the creators combined.
Gurren Lagann is the most recent
title from GAINAX. New staff members
filled the key posts. This ambitious series was created from the ideas formulated from the fresh, young creators in
GAINAX. In it, GAINAX tackled many
© GAINAX, KAZUKI NAKASHIMA/Aniplex, KDE-J, TV TOKYO, DENTSU
new challenges, but the spirit that
flows through this title is uniquely GAINAX – devising ways to satisfy viewers by creating an entertaining
story and world. Interesting characters like Kamina, Simon, and Yoko fill the cast. Gunmen robots, especially the Gurren Lagann, also thrash about on the screen in the exciting battle scenes.
While GAINAX mainly produces animation, they have also expanded their efforts into computer games,
figures, publishing, and events, so they could seriously create things not only the fans enjoy, but they also
enjoy as well. Even now, GAINAX continues to make new products.
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Hiroyuki YAMAGA (山賀博之)
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Director, Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise
Yamaga-san is currently the Executive Director of GAINAX, Inc. Together with fellow Osaka Geijutsu University students Takami Akai and Hideaki Anno, Yamaga-san
created the opening animation for the 20th Japan SF Exposition held in 1981. He
was the director. Soon after, at the request of Studio Nue, Yamaga-san “went professional,” joining the production staff for Super Dimensional Fortress Macross in 1982.
Production began on the animated movie, Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise, in 1984. GAINAX was founded the same year. Royal Space Force: Wings of
Honneamise was released in 1987, becoming an instant cult classic as well as the
legendary “feature-length animation movie created by a group of anonymous youth.”
Yamaga-san has also garnered praise for his screenwriting, including Aim for the Top!
and Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket.
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Yoshiyuki SADAMOTO (貞本義行)
Character Designer
Sadamoto-san currently juggles multiple projects as a manga artist, character designer and animation director. Sadamoto-san was the character designer and animation director for the 1987 feature-length animation movie, Royal Space Force: Wings
of Honneamise.
Since then, Sadamoto-san has been involved with the animation and character
design of various titles including Nadia – Secret of Blue Water, Neon Genesis Evangelion, FLCL, Aim for the Top 2!, The Girl Who Leapt through Time, Rebuild of Evangelion,
and the .hack series of video games.
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Masahiko OTSUKA (大塚雅彦)
Assistant Director, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Otsuka-san joined GAINAX as a production assistant and episode director for Neon
Genesis Evangelion after working as an assistant director on Studio Ghibli’s featurelength animation movies Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko and Whisper of the Heart.
While continuing to work on various animation projects with GAINAX, Otsuka-san
also utilized his background in live-action movie production as the assistant director
for Love & Pop. His directorial debut was with Petite Princess Yucie.
As assistant director of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Otsuka-san has been involved with screenwriting, storyboarding, and production.
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Ryan Gavigan
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Anime Hell harkens back to the days where film enthusiasts held gatherings and showed film
clips, trailer reels, and out of print cartoons and cult films to their friends and the public (in the days
of actual celluloid film).
Anime Hell in its modern form began over a decade ago, as a presentation put on at various anime cons. It’s sort of a visual disk-jockey kind of thing – short clips of bits from Japanese cartoons,
commercials, movie trailers, educational films, short animated films, pop culture detritus, bleeps,
blunders, and practical jokes. To maybe a few people’s surprise, it became pretty popular. Anime
Hell now has many shows throughout the year, produced and hosted by a cabal of friends who lend
their own creative bent to each of their shows. The quick-paced and free-flowing nature of each
Anime Hell show can’t be experienced anywhere else, not even online. In addition to entertaining
audiences at shows, the Anime Hell crew is dedicated to celebrating, archiving, and popularizing the
bizarre and hilarious bits of human pop culture. Anime Hell is thrilled to be bringing its bit of showmanship back to FanimeCon, so please – no poking with sharp objects.
Your mindful guide on this celebrity tour is Ryan Gavigan. Ryan is one of the founders and con
chairs of Anime Central and has been attending and staffing various anime conventions for over 15
years. But in reality, he enjoys making parodies and collecting goofy stuff, so his gravitation towards
Anime Hell production seemed pre-ordained. He has been hosting Anime Hell at a number of Midwestern anime conventions and debuted Anime Hell on the West Coast at FanimeCon 2007.
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Carl Horn
Carl Gustav Horn has worked in the U.S. anime and manga industry since 1993. A
former editor at Animerica and Pulp magazines, he was a co-author (in 1999, along with
Patrick Macias) of Japan Edge, the first book on otaku culture to be reviewed in the mainstream media. He has contributed to the U.S. DVD releases of Royal Space Force, Jin-Roh,
Patlabor 2, Gunbuster, Gunbuster 2, and Appleseed: Ex Machina, and he has provided
commentary on the field to Newsweek Japan, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, AERA, Clarin, The
Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, NPR, and Wired. He currently edits manga
such as Oh My Goddess! and The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service at Dark Horse Comics.
A longtime attendee of Foothill Anime (which he once praised in an essay as “America’s
Most Beautiful Anime Club”), he is honored to be among Bay Area otaku again as a guest
of Fanime.
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Hidenobu KIUCHI (木内秀信)
Hidenobu Kiuchi is the voice behind a multitude of well-known anime characters, such
as Ren (Nana), Dr. Tenma (Monster), Nero (One Piece), and most notably, Yuushi Oshitari
(The Prince of Tennis).
Kiuchi-san, like many American voice actors, first began as a stage actor and even took
stage training. It wasn’t until a sempai (“older, senior colleague”) enlisted him for a voiceacting job that his career was set in motion for principal roles, such as Joze in Gunslinger
Girl and Ramsbeckite Hematite in Cluster Edge. A role that Kiuchi-san currently holds as
his favorite is Li Shenshung/Hei in the sci-fi production Darker Than Black from BONES.
Also included among Kiuchi-san’s numerous credits are the anime series Pocket Monsters, Yu-Gi-Oh, Hunter x Hunter, Rurouni Kenshin, and psychological thriller Death Note.
Hidenobu Kiuchi is the solo host for an online radio show, “Seishun Radio”, and hosts
“Chiraizumu no Yoru”, a weekly Internet radio show, together with Kenjiro Tsuda, a fellow
Prince of Tennis voice actor. The pair also teaches voice acting at the Human Academy
Performing Arts College.
Reuben Langdon
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Based in Los Angeles, Reuben Langdon is an actor/producer/director who began his
career in Japan when he landed a regular role on the Japanese superhero TV series BFighter Kabuto. Later relocating to Hong Kong, he worked on various Hong Kong films
including Jackie Chan’s My Stunts, Gen-Y Cops and Jackie Chan’s fantasy adventure The
Medallion. Reuben later moved to Los Angeles where he went on to appear in the CBS
show Martial Law alongside Sammo Hung and Saban’s Power Rangers.
In addition to his success in the world of film and television, he has performed in and
coordinated a number of performance capture shoots for interactive video games, including Tao Feng, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II, Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, Dead Rising, and
both Devil May Cry 3 and 4. He has also worked as a performance capture actor with
Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson. Mr. Langdon is currently filming the performance
capture/live action hybrid film, Avatar, for director James Cameron.
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Ric Meyers
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Ric Meyers has been called “one of the men most responsible for the success of Chinese films and stars in America,” as well as “King” (at Medieval Times) and “Santa” (at
malls, stores, and corporations all over the northeast).
He’s author of more than a dozen books (including three Martial Arts Movie volumes,
two sci-fi sagas, a horror trilogy, four Destroyer novels, twelve Ninja Master thrillers, and
the last fantasy novel ever written for Dungeons and Dragons [before it was acquired]).
When he’s not writing tomes, he’s a contributor to countless magazines (including “Asian
Cult Cinema”), and audio commentator for more than forty kung-fu and samurai DVDs.
He’s also a movie and TV consultant, having most recently helped with DreamWorks’
Kung Fu Panda. On top of that, he’s now a professor at the University of Bridgeport, a multiple Gold Medalist at International Martial Art Championships, and a general all-around
scamp (ask last year’s Masquerade audience).
Although he’s really busy, Ric’s back because he loves this con, this town, and you!
Maika NETSU (ネツ マイカ)
Maika Netsu is an emerging artist and illustrator in Japan. Her first work was the manga, Black Game, with story by Rei Akimi. After finishing Black Game, Netsu-sensei started
working on the illustrations and artwork for My Dearest Devil Princess with Makoto Matsumoto working on the story. Maika Netsu and Makoto Matsumoto are currently collaborating on Kaprekar, which is running in the serialized magazine, Monthly Comic Rush, published by JIVE. In addition to illustrating artwork for manga, she also drew insert images
for the light novel, Bara-iro ni Cheriska, written by Rei Kaibara.
My Dearest Devil Princess is Maika Netsu’s first title released in North America. Published by Broccoli Books, the first two volumes are currently in bookstores.
This is Maika Netsu’s first time at a US convention, and she is excited to meet her
American fans.
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Jonathan Osborne
Jonathan Osborne was born in Boston and shortly thereafter became a huge anime
fan. He got his first anime voice-acting role in Bastard! and continued on into the wonderful world of walla (which is the industry term for background voices). Having been dubbed
“The Man of 1000 Deaths”, Jonathan has become the famous extra of the anime voiceacting world. Jonathan is thrilled to be making his eighth appearance at FanimeCon this
year. Jonathan has played Shojo in One Piece, George in NieA_7, William Morris in Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory and Gordo in Fist of the North Star. He has also appeared in
The Big O, Burst Angel, Cowboy Bebop, Mysterious Play, the new dub of Akira, and many
other titles.
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Gilles Poitras
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Gilles Poitras is the Access Services Librarian at Golden Gate University in the San Francisco area. He is best known to anime fans for his three books: The Anime Companion, Anime Essentials and The Anime Companion 2, as well as his writing for Newtype USA and
Otaku USA. He also sits on the senior board of Mechademia, an annual scholarly anthology
of essays on anime, manga and fan culture. Gilles also has done presentations of anime
for Japan - US friendship groups, public libraries, conventions, and all day workshops for librarians. He introduced anime films at the Smithsonian and even taught a course for eight
weeks about the subject for Pixar staff. He first discovered anime while walking through San
Francisco’s Japantown in 1977. As a fan of foreign films, he was instantly attracted by the
use of cinematic effects in ways that he had never seen in animation before. This began an
interest in anime that continues to grow after all of these years. He has two Masters degrees,
one in Library Science from the University of California at Berkeley and one in Theology from
Pacific School of Religion also in Berkeley. His background in theology has proven beneficial
in that it gave him the scholarly skills to look at anime and manga with a disciplined eye. This
has enabled him to employ anime and manga as a window into Japanese culture.
“One important thing I learned studying religion is that one should never assume that
something from another culture means what it would in one’s own culture. Humanity is far
too diverse and interesting for that to be the case.”
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Dan Southworth
Fans of the Devil May Cry franchise would recognize him as the voice and motion capture actor for Vergil in “Devil May Cry 3” and Credo in “Devil May Cry 4”. Mr. Southworth
also performed as a motion capture actor in “Halo 3: Full Combat”, “Bourne Conspiracy”,
and the highly anticipated “Resident Evil 5”. Others may know him as the Quantum Ranger from “Power Rangers: Time Force”, or his other starring and co-starring roles in numerous movies and television shows.
However, Mr. Southworth’s eclectic experience doesn’t end there. A martial arts enthusiast since youth, he has achieved the highest honor in various martial arts specialties
and was a winning fighter within those circles. He has worked with Asian cinema legends
such as Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung, choreographing and executing complex fight sequences in films of that genre.
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Richard Waugh
Richard Waugh is a prolific actor who has performed for film, television, radio, stage,
and video games across Canada and the United States. He was a member of the esteemed
Shaw Festival Company in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario for six years. He has appeared in
shows such as A&E’s Nero Wolf Mysteries, F/X: the Series, RoboCop the Series, The West
Wing, and much more! Mr. Waugh is also a co-writer and star of the Gemini Nominated
cult hit Jimmy MacDonald’s Canada.
Gaming enthusiasts who are familiar with the Resident Evil / Biohazard franchise may
also recognize Mr. Waugh as the distinct voice of Albert Wesker (of “Resident Evil 0”, “Resident Evil 1” (Remake), “Code Veronica” and “Resident Evil 4”).
Mr. Waugh currently resides in Toronto, Ontario, with his beautiful and talented wife,
actress Sarah Orenstein, their two growing boys, and a turtle named Squirtle.
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Feudal Stories
written by
Gilles Poitras
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eudal Japan spans over 680
years of Japanese history from
1185 to 1868. In this essay I’ll
mention several anime, manga and
historical works. These are all available in translation. I will not list items
that are out of print, with the exception of some Geneon titles that are still
easily available. A major characteristic
of feudal Japan was that the Emperor
reigned in Kyoto but had very little political power; the samurai had taken
control of the nation from the nobility,
while the prestige of the imperial line
kept the noble families from being
abolished. Historians divide the years
of feudal Japan into several eras. The
first is the Kamakura Period, 1185 –
1333. During this time, power resided
in the Kamakura shogunate, named
after its capital. When the forces supporting Emperor Go-Daigo overthrew
the shogun (these events are described in the chronicle known as The
Taiheiki), it looked for a short time as
if Imperial rule was re-established,
and the Muromachi Period began.
However, another samurai leader took
control in a couple of years, and so the
rule of the Ashikaga shoguns branded
this era. The Ashikaga ruled not by
large armies but by a complex series
of alliances that kept them in power
for some time. Over time the alliances
weakened, and many daimyo, samurai
leaders with large holdings, became
increasingly independent. The Hakkenden: Legend of the Dog Warriors is
set during this time, with episode two
beginning in 1458.
In 1467 armed conflict broke out
between two factions of the Ashikaga
over who would be the next shogun.
This is the beginning of the Sengoku
Jidai, the Warring States Era that
marked the remaining years of the
Muromachi Period. There are few anime or manga available that are set
before this conflict, but starting with
the Sengoku Jidai, we have several to
choose from. The two most famous
are only set in the period and rarely
touch on the events and personages
of the times; these are InuYasha and
Princess Mononoke. There are many
titles that deal with events, places
and personages from this time. One of
the most interesting of these is actually set in modern times but involves
the spirits of warriors who continue to
carry out their duties either as spirits
or flesh and blood people. This is Mirage of Blaze, a tale based on a light
novel series and aimed at a female
audience. A crucial part of the story
is the complex relations between the
major players who have lived through
many lives over the centuries carrying
out their duties for their lord. There is
a lot of dramatic supernatural stuff in
this one and plenty of pretty boys for
the girls. The most detailed manga set
in this period is Path of the Assassin,
which follows the famous Tokugawa
general, Hattori Hanzo, as he serves
Tokugawa Ieyasu during some of the
most exciting and dangerous times
in Japanese history. Hanzo is also famous as a ninja in many tales, including this one. Given that this is a period
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The art theme for Fanime 2008 is feudal Japan, and
Guest of Honor Gilles Poitras has kindly agreed to write
some material about the theme. Mr. Poitras is giving
several informative panels at the convention, so check
out the schedule and the Panels section (page 23) to
learn more.
of war, we can expect some ninja action. Blood Reign: Curse of the Yoma
is one such tale, in this case involving
a conflict between two ninja, one of
whom has some nasty supernatural allies.
After the Sengoku Jidai was the
short Azuchi-Momoyama Period, lasting from 1568 to 1600. In Wrath of the
Ninja, Oda Nobunaga has allied himself
with demonic powers to gain control of
the land. The only things stopping him
are certain ninja forces. The historical
Nobunaga distrusted ninja and actually fought against them, so it’s not
surprising to see such a conflict in an
anime. After the Azuchi-Momoyama
Period was the Edo Period, also known
as the Tokugawa Period, named after
either the capital of the Tokugawa shoguns or their family name. This is the
period where we find the largest number of titles. In fact, almost all the historical anime, manga and live action
movies available in translation are set
in this era. For ease of discussion, I’ll
divide the Edo Period up into very early, middle and very late.
The early years are represented by
several works. One is the manga, Vagabond, a tale of the famous swordsman, Miyamoto Musashi. This manga
is so good that it won an award from
the Japanese Ministry of Culture. An
anime that has Musashi in part of it
is Shura no Toki which, as it covers
several generations of a martial arts
family, is a tale that spans the entire
Edo Period. Another tale is Samurai
Deeper Kyo with its weird critters and
supernatural elements. It also includes
some familiar figures, such as an older
Hattori Hanzo. Of course, we can’t have
an Edo Period tale without a few ninja;
in fact, we have several tales with lots
of ninja. The one with the earliest time
setting is Basilisk, based on the Kouga
Ninja Scrolls novel by Yamada Futaro.
This novel, written in the 1950s, is
what started the whole genre of “uglier-than-sin supernaturally powered
ninja” tales. One of the most famous
people of the early Edo Period rumored to have been a ninja was Yagyu
Jubei, who is a major character in two
manga, Samurai Legend and Yagyu
Ninja Scrolls, and in the Ninja Resurrection anime. The two manga have
ninja action without any supernatural
elements, even if their abilities are exaggerated. By the way, Yamada Futaro
also wrote the story Yagyu Ninja Scrolls
is based on. In anime, there is another
ninja named Jubei who is not a Yagyu.
This is the Jubei in Ninja Scroll. We get
hints in this show that the setting is the
early Edo Period.
Manga set the middle of the Edo
Period are Blade of the Immortal, Satsuma Gishiden, Samurai Executioner,
and Lone Wolf and Cub. Anime titles set
somewhere in this period are Samurai
Champloo and Tsukikage Ran. These
two titles are heavily influenced by
Japanese chanbara films (often called
“samurai films” in the West). Both play
fast and loose with actual history and
are lots of fun. Also set in this period
are Requiem From The Darkness and
Ayakashi Samurai Horror Tales. The
last two link with a popular genre of
writing, supernatural tales. The kabuki
theater had many such tales, and in
the Ayakashi Samurai Horror Tales series is “Yotsuya Ghost Story”, one of the
creepiest kabuki plays ever written.
Then we approach the end of the
Edo Period, known as the Bakumatsu,
which began in 1853 when Commodore Perry sailed his ships into Edo Bay.
This is when the Tokugawa Shogunate
started to lose control of Japan and
conflict broke out, leading to the return
of the Emperor to power in 1868. The
best-known anime set in this time is
Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal in the
Rurouni Kenshin series. Another title
is Dagger of Kamui, which has ninjas.
Yep, until the end of the Edo Period,
stories still have ninjas. One of the
most famous groups that existed in
this time was the Shinsengumi, a special police unit established in Kyoto.
For a history of the group, I highly recommend the book called Shinsengumi
by Romulus Hillsborough. One such
story available both as an anime and
manga is Peacemaker. This is about
Ichimura Tetsunosuke, a real member
who survived the conflicts. However,
my favorite Shinsengumi manga has
got to be Kaze Hikaru, a josei (young
women’s) manga about a girl who disguises herself as a boy to join up and
take revenge on the killer of her father
and brother. Those who know the actual history, and the Japanese readers
did, know that the tale will be tragic,
but the telling is good. With the end
of the Edo Period, Japan transformed
itself into a modern state, and the feudal period ceased to exist.
I urge you to check out all of the titles I mention. I am sure you will find
many great tales to enjoy. And don’t
forget to share the ones you like with
others.
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By Fans, For Fans
MusicFest is FanimeCon’s annual Japanese music series. In its four-year history, MusicFest has hosted dozens of performers
of all sorts – bubblegum pop, hardcore rock, anime covers, thumping R&B, and even cosplay – from the Bay Area, through
California, and of course across the Pacific from Japan. We are proud to present our biggest and most anticipated concerts yet
on Friday and Sunday at the Civic Auditorium. Check out the music!
An Cafe
– short for Antic Cafe – is a Japanese Visual-Kei rock band.
The group boasts of an overwhelming popularity among teenagers for their lifesized lyrics and the dance-beat rock sounds which intrigue the audience to run
high. Without a doubt, their songs are appealing to all J-Pop listeners, not just
to the Visual-Kei fanatics, and they even have a potential of being accepted by
the audiences who are not usually familiar with music from foreign countries. It
will never be too much to say that their live performances are truly entertaining
shows where the individual band members enjoy demonstrating their unique
personalities. Don’t miss their first US performance! They’re playing Sunday at
the Civic Auditorium. Doors open at 7 PM, and show starts at 8 PM.
In addition, we’re greeting the band with a Meet the Guests reception on Sunday,
and we’re hosting an autograph session on Monday! For details on how to get
tickets for these events, please visit an Info Desk.
www.ancafe-web.com
game music at numerous conventions. For many
years, this violin and cello duet have filled the halls
of FanimeCon with their music, and we are proud to
have them back on stage.
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Ramen
& Rice
have performed their medleys of anime and video
Miku
みく
Vocals
Takuya
Guitar
Kanon
カノン
Bass
Yu-ki
ゆうき
Keyboard
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Teruki
輝喜
Drums
By Fans, For Fans
Enjoy the finest local performers around at the MusicFest concert on Friday!
We’ve got four amazing bands from or inspired by Japan, all ready to rock the Civic Auditorium. Don’t miss the show!
Doors open at 5:30 PM, and show starts at 6:00 PM.
All Ages
Derrik, Tom, and Koko thought they were on their way to just another Local Punk
Rock Show, when suddenly a burst of light sucked them into an alternate reality. They
wandered around dazed for some time, until they realized... in this reality, they are
the Rock Stars and must create an authentic Punk Rock Show for the people here.
If these people don’t experience Rock, they may be doomed to enslavement, forever
trusting their devotion to pop and techno, which is only cool if you have robot ears!
They must fight for the freedom of humankind, so that they too may have a chance to
return home, and once again, be free. You can help.
www.myspace.com/allagesband
Thee Out Mods
Thee Out Mods was formed in the
summer of 2006 with three Japanese rockers – SANA (Vocals), YOSHIKI (Bass), and
KENNY (Drums) – as the band produced by Ace
(lead singer of Tokyo Smog) from 7 Samurai
Records. SANA’s straight and ironic expression
of the youth generation is powerfully combined
with the band’s intense rock ’n’ roll sound. Their
sharp, stylish, high-energy performances have
earned them a committed fan following in Los
Angeles, even though most of their songs are
performed in Japanese.
In April 2007, they toured to support LiN
CLOVER (with former members of GACKT Job),
highlighted by a knock-out performance at the
famous Slim’s live house in San Francisco.
www.myspace.com/theeoutmods2006
LYV (ライヴ)
LYV, formed officially in 2007 as the solo
project of Christian Hart (Vocals/Guitar), currently consists of active members, M. Alexander (Guitar), Alan D. (Bass), and James Akin
(Drums). With a range of music from hard-hitting rock, to soaring pop, and even epic ballads, LYV continues to wow audiences with
their “no holds barred” live performances.
With songs written in both Japanese and English, LYV has constantly turned heads with
their unique image and musical style. Giving
credit to the name, LYV strives to express the
broad spectrum of music and emotional topics
through their live performances.
In November 2007, LYV independently released the first album, “Voyager”, and received
excellent reviews. Already, LYV has begun
cracking down to put out their second album
release, “{INDIVISUALIST}”. Sparking interest
from fans and labels worldwide, LYV continues
to push the expectations one has from a “Japanese Rock Band”.
www.myspace.com/lyvofficial
GHOST TOWNE
GHOST TOWNE is a three-person band, consisting of Nobu Kawamura on vocals
and guitar, Yasu Koyama on drums, and Steven Wu on bass. Though GHOST TOWNE’s
music is generally defined as ‘rock’, they have many influences, including classic 70’s
rock, blues, funk, soul, and psychedelic. They have performed all over California at
bars, clubs, and conventions. They will also open for GREAT WHITE at their Crash Mansion show on June 20th. They perform every chance they get, many times for free,
with many local Los Angeles and San Francisco bands. Their unique style and influence bring in a wide range of audiences: not just lovers of Asian culture and music,
but also those who enjoy that classic rock feel.
www.myspace.com/ghosttowneofficial
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Code of Conduct
This year, FanimeCon is bigger than ever, so please help us keep things safe and fun
for everyone by following these rules and guidelines:
Everybody must comply with all federal, state, and local laws, ordinances, and regulations. Agents of the
San Jose Police Department are on site. Laws include, but are not limited to, the following:
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No disorderly conduct such as loitering, public intoxication, indecent exposure, begging, or soliciting.
No selling weapons or serving alcohol to minors.
No smoking inside the convention center, cultural facilities, hotels, or within 25 feet of any entrances.
Please respect the facilities. The San Jose Convention & Cultural Facilities and surrounding hotels have
been gracious enough to host FanimeCon for many years, and we would like to keep coming back.
•
All aisles, exits, fire safety devices, and concession stands must be kept clean, clear, visible, and unobstructed at all
times.
Do not tape, tack, staple, nail, or otherwise affix anything to any wall or surface in the San Jose Convention & Cultural
Facilities.
Signs, banners, posters, placards, displays, or other materials may not be attached or affixed to walls, doors, panels,
columns or other portions of the facilities by any method except with prior approval.
Glitter, gum, confetti, stickers and door or window decals may not be used, distributed, or affixed inside the facilities.
The white courtesy phones are for contacting emergency services or convention personnel only. They are not equipped to
provide outside telephone service.
No outside food or beverages may be sold on the facilities without prior permission, licenses, permits, and insurances.
Except for guide dogs used by visually impaired people, animals may not be brought into the San Jose Convention &
Cultural Facilities without prior written consent because live animals may affect the scope of food and beverage services
permissible under law.
Please leave facilities and equipment in at least as good a condition as you found them.
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Please be respectful and courteous of everybody around you. This includes the Guests of Honor, convention and hotel personnel, FanimeCon staff, and fellow attendees.
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With the large number of attendees, please move carefully. Do not obstruct the flow of traffic, do not swing or brandish
any props, and do not run indoors. Also, only people with disabilities or prior approval may use personal transportation
devices within the convention center and hotels. No skateboards, bicycles, or rollerblades.
Please request autographs only during designated autograph sessions. Unless exceptions have been announced otherwise ahead of time, please limit requests to one autograph per person per guest.
Please do not harass others. Please do not threaten, bully, stalk, or mob people. Please respect other people’s private
space.
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In addition, FanimeCon has the following rules:
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Badges are required for most events. Please remember to wear your badge.
Memberships are non-transferable. Therefore, badges are also non-transferable.
Badges may be pulled for any reason at any time by qualified staff members. Memberships and access to events will be
revoked with a pulled badge.
FanimeCon is a dry convention. No alcohol or drunkenness is allowed in the convention areas.
Please do not move any of the furniture or equipment, including the arcade machines. Doing so may result in damage to
the equipment or injury to yourself. If you think something needs to be moved, please tell Convention Operations.
Please do not use any of the outlets in the convention center without prior permission.
Please comply with the FanimeCon Weapons Policy (on page 17).
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Finally, please respect yourselves. Remember to eat nutritious meals, stay hydrated,
sleep in private and safe locations, shower regularly, be safe, and have fun!
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Weapons Policy
Carrying a Weapon
WEAPONS are defined as the following:
•
Anything that looks like or resembles a danger to anyone, including
law enforcement, from 20 feet away, under any conditions.
• Anything that has any reasonable chance of causing physical harm,
could be used to cause physical harm, or could make a person
believe they could come to harm.
• Anything that could be used in a menacing manner.
The ineffectiveness of the object or the skill of the person in possession of the object is not relevant when determining whether or not the
object is a weapon.
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Prohibited Weapons:
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Real weapons are not permitted.
Live Steel
Live steel is not permitted. Live steel includes swords, knives, or other
objects made of metal that can take an edge. Dull metal weapons are considered live steel and are therefore not permitted. Live steel in a scabbard or
protective cover is still not permitted.
Guns and Projectile Weapons
Guns and projectile weapons of any kind are not permitted. Examples of
guns and projectile weapons include (but are not limited to) live guns, gun
replicas, pellet guns, BB guns, airsoft equipment, darts, water guns, blowguns, and crossbows.
Flail Weapons
Flail weapons are not permitted. Examples of flail weapons include (but are
not limited to) whips, floggers, maces, nunchaku, and any weapon with attached moving parts.
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Incendiary Devices
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Concealed Weapons
Incendiary devices are not permitted. All devices which spark, shoot flame,
burn, smolder, can otherwise self-initiate combustion, or exist for no purpose
other than to be lit with a combustion device, are considered incendiary
devices.
State law prohibits concealed weapons. No concealed weapons are allowed
under any circumstances.
Permitted Weapons:
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All permitted weapons shall be subject to approval by Safety on Site
(SoS) staff.
Prop/Toy Guns
Prop guns that are easily identifiable as toys may be permitted if the prop
gun possesses no moving parts and is clearly marked with a non-removable
orange tip or colored in a bright safety color.
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Prop Flail Weapons
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Staves, Staffs, Wooden Swords
Prop flail weapons made of foam and/or paper may be permitted as long as
they are ornamental and in no way used as offensive or defensive weapons.
Staves, bo sticks, bokken, shinai, and wooden swords shall be considered
prop weapons and may be permitted as long as they are ornamental and in
no way used as weapons.
Purchasing a Weapon:
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All weapon sales shall follow Federal, State, and Local laws, statutes, and regulations.
Weapons shall not be sold to minors.
All weapons sold shall be in a box, bag, or other device rendering it
ineffective and inaccessible and shall remain within applicable laws
for concealed weapons.
Weapons shall not be carried around loose.
If a weapon is purchased at an event, you shall immediately remove
the weapon from convention-occupied space; or, if the weapon
meets the requirements to be peace-bonded, you shall immediately
have the weapon peace-bonded.
In order to carry a weapon at the convention, you must be in costume.
All weapons that are carried, either in hand or on/in a costume,
must meet the requirements to be peace-bonded and must be
peace-bonded immediately upon entering the convention.
Carrying a weapon during Masquerade:
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Staff, guests, and members who are participating in the Masquerade and wish to use a weapon that is not otherwise permitted shall
contact the Safety on Site (SoS) office for approval.
Any weapon approved for Masquerade but not approved for the
general convention shall be securely transported to Masquerade in a
box, bag, or other device rendering it ineffective and inaccessible.
Once at Masquerade, the weapon shall be checked in with the Masquerade Weapons Master.
When the individual participating in Masquerade is ready to perform, the individual shall check out the weapon from the Masquerade Weapons Master.
Once the performance is over, the individual shall check the weapon
back in with the Masquerade Weapons Master.
The Masquerade Weapon Master shall maintain the weapon until
the end of Masquerade.
When Masquerade is over, the individual shall pick up their weapon
from the Masquerade Weapons Master and securely transport the
weapon back to their hotel room or vehicle.
Violations of the Weapons Policy
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Violations include, but are not limited to, the following:
Carrying a weapon that does not meet the requirements to be
peace-bonded
Failure to have a weapon peace-bonded
Removing the peace-bonded tag on a weapon
Brandishing a weapon
Violations of the Weapons Policy shall result in disciplinary action,
including but not limited to the following:
A verbal warning
Expulsion from the convention
Reporting you to the local authorities
Peace-Bonding
Who:
Any staff, guest, or member who wishes to carry a weapon as
part of their costume shall have that weapon peace-bonded.
This is regardless of any training, credentials, age, maturity, or
status as a general member, staff member, or guest.
What: Peace-bonding is the process of approving a weapon to be carried by staff, guest, or member who is in costume.
When: Peace-bonding shall be done as soon as possible after entering
convention-occupied space. This includes all public hallways of
the hotels, anywhere in the convention center, and any space
set aside for convention use.
Where: Peace-bonding stations are located at the exit to Registration,
the exit to the Dealers Room, selected Information Desks, and
the Safety on Site (SoS) office located in Willow Glen III on the
second floor of the Marriott.
How:
Peace-bonding is done by having a Safety on Site (SoS) member examine the weapon in question to ensure that the weapon
meets the requirements and guidelines set forth by the Weapons Policy. Weapons that meet the FanimeCon Weapons Policy
requirements and guidelines shall be tagged with a nondestructive peace-bonding tag. Tagging the weapon tells FanimeCon
staff that you have read, understood, and agreed to follow the
Weapons Policy and that the weapon is approved to be carried
at the convention.
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Services
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Registration
Registration is open during these hours:
Thursday, May 22: 5 PM - 8 PM
(Thursday is for pre-registration pick-up ONLY!)
Friday, May 23:
Saturday, May 24:
Sunday, May 25:
Monday, May 26:
8 AM - 8 PM
8 AM - 8 PM
8 AM - 8 PM
8 AM - noon
Please wear your badge at all times. Badges and the
memberships they represent are non-transferable, and
both may be revoked at any time for any reason by qualified staff members.
Lost badge? Please check with ConOps first to see if
your lost badge has been turned in. Otherwise, one
replacement badge per person can be purchased from
Registration during registration hours.
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Safety on Site
Emergency Services
The Safety on Site office is located in Willow Glen
III on the second floor of the Marriott. The Safety
on Site department is responsible for ensuring that
staff, volunteers, guests, and attendees have a safe
experience at Fanime. Duties include the following:
San Jose police officers and emergency medical technicians are available on site. If you
need any emergency services, please contact
the nearest ConOps or Safety on Site staff
member. They will direct you to the appropriate emergency services.
• Line control – making sure lines flow, are not congested, and do not block walkways, exits, fire safety
equipment, etc.
• Crowd control – making sure crowds stay orderly
and do not interfere with traffic, etc.
• Access control – checking IDs for access to age-restricted rooms and restricting access to rooms to the
appropriate personnel
• General physical safety – preventing unsafe behavior or activities, such as running, blocking exits and
doors, etc.
• Escort duties – providing a safety escort for staff and
attendees as needed and requested
• Patrolling the Dealers Room – maintaining a presence in the Dealers Room to deter shoplifting and to
keep traffic flowing
• Peace-bonding – ensuring props are compliant with
Weapons Policy
• Policy compliance – enforcing the Weapons Policy
and Code of Conduct
• Assisting with emergencies – verifying emergencies and informing the proper authorities or service
personnel
• Dealing with harassment complaints
• Dealing with missing persons reports
Lost and Found
During the convention, lost items will be turned
into Convention Operations (ConOps) located in
Willow Glen I on the second floor of the Marriott.
Items that remain in our possession after the
close of the convention will be stored and held for
a period of three months. During this time, you
may contact our lost-and-found department at
[email protected] to see if your item was located.
After three months, all items will be sorted and
donated as appropriate.
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Food at Fanime
Have a great convention!
No celebration or convention is complete without food. This
year, FanimeCon will feature more food than ever before,
right in the middle of all the action!
The FaniMaid Cafe is located on the second floor of the
convention center near the Hilton. From 11 AM to 7 PM
on Saturday and Sunday, you can enjoy sandwiches and
hot food while chatting with maids in authentic costumes.
At the Civic Auditorium, concession windows will sell
drinks and snacks, so have a side of nachos or garlic
fries while watching the Cosplay Spectacular and MusicFest performances.
Shoppers can stop for a bite to eat at the back of the
Dealers Room, and on Saturday and Sunday, food
stands along the Concourse of the main convention
center will tempt you with sushi, dim sum, Lollicup boba
tea, and Dippin’ Dots ice cream. Also on Saturday and
Sunday, the Market Terrace on the balcony near the
Marriott will host a grill with hot dogs and hamburgers.
Due to popular demand for extended hours, a food stand
will be open outside Exhibit Hall 2 (the gaming hall)
from 7 AM until 4 AM. Vending machines will be available around the clock in the back of Exhibit Hall 2, and
Starbucks will stay open continuously from Friday morning until Monday night.
With this many food options in the convention center, stopping to eat doesn’t mean stepping out of Fanime, so make
these food choices a fulfilling part of your convention experience!
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Remember to eat!
Stay hydrated!
(But drink water,
not alcohol.)
Be sure to sleep!
(But do it in a safe place,
such as a hotel room.)
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shower often!
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FanimeCon is “By Fans, For Fans”,
and
we rely on volunteer efforts to keep the convention running
smoothly. Volunteers perform a wide variety of tasks such as running messages between departments, validating access to rooms and events, and even decorating for the Black and White Ball. In
return for their service, volunteers can earn back the cost of their registration. It takes five hours to
earn back a single-day registration, twenty hours for a full weekend pass. Shifts worked on Thursday
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Vol Hole. Thank you for your help!
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There is a lot more to FanimeCon than just anime. Live events and activities never happen the same way twice,
and they make FanimeCon fresh and unique every year. Check the schedule for the exact times and locations
of these events.
Cosplay
Have you ever loved a character so
much, you just wanted to be him/her for
a day? Then give it a shot! Cosplay lets you
express your fandom and creativity through
your outfit. Anime, Asian cinema, Visual
Kei, GothLoli, sci-fi, fantasy, pop culture, or
gaming – whatever your choice of genres,
you are welcome to show off your passion!
Everyone is welcome to cosplay, so grab
your costume and walk down those convention halls proudly! (Please remember
that FanimeCon is a family-friendly event,
so please choose costumes accordingly.)
Cosplayers who also enjoy performing
or designing custom costumes are welcome to compete in the Cosplay Spectacular Masquerade. Prizes will be given to the
best costumes and performances. The
audience will be treated to amazing costumes and skits filled with singing, dancing, and hilarity – every second brings a
new delight! The Cosplay Spectacular has
always proven to be a popular event, so
come on down and join the fun!
Fanime Music Videos
Come watch anime cuts, video game
snippets, and Japanese culture clips
strung together and connected by song!
Fan music video editors have creatively
spliced bits from a variety of video sources
into new material for you to watch and enjoy. This event is always a big hit with fans
and is sure to get the crowd going!
FaniMaid Cafe
Come join our maids and enjoy a real
maid cafe right in the heart of FanimeCon!
From hot food to authentic costumes, the
FaniMaid Cafe recreates the Akihabara
phenomenon. If you’ve never had the pleasure of experiencing a maid cafe, don’t
miss this opportunity!
Stage Zero
As nimble as a ninja and as striking as a
samurai, Stage Zero is sometimes a sam-
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pler of FanimeCon and sometimes a spectacle in its own right. It is both alpha and
omega, providing everything from sneak
peeks of guest panels to the climactic conclusion of the charity auction. In between,
Stage Zero will regale the audience with
music videos, game shows, cosplay skits,
dance performances, Fanime survival tips,
video game exhibitions with the Guests of
Honor, and much more!
For 2008, we introduce Stage Zero @
Night! Night owls will no longer miss out
since Stage Zero will run non-stop during
the time between the opening and closing ceremonies. With something always
happening on Stage Zero, we can’t fit it
all in the program guide, so check out the
schedules for more information. Stage
Zero is located on the balcony between the
video rooms and the Dealers Room; you
can’t miss this!
Game Show
The Fanime Game Show is back! Come
check out all the fun at Stage Zero! We’ll
be running Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
evenings. It’s a light combination of trivia,
knowledge, and guesswork, with lots of
prizes at stake. We pick most of our contestants from the audience, so come on
down to test your skills and reflexes!
Charity Challenge –
Compounded!
At FanimeCon, we enjoy the luxury of
great entertainment, and luxuries are even
more enjoyable when shared. With that in
mind, FanimeCon holds an annual charity
auction. This year, we’ll double the enjoyment with double the charities and double the dollars: this time, the FanimeCon
Board of Directors will match charity auction proceeds! FanimeCon 2008 is proud
to support the Springstone Schools and
the Asian Perinatal Advocates.
The Springstone Schools serve students
with Asperger’s Syndrome, Non-verbal
Learning Disability, and other cognitive
challenges by providing an educational
environment that accepts these students
and teaches them skills that will help
them lead meaningful and productive
lives. (www.thespringstoneschool.org and
www.schigh.org)
Asian Perinatal Advocates promotes
healthy families and prevents child abuse
and domestic violence in the Asian and
Pacific Islander communities by providing
family support services, education, community building, and leadership development to Asian families in San Francisco
with newborn infants and children under
five years of age. (www.apasfgh.org)
To support these charities, our generous dealers and Guests of Honor donate
merchandise and unique creations to the
auction. Don’t forget to look for the Wii!
During the convention, the Guests of Honor will play a Nintendo Wii on Stage Zero,
and the signed console will be available
for auction! Visit the FanimeCon booth
in the Dealers Room to browse the other
donations and submit a bid. Items receiving more than five bids will earn a spot in
an upbeat, fast-action live event at Stage
Zero. Check the schedule for the live auction time, and come support the Springstone Schools and Asian Perinatal Advocates. We challenge you to bid high and
bid often!
Artist Alley
Artist Alley: A huge room filled to the
brim with amazing artists, anxious to sell
you their homemade and beautiful works
of art. Ranging from fan art to clothing,
plushies, and original works, this room
keeps the art-craved fans satisfied. Artists
are waiting to expose you to their creative
styles and to see your reactions to their
work. If you like their art, you can support
the artist directly by buying their work on
the spot. Some artists will even take commissions or autograph your purchases.
Everyone’s friendly, and everyone shares a
common interest: art!
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Art Gallery
For those who want a more peaceful setting to appreciate and buy art, this gallery
is a small piece of heaven. Amazing artists
put their works up for auction or display,
and as a bidder, you have a chance to take
home some of this wonderful art! These
pieces range across all different styles and
genres, but they all have one thing in common: they’re worth seeing. Even if you’re
not interested in bidding, be sure to stop
by to admire beautiful works of art!
Fanime Artist Pool
Wondering about those cool FanimeCon
street banners? Want to know who created that awesome program guide cover?
Come to the Artist Alley in Exhibit Hall 1 to
visit Fanime’s very own Artist Pool! All the
mascot illustrations you see around the
con were created by a talented team of artists who all want to know what you think!
Stop by to give them your feedback, purchase prints, or even order a commission.
The Fanime Artist Pool will be grouped together in a contiguous area in Artist Alley.
Look for the signs!
Arcade Gaming
Do you love arcade games with a passion? When you hear “Dance Dance Revolution”, “Para Para Paradise”, or “Initial D”,
does your heart start racing? Then head on
over to the arcade gaming area, where all
your dreams can come true! Battle against
gamers from all around the area, ranging
in all different skill levels. Choose from a
wide variety of machines, including fighting games, rhythm games, racing games,
and prize redemption games. Not much
of a gamer? Well, the arcade gaming section is still for you: come see the hardcore
Para Para Paradise and DDR players duke
it out! It’s exciting to watch, even for nongamers!
E-Gaming
If you’re not into arcade games (or if
spending your precious manga money on
gaming makes you twitch), then check out
the E-Gaming section! We have an awesome assortment of current, next-gen, and
old school console games and systems.
You can play your favorite games just for
fun, or you can enter in tournaments for
fabulous prizes and bragging rights!
Scheduled tournaments:
Beatmania II DX 13th Style Distorted
Capcom v SNK 2
Guilty Gear Accent Core Plus
Guitar Hero 3
Marvel v Capcom 2 New Age of Heroes
Naruto: Clash of Ninja 4
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3
Soul Calibur 3
Street Fighter 3rd Strike
Super Smash Brothers Brawl
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection
Most tournaments are limited to 32
contestants, so visit the E-Gaming area
to sign up as quickly as possible. Let the
games begin!
Tabletop Gaming
Card games, board games, and roleplaying, oh my! Tabletop gaming has
something for everybody! Board gamers
and roleplayers can bring their own games
to share during open gaming hours, or
people can find a game to join. Roleplaying cosplayers can participate in life-sized
games of Cosplay Chess. Card gamers can
battle it out in tournaments for brave and
willing fighters. Tournaments will include
the Bleach Trading Card Game, the Naruto
Trading Card Game, the Yu-Gi-Oh Trading
card game, and Texas Hold’em. Everyone
is welcome to play. Bring your friends,
make new ones, and game on!
Swap Meet
Do you have merchandise from a series
you no longer like, or have you found new
appreciation for an old series and want
to get some great deals on related used
goods? Only on Thursday and Friday nights,
the FanimeCon Swap Meet lets fans get together to sell, buy, and trade merchandise,
hopefully giving old products a second life
with a new owner. Come visit the Swap
Meet in Exhibit Hall 2 to do your part in reusing and recycling!
Open Mic Karaoke
Looking for a place to chill in between
events? Just aching to belt out that special
rendition of your favorite anime or J-Rock
song? Then check out Karaoke! FanimeCon is proud to host Open Mic Karaoke for
your singing pleasure. Except during contest times, Karaoke is open late into the
night for the enjoyment of all attendees
who would like a chance to sing for fun in
front of their friends and fellow fans! Bring
your own CDs, or choose from our extensive library of more than 5,000 anime,
J-Pop, and J-Rock songs.
Karaoke Contest
Featuring a diverse group of passionate
and talented singers, the Eighth Annual FanimeCon Karaoke Contest brings the spirit
of friendly competition and the excitement
of vocal performance to the convention
stage. Come sign up for our contest, or just
cheer on your fellow fans!
The contest consists of two rounds.
In the qualifying round, up to 30 acts will
compete for the chance to advance to the
finals. The best of these will qualify for the
finals, from which the winners will be selected. Finalists receive cool prizes, and
the winner also receives a beautifully customized microphone trophy and the honor
of performing at the FanimeCon Cosplay
Spectacular.
Karaoke Gong Show
Is your love of singing tempered by a
strong desire for mockery? Then you’re in
luck! Making its Fanime debut this year,
the Karaoke Gong Show is for the brave
and the truly masochistic who are hell-bent
on creating the worst and most amusing
feats of bad singing imaginable. When an
act becomes utterly unbearable, the gong
is struck, and the contestants are escorted
off-stage.
You’ll have to try extra hard to earn
that coveted Gong! Anything goes (short
of disrespectful, inappropriate, or destructive behavior, of course)! You must adhere
to convention rules at all times. Contestants may perform either individually or in
groups. Although we use the term loosely,
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awards will be given out for particularly
special demerits, with a “Worst of Show”
offered to the contestant who creates the
perfect blend of travesty, atrocity, and horror. Do you have what it takes to be truly
awful?
Dance
Don’t waste all your energy walking up
and down the convention hall; save some
for the dances! From the rambunctious
rave to the beauteous Black and White
Ball, the dances are where the party’s at!
The rave, held annually, is where fans
let loose! Grab your glow sticks, and dance
to your favorite J-Pop and J-Rock songs all
night long! The rave is fairly lenient about
the dress code, so dress in your coolest
clothes, and dance the night away!
Black and White Ball
Time to polish those dancing shoes:
the Black and White Ball is once again
coming to Fanime! This ballroom is 50%
bigger than the room used last year, and
it will have a real dance floor instead of a
wooden parquet surface. The dress code
is formal to semi-formal. For gentlemen,
a suit or tux is preferred, but a dress shirt
and slacks will meet minimum requirements. For ladies, an evening gown or a
formal dress is preferred, or a dress skirt
and blouse at the minimum. High heels or
dress flats are required, and skirts must
reach the knees or lower. Cosplay is welcome, but the costume must be formal,
such as gothic lolita or aristocrat style
clothing, and please refrain from bringing
props or bags. To match the theme, black
and white dress is encouraged, but colors
are also welcome as long as the outfit is
formal.
Don’t know how to dance? No problem!
During the day, classes will teach many
styles of dance, including waltz, salsa, foxtrot, cha-cha, swing, and two-step. Each
lesson plan will assume that dancers are
beginners, and casual clothing is fine, so
come as you are.
The Black and White Ball will draw on
a diverse playlist with anime, J-Pop, and
video game music, as well as some American swing music, all of which can be used
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for ballroom dancing. Tango, rumba, and
mambo will be thrown in for intermediate dancers, plus some conga just for fun.
Please check the schedule for lesson and
dance times. Let’s have a ball!
Real People! Real Kimono!
The ImmortalGeisha.com crew will
show you just how great anyone can look
in a kimono with their fashion show, “Real
People! Real Kimono!” With a showcase
of gorgeous kimono of different formality, era, and fashion, you’ll see that not
only can kimono be for anyone, but more
importantly, kimono can be a whole lot of
fun!
Lolita Kisama Fashion Show
The Lolita Kisama Fashion Show is a
fusion of innovative new fashions and inspiration – an instant buzz that lets you hit
your highest notes again and again, with
fun, laughter, and (of course) unforgettable, unique, original, and incomparable deviant Lolita Kisama designer pieces parading right in front of you. Join us on Stage
Zero, and we will offer you entertainment
in style – models, music, dance, action,
emotions, and more!
By Fans, For Fans
Meet the Guests of Honor, get the scoop on industry news, and hear from fans like you.
Panels range across everything from anime and manga to cosplay, music, culture,
demonstrations, workshops, and social gatherings!
GUEST
PANELS
Anime Hell Lounge
Did you enjoy Anime Hell?
Did you miss Anime Hell? Anime Hell Lounge is the second
dose as Guest of Honor Ryan
Gavigan shares with you the
classics and the requested fan
favorites that were not shown
in the main Anime Hell presentation.
Carl Horn:
Making My Love Into My Life
Carl is a fan, just like you!
Through many trials and errors, he was able to turn his
passion into his career. Join
Carl as he talks about his trials
and tribulations as an eager
champion of FanimeCon and
how he spun that into a fulltime job in the Manga department at Dark Horse comics.
Geeking Out
with Fanime’s Guests
What are the things that get
our guests to geek out? Join
some of our guests as they talk
about what gets their otaku
blood boiling!
Gilles Poitras:
Anime for Parents
Parents are often curious
about what kids are watching.
Anime and manga have works
in all genres made for all ages.
Join a discussion on the variety
available. Bring questions and
concerns, and we shall discuss
them. Also covered will be
many advantages anime and
manga may have for a parent.
Gilles Poitras:
Japanese Culture in
Anime and Manga
In the large variety of anime
and manga available, many
titles directly reflect Japanese
culture, and often fans wonder
about the details they see. We
shall take a segment of Maison Ikkoku and discuss its cultural elements. Please note we
shall be rolling the video early.
Gilles Poitras:
Older Titles for Newer Fans
Many fans who are relatively
new to anime know only about
titles that have come out in the
past few years. They are often
unaware of many excellent
older titles that are still on the
market. Come for exposure to
some of the titles every anime
fan should know about. Clips
of anime will be shown.
Hidenobu KIUCHI:
Seiyuu Karaoke
Seiyuu Karaoke is a oncein-a-lifetime chance to join
Hidenobu Kiuchi-san in the
FanimeCon Karaoke Room for
some rousing group renditions
of his Prince of Tennis songs.
Don’t worry if you don’t know
the words: we’ll provide lyric
sheets. The more, the merrier!
Hidenobu KIUCHI:
Q&A Session
What is it like to voice roles
as diverse as Prince of Tennis’
Oshitari, Monster’s Tenma and
Saiunkoku’s Ran Ryuuren?
Where does Kiuchi-san get
his inspiration for roles such
as Oshitari? To get the inside
scoop on Kiuchi-san’s voice
acting career, drop by and ask
him yourself!
Hidenobu KIUCHI:
Fan Appreciation Panel
A unique opportunity for Kiuchi-san’s fans to interact with
him in a casual setting and
show their appreciation for
his voice and talent. Cosplaying as his characters is highly
encouraged! Various entertaining, interactive activities are
planned.
Maika NETSU: Mangaka
One of the new emerging illustrators in Japan, Maika
Netsu-sensei is representing
her North American debut of
My Dearest Devil Princess. Her
highly detailed yet clean artwork is one of the major factors for the success of this title.
She is thrilled to talk about her
artwork, so please come and
chat!
Ric Meyers: Ric Shows You
How to Break into Everything!
No, it’s not a panel about stealing! Author, magazine writer
and editor, TV and movie producer, comic book creator,
DVD contributor, actor, professor, martial artist... Ric Meyers
does it all, and you can too!
Come with your questions, and
he’ll try to help you make your
dreams come true!
Ric Meyers: Ric Shows You
How to Write Good!
This year, Ric Meyers has a
panel to answer all your questions about how to create good
stories, characters, dialogue,
and so on for any media you’re
into: fiction, non-fiction, reviews, comics/manga, film/
anime, and more! Bring your
own work for critique; it’s like
having your very own editor!
Wesker: The Fan’s Perspective
Richard Waugh, well known
in our community for his role
as Wesker, is better to known
to the rest of the world for his
many serious roles in Hollywood. Fanime invites you to
come and talk to the man behind Wesker and share your
perspective on this iconoclastic villain and the series that
spawned him.
Whose Line is it? Anime
What can be more fun than
watching the guests of Fanime
make utter fools of themselves
in delightful games of improvisational acting? With help
from the Fanime audience,
Jonathan Osborne will bring on
the madness!
Script Reading
with Jonathan Osborne
Join the third installment of
this panel, where you can
take part in the experience of
auditioning and performing
scripted material. Flex those
voice muscles! Learn all about
cold-reading and the wonders
of inflection! We’re not really
sure what we’re doing, but it’s
a veritable heap of fun.
“War Stories”
with Dante and Virgil
Reuben and Dan have been
working together for many
years. Enjoy their unique banter as they discuss their work
on “Devil May Cry 3”, Reuben’s
Mentos commercials, and Dan
Southworth’s life as the Quantum Ranger!
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PANELS
Aimee Major’s “Japan Ai”
Join animator Aimee Major
(Futurama) on an otaku’s
dream-trip through the worlds
of cosplay, manga, and dollcollecting in Japan. Aimee’s
hilarious and touching adventures will be accompanied by
artwork from her best-selling
book Japan Ai: A Tall Girl’s Adventures in Japan, published
by Go! Comi.
Bandai Entertainment Industry Panel
Bandai Entertainment, Inc. has
some amazing titles in 2008
including Code Geass: Lelouch
of the Rebellion, Lucky Star,
The Girl Who Leapt Through
Time, Ghost Slayers Ayashi,
and many more. Join Marketing Director Robert Napton
for this informative hour with
news, trailers, and some giveaway swag!
Broccoli International USA, Inc
Come visit Broccoli International USA’s panel and learn
about new releases, licenses,
and anything else!
Dark Horse Manga
Dark Horse is celebrating the
20th anniversary of publishing manga this year. Please
join editor Carl Horn to discuss
Dark Horse’s past, present,
and future with Japan, including their upcoming original
work with CLAMP!
eigoMANGA:
How to Draw Manga
Artists and editors from eigoMANGA’s comic book publications RUMBLE PAK and
SAKURA PAKK will be on hand
to teach the fundamentals of
manga illustrations and storytelling.
Gaia Online Panel
Gaia Online announces Kiki’s
Road Trip across America!
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Kiki Kitty is hosting a special
panel where members can get
together and meet Gaia staff
while finding out more about
Gaia’s newest games and features. All attendees will also
have the chance to win a jumbo Kiki plushie and other great
prizes.
Introduction to Ren’ai Games
Dating sims, visual novels,
ren’ai games: Have you seen
these terms and wondered
what they were about? We will
introduce you to the wild world
of ren’ai (romantic love) gaming, with topics such as game
types, popular titles, where to
find them, and options for nonJapanese speakers. Hosted by
Okashi Studios.
Share Anime Collections
Online
Show off your costumes, original art, plushies or any type of
anime collectible on Micurio.
com, a new free community
for sharing all your collections.
We’ll show how you can use
Micurio to organize, share, buy,
sell or discuss your collectibles
with thousands of collectors
around the world.
FAN PANELS
(Im)possible Cosplay Structure
How do you make that “impossible” 4’ wig a possibility?
What about a huge gun or angel wings? We’ll cover how to
build giant wigs, armor, wings
and more while paying attention to keeping your structures
light, durable, and safe. Led by
the gluttons of costume punishment, the HCC. whatishcc.
com
3DCG for Anime Fanfilms
It’s time to stop just watching
anime, and start creating it.
This talk will provide an introduction to the software, skills,
and merger of creativity and
technology needed to create
an anime-inspired 3DCG short
fanfilm.
Advanced Prop Making:
Casting
How to make models, molds
and cast multiple final pieces
for your costume.
finish how to dress in komon
(casual silk kimono), explain
why it is different from a yukata, and show how to make a
casual kimono more formal.
Amtgard Demo
Amtgard: Live-action Roleplay
club demonstrating boffer
combat, roleplay system, and
arts & sciences work.
Comedy Club at Fanime
Come share an evening of
laughs with The Comedy Club
at Fanime! Whether it’s anime,
manga, or the intricacies of being an avid fan, nothing is sacred as we poke fun at all that
encompasses being an otaku!
This panel is recommended
for a 16+ audience due to language.
Animated Story and Scripting
An introduction to the building
blocks of drama and comedy
for animated filmmaking and
manga. Concepts covered include “Substance+Structure+
Style”, juxtaposition, setting,
genre, meaning, character,
and much more. Learn how to
design a plot. Vital knowledge
for all would-be animators and
mangaka!
Anime Fans Over 30
A panel for mature anime fans.
Relive and talk about anime
during our youth. Share our favorite classic anime series and
discuss how we live our lives
today.
Banzai Arcade
Think you’re a top-tier gamer?
See how you stack up in a test
of your knowledge of video
trivia as well as hands-on gaming skill. In this game-show
themed panel hosted by Team
Banzai, two teams compete for
fun and prizes as well as bragging rights to see which is the
ultimate gaming crew.
Butler Cafes - Exposed
Everything you’ve wanted to
know about Butler Cafes, hosted by Café Verführen! Learn
the history and ideas behind
this new fad popping up in Japan, talk about common misconceptions and what to expect when you visit, and hear
about the creation of our own
Butler Cafe event here in the
States.
Casual Kimono Interactive
The ImmortalGeisha.com crew
will demonstrate from start to
Consoles and the Industry
There are many key focuses
that game companies consider while developing their
games. All of these considerations affect how video games
play. By examining features of
video game consoles, you can
see how video games today
provide the player fun.
Cosplay Posing
Do you stick to the standard
poses of your character and
end up with photos that all look
the same? We’ll help you with
poses that flatter you and your
cosplay and help you make up
new poses! Break out of those
canon stances and have some
fun! Hosted by Cosplay.com’s
ZiggyB and cosplayer Liddochan.
Cosplaying with BJDs
Do you love ball-jointed dolls?
Do you love to cosplay? From
dressing your doll as Shinku to
being Chii with your doll as Sumomo, we’ll discuss fun ways
to combine these two hobbies.
The panel will start with a brief
introduction to BJDs and then
move to a discussion of cosplaying with your doll.
Create That Anime!
Every anime is based in cliches,
right? So if given some cliches,
could you make the next killer
anime yourself? Could you take
the tried and true stereotypes
and make something epic and
amazing? Could you CREATE
THAT ANIME? Crazy ideas and
crazier people wanted!
Cthulu for President
The presidential election is
shaping up to be a vicious campaign. Both parties are out of
touch. It’s time for a new party!
Cthulhu for President! Come
see what Cthulhu stands for!
See how Cthulhu will deal with
Iraq, health care, the faltering
market and other pressing issues!
Damn You Internets: VIP or Die
Mind-bleeding fun returns! Two
nights of internet mayhem,
memes, hates, and likes of
the year. The theme for night
one will be cons, cosplay, and
the communities surrounding
them, with a little extra. The
second night’s theme will be
games, randomness, and other
crap that most of us devote our
lives to following.
Dansei Seiyuu 101
Used to watching dubbed anime? Want to broaden your
horizons? Immerse yourself
in the Japanese voices behind
the characters! Enjoy introductions to a variety of Japanese
male seiyuu (voice actors) via
a presentation that includes
photographs, character listings, character images and
sound samples.
Developing an Anime Con
Interested in the creation and
development process of an
anime con? This is a panel
for people who live in a community with a small anime
scene who want to bring it out
and make it bigger. Led by the
developers of KinYoobiCon, a
fairly new anime convention in
Hayward, California.
Fan Art Caption Contest
Fan art and captions come together in one panel with prizes
for both. Submit your art to be
used for captions, or just come
to compete in creating the best
captions for the art submitted.
Prizes are awarded for both
the best art and best captions.
Fanime Forum Panel
If you’re here at Fanime, chances are you’ve probably taken a
look at the forums - and you
might have also lent your voice
to the community that posts
there! This panel’s here to inform you about the history of
our li’l forum community - and
after, allow you to socialize
with fellow board members!
Gaia Online Gathering
Gaia is hosting a special Gaia
Online gathering where Gaia
Online members can meet
each other and hang out while
making new friends and exchanging usernames. Come
get to know your fellow Gaians
on a personal level. In addition
to hanging out, all attendees
will receive a special prize.
How to Be a Host Seminar
Are you Princely, Cool, Devilish,
Shota, Wild, or just plain Natural? Not all may be naturally
stunning, but everyone does
have potential charm! Sponsored by the cosplay group
OH!smeCK, the How to Be a
Host Seminar will give you tips
on finding your inner host with more than a few surprises
ahead!
How to Dress as a Geisha
The ImmortalGeisha.com crew
will demonstrate from start to
finish how to dress like a geisha or maiko, sharing special
dressing tips received directly
from geisha and maiko themselves!
How to Talk to Girls
Field your romantic queries before the panel of experts and
hear the unadulterated truth
about approaching the opposite sex! Are you in love or in
“friend prison”? Need some
tips on body language? Why
do jerks get the girl? Special
attention given to resolving unrequited love and other anime
clichés.
Interactive Yukata Dressing
Want to learn how to dress in
yukata? The ImmortalGeisha.
com crew will be holding an
intensive workshop on how to
dress in yukata. Bring along
your own, or just come along
for the fun!
Intro to Yuri and Shoujo-Ai
Yuri vs. Shoujo-Ai? Is there a
difference? Learn about the
history, development and characteristics of Shoujo-Ai and
Yuri anime and manga, how
it differs from Yaoi, and how it
doesn’t always mean hentai!
Japanese Pop/Rock Party
Fans of J-Pop and J-Rock and
those of you -just- curious to
know more about it, you’re
invited to a celebratory panel
of Japanese music! If you like
J-Music or just want to know
more about it, this is the panel
you don’t want to miss!
J-Pop
Join Panda Cubed as we showcase what’s cool besides the
usual BoA and Ayumi songs
you always hear. We will try
to show newer and less wellknown bands.
J-Rock
Join Panda Cubed as we showcase what’s cool besides the
usual L’arc and Miyavi songs
you always hear! We will try
to show newer and less wellknown bands.
Learn How to Animate Anime!
Learn the basic tools and techniques Japanese animators
employ to create the illusion
of life. Examples and explanation of anticipation, squashand-stretch, arcs, overlapping
action, secondary motion,
motivation, emotional gearchange, timing, exaggeration,
and more.
Lost Anime Treasures
Join Panda Cubed as we showcase anime that either are
long forgotten or just never got
the love they deserved when
they came out.
MAD about Nico
Want to see what Japanese
mashups called MAD are all
about? Want to learn about
that Japanese YouTube clone
called “nicovideo”? Come for
a wild ride through Japanese
otaku mashup culture and
take a peek at the hottest new
video site from Japan!
Manga: More than Ninjas
Join Panda Cubed as we highlight some manga that people
maybe have missed because
the shelves are filled with Naruto and Bleach manga. While
some manga we cover may be
geared towards mature readers, all ages may attend if they
are looking for something new
to read.
Resin Casting
Resin Casting - it’s not as scary
as you think! This panel will
cover how to create hard costumes and props out of resin,
fiberglass, and thermoplastics
with a few simple tools and
supplies from Home Depot
and the internet. Led by the
armor-happy girls of HCC Cosplay, whatishcc.com.
Story Story Die
Come join the fun in this collaborative, competitive, and
improvisational game in which
you’ll concoct a bizarre plot,
stranger dialogue and elaborate “deaths.”
Super Smash Brothers
Advanced
A panel to show people the advanced side of the new Brawl
and to show some of the techniques to better your game
play.
The Anime List
Ever wanted to decide once
and for all the best of the big
anime subjects? Come join
this collaborative discussion
game! People will list their
favorite choices of anime subjects, then we’ll put them to
a vote! If you want to make a
statement for a big anime subject, The Anime List is for you.
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The Endless Evangelion Panel
Neon Genesis Evangelion remains one of the most controversial titles ever to cross the
Pacific. What does it all mean?
Bring your opinions (but no
weapons, please!) to the Evangelion analysis and learn to
disagree with Sean McCoy, the
voice of analytical commentary on ADV’s Platinum DVDs.
The Rise of K-Pop
Join Panda Cubed as we explore and showcase why K-Pop
is rapidly rising in popularity.
This is your chance to get a
sampling of what the cool kids
are listening to.
The World of Pangya
What is Pangya? Join a rapidly growing, massively multiplayer, online community of
magical golfers as we learn
tricks of the trade, A18 History,
and a thing or two about how
to lower those rounds. For it is
not your opponent who is your
worst enemy, it is your own
club. PANGYA!
Twilight Knights:
Dagger Workshop
The much requested Dagger
panel. All rogues and ninjas
come and see and learn how
to use that knife you have with
you at all times!
Twilight Knights:
Katana Workshop
YOU asked for it. Now Fanime
delivers! Basic katana workshop! Learn to use that blade
you carry for cosplay, and learn
what it takes to really be a pro
with it.
Twilight Knights:
Live Steel Q&A
A live Q&A concerning weapons you’ll see on stage zero
during the live steel demonstration performed by the Twilight Knights Guild. Come and
talk about weapons and ask
your questions.
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Twilight Knights
Weapons Panel
Come meet the guild doing
the weapons demo and workshops. Ask your burning questions about weapons in anime,
their real world usage and
which one suits your style and
build. All questions answered!
Twilight Knights:
Weapons Q&A and
Boffer Sale
Last chance to ask all your
questions on weapons! Also a
chance to buy one of the boffers used in the katana and
dagger workshops.
Twilight Knights:
Tai Chi with the Knights
Early morning Tai Chi class
covering the basics of this Chinese martial art. The six basic
stances and why we do them.
Visual Novel Fan Translations
Ever wondered about those
games that the anime series
like Utawarerumono and Clannad were based on? Come
learn about these types of
games as well as a thriving fan
community devoted to making
unofficial translations of them,
very much like the early fansubs of anime series.
Why Girls Love Sentai
Live-action shows like Power
Rangers are marketed to kids,
so why are all the roles filled
with hot guys? Why are those
hot guys taking those crazy pictures for magazines targeted
to women? This panel covers
a little about the show and the
boys that are in it. Not an over
18 panel! For all ages!
Your Anime Sucks!
Hosted by Panda Cubed! This
is a panel where we all make
fun of the shows we love. This
panel is not to be taken too
seriously; we are here to have
a good laugh at the shows we
love.
By Fans, For Fans
It’s time! FanimeCon’s innovative video programming is back and better than ever! It’s our goal to bring the latest
from Japan, as well as the best parodies and anime music videos. Having tons of rooms with unique content means
that there is always something for you. At FanimeCon, we set the standard in anime video programming!
Video Rooms
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Video Main – SJCC Ballroom A1 + A2 + A7 + A8
Anime Hell
Anime Hell is a free-form video presentation featuring short film clips, commercials, failed pilots,
amateur films, found video, instructional and
educational films, music videos, and film trailers.
Some material is Japanese animation; other material is not. Please welcome back our gracious
host of Anime Hell, Ryan Gavigan.
Ric Meyers’ Superhero
Kung-Fu Extravaganza
It’s fun, it’s frenzied, it’s an annual highlight of
San Diego Comic Con, and now it’s back at Fanime for a second smash year! It’s Ric Meyers’
Superhero Kung-Fu Extravaganza! Hosted by the
World Martial Art Hall of Fame and Inside KungFu martial art movie master, the event features
hours of clips from the wildest, craziest, most
amazing live-action Asian action movies ever
made. Come laugh, gasp, and cheer as humans
do things you’ve only ever seen in anime!
Top 100 AMVs
(according to animemusicvideos.org)
This is a great way to experience the past and
present in anime and music. This amazing list is
taken directly from animemusicvideo.org.
FanimeCon
Short Film Showcase
Last year’s silent hit is back! Come to FanimeCon’s version of Spike and Mike’s Festival, and
enjoy some of the finest in animation, music videos, and commercials taken from the web and
from Japanese industries.
Video 1 – SJCC Ballroom A4 + A5
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Omake and Film Room
Take advantage of our large viewing room to
watch your favorite full-length anime movies, as
well as some live-action versions of anime. From
classics to the latest and greatest, come to this
room for a real viewing treat! In between, stay for
the omake: short movies, extra animation, and
music video parodies – all the cool stuff from
Japan and fan-made treasures that you normally
will not see.
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Ultimate Otaku Gamer
Do you think you’re the best gamer? Can you “pwn” people all day in Call
of Duty? Are you able to unlock super
stardom in Guitar Hero without breaking a sweat? Do you play Madden, and
do you make your opponents look like
zombies in Tecmo Bowl? Well then, we
have just the challenge for you!
The Ultimate Otaku Gamer is a
64-player battle royal spanning 3 days of intense gaming action,
challenging all your skills, crossing all gaming systems, and covering a range of games from the old NES days until now. Starting
at 11 AM, 32 players on each of Friday and Saturday will vie for
two slots per day. The final four will go all out in the main video
room in front of a large audience to determine who is the Ultimate Otaku Gamer!
Visit E-Gaming to sign up for the tournament if slots are still
available.
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Studio Sokodei’s World
Premiere of Cowboy Bebop:
The Song Remains The Same
This feature-length “lost episode”
was adapted from the Cowboy Bebop
video game for the Playstation 2. The
game hit Japan in 2005 and was never
released in the US. This fansub is making its world premiere at FanimeCon
2008.
Synopsis: Struggling as usual to make ends meet, our favorite space cowboys hope to nab some of the unusually high number of bounties that have been posted recently.
That is, except for Faye Valentine, who decides she would
rather go hunting for a famous space pirate’s hidden treasure instead. Faye leaves the Bebop and crosses paths with an inexperienced bounty hunter named Kent, who unknowingly possesses
what may be the most significant clue to the treasure’s location…
Meanwhile, Kent’s hotheaded partner (and twin sister) Bianca butts heads with Spike as they pursue the same bounty.
But after drawing the attention of a disgruntled ex-cop with an
intense dislike of bounty hunters, Spike and Bianca find themselves reluctantly teaming up in order to survive.
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Industry Room
Vote on what language you want to hear
during the showing of various DVDs released in the US. Select audio tracks in
English, Spanish, French, or Japanese
– all with English subtitles for the language impaired.
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Video 3 – Marriott Salon IV
Marathon Room
Immerse yourself. Gain the greatest experience with complete saturation. Or, just plain
watch the whole thing, all at once, all over
again. In the Marathon Room, we exhibit
continuous blocks of the most requested
anime series for hours on end. It’s a great
social setting for like-minded otaku!
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Fansub Room
Come in and check out the future of anime! Subtitled by loving fans, the shows in
the Fansub Room may not premiere in the
US for years, if ever! Tons of great variety to
choose from. Check out this room if you’re
anxious to see what’s going on in the anime
world of Japan.
After Dark and Late Night Programming
Anime Anarchy
Too extreme for daytime! Late at night, after
all the little chibi have gone to bed, sleepless
hordes of worldly adults seek the most outrageous comedy, ghastly horror, and savage
action – and they find it here in the calloused
coliseum of cartoon chaos. This unflinching
bombardment of violence, profanity, nudity,
and other mature content challenges even
the most hardened old-school otaku. This
anime kicks ass.
Midnight Madness
Some otaku hear voices...
Voices that say something different...
Sometimes, they do what the voices say...
Welcome to the twisted bizarro world of fanmade parodies: an altered state in which
pimps orchestrate Armageddon by pop music, dwarves sell life insurance to witches,
and ninja do the Macarena. Can your squeedlyspooch stand the shocking goof that is Midnight Madness? Or will
you keel over in cachinnation? It’s a marathon of merciless mockery,
and only the most tenacious masochists will persevere until dawn.
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Video 4 – Marriott Salon V + VI
Hot Yaoi Nights
Ages 18+. ID required at the door.
It’s raining bishounen! Three naughty nights
of adult anime and live events dedicated
to men who love men, and the women who
love to watch them love each other. Usually
written by and for straight women (and often appreciated by gay men), Yaoi is known
for emotionally complex storytelling akin to
romance novels, with a delicious whippedcream dollop of male bonding on top. You
know you’re curious...
Hentai Nights
Ages 18+. ID required at the door.
Hot, sweaty bodies, heavy breathing, pounding heartbeats — and that’s just the audience. Three scintillating nights of sexy shojo
in sizzling sapphic, sadomasochistic, surreal, and simply silly smut from the midnight
moon to the rising sun, imported from the
land of the most exotic and imaginative erotica in the world. Now in its sixth year!
Friday Night is Yuri Night
Ages 18+. ID required at the door.
More girl on girl love than the entire season
of Utena. This is for all the men and women
who love to watch their anime girls fall in
love... but with another girl. Friday night (Saturday morning) only.
Yaoi-Con Presents Double Up
Sunday 8 PM – 11 PM. Ages 16+. ID required at the door.
Are you confident in your ability to out-guess and out-play all your
competitors? Never fail to plan your grocery list down to the slightest penny? How about to the slightest yen? That’s right: beat out your
opponents in our very own price guessing game to win a prize! But
wait – that’s only half the fun! Win that round, and you’ll move on for
a chance at a bigger, even more fabulous prize in a no-holds-barred
battle of artistic skill. Win, and you’ll double your prizes! Lose? Well,
we can dust off our stamp and handle that too. 16 and over only, so
bring your photo ID for this high-stakes, double-action challenge!
YAOI [n. ya-oh-ee] acronym for: “YAma nashi, Ochi nashi, Imi nashi”
<No climax, no conclusion, no meaning.> Self-deprecating genre label
for homo-erotic manga and anime.
Yaoi-Con Presents Yaoi Bingo
Friday and Saturday 8 PM – 11 PM. Ages 17+. ID required at the door.
Bust out those quarters and dust off your stampers; Yaoi-Con is back
and ready to bingo your boots off! Just remember: the action gets
spicy, so you’ll need to bring your photo ID because only those 17 and
over can play THIS parlor game. Make sure you don’t miss out on our
fabulous prizes (OR our fabulous boys ^.~). It’s practically tradition!
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Anime Videos:
Marathons
Bleach: The Arrancar
Arc
ブリーチ
Arrancar are Hollows who
remove their masks in order
to obtain Shinigami powers,
becoming Hollow-Shinigami hybrids. Successful Arrancar have been few in
numbers. After obtaining Hougyoku, Aizen Sousuke, the previous captain of the fifth division,
was taken along with Ichimaru Gin and Tousen
to the Hollow’s place (Hueco Mundo). Now, he is
trying to create more powerful Arrancar by using
Hougyoku powers.
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Higurashi no Naku
Koro ni
ひぐらしのなく頃に
The village of Hinamizawa
has a population of 2000.
There, the sounds of cicadas can be heard in the late
evening. Though the village seems normal at first
glance, the villagers hide a horrible secret from
newcomers: the curse of Oyashiro-sama. Unusual
murders have been occurring ever since the dam
construction incident. Is it a coincidence or part
of a plot taking place? As the endless cycle of hatred and death continues, Rika Furude, sole witness of all those tragedies, tries to find a way out,
even though such a path may not exist.
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Nodame Cantabile
のだめカンタービレ
At a top music academy in
Japan, Shinichi Chiaki’s arrogance is matched only by
his top-notch piano playing.
But when Chiaki and the
teacher get into a fight, he’s demoted to the reject class. Chiaki is left to pursue his dream of
being a composer while surrounded by a bunch
of loser musicians and one annoying girl, Noda,
who has proclaimed herself Chiaki’s girlfriend.
It doesn’t help that Noda, who insists on being
called Nodame, lives right next door to him.
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School Days
スクールデイズ
Makoto Ito rides the train to
and from school every day.
However, at the beginning
of his second term, he falls
in love with a beautiful girl
who also rides the train. Unfortunately, she barely
knows of his existence. Her name is Kotonoha
Katsura, and though they attend the same school,
they are not in the same class. In an attempt to
catch her eye, Makoto enlists the aid of a close
female friend, Sekai Saionji. She helps him, despite the fact that she – unbeknownst to Makoto
– is in love with him. Thus, the three are bound in
a love triangle of life-changing proportions.
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Clannad TV
クラナド
Tomoya Okazaki is a third
year high school student
who is resentful of his life.
His mother passed away
in a car accident when he
was younger, causing his father to resort to alcohol and cigarettes. This results in fights between
the two until Tomoya’s shoulder becomes injured. Since then, Tomoya has been distant from
his father, causing him to become a delinquent
over time. While walking to school, he meets a
strange girl named Nagisa Furukawa, who is a
year older but is repeating a grade due to illness.
Because of this, she is often alone since most of
her friends have moved on. The two begin hanging out, and as time goes by, Tomoya finds his life
slowly shifting in a new direction.
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Naruto Shippuuden:
Rescue Gaara Arc
ナルト–疾風伝
Naruto Shippuuden is the
continuation of the original
animated TV series, Naruto.
The story features an older
and slightly more mature Uzumaki Naruto, who
is on a quest to save his friend, Uchiha Sasuke,
from the grips of the snake-like shinobi, Orochimaru. After two and a half years, Naruto finally
returns to his village of Konoha and sets about
putting his ambitions to work. It will not be easy,
as he has amassed a few (more dangerous) enemies in the shinobi organization, Akatsuki.
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Sayonara Zetsubou
Sensei
さよなら 絶望先生
Itoshiki Nozomu (糸色望) is
the world’s most negative
person. To his way of thinking, there is no hope or
meaning in this existence. Even his name turns
into “despair” when the kanji is compressed
(絶望, or “zetsubou”). What an ironic twist of
fate, then, that he becomes teacher to a class
containing his precise opposite, the invincibly
positive Fuura Kafuka.
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Shakugan no Shana II
灼眼のシャナII
Shana and Alastor, Lord of
the Crimson Realm, continue to battle the Denizens,
who are trying to steal the
Power of Existence from
mortals. In the last battle, Yuji is revealed to be
a mystes, a “torch” with nearly unlimited Power
of Existence. Since the Denizens want to capture Yuji and use him to upset the balance of the
Realm, Shana resolves to protect Yuji. Yuji then
vows to join Shana in her fight.
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Akira
アキラ
It’s 2019, and 31 years
have passed since the
outbreak of World War III.
In Neo-Tokyo, all authority
is waging a never-ending
struggle against the underground that virtually
rules the shattered city. A child with amazing
top-secret mental powers escapes from custody and accidentally gets a motorcycle gang
involved in the project. The incident triggers
psychic powers within one of the members, Tetsuo, and the army takes him for experimentation. His mind becomes warped, and he goes
on a war path, exacting revenge on the society
that once called him weak.
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Bleach: Memories of
Nobody (movie)
劇場版 [ブリーチ]
MEMORIES OF
NOBODY
In Karakura Town, there
has been a sudden outbreak of unidentifiable spirits called “blanks”
(vacant souls). Meanwhile, the real world has
been reflected in the skies of Soul Society. A
mysterious female Shinigami called Senna
has appeared before Ichigo, along with a man
named Ganryu, leading a group called the
“Dark Ones”.
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Clannad (movie)
劇場版 [クラナド]
Okazaki Tomoya is a student who goes to school
only by force of habit. He
continues to be plagued
by nightmares of a world
with nothing left, where his existence is a mere
consciousness. On the way to school one day,
he meets a girl called Furukawa Nagisa, who
starts to follow him to school every day, unable
to climb the stairs by herself. While helping
Nagisa to organize the Drama Club, Tomoya
slowly starts to open up and actually enjoy his
life again. But the dreams he has might be
something more than just dreams.
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Detective Conan:
Jolly Roger in the
Deep Azure
名探偵コナン
紺碧の棺（ジョリー•
ロジャー）
The Isle of Koumi is a beautiful island in the
Pacific Ocean. On the island, people pass down
stories of the Seabed Palace, an ancient ruin at
the bottom of the sea. Legend says that two female pirates, Anne Bonnie and Mary Reed (who
really existed 300 years ago), had left treasure
in those ruins. Conan and his friends take a
vacation to Koumi Island, where meet some
treasure hunters. There’s something suspicious
about them.
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Doraemon:
Nobita’s New Great
Adventure
ドラえもん のび太の
新魔界大冒険
Nobita requests the Moshimo-box from Doraemon and wishes for the world to become a
place where magic is possible. Witchcraft replaces science and technology, and everyone
makes use of it on their daily lives – except for
Nobita, who, as usual, isn’t very good at conjuring spells. Frustrated, he plans on returning
things to their past state, but his mother has
thrown away the Moshimo-box.
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Naruto Shippuuden
(movie)
ナルト 疾風伝
Someone has revived the
demons that almost destroyed the world once.
To prevent them from succeeding this time, the demons must be sealed,
and the only one who can do that is the shrine
maiden, Shion. From the country of demons,
Shion has two powers: sealing demons and predicting the death of humans. Naruto’s mission
is to guard Shion, but she predicts his death.
The only way to escape his fate is to get away
from Shion, which would leave her unguarded.
But doing so would allow the demon to succeed
in killing Shion and bring about the end of the
world. Naruto decides to challenge this prediction of death.
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Sergeant Frog Movie
2: Shinkai no Princess de Arimasu!
ケロロ軍曹２
深海のプリンセスで
あります！
During vacation, Natsumi is visited by a female
alien and a male alien whom she later gains
feelings for. They then encounter a summoned
mysterious creature.
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Shakugan no Shana
劇場版 灼眼のシャナ
Sakai Yuuji, a high school
student who expected his
normal life to last forever,
is dead. On his way home,
he had witnessed a shocking view as the world suddenly froze: people
were engulfed by blue flames, and a monster
resembling a large doll swallowed them. Just
as the monster prepared to consume Yuuji,
however, a sword-wielding girl with flaming
red eyes and hair that burns like embers saved
him from the monster. The girl called herself a
“Flame Haze”, who hunts the “Guze no Tomogara”, creatures from another world. As Yuuji noticed a blue flame in his chest, she called him a
“Torch”, a temporary replacement, saying that
the “real” Yuuji’s existence had already ended. Unfazed, Yuuji befriends the strange girl,
names her “Shana”, and joins her fight against
Tomogara and other Flame Hazes.
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Anime Videos:
Films
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Funimation Presents – Fullmetal
Alchemist: The
Movie – Conqueror of
Shamballa
劇場版 鋼の錬金術師
シャンバラを征く者
Munich, Germany, 1923. Two years have
passed since Edward Elric was dragged from
his world into ours, leaving behind his country,
his friends, and his younger brother, Alphonse.
Stripped of his alchemistic powers, he has been
researching rocketry with Alphonse Heiderich,
a young man who resembles his own brother,
hoping to one day find a way back home. His
efforts so far have proven fruitless, but after
lending a hand to a troubled gypsy girl, Edward
is thrown into a series of events that can wreak
havoc with both worlds. Meanwhile, in his own
world, Alphonse Elric ventures deeper into the
mysteries of alchemy in search of a way to reunite with his older brother.
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Funimation Presents
– One Piece: The Desert Princess and The
Pirates: Adventure in
Alabasta
劇場版ワンピース
エピソードオブ
アラバスタ 砂漠の王女と海賊たち
A re-telling of the Alabasta Arc from One Piece
(TV). Due to a powerful devil fruit user, Luffy
and his crew come to rescue a land in the midst
of a civil war.
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Urban Vision Presents – Vampire
Hunter D: Bloodlust
バンパイアハンターD
Continuing his quest to
rid the world of the Nobility, Vampire Hunter D, a
half-human and half-vampire dhampir, is summoned by the Elbourne family to rescue their
daughter Charlotte from captivity by Meier
Link. The race against time involves not only
saving the girl, but also dealing with the additional hiring of the Markus Brothers, a volatile
and infamous group of Hunters known for their
tendency to rid themselves of the competition
by any means necessary. To make matters
more complicated, when Charlotte is found,
she is more than reluctant to leave the side of
her new love...
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Anime Videos: Series
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Ah! My Goddess:
Fighting Wings
ああっ女神さまっ
闘う翼
An Angel Eater has been
freed in Heaven. Since
Goddesses and Angels
share body and soul, losing an angel results in going into shock for the
Goddess. Lind goes to Earth to protect Belldandy and the others, unaware that it is a trap.
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Beating-To-Death
Angel Dokuro-chan 2
撲殺天使
ドクロちゃん２
The life of once-ordinary
middle-school student Sakura Kusakabe takes a chaotic turn when an angel by
the name of Dokuro-chan moves into his house.
This heartwarming story of love, desire and...
bloodshed... continues as Sakura’s normal everyday life slowly crumbles into a bloody mess.
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D.Gray-man
ディー•グレイマン
Allen Walker is a young
Exorcist cursed with an
eye that can see the suffering of the Akumas created by the Millennium Earl.
He travels to the Exorcist
Headquarters in England, where his Master has
sent him to meet other Exorcists. The battle of
the Millennium Earl and the Noah Family vs.
the Exorcists intensifies when some of the best
Exorcists are killed by hordes of Akuma. It’s the
end of the 19th century, the Exorcists have the
power of “Innocence” that was given to them by
their God, and Japan takes center stage in this
war to prevent the entire human race from being turned into Akumas.
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ef – a tale of
memories
On Christmas Eve, a protagonist named Hirono
Hiro meets a girl named
Miyamura Miyako, who
was chasing a purse snatcher. Hiro later discovers
that Miyako goes to the same school as he
does, and they start hanging out together. This
made Hiro’s childhood friend, Shindou Kei, feel
left out. Kei then tries to compete with Miyako
for Hiro’s affection, and a love triangle ensues.
Another protagonist, Asou Renji, meets a girl
named Shindou Chihiro at an abandoned train
station. He soon learns that Chihiro suffers
from a type of amnesia in which her memory
span only lasts for 13 hours. He also discovers
Chihiro’s dream of writing a novel, but she has
never been able to fulfill that dream due to her
condition. Renji then decides to help Chihiro
fulfill her dream.
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Giant Robo
40th Anniversary
ジャイアントロボ
Daisaku Kusama encounters an enormous robot,
“Giant Robo 1 (GR1)”,
at ruins in Okinawa. He
makes a contract with an ancient to become
the commander of GR1, and he is genetically
modified to fight as one with the robot. Daisaku
is allied with an organization called “UNISOM.”
The enemy organization, “Gigantic Rebellion
Operators (GRO)”, manipulates Giant Robos
to spread “armored terrorism” throughout
the world. Daisaku also sees a mysterious girl
named V, who appears like an illusion. Is she
related to GR?
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H2O ~Footprints in
the Sand~
Takuma Hirose is a blind
young male high school
student, and the cause for
his blindness is undetermined. His mother’s unexpected death left a deep emotional scar on
him, causing him to become very lonely and
reserved. Due to this, Takuma and his father
move from the city out to a rural area, and Takuma is enrolled into a new high school. At his
new school, he meets several new girls. The
three he gets to know best are the firm and obstinate Hayami Kohinata, the kind and obliging
Hinata Kagura, and the cheerful and mysterious
Otoha. As Takuma interacts with these girls, his
medical condition gradually begins to heal.
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Hayate
the Combat Butler
ハヤテのごとく！
16-year-old Hayate is really down on his luck. His unemployed good-for-nothing parents waste their
money on gambling until, one day, their huge
gambling debt forces them to sell Hayate to the
yakuza for the value of his organs. In a desperate attempt to avoid that fate, Hayate decides
to become a “bad guy” and kidnap someone to
be held for ransom, but his efforts to do so are
mistaken as a confession of love by the girl he
targets.
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Prince of Tennis:
National Tournament
Semifinals
テニスの王子様
全国大会篇 Semifinal
Seigaku continues the
National Tournament, and
the semifinals begin. This time, it’s even harder
than before. Seigaku regulars have a hard time
facing the stronger teams that they’ve never
encountered.
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Rosario + Vampire
ロザリオと
バンパイア
Due to poor grades, Tsukune Aono, an average
high school student, was
not accepted into any of
his preferred private academies. By an exceptional accident, the only
school to accept him turns out to be anything
but ordinary: the students are youkai disguised
as humans. Fearing for his life, he attempts to
escape, only to meet Moka Akashiya, a beautiful girl who just happens to be a vampire. Despite this, Tsukune decides to stay at the academy, hiding his human nature from students
and teachers.
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Spice and Wolf
狼と香辛料
In a setting reminiscent of
Europe during the Middle
Ages, an itinerant trader
named Craft Lawrence
discovers in his wagon
a stowaway in the shape of a teenage girl,
except for the ears and tail of a wolf. The girl
introduces herself as an ancient pagan wolf
deity named Holo, a harvest goddess who
has brought the town of Pasroe good crops of
wheat for many years. The town has developed
better cultivation techniques and grown lax in
its rituals, so Holo feels she has completed her
promise to watch over the town, and now she
wants to go back to Yoitsu, her homeland in
the north. She makes a bargain with Lawrence
to take her home. Holo’s wisdom increases
Lawrence’s profits, but her nature draws unwanted attention from the church.
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Tsubasa Tokyo
Revelations
ツバサ TOKYO
REVELATIONS
As Sakura, Shaoran, Fai,
and Kurogane continue to
travel across many worlds,
the other “Shaoran” awakens. Tsubasa Tokyo
Revelations reveals the intentions of Fei Wong
Reed and the mystery of Shaoran’s right eye.
Zombie-Loan
ゾンビローン
Michiru Kita is a special
girl who possesses Shinigami Eyes, which see impending death as rings
around a person’s neck.
The rings start as gray
marks and become more black as the person’s
death approaches. Chika Akatsuki and Shito
Tachibana, two boys in Michiru’s class, both
have completely black rings around their necks,
but to Michiru’s surprise, they are not yet dead.
The two boys made a deal with a secret loan office called the Zombie-Loan. In return for keeping them alive, the two have to hunt zombies
for the loan office. When Michiru gets involved
with them, she finds that her life has become
more complicated.
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Asian Films
Room One
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Crazy Stone
瘋狂的石頭
Comedy
Dainipponjin
大日本人
Comedy
Detective, The
C+偵探
Thriller/Horror
A factory director unearths a valuable jade
stone and must protect
its exhibit from petty
thieves, cat burglars, and
even his own family, who
are all looking to score
the rare item.
A middle-aged man battles giant monsters that
are attacking Japan.
His weapons include a
big stick, tight purple
briefs, and the power to
become a giant creature
himself.
An underachieving private investigator is hired
to find a mysterious
woman that has gone
missing, but he finds
out he may be in danger
when his leads continually guide him to dead
bodies.
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Dororo
どろろ
Drama
eXte: Hair Extensions
エクステ
Thriller/Horror
Fatal Move
奪帥
Action
Flash Point
導火線
Action
Based on the manga by
Osamu Tezuka, a wouldbe demon slayer and his
sidekick team up on a
quest to find the power
to defeat the demon
gods.
The spirit of a brutally
murdered young woman
takes revenge on the living through haunted hair
extensions grown from
the corpse of her body.
An honorable triad boss
has to protect himself
from corrupt members
inside his organization
while staying one step
ahead of the police unit
on his tail.
A hot-blooded inspector,
played by Donnie Yen,
must protect his undercover partner from a
band of violent thugs
looking to stay above the
laws of both the police
and the underworld.
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Hula Girls
フラガール
Drama
Invisible Target
男兒本色
Action
Le Grand Chef
식객
Comedy
Based on a true story, a
resort owner and a group
of aspiring hula dancers
come together to try and
save their town when its
coal mining industry begins to falter.
A group of ragtag police
officers team up to stop
a band of armored car
thieves who have resurfaced on the streets of
Hong Kong.
An up-and-coming chef
decides to hang up his
apron after serving up a
disastrous meal of blowfish, but he is urged to
give it another try when
a national cooking competition is announced.
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Getsuyo Drama Land
– GeGeGe no Kitaro
ゲゲゲの鬼 太郎 月曜
ドラマランド
Drama
Based on the manga by
Shigeru Mizuki, Kitaro
and his friends must protect the human world and
the demon world when a
magical artifact falls into
the wrong hands.
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Mad Detective
神探
Thriller/Horror
Memories of Tomorrow
明日の記憶
Drama
Miracle on First Street
1번가의 기적
Comedy
Playboy Cops
花花型警
Action
An eccentric former police inspector with the
unusual ability to see a
person’s inner personality is asked to help solve
the case of a missing detective.
A man must come to
terms with his life and
his future when he is
prematurely diagnosed
with a case of Alzheimer’s disease.
A gangster asked to clear
a small town for redevelopment begins to have
second thoughts when
he starts to befriend its
residents.
A rich cop known for
stopping crimes using
money instead of wits
tries to prove his worth
when he joins an investigation to find the people
behind the murder of his
partner’s brother.
Thriller/Horror
A young writer continually experiences visions
of a woman he can’t
remember. As he begins
to fall in love with her, he
becomes unsure if the visions are real or if she is
just a dream.
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Protégé
門徒
Drama
Secret
不能說的．秘密
Drama
Seven Days
세븐 데이즈
Thriller/Horror
Shamo
軍鶏
Action
Show Must Go On, The
우아한 세계
Comedy
An undercover cop is given the role as successor
to an aging drug lord he
has followed for several
years, but he encounters
difficulty in finding where
his loyalties lie.
A budding musician finds
romance in the halls of
the art school he attends
when he begins a relationship with a flirtatious
young girl.
In order to save her
daughter, a defense attorney is blackmailed
into defending a death
row inmate convicted of
the brutal murder of a
university student.
Based on the manga by
Izo Hashimoto, a young
man leaving a correctional facility decides to
prove his worth by enlisting in a televised fighting
competition.
A struggling family man
tries to prove his worth
and find a better life for
his wife and daughter,
despite his profession as
a small-time gang boss.
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Sukiyaki Western Django
SUKIYAKI WESTERN
ジャンゴ
Action
A war between two clans
of rival bandits reaches
its boiling point when
a mysterious gunman
comes into town and
takes the law into his
own hands.
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Triangle
鐵三角
Action
UDON
Comedy
In order to escape the
trappings of their mundane and unsuccessful
lives, three acquaintances plan a heist of a potential treasure buried in
modern day Hong Kong.
A failed comedian returns to his hometown of
Sanuki and finds success
when he starts a travel
magazine dedicated to
his town’s famous soup
noodles.
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Voice of a Murderer
그놈 목소리
Thriller/Horror
Warlords, The
投名狀
Drama
Based on a true story, a
popular news anchor and
his wife are tormented by
the calls of a kidnapper
who is holding their son
for ransom.
Starring Jet Li, Andy Lau,
and Takeshi Kaneshiro,
three bandits form a
bond when they rise to
military glory. When the
trappings of war become
too much, their brotherhood is threatened.
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2 Young
早熟
Drama
200 Pounds Beauty
미녀는 괴로워
Comedy
Arahan
아라한
Action
An impulsive young rich
girl and a working-class
boy try to make it on
their own when the two
teens discover that they
are about to have a
baby.
An overweight lip-sync
vocalist undergoes intensive plastic surgery in
hopes of becoming a real
singer and attracting the
man of her dreams.
A dorky young cop runs
into a group of Taoist elders and discovers that
he may have the power
to become an enlightened master of martial
arts.
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Bio-Zombie
生化壽屍
Comedy
Chinese Odyssey I
– Pandora’s Box
西遊記 I 月光寶盒
Comedy
Chinese Odyssey II –
A Cinderella
西遊記 II 仙履奇緣
Comedy
Chinese Tall Story, A
情癲大聖
Comedy
City of Violence, The
짝패
Action
A pair of low-life gangsters and the girl they
kidnapped are caught
in a bit of a pickle when
they realize the people
around them are becoming zombies.
Joker finds himself banished to human form, and
all he can do is wait for
his master, the Longevity
Monk, to return him to his
god-like form as the Monkey King. When he realizes
his master is no longer with
him, he hatches a plan to
go back in time to find his
master and complete their
journey to the west.
Joker finds himself in the
past in the hands of the immortal goddess Zixia. As
he comes closer to finding
the Longevity Monk and
becoming the Monkey King
once again, though, he falls
for his new companion, and
casting off human desire
becomes difficult.
A quest to save the Monkey King and his disciples is interrupted when
the Tang monk Tripitaka
runs into female imp
Meiyan, who may hold
the key to completing
his journey.
The sudden death of an
old high school friend
brings Detective Tae-Su
back home to investigate, but things become
complicated when he
discovers that gangsters
now rule the city.
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Dragon Tiger Gate
龍虎門
Action
Duelist
형사
Action
Exiled
放•逐
Action
Two brothers are separated during childhood
when one must leave the
martial arts organization, Dragon Tiger Gate.
When they reunite, they
discover themselves on
opposite sides of the law.
Two detectives on the
path of a counterfeit coin
ring cross paths with a
mysterious swordsman
who also seems to be
involved.
A group of lifelong friends
must choose between
life and death for one of
their own after a triad
boss orders a hit on one
of them.
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From Beijing with Love
國產凌凌漆
Comedy
God of Cookery
食神
Comedy
House of Fury
精武家庭
Action
The fossil of a tyrannosaurus head is stolen
from the Chinese government, and it’s up to
secret agent and meat
butcher Ling Ling Chai
to find it.
The most powerful and
influential man in the
world of cuisine loses
everything as part of a
setup. With the aid of
some local gangsters,
he searches for a way to
reclaim his former glory.
Nicky and Natalie have
never believed their father’s outrageous stories
of his days as a special
agent, but when he is
kidnapped by a shadowy
figure from his past, the
two must rescue him.
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Kamikaze Girls
下妻物語
Comedy
Love Undercover
新紮師妹
Comedy
Dreamer Momoko crosses paths with biker queen
Ichiko, and the two create a bond of friendship
despite all of their differences.
Clumsy police constable
LK Fong gets mistakenly
tied up in an undercover
case, but she finds more
than she bargained for
when she falls for the
suspect she is investigating.
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Marrying the Mafia 2
가문의 위기 :
가문의 영광 2
Comedy
The eldest son in a family of gangsters may
have just met the girl
of his dreams, but he
runs into trouble when
he discovers that she is
one of the nation’s top
prosecutors.
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I’m a Cyborg,
But That’s Okay
싸이보그지만 괜찮아
Comedy
A woman finds companionship in a fellow soul
while confined to a mental institution for believing that she’s a cyborg.
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Initial D
頭文字D
Drama
Takumi is reluctant to
show his incredible skill
with his Toyota AE86,
but the emergence of
some street racers puts
pressure on him to get
behind the wheel.
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Moonlight in Tokyo
情義我心知
Comedy
My Sassy Girl
엽기적인 그녀
Comedy
In order to repay a debt
to the yakuza, a lifelong
con artist comes up with
a plan to transform a
slightly retarded man
into Japan’s number one
gigolo.
A chance encounter on a
subway brings a strange
girl into Kyun-woo’s life.
As he gets to know her,
he soon realizes that
she’s a lot more than
he’s ready to handle.
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My Tutor Friend
동갑내기 과외하기일반판
Comedy
NEIGHBOR No. 13, The
隣人13号
Thriller / Horror
SPL
殺破狼
Action
SURVIVE STYLE 5+
Su-Wan must keep her
job as a tutor to pay for
her college tuition, but
she finds trouble when
she is hired to teach a
troublemaking rich boy
who aims to make her
quit.
Several years of torment
from bullies and classmates catches up with
Juzo and triggers a dramatic split in his personality, transforming him
into the vengeful Number 13.
A retiring policeman’s
attempt to frame a triad
kingpin for murder puts
him and his partners on
a collision course with
the kingpin himself.
Five unique and different
stories come together in
this film about crazy hyponotists, advertising executives, British hitmen,
unkillable spouses, and
a man who thinks he is
a bird.
Comedy
Welcome to
Dongmakgol
웰컴 투 동막골
Drama
In this Miyazaki-like tale,
opposing soldiers from
North and South Korea
must learn to put their
differences aside to save
a magical mountain village closed off from the
rest of the world.
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