Before their panel, Jiro Ishii (writer) and Koji Morimoto (producer) of the Kickstarter funded animation project, Under the Dog sat down with us in a more relaxed setting at Sakura-Con in Seattle, Washington to discuss the status of the project along with timelines, release schedules, and Kickstarter rewards information. If you are a backer for this project, you do not want to miss this!
Having their music featured in several recent hit anime series including Kill la Kill, The Irregular at Magic High School, and Gundam Reconguista in G, we sat down with GARNiDELiA's Maria and Toku to talk a little about their first American performance at Sakura-Con in Seattle Washington!
Due to the overwhelming popularity of the game segment in our previous video interview, we've also included a short game. Watch as they face each other off in a trivia game on who knows more about each other!
Japanese singer Eir Aoi performed at Anime Expo, celebrating the hit original anime series, Kill la Kill. Apart from Kill la Kill, Aoi's music has been featured in other anime series such as Sword Art Online, Fate/Zero, and Mobile Suit Gundam AGE. Watch our resident host, AJ hold a light hearted conversation with Aoi about her favorite aspects of Kill la Kill, what she thought about her concert, and a little about her secret cosplay hobby! As Aoi has been known to be prolific gamer, don't miss towards the end as AJ challenges her to a video game match!
Making her debut appearance in the US at Sakura-Con 2014, the staffers at T-ONO had the privilege of working alongside the illustrious J-pop artist ELISA (The Irregular at Magic High School, Hayate the Combat Butler) to produce a few videos and interviews for her fans:
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With its excellent dystopian storyline, Wilt Studio's anime adaptation of Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) is currently one of the most popular anime series out there. Sakura-Con invited several of the anime's production staff to Seattle in April 2014 for their annual convention. Members included the voice of "Mikasa Ackerman" Yui Ishikawa, character designer Kyoji Asano, animation producer Tetsuya Nakatake and series producer Tesuya Kinoshita.
Check out our exclusive sit down video interview with them and hear all about their favorite moments from working on the epic series along with other production notes and more!
Watch our video as T-ONO's very own AJ sits down and interviews the legendary rock dual sensation, Porno Graffitti at Anime Expo in Los Angeles! Porno Graffitti has composed music for hit anime series such as Full Metal Alchemist, Great Teacher Onizuka, Bleach, and more recently Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic. Hear about how they started their career and a little about their thoughts on creating music for anime after 20 successful years.
We sit down with four-piece J-Rock band ROOKiEZ is PUNK'D during last month's FanimeCon 2013. Famous for their smash hits, "Complication" from Durarara!! and "In My World" from the Blue Exorcist read on to find more about how the members' lives, why they started their band and which super moé anime they'd like to perform a hit song for.
In one of our very first major video production, watch as AJ hosts our super compilation special on Eir Aoi and Luna Haruna's visit to Sakura-Con 2013 in Seattle. Hear what they had to say during their press conference behind closed doors, see what Dave, Cristina, and Theo were able to ask fans about the concert, and most of all, watch our exclusive interviews with the pair about their first concert outside Japan and a little about each other.
Don't forget to watch until near the end for their special message to all their fans!
Thank you to everyone who stepped up to talk us! Please also let us know if you think we should do more video productions in the future!
Watch our exclusive video interview with Japanese singers Eir Aoi and Luna Haruna as we catch the duo backstage before their first performance outside of Japan at Sakura-Con. Hear also how they felt after their concert and autograph session!
Eir Aoi and Luna Haruna both have had their music featured in hit anime series, Sword Art Online and Fate/Zero.
This is the first video in our coverage of Luna Haruna and Eir Aoi's visit to Sakura-Con. Stay tuned for additional videos coming out later this week and our super compilation video!
Featuring a number of well-known Guests of Honor, including veteran Japanese voice actor Toshio Furukawa, SacAnime's Winter 2013 convention was a fantastic way to start off the New Year. Famous for his powerful male roles, including Ace from One Piece, Piccolo from Dragon Ball Z and Roy Campbell from Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, Furukawa was gracious enough to find some time to sit down with us in a last minute interview and answer a few questions regarding his career as a voice actor and along with his role as a teacher in voicing acting.