This year’s Anime Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center saw the return of a musical performance by virtual idol Miss Monochrome presented by SHOWMAKER. SHOWMAKER is a virtual stage creator app that features Miss Monochrome. Continuing from our interview from last year, we talked a little about the current state of SHOWMAKER as well future plans with Producer Yoshihiko Katagiri and the voice of Miss Monochrome, popular singer and voice actress, Yui Horie.
Read more: Yui Horie & Yoshihiko Katagiri SHOWMAKER Interview @ Anime Expo 2018
At this year's PAX West, Nexon's MapleStory director, Wonki Kang, told us they have high hopes and expectations with their newest update, titled The Black, to bring back new or returning players to the series. We got in touch with Kang, Global MapleStory director, Jungil Bae, Global MapleStory Product Manager, Anna Lee, and MapleStory Producer, Dennis Bernardo, to talk about the latest update, the lore of the Black Mage, the future of MapleStory and more. Read on for the full interview.
First debuting solo in 2008 as “agraph”, Kensuke Ushio is a Japanese composer with three albums so far. Ushio and other members also helped form the band LAMA in 2011 with NAKAKO (iLL/ex. supercar), Miki Furukawa (ex. supercar), and Hisako Tabuchi (bloodthirsty buchers/toddle). As a solo musician artist, Ushio has created music for various popular anime series and movies such as Ping Pong the Animation, Space Dandy, Devilman Crybaby, and A Silent Voice. Along the way Ushio has also done remixing, producing, commercial music, and has continually created musical works in varying fields. While Ushio was at Anime Expo for the US premiere of Liz and the Blue Bird (Liz to Aoi Tori), he was able to spend some time with us for a short interview.
At this year's Anime Expo, Square Enix's mobile game producer Takaaki Kai told us with Star Ocean: Anamnesis, there were a lot of challenges involved to make sure that the game was still fun and intuitive on a mobile device. We got in touch with Kai and Star Ocean's character designer, Akiman, to talk about their involvement with Anamnesis, the direction of the Star Ocean franchise, and more. Read on for the full interview!
Starting her career as an idol in the world famous AKB48, Misaki Iwasa made her appearance at J-Pop Summit 2017 in San Francisco. Hear a little about how she got started as an idol, to her current career as an enka singer in our video interview.
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