Can't make it the Anime Expo 2014 or just want to enhance your con-going experience at North America's largest anime convention with the click of a button? Then be sure to check out all of the awesome coverage that we're going to be doing over the next few upcoming weeks!
Highlights will include: an interview with the illustrious and charming duo of Tasha and Doremi from the talented female cosplay group Spiral Cats, as well as interviews with the wonderful J-POP starlet Eir Aoi (Sword Art Online, Kill la Kill) and doujin artist Luna Tsukigami!
Earlier today, Aniplex of America and Sony Music Entertainment announced that they will be hosting a special Kill la Kill event at Anime Expo 2014 in Los Angeles on Friday, July 4th. The event will include a talk session with multiple guests from the series, a premiere screening for the first episode of the Kill la Kill English dub and a concert featuring Eir Aoi whose songs "Sirius" and "Sanbika" were featured in Studio Trigger's twenty-four episode animated series.
Read more: Anime Expo 2014 to Host Special Kill la Kill Event and Concert
Japan Expo, a festival showcasing Japanese culture that annually takes place in Paris, France, recently made its debut in the United States. Known as Japan Expo USA, it was held at the Santa Clara Convention in Santa Clara, California from August 23rd to the 25th. Among the many international guests who made the trip oversea, renown video game composer Noriyuki Iwadare made quite an impression – particularly in terms of his concert.
Read more: Noriyuki Iwadare – A Live Performance at Japan Expo USA
Sorry folks for the lack of updates, we ran into some issues last week; including some major hardware meltdown! We've got that all sorted out now and all of us here at T-ONO are hard at work on interviews, videos, photos, and more from Japan Expo. Making sure that we bring you the quality content you've come to expect from us.
We were able to interview the absolutely adorable all-girl dance group JDee'Z, the awesome idol group Dempagumi.inc that could give The IdolM@ster a run for their money, the legendary famed video game composer Noriyuki Iwadare, artist Tatsuro Iwamoto who created the characters for the Ace Attorney series, artist Yusuke Kozaki who did the character designs for Fire Emblem: Awakening and No More Heroes and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto who created some of anime's most iconic characters for the cult-classic series Evangelion!
We'll be releasing our coverage starting this week so stay tuned! In the meantime, please visit our twitter page to check all the tweets we posted from the event!
Japan Expo USA is just around the corner and the organizers have just released an update to their autograph policy. Japan Expo also has an exciting lineup of guests that fans are clamoring to get their autographs. It is refreshing to see many of the rules Japan Expo has implemented is intended to curve repeaters and to allow for as many different people to get autographs as possible each day. As to how smoothly this will be in practice remains to be seen, as this will depend on the number of first come first serve coupons available and the number of attendees trying to get autographs each day.
Unfortunately, we've seen our fair share of people missing out on autograph session due to a simple miscommunication or misinterpretation.
To help out, we've outlined the key points to the best of our understanding below.
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