Anime Expo - Opening Ceremonies

Anime Expo - Opening Ceremonies - July 16, 1999

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Artist Noburo Ishiguro (left) received a surprise when he was called to the stage during the opening ceremonies. He was named the honorary chairman of Anime Expo for 1999. Wearing the black shirt is Yutaka Izubuchi, mechanical designer for the Patlabor series, the Gundam series and the television series Gasaraki. In the gray jacket is Yasuhito Kikuchi, director of the Pretty Sammy OVAs, the first El Hazard television series and the television series Kurogane Communication.

On the right is fan and cosplayer Walter Amos, famous for his Legend of Galactic Heroes and one of the few costumers with the courage to play a bad guy - and enjoy it.
It shoud be no surprise that Toshi Yoshida from Viz Communications and Scott Frazier, the most prominent American in the Japanese animation industry,would find each other at the opening ceremonies. There was a flock of costumers from the Ranma series published by Viz in the halls.

In the white T-shirt is Akio Takami. His most recent work was as character designer and animation director for the Steam Detectives television series. Previously, Takami worked on Bakuretsu/Sorcerer Hunters, Dancougar, Sonic Soldier Borgman, M.D. Geist, Patlabor and Martian Successor Nadesico. We've already met Kikuchi...
...but we haven't met long-time anime and sci-fi fan Fred Patten, one of the grand old men of anime fandom, seen here on the left talking with Santoso. Patten has memories of anime fandome going back 20 years, when the first wave of videotapes came to the use and the old Comic/Fantasy Organization was born (Patten still wears a C/FO pin).

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Artist Noburo Ishiguro (left) received a surprise when he was called to the stage during the opening ceremonies. He was named the honorary chairman of Anime Expo for 1999.	Wearing the black shirt is Yutaka Izubuchi, mechanical designer for the Patlabor series, the Gundam series and the television series Gasaraki. In the gray jacket is Yasuhito Kikuchi, director of the Pretty Sammy OVAs, the first El Hazard television series and the television series Kurogane Communication.
On the right is fan and cosplayer Walter Amos, famous for his Legend of Galactic Heroes and one of the few costumers with the courage to play a bad guy - and enjoy it.	It shoud be no surprise that Toshi Yoshida from Viz Communications and Scott Frazier, the most prominent American in the Japanese animation industry,would find each other at the opening ceremonies. There was a flock of costumers from the Ranma series published by Viz in the halls.
In the white T-shirt is Akio Takami. His most recent work was as character designer and animation director for the Steam Detectives television series. Previously, Takami worked on Bakuretsu/Sorcerer Hunters, Dancougar, Sonic Soldier Borgman, M.D. Geist, Patlabor and Martian Successor Nadesico. We've already met Kikuchi...	...but we haven't met long-time anime and sci-fi fan Fred Patten, one of the grand old men of anime fandom, seen here on the left talking with Santoso. Patten has memories of anime fandome going back 20 years, when the first wave of videotapes came to the use and the old Comic/Fantasy Organization was born (Patten still wears a C/FO pin).