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Anime Expo - Sunday - Company Plans
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Studio Hard and AIC, the Anime International Co.,
are working together with the Dream Network to create an online anime information
service and to offer a wider variety of anime goods on the World-Wide Web.
Satoshi Fukuda, the president of the Dream Network, spoke about the formation
of the Animation Press Center
in Japan to let worldwide fans know about new and old series. Products
will be sold through the Animaxis
web site, a revised version of what had been known as J-Dream. |
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From Urban Vision, Sandy Yamamoto said that her company
would like to have more fan promotions such as their contest which flew
the winner to Los Angeles and let he be a voice actor for a day. "She took
an hour longer than a pro. She was very nervous at first, but it was great,"
Yamamoto said about the winner. Urban Vision plans to follow their release
of the Pet Shop of Horrors series with Midnight Eye Goku, the first time
that series will have been seen in North America since Streamline and then
Orion tried to release it. |
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At Anime Expo in 1999, Manga Entertainment announced
they had the rights to the Neon Genesis Evangelion movies. One year later,
Keith Burgess of Manga said the films might be released on home video before
Christmas, but "That's a push." Plans remain in place to have the English-language
voice cast used by ADV Films dub the Evangelion material, said Burgess,
who added that part of the reason for the slow pace is the need to get
more materials from Japan. A theatrical release of the Evangelion movies
is now unlikely. Manga is trying to decide whether it will dub Macross
Plus or release it subtitled only on DVD. Fans owning the Patlabor DVD
should check the Manga web site for hints leading to "Easter egg" recordings
of the Japanese trailers on that disc. |
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John O'Connell of Central Park Media and U.S. Manga
Corps had a few titles to mention: Photon, Maze, a Slayers gift box set,
Geobreeder and Shamanic Princess. |
