| AnimeIowa - Panels |
 This is not
"Iron Chef." This is Steve Bennett of Studio Ironcat sharing a family cooking
tradition. The Bennetts eat okonomiyaki, but they had a hard time finding
okonomiyaki sauce in the U.S. So they made their own from catsup. sugar,
lemon juice, soy sauce and worcesterchire sauce. Bennett started his Saturday
panel at AnimeIowa by demonstrating how his family made that sauce, adding
portions of each ingredient until he got it just right. Then he gave it
to the people who run the convention so they could serve it in the seventh-floor
con suite. |
 Later there
was time for talk about actual Ironcat products. More material is coming
from Narumi Kakinouchi, the creator of the Vampire Princess Miyu manga
series. Ironcat has published a lot of Miyu, Yui and Dahlia vampire stories,
but there are event more Kakinouchi tales that haven't been released in
North America, and they'll be coming from Ironcat, which also is going
to pick up Miyu stories in graphic novel form that originally were published
by Antarctic Press. Bennett said he likes the idea of Ironcat becoming
the "house of Kakinouchi." |
 There's also
more coming from Hiroshi Aro. Fans of Futaba-Kun Change can expect a fresh
volume of stories in that series, and Aro's Yuu and Me series finally will
be published by Ironcat. The company's manga tie-ins with anime companies
will see Spectral Force, and ADV Films series, and Cool Devices, a Right
Stuf title. And when Ironcat releases new graphic novel reprints of the
very adult Ogenki Clinic, those books will have all of the original Japanese
censorship removed. |
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