Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Sakuracon 2012 - Aniplex Panel

The Aniplex Panel started with trailers for a number of their shows including Baccano!, Blue Exorcist, Durarara, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Fate/Zero and others. Pre-orders were available at the Aniplex booth "Booth 333"for Madoka Vol 2 and Fate/Zero Vol 1. which was repeated many times by Aniplex staff. Aniplex also announced that the OP theme singer for Fate/Zero, LiSa, would be appearing at AX and that Aniplex would be bringing her 4 CD's stateside including debut single single oath sign, Lover “S”MiLE, in both a regular and CD/BD and Letters to U. At the moment I could see her in a concert in conjunction with someone else (maybe Kalafina, who did the 2nd OP to Fate/Zero).

Fate/Zero is also simulcasting in 8 languages (!) on nico nico... a surprising feat of engineering.... translating, especially given that the episodes are up only a half hour after the show airs in Japan
Aniplex would screen the first 2 eps of Fate/Zero season 2 the day after (Sat), with ep 15 being a Sakura-con exclusive.

Aniplex also announced a DVD boxset for Garden of Sinners and a re-release of Oreimo (don't ask me to type the full title).

They ended with announcing Bakemonogatari for release on dvd/blu ray and Niseimonogatari on streaming channels on Hulu, Crunchyroll, and Crackle.

They also listed a website http://www.aniplexusa.com/watch where you can see all of their titles and formats available.... pretty handy list and surprisingly large, of course some of these were picked up for localization by other companies before Aniplex got into the business of doing it on their own.

Aniplex ended their panel with a raffle for various Madoka and Fate/Zero prizes.


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