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Noburu Ishiguru 1938 – 2012
Chances are, if you’re reading this, that you probably have heard of the passing of famed anime director Noburu Ishiguru. Mr. Ishiguru passed away aged 73. I won’t keep you all very long. This is my personal recollection of Ishiguru.
I knew of Ishiguru’s work in anime even before I knew of he, himself. Growing up with Robotech, you, sort of, had no choice in the matter. Even after discovering about Macross, and his involvement with it, I remained impressed that one man kept it all of it together. Today there are committees, companies and like for this sort of thing. Back then nobody knew about cross media opportunities, having record companies work hand in hand with anime producers to the degree Macross did. Ishiguru helmed a series that did all that.
Working on the 1980′s Astro Boy series, you can see his flair even inside this most Tezuka of Tezuka’s works and having the added pressure of working alongside the God of Manga himself. I am only now digging into the treasure that is Legend of Galactic Heroes. Such an amazing work. Oddly, I saw his latest work, Tytania, before starting into LoGH. Does this distract from his earlier space opera? Not at all, in my book.
At Otakon 2011,I had the delightful opportunity to see Mr. Ishiguru in person as he, Makoto Shinkai and Kazuya Murata were jointly holding a Producers and Directors panel (well, the producers were too scared to come up on stage, so it became a directors panel!). We heard from a variety of their recollections, most of which I struggle to recall at the moment to be honest, and then got a chance to ask questions. Unfortunately, some idiot decided to ask the inevitable Tsunami question and that ground the whole panel to a halt. As a result, a lot of us never got a chance to ask our questions. I had a few but now I think of it, there really was only one: “For Ishiguru-sempai, and the rest of the panel if they like, what do you want to be remembered for?” Sadly, I’ll never get the chance to ask that of Mr. Ishiguru, but looking back at his long body of work, his contribution to what we regard as modern anime and his great take on being an animation director, I think I’ve got the best answer possible, in my mind. Thank you, Mr. Ishiguru, for all your hard work. You have most certainly earned your rewards, whenever you are.
Go raibh maith agat.
The Nerdverse is always darkest before the dawn! Otakon Roundtable Part 2
Posted by eeeper in conventions, industry, Interview, panels on Monday, September 12, 2011

And so, our Otakon report comes to an end. With the terrible Bandai panel, last minute dealer room runs and a resolve to highly return some day (EDIT: Elliot and Gerry are going back in 2012!) we wrap things up, nice and easy-like.
As always the links for our guests:
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Up Periscope, Pop Culture Shock Ahead Captain! Otakon Roundtable Part 1
Posted by eeeper in conventions, industry, Interview, panels on Monday, August 29, 2011

And so, another summer is gone. But not before we head out into the wild blue ether and give you part one of our two part roundtable Otakon discussion. With me are Elliot Page and Gerald Martin. Their details for contacting them again are:
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Next up will be a break from the roundtable. It’s a good surprise, trust me!
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Tired but it was worth it.
Posted by eeeper in conventions, industry, panels, updates on Thursday, August 4, 2011

Hi all!
I’m back from Otakon and it was great. Saw the new Shinkai film and attended a bunch of panels. I’ll be doing some podcasts about it later this week so hopefully you’ll get to hear about it soon.
Laters!
NYAF 2010 Panel Audio – The Changing Faces of Anime
Posted by eeeper in conventions, industry, non-reviews, Post on Saturday, October 16, 2010

Here we present the audio of Evan (Ani-Gamers)Minto’s panel, The Changing Faces of Anime, recorded on the 10th October 2010 at the New York Anime Festival/Comic-Con in the Javits Centre, New York. Evan did a great panel and the only thing missing is the great slide show he had running at the same time
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