New AX Panels

Anime Expo has announced some interesting new panels.

• The Escaflowne Panel featuring:
• Kazuki Akane: Escaflowne series director and movie director/co-writer
• Minoru Takanashi: Bandai Visual producer
• Ken Iyadomi: Bandai Entertainment, Inc. vice-president
• Egan Loo: Escaflowne Compendium maintainer/BEI contributor
• Other guests to be announced in the onsite AX newsletter
• Highlights will include:
• A talk on the making of the Escaflowne movie
• Discussion of the American TV debut on Fox Kids
• Final preview of the US/Canada Hitomi and Escaflowne statuettes
• Answers to your Escaflowne questions
• Macross Panel:
• Shin Kurokawa:Macross TV series translator/producer
• Neil Nadelman: Macross Plus and II translator/subtitler
• Dana Weaver: Bandai Entertainment, Inc. subtitler
• Egan Loo: Macross Compendium maintainer/BEI contributor
• Other guests to be announced in the onsite AX newsletter
• Panel highlights:
• Discuss AnimEigo’s upcoming English-subtitled release of the first Macross series
• Play the final released demo of the cancelled Macross VF-X2 US/Canada version — including the revised controls and the bonus VF-5000
• Talk about translation with the people behind almost every US Macross release
• Learn about the upcoming “Macross 3D” computer-animated video project in Japan
• Hear answers to your Macross questions
• outtakes
• New Generations Pictures Panel
• Reiko Matsuo: president of New Generation Pictures
• Taliesin Jaffe: director of Nazca & Amazing Nurse Nanako
• Greg Weisman: director of the new 3×3 Eyes dub
• Brett Jacobsen: supervisor of subtitle production for New Generation Pictures
• Glen Matisoff: president of “The Post Office,” audio production partner on all of New Generation Pictures’ Pioneer projects
• Jonathan Klein: vice president of New Generation Pictures