Report on AMPASS Anime Roundtable

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held their 7th Annual Marc Davis Lecture on Animation on Wednesday, November 14. This year’s discussion was a panel focusing, for the first time, on Japanese animation. Production I.G producer Mitsuhisa Ishikawa (Ghost In The Shell, Blood: The Last Vampire) and BePapas producer and director Kunihiko Ikuhara (Utena) sat as the panel’s star guests. Akadot has published a brief but informative summary of the event specifically mentioning the vast gulf that still exists between American appetite for anime and American understanding of anime.

Article courtesy of Michiko Ito