{"id":10434,"date":"2006-07-12T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/12\/icv2-identifies-ten-most-powerful-people-in-americas-anime-industry\/"},"modified":"2006-07-12T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-12T14:32:00","slug":"icv2-identifies-ten-most-powerful-people-in-americas-anime-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/icv2-identifies-ten-most-powerful-people-in-americas-anime-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"ICv2 Identifies Ten Most Powerful People in America&#8217;s Anime Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icv2.com\/articles\/home\/8964.html\" target=\"_blank\">ICv2<\/a> has published its estimated list of the ten most influential individuals in, or related to America&#8217;s anime distribution industry:<\/p>\n<p>01. Gen Fukunaga, President &amp; CEO FUNimation Entertainment<br \/>\n02. John Ledford, CEO of ADV Films<br \/>\n03. Kim Manning, Programmer Adult Swim<br \/>\n04. Katsuhiko Tsurumoto, V.P. Business Development, Geneon<br \/>\n05. Anime Buyer, Best Buy<br \/>\n06. Hayao Miyazaki, Founder Studio Ghibli<br \/>\n07. Arthur Smith and Shin Ishikawa, Gonzo Digimation<br \/>\n08. John Easum, Executive Vice President Viz Media<br \/>\n09. Ken Iyadomi, Bandai Entertainment<br \/>\n10. John Sirabella, CEO Media Blasters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICv2 has published its estimated list of the ten most influential individuals in, or related to America&#8217;s anime distribution industry: 01. Gen Fukunaga, President &amp; CEO FUNimation Entertainment 02. John Ledford, CEO of ADV Films 03. Kim Manning, Programmer Adult Swim 04. Katsuhiko Tsurumoto, V.P. Business Development, Geneon 05. Anime Buyer, Best Buy 06. Hayao [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}