{"id":22120,"date":"2010-06-25T14:07:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T18:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=22120"},"modified":"2010-06-25T14:07:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T18:07:30","slug":"i-g-animates-2010-otakon-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/i-g-animates-2010-otakon-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"I.G Animates 2010 Otakon Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otakon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Otakon<\/a> anime convention has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otakon.com\/animated.asp\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> that this year&#8217;s convention opening animation was animated by acclaimed Japanese studio Production I.G (Ghost in the Shell, Blood: The Last Vampire). The 2009 &#038; 2008 Otakon opening animation shorts were animated by Japan&#8217;s Madhouse studio. This year&#8217;s short was directed by Nekomataya, animation director for Wolf&#8217;s Rain. The opening theme song, &#8220;Shackles of Night,&#8221; was composed by Hiroki Kikuta (Secret of Mana, Koudelka) and sung by Shihori, half of the pop duo Shihori and Asuka.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BatVZKELvF0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Otakon anime convention has announced that this year&#8217;s convention opening animation was animated by acclaimed Japanese studio Production I.G (Ghost in the Shell, Blood: The Last Vampire). The 2009 &#038; 2008 Otakon opening animation shorts were animated by Japan&#8217;s Madhouse studio. This year&#8217;s short was directed by Nekomataya, animation director for Wolf&#8217;s Rain. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news","category-video-trailer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22120","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=22120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22121,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22120\/revisions\/22121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}