DJ Showcase: Anison DJ Team “AnimationZ”

24 NOV FRI 03:30PM

Special Showcase: DJ SHOWCASE Featuring: Taketeru Sunamori, Tomotaka Misawa

AnimationZ is an Anime song DJ team by active animation producers formed around Tomotaka Misawa, an animation producer who started activities since 2017.

Activities are performed in layers different from other Anime song DJs such as animation songs with many hit songs and DJ play specialized for game music, such as being able to officially use music and video of animation. In addition, engaging in a comprehensive animation event planning not only for DJ players, such as collaborating with the audience at the oversea anime event and DJ activities and each animation record company and animation maker.

Members:
・Tomotaka Misawa – Animation Producer (Team representative)
・Yukihiko Nakao – Animation Producer
・Saya Fukase – Animation Producer
・Kazuki Yanase – Animation Producer
・Takanori Yamaura – Animation Producer
・Ryoma Araki – Game Producer
・Taketeru Sunamori – Music Producer / Screenwriter

FEATURING:

博多豚骨ラーメンズ
Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens

24 NOV FRI 02:00PM

Featured Anime Showcase: Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens Featuring: Yusuke Kobayashi, Kohei Kawase

Hakata, a city where 3% of the population are said to be assassins.
On the surface it looks like a peaceful touristic city in Fukuoka. However, its underside is a battleground for assassins with high crime rates.

A freshman assassin on the edge
An assassin hired by a politician
An informant with genius hacking ability
Beautiful Avanger
Ex-mercenary turned Torturer
Hakata loving Private-eye
An assassin caught by the underground organization

When assassins’ tales are told, an “Assassin Killer” appears from the darkness!

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HATSUNE MIKU EXPO 2016 Japan Tour

24 NOV FRI 12:00PM

SPECIAL SCREENING: HATSUNE MIKU EXPO 2016 Japan Tour

We’ll be screening an excerpt from the “HATSUNE MIKU EXPO 2016 Japan Tour,” the very first full concert tour in Japan by virtual singer Hatsune Miku! Of the 5-city 12-show series, the final Tokyo concert will be shown.

As the symbol for a new era of creative culture, Hatsune Miku has garnered support worldwide, even collaborating with renowned artists such as Lady Gaga, Amuro Namie, and BUMP OF CHICKEN. Experience her live performance on screen!

Illustration by neco © Crypton Future Media, INC. www.piapro.net

Anisong Fitness

25 NOV SAT 12:00PM

SPECIAL SHOWCASE: Anison Fitness Featuring: Go Takahashi, Yuki Takada

A new kind of exercise regimen has come from Japan! Using everybody’s favourite anisongs that are beloved all over the world, get healthy and happy! This is Anisong Fitness!

By grooving to everybody’s favourite anime theme song, connect with your fellow fans, and turn the gym into a live concert hall!

Anisong Fitness was first introduced at niconico Chou Kaigi 2017, and more than 1,000 fans got fit to the tune of Yoko Takahashi’s Cruel Angel’s Thesis (Zankoku na Tenshi no Te-ze)!

This hugely popular activity can be enjoyed by both young and old, and at their own pace!

In the meantime, check out the video below and practice your moves! See you all at Anisong Fitness – and look forward to more surprises coming your way! Thank you!

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フレームアームズ・ガール
FRAME ARMS GIRL

25 NOV SAT 01:00PM

FEATURED ANIME SHOWCASE: FRAME ARMS GIRL Featuring: Narumi Kaho, Hibiku Yamamura, Rika Abe

Join Ao, an ordinary school girl, in her everyday life with the Frame Arms Girls, and watch their bonds deepen.

Ao, an ordinary high school girl, receives something mysterious in the mail one day, and upon opening the package, she finds herself with Gourai, a petite autonomous robot called a Frame Arms Girl.

Wow it’s a toy! It’s a plastic model kit!

But! Gourai isn’t just any ordinary Frame Arms Girl.

Unlike normal artificial intelligence programs, Gourai is an experimental prototype model endowed with AS (“Artificial Self”), giving her human-like emotions. Furthermore, this Gourai is the only one in the world to be successfully activated, and by Ao no less!

Together with Ao, who has zero knowledge of the Frame Arms Girls, Gourai gathers battle data and learns about emotions.

And so our heroine begins a curious, yet fun and exciting, lifestyle with Gourai and the other Frame Arms Girls!

FEATURING:

冴えない彼女の育てかた♭
Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend. flat

25 NOV SAT 02:00PM

FEATURED ANIME SHOWCASE: Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend. flat Featuring: Kiyono Yasuno, Producer Manabu Jinguji, Moso Calibration

An otaku high school student Tomoya Aki meets Megumi Kato one day in spring and becomes consumed with the idea of turning this normal girl into the main heroine of his visual novel game.

He forms the development team Blessing Software with friends and they manage to get one route finished.

With the upcoming Winter Comiket in two months, will they be able to finish the game in time?!

FEATURING:

ヴァイオレット・エヴァーガーデン
Violet Evergarden

25 NOV SAT 03:15PM

FEATURED ANIME SHOWCASE: Violet Evergarden Featuring: Yui Ishikawa, TRUE, Minori Chihara, Haruka Fujita, Akiko Takase

Introduction

Long ago the “Auto Memories Doll” was born. Professor Orland, an influential figure in the printing industry, invented a new type of printing machine for his wife Molly, so that she could write novels after she had lost her eyesight. The machine was given the appearance of a petite lovely doll.

Putting his heart and hopes into it, the professor named it “Auto Memories Doll”. Eventually, Auto Memories Dolls became widespread, supporting the lives of many. Now, the term is applied to women whose work is to put thoughts into words, either for those who cannot write or on behalf of others.

This story is about a young girl, Violet Evergarden, and how she connects people’s hearts as an Auto Memories Doll living at the turning point of a generation.

The Story So Far

There are words Violet heard on the battlefield, which she cannot forget.These words were given to her by someone she holds dear, more than anyone else. She does not yet know their meaning.

A certain point in time, in the continent of Telesis. The great war which divided the continent into North and South has ended after four years, and the people are welcoming a new generation.

Violet Evergarden, a young girl formerly known as “the weapon”, has left the battlefield to start a new life at CH Postal Service. There, she is deeply moved by the work of “Auto Memories Dolls”, who carry people’s thoughts and convert them into words.

Violet begins her journey as an Auto Memories Doll, and comes face to face with various people’s emotions and differing shapes of love, all the while searching for the meaning of those words.

The Story Creator

“Violet Evergarden” was originally a novel written by Kana Akatsuki (KA Esuma Bunko/Kyoto Animation) which won the the Grand Prize at the 5th Kyoto Animation Award. The Kyoto Animation Award is a novel-writing competition that has been hosted by Kyoto Animation Co.,Ltd. since 2009.

In the past, works such as “Chu-2 Byo Demo Koi ga Shitai”, “Kyokai no Kanata”, and “High☆Speed!” have received honorable mentions, and were published as novels as well as given animated adaptations. “Violet Evergarden” is the very first to shine as the “Grand Prize” winner — the highest award in this contest.

You can also visit the official website at violet-evergarden.jp.

FEATURING:

B-PROJECT

26 NOV SUN 12:00PM

FEATURED ANIME SHOWCASE: B-PROJECT Featuring: Tetsuya Kakihara, Toshiyuki Toyonaga

What is “B-PROJECT”?

It’s a big idol project produced by a Japanese famous singer Takanori Nishikawa and its original work is created by a multi-talented creator, Chiyomaru Shikura. You will meet four boys idol groups; Kitakore, THRIVE, MooNs, and KiLLER KiNG.

The main character is a newbie A&R who just joins Gandhara Music, a huge record company, and she happens to be in charge of managing these four boy bands named above. The new job welcomes her with so many troubles, scandals, and gossips… and you will get to know more about the real music industry as well as the fascinating characters.

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BEATLESS

26 NOV SUN 01:00PM

FEATURED ANIME SHOWCASE: BEATLESS Featuring: Director Seiji Mizushima

‘I trust in your smile. I won’t care whether you are soulless or not.’

In the world 100 years from now, society is mostly operated by hIE (humanoid Interface Elements). With the introduction of ultra-advanced AI that surpasses human intelligence, beings that mankind is yet to fully comprehend made from materials far too advanced for human technology begin coming into being.

One day, a 17-year-old boy, Arato Endo, has a fateful encounter with a mysterious hIE named Lacia, and becomes her owner by accident. In contrast to her beautiful appearance, Lacia is one of the five top-performing hIE created by ultra-advanced AI, artificial beings beyond human recognition. Each of the five hIE has their own specification and behavior model. Fierce battle breaks out as they pursue their own purposes.

For what purpose were Lacia and the other four hIEs created? Why are they destined to fight with one another? Amid questions regarding conflict and coexistence between mankind and machines, the 17-year-old boy Arato seeks answers to the future…

FEATURING:

機動戦士ガンダム00
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM 00

26 NOV SUN 02:00PM

FEATURED ANIME SHOWCASE: MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM 00 Featuring: Shin-ichiro Miki, Director Seiji Mizushima

The year is 2307 A.D. Although fossil fuels have been depleted, humanity has obtained a new source of energy to replace them, in the form of a large-scale solar power generation system based on three huge orbital elevators. However, the benefits of this system are available only to a handful of major powers and their allies.

The three orbital elevators belong to three superpower blocs. These are the Union, led by the United States of America; the Human Reform League, led by China, Russia, and India; and the AEU, led by Europe. These superpower blocs continue to play a grand zero-sum game for the sake of their own prestige and prosperity. Thus, even in the 24th Century, humanity has yet to come together as one.

In this world of never-ending conflict, a private armed organization appears, dedicated to the elimination of war through armed force. Its name is Celestial Being, and it is in possession of “Gundam” mobile suits. With these Gundams, it begins armed intervention into all acts of war.

FEATURING:

グランクレスト戦記
Record of Grancrest War

26 NOV SUN 02:45PM

FEATURED ANIME SHOWCASE: Record of Grancrest War Featuring: Kentaro Kumagai, Producer Shinichiro Kashiwada

“I swear by to be faithful and bear true allegiance to Sir Theo.”
A master-servant oath between Siluca, the lofty magician and Theo, the wandering knight that will likely wage a revolution in this war-torn and chaotic continent. Or not…

Atland, the continent ruled by Chaos. The Lords who seize the power of the “Crest” (Holy Seal), is the only thing that tranquillises calamities breed by Chaos, protecting those living in fear. But before anyone realises, the Lords have abandoned these ideals, turning against each other, vying to claim one another’s Holy Seal and territories.

This is when Siluca, who scorns these self-serving Lords, and Theo, the wandering knight who sets off training to one day liberates his tyrannical-ruled hometown, met. Struck by Theo’s ideal, Siluca decides to exchange an master-servant oath, waging revolutions to snuff out this war-torn continent, even if the plan is a coercive one.

See the journey of seeking the titular “Emperor’s holy seal (Grancrest) —the quintessence of law and order— unfolds as the curtain of this great war fantasy lift.

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