Anime Punch is pleased and honored to announce our special guest of honor, Mrs. Haruko Nogawa. While her name isn't widely recognized, you would know her for who she worked for - the God of Manga himself, Osamu Tezuka. Mrs. Nogawa was his secretary at Mushi-Pro for many years, so we will be delighted to hear what stories she has to tell. Her appearance is scheduled for 8PM on Friday during our Osamu Tezuka panel. Do NOT miss this opportunity of a lifetime!
The Protomen
Returning from the depths of despair, rising above the robotic chaos, our lyrical allies The Protomen return again
to dominate Anime Punch. Were you tragic enough to have missed your chance to see them in 2007, fear not.
They return to set our souls ablaze with the power and the fury that only a militia of rock ten men strong could father.
The Protomen perform a rock opera inspired by the events of the hit game Mega Man (known in
Japan as Rockman.) Their legend is told through the eyes of Dr. Light, the brooding father who sent his robotic son out to
fight to save mankind from the evil and tyrannical Dr. Wiley. After the death of his first son, Protoman, Light became a
broken man and constructed a second son, Rockman. Unable to reconcile his past, Light shelters his new son, terrified of losing
what he has left.
Unwilling to watch the city burn safe in his father's arms, Rockman takes up his brother's M-Buster and explodes into battle.
Patrick Seitz
Patrick Seitz is a Los Angeles voiceover actor, script adapter and ADR director who has been fortunate enough to
lend his efforts to over 100 anime and video game titles during the last few years.
With most of his resume occupying that odd chunk of the Venn diagram where zany, evil, and ethically ambiguous overlap,
a few of Patrick’s more prominent roles include Franky in FUNImation’s One Piece, Isshin Kurosaki in Bleach,
George in Paradise Kiss, Hazel in Saiyuki Reload Gunlock, Dhaos in Tales of Phantasia, Raul in Ergo Proxy,
Koshiro in Koi Kaze, Charles Beams in Eureka Seven, Lee Linho in ROD the TV,
and Luke Valentine in Hellsing and Hellsing Ultimate.
On the video game side of the ledger, you can hear him as Chopin in Eternal Sonata,
Dylan in Valkyrie Profile 2 and Sergei Vladimir in Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles,
as well as various and sundry characters in the likes of Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation,
Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology, Wild Arms 5, Time Crisis 4, and Romancing Saga, to name a few.
In addition to the voiceover work, Patrick has done script-adapting and/or ADR direction for
Naruto, Honey & Clover, Hell Girl, Girls Bravo, Kamichu!, Tales of Phantasia, The Melody of Oblivion,
Zegapain, Guardian of the Spirit and Rumiko Takahashi Anthology.
Patrick has a BA in Creative Writing and an MFA in Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts,
both of which he received at the University of California, Riverside. Before falling down the voiceover rabbit hole,
he spent two very “Welcome Back, Kotter”esque years teaching English at his old high school.
Feel free to visit him at his own little carved out niche of e-hubris, www.patrickseitz.com
Mikhail Koulikov
When he was writing a term paper on several works of 20th century
apocalyptic literature, one of which was Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaa of
the Valley of the Wind for his AP English class, Mikhail Koulikov
noticed that there was no easy way for students to find out how
academia has approached Japanese popular culture. In response to this,
in 2000, Mikhail founded the Online Bibliography of Anime and Manga
Research, a continuously-expanding resource bringing together academic
articles, conference papers, newspaper stories, fan-written essays and
other textual information on anime, manga, and fandom.
Mikhail is also an accomplished journalist, who has been writing about
anime for close to ten years. He is an assistant editor and events
manager for the Anime News Network, the Internet's most popular
English-language information source on anime and manga and has also
been published in ANN's Protoculture Addicts magazine and Terrapin
Anime Society's Tsunami. After studying international affairs as an
undergrad and working in the financial publishing industry, he
returned to the academic world and received a master's degree in
library science at Indiana University, Bloomington. Currently, he
works as a law librarian in New York City, which means he knows things
like what the punishment was in the state of Georgia in 1933 for any
man who accidentally or intentionally castrated an opponent during a
bar fight.
Mikhail's Site:
Online Bibliography of Anime and Manga Research
Lawrence Eng
This will be Lawrence's fourth year at the Armageddicon, and he's prepared a fistful of panels to inform, amuse, and enlighten (and he's been known to give away fun prizes to people who are willing to prove their otakuness in public). Lawrence holds a PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he studied and wrote about otaku culture in the US. A die hard anime fan since he first saw Space Battleship Yamato on TV over 25 years ago, he turned his love of the medium into a multi-year academic project studying anime and manga fandom in America. Lawrence still does otaku studies when he's not working his full-time job as the Product Research Manager for Opera Software (makers of the Opera Web browser on PCs, phones, and the Nintendo Wii).
Lawrence has presented his work on otaku culture in fan, professional, and academic settings, such as the Japan Society in New York City, and has been cited and quoted in numerous publications. Some of his own writings have been published in Contemporary Youth Culture: An International Encyclopedia, the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and Success Stories: Japan.
Since 1998, he has maintained a personal website containing many of his essays and articles. One of his most well-known sites is thought experiments lain, a serial experiments lain information site. He also founded the Anime and Manga Research Circle, an informal organization of scholars from around the world who study anime, manga, and their associated fandoms.
thought experiments lain: http://www.cjas.org/~leng/open.htm
Anime and Manga Research Circle: http://www.cjas.org/~leng/amrc.htm
Panels: Gainax, Anime in Academia, Otaku Studies, Anime and the Internet, Lain
The Spoony Bards
The group of musicians calling themselves the Spoony Bards have come to be known for their ability to assemble any available combination of vocal and instrumental talents to create a musical atmosphere at anime conventions. Hailing from different parts of the country, this network of musicians has grown in reputation and number, having played video game and anime music by request for days at a time at conventions. Count on the Spoony Bards to provide a fun, spirited show at Anime Punch!
Web site: http://www.spoonybards.com
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