Posts Tagged ‘Anime Expo’

Anime Expo has announced that it will host Black Lagoon author Rei Hiroe as a guest of honor during the upcoming convention on July 1-4th.  Along with hosting Hiroe, the convention will also premiere the first episode of the forthcoming Roberta’s Trail OAV series on July 1st at 1:30pm, two weeks before its Japanese release [...]

Following up on the call to action from the AX staff to the board of directors, two more key staff members in the Artist Alley Manager and Assistant Manager have resigned their positions as of yesterday due to dissatisfaction with the SPJA and related upper management. Read More for the email. Update: More staff resignations [...]

I didn’t forget about the internal strife between AX staffers and the higher-ups, since its kind of important that everything be sorted out before prep ramps up later in the year.  I’d like to go myself since it would be my first convention ever as an attendee and I’d also like to cover it as [...]

LA Weekly blog West Coast Sound has posted its list of what it considers the best conventions of 2009. The list names off Anime Expo and Anime Los Angeles, but does not focus exclusively on the conventions, with photos of cosplayers and other non anime related conventions such as San Diego Comic Con making the [...]

Certain members of the SPJA, the organization behind Anime Expo are requesting a vote of no confidence against the Board of Directors and both newly hired CEO Michael Lattanzio along with new Marketing Director Kim Groomes due to multple internal issues, including the recent dismissal of Chase Wang from marketing duties. Hit Read More for [...]

In an internal email sent earlier today, newly hired SPJA CEO Michael Lattanzio has relayed to all related personnel that all relations related to BAM Marketing were terminated with immediate effect due to the SPJA’s desire to seek another direction in terms of marketing and promotion. However, the real story may lie with Anime Expo [...]