Behind The Nihon Review

Though certainly the less experienced of the two musical guests this year, LiSA certainly didn’t come to Anime Expo 2012 without a pre-established local fanbase. Despite her short discography, she’s already sung pieces for extremely popular anime, starting with Angel Beats, where she served as the singing voice of Yui. After moving on her first [...]

This year was much more difficult to plan our scheduling for panel attendance and coverage because so many panels had been changed around and delayed that people were complaining non-stop. Luckily, we got in a few interesting things for Day 3, while Day 4 involved most of us traveling back to our homes before the [...]

Kurosaki Maon propelled into stardom (or am I a bit premature in saying this?) relatively recently with the anime Highschool of the Dead and To Aru Majutsu no Index. A lovely young lady who seems to be getting used to her sudden shift from the smaller club venue of Dearstage to events as big as [...]

Seeing Nirgilis live was wonderful, not only because of the popularity of some of their songs, but also due to the fact that they have quite the good evaluation on the Japanese music scene. Their eclectic, mish-mash style is extremely unique for a band that does anime songs. In fact, anime has for such a [...]

Part 1 of covering this panel took so long that I decided to make this into a two part post. Please forgive for the massive Youtube video dumping! I’ve added the producers’ Twitter and Website links, so don’t hesitate to show them your support, even if you don’t know any Japanese.