Panels! Panels! Panels!  More panels than you can shake a stick at and then some!  AX2001 offered a huge four-day weekend variety of panels galore featuring many esteemed Guests of Honor, noted fans, and industry representatives from as far as Japan all heading healthy discussions on various exciting anime and manga-related topics ranging from new shows, fan activities, industry follow-ups, historical perspectives, and other forms of fan entertainment lasting well into the night.  Packed full of attendees, every single panel, workshop, or activity offered something to learn from, whether you were into the discussion subject or not, as shown below with a brief description of each session.

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Friday Game Show: The RAGE continued the trivia festival with notable name-that-song-clip questions from shows including: Ranma 1/2, Card Captor Sakura, Project A-ko, Street Fighter, Digimon, Tenchi Muyou, Pretty Sammy, Trigun, El Hazard, Bubblegum Crisis, Utena, Evangelion, Devil Hunter Yohko, Rurouni Kenshin, and many more.  And yet again, numerous contestants fought bravely and winners smiled as they walked away with prizes including more manga, anime CDs, shitajiki boards, and far too much to remember.
Digital Manga / Synch Point:  Focusing on the popular anime series Tenshi ni Narumon ("I'm Gonna be an Angel!"), Digital Manga noted the domestic release of the show will have different scripts for the subtitled and dubbed versions and fans can expect a lot of quality and production effort to go into making these possible for TNNM fans everywhere.  Digital Manga representatives included Tomoko Kawakami ((center) Japanese voice of Utena from Revolutionary Girl Utena and Noelle from Tenshi ni Narumon), Diana Kou ((second right in Noelle costume) English voice actress for Noelle from Tenshi ni Narumon), Fusako Shiotani (English voiceover director), and Stephanie Sheh (producer).  Notable highlights included humorous Japanese and English vocal demonstrations of the main character Noelle much to the excitement of the audience.
Convention Photography: Hosted by Widya Santoso (cosplayer and convention reports database), Dennis Carr (cosplayer and cosplayer photographer), Kevin Lillard (FansView convention press photographer), and Lionel Lum (Usagichan.com convention photographer), experienced photographers in the audience gathered some advice on getting better at capturing action shots in various crowded and abnormal lighting conditions.  A picture speaks a thousand words, and the better the picture is, the more value it has to last in the minds of many.  Topics included each photographers information, background, and applied skills on using various digital gadgetry versus conventional film-type cameras, light metering using matrix or spot methods, second-degree interests that help photographers practice using their cameras better, differences in skills based on speed (sports action) versus taking time (natural scenery), seeking out the best solutions in a convention environment where the action is nonstop, and charging through numerous photographic challenges to produce extremely noteworthy photos.

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