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Welcome
to the whimsical Guest Lounge!
Ah yes, it was a glorious time to be alive at Anime Expo 94, with gleeful
thoughts of Madoka Ayukawa, Deedlits, and YF-19 Valkyries prancing through
our heads... Shown below were our sweet memories of the hottest Guests
to come to America!
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Izumi Matsumoto
relived his capricious youth with a certain red straw hat.
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Nobuteru Yuuki
obviously living it up with his female fans at his autograph session!
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Scott Frazier
bulked up Hulkster-style for his fans at his autograph session.
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Scott Frazier First foreigner to be involved in the high levels of production of anime in Japan, among those being teaching, director's assistant, and establishing many animation studios, notably Kitty Animation Studio and TAO Studios in Bangkok. List of credits include working on Bubblegum Crash!, Shurato, Starship Troopers, Orange Road TV series, and Patlabor TV series.
Allen Hastings He is the creator of the groundbreaking Lightwave 3D modeling software tool used to pioneer 3D rendering for special effects used in Unsolved Mysteries, FreeJack, Star Trek VI, Viper TV series, Robocop TV series, SeaQuest DSV TV series, Jurassic Park animated storyboards, and most notably the Babylon 5 TV series. He has won an Emmy Award in 1993 for his development of the Video Toaster systems by NewTek Inc.
Izumi Matsumoto Mr. Matsumoto debuted in 1982 in Shonen Jump magazine with a manga titled Milk report and later went on to created the serialized and undoubtedly popular weekly Kimagure Orange Road and Sesame Street. Kimagure Orange Road later went on to be animated and drew forth a huge fan following that spurned a New Kimagure Orange Road novel and movie. He had also been working on many projects, those titled Black Moon for monthly Comic Gamma magazine and Magical Power Mako manga.
Nobeteru Yuuki Starting out as a part-time animator Studio Min, DAST, and Artland, Mr. Yuuki has become one of the hottest freelance character designers, animators, and animation directors to date. Among his many anime credits were the phenomenal Record of Lodoss Wars, Gunnm, the Five Star Stories, Megazone 23, Weathering Continent, Kujaku-O 2, and X2 the image video for Clamp's X manga. His manga credits included Vaelber Saga, found serialized in Dragon Magazine.
Special Guest Appearances:
Shoji Kawamori The ultimate anime fan's god of mecha, Mr. Kawamori was perhaps best known as the pioneering mecha designer for the Macross TV series, Macross the Movie, Macross 2012 Flashback, Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 OAV series, Crusher Joe, Moldiver OAV series, and the Dangaio OAV series. Also coming with him was the exclusive premiere of Macross Plus.
Minoru Takanashi Mr. Takanashi was a producer for the hot projects Macross II OAV series, Gunbuster OAV series, Mobile Suit Gundam 0080 and 0083 OAV series, Heavy Metal L-Gaim, 3x3 Eyes OAV series, Aura Battler Dunbine, and the Guyver OAV series.
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