At Ongaku Overdrive, you can sample some of the finest talents in anime music making, some imported from Japan (like the witty Rai Kamishiro) and some cultivated domestically (like Emergency Pizza Party).
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Rai Kamishiro, Adam WarRock and others headline Ongaku Overdrive Music Fest
Photo Gallery: 2012 Anime Festival Orlando
When I first started attending sci-fi and fantasy fan convention over 20 years ago, I could still identify almost all the Japanese animation available in the dealers' and screening rooms, and you could count the grown-ups dressed as cartoon characters on one hand. At this past weekend's 13th annual Anime Festival Orlando, I only...
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Pop-Culture Fan Convention Triple-Header This Weekend
The 20th Annual Orlando International Fringe Festival wraps up this weekend, which means I’ll be spending the next few days with the usual assortment of foul-mouthed drag queens and sex-obsessed monologians. But if you are looking for a different sort of freaks to hang out with for Memorial Day, there are three major pop-culture...
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Come See Akira at Urban ReThink on 4/12
Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1989 epic Akira is probably the most well known and widely seen anime film in America, and is one of the few to have actually been shown theatrically in North America. Well, it’s not up on the big screen again, but you can see the next best thing as Orlando’s own Japanese...
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