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14:29:44 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> (technical difficulties)
14:32:09 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> hello
14:32:11 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> thank you all for coming
14:32:17 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> to the sunrise panel at otakon 2013
14:32:23 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> are you guys familiar with many sunrise shows?
14:32:30 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> so i'd like to introduce one of sunrise's directors
14:32:55 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> mr masayuki ozaki
14:32:52 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> hello everyone
14:33:00 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> are you enjoying otakon
14:33:26 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> i'm masayuki ozaki, i'm at sunrise and in charge of international sales department
14:33:45 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> my impression of baltimore is so hot city
14:34:04 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> (loy and toshi are on stage, this is like an old school bandai panel)
14:34:23 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> okay, first
14:34:26 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> let me introduce our company
14:34:48 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> you know, we sunrise was established over 30 years ago, and we have over 300 titles, and i'd like to show you our recent lineup
14:34:59 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> so let's go over recent productions
14:35:03 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Tiger & Bunny
14:35:24 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> in the united states, it's currently being sold by viz on bd and dvd
14:35:42 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> so during otakon, you can actually get some dvd, bd and merchandise in the dealers room
14:36:10 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> and through neonalley.com, you can see the dub version of tiger and bunny streaming in the united states
14:36:12 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> move on to the trailer
14:36:44 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Tiger and Bunny the Beginning
14:36:49 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> today we have a bit of news for you
14:37:01 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Tiger and Bunny the Beginning will be on neon alley next week
14:37:11 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> bd and dvd will be relased ocotber 1st
14:37:15 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> trailer
14:38:21 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Daily Lives of High School Boys
14:38:48 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> so we had a screening of the this at otakon yesterday and i peeked my head in yesterday and sat in
14:38:54 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> and it was a packed house like this and it made me very happy
14:39:29 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> and i was worried that the depictions of high school boys in japan and their idiocy would (lost)
14:39:35 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> so for all you people who like high school boys, i have a happy annoucement for you
14:39:49 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> starting this week, NIS will begin to sell the premium BD edition
14:40:12 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> if you order from NIS's website, along with the DVD, you get a limited edition necktie worn by the main character
14:40:17 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> and please watch the trailer
14:41:42 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Phi Brain
14:42:08 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> the first 2 season have already been released in america
14:42:06 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> the first season is on bd already
14:42:17 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> and in october, the 3rd season will start in Japan
14:42:36 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> i hope it will be available soon after in america
14:43:08 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere Season 2
14:43:25 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> being streamed on anime network, hulu and crunchyroll
14:43:36 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> and last month, the second season bd and dvd was relased by sentai filmworks
14:43:57 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> trailer..
14:44:01 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Binbougami ga!
14:44:10 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> streaming on funimation.com and hulu
14:44:31 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> we're in negotations for the release of the bd and packaging
14:44:57 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> new lineup
14:45:04 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Valvrave the LIberator
14:45:29 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> series composition is by code geass's ichirou ohkouchi
14:46:03 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> it was probably mentioned at aniplex's panel, but second season starts in october
14:46:23 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> trailer
14:47:41 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Gintama the Final Movie
14:47:57 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> so the theatrical release was in july, and in the month, it's been watched by 1 million fans
14:50:13 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> and the staff that worked on this movie also worked on daily lives of high school boys
14:50:15 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> and the tv series can be viewed through crunchyroll
14:50:15 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> as of now, there is no release planned for the US for this movie, but we hope to go into negotations soon to make it available to international fnas
14:50:14 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Love Live! School Idol Project
14:50:16 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> because of the popularity of the first season, a second season has been annoucned for spring 2014
14:50:15 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> and you can watch season 1 on crunchyroll
14:50:14 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> and the bluray box is planned to be released in the US
14:50:16 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> please await an announcement from NIS america
14:50:28 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Tiger and Bunny the Rising
14:50:34 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Feb 8th 2014 in Japan
14:50:49 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> as highly anticipated by many fans here and in japan
14:50:57 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> the movie is in production and is schedule for release in 2014
14:51:08 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> what do you think of the new hero, the golden lion
14:51:20 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> i'm very sorry to hear that (lots of unhappy sentinment)
14:51:37 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> i look forward to see what your reactions will be to the character after february then
14:51:48 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> the beginning was shown near simultaneously in the US
14:52:18 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> and we're negotiating with viz to see if we can do something similar with the movie next feb
14:53:03 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> and when the beginning was released, it was only sf on the west coast, for the rising, we're seeing if we can do a west coast and east coast... it hasn't been set, but we encourage you to speak to viz to see if they can make that happen
14:53:15 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> so we have two trailers
14:54:32 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> one you have seen before
14:54:32 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> and one that you released last month in japan
14:54:32 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> now
14:54:41 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> (Gundam comes on screen to applause)
15:02:17 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> The World of Gundam
15:02:18 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> (again)
15:02:18 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> (And wing is still the most popular show)
15:02:18 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
15:02:18 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> the DVD will be released from rightstuf
15:02:26 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> volume 1 and 2 will come out this month
15:02:26 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> and vol 3 is in nov 5th 2013
15:02:27 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> ep 6 trailer
15:02:27 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Gundam Seed Destiny HD Remaster Project
15:02:27 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> remastered in hi def with new scenes and being streamed through gundam.info
15:02:32 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> and next
15:02:36 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Gundam Build Fighters
15:02:41 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> recent, brand new title
15:02:50 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> I have some new information to release
15:03:10 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Series composition : Yosuke Kuroda
15:03:13 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Director: Kenji Nagasaki
15:03:16 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> from 00
15:03:21 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> will start in october 2013 in japan
15:03:27 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> i'm looking forward to this series personally
15:03:46 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> one of the main reasons is that gundams across all the series can appear in this show to battle each other
15:04:10 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> and the whole idea is the gundam model battling eachother became the key concept behind the concept of this series
15:04:31 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> so the main characters of the series will take their plastic models and battle
15:04:40 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> in the near future, the plavski particle will be discovered
15:05:07 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> so basically within the particle field of plavski particles, the models are able to move like real mobile suits
15:05:16 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> i think it would be better to just show you the trailer
15:07:06 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Mobile Suit Gundam 35th anniversary
15:07:16 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> unfortunately we don't have footage to go with this
15:07:29 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> next year, 2014,is the 35th anniversary of the gundam franchise
15:07:42 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> and in honor of this, there are 2 projects right now in the planning stages
15:07:55 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> and one of them is yoshiyuki tomino's latest work
15:08:06 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> and the other is the Gundam: the origin in an animated form
15:08:26 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> and these two shows are planned to be unveiled to the public in 2014-2015
15:08:40 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> you might think i'm not being accurate giving 2 years as release times
15:08:56 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> sunrise has an occassional tendency of falling behind schedule so i'm hedging my bets
15:09:03 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> but the quality will be high
15:09:19 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Gundam: The Origin
15:09:35 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> the series is complete in japan and is being releaed by vertical in the US
15:09:35 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> announcements
15:09:39 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> daisuki
15:10:09 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> so daisuki is a new site that was formed which is being sponsored by various animation production companies in japan
15:10:22 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> other than sunrise, there is aniplex, tms and others
15:10:35 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> right now gundam seed and zeta gundam are being streamed
15:10:39 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> and today's first announcement
15:10:47 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> and we just started streaming gundam zz
15:11:11 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> so there were many requests for ZZ, but no official release
15:11:27 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> and until now, there has been no official subtitled version of the show
15:11:33 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> so it's premering now through daisuki
15:11:48 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> you can find out more at the daisuki panel
15:12:10 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> we plan to screen episode 1 of Cowboy Bebop during that panel
15:13:10 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Sentai Filmworks
15:13:12 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> wow...
15:13:14 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> tons of titles
15:13:22 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Scryed
15:13:46 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> sentai will be releasing the titles formerly released by bandai entertainment
15:14:01 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> the series here will be done periodically
15:16:47 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> argento soma
15:14:05 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> betterman
15:16:38 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> brain powered
15:14:08 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> ryvious
15:14:51 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> overman king gainer
15:15:08 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> sacred seven
15:14:11 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> scryed
15:14:12 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> big o
15:15:18 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> bigo ii
15:14:15 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> zegapain
15:14:16 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> zmind
15:14:18 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> sorakake (*fixed from original tokikae)
15:14:20 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> funimation
15:14:22 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> abyss
15:18:02 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> witch hunter robin
15:14:28 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> battle of the stars
15:14:32 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> angel links
15:14:35 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> code geass
15:14:57 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> also akito the exiled will be through funimation
15:15:37 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> akito the exiled is currently in production at sunrise and planned for 4 vol release
15:15:46 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> vol 2 will be released sept 14th 2013 in japan
15:16:15 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> first vol is not yet in the US, but planned through Funimation
15:17:08 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> more info through other titles will be announced by funimation immediately after the panel
15:17:12 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> and now going to q&A
15:17:52 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Q: Who is going to get the license to Gundam and if enough people watch ZZ on daisuki, will it get a dub?
15:18:27 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> A: Currently no plans for a dub version of ZZ, but if there is enough fan demand for it. we will consider it
15:19:13 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Q: Anniversary for Mai-project for Maihime is next year... any updates on it?
15:19:30 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> A: Currently, there is no movement on the mai project at this point
15:20:15 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> I'm thinking if there is enough fan demand, i'd like to take it back and suggest as a future project
15:20:35 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Q: (question about Tomino's project for 35th anniv)
15:20:46 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> A: Can't give anymore info right now
15:21:21 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> It is the 35th anniversary project that tomino is creating, so it will be something worthy of the release
15:21:51 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Q: Streaming, US only or all english speaking countries (in general)?
15:22:30 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> A: You can probably get more info from daisuki today, currently it's only set for north america audience, but they are looking into other countries as well (that got mangled in translation)
15:22:42 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Q: Any movement in the Seed Movie that was announced a few years ago?
15:22:51 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> A; I knew that question was coming
15:23:06 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Unforuntately I have no answers beyond what you would expect
15:23:16 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> The future is unknown for the Gundam Seed movie
15:23:43 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Q: New gintama anime project with the popularity of the "final" movie?
15:23:58 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> A: At this point, we have to stick to staying it's the final movie
15:24:17 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> But the manga is still going and it is gintama after all, so who is to say
15:24:47 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Realistically, it's up to how well the movie performs and how well the DVD sales are
15:25:15 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> And I have to believe that there are enough voices needing more gintama, i would personally like to answe them
15:25:50 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Q: Regarding mai series, if there isn't fan demand, can it be done through kickstarter or crowd sourcing?
15:26:18 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> A: The concept of social sourcing like kickstarter is an interesting idea, it may be something for us to consider
15:26:44 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Q: Possibility in the future of there being another season of Tiger and Bunny adding to the series?
15:26:56 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> A: As with Gintama, all our efforts are focused on The Rising
15:27:08 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> so depending on the rising performs, it could pave the way for another season
15:27:28 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Q: Any chance of Aikatsu being streamed?
15:28:08 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> A: Right now it's onlyin japan but i would love an opportunity for other audiences to see it
15:28:19 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> There is already discussion about possible english dub, so look forward to it
15:28:25 <bay|Ota|Sunrise> Thank you all for coming