Hello Anime!

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Hello Anime! is a new documentary DVD by filmmakers Manuel Stagars and Georg Fick that chronicles the anime boom in America. In 19 exclusive interviews, the maverick pioneers who defined the movement talk about their personal success stories and reveal the inside scoop on anime. The filmmakers followed the anime movement for one year. In trips to Tokyo, San Francisco, Hollywood and various conventions, they garnered exclusive interviews with anime pioneers, artists, animators, designers and entrepreneurs, altogether over 2 hours of personal inside knowledge about Japan's most successful cultural export. Once an underground revolution, anime is now revitalizing Hollywood, in the process redefining the very nature of American culture, movies and games. The DVD boasts a second disc of interviews with the triumphant titans of the industry - VIZ Media, Bandai America, Tokyopop, ADV Films, Geneon - filmed at Anime Expo 2005. View clips from the interviews here. Not a long time ago, finding Japanese animation in the United States was quite a challenge. "I was going in back alleys paying 80 bucks to get underground copies of tapes", says Scott Haile, a game designer at Sony and longtime anime fan. Well, the times have changed. Hello Anime! delivers a firsthand look at the dawn of anime in America, the rise of the otakus, the anime internet community, anime in Kill Bill and The Matrix and the Japanization of America.

Hello Anime! Review

"Hello Anime!" is unique, informative and a lot of fun!

Any fan will enjoy the fascinating journey through personal experiences, struggles and victories of artists and entrepreneurs involved in the anime boom in America. In intimate interviews, the DVD reveals how anime became the leading force in the global outreach of Japanese culture while growing into an ever expanding multi-billion-dollar business.

But it is the innovative structure of "Hello Anime!" that distinguishes the DVD from any conventional documentary. Directors Manuel Stagars and Georg Fick created a non-linear, interactive menu for the interview clips, allowing anime novices as well as hardcore fans to discover the topics at their own pace while making the abundance of information fun to watch.

Disc 1 zoomes in on the art of anime, the anime business in Japan, the American anime underground, the creation of the anime internet community and the power of anime in gaming. While listening in on the interviews with acclaimed artists, designers and pioneers it becomes obvious how the boom built up to spread around the globe.

Disc 2 captures the high pitch energy of Anime Expo 2005 in Anaheim, CA, with 35,000 visitors the biggest Anime Expo to date. The energetic interviews with entrepreneurs, marketing executives and directors from industry titans like VIZ Media, ADV Films, Tokyopop and Geneon offer a first-hand look at trends, fashion and fads in the mushrooming market.

The directors manage to keep the focus on the personal involvement of the interview partners into anime. It's refreshing to see even hard-boiled marketing executives forget about their sales pitch while offering their individual success stories with anime. This makes the DVD a special experience: The anime fan will find himself and his enthusiasm well understood and supported in this growing global network while the anime newbie will experience the exciting energy of the mysterious worldwide cultural boom.

The cast of "Hello Anime!" is rather unique. It reaches from Mike Kiley, Editor-in-chief of Tokyopop, and Liza Coppola, Vice President of Marketing / Sales at VIZ Media, to Marlon Schulman, one of the creators of Bandai's Anime Village, Cindy Yamauchi and Elaine Clark, the team behind the American release of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, and Scott Haile, Game Designer and long time anime fan, as well as Tak Tsurukawa, owner of one of the first anime shops in San Francisco. Even a rare interview with Masanori Shino and Masahiro Kimura, recorded at Madhouse in Tokyo, is included on the DVD.

They all have their personal stories, focus on different topics and have different opinions about the past, present and future. All their stories together create a fascinating celebration of the art and culture of anime.

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