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Adventures in Voice Acting
Bang Zoom! Entertainment interviewed over 100 voice actors, producers, and casting directors to make this authoritative look at the voice acting industry.  Now, for the first time, get a special preview of this upcoming documentary.  (Bang Zoom!)  
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Saturday, Dec 8
Live-Action Screening Room

ANIPLEX Premiere
ANIPLEX is a leading anime and music producer originally formed as Sony Pictures Entertainment Visual Works in 1995 in Japan.  It's been responsible for hits including Fullmetal Alchemist, Rurouni Kenshin, and Blood+, and the company's traveled all the way to New York to present an exciting, new anime!  
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Saturday, Dec 8
Anime Panel Room

Anime Innovation Tokyo
THINK Corporation's Anime Innovation Tokyo provides creators and production companies, either professionals or amateurs, with the funds, equipment, and opportunities to create their own, original animations.  They've flown all the way from Japan to show an exclusive first-look and a new animation under development for the first time in America!  
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Saturday, Dec 8
Anime Screening Room

Appleseed: Ex Machina
The Appleseed sequel is still months away, but we've got some of the best (meaning most explosive) scenes all for you! From Shinji Aramaki and John Woo and based on the classic manga by Masamune Shirow, Appleseed: Ex Machina will be the biggest anime of 2008, but we've got an exclusive preview for you today! (Warner Bros.)  
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Friday, Dec 7
Anime Screening Room

Black Blood Brothers
After putting an end to a vampire war in Hong Kong, the Silver Blade Mochizuki Jirou ventures to Japan only to find vampirism -- the Black Blood menance -- has tainted Tokyo.  Jirou must step forward to fight the Blood Bloods again, a job he's uniquely qualified for -- as Jirou is a vampire, himself. (FUNimation)  
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Friday, Dec 7
FUNimation Screening Room

CATBLUE Dynamite
Set in the 1970s, CATBLUE Dynamite is the story of a girl named Blue and her mix-up with the mob over a missing Frank Sinatra album.  And while going up against an army of hitmen might make a normal woman shake, Blue's anything but normal.  Blue has all the agility and finesse (and ears and a tail) of a cat, and when her reflexes alone aren't enough, she can also count on an undead sidekick.  Sinatra, catgirls, and ghosts are just the start of the psychedelic flick that is CATBLUE Dynamite.  From Romanov Higa, Director of URDA and TANK SWAT 01 and Action Director of the Hellsing Ultimate series. (Wedge Holdings)  
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Saturday, Dec 8
Anime Screening Room

Devil May Cry & Devil May Cry 4
Devil May Cry is one of the biggest, most enduring game franchises of all time, and now it's an unstoppable anime, too!  Join ADV and Capcom for North America's first-ever look at the Devil May Cry 4 game and never-before-seen footage from the upcoming anime series.  Moderated by IGN.com's Chris Carle.  (ADV Films and Capcom)  
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Saturday, Dec 8
Anime Screening Room

Domo
Domo is a strange monster-like creature born from an egg, shaped like a box, and, of course, brown and fuzzy.  He's also on the cover of NYAF's Program Guide.  Now, get a first look at Domo's epic adventures! (Big Tent)
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Saturday, Dec 8
Live-Action Screening Room

Honey and Clover
Takemoto Yuuta, Mayama Takumi, and Morita Shinobu are college students who share a small apartment. Even though they're poor, they're able to find happiness together.  But what happens when a girl appears?  Based on the manga by Chica Umino. (VIZ Pictures)
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Sunday, Dec 9
Live-Action Screening Room

Kanon
Returning to Japan after spending years away, Yuuchi encounters several female childhood friends.  But the girls are now women, and Yuuchi is a man.  Memories, friendships, and fantasies swirl together in this powerful new animation. (ADV Films)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Friday, Dec 7
ADV Screening Room

6:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Saturday, Dec 8
ADV Screening Room

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Sunday, Dec 9
ADV Screening Room

Lovely Complex
Risa is taller than the average girl, and Otani is shorter than the average boy. They've always been unlucky in love and relied on each other for support.  Could they rely on each other for more?  Based on the manga by Aya Nakahara.  (VIZ Pictures)
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Friday, Dec 7
Live-Action Screening Room

Media Blasters Premiere
Media Blasters, New York City's own anime company, presents a special premiere of a new title never seen before.  See one of the company's newest titles and meet the women and men behind it is this exclusive event!
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sunday, Dec 9
Anime Screening Room

My Santa
Mai is a Santa in training.  Santa is a sad boy alone on Christmas Eve.  What happens when Mai and Santa meet?  Will she be the Christmas gift he's been wishing for? (FUNimation) 
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday, Dec 9
FUNimation Screening Room

NANA
Two young women, both named Nana, one a punk rocker and the other from the upper middle class, find each other in Tokyo as their lives, loves, and careers intertwine. Based on the manga by Ai Yazawa. (VIZ Pictures) 
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Sunday, Dec 9
Live-Action Screening Room

One Piece: Episode of Alabaster with Cast and Crew
Luffy and his crew come to the rescue of a land locked in a horrible civil war.  Will they be able to save the day?  Will they be able to save themselves?  If you haven't heard the new FUNimation One Piece dub, this is your place to start!  If you have heard the FUNimation dub, this is your chance to meet the women and men who made it possible!  Colleen Clinkenbeard (the voice of Luffy), Sonny Strait (the voice of Usopp), Producer Justin Cook, and ADR Director Mike McFarland will all introduce the film and take questions from the audience.  
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Saturday, Dec 8
Anime Panel Room

Shuffle
Rin leads a pretty uneventful life -- until the King of the Gods moves in next door and his heavenly daughter falls in love with him.  Great, huh?  Well, when the King of the Demons moves in, too, and his daughter also swoons for Rin, things get a bit complicated.  Is Rin in Heaven or Hell? (FUNimation) 
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Sunday, Dec 9
FUNimation Screening Room

SOS! Tokyo Metro Explorers
Director Shinji Takagi (Animation Director of Steamboy and Blood: The Last Vampire) leads this adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's short manga about a fifth grader who discovers a notebook that leads him on an expedition to a community living beneath Tokyo. (Bandai Visual) 
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Friday, Dec 7
Anime Screening Room

Tsubasa and xxxHOLiC: The Movie
CLAMP.  Need we say more?  Take in the first American screening of CLAMP's impossibly gorgeous Tsubasa and xxxHOLiC: The Movie.  It will be pretty.  Oh,  so very, very pretty. (FUNimation) 
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Saturday, Dec 8
FUNimation Screening Room

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