We just got back from New York Anime Fest this year and it was a great success! From the fans who came by the booth to shop, to everyone who made it out to are many events FUNimation was well represented and received this weekend. Here is a little video with some of the fun we had at the show.

over 20,000 people showed up to the convention and Soul Eater was the real Bell of the ball. The ACParadise/Soul Eater voice cast skit was something that had never been tried before and the fans ate it up. I can happily say that everyone involved loved taking part in the event and thanks everyone who came out and gave them such a huge ovation. That was, like, awesome and stuff.

The skit wasn’t the only surprise either.  We had a special greeting from the Japanese director and voice actors of Soul Eater.  After that we rolled the first three episodes of the English dub.  The voice actors and additional extra guests who worked on Soul Eater both in North America as well as Japan came on stage to talk about the project and take questions from the audience.

I had to duck out early to take care of the Soul Eater cast autograph line that was about to break a few fire codes with the amount of people who wanted to line up.  In less than 60 seconds we had capped the line.  When the autograph session started the cosplayers from the skit each stood next to their voice actor counterpart.  The fans loved this idea and we had all of them pose together for a big picture at the end.

Proving that we also were promoting some other shows other than Soul Eater at NYAF we had Travis Willingham, who did make a surprise visit at the Soul Eater panel, on hand signing autographs for Fullmetal Alchemist.  Screenings for Sgt. Frog, Evangelion 1.0: You are (not) alone, as well as some of our newest titles had standing room only over the weekend.

If you haven’t heard we had a few announcements at our industry panel.  We are very happy to be working on FMA Brotherhood, to be bringing X back to the shelves, and to release a re-dub and uncut Initial D.

With NYAF coming to an end this completes our very heavy September of conventions.  I hope that everyone who made it out to a show had a great time and I hope to see you guys, and new people, at conventions in the future!  As for now – I need sleep

*head desk*

UPDATE: If you crave more Soul Eater, check out Anime Vice’s interview with Micah Solusod (English voice of Soul).
http://www.animevice.com/news/nyaf09-meet-micah-solusod/2532/

16 Responses to “NYAF – A soulful show for sure”

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Hannah on September 30th, 2009 at 12:06 pm says:

NUTS FOR NUTS.
 
Wonder if they’ll show the making of that cake on Ace of Cakes…

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nightastronomer on September 30th, 2009 at 12:27 pm says:

@Hannah,of course they will.The producers of Ace of Cakes usually film their cakes for big events like this one. The mural looks amazing! And that Transformers bumble bee cosplayer looks freaking awesome!

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dragon0 on September 30th, 2009 at 1:48 pm says:

That Soul Eater mural was sweet. I can’t imagin the amount of work that went into that. Great job Eric. love the other cast announcments as well, can not wait for Soul Eater. Over all vid was awsome.

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Jackle on September 30th, 2009 at 2:09 pm says:

I went on Saturday so I wasn’t able to see Eric’s completed work. I did take plenty of pics though.
Travis was sweet when I was getting his autograph.
OMG! That’s me at 8:04 with my friend and my brother!! You can’t see my face ’cause she telling me a story…
Anyways…I wish I could have taken a picture with Todd. Micah was pretty mellow for his first convention. He was excited when I told him that I liked his character in Blassreiter. The line was UBER long. Two hours of wait…but it was worth it, epscially for my first convention. Good times, good times…..

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Soymilk Purin on September 30th, 2009 at 2:26 pm says:

NYAF rocked. Thanks for the great recap video.

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Kyoko on September 30th, 2009 at 2:47 pm says:

SO. JEALOUS. OF. THAT. CON.
Sounds like Soul Eater’ s gonna be a hoot to watch in English! Can’t wait for the DVD release!!! XD

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Stullz on September 30th, 2009 at 2:58 pm says:

Good showing Funi! However the biggest announcement for me was that Viz licensed the Library Wars Manga (Shojou version) so now I have a little more hope for the anime and shonen manga to be licensed. All are excellent fun.

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gia on September 30th, 2009 at 3:47 pm says:

Anyone who wants to spend a little time with Soul Eater Evans voice actor Micah Solusod can hop right on over here to do so.
I’m also TRYING to find my Adam footage but it’s lost in the shuffle here at the moment. Soon! @_@

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Adam S. on September 30th, 2009 at 4:51 pm says:

@gia: you lost me?!?  That’s not good.  Now I have no clue where I am. ^_^

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Corey Lucas on September 30th, 2009 at 8:12 pm says:

I WAS THERE!! WOOOT!!

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dragon0 on September 30th, 2009 at 8:25 pm says:

@ Adam S
I’m sure this WON”T help but ………. I don’t know were you are but I deffinetly know were your not. :lol:

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EvilGamerX on September 30th, 2009 at 8:29 pm says:

The con was great.  The Soul Eater panel was awesome!  Hopefully you guys get something good planned for next year ’cause now the big room will be open-up since NYAF is merging with NYCC.  I look forward to it!

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Asrialys on September 30th, 2009 at 10:06 pm says:

Haha, who was that that ate Asuna’s face?

For whatever reason, I can’t seem to post when I’m signed it…

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Nebs on September 30th, 2009 at 11:02 pm says:

No, Adam ate my Asuna-chan.

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sakura9 on October 5th, 2009 at 2:31 pm says:

Awesome Soul Eater panel! that cake looked really, really amazing

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RV on October 5th, 2009 at 4:48 pm says:

I WAS THERE!! WOOOT!!