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Icka! M. Chif ([personal profile] ickaimp) wrote2005-07-05 04:21 pm

Back

Back from AnimeExpo 2005 and desprately trying to get my brain to work. @_@;; So much to say and none of it coming out right now.

Met up with Becky, ran into Tdei (have you considered playing football? you're a great tackler) and didn't find Sam Curt. ;_; Did end up meeting up with my Dad and family twice. ^___^

Um... Hey, Bridget? Approx half of your art sold... #^^#

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Went to the Horikawa Ryo panel at AX. ^__^
He speaks english fairly well and it was his voice during the episode that Heiji speaks english to Jodie-sensei. When he was younger, his family was a host family for an exchange student. He taught her Japanese, she taught him English and he's kept it up. He still had a translator for occasional clarification and to translate his longer answers.

My question (if anyone was there, I was the red-head dressed in all black wearing the corset) was if he practised Kendo, seeing as Heiji and Onimaru from Yaiba also practise Kendo. He said he didn't, but he did so several action things that helped with making the sounds.

The majority of the questions asked were about Vegita from DBZ, which it looked like he kinda got tired of after a while, it's been such a long time since he's worked on it, he's forgotten a lot of details.

He's currently working as a Producer for an anime (I didn't catch the name) designed for both children and adults, involving CGI animation. He also commented he would like to do more voices for Detectives. Huzzah!!!

... had the opertunity to get is autograph, but that's when I met up with Becky Tailweaver and we ended up running off instead. #^^# Sorry.

Also ended up talking with some of the Funi people at their booth, the people running it were mostly from Marketing. (feel to skip if you're up to date on the Funi CC stuff.)

The trouble with the 'Conan' name did indeed come from copyright issues with 'Conan the Barbarian', although they just came to an agreement through lawyers that they can now say 'Detective Conan showing on Case Closed'.
Upcoming DVDs will now have 6 episodes per disk instead of 4 and the covers will be reversable, DC on one side, CC on the other.
They did manage to find away around the name thing in the second movie, the 14th Target, but the marketing people have no idea how. (they made a comment about when the name thing was pointed out, one of the head guys just shrugged and commented that he was glad that he wasn't a writer. ^__^ )
According to them, Kuroba Kaito doesn't have an offical translated name yet.

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Will do a better re-cap when either our brain is working again or we scan in the con-report. ^^;; Did lots of sketches.

[identity profile] tdei.livejournal.com 2005-07-06 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
:D! WHEEEEEE~! ::GLOMPLUFF!::

Football? XD; I'm scrawny and have no stamnia. They'll snap me like a twig. XD;;; ::snomps:: :O ...sorry you didn't get to find Sam Curt!

::huggles!:: *^^* ::purrrrr::

[identity profile] lil-1337.livejournal.com 2005-07-06 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like you had a good time! *waits for details a viewing of sketches*

[identity profile] bewilde.livejournal.com 2005-07-06 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
Whoo! I'm rich, I'm rich!

...or at least, I'll be slightly less poor in about 6 weeks when they get checks sent out... ;)

Thank you so much!

[identity profile] ickaimp.livejournal.com 2005-07-06 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Thank YOU!!! XD
Wouldn't have been able to go to con otherwise. And it was fun to act as your agent as well.

[identity profile] fergiebaby.livejournal.com 2005-07-06 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Congrabulations!

ICKA ROCKS!!!

[identity profile] kosaginolegion.livejournal.com 2005-07-06 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
He speaks english fairly well and it was his voice during the episode that Heiji speaks english to Jodie-sensei. When he was younger, his family was a host family for an exchange student. He taught her Japanese, she taught him English and he's kept it up. He still had a translator for occasional clarification and to translate his longer answers.

It has always amused me that Horikawa Ryo's english sounds more realistic than Miss Jodi's. One rather suspects that (in the context of the story) it amuses Heiji somewhat as well.

[identity profile] ickaimp.livejournal.com 2005-07-06 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
Figured you'd like that bit of info. ~_^

... DC story wise, also makes a good reason for why Heiji can tell a pure American accent, if he'd learned it from an exchange student his family had been hosting. Mwuahahhahahaha.

-He's also got a good singing voice, he was asked to sing at the panel ^________^

[identity profile] hoshi-ryo.livejournal.com 2005-07-07 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
...still, an American accent (or the lack of one) doesn't always mean you're American or not.

I'm working on the timing of explaining exactly where I come from. ("You know where the soccer and baseball fields are? First place I lived.")

And I think this is your plot bunny, Icka:
<Hakuba> Somebody stole my accent!
(No, no idea, aside from Kaito having something to do with it.)

[identity profile] magic-truth.livejournal.com 2005-07-06 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, you're that's so cool. DBZ, eternally popular ::sighs::. If you don't mind my asking. Did you happen to find out who the VA for Kid would be in the CC version?

So lucky! I hope I have the chance to head to the ComicCon this year.

[identity profile] ickaimp.livejournal.com 2005-07-06 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
Um... didn't ask about Kid's English VA but it's on ANN:

Julien Haggege
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=22754

funny thing is that on ANN, they list him as 'Kaitou Kid' for the english cast too. o_O

[identity profile] skyechan.livejournal.com 2005-07-06 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
Icka? That'd be the GERMAN cast. ^^;;

[identity profile] ickaimp.livejournal.com 2005-07-06 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
Well, bugger.

Guess they don't state it after all.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=454
There's a lot of names there uncredited too.

-sorry.

[identity profile] magic-truth.livejournal.com 2005-07-06 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh. That's all right. I was just curious whether they were going to go the same route as the Japanese and have Shinichi/Jimmy's VA be the Kaitou Kid's.

[identity profile] goover.livejournal.com 2005-07-07 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
I hope they don't change his name to Kenny or Kyle or something like that. -_- That would... Suck.

Dunno

[identity profile] ickaimp.livejournal.com 2005-07-07 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
Rumour has it as 'Kris'.
Saa....

Re: Dunno

[identity profile] jeva-chan.livejournal.com 2005-07-07 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
T___T I weep for the loss of the proper names...

[identity profile] jeva-chan.livejournal.com 2005-07-06 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Wh00t. Glad to have you back and glad to hear you had fun ^_^'

Lucky~~! Getting to see Horikawa Ryo. ^_^'''

[identity profile] skyechan.livejournal.com 2005-07-06 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
It never really occurred to me that the whole name thing in 14th Target would be a major problem. I wonder how they did get around it...?

I'm glad you had a great time! :3

Kaito's Name

[identity profile] goover.livejournal.com 2005-07-07 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
My best friend thinks their going to change his name to The Kenny Kid. *backs away in horror* If they do that, I'm suing.

[identity profile] morgan-idril.livejournal.com 2005-07-07 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
Glad you had fun, found Becky and B-ko sold pics. Wheee.... Also interested to know I was right and it was Howard's estate that the had to deal with...Robert Howard wrote the Conan the Barbarian stories in the 30s and 40s, if my mind is working right.

*waves hooray for conventions flag*