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Media company Avex Pictures revealed on Tuesday that Studio BONES president and producer Masahiko Minami will be present at the company’s panel at this year’s Anime NYC event on November 17 at 6 p.m. EST introduces a new anime project. The panel will also feature Avex Pictures and Tatsunoko Production’s Original Polar Princess!! pole dancing anime and the latest original anime short film Garden of Remembrance by Naoko Yamada. Avex Pictures also revealed that voice actress idol unit i☆Ris will perform at the convention and have autograph sessions.
Minami worked as production/animation executive on Mobile Suit Zeta Gundunda, and later as production/desk director on Sunrise such anime as Aoki Ryūsei SPT Layzner, City Hunter, The Vision of Escaflowne and Cowboy Bebop. He founded BONES with former Sunrise employees Hiroshi Osaka and Toshihiro Kawamoto in 1998, whose first work included collaborating with Sunrise on Cowboy Bebop: The Movie. He has been the president and producer of BONES ever since, and is credited as a producer or planner on many of their subsequent productions, including the studio’s first original feature-length animated film Sword of the Stranger, as well as Fullmetal Alchemist, My Hero AcadeKaren, Eureka Seven, Space Dandy, Snow White with Red Hair, etc.
i☆Ris includes Saki Yamakita, Yū Serizawa, Himika Akaneya, Yūki Wakai and Miyu Kubota. In addition to being musical performers, all members are also anime voice actors. Azuki Shibuya left the group on March 31, 2021. The group has performed theme songs for anime such as Pretty Rhythm Rainbow Live, Mushibugyō, Fantasista Stella, Hantsu x Recycle, Twin Star Exorcists, Akiba’s Trip: The Animation, PriPara , Idol Time PriPara , Magical Girl Website, The Wise Man’s Grandson and Magical Sempai.
Anime NYC 2023 will take place from November 17 to 19. The event will continue to have the same space it has used for the past few years at New York City’s Javits Center.
Source: Press release