San Diego Comic-Con International and Udon Entertainment confirmed that they are going to host manga creator Kia Asamiya (Speope!, Quiet Möbius, Steam Detectives) as one of many particular visitors for this 300 and sixty five days’s match on July 24-27, whereas director Shinji Higuchi (Shin Godzilla, Shin Ultraman) will appear at the convention’s “Godzilla at 70: Seven Decades of the King of the Monsters” panel on July 25.
Asamiya created the Quiet Möbius, Steam Detectives, Compiler, and Junk: File of the Ideal Hero manga, amongst others. He provided persona designs for the Martian Successor Nadesico anime (which he later adapted into the Nadesico manga), adapted the Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Possibility film into a manga, and wrote and drew the Batman: The Runt one of Dreams comic. Hundreds of his manga had been adapted into anime.
The “Kia Asamiya: 40 Years of Imagination and Visions” panel will be on Thursday, July 24 at 3:30 p.m. PDT at Room 24ABC, and Asamiya will additionally appear with Udon artists Edwin Huang, Jeffrey Cruz, and Prolonged Vo at “The Artistry of Anime and Game Art” panel on the identical day at 5:00 p.m. PDT at Room 5AB.
Higuchi changed into once an early member of anime studio Gainax, and labored on storyboards and scripts on just a few of its most notable projects, including Gunbuster, Otaku no Video, and Neon Genesis Evangelion. Excluding co-directing Shin Godzilla with fellow Gainax founding member Hideaki Anno, he additionally directed the are living-motion films of Hajime Isayama‘s Attack on Titan manga, and over again collaborated with Anno in Shin Ultraman, where he directed whereas Anno wrote the script. He changed into once the executive director on the Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan normal anime sequence, written by Mari Okada (Maquia, maboroshi, Fureru.). He most lately directed Bullet Educate Explosion, a remake of the 1975 Eastern motion thriller Shinkansen Daibakuha (The Bullet Educate/Clean Explicit 109).
Higuchi will be half of visitors from Super7, Mondo, Bandai, DC Comics, IDW Comics, and Marvel Comics at the “Godzilla at 70: Seven Decades of the King of the Monsters” panel on Friday, July 25 at 4:15 p.m. PDT at Room 6DE. He will additionally be retaining a signing at the Super7 gross sales field on the identical day at 11:00 a.m. PDT.
Sources: Electronic mail correspondence, San Diego Comic-Con internet sites (hyperlink 2), The Wrap
