Anime Expo 2012 Will Use New iPhone/iPad App To Crown The “Anime Karaoke MA'★”
LOS ANGELES (June 15, 2012) -- Anime Expo® -- North America's largest anime, manga and Japanese pop culture celebration, will take its karaoke competition to an exciting, high-tech level when it returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center on June 29 – July 2, 2012. Contestants will use the newly launched iPhone/iPad App, "Anime Karaoke Ma'★", to sing along with their favorite anime songs and compete for the best score given by anime character “Hoshino Sora,” the app's built-in Karaoke Android.
The “Anime Karaoke Ma'★" competition sponsored by Cool Japan Music takes place on June 30 from 5 – 7 p.m. The contestants will be cheered by J-pop star LiSA who appears in live concert at Anime Expo (AX). The number of acts is limited to 30 entries with 20 spots reserved for online entry before AX and the remainder reserved for sign-up at the event. To sign up online, please visit https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEJkWFJNaEFmdTRtVXE3U3JlZ05IckE6MQ#gid=0.
In order to rehearse with the App, aspiring contestants can download it for free from iTunes US App Store; the App comes with a special promotion track, "Oath Sign", the opening track of "Fate/Zero", originally performed by LiSA. You can also subscribe to the App for $2.99 and have access to the entire catalogue or come to AX Karaoke Room during the open mic session for hands on practice.
Anime Expo 2012 (AX) will present some of today's most exciting anime, manga, musical, game and fashion artists from Japan and the U.S.; main event concerts and contests such as the crowd favorite Masquerade; new and exciting interactive offerings and even Lounge 21, where over-21 attendees can enjoy wine, beer and cocktails.
Announced Guests of Honors include composer Yuki Kajiura/”FictionJunction;” anime-inspired heavy metal band ANIMETAL USA; Culture Japan's Danny Choo; Fate/Zero” creative team Hikaru Konda, Ei Aoki and Rikiya Koyama; Madhouse creative team Asaka Morio, Kunihiko Hamada and Takuya Tsunoki; animation director Tatsuo Sato; voice actors Ryo Horikawa, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Jamie Marchi, Monica Rial, Steve Blum, Joel McDonald and Ian Sinclair; Japanese pop star LiSA, Lolita fashion designer Cyril Lumboy, Lolita model Misako Aoki; Tokyo-based Gallery of Fantastic Art and popular cosplayer Jessica Nigri.
About Anime Expo
Now in its 21st year, Anime Expo is North America's larges celebration of anime, manga and Japanese pop culture. AX 2012 will feature and exciting schedule of exclusive screenings; artists' panels; live concerts; cosplay; dance parties, karaoke, and video competitions; non-stop video gaming and unsurpassed shopping from more than 3,000 vendors. AX 2012 takes www.anime-expo.org. Connect with Anime Expo on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube.
About the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation
The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation (SPJA) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to popularize and educate the America public about anime and manga, as well as provide a forum to facilitate communication between professionals and fans. This organization is more popularly known by its entertainment property, Anime Expo®. For more information, please visit www.spja.org.
The “Anime Karaoke Ma'★" competition sponsored by Cool Japan Music takes place on June 30 from 5 – 7 p.m. The contestants will be cheered by J-pop star LiSA who appears in live concert at Anime Expo (AX). The number of acts is limited to 30 entries with 20 spots reserved for online entry before AX and the remainder reserved for sign-up at the event. To sign up online, please visit https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEJkWFJNaEFmdTRtVXE3U3JlZ05IckE6MQ#gid=0.
In order to rehearse with the App, aspiring contestants can download it for free from iTunes US App Store; the App comes with a special promotion track, "Oath Sign", the opening track of "Fate/Zero", originally performed by LiSA. You can also subscribe to the App for $2.99 and have access to the entire catalogue or come to AX Karaoke Room during the open mic session for hands on practice.
Anime Expo 2012 (AX) will present some of today's most exciting anime, manga, musical, game and fashion artists from Japan and the U.S.; main event concerts and contests such as the crowd favorite Masquerade; new and exciting interactive offerings and even Lounge 21, where over-21 attendees can enjoy wine, beer and cocktails.
Announced Guests of Honors include composer Yuki Kajiura/”FictionJunction;” anime-inspired heavy metal band ANIMETAL USA; Culture Japan's Danny Choo; Fate/Zero” creative team Hikaru Konda, Ei Aoki and Rikiya Koyama; Madhouse creative team Asaka Morio, Kunihiko Hamada and Takuya Tsunoki; animation director Tatsuo Sato; voice actors Ryo Horikawa, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Jamie Marchi, Monica Rial, Steve Blum, Joel McDonald and Ian Sinclair; Japanese pop star LiSA, Lolita fashion designer Cyril Lumboy, Lolita model Misako Aoki; Tokyo-based Gallery of Fantastic Art and popular cosplayer Jessica Nigri.
About Anime Expo
Now in its 21st year, Anime Expo is North America's larges celebration of anime, manga and Japanese pop culture. AX 2012 will feature and exciting schedule of exclusive screenings; artists' panels; live concerts; cosplay; dance parties, karaoke, and video competitions; non-stop video gaming and unsurpassed shopping from more than 3,000 vendors. AX 2012 takes www.anime-expo.org. Connect with Anime Expo on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube.
About the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation
The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation (SPJA) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to popularize and educate the America public about anime and manga, as well as provide a forum to facilitate communication between professionals and fans. This organization is more popularly known by its entertainment property, Anime Expo®. For more information, please visit www.spja.org.
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