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1st Anime Contents Expo's Title List Announced
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The official website for the Anime Contents Expo (ACE) revealed the lineup of titles that will be featured at the event. The event will be held for the first time next year from March 31 to April 1. That weekend happens to be one week after next year's Tokyo International Anime Fair (March 22-25). The inaugural outing for the ACE event will be held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba east of Tokyo.
This year's Anime Contents Expo was cancelled six days after the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake (Higashi Nihon Daishinsai) disaster of March 11. If it had been held, it would have run during the same weekend as Tokyo International Anime Fair, which was also cancelled this year.
The title lineup for the event is as follows (note: not all titles are anime-related):
- The Idolm@ster
- Ao no Exorcist
- Aquarion Evol
- Accel World
- Appare! Tenkagomen
- Another
- Ano Natsu de Matteru
- Anohana
- Ikki Tousen: Shūgaku Tōshi Keppu-roku
- Inu × Boku SS
- Imasugu Oniichan ni Imoto Datte Iitai! (I wanna say that I'm not your brother right now!!)
- Uta no Prince Sama
- A Channel
- Eureka Seven Ao
- Ore-tachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai
- Cardfight!! Vanguard
- Kimi to Boku 2
- Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere
- Gyo
- Guilty Crown
- Guilty Crown Lost Xmas
- Gintama
- Queen's Blade: Rebellion
- Love, Election, & Chocolate (Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate)
- Sakura no Ondo
- Steins;Gate
- Shin Koihime Musō
- Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita
- Sutasuka Kuji (Starry Sky)
- Strike Witches film
- Zero no Tsukaima F
- Senki Zesshō Symphogear
- Sengoku Koihime
- Sword Art Online
- D.C. III: Da Capo III
- Tantei Opera Milky Holmes
- Dog Days
- Natsume Yūjin-Chō Shi
- Naruto Shippūden: Blood Prison
- Nisemonogatari
- High School DxD
- Hakuōki
- Listen To Me Girls, I'm Your Father!
- Hikari
- Hidamari Sketch
- Fate/Zero
- Black Rock Shooter
- Blood-C The Last Dark
- Bleach
- Brave10
- Persona 4 The Animation
- Penguin We Nishi
- Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai
- Hotarubi no Mori e
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the Movie 2nd A's
- Minori Scramble!
- Mōretsu Pirates
- Yuri Seijin Naoko-san
- Jormungand
- 47 Todōfuken
- Rinne no Lagrange Flower declaration of your heart
- Rurouni Kenshin: Shin Kyoto-Hen
The official website is also listing the companies that will exhibit at the event. Some of the companies include ASCII Media Works, Aniplex, Animate, Enterbrain, Kadokawa Shoten, Good Smile Company, Cospa, Geneon Universal Entertainment Japan, Showgate, Nico Nico Douga, nitro+, Navel, Bandai Visual, 5pb, Starchild, Bushiroad, Broccoli, Frontier Works, Media Factory, ufotable, and Warner Home Video.
Kadokawa Shoten President Shinichiro Inoue said that his company will exhibit at ACE and not at Tokyo International Anime Fair. The Yomiuri Shimbun paper had reported that Aniplex plans to do the same.
Source: Anime Anime Biz
