With Festival International de Louisiane two weeks away, we asked our resident music expert to take a look at a few of the acts Lafayette's premiere event will feature this year.
Sonoda designed a number of ARTMIC projects including Bubblegum Crisis and Gall Force before creating Riding Bean and later Gunsmith Cats . Sonoda set the bounty-hunting story of Gunsmith Cats in Chicago (not far from Anime Central), and last appeared in Anime Central a decade ago in 1998. Gunsmith Cats : Burst manga editor Tada will join Sonoda on this trip.
In the midst of a grueling storm, burly he-men Lostman and Goro Saruwatari clamber to the peak of Mt. Everest, a feat the execution of which had already left a testosterone-deficient French climbing team dead behind them.
Shigofumi: Letters from the Departed comes from a dream team of highly acclaimed anime creators including Tatsuo Sato ( Stellvia , Nadesico ), Ichirou Ohkouchi ( Code Geass , Planetes ) and Kouhaku Kuroboshi ( Kino's Journey ). The story follows Fumika, a not-so-ordinary mail messenger who delivers not-so-ordinary letters, which Shota, a 16-year-old rocket enthusiast, soon discovers when Fumika