Animazement takes place this coming weekend down at the convention center in Raleigh, North Carolina with a pretty incredible group of guests. Fans have been anticipating what kind of panels and autograph sessions will take place, and the convention has started to drip out some of these details through its Facebook page. Here is our own cheat-sheet for the weekend in terms of Dragon Ball-related content, spanning both the original Japanese and FUNimation English casts of the show (note that some panels may not be exclusive to Dragon Ball, especially in the case of miscellaneous English voice actor panels, or the One Piece voice panel that happens to have various Dragon Ball actors):
(BLUE: Japanese cast; RED: English cast; PURPLE: both)
FRIDAY (5/24):
- 12:30 G44 — World of Heroes’ Voices w/ Masako Nozawa (302B) / A01 — AUTOGRAPHS: Kyle Hebert (301A) / G47 — Sean Schemmel’s World (302C)
- 14:00 A06 — AUTOGRAPHS: Masako Nozawa (301B)
- 15:00 Z01 — Opening Ceremonies (401AB)
- 16:30 G43 — Here Comes One Piece! w/ Ryūsei Nakao, Toshio Furukawa, Yūko Minaguchi (302A)
- 17:30 A08 — AUTOGRAPHS: Ryūsei Nakao, Toshio Furukawa, Yūko Minaguchi (301B)
- 18:00 G49 — Geek Talk w/ Kyle Hebert (302C)
- 20:00 V56 — Dragon Ball Z Movie 5 – Subtitled (305B)
SATURDAY (5/25):
- 10:30 G38 — Talking with Ataru? Piccolo? Or…? w/ Toshio Furukawa (302B) / G58 — Video Game Voice Acting w/ Kyle Hebert (302C)
- 12:00 A09 — AUTOGRAPHS: Kyle Hebert (301A)
- 15:00 G62 — Animazement presents Dragon Ball West & East Dream match! (401AB)
- 16:30 A16 — AUTOGRAPHS: Ryūsei Nakao, Masako Nozawa, Toshio Furukawa, Yūko Minaguchi + English VAs (401AB)
SUNDAY (5/26):
- 10:00 G28 — SURPRISE AUTOGRAPHS: ?????? (401C)
- 11:00 G65 — Anime Radio w/ Kyle Hebert (302B)
- 11:30 A17 — AUTOGRAPHS: Ryūsei Nakao, Masako Nozawa, Toshio Furukawa, Yūko Minaguchi + English VAs (401C)
- 12:30 G66 — We are GOKU! w/ Masako Nozawa, Sean Schemmel (302B)
- 14:00 G64 — Ryūsei Nakao Off-line! (302A) / G67 — We are VIDEL! w/ Yūko Minaguchi, Kara Edwards (302B)
Animazement has gathered what may be the largest, most-prestigious group of Dragon Ball voice actors to ever be assembled at a North American convention. We will see you there!
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Sounds awesome! 😀 Really wish I could go… Here in Portugal we have very few conventions (only one major one) and our guests are pretty much down to four crappy dubbers that people only even go to their panels for nostagia’s sake (no one cares about their current series).
12:30 G66 — We are GOKU! w/ Masako Nozawa, Sean Schemmel (302B)
Wow, those two Goku’s next to each other will make a strange and rare situation. I’m hoping people get their cameras recording!
Geez! Why do I have to save up for college?! I wanna go so badly!
I’ve never really been able to rationalize forking over the cash necessary to attend a con, until a month or so back this wonderful website informed me Goku was gonna be there! Thanks Kanzenshuu!!
Me too I would love to go!.
Here in Spain are not such events, at most lead to a couple of benders in halls of manga.
Hope you paseis great! ^_^
One of those surprises you mentioned on the podcast wouldn’t happen to be recordings of these panels, would it? 🙁
Bust out the cameras and video recorders folks, because this is possibly the biggest Dragon Ball-related convention held in the US to date. It’s a real shame for myself and everyone else who isn’t able to go, but at least in this day and age we can resort to Youtube (and maybe the podcast?) for some of the convention action.