Ballet student Ahiru ("duck") is clumsy, good-hearted and sweet, and a duck. The mysterious Drosselmayer transformed her into a girl to give her a mission: help the Prince get his heart back. To do so, she becomes Princess Tutu, whose magical dances ease pain and purify bad feelings. Panelists:
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To escape death, baby Recca Hanabishi was sent 400 years into the future by the Hokage Clan. Now he's a modern day ninja determined to protect his "princess" Yanagi. After discovering his heritage and some magical powers, Recca must stop his long-lost half brother from kidnapping Yanagi. Panelists:
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Twenty-two years ago an earthquake destroyed an area now known as the Lost Ground. This land became home to Alter users, people with psychic abilities. HOLY, a special task force comprised of "law-abiding" Alter users, intends to bring the Alter users under control. If Kazuma, a Native Alter, has anything to say about it, the Natives will run free. Panelists:
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Five years ago, almost every villager of Ootsuka died due to a tragic plague, except for three: a girl and two boys. Now they live in isolation, hidden from those who may seek to find them. Shino, one of the survivors, has control over the power of Murasame, the blade of life. But when the imperial church seeks to take Murasame for themselves, their peaceful life becomes a thing of the past... Panelists:
In a domed city on an inhospitable future Earth, Inspector Re-l Mayer leads an investigation concerning AutoReiv androids that have gone mad after infection with a virus. In the process, she comes in contact with a strange monster called Proxy. Panelists:
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Thursday July 2, 2015 10:00pm - Friday July 3, 2015 12:00am CDT
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Meet Hitmi, an average Japanese high-school girl who finds herself whisked away to the magical world of Java, where conflict is brewing between the kingdom of Folgeria and the Starbach Empire. Could it be that Hitmi has the power to save the day? If you don’t know the answer to that, you probably haven't seen much anime. Panelists:
Thursday July 2, 2015 11:30pm - Friday July 3, 2015 12:30am CDT
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The underground city of Lux is ruled by the maffia alliance Organo and kept alive only to mine Raffia, which allows scientists to replace human limbs with mechanical ones ("texhnolyzation"), for a price. Ichise was at the bottom of the social ladder until a gift of texhnolyzation raises him to the ranks of the Organo. From there, he bears witness to the final atrocities of humanity. Panelists:
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Unico the Unicorn was born with the power to make anyone happy. The gods become jealous, thinking that only they should decide who can be happy, so they banish Unico to the Hill of Oblivion. The West Wind feels bad for him, though, so instead she takes him on a journey to escape the wrath of the gods, spreading happiness as they go. Panelists:
Devilman is a soldier of the Demon clan who was ordered to spread chaos on earth. He takes over a human body, but interacting with humans convinces him that they are actually pretty cool. Instead of spreading chaos, he protects them from the rest of the Demon clan. Panelists:
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An anthology of four short films: a traveler is confronted by spirits in an abandoned shrine; a story of honor and firefighting in ancient Japan; a white bear defends the royal family from a monstrous red demon; ragtag soldiers battle a robotic force in futuristic Japan. Panelists:
After a plane crash, a robot is asked to portray one of the crash victims in order to conduct experimental therapy for the woman he left behind. Kurumi has been so overwrought that she will not leave her closet. As "Hal" tries to coax her back into the world, he pieces together the nature of their relationship, but can he handle the devestating truth that lies at the successful completion of the mission? Panelists:
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A cute kitten named Chi gets lost, and a human family living nearby finds her and decides to adopt her. Unfortunately, pets are not allowed in their apartment complex, so the Yamada family must keep her hidden from the landlady. Chi expores her new world as only an adorable kitten can. Panelists:
A millenium from now, Saki Watanabe lives in an idyllic village barred from the outside world. After finally gaining her own psychokinetic powers, she enters Zenjin Academy to train with five other children. However, this utopian village is not what it seems; students are rumored to disappear from the academy, and the world is darker than they think. Panelists:
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Online fantasy RPG Elder Tales has become popular worldwide, but when its twelfth expansion package, "Cultivate the Noosphere," is installed, thirty thousand players are trapped inside. Among them is grad student Shiroe, who forms a guild called Log Horizon with an eclectic group of other players to survive in a world full of monsters. Panelists:
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What if you could kill anyone, anywhere, with no repercussions? Ace student Light Yagami finds a notebook dropped by a Death God and seems to gain just that power. With the Death Note in hand, he decides to create his own crime-free utopia. However, when criminals start dropping dead, a legendary detective takes notice. Panelists:
On November 22, 2010 ten missiles strike Japan. However, what is later to be called "Careless Monday" does not result in any apparent victims, and is soon forgotten by almost everyone. Three months later, Saki Morimi meets a naked man with no memory in front of the White House holding a gun and a phone charged with 8,200,000,000 yen in digital cash. Panelists:
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CVG's annual collection of the best independent genre short films from around the Midwest. New this year--Audience Choice Awards! So be sure to stop buy and vote for your favorite film. Sponsored by Convergence Events and IPR College of Arts. Panelists: Troy LaFaye
In the future, just thinking about a crime is enough to make you guilty, and justice is dispensed from the barrel of a gun. Now one deranged genius has mastered the art of justifying his own heinous deeds, and the system is powerless to stop him. Panelists:
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Friday July 3, 2015 10:30pm - Saturday July 4, 2015 12:00am CDT
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All Keanu and Ash wanted was to have a good time at ASUX (the largest anime convention in the known universe). If they knew the fate of the con would end up in their hands, they probably would've stayed home. Panelists:
Friday July 3, 2015 11:30pm - Saturday July 4, 2015 12:30am CDT
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Yuki Amano is a loner, his only companion being an imaginary friend named Deus Ex Machina, the God of Time and Space. However, Yuki soon learns that Deus is not a figment of his imagination but real when Deus makes him participate in a battle royale. The contestants are given special diaries that can predict the future, among other features. Panelists:
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Urged by his Father, Horus and his pet bear Coro travel to his ancestral village, a place destroyed by the Frost King Grunwald. Along the way, he helps a village whose residents are besieged by Grunwald's magic, but the villagers feel threatened when he befriends Hilda, a beautiful girl whose haunting songs conceal a dark secret. Panelists:
Honey Kisaragi thought she was a normal high school girl until her father is killed by the evil organization Panther Claw for his powerful invention. In her father's last message, it turns out Honey is actually an android, and she had what they wanted all along. Can she defeat Panther Claw and avenge her father? Panelists:
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After a failed attempt by the Galactic Alliance of Humankind to destroy an enemy super-weapon, Ensign Ledo is knocked into a wormhole and regains consciousness six months later as his mech is being investigated by "primitive" human scavengers. With no hope of rescue, he must adjust to life on an ocean-covered Earth, a planet he had thought was a myth. Panelists:
Rumors say Casshern caused the Ruin, which is now slowly killing all the robots on earth. The trouble is, Casshern has lost his memories. He needs to find them soon, though, because rumors also say that whoever devours Casshern will gain eternal life. Panelists:
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After Tokyo is flattened by a great earthquake, multi-million dollar company Genom Corp rebuilds MegaTokyo in its place using biomechanical creatures called Boomers. When they begin to run out of control, the Knight Sabers are the only ones with enough firepower and resourcefullness to defend the fledgling MegaTokyo from Genom and its berserk Boomers. Panelists:
A perpetual victim of bullying, middle school student Haruyuki spends his time absorbed in games in a corner of his local Neurolinker network. One day he is approached by the most famous girl in his school, Kuroyukihime ("Black Snow Princess"). She gives him a strange program called Brain Burst that has the power to "accelerate the world." Panelists:
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Lain Iwakura appears to be an ordinary girl, with almost no experience with computers. Yet the sudden suicide of a schoolmate, and a number of strange occurrences, conspire to pull Lain into the world of the Wired. She gradually learns that nothing is what it seems to be... not even Lain herself. Panelists:
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Thirty-one years have passed since the outbreak of World War III, and the authorities are waging a constant struggle against the underground of Neo-Tokyo. When a motorcycle gang runs into an escaped child with psychic powers, one of their members' own powers are awakened. His warped mind sets him on the path of revenge for all who once called him weak. Panelists:
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The fate of the world is threatened by seemingly monstrous entities known as Angels. NERV is an organisation set up to counter this threat and it is up to its young pilots to protect Earth, but what are the real motives behind NERV? Panelists:
It doesn't bother Shinji that his father (who might be a pimp) thinks giant robots are babe magnets. It doesn't bother him that he shares an apartment with a strangely masculine German girl. It doesn't even bother him that the world may be coming to an end thanks to a long forgotten Prince song. The only thing on Shinji's mind is the nookie, whatever that is. Panelists:
Saturday July 4, 2015 11:30pm - Sunday July 5, 2015 12:30am CDT
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Saturday July 4, 2015 11:30pm - Sunday July 5, 2015 1:30am CDT
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Martial artist Kenshiro travels the post-nuclear desert to confront his rival Shin, who has kidnapped his fiancee. On his journey, he fights to protect the weak from armies of thugs, and never before have so many been killed by just one man. In this future, violence IS the solution! Panelists:
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While battling the Jaaku Empire, Guardian of Light Eldran crash lands his combining robot Raijin-Oh into an elementary school. Called elsewhere, he leaves the children to operate Raijin-Oh against the Evil Beasts unleashed on Earth by the Empire. Panelists:
High school girls Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu are transported to the magical world of Cephiro during a field trip. To return home, they must become the legendary Magic Knights and save Cephiro. They soon learn that friendship is the only thing they can rely on in this crumbling world. Panelists:
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God has abandoned the world, no more children are born, and the dead must walk the earth unless put to rest by "gravekeepers." Ai Astin, a young gravekeeper, sets out on a journey after everyone in her town is killed by a man who claims she isn't what she thinks. Who is Ai really, and why has God given up on humanity? Panelists:
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High-school student Jinta Yadomi has been a shut-in since his childhood friend Meiko Honma died, until her ghost returns asking him to fulfull the wish she made as a kid. Slowly their group of friends reunites to work through the guilt they still carry about her death. Panelists:
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Mirai and her brother Yuuki go to Tokyo's artificial Odaiba Island for a robot exhibition at the start of summer vacation. Suddenly, a powerful tremor registering 8.0 on the JMA scale strikes, changing the landscape of Tokyo in seconds. With the help of a motorcycle delivery woman named Mari, Mirai and Yuuki strive to return home. Panelists:
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After Utena's friend is insulted by a member of the Student Council at Ohtori Academy, Utena must fight a duel for her honor. Surprisingly, a ring once given to her by a prince allows her to enter the dueling arena, where she wins and becomes engaged to the Rose Bride. Now she must fight to protect her and to discover the horrifying secret of Ohtori Academy. Panelists:
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