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Khara, Dwango's Animator Expo Season 2 Promo Streamed

The website for Studio Khara and Dwango's Animator Expo project began streaming a promotional video for the second season of Animator Expo on Thursday. The video previews scenes from the weekly anime shorts that will be shown in the second season.

The video reveals some of the creators involved in the second season, including:

• Mahiro Maeda (Gankutsuou, Blue Submarine No. 6, Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo)
• Hiroyuki Imaishi (Neon Genesis Evangelion, FLCL, Gurren Lagann)
• Shigeto Koyama (Diebuster, Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo, Kill la Kill)
• Takanobu Mizuno (Short Peace: Ranko Tsukigime's Longest Day, Last Window: The Secret of Cape West, Hotel Dusk: Room 215)
• Satoru Utsunomiya (Eureka Seven, The Sky Crawlers, Giovanni's Island)
• Masashi Kawamura (The Tatami Galaxy)
• Kazuya Tsurumaki (Patlabor the Mobile Police, FLCL, Evangelion: 1.0 You Are [Not] Alone)
• Ikuto Yamashita (Gunbuster, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo)
• Kazuhiro Furuhashi (Urusei Yatsura, Rurouni Kenshin: Reflection, Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn)
• Tadashi Hiramatsu (Nadia - The Secret of Blue Water, The End of Evangelion, Jin-Roh - The Wolf Brigade)
• Kazuto Nakazawa (Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture, Moondrive, Hells)
• Moyoco Anno (In Clothes Called Fat, Insufficient Direction, Hataraki Man)
• Ōtarō Maijō (Biorg Trinity)
• Daisuke Onizuka (Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys, Evangelion: 2.0 You Can [Not] Advance, Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo)
• Katsuya Kondo (Kiki's Delivery Service, Only Yesterday, The Wind Rises)
• Sayo Yamamoto (Michiko & Hatchin, Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, Wooser's Hand-to-Mouth Life)
• Takashi Nakamura (Be Forever Yamato, Robot Carnival - Nightmare, Akira)

Neon Genesis Evangelion director Hideaki Anno directed the promotional video.

The first anime short of the second season is titled "Kanón," and Mahiro Maeda is directing it. Hibiki Yoshizaki serves as technical director and Tatsuya Kushida (Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo) serves as art director. The Animator Expo website will stream "Kanón" this March.

The first season of shorts included:

• "Ōtarō Maijō and Kazuya Tsurumaki's "The Dragon Dentist"
• Azuma Tani's "Hill Climb Girl"
• A music video titled "ME!ME!ME!" featuring the musician Teddyloid (Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt) and rapper daoko
• Akira Honma's "Carnage"
• Yoshikazu Yasuhiko & Ichirō Itano's "Collection of Key Animation Films" from Mobile Suit Gundam
• Takeshi Honda and Mahiro Maeda's "20min Walk From Nishi-Ogikubo Station, 2 Bedrooms, Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen, 2mos Deposit, No Pets Allowed"
• Tadashi Hiramatsu and Khara's "until you come to me"
• Akemi Hayashi's "Tomorrow from there"
• Akira Amemiya's "Gridman: Boys Invent Great HeroGridman: Boys Invent Great Hero"
• Takashi Horiuchi and Masahiro Emoto's "Yamadeloid"
• Yasuhiro Yoshiura, Studio Rikka, and Trigger's "Power Plant No.33"
• Shinji Aramaki's "Evangelion:Another Impact"

Anno himself is serving as executive producer of the entire project initiative with Dwango President Nobuo Kawakami, and he also designed the image character mascot "(Tor)-kun." Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki created the title logo, and fellow Ghibli co-founder Toshio Suzuki colored it. The shorts mostly feature the voice talent of Ranma ½ and Cowboy Bebop co-stars Kouichi Yamadera and Megumi Hayashibara .

[Via Minna no Eva]