Florida Anime Experience 2013

FLORIDA ANIME EXPERIENCE WELCOMES NEW GUESTS, NEW EVENTS, AND A FREE TRIP TO LOS ANGELES IN 2013! Now in its third year, Orlando’s “anime convention about ANIME” continues to focus on Japanese pop culture in Florida. (ORLANDO, January 21, 2013) Florida Anime Experience, the southeast’s “anime convention about ANIME,” will return for its third year on Memorial Day Weekend, May 24-26, 2013, to the International Palms Resort and Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. The three day event is a celebration of Japanese pop culture encompassing animation, manga (Japanese graphic novels,) music, video games, and more. Keeping with the event’s “Legends of Anime” theme from previous years, the Guest of Honor in 2013 is Maile Flanagan - the voice of one of anime’s most recognizable characters: Naruto. (Previous Guests of Honor have been Steve Blum, the voice of “Spike Spiegel” from Cowboy Bebop in 2011 and Terri Hawkes - in her first ever United States convention appearance - the voice of “Sailor Moon” from the internationally know anime Sailor Moon in 2012.) Joining Ms. Flanagan as Guests for Florida Anime Experience 2013 are celebrity voice actors Cassandra Lee Morris (the voice of Ritsu in K-On!), Melodee M. Spevack (the voice of Lady Devimon in Digimon), Michael McConnohie (the voice of D in Vampire Hunter D.)