AM2 Announces Madhouse Founder and Director As Guests of Honor

Humberto Saabedra

The upstart AM2 convention has announced that Madhouse founder/producer Masao Maruyama and director Sunao Katabuchi will be attending as Guests of Honor as well as announcing screenings of Madhouse films Yona Yona Penguin and Mai Mai Miracle exclusively for attendees that purchase the convention’s optional discount pass known as the Passport. More information can be found at www.am2con.org.

In related news the first trailer for the final Marvel Anime collaboration in Blade has been posted online. The series will air on July 1st in Japan via Animax with G4 airing the series later this year in the US.

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Journalist since 2006, initially covering the retail wireless sector before pivoting to anime and manga trade reporting in 2008. Founder and publisher of AnimeNews.biz (2008–2017), followed by a 13-year tenure at Crunchyroll News (2011–2024) and launching K-Comics Beat with Comics Beat in 2024. Now stripping away consumer noise to build independent, data-backed intelligence desks focused on cross-border licensing telemetry, production committee balance sheets, and industrial supply-chain forensics.

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