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At this point, Giapet is the only one (from my feeds list, anyway) who covered the most relevant panels from this weekend's Anime Central (ACEN) convention. Starting off with a very brief sum-up in the break before VIZ's eventually-inexistent panel (ed. - see the update below), she later wrote a very lengthy report on Bandai's panel - even though they didn't actually make any big announcements. Still, you might find something of interest in there - about Gurren Lagann, Gundam 00, Code Geass, Lucky Star, AIKa R-16 and the likes. By the way, we're also streaming Bandai's trailer for their newly-released AIKa R-16 OVA prequel, which they screened at ACEN (the trailer, not the OVA), in case you missed our earlier post.

Next up, FUNimation's panel. Aside from the announcement of their license acquisition for Romeo x Juliet, and the subsequent unraveling of another FUNi license, for D.Gray-Man - both covered here earlier, as well - there weren't any other worthy novelties. Just some stuff about digital distribution, Vexille (which was on sale at their booth, before its official release on May 20), Dragon Ball Z, One Piece, and some new Blu-ray releases. Plus, of course, a recap of all the other licenses they announced throughout the week: Save Me! Lollipop, KenIchi, Gunslinger Girl 2, Strain, and Shigurui.

Aaand... that was pretty much it. Unless you're into yaoi stuff (more here). Otherwise, no ADV panel, no VIZ panel, no nothing. Ah, well, FanimeCon 2008 is up next weekend.

Update: We have just received a mail from VIZ Media with the same disclaimer as the one from the comments below, making it pretty clear that they had no panel scheduled in the first place, and it was just an error in ACEN's programming schedule, regretfully so.
anonymouswrote on May 19, 2008 at 20:29
FYI on VIZ Panel at ACEN-
VIZ Media was Never scheduled for a panel, no panel was ever discussed.

VIZ Media did however, do a lot of give-a-ways, and provided materials for screenings.
ACEN was very apologetic when told about this error in their programming schedule. They plan on posting a note explaining it was an error on their part as per Programming manager Steve Krzak of ACEN.
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