Like any great Anime character, Peter Tatara (a live human) had this supernatural potential, to reach an amazing heights, in a creative career. Even while he was studying at Ithaca College (in Ithaca, NY), he ran its local Anime club and interned with Central Park Media a company based here in NY that is responsible for releasing Anime/Manga. These are the guys behind Utena, Grave of the Fireflies, Full House (Manhwa), Lodoss War, MD Geist, Project A-Ko, and many other well known titles.

Still all the while studying at Ithaca, he managed to organize mini-type cons or meet-ups for about 50+ people all for the love Anime. His early side projects include movie making, which he still does today. He independently filmed “Johnny Robo”, a series lasted 8 episodes; which was made in tribute to tokusatsu (special effect) superhero shows, like Kamen Rider or the better U.S. known Power Rangers. More »

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In case you haven’t heard, we’re partners with the New York Anime Festival! This is our biggest event partnership so far and so we felt something special was needed to promote it. Well, the 7 Days, 7 New Bloggers special worked out so well for us, we decided to do 8 Days of Anime (the number 8 is lucky in many Asian cultures). For 8 days, starting on Thursday September 18th, we will be posting at least two articles a day about something Anime related. We’re hoping that if we hyped up Anime enough online, you’ll be all hyped up for the real world event in NYC. In addition to articles, we’re also doing a roundtable discussion for the first time on Ningin where bloggers and members get a chance to share their opinions on a particular anime topic. Also joining as part of this 8 Days of Anime special are two very good friends of Ningin, Xorsyst.com & Otakuden.com, because we love working with good people and they have very interesting websites.

So here’s a list of planned articles which is more or less solid: More »

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Mixr Media, LLC, and Reed Exhibitions announce a new promotional partnership for the New York Anime Festival (NYAF) taking place from Friday, September 26th to Sunday, September 28th at the Jacob Javitz Center.

Mixr Media, LLC, will be providing complete coverage before and during the NYAF on its Asian entertainment community site Ningin.com. Leading up to the start of the festival, anime fans can find pre-show interviews with Anime voice actors and New York Anime Festival founder Peter Tatara.

During the festival, the Ningin.com booth will provide live blogging coverage of the event. The Ningin.com booth will also host free cosplay photo sessions constantly throughout the festival. Cosplayers who get their photo taken at the Ningin.com booth will receive collectible Ningin.com-NYAF stickers. The online Cosplayer Photo Gallery will be updated live from the festival. More »

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