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ADVISORY/Chicago Film Company Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary.


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ADVISORY...for Friday Friday: see Sabbath; week.

Friday

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See : Servant
 - Sunday Sunday: see Sabbath; week.  (May 14 - 16)

Midwest Anime an·i·me  
n.
A style of animation developed in Japan, characterized by stylized colorful art, futuristic settings, violence, and sex.



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--(BUSINESS WIRE)

Japanese animation distributor Manga Entertainment celebrates 10 years of promoting Japanese pop-culture in America at this year's Anime Central This article is about the anime convention. For the British TV Channel, see AnimeCentral.

Anime Central (ACen for short) is an anime convention that is held yearly in Rosemont, Illinois, in the United States. It is one of the fastest growing anime conventions in the U.S.
, the Midwest Anime and Manga Convention held in Rosemont Illinois Illinois, river, United States
Illinois, river, 273 mi (439 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Des Plaines and Kankakee rivers, NE Ill., and flowing SW to the Mississippi at Grafton, Ill. It is an important commercial and recreational waterway.
 May 14th weekend.


Who:    Manga Entertainment will join fans and industry professionals
        at the Midwest's largest anime convention - Anime Central, the
        Midwest Anime and Manga Convention. Attendees from across the
        country come to celebrate the art form, dress-up as their
        favorite characters, and speak with creators, voice-actors,
        and artists.

What:   Guests of Honor at this year's festival include members of
        Aniplex, Japanese producers of Manga Entertainment's anime
        "Read or Die" - the program from which the 2004 convention
        takes its theme, "The Year of Read or Die."

Where:  Hyatt Regency O'Hare and Donald E. Stephens Convention
        Center, Rosemont, IL (Manga at Booth: 801 & 802)

When:   Friday, May 14th- Sunday, May 16th

Why:    Japanese animation fans have grown from what was once
        underground into American youth pop-culture. It's a chance for
        kids, teens and adults to buy toys, games, comics or DVDs that
        you cannot easily find and/or dress up as their favorite
        character.

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