AnimeExpo

AnimeExpo, abbreviated AX, is an American anime convention held in Los Angeles, California and organized by the non-profit Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation (SPJA). The convention is traditionally held annually on the first weekend of July, spanning the course of four days. Anime Expo is regularly hosted at the Los Angeles Convention Center but has also been held in other cities such as Anaheim, San Jose, New York, and Tokyo.
This event also where anime authors such as Yō Yoshinari sharing intriguing tidbits and other intriguing information pertaining their works such as certain concepts which didn't make it to the final product.
== Gallery ==
=== Anime Expo 2014 ===
Image of Studio Trigger poster given for free to Yumeka during Anime Expo 2014.jpg|Image of Studio Trigger poster given for free to Yumeka during Anime Expo 2014
=== Anime Expo 2015 ===
==== Videos ====
Trigger Studio Panel (Anime Expo 2015)
=== Anime Expo 2017 ===
Image of Studio Trigger Panel in Anime Expo 2017 from The-O Network.jpg|Image of Studio Trigger Panel in Anime Expo 2017 from The-O Network
Image of Sucy's concept art from Studio Trigger Panel in Anime Expo 2017 from The-O Network.jpg|Image of Sucy's concept art from Studio Trigger Panel in Anime Expo 2017 from The-O Network
Image of Jasminka's concept art featuring Constanze from Studio Trigger Panel in Anime Expo 2017 from The-O Network.jpg|Image of Jasminka's concept art featuring Constanze from Studio Trigger Panel in Anime Expo 2017 from The-O Network
Image of early rough designs of the characters from Studio Trigger Panel in Anime Expo 2017 from The-O Network.jpg|Image of early rough designs of the characters from Studio Trigger Panel in Anime Expo 2017 from The-O Network
Image of early rough designs of the characters from Studio Trigger Panel in Anime Expo 2017 from The-O Network 2.jpg|Ditto
Image of concept idea for a fusion witch from Studio Trigger Panel in Anime Expo 2017 from The-O Network.jpg|Image of concept idea for a fusion witch from Studio Trigger Panel in Anime Expo 2017 from The-O Network
Image of concept art for Lotte with Celtic Sword containing a spirit from Studio Trigger Panel in Anime Expo 2017 from The-O Network.jpg|Image of concept art for Lotte with Celtic Sword containing a spirit from Studio Trigger Panel in Anime Expo 2017 from The-O Network
Close up image of concept art for Lotte with Celtic Sword containing a spirit from Studio Trigger Panel in Anime Expo 2017 from The-O Network.jpg|Close up image of concept art for Lotte with Celtic Sword containing a spirit from Studio Trigger Panel in Anime Expo 2017 from The-O Network
Close up of Lotte empowered by the soul of the owner of ancient Celtic sword concept art.jpg|Close up of Lotte empowered by the soul of the owner of ancient Celtic sword concept art from Studio Trigger Panel in Anime Expo 2017 from The-O Network
Trinity Magic concept LWA.jpeg|Image of Concept art for Trinity Magic from the very first part of the kickstarter episode from Studio Trigger Panel in Anime Expo 2017 from The-O Network
Shiny Chariot and a scrapped witch concept arts LWA.jpg|Concept image of Shiny Chariot and a scrapped witch concept arts from Studio Trigger Panel in Anime Expo 2017 from The-O Network
Image of Promare Teaser Visual from Studio Trigger Panel in Anime Expo 2017 from The-O Network.jpg|Image of Promare Teaser Visual from Studio Trigger Panel in Anime Expo 2017 from The-O Network
=== Anime Expo 2018 ===
Wakabayashi and Koyoma during AnimeExpo 2018 alongside Over Justice cosplayer.jpg|Wakabayashi and Koyoma during AnimeExpo 2018 alongside Over Justice cosplayer
=== Anime Expo 2022 ===
Sketches of Ursula, Luluco, and Ryuko sketch drawn by Shigeto Koyama, Hiromi Wakabayashi, and Yō Yoshinari during AnimeExpo 2022.jpg|Sketches of Ursula, Luluco, and Ryuko sketch drawn by Shigeto Koyama, Hiromi Wakabayashi, and Yō Yoshinari during AnimeExpo 2022
===AnimeExpo 2024===
==== Videos ====
【Anime Expo 2024】「ダンジョン飯」監督の宮島さんとキャラクターデザイン・総作監の竹田さんが世界最大のアニメイベントAXに初参戦！！
==History==
This is a table displaying a comprehensive timeline of various times Studio Trigger in-house staff and affiliates participated in this event. It is a nonexhaustive list as Studio Trigger might continue to partake in these events as time goes on, and the list might be missing past events due to lack of awareness or information availdable. Comment below the article if you know of any details that can be added to this table.
Events 	Start 	End 	Participated Members
AnimeExpo 2014	Jul 3, 2014	Jul 6, 2014	Hiromi Wakabayashi
AnimeExpo 2015	Jul 1, 2015	Jul 4, 2015	Hiromi Wakabayashi, Yoh Yoshinari, Naoko Tsutsumi, Tatsuru Tatemoto, Masahiko Otsuka
AnimeExpo 2017	Jul 1, 2017	Jul 4, 2017	Hiromi Wakabayashi, Yoh Yoshinari, Shigeto Koyama, Takafumi Horihttps://x.com/tononet/status/881665005300482048
AnimeExpo 2018	Jul 5, 2018	Jul 8, 2018	
AnimeExpo 2022	Jul 1, 2022	Jul 4, 2022	Yoh Yoshinari, Shigeto Koyama, Hiromi Wakabayashi
AnimeExpo 2023	Jul 1, 2023	Jul 4, 2023	Masahiko Otsuka, Hiroyuki Imaishi, Sushio, Shigeto Koyama
==Notes==
*The following information pertaining Little Witch Academia was revealed by Studio Trigger staff during their panel in AnimeExpo 2017:
**Little Witch Academia TV series was announced to be available to be on Netflix during this convetion.https://x.com/tononet/status/881665213212147715
**Yoh Yoshinari expressed his gratitude to all the fans who supported Little Witch Academia TV serieshttps://x.com/tononet/status/881665508952621056, and stating he would love to make a sequel after series ended in Japanhttps://x.com/tononet/status/881666267890958336, commenting that it would be great to featured more characters in this sequel.https://x.com/tononet/status/881666568630845440 
**Yoshinari divulged a variety of information pertaining early concepts and scrapped content about various characters, including but not limited to: the origin story of Sucyhttps://x.com/tononet/status/881666966750076928 and backstory of Amandahttps://x.com/tononet/status/881667120475414528, and they comprised of the following:
***Amanda: Amanda was intended to hailed from a wealthy family that owns a major chain store whose former matriarch (Amanda's grandmother) was a well-known fortuneteller. Using her abilities, her family prospered in growing their business empirehttps://x.com/tononet/status/881667358183505920.However, with the passing of her grandmother leading to the absence of this beneficial ability, Amanda's family sent her to Luna Nova in order to force her to carry on her legacy as a fortuneteller in order to keep said company prosperous and powerfulhttps://x.com/tononet/status/881667598458404864. Obviously, Amanda wasn't exactly thrilled with such idea, so she is trying to get kicked out of Luna Nova as a message to her parents.https://x.com/tononet/status/881667742297763840Interesting Little Witch Academia character backstory tidbits from TRIGGER Panel at AX2017 from Reddit.com 
***Sucy: Sucy was abandoned at an orphanage by her biological parents as a baby with a vial of deadly poison in her carriagehttps://x.com/tononet/status/881668098322857985, and thus all of her experiments are actually secret attempts to trace the poison's formula back to her original family while researching at Luna Nova.https://x.com/tononet/status/881668314283384832She was also originally going to be bullied.
*** Jasminka: Jasminka likes to give sweets to her friends, and there was also an idea to make her go on a diethttps://x.com/tononet/status/881668901158899712. Jasminka's eating habit was the result of having a demon trapped inside her body. Said demon's origins is inextricably tied to the Soviet-era Ukrainian famine thus will ravage the world had it set loose.https://x.com/tononet/status/881669370342133760
***Lotte: Lotte was originally intended to possess following abilities in addition of her signature ability to call forth faeries:
****The ability to absorb and channel the power from spirits to bolster her strengths.
****Spirits that Lotte summoned to her side can control different weapons to aid her in combat.
****The ability to call forth soul of a fallen Celtic warrior with use of a magic sword (suggestively ceremonial one).
*****From the same panel, Yō Yoshinari showed concept images of a scrapped episode where Lotte receives the afromentioned sword which led to the said ghost possessing her, turning her into a powerful combatant.
***Constanze: The reason why Constanze rarely speak was due to her being stuck with a terrible illness as a child; in order to heal her illness, her soul was removed from her body and placed into one of her Stanbots, which caused her to stop aging and left her in her tiny form, along with rendering her mute. The soul cannot be placed back into the body lest she gets sick again.
****The aforementioned backstory, however, was likely a joke or scrapped, given that Constanze crafted her first Stanbot sometime prior or after events of "Orange Submariner" (and has built three fully-functional ones by the events of Chamber of Time) in anime and prior to the titular parade in the second short film. Another plausible explanation of why it should be ruled out is the accidental destruction of Stanbot that allegedly housed her soul by Akko supposedly severe enough to kill Constanze.
****Had such scrapped backstory idea was eventually implemented on the other hand, it would certainly establish Constanze as a lich. Lich is a magic user who cheated death by imbuing their soul into a specialized object called phylactery, allowing them to live forever and even function normally even after their physical form reduced into a skeleton
**Takafumi Hori remarked that if they don't get enough time to rest it will overwhelm the animators.https://x.com/tononet/status/881671669688827908 
** A staff member commented that they went on a trip to London, and wishes to put that into use for the possible sequel series.https://x.com/tononet/status/881671944323518464They would also like this series to be better than the previous one.https://x.com/tononet/status/881672042059153408
**Hiromi Wakabayashi encourages the audience to play the at-the-time new game Little Witch Academia Chamber of Time, with its global release being announced for 2018.https://x.com/tononet/status/881672408331042816
**Yoh Yoshinari says the reason Little Witch Academia was able to continue was due to all of the fans' support.https://x.com/tononet/status/881672621036773376
*Three titles were announced during Studio Trigger Panelhttps://x.com/tononet/status/881673007772585984, that being the following:
**Darling in the Franxx, a A-1 Pictures collaboration.https://x.com/tononet/status/881674134530412544
**SSSS.Gridman, a Tsuburaya Productions collaboration with Akita Amemiya as the director.https://x.com/tononet/status/881675653346598912
**Promare, a new series similar to Gurren Lagann and Kill la Kill that will feature a male protagonist.https://x.com/tononet/status/881677918530805760
***
==External Links== 
*Official Site
*AnimeExpo at Wikipedia.
===News=== 
*Anime News Network
**Studio Trigger by Bamboo Dong July 4, 2014
*Crunchyroll News
**VIDEO: "Little Witch Academia 2" to Premiere at Anime Expo by Scott Green June 4, 2015
* Siliconera
**PSA: Plenty of Anime and Game Panels Are at Anime Expo 2023 by Cody Perez June 29, 2023
===Blogs===
*Mainichi Anime Yume 
**Plans for Anime Expo 2013 (and brief hiatus) by Yumeka June 29, 2013
**Anime Expo 2013 coverage and photos by Yumeka July 17, 2013
**Anime Expo 2014 coverage and photos by Yumeka July 9, 2014
**Anime Expo 2015 coverage and photos by Yumeka July 13, 2015
**Anime Expo 2016, new anime, and a long overdue update by Yumeka July 2, 2016
==References==
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