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Anime Expo 2003 - Opening Ceremonies (Jason's Pics)

Anime Expo typically kicks off with Opening Ceremonies, which is the first chance for the fans to see the Guests of Honor at the convention. The following are pictures from those ceremonies.

(Note: please forgive the relatively noisy quality of many/most of these shots. The pictures taken at closing ceremonies of the Guests of Honor do appear to have come out better, so you can check out those images if you wish to have better images of the guests).

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The crowd waits for opening ceremonies to begin.	The crowd waits for opening ceremonies to begin.	Stefanie Fernandez emcees opening ceremonies.
Voice actor Akira Kamiya speaks about the NEEC college.	John Taylor speaks about the City of Hope, the charity which would receive the money from this year's charity auction.	Yuki Kajiura (keyboard) and Emily Bindiger (vocals) perform for the crowd at opening ceremonies.
The performance was a preview for the concert the next night.	Closer shot of Kajiura.	yoshitoshi ABe
yoshitoshi ABe	Kazuki Akane	Kazuhiro Furuhashi
Kazuhiro Furuhashi	Mitsuru Hongo	Mitsuru Hongo