By Alicia Doyle, Correspondent
October 18, 2006
An Agoura Hills 10th-grader's passion for anime led to her recently performing with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Yuna Braska, a character who appears in the anime video game series "Final Fantasy."
Fourteen-year-old Ashley Parish was picked from among hundreds of entrants to perform at the Hollywood Bowl on Sept. 21 in a special event celebrating anime music, from movies to videos.
Thousands of fans cheered on Parish and other winners, who performed in elaborate costumes as popular anime characters from video games. Anime, a shortened form of "animation," popularly refers to animation originating in Japan.
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What attracts me to this article is participation of large scale musical group in conjunction with anime. It has come a long way.
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