Opening Ceremonies
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The official start to the convention! Event details, Guest Introductions, Taiko and more!

Akemi Takada
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Guest of Honor: Illustrator, Chacter Designer for Urusei Yatsura, Patlabor, and many more!
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Amelie Belcher
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Special Guest: Artist and Creator of web comics The Real Life Adventures Of Ami Chan and Bounty Haunters. Illustrator of the yaoi manga Loud Snow.
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Sake Visual
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Special Guest: Voice Actress for "Rio Nakamura" in Assassination Classroom, "Airi Yukifune" in Robotics;Notes, and more. Creative force behind Sake Visual.
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Austin Tindle
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Special Guest: Voice Actor for "Kaneki" in Tokyo Ghoul, "Karma" in Assassination Classroom, "Ayumu Aikawa" in Is This a Zombie?, and more!
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Ayana Nishino
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Guest of Honor: Chief Animation Director and Animator on My Hero Academia!
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Chikashi Kubota
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Guest of Honor: Chief Animation Director for One-Punch Man, Character Designer for Shinsekai Yori, Shikabane Hime, & Robotics;Notes.
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Erica Mendez
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Special Guest: Voice Actress for "Ryuko Matoi" in Kill La Kill, "Gon" in Hunter x Hunter, "Aladdin" in Magi, "Yuki Konno" in SAO II, and more!
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Fumi Hirano
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Guest of Honor: Japanese Voice Actress best known for "Lum" in Urusei Yatsura.
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Gilles Poitras
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Special Guest: Author of The Anime Companion, Anime Essentials, & The Anime Companion 2.
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Kazuhiro Miwa
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Guest of Honor: Chief Animation Director and Animator for Tokyo Ghoul and My Hero Academia!
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Kristen McGuire
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Special Guest: Artist of Enchanted, and Voice Actress on Assassination Classroom, Noragami Aragoto and more!
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Lindsay Seidel
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Special Guest: Voice Actress for "Nagisa" in Assassination Classroom, "Angel" & "Romeo" in Fairy Tail, and more! (Voice Actress of the Year by BTVA!)
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Lisle Wilkerson
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Mark Crilley
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Special Guest: Artist and Creator of Miki Falls, Brody's Ghost and a series of books and YouTube videos on how to draw manga!
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Melissa Ng
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Special Guest: Founder of Lumecluster and 3D artist of intricate Dreamer masks, armor, and fantasy wearable art.
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Micah Solusod
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Special Guest: Voice Actor for "Soul Eater Evans" in Soul Eater, "Toma Kamijo" in A Certain Scientific Railgun, "Seido Takizawa" in Tokyo Ghoul, "Bea" in Space Dandy and more!
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Shingo Natsume
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Shingo Natsume was born in 1980 in the town of Hachinohe in Aomori prefecture.
After gathering years of experience as an animator, Mr. Natsume served as an episode director in The Tatami Galaxy (2010) and as a key animator in the 2011 full length movie, Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos. He assisted with storyboards for Director Masaaki Yuasa’s Night Is Short, Walk On Girl (2017).
His main representative works as a director are the popular 2014 TV series, Space Dandy, the 2015 TV series One Punch Man, more recently ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. (2017) and Boogiepop and Others (2019).
After gathering years of experience as an animator, Mr. Natsume served as an episode director in The Tatami Galaxy (2010) and as a key animator in the 2011 full length movie, Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos. He assisted with storyboards for Director Masaaki Yuasa’s Night Is Short, Walk On Girl (2017).
His main representative works as a director are the popular 2014 TV series, Space Dandy, the 2015 TV series One Punch Man, more recently ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. (2017) and Boogiepop and Others (2019).

Shino Kakinuma
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Guest of Honor: Japanese Voice Actress for "Videl" in Dragon Ball Kai and "Naru" in "Sailor Moon".
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Shuhei Morita
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Guest of Honor: Director of Tokyo Ghoul, Freedom, and Possessions (Academy Award Oscar Nominated)
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Toshio Furukawa
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Guest of Honor: Japanese Voice Actor for "Ataru Moroboshi", "Piccolo", "Portgas D. Ace" and more!
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