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Anime Expo 2023 Reveals Full Guest Lineup

Anime Expo revealed its full guest lineup for this year's event on Thursday. Crunchyroll also revealed on Tuesday that the following guests will be part of its panels:

• Manabu Ohtsuka - CEO of Mappa
• Makoto Kimura - producer from Mappa
• Studio Kafka (The Ancient Magus' Bride Season 2)
• Takuya Eguchi - voice of Loid Forger in Spy×Family
• Kaori Makita - Hell's Paradise director
• Kiyoshi Matsuda - Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill director
• Ryota Ikeda - editor from Shueisha
• Masaya Saito - producer from Toho Animation
• Nobuhiro Osawa - Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2 producer

Anime Expo will host the following guests:

• Acky Bright - Manga artist and illustrator who has worked for DC Comics, Hasbro, and BMW
• Atsushi Ohkubo - Soul Eater, Fire Force manga creator
• Hiroyuki Seshita - Knights of Sidonia, Blame! director
• Jin - artist, creator, composer, lyricist, novelist, and scriptwriter
• Kafka Asagiri - Bungo Stray Dogs creator
• Kazuaki Terasawa - The Ancient Magus' Bride: The Boy from the West and the Knight of the Blue Storm directoer
• Kazutaka Kodaka - Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE, Danganronpa scenario writer
• Kohei Tokuoka - The Ancient Magus' Bride Season 2 chief animation director
• Koichi Naruse - The Ancient Magus' Bride Season 2 animation producer
• Kotaro Takata - Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead creator
• Masahiko Minami - president/producer of BONES INC., formerly at Sunrise
• Masakazu Morita - voice actor for Ichigo Kurosaki in Bleach, Tidus in Final Fantasy X
• Takayuki Hirao - Pompo the Cinephile director
• Toshihiro Kawamoto - Urusei Yatsura, Cowboy Bebop animator, character designer
• Yoko Taro - KamiErabi GOD.app. creator, NieR series director
• YOSHIKI - composer, leader of the rock groups X JAPAN and THE LAST ROCKSTARS
• Yoshitaka Amano - Final Fantasy artist and character designer
• Yusuke Kozaki - Nintendo, Pokémon Go character designer
• Natsuki Hanae (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Your lie in April) who voices the character of Shen Xiang
• Moe Kahara (How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom) who voices the character of Fuuko Izumo
• Takumi Hashimoto (2.5 Dimensional Seduction, High School Family: Kokosei Kazoku editor) who is in charge of overseeing the Undead Unluck anime
• Ryota Hasegawa - Producer at TMS Entertainment (Onihei and Black Rock Shooter)
• Aika Kobayashi (Voice of Yoshiko Tsushima from Love Live! Sunshine!!, Yohane from YOHANE THE PARHELION – SUNSHINE in the MIRROR-, Yu Tenma from Farewell, My Dear Cramer)
• Mayu Sagara (Voice of Kasumi Nakasu from Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club)
• Sayuri Date (Voice of Kanon Shibuya from Love Live! Superstar!!)
• Kazuya Yamashita - voice of Lucifer in Obey Me!
• Hirotaka Kobayashi - voice of Mammon in Obey Me!
• Satoshi Kada - voice of Leviathan in Obey Me!
• Shinya Sumi - voice of Satan in Obey Me!
• Miura Ayme - voice of Asmodeus in Obey Me!
• Kyohei Yaguchi - voice of Beelzebub in Obey Me!
• Satoshi Onishi - voice of Belphegor in Obey Me!

This year's Anime Expo will return to Los Angeles on July 1-4. The convention recently discontinued its Premier Fan Badge system.

Source: Email correspondence