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Spotlighting the best in Japanese street fashion, Anime Expo (AX),
North America’s largest anime, manga, and Japanese pop culture
celebration, welcomes iconic Lolita model Misako Aoki as an Official
Fashion Guest of Honor. Named one of Japan’s three Cute (Kawaii)
Ambassadors by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Aoki will host
Anime Expo’s three fashion shows on Sunday, July 1 as well as a Lolita
Tea Party on Saturday, June 30 at 11 a.m. Anime Expo attendees will
also have a chance to connect with the top model at a meet-and-greet and
autograph-signing panel when Anime Expo returns to the Los Angeles
Convention Center from June 29 – July 2, 2012.
As a top model for BABY, The Stars Shine Bright, Putumayo, Algonquins
and other well-known Japanese gothic and Lolita fashion brands, Aoki
has graced the pages of the leading Harajuku magazine, “KERA.” In her
role as an Ambassador of Cute, she has traveled the world to help
increase appreciation of Japanese fashion and pop culture. While very
active in the Japanese fashion scene, Aoki works to advance social
welfare in her primary job as a registered nurse.
Anime Expo (AX), North America’s largest anime, manga, and Japanese
pop culture celebration, today added model and cosplayer Jessica Nigri
to its growing list of Guests of Honor when it returns to the Los
Angeles Convention Center from June 29 – July 2, 2012. Nigri will
appear as “Max,”’ the AX mecha girl mascot and also participate in a
meet-and-greet, autograph signing and focus panel.
Jessica Nigiri began channeling her love of gaming, anime, manga,
science fiction and movies into cosplaying in 2009. Since then, she has
quickly become a favorite on the cosplay scene with more than 114,000
followers on Facebook. Her popularity has grown even more through her
series of cosplay posters and through her appearances in conjunction
with the videogame Lollipop Chainsaw.
Nigri, who grew up in New Zealand, now makes her home in Arizona
where she is a member of the Arizona Avengers, a non-profit costuming
group that helps kids connect through comics.
Anime Expo (AX), North America’s largest anime, manga, and Japanese
pop culture celebration, today announced “Fate/Zero” director Ei Aoki as
an Official Guest of Honor when it returns to the Los Angeles
Convention Center from June 29 – July 2, 2012.
Ei Aoki made his debut as an episodic director for
“Please Teacher!” the TV Series in 2002. His credits as a director
include “The Garden of Sinners” Chapter 1, “GA-REI –Zero-,“ “Wandering
Son (Horo Musuko)” and “Girls Bravo” to name a few. Aoki will team up
at Anime Expo with “Fate/Zero” creative members, Producers Hikaru Kondo
and Atsuhiro Iwakami and voice actor Rikiya Koyama to give fans an
insider’s look at the popular series. As an Official Guest of Honor, he
will participate in a meet-and-greet, autograph signing and focus panel.
Anime Expo (AX), North America’s largest anime, manga, and Japanese
pop culture celebration, today announced animation director Tatsuo Sato,
as an Official Guest of Honor when it returns to the Los Angeles
Convention Center from June 29 – July 2, 2012.
Tatsuo Sato started his career as an animator and an assistant
director at Asia-Do. He made his solo directorial debut with the TV
series “Soar High! Isami” and has since gone on to direct the TV series
“Martian Successor Nadesico” and its sequel feature film “Martian
Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture – Prince Of Darkness.”
Tatsuo collaborated on the avant-garde animation film “Cat Soup” with
an old friend, animator/director Masaaki Yuasa. The film won double
prizes in the 6th Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal: “Best Short Film”
and “Film Critic’s Association Prize”. It was also the winner of the
2001 Agency for Cultural Affairs’ “Excellence Prize” at Japan’s Media
Arts Festival. In the same year, he released the TV animation series
“Shingu: Secret Of The Stellar Wars” which was based on his own original
story. Tatsuo’s most recent TV series is “Shigofumi” and has a new
animation project in development.
Anime Expo (AX), North America’s largest anime, manga, and Japanese
pop culture celebration, today announced award-winning voice actor
Nobuhiko Okamoto as an Official Guest of Honor when it returns to the
Los Angeles Convention Center from June 29 – July 2, 2012.
A Tokyo native, Nobuhiko Okamoto has a rich background in voice
acting. His credits include being the voice of Rin Okumura, the hero of
“Blue Exorcist,” Eiji Niizuma of “Bakuman,” Ivan Karelin a.k.a. Origami
Cyclone of “Tiger & Bunny,” and Accelerator of “Toaru Majutsuno
Index” just to name a few. He won the Best New Actor Award on the Third
Annual Voice Actor Awards and later received the Best Supporting Actor
Award on the Fifth Annual Voice Actor Awards. As an Official Guest of
Honor, Okamoto will participate in a meet-and-greet, autograph signing
and focus panel.
Anime Expo (AX), North America’s largest anime, manga, and Japanese
pop culture celebration, today announced Japanese movie, theatrical and
voice actor Rikiya Koyama as an Official Guest of Honor when it returns
to the Los Angeles Convention Center from June 29 – July 2, 2012.
As a voice actor, Koyama has played numerous roles
including Yamato of “NARUTO Shippuden”, Coyote Stark of “BLEACH”, Kogoro
Mouri of “Detective Conan”, FLASTE SCHOLE of “Gundam UC”, Vash of
“FINAL FANTASY XII” and Kuze Hideo of “Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 2nd GIG” just to name a few. Most recently, he plays Kiritsugu Emiya in the hit anime series “Fate/Zero.”
Koyama will team with creative staff, Director Ei Aoki,
Producers Hikaru Kondo and Atsuhiro Iwakam to share behind-the-scenes
stories of the making of “Fate/Zero” with fans at Anime Expo. As an
Official Guest of Honor, he will participate in a meet-and-greet,
autograph signing and focus panel.
Anime Expo (AX), North America’s largest anime, manga, and Japanese
pop culture celebration, today announced noted anime producer Hikaru
Kondo as an Official Guest of Honor when it returns to the Los Angeles
Convention Center from June 29 – July 2, 2012.
Kondo established the animation studio “ufotable” in 2000. As a
producer, he worked on the 7-theatrical movie series “The Garden of
sinners,” “Futakoi Alternative,” “Manabi Straight,” “Tales of Symphonia”
and others. Most recently, he produced the TV Series “Fate/Zero,” “the
Garden of sinners –Final Chapter-“ as well as directed “Black Rock
Shooter the Game”.
In Japan, ufotable opened the first “ufotable café” at
its Koenji Studio to promote interaction with fans. With the success of
the first shop, the company opened a second café at Tokushima Studio,
followed by the “ufotable dining” restaurant in Shinjuku, Tokyo. In
addition, in March 2012 it built the “ufotable CINEMA” in Shinjuku, the
first movie theater built by an animation company in Japan.
Kondo will team with creative staff, Director Ei Aoki,
Producer Atsuhiro Iwakam and voice actor Rikiya Koyama to share
behind-the-scenes stories of the making of “Fate/Zero” with fans at
Anime Expo. As an Official Guest of Honor, he will participate in a
meet-and-greet, autograph signing and focus panel.
There was one more guest announcement, but he deserves his own post..
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