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Anime Expo 2023 Reveals Full Guest Lineup

• 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
• Ryōta Ikeda - editor from Shueisha
• Masaya Saitō - 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
• Kōhei Tokuoka - The Ancient Magus' Bride Season 2 chief animation director
• Kōichi 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 Cinéphile director
• Toshihiro Kawamoto - Urusei Yatsura, Cowboy Bebop animator, character designer
• Yokō Tarō - 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
• Yūsuke 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
• Ryōta 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!
• Kyōhei Yaguchi - voice of Beelzebub in Obey Me!
• Satoshi Ōnishi - 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