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AFA Singapore Hosts Charlotte Director, Actress, Singer

Anime Festival Asia announced on Monday that it will feature the Charlotte television anime series as a featured anime, and will host the series' director Yoshiyuki Asai, voice actress Maaya Uchida, and theme song singer Lia at its Singapore event. All three will appear on the AFA Day Stage on November 29.

Animax Asia simultaneously aired the series in Asia as it aired in Japan this past summer, and describes the anime:

Charlotte, rumoured to have been based on Maeda's own early life, is set in an alternate world where a few children come into unusual superpowers upon puberty. One of the colouful characters is Jōjirō Takajyō, who can move so fast he appears to be teleporting. There's also student singer Yusa Nishimori, who can communicate with the dead. The children are enrolled into Houshinomi Academy, which has its own student council for guiding those who encounter problems with their newfound abilities.

The protagonist, Yū Otosaka, an ill-mannered first-year transfer who uses his ability to possess another person's body for five seconds in order to cheat in his exams. When Yū meets school council president Nao Tomori, the fate of these extraordinary children begins to unravel. Will the youthful duo be strong enough to fight their destiny?

Yoshiyuki Asai made his series directorial debut with Charlotte. He has previously directed and storyboarded episodes of such anime as Ah! My Goddess, CANAAN, Angel Beats!, and A Lull in the Sea.

Maaya Uchida voiced the roles of Misa Nishimori and Yusa Nishimori in Charlotte, and has voiced roles in such anime as Noragami, GATE, Sankarea, High School DxD, and The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls.

Both Uchida and Lia are already appearing as musical guests in the convention's "I Love Anisong Reboot" concert.

Other announced guests include voice actor Makoto Furukawa (One-Punch Man, Golden Time, Aldnoah.Zero), The Asterisk War director, Manabu Ono, voice actor Atsushi Tamaru, and original light novel creator Yuu Miyazaki.

The convention will also hold the international premiere of the Garakowa -Restore the World- (Glass no Hana to Kowasu Sekai) anime film.

Previously announced musical guests include:

• Back-On (Air Gear, Gundam Build Fighters, Fairy Tail)
• bless4 (Genesis of Aquarion, Amagi Brilliant Park)
• HoneyWorks/CHICO with Honeyworks (Magic Kaito 1412, Tokyo Ravens, Blue Spring Ride)
• ZAQ (Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!, Non Non Biyori, Maria the Virgin Witch)
• Ayana Taketatsu (K-ON!, Momokyun Sword, The Pilot's Love Song)
• Maaya Uchida (Gatchaman Crowds, Robot Girls Z, The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls)
• Suzuko Mimori (Tantei Opera Milky Holmes, Love Live!, Teekyū)
• Michi (Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers)
• Shiori Mikami (Yuruyuri - Happy Go Lily, Ixion Saga DT, Ōkami-san & Her Seven Companions)
• Yumiri Hanamori (The Rolling Girls, Etotama)
• Yurika Endō (The Severing Crime Edge, Z/X Ignition, Ace of Diamond)
• GARNiDELiA (Kill la Kill, The irregular at magic high school, Gundam: Reconguista in G)
• May'n (Macross Frontier, Ōkami-san & Her Seven Companions, Valkyria Chronicles 3)
• Mika Kobayashi (Attack on Titan, Guilty Crown, Kill la Kill) with Tetsuro Shimaguchi (KAMUI)
• nano (Btooom!, Arpeggio of Blue Steel, M3 the dark metal)
• Stand-Up! Hearts
• Lia (Air, Angel Beats, Charlotte)
• Aimer (Terror in Resonance, Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works)
• Real Akiba Boyz

The event's second day on November 28 is labeled as a P's LIVE concert, which is Japanese music label Pony Canyon's name for its concerts with Pony Canyon-associated voice actors, actresses, and artists. Ayana Taketatsu, Maaya Uchida, Suzuko Mimori, Michi, Shiori Mikami, Yumiri Hanamori, and Yurika Endō are all affiliated with Pony Canyon and have previously performed at P's LIVE concerts in Japan. This will be the first time that Pony Canyon will hold a P's LIVE concert outside of Japan. Pony Canyon held the last P's LIVE concert on March 8 in the Yokohama Arena.

Anime Festival Asia Singapore will hold its event from November 27 to 29. Anime Festival Asia began in Singapore in 2008, and has since held sister events in Indonesia and in Thailand.

The Anime Festival Asia convention held its Bangkok, Thailand event from April 30 to May 3, and held its event in Indonesia from September 25 to 27.