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Otakon 2025 Hosts Voice Actors Ayana Taketatsu, Kanna Nakamura; Manga Artists Chika Mizube, Sai Naekawa
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Taketatsu is known for her roles as Kotori Itsuka in the Date A Live series, Rika Hoshizaki in Girlfriend, Girlfriend, Azusa Nakano in K-ON!, Nino Nakano in The Quintessential Quintuplets, and Leafa/Suguha Kirigaya in Sword Art Online, among others.
Nakamura voiced the character Urushi Yaotome in When Will Ayumu Make His Move?, Alicia Williams in I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History, Anghalad in The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse, and Narita Top Road in Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Road to the Top. She currently voices Sofia Reeler in the ongoing series The Gorilla God's Go-To Girl. Nakamura will also voice roles for the following upcoming series: Lana Colette in Silent Witch; Renako Amaori in There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless...; and Melphiera Marchalrayd in Pass the Monster Meat, Milady!.
Manga artist Chika Mizube draws the ongoing manga adaptation of Kanata Hoshi's Pass the Monster Meat, Milady! light novel series. The manga adaptation launched in pixiv's "Palcy" manga app in 2021. Kodansha USA Publishing releases the manga in print, and Kodansha's K MANGA service simultaneously releases the manga digitally. The light novels' television anime adaptation will premiere in October, after its previously slated April debut was delayed.
Otakon 2025 will also host Sai Naekawa, the manga artist of the This Monster Wants to Eat Me manga series, and its editor Takumi Kamemaru. The manga launched in Kadokawa's Dengeki Maoh magazine in 2020. Yen Press publishes the manga in English. The manga's anime adaptation will premiere in October.
Source: Press release (link 2, link 3, link 4, link 5)
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