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Otakon Hosts Cast, Staff of Rock is a Lady's Modesty, The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess Anime, More

The staff of Otakon announced over the past week that this year's event will host the following guests:

• Voice actor Miyuri Shimabukuro (Carole & Tuesday), animation director Shinya Watada (Mobile Suit Gundam AGE: Memory of Eden), producer Hidetake Nishigaya (The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace, Mononogatari) from the Rock is a Lady's Modesty anime.

• Director Hiroaki Sakurai (Cyber Team in Akihabara: The Movie, UFO Baby) and producer at FuRyu Pictures Kanako Ayano (Yuru Camp The Movie, Kinokoinu) will appear to promote the upcoming The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess anime. Sakurai previously attended the event as a guest in 2000.

• Voice actress, manga artist, and VTuber Sora Tokui (Weiß Survive R, Tantei Opera Milky Holmes). She voiced the character of Nico Yazawa from the Love Live! series. She launched the Makeruna!! Aku no Gundan! manga in September 2013.

• Voice actor Shūichirō Umeda (Too Many Losing Heroines! My Hero Academia: Vigilantes). He is voicing Hikaru in The Summer Hikaru Died and Naoto Watari in Watari-kun's ****** Is About to Collapse.

Otakon 2025 is scheduled for August 8-10 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. The event will also host voice actors Nobutoshi Canna, Ryōko Shiraishi, Ayana Taketatsu, Kanna Nakamura, Taishi Murata, and Ryōta Takeuchi; Maho Film animation producer Yūki Mukai; manga artists Chika Mizube, Minoji Kurata, and Sai Naekawa; manga editor Takumi Kamemaru; illustrator CHRIS; character designer and animation director Hidenori Matsubara; author and composer Taketeru Sunamori; J-pop singer MindaRyn; A-1 Pictures' director Shōtarō Kitamura and production manager Yūtarō Itō; and the creative team behind the Too Many Losing Heroines! light novels. It will host voice actor Katsuyuki Konishi and Studio Trigger staff members Hiroki Arai, Hiromi Wakabayashi, and Sushio.

The event will host the U.S. premiere of the first episode of the television anime of Sai Naekawa's This Monster Wants to Eat Me (Watashi o Tabetai, Hito de nashi) manga on August 8. Manga creator Sai Naekawa, manga editor Takumi Kamemaru, and anime producer Ena Hamabe will attend the convention and host a talk about the manga and anime.

Last year's event took place in August 2024 and reached 46,000 attendants, setting a new record.

Source: Press releases