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Anime NYC Hosts Kagurabachi Creator Takeru Hokazono, Voice Actor Yuma Uchida, CloverWorks President Akira Shimizu

The staff of Anime NYC announced on Friday and Monday that it will host Kagurabachi creator Takeru Hokazono, voice actor Yūma Uchida, and CloverWorks, A-1 Pictures president Akira Shimizu at this year's event.

Hokazono debuted the Kagurabachi manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in September 2023. Shueisha released the eighth compiled book volume on July 4. The manga topped 2.2 million copies in circulation as of May 2.

Uchida is known for voicing the roles of Haruka Sakura from Wind Breaker, Shinomori Aoshi from Rurouni Kenshin, Kyo Sohma from Fruits Basket, and Megumi Fushiguro from Jujutsu Kaisen, among others.

Shimizu is the president of studio CloverWorks. He has served as producer for (The) IDOLM@STER, Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens, Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend, and Magi: The Kingdom of Magic. He is the chief executive producer for the Spy×Family anime.

This year's Anime NYC has expanded to a four-day event (Thursday to Sunday) for the first time, on August 21-24 at the Javits Center.

The event will also host Rooster Fighter (Niwatori Fighter) manga creator Shu Sakuratani, and the upcoming anime adaptation's screenwriter Hiroshi Seko.

Anime NYC launched in November 2017, and has taken place in November each year until in 2024, when it moved to August, and used the full main building of the Javits Center for the first time. (The event was online only in 2020.)

Sources: Anime NYC's X/Twitter account, (link 2), (link 3)