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AFA Indonesia to Host Voice Actress Junko Takeuchi
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Anime Festival Asia announced on Wednesday that the AFA Indonesia convention will host voice actress Junko Takeuchi. She will appear on the AFA Indonesia main stage during the event.
Junko Takeuchi is perhaps most famous for voicing the titular protagonist of the Naruto TV anime series, Naruto Uzumaki. She most recently portrayed the character in the Boruto -Naruto the Movie- film, which premiered in Japan on August 7. She also played characters in anime such as Yes! Precure 5 (Cure Rouge), Inazuma Eleven (Mamoru Endou), and the 1999 Hunter X Hunter (Gon).
Previously announced guests for the convention include voice actresses Yumiri Hanamori (Ace of Diamond, The Rolling Girls, Etotama), Yurika Endo (Ace of Diamond, Z/X Ignition, Comical Psychosomatic Medicine), and Mai Fuchigami (Girls und Panzer, Dokidoki! Precure, Assassination Classroom), voice actor Sho Hayami (Fate/Zero, Trigun, Aldnoah.Zero), and illustrator NOB-C (Urawa no Usagi-chan, Aquarion Logos).
Other previously announced musical guests for the event include:
- DJ Kazu
- lisa (Angel Beats!, Fate/Zero, Sword Art Online)
- nano (Btooom!, Arpeggio of Blue Steel, M3 the dark metal)
- Nagi Yanagi (Bakemonogatari, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU, A Lull in the Sea)
- fripSide (A Certain Scientific Railgun, Hayate the Combat Butler! Heaven Is a Place on Earth, Black Bullet)
- Michi (Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers)
- Majiko
- mikitoP
The convention will also screen the Yowamushi Pedal and Gekijōban Date A Live: Mayuri Judgment anime films.
AFA Indonesia will take place in Jakarta, Indonesia on September 25-27.
Anime Festival Asia has held an event in Jakarta, Indonesia every year since 2012. Anime Festival Asia ran last year's event in Indonesia from August 15 to 17.
The Anime Festival Asia convention also held an event in Bangkok, Thailand from April 30 to May 3, and will hold its main convention in Singapore from November 27-29.
