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AFA Singapore Announces New Ticket Tiers

The official website of the Anime Festival Asia convention announced on Wednesday that it will provide more ticketing options for its Singapore convention.

Visitors can purchase a ticket that only grants access to the exhibition area for SG$13 per day, and a ticket that grants access to the AFA Main Stage for SG$23 per day. The convention is still offering its category 2 ticket for those who wish to attend the "I Love Anisong Reboot" concert, and have access to the exhibition area and the AFA Main Stage for SG$88 per day. The convention is also still offering the category 3 ticket that just offers standing-room access to the "I Love Anisong Reboot" concert for SG$58 per day.

VIP tickets, which give reserved seating at the "I Love Anisong Reboot" concert and grant access to the exhibition area and the AFA Main Stage, are also still offered for SG$158 per day.

In addition, Anime Festival Asia official Facebook page teased the announcement of new guests for the convention on Wednesday.

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!, Momo Kyun 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

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.