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AFA Singapore to Host Writer Gen Urobuchi, Real Akiba Boyz Dance Group

Southeast Asian convention Anime Festival Asia announced on Wednesday that it will host writer Gen Urobuchi and the Real Akiba Boyz parody dance group as guests. Urobuchi will appear on the event's main stage as part of the convention having Thunderbolt Fantasy as featured content.

Urobuchi is a member of the creative group Nitroplus. Under the Nitroplus label, Urobuchi has written such visual novels as Phantom of Inferno, Kikokugai: The Cyber Slayer, and Saya no Uta. He also wrote the Fate/Zero novel series, a prequel to Kinoko Nasu and Type-Moon's Fate/stay night visual novel. Phantom of Inferno was adapted into the Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~ television anime, and Fate/Zero was similarly adapted into a television anime. He has also written such anime as Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Psycho-Pass, Expelled from Paradise, and some episodes of the second season of Concrete Revolutio. His latest work is the Thunderbolt Fantasy puppet series, and he is also writing a planned 2017 Godzilla anime film by POLYGON PICTURES.

Real Akiba Boyz (R.A.B.) was founded in 2007. Currently, the group consists of Atsuki Suzumiya, Keitan, Maron, and Murato. The group choreographs and executes break dance routines set to popular anime theme songs, such as Paradise Lunch's "Gun's&Roses" (Baccano!), Masayoshi Ōishi's "Kimi Janakya Dame Mitai" (Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun), BRADIO's "Flyers" (Death Parade), and μ's' "Bokura wa Ima no Naka de" (Love Live!). Some of R.A.B.'s members have placed first in national dance competitions in Japan and have represented Japan in world dance competitions.

AFA Singapore will take place at the Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Center on November 25-27. Voice actors Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Kanae Itō, and Nobuhiko Okamoto are attending as guests. Previously announced musical guests include Aimer, Alisa Takigawa, Ami Wajima, HoneyWorks/CHICO with Honeyworks, Home Made Kazoku, JAM Project, Konomi Suzuki, KOTOKO, May'n, Minori Chihara, T.M. Revolution, and Wake Up, Girls!.