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C3 AFA Singapore Hosts Voice Actors Toshiyuki Toyonaga, Tetsuya Kakihara
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The Anime Festival Asia convention revealed on Monday that it will have the B-PROJECT anime as a featured anime, and will feature voice actors Toshiyuki Toyonaga and Tetsuya Kakihara as guests. In the franchise, Toyonaga voices Gōshi Kaneshiro, while Kakihara voices Momotaro Onzai.
B-PROJECT is MAGES' fictional male idol project featuring character designs by Devils and Realist creator Utako Yukihiro. The B-PROJECT anime premiered in July 2016, and it is getting a second season.
The anime's story follows Tsubasa, a new hire in the A&R department of the major recording company Gandala Music. Tsubasa is immediately assigned to oversee the idol unit "B-PROJECT," which is made up of three idol groups: Kitakore, THRIVE, and MooNs. This is Tsubasa's first job, and she gets involved in various incidents and accidents as she deals with this group of young men who each have their own differing personalities.
C3 AFA Singapore is one of five in content company Sotsu Co., Ltd. and Singaporean events and marketing agency Sozo Pte. Ltd.'s "C3 AFA" joint events that bring together their C3 and Anime Festival Asia events. Aside from Singapore, the events have also run in Thailand, Indonesia, and Japan, and will also have an event in Hong Kong in February 2018.
The convention will take place at the Suntec Singapore Exhibition & Convention Center on November 24-26. Other musical guests include ClariS, FLOW, fripSide, Luce Twinkle Wink☆, May'n, Shiena Nishizawa, Tomohisa Sakō, Konomi Suzuki, Moso Calibration, TRUE, Mashiro Ayano, Iris, Nano, and Nogizaka46. The event will screen an exhibition by musical group EGOIST. It will also host voice actress Kiyono Yasuno. The event will also hold a preview screening of the first episode of Kyoto Animation's upcoming Violet Evergarden television anime.
