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Anime Expo Hosts Delicious in Dungeon Creator Ryōko Kui, CloverWorks President Akira Shimizu
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Anime Expo announced on Thursday and Friday that it will host Delicious in Dungeon manga creator Ryōko Kui and CloverWorks president and producer Akira Shimizu at this year's event. The convention will also screen the world premiere for the Haigakura anime on July 5 at 8:00 p.m. at Room 402AB.
Other panels at this year's event include:
- Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online II with voice actor Tomori Kusunoki (LLENN) and producer Wataru Hashimoto
- Fate/Grand Order seventh anniversary with voice actors Ayako Kawasumi, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Rumi Okubo, and part 2 director Yoshiki Kanо̄
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba fifth anniversary with voice actors Natsuki Hanae (Tanjiro), Takahiro Sakurai (Giyu), and producer Yūma Takahashi
- Blue Exorcist Special Event with voice actor Nobuhiko Okamoto (Rin Okumura)
- HATSUNE MIKU: COLORFUL STAGE! with voice actors Ai Furihata (Airi Momoi) and Mayu Yoshioka (Haruka Kiritani)
- World premiere screening of the first episode of GoHands' Momentary Lily original anime
The event will also host manga creator and illustrator Acky Bright, director and mechanical designer Shōji Kawamori, voice actress Sayaka Ōhara, scenario writer Ryukishi07 (Higurashi: When They Cry, Umineko - When They Cry franchises), Nihon Falcom president Toshihiro Kondo, and Studio Ghibli art director Youichi Nishikawa.
Kui launched the Delicious in Dungeon manga in Kadokawa's Harta magazine in February 2014, and ended the series last September. Yen Press licensed the manga. The manga is inspiring a television anime by Studio Trigger that premiered on January 4 worldwide on Netflix.
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.
The television anime of Shinobu Takayama's Haigakura manga will premiere this fall.
Anime Expo 2024 will take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center on July 4-7.
Sources: Press release, Anime Expo's Twitter account
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