Shiro Dogu and Shunsuke Wada of TakaOtacraft to be Guests at Otakon 2016
Baltimore, MD (July 29, 2016) – Otakorp, Inc. is pleased to announce that Shiro Dogu and Shunsuke Wada of TakaOtacraft have joined the guest roster for Otakon 2016.
Shiro Dogu was born in 1974 and raised in Takaoka City, Toyama, Japan. As a child, the youngest of three siblings, Dogu dreamed of becoming a programmer and majored in Information Technology in college. After graduating from college, Dogu got a job at a company in Kanagawa, Japan as a programmer. Following a family emergency in 1999, he decided to join his family's business of metal casting. In 2007, Dogu took on the role of CEO at Dogu Inc.
Other than being an otaku, Dogu is a normal craftsman who wants to better his country's craftsmanship and make a name for it. As a kid, he grew up reading shojo manga and anime magazines. As an adult, he loves otaku culture deeply, including anime, tokusatsu, plastic models, manga, and games.
Shunsuke Wada, an engraver, was born in 1983 and raised in Takaoka City, Toyama, Japan. After graduating from college, Shunsuke joined a game development company to work as a CG designer. During his six years as a designer, Shunsuke worked on entertainment machines. In 2011, Shunsuke decided to head back to Takaoka to help out his family business of engraving, and to eventually succeed the craftsman position as the fourth heir of the Wada workshop. As a child, Wada loved otaku culture including anime, manga, movies, games, and tokusatsu. In 2013, Wada began the "TakaOtacraft Committee" with his fellow craftsmen from Takaoka. The mission of TakaOtacraft is to bring traditional craft art and anime together. Wada loves figures and dolls.
Otakon 2016 will be held August 12-14 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, MD. ABOUT OTAKON AND OTAKORP, INC.: Now entering its twenty-third year, Otakon is an annual celebration of Japanese and East Asian popular culture, and also one of the largest gatherings of fans in the United States. Otakon celebrates popular culture as a gateway to deeper understanding of Asian culture, and has grown along with the enthusiasm for anime, manga, video games, and music from the Far East. Since 1999, Otakon has been held in Baltimore, Maryland; currently, Otakon is one of Baltimore's few large, city-wide events, drawing over 34,000 people for three days each year (for a paid attendance of over 100,000 turnstile attendees). Otakon is a membership based convention sponsored by Otakorp, Inc., a Pennsylvania-based, 501(c)3 educational non-profit whose mission is to promote the appreciation of Asian culture, primarily through its media and entertainment. Otakorp, Inc. is directed by an all-volunteer, unpaid staff – we are run by fans, for fans.
For more information about Otakorp, Inc., see http://www.otakon.com/otakorp/index.asp
For more information and the latest news on Otakon 2016, see http://www.otakon.com/
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