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Additionally present are individuals named Chiaki Kobayashi, Gorō Taniguchi, Makoto Furukawa, Hiroaki Akagi, Daiki Yamashita, and George Wada.

In the last 10 days, the Anime Expo event has revealed its guest list, which includes various anime industry professionals.

For the world premiere of the anime adaptation of Mokumokuren's manga series "The Summer Hikaru Died" (Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu), both manga creator Mokumokuren and voice actor Chiaki Kobayashi will be present.
- Shinobu Seguchi , creator of the Prisoner Riku manga
- Gorō Taniguchi , Tatsuyuki Tanaka and Alex Xu for the "Community-Driven Anime Production" panel
- Doujin artist Asanagi
- Director Hiroaki Akagi and producer Go Inagaki for the TV Asahi Industry Panel
- Director Masaki Watanabe and producer Genki Ito for the Netflix panel
- Voice actor Makoto Furukawa
Kazuhiro Nishikawa, the CEO of Dandelion Animation Studio, and Rei Hebiguchi, a manga editor from Amuse Creative Studio, will be discussing their experiences in making anime and manga during the "Amuse Creative Studio Presents: How the Pros Make Anime & Manga" panel.
- Voice actor Daiki Yamashita
- Producer George Wada for the " VIZ Presents: Roosters, Samurai, and Mayhem!" panel
- Manga creator Ogeretsu Tanaka


The event will also host ( link ) On July 5th, there will be a global debut for the animated series "GINTAMA - Mr. Ginpachi's Zany Class" (also known as "3-Nen Z-Gumi Ginpachi-Sensei"). This event will take place. ( link ) the world premiere of a scene from the KILLTUBE anime featuring guest director Kazuki Kuribayashi.

This year at Anime Expo, several notable guests are scheduled for the Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage fan event. These include Karin Isobe, Yuki Nakashima, Fumiya Imai, Kent Itō, Manabu Ohtsuka (MAPPA President), Hiroya Hasegawa (MAPPA Vice President), Baku Kinoshita (ODDTAXI director), Ryukishi07 (Higurashi and Umineko creator), Sora Amamiya (voice actor from Call of the Night season 2), and Gen Sato (voice actor from Call of the Night season 2).

The event is called "J-POP SOUND CAPSULE @AX2025 Anisong World Matsuri Returns" and it includes various artists such as TOGENASHI TOGEARI from Girls Band Cry, FLOW from Code Geass, Naruto, Eureka Seven, GRANRODEO from Kuroko's Basketball, Bungo Stray Dogs, Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, Sakurazaka46, Hiroshi Kitadani from One Piece, and metal band ASTERISM from Even Given the Worthless "Appraiser" Class, I'm Actually the Strongest opening song "Crescendo".

Yoshi-P, Kazuki Ura (voice actor), Masayuki Yamagishi (CEO of NextNinja), Peach-Pit (manga artist), Kazuaki Kuribayashi (director), Kazuya Tsurumaki (director of Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX), Yōji Enokido (series composer of Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX), Tomoyo Kurosawa (voice actress), and Naohiro Ogata (director of Bandai Namco Filmworks) are all scheduled to attend the event as guests.

Anime Expo takes place at the Los Angeles Convention Center from July 3-6.


Sources: Press release , Anime Expo 's Instagram account ( link )