The staff for the Anime Expo event announced over the past couple of weeks that it will host the following guests:
Karin Isobe, Yuki Nakashima, Fumiya Imai, and Kent Itō for the Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage fan event
MAPPA President Manabu Ohtsuka and Vice President Hiroya Hasegawa
Lyn Inaizumi with a live performance for Sega and Atlus’ Persona5: The Phantom X panel
CYBIRD’s Executive Producer Hiroto Kuramasu
Miura Ayme, Shinya Sumi, Hirotaka Kobayashi, Satoshi Ōnishi, Satoshi Kada, Kazuya Yamashita, and Kyōhei Yaguchi for the Obey Me! fan meeting
Yūka Mochizuki, content creator for Frontier Works
Baku Kinoshita, director and character designer of the ODDTAXI anime
Ryukishi07, creator of Higurashi and Umineko
Motoi Okamoto, Silent Hill franchise producer and Akira Yamaoka, Silent Hill executive producer and composer
ISHiKEi, manga artist and illustrator
Kaho Shibuya, Masaki Sakari, and Mike McNamara for Rocket Panda Games’ Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Ultimate panel
Voice actors Sora Amamiya and Gen Sato for HIDIVE’s Call of the Night Season 2 premiere
The event will feature a music concert festival named “J-POP SOUND CAPSULE @AX2025 Anisong World Matsuri Returns.” Performing artists include TOGENASHI TOGEARI — the real life and in-story band for Girls Band Cry — as well as FLOW (Code Geass, Naruto, Eureka Seven), GRANRODEO (Kuroko’s Basketball, Bungo Stray Dogs, Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans), Sakurazaka46, and JAM Project member Hiroshi Kitadani (One Piece), with metal band ASTERISM (Even Given the Worthless “Appraiser” Class, I’m Actually the Strongest opening song “Crescendo”) serving as the opening act.
The event will host Final Fantasy XIV director and producer and Final Fantasy XVI producer Naoki Yoshida (also known as Yoshi-P), voice actor Kazuki Ura, and NextNinja CEO Masayuki “Yama-P” Yamagishi, manga artist Peach-Pit, and director Kazuaki Kuribayashi. Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX’s creative team; including director Kazuya Tsurumaki, series composer Yōji Enokido, voice actress Tomoyo Kurosawa, and Bandai Namco Filmworks Naohiro Ogata; will also be at the event.
Anime Expo takes place at the Los Angeles Convention Center from July 3-6.
Source: Anime Expo’s X/Twitter account
