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The staff for the Anime Expo event announced over the past 10 days that it will host the following guests:
The event will also host the world premiere of the GINTAMA – Mr. Ginpachi’s Zany Class (3-Nen Z-Gumi Ginpachi-Sensei) spinoff anime on July 5, and will host the world premiere of a scene from the KILLTUBE anime featuring guest director Kazuki Kuribayashi.
Anime Expo will also host Karin Isobe, Yuki Nakashima, Fumiya Imai, and Kent Itō for the Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage fan event this year. The event will also host MAPPA President and Vice President Manabu Ohtsuka and Hiroya Hasegawa, ODDTAXI director Baku Kinoshita, Higurashi and Umineko creator Ryukishi07, and voice actors Sora Amamiya and Gen Sato from Call of the Night season 2.
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.
Sources: Press release, Anime Expo’s Instagram account
