The staff of MomoCon 2025 announced on April 2 that it will host game developer and Grasshopper Manufacture founder Goichi “Suda51” Suda and game developer and Access Games co-founder Hidetaka “Swery65” Suehiro. The convention also announced in April that it will host Studio Trigger animators Yoshitaka Mano and Shō Ōi, as well as Studio Orange artist Sachio Tomioka and producer Yoshihiro Watanabe.
Suda51’s games include Killer7, No More Heroes, Lollipop Chainsaw, The Silver Case, Killer is Dead, and Let It Die. Suda51’s studio, Grasshopper Manufacture, celebrated its 20th anniversary last year. The studio released Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes for Nintendo Switch in January 2019.
Swery was a founding member of Access Games, where he began his career directing games with Spy Fiction. He went on to work on Deadly Premonition, Lord of Arcana, Lord of Apocalypse, and D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die. The developer resigned from Access Games and launched the game development company White Owls in 2016.
In addition, Momocon announced in March that it will host voice actor Ryō Horikawa, and actors Tetsuo Kurata and Shiro Izumi.
Horikawa is the president of the Aslead Company talent agency. He began his career in 1984 with the role of Hirono Kenta in Yume Senshi Wingman. Horikawa may be best known for voicing Vegeta in the Dragon Ball Z anime. His other voice roles include Detective Conan’s Heiji Hattori, Saint Seiya’s Shun Andromeda, Legend of the Galactic Heroes’ Reinhard von Lohengramm, Gundam 0083’s Kou Uraki, and Yū Yū Hakusho’s Karasu.
The event will take place from May 22-25 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.
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