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Seattle's Sakura-Con to Host Haruhi Artist Noizi Ito (Updated)
posted on by Egan Loo
Sakura-Con has Noizi Itō during the April 2-4 convention in Seattle, Washington. According to Sakura-Con, this will be her first convention appearance.
Ito is best known for illustrating Shakugan no Shana fantasy light novels, which in turn inspired two television anime series, an anime movie, several anime videos, and manga.
She later illustrated Jinno Masaki's Bee-be-beat it! light novel in UNiSONSHIFT.
Sakura-Con Takahiro Yoshimatsu will be attending the convention.
Image © Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd.
© 2006 Nagaru Tanigawa, Noizi Itō/member of SOS
Update: More background information and novel cover image added.
Update2: Taiwan's Taipei International Book Exhibition had hosted Ito in 2008. Thanks, dormcat.
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