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Anime Expo Hosts My Hero Academia's Director & English Dub Actors
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The organizers of the Dancing Dolls.
Aside from My Hero Academia, Nagasaki has directed the Mobile Suit Gundam 00.
Briner voices protagonist Izuku Midoriya in My Hero Academia. He has also performed in the English dubs of such anime as Fullmetal Alchemist (Alex Louis Armstrong).
Nagasaki, Briner, and Sabat will conduct a and will be available for autograph sessions throughout the weekend.
Before Dancing Dolls debuted professionally in 2012, they performed as a dance group in Osaka. The group ed their performances to YouTube. They released their debut single "Touch -A.S.A.P.- / Shanghai Darling" in 2012. Since then, the group has released five more singles, with their latest, "My Way / Love Me, Love Me," released in March 2015. The group's current lineup consists of Misaki, Hono, Mii, Miu, and Kanon. The latter two ed in January 2015, after former and sisters Asuka and Kyoka left in 2014.
The group performed the opening theme song "monochrome" for the Soul Eater Not! anime.
The group will appear and perform in various events throughout Anime Expo, including the opening ceremony, the community stage, AXDance, and the J-Pop Dance Battle, where they will be guest judges.
Anime Expo will celebrate its 25th anniversary this year from July 1 to July 4. The convention will JAM Project.
Other musical guests OLDCODEX.
The convention will also host a P.A. Works 15th Anniversary Exhibit in the Entertainment Hall, presented by Horikawa. Additionally Anime Expo will host a "Kimi no Na wa.), and the the premiere of the first English-dubbed episode of the One-Punch Man anime.