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Anime Expo Hosts Touhou Creator ZUN, Character Designer Akira Yasuda
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Anime Expo convention.
In addition, Anime Expo announced on Wednesday that it is hosting the staff of Ari Arad; Maidreamin maid cafe chain's Ayame, Hinata, and Mariru; and Japanese artistic pole dancer momoMc.
ZUN is the sole member of Touhou Project creator Team Shanghai Alice, and independently produces the main installments of the Touhou series of bullet hell shooters as a character designer, graphic artist, composer, and programmer. Yuro Kyoya is a member of both games in the west.
Yu Mizokami is a developer in releasing the game in the west.
Yasuda is a former employee of Gundam: Reconguista in G.
Ogawa has worked on notable tri-Ace projects, including Valkyrie Profile and Infinite Undiscovery. He also worked on Star Ocean: The Second Story and Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, and worked as a battle system designer in Final Fantasy XIII.
The Star Ocean 5: Integrity and Faithlessness staff will have a Meet and Greet session on July 1, and will participate in a Star Ocean fan gathering and launch party for the game. They will also participate in a Star Ocean on July 2, and Yasuda will have autograph sessions from July 1-3.
Kobayashi has worked as a producer for Square Enix on such titles as The Last Remnant, Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, Star Ocean: The Chō Soku Henkei Gyrozetter.
Terashima-Furuta has worked as a producer or executive producer on such anime projects as Eden of the East.
Arad was a producer on Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, and is currently a producer in the live-action Ghost in the Shell film.
Both Terashima-Furuta and Arad will participate in a Production I.G , which will discuss Netflix, and the live-action Ghost in the Shell film.
Ayame, Hinata, and Mariru are the three top maids of the Maidreamin maid cafe restaurant. The Maidreamin maid cafe chain began in Akihabara in 2008, and now has 17 locations. They will participate in the convention's Maid Cafe event, appearing in the first two shows each day at 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
monoMc is an artistic pole dancer who has won the Grand Award Winner of the 2015 International Pole Theater Japan, Comedy category and Pole Battle Tokyo, SEXY category awards. She is the "Official Pole Dancer" of Club ageHA. She will participate in the convention's Night Cafe, appearing at the convention at 7:00 p.m. on July 1, 9:00 p.m. on July 2, and 11:00 p.m. on July 3.
Anime Expo will celebrate its 25th anniversary this year from July 1 to July 4 in Los Angeles. The convention will JAM Project.
Other musical guests Dancing Dolls.
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 "ERASED at the convention.
