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Anime Central is honored to announce that Japanese Illustrator, Itsuki Akata will be joining us this year! Itsuki Akata is an illustrator from Japan, originally from Osaka, with the PC game company Freefullsoft. Active since the 1990’s, Akata established the game brand “Q-X” with Shou Matsumori. Akata’s representative works include the illustration collection Excellent Punitto and the light novels Didn’t I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?!and Dragon Crisis, in addition to being credited as “Original Creator (Illustrator)” for the anime…

Anime Central is honored to announce that Japanese Novelist, FUNA will be joining us this year! FUNA is a writer originally from the Kansai region of Japan, who currently resides in the Kanto area. Debuting with Didn’t I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?! published by Earth Star Novel in May of 2016, FUNA has also written I Shall Survive Using Potions! as well as Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for my Retirement, and is credited as “Original Creator (Novelist)” for…

A voice actress and ADR director, best known for the role of Winry Rockbell in the Fullmetal Alchemist franchise, Caitlin has been working in the anime industry since 2004. Caitlin was the ADR director for the English dub of the fan-favorite, Ouran High School Host Club, as well as the voice of Haruhi Fujioka. In video games, Caitlin also lends her voice to Mathilda in Fire Emblem Echoes, Rose in Tales of Zestiria, Elma in Xenoblade Chronicles X, Thorn in Battleborn, and, most notably, Cammy White &Decapre in Street…

Rie Tanaka is a veteran Japanese voice actress with over 25 years in the industry.  She has voiced several iconic characters new and old, including Mitsuki Sanada from Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure, Chii from Chobits, Yomi from Azumanga Daioh, Lacus Clyne from the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED series, Hikari Kujou from Pretty Cure Max Heart, Sugintou from the Rozen Maiden series, Maria from the Hayate no Gotoku! series, Misaki from Hatsukoi Limited, Octavia from Tears to Tiara, Chizuru from Shinryaku!…

Chicago native Erica Mendez is longtime anime and video game fan who put in the work and became a voice actress. She has been fortunate to play some fan-favorite characters, including: Retsuko in Aggretsuko, Ryuko in KILL la KILL, Gon in Hunter x Hunter, Aladdin in Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, Yuuki in Sword Art Online II, Sailor Uranus in the new Viz Media dub of Sailor Moon, Megumin in Konosuba, Akko in Little Witch Academia, Diane in Seven Deadly Sins, Nico…