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Aya Suzaki is a Japanese voice actress, singer, and narrator from Ishikawa prefecture. While a student at Tokyo Gakugei University, she entered the Japanese Narration Acting Institute, and debuted as a voice actress in 2010 with the anime Bakuman. She joined the agency I’m Enterprise in 2011. Affectionately known by her fans as “Ayappe”, she has voiced several fan-favorite characters such as Minami Nitta from The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls, Mako Mankanshoku from Kill la Kill, Tamako Kitashirakawa from Tamako Market,…

Takushi Koide is a highly anticipated and talented animator from Kinema Citrus. He has participated in the animations of Under the Dog, Norn9 and was known for his wondrous action animation design of Scorching Ping Pong Girls. In Revue Starlight, Mr. Koide served as assistant director in charge of weapon and revue costume design, but also highly active as the director’s right hand for the storyboard, animation direction and animation supervision.

Hiromitsu Iijima is a music producer and director of music production company, IRMA LA DOUCE.  He is responsible for a wide range of music produced for anime, commercials, TV dramas, artists and more. IRMA LA DOUCE started under the music production of Italian record label IRMA records SRL in 2014. He worked on Crunchyroll Anime Award 2017 Best Score winner Made in Abyss alongside Kevin Penkin.  Furthermore, Iijima has been the music producer for other reputed works including Yuyushiki, Under…

Kevin Penkin is an Australian composer for Japanese anime and video games. Penkin is best known for composing the Crunchyroll Anime Award-winning score to Made in Abyss, and the score to the craft game Florence (Studio Mountains), which won an Apple Design Award in 2018. After moving to London in 2013 to complete a Masters degree in Composition for Screen at the Royal College of Music, Penkin collaborated with legendary composer Nobuo Uematsu on a number of Japanese video game…

Masayuki Kojima is an animation director with Kinema Citrus, and the director of Made in Abyss. Born in 1961, his reputable career started at Madhouse where he worked as an episode director and animator for several projects, as well as served as the Director of Master Keaton, MONSTER, Piano no Mori (film),  Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, and more.  After Madhouse he soon joined Kinema Citrus, where he has directed Black Bullet and Made in Abyss.