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Please join us in giving a warm Anime Central welcome to Darius Hambleton proudly sponsored by our friends at Japanime Games! Darius Hambleton has always been a lifelong fan of comics, anime, video games and board games. While Strange Machine Games was founded by co-owner Jeff Mechlinski in 2015, in late 2017 Darius joined forces to take Strange Machine Games to the next level. SMG aims to make the most dynamic and interesting Board Game and RPG products on the…

Please join us in giving a warm Anime Central welcome to Jason Thompson proudly sponsored by our friends at Japanime Games! Jason Thompson is the designer of the tabletop game Mangaka: The Fast & Furious Game of Drawing Comics and co-designer of Cartooner (with Jumana Al Hashal).As the author of Manga: The Complete Guide, a manga reviewer for Otaku USA and Anime News Network, and a manga editor for VIZ for over 10 years (including working as the launch editor of the USA edition of SHONEN JUMP), he has…

Please join us in giving a warm Anime Central welcome to Eric Price proudly sponsored by our friends at Japanime Games! Eric Price is the founder and President of Japanime Games. He began his journey in Table Top gaming in the 1990’s buying and trading collectible card games. Since establishing Japanime Games in 2010, Eric has produced over 30 titles from designers all over the world, and Japanime Games titles are now produced in 8 languages. Eric travels to Japan…

Please join us in giving a warm Anime Central welcome to Brett Finnell proudly sponsored by our friends at Japanime Games! Brett Finnell has been designing board games since 2016 and watching anime since the late 80s. His first published title is Love Battle! High School, which translates the crazy antics of the harem genre into a playful but tactical board game. Brett tries to find interesting niche themes that reflect his eclectic tastes and turn them into games that…

Ryoma Ebata, born in 1981, is the character designer and director of key animation for the Winter 2019 TV Anime That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime. For most of his career, he has worked as an animator, designer, as well as a Unit Director. The first time he was in charge of Character Designs was with Busou Shinki. He has been in charge of key animation for openings, endings, and the main areas for numerous titles such as…

Atsushi Nakayama, born in 1974, is Assistant Director for the Winter 2019 TV Anime That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime.  He was Unit Director on Knight’s & Magic and other shows, as well as Director of Photography for Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, and others. Mr. Nakayama provides storyboards, direction, photography, and other multifaceted work around the production studio. His first work as a director was Absolute Duo.

Shuzilow.HA (also known as Shujirou Hamakawa) was born on July 7, 1966 in Kobe, Japan. From 1982 to 1989, he served as an animator at Anime R. He was a video game designer at Konami from 1989 to 1998, and he returned to animation to work for Production I.G. from 1998 to 2000. Since 2000, he has been offering his services as a freelance designer. Shuzilow.HA is best known as the original creator of the Solty Rei TV series. He…

Marco d’Ambrosio is a composer, conductor, music producer, instrumentalist and sound designer.  He has scored many award-winning films including the anime hits Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure OVAs as well as Shadow and Fist of the Blue Sky series along with much work on live action films, documentaries, video games and albums. Come join him as he presents his work, discusses the scoring process and talks about his collaboration with Kenichi Sonoda on the upcoming Bean Bandit series.

Miho Okasaki is a voice actress who has held roles such as Rimuru from That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime and Miku Nishio from Music Girls.