Please join us in giving a warm Anime Central welcome to Mamoru Yokota as a 2018 Guest of Honor! Mr. Yokota was the producer for Air Movie, Kanon TV show and the animation director for Death Note. He was the character designer for Magical Kanan, Angelium, Rune Soldier Louie and Naruto Shippuden. He also worked on the production […]

Please join us in giving a warm Anime Central welcome to Bryce Papenbrook as a 2018 Guest of Honor! Bryce Papenbrook has been a professional voice over artist since the age of eight. He was introduced to the voice acting scene by his father, Bob Papenbrook, and has continued the trade in his footsteps. Bryce has performed […]

Please join us in giving a warm Anime Central welcome to VOFAN as a 2018 Guest of Honor! Anime Central is proud to announce VOFAN, the star illustrator of the Monogatari series written by NISIOISIN, as a Guest of Honor. Appraised by the fans around the world as “The Magician of Light from Taiwan” , VOFAN […]

Please join us in giving a warm Anime Central welcome to Jinsei Kataoka and Kazuma Kondou as 2018 Guests of Honor! Jinsei Kataoka and Kazuma Kondou are the writer and artist duo behind the best-selling DEADMAN WONDERLAND series. All thirteen volumes of the manga are available in print and digital editions from VIZ Media. The action-packed manga […]

Please join us in giving a warm Anime Central welcome to Kikuko Inoue as a 2018 Guest of Honor! Kikuko Inoue is a veteran voice actress and singer from Japan.  Born in Kanagawa, she obtained a middle school teaching license before a rebroadcast of Attack No. 1 inspired her to pursue voice acting, and she landed […]

Please join us in giving a warm Anime Central welcome to Shuzilow.HA as a 2018 Guests of Honor!   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 […]

Please join us in giving a warm Anime Central welcome to Kenichi Sonoda as a 2018 Guest of Honor!   Kenichi Sonoda was born on December 13, 1962 in Kumamoto, Japan. While attending the Nanba Designer Academy, he formed the doujinshi circle “VTOL” with highschool clubmates, and started self-publishing work. Around that time, he started a […]

Please join us in giving a warm Anime Central welcome to Marco d’Ambrosio as a 2018 Guest of Honor! Marco d’Ambrosio is a composer, conductor, music producer, instrumentalist and all-around noise maker. He has scored many award-winning films including the anime hits Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure OVAs, as well as the Fist of […]

Please join us in giving a warm Anime Central welcome to A New World: intimate music from FINAL FANTASY as a 2018 Guests of Honor! A New World: intimate music from FINAL FANTASY performs at Anime Central in the Chicago area.  We’re back at ACen with new repertoire and a new experience.  Under the direction of […]

Please join us in giving a warm Anime Central welcome to Cherami Leigh as a 2018 Guest of Honor! Cherami Leigh has been in the industry for 20 years. She has been in over 75 commercials, and has worked on over 100 anime projects including “Lucy” in Fairy Tail, “Asuna” in Sword Art Online, “Road” […]