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Tomohiro Furukawa is an animation director and staff member from Kinema Citrus. Born in 1981, Mr. Furukawa began his career at Studio Graffiti, working on key animation. Leaving that studio to become freelance, he worked on key animation, storyboards, and opening animation for Penguindrum under Director Kunihiko Ikuhara, and had been involved in the many of that director’s subsequent projects, including as assistant director for Yurikuma Arashi. He assisted in animation direction for One Piece Film: Z. Revue Starlight is…

Please join us in giving a warm Anime Central welcome to Mai Nakahara as a 2019 Guest of Honor! Mai Nakahara is a Japanese voice actress and singer.  Born in Hyogo prefecture, she moved around Japan and spent a lot of her childhood in Fukuoka and Ehime.  She wanted to be a voice actress from the 5th grade, after watching Tico of the Seven Seas.  After her school years, she studied narration while working full time, and debuted with I’m Enterprise…

Please give a warm welcome to Kenichi Sonoda as he returns to Chicago for the World Premiere of Episode 0 of BEAN BANDIT to be unveiled for the very first time at #ACen2019! More news and guests to follow! 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 part time job at a…