Even More Additions to AFA2018

Even more additions to the roster of guests for C3 Anime Festival Asia 2018, which will occur in T-minus 5 days!!

Frame Arms Girl

The popular mecha anime will be making its appearance on the Akiba Stage with participation from the voice actress, Erii Yamazaki and Rika Abe. This time for some fun activities with a chance for fans to bring home some prizes and more!

Look forward to this stage!

GinyuforceE

Wotagei performers GinyuforcE is a creator and pioneer of glow art performance called CYALUME DANCE. They dance in dark environments with glow sticks in hand to add a spectacle to the performance with curving and straight lines expressed by the light of Cyalume glow sticks.

This cool choreographed dance performance posted on YouTube took the world by storm and Cyalume Dance is now expanding its popularity and it’s not just for Wotaku in Japan.

GinyuforcE has been appearing in various CM and movie works, their dance is highly recognized as one of the important factor for contents production.

They now perform at many events overseas and hope to spread this entertainment culture from Japan throughout the entire world.

With an over-realistic illustration style as the base, they have created rich, high-tensioned visuals for various media projects, while at the same time destroyed stereotypes, as they aim to provide a brand new visual experience.

Their main works includes “A Sacred Baboon does Philosophy” on NHK’s Minna no Uta, Masatō Ibu’s official webpage, the “Japanese Table Tennis” short in the movie Tokyo Onlypic, as well as commercials, high-speed kamishibai and GIF mangas. On Pop Team Epic, they are responsible for the Bob Team Epic segments.

DJ Hosaka

DJ HOSAKA☆ is a well-known DJ who is active in various fields, such as songwriting, events planning, scripting and so on.

In 2013 with DJ Caesar, the legendary pioneer of Anisong DJ in Japan who has remixed tracks for Weekly Shonen Jump’s CDs, DJ HOSAKA☆ performed as a resident DJ at Japan’s largest DJ party “ANILOVE”.

He has DJ’d for FLOW and been supporting many stages of Anisong artists.

His playing field is now expanding and he’s making the world his stage.

Multi creator who does songwriting, DJing, scripting and staging.

Started his career from the internet activity, now he hosts numbers of events that mobilize more than 1,000 people.

His playing field has no limitations – besides engaging in official remixes of anime theme songs, he’s active in performing DJs at World Cosplay Summits and Voice Actor Live events, etc.

DJ 29Meat – Misawa Tomotaka

Movie, TV, with animation, drama, CM, corporate VP, variety shows, music programs, such as music clips, an experience that has made the production of video works of all genres, video production producer. In recent years, the movie “Gothic & Lolita Psycho”, I engaged in central in “High Tension ☆ Please” such as the position of planning and production, etc. in many of the topics of the movie.

September 2011 in the movie that has been published in Japan “Assassin” is called a hot topic among overseas buyers in the film market in Cannes, France, including Korea screenings from January 2012, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam , sales deployment begins from Taiwan and Asian countries, North America, also declined sales expansion in Europe.

Currently, it is planned and produced the local Animation of Urawa “Urawa no Usagi-chan”, was awarded the “Community Business Award” at the Saitama City New Business Award 2014.

In recent years, he is also acting as an animation song DJ.

DJ Soba

Newcomer anisong DJ based in Indonesia who loves anime, sub culture and most importantly soba. He is also a founder of the very first anisong DJ event Indonesia, Otagroove. He decided start his career as anisong DJ because he was struggling to find a performer for his own event.

Beside anisongs, DJ Soba also plays idol songs, vocaloid songs, and other j-pop related songs during his set.

Ai Twintail

愛, Twintail is a local Japanese-idol concept group formed in July 2018. Their name reflects strongly on the “twintail” hairstyle that is commonly shared among the group.

The group consists of five members: Maya (Orange represent), Rein (Pink represent), Miki (White represent), Lucia (Red represent), Yuukira (Green represent). With each member adding a different colour to the group through their unique and charming personalities, they hope that their adorable and energetically hyped concept can power up the audiences!

Yuasa Kaede

Kaede Yuasa was a film editor in an animation company before she became a voice actress, which was beneficial for her voice acting career.

She has gained extended experiences in her voice acting roles in numerous works including:

• “Hinaroji – From Luck & Logic ~” (Kiritani Karen)

• ”Gunslinger Stratos” (Maguma)

• ”Monster girls ~ Ultra monster animation plan ~” (Zandrias)

• ”RELEASE THE SPYCE” (Niigaki Ayumu)

• ”SSSS.GRIDMAN(Tonkawa)

• ”Ultraman R / B” (D.R.L.N)

She is now thriving on her career path as a voice actress.

Vanille Altzy

A DJ from Singapore, Vanille started learning DJ 6 years ago and did not make a public performance until December 2017. He has recently returned from his first overseas performance in Tokyo’s most popular anisong club, Akihabara MOGRA.

With his experience there, he aims to show the locals a better performance as compared to his last local performance and hopes the dancefloor will be lit and groovy.

Chiba “Naotyuu” Naoki

Born on Apr. 13th, 1988 in HOKKAIDO, Japan. At the age of 13, he started to use MIDI and wrote original songs.

He started to put out his music as “naotyu-” and ended up working for various projects including his own self-financed album and popular games. After making quite an impression in the Japanese Electric Music Scene, in 2012, he changed his name to Naoki”naotyu-“Chiba. Now he writes music for various popular J-Pop artists, Anime, games, and movies. He is well-versed in Motorsports and boasts his love for his hometown Hokkaido.

http://www.naotyu-studio7.com/

– 3B junior “Hajimarino Hajimari”

– MomoiroClover “ZenryokuShoujo”

– Game soundtrack “GRAN TURISMO 6 (PlayStation®3)”

– Nakajima Megumi “Zanzouno Avalon”

Sunamori Taketeru

Taketeru Sunamori is Composer and author in Japan.

In 2009, He presented his first sound novel movie on Niconico Douga as a indie creator, and became the first generation of “Net-Creator” in Japan. In 2013, He released the first major-label album from FLYING DOG. He wrote the novel as author with this album, and this novel was published by KADOKAWA DENGEKI, the most famous publisher in the light-novel genre. After that, he is known as double-jobbing creator, as a composer and as a novelist.

Recently, he composed game music, including Square-Enix’s smash hit game “Grimmsnotes”. And with the company, he joined to official concert tour as writer, including “Final Fantasy” and “Kingdom Hearts”. In 2017, He started the carrier as DJ.

He performed in Asia, Europe, North and South America.

Usagi

• 20 years old, Singapore

• Won a Grand Prix prize of 「Asia Anisong-Singer Audition(AAA)」 held at 「Anime Festival Asia（A.F.A） Singapore2014」 in Singapore

• Occupation : Student

• Hobby：Singing、Reading、Watching Anime

• Favorite Singer：Nana Mizuki

• Special abilities： Able to mimic different accents of people speaking English

And also imitate vocaloids singing

Uta

I am Uta, formerly Usagi, and hope to perform at this year’s Akiba Stage to sing to the crowd at AFA 2018.

Achievements include:

JAS NHK cup 2013 Champion
Right after was invited to a Japanese TV show Kanjani no shiwake Special episode to compete with a veteran singer and won.

Kawasumi Ayako

An accomplished voice actress, Ayako Kawasumi has lent her talents to some of anime’s most popular series. Her career has spanned over twenty years and she still continues to wow and delight the fandom! Her turn as the iconic Saber in the Fate series has definitely been one that has not only gained her a worldwide fan base but has also allowed her to play the character in different forms of media which include the recently released mobile game Fate Grand Order.

Takahashi Rie

Rie Takahashi was born on 27 February in Saitama.

Since her debut as a voice actor in 2013, she has captured the attention of fans with her roles playing different characters in multiple anime and games.

Some of her main roles include Cure Miracle in “MahoGirls Precure!”, Emilia in “Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World”, Mash Kyrielight in “Fate/Grand Order”, etc.

She is also active performing as a member in the voice-actor unit EARPHONES.

Tanaka Minami

Minami Tanaka is currently managed by 81 Produce as well as avex Pictures. She’s also currently active as a member of the unit “Wake Up, Girls”. Some of her main roles include: Minami Katayama – Wake Up, Girls！ Lily Hoshikawa – Zombie Land Saga Mebuki Kusunoki – Mebuki Kusonoki is a Hero (Drama CD) Mary Saotome – Kakegurui

Shiokawa Yosuke

DELiGHTWORKS / FGO Project Creative Producer

He began his career in 2000 when he joined Square Co., Ltd. (presently Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd.). He was then seconded to SQUARE ENIX, INC. (North America) in 2009. After holding positions in Square Enix Holdings, and Tokyo RPG Factory, He joined DELiGHTWORKS Inc. as a Creative Producer. In 2018, he became involved with the FGO Project as the Creative Producer, and is concurrently the studio head of DELiGHTWORKS SWALLOWTAIL Studios.