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AFA Singapore to Host Voice Actor Nobuhiko Okamoto
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Southeast Asian convention Anime Festival Asia announced on Monday that it will host voice actor Nobuhiko Okamoto as a guest. Okamoto will be available for an autograph session during the convention.
Okamoto debuted in 2006, and voiced his first major role as the character John Brown in the Ghost Hunt anime. He has since voiced roles in such anime as A Certain Magical Index and A Certain Scientific Railgun S (Accelerator), Chrome Shelled Regios (Layfon Alseif), Hatsukoi Limited (Haruto Terai), The Sacred Blacksmith (Luke Ainsworth), Bakuman. (Eiji Niizuma), Tiger & Bunny (Ivan Karelin), Blue Exorcist (Rin Okumura), Assassination Classroom (Karma Akabane), Haikyu!! (Yū Nishinoya), Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma (Ryō Kurokiba), and My Hero Academia (Katsuki Bakugō). He won the award for Best New Actor at the Seiyū Awards in 2009, and won the Best Actor in a Supporting Role award at the 2011 awards.
AFA Singapore will take place at the Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Center on November 25-27. Voice actors Yoshitsugu Matsuoka and Kanae Itō are attending as guests. Previously announced musical guests include Aimer, Alisa Takigawa, Ami Wajima, HoneyWorks/CHICO with Honeyworks, Home Made Kazoku, JAM Project, Konomi Suzuki, KOTOKO, May'n, Minori Chihara, T.M. Revolution, and Wake Up, Girls!.
