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AFA Singapore Reveals Guests Shigure Ui, Ai Kayano, Yumi Uchiyama, Sōma Saitō, Amane Shindo, More

Anime Festival Asia announced on Tuesday that it will host voice actors Ai Kayano, Yumi Uchiyama, Sōma Saitō, Amane Shindō, Yūka Nishio, and Hina Aoki, members from animation studio MAPPA (including Manabu Otsuka, Yuichiro Hayashi, and Mari Okada), and VTuber Shigure Ui.

The event will also host premiere screenings for the Chained Soldier and Tales of Wedding Rings anime on Friday, November 24, featuring cosplayer Moe Iori and VTuber Shigure Ui as guests in the screenings.

Voice actress Ai Kayano and Yumi Uchiyama from Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation II, and voice actress Sumire Uesaka from Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian will both have talk panels on Saturday, November 25.

MAPPA CEO Manabu Ohtsuka, and directors Yuichiro Hayashi and Mari Okada will have a panel on Sunday, November 26. Amane Shindō, Yūka Nishio, and Hina Aoki will also participate in a panel for Cardfight!! Vanguard on Sunday.

The event will have an "Akiba Town" area featuring 70 corporate exhibitors and vendors. The event will also feature an "Akiba Stage" area featuring local Southeast Asian talent. The event's Creators Hub and Cosplay Hub for content creators, creatives, and cosplayers will also make a return.

The musical guests for Friday, November 24 include:

• Asterism
• Liyuu
• May'n
• Nano
• Survive Said the Prophet
• Tatsuya Kitani

The musical guests for Saturday, November 25 will all be VTubers from hololive, and include:

• Sakura Miko
• Hoshimachi Suisei
• Mori Calliope
• IRyS
• Hakos Baelz
• Ayunda Risu
• Moona Hoshinova
• Pavolia Reine
• Kobo Kanaeru

The musical guests for Sunday, November 26 include:

• FLOW
• ASCA
• halca
• Spira Spica
• Nami Tamaki

Anime Festival Asia Singapore will take place at the Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre in Singapore on November 24-26.

The previous AFA Singapore in 2022 was the first since 2019 to be held as an in-person event. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sozo began holding online AFA events in 2020.

The Anime Festival Asia conventions take place in Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, and Japan. The event is one of the largest anime and Japanese pop-culture conventions outside Japan. 2015's Anime Festival Asia in Singapore drew 90,669 visitors. Aside from Anime Festival Asia and its attached I Love Anisong label, Sozo also owns JLive Asia, and organizes the Japan Music Festival brand.

Source: Press release