Otakorp, Inc. Welcomes Back Animation Director Hidenori Matsubara

Otakorp, Inc. Welcomes Back
Animation Director Hidenori Matsubara

Baltimore, MD (June 19, 2014) – Animation director Hidenori Matsubara will be appearing at
Otakon 2014. Otakorp, Inc. is pleased to announce the appearance will represent his second time
at Otakon.

As a young and hungry animator, Matsubara worked as an in-betweener on the Project A-ko
movies. From there, he served as an animator on Bubblegum Crisis and Gunbuster. Graduating
to animation director for Nadia - Secret of Blue Water, he completed the opening animation for
Bubblegum Crash, and then served as animation director on Otaku no Video (the inspiration for
the name Otakon). Other credits in this period include work as an animator on Perfect Blue,
Gunsmith Cats, and the original Neon Genesis Evangelion series. For the Oh My Goddess!
series (and later for the movie), Matsubara served as character designer and chief animation
director; more recently, he was character designer for The Count of Monte Cristo. He also served
as the character designer of the hit game series Sakura Wars.

Matsubara has worked with director Hideaki Anno as an animator and animation director on the
new series of Evangelion: 1.0 You Are [Not] Alone, Evangelion: 2.0 You Can [Not] Advance, and
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo. His other theatrical credits include The Princess and the
Pilot and Space Battleship Yamato 2199. Matsubara is currently working with the famed director
Sunao Katabuchi on an upcoming theatrical film, At The Corner Of This World.

Otakon 2014 will be held August 8-10 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, MD.

ABOUT OTAKON AND OTAKORP, INC.: Now entering its twenty first year, Otakon is an annual
celebration of Japanese and East Asian popular culture, and also one of the largest gatherings of
fans in the United States. Otakon celebrates popular culture as a gateway to deeper
understanding of Asian culture, and has grown along with the enthusiasm for anime, manga,
video games, and music from the Far East. Since 1999, Otakon has been held in Baltimore,
Maryland; currently, Otakon is one of Baltimore's few large, city-wide events, drawing over 34,000
people for three days each year (for a paid attendance of over 100,000 turnstile attendees).
Otakon is a membership based convention sponsored by Otakorp, Inc., a Pennsylvania-based,
501(c)3 educational non-profit whose mission is to promote the appreciation of Asian culture,
primarily through its media and entertainment. Otakorp, Inc. is directed by an all-volunteer, unpaid
staff – we are run by fans, for fans.

For more information about Otakorp, Inc., see www.otakon.com/otakorp/index.asp
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