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Anime Expo to Host Wake Up, Girls! Director Yutaka Yamamoto
posted on by Lynzee Loveridge
Organizers of the Anime Expo convention announced on Thursday that director Yutaka Yamamoto (Yamakan) will be a guest.
Yamakan founded animation studio Ordet where he directed Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens in 2008. He worked as series director on the 2009 anime of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Fractale, Senyū., Miyakawa-ke no Kūfuku and most recently, Wake Up, Girls!
Anime Expo will also host the Kill la Kill dub and K: Missing Kings premiere, singer Eir Aoi, Japanese band angela, script writers Kazuki Nakashima and Yoshiki Sakurai, character designer SUSHIO, producer Yosuke Toba, voice actresses Ami Koshimizu and Ryōka Yuzuki, and Studio 4°C producer Eiko Tanaka.
Anime Expo will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center from July 3 to July 6.