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AFA Indonesia to Host Voice Actor Sho Hayami, Musicians Majiko, mikitoP

Anime Festival Asia announced on Friday and Monday that the convention will host voice actor Shō Hayami, and will also host vocaloid musician MikitoP and singer Majiko as musical guests. MikitoP and Majiko will attend as EXIT TUNES' special guests for the event. All three will appear on the AFA Indonesia day stage during the convention.

Hayami has starred in roles such as Tokiomi Tohsaka in Fate/Zero, Wolfwood in Trigun, Maximilian Jenius in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Count Cruhteo in Aldnoah.Zero, and Darkninja in Ninja Slayer From Animation.

Majiko began uploading her own performances to video sites in 2010, and made her first public performance in December 2013. She previously appeared at Anime Festival Asia Thailand in Bangkok in May. Majiko has covered almost 60 songs and uploaded them to Nico Nico Douga. She released Contrast, her first cover album, on April 1. The album also contains two original songs.

MikitoP began composing Vocaloid songs in 2010, and began using Hatsune Miku to compose songs in 2011. Since then, he has produced many popular Hatsune Miku songs, such as "Sarashinohara." His song "Ii Aru Fanclub," featuring GUMI and the Kagamine Rin Vocaloid, was featured in Sega's 2013 Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai 2 Nintendo 3DS game. He has released two albums: Boku wa Hatsune Miku to Kisu wo Shita (I've Kissed Hatsune Miku) in 2013, and Good School Girl in 2014. He will publish his first single, with his own vocals, on September 16. The single will be titled "Second Season."

Previously announced guests include voice actresses Yumiri Hanamori (Ace of Diamond, The Rolling Girls, Etotama), Yurika Endō (Ace of Diamond, Z/X Ignition, Comical Psychosomatic Medicine), and Mai Fuchigami (Girls und Panzer, Dokidoki! Precure, Assassination Classroom.

Previously announced musical guests for the event include:

• FLOW (Eureka Seven, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, The Seven Deadly Sins)
• GARNiDELiA (Kill la Kill, The irregular at magic high school, Gundam: Reconguista in G)
• DJ Kazu
• lisa (Angel Beats!, Fate/Zero, Sword Art Online)
• motsu (Shakugan no Shana III (Final), Asobotto Senki Gokū) x DJ Kaya
• nano (Btooom!, Arpeggio of Blue Steel, M3 the dark metal)
• Nagi Yanagi (Bakemonogatari, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU, A Lull in the Sea)
• fripSide (A Certain Scientific Railgun, Hayate the Combat Butler! Heaven Is a Place on Earth, Black Bullet)
• Michi (Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers)

AFA Indonesia will take place in Jakarta, Indonesia on September 25-27.

Anime Festival Asia has held an event in Jakarta, Indonesia every year since 2012. Anime Festival Asia ran last year's event in Indonesia from August 15 to 17.

The Anime Festival Asia convention also held an event in Bangkok, Thailand from April 30 to May 3, and will hold its main convention in Singapore from November 27-29.