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C3 AFA Indonesia Hosts Voice Actor Yasuaki Takumi
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The Anime Festival Asia convention announced on Wednesday that it will host voice actor Yasuaki Takumi for its Indonesia event. Takumi will represent Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans as one of the featured anime for the event.
Takumi made his major voice acting debut in 2009 with the Bakugan Battle Brawlers: New Vestroia anime, where he played the character Ace. He has played characters in such anime as Moshidora (Daisuke Niimi), The Familiar of Zero F (Ari), Recently, my sister is unusual. (Shōtarō Torii), Lord Marksman and Vanadis (Olivier), Plastic Memories (Tsukasa Mizugaki), and Love Tyrant (Tarō Tsuruoka). In Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, he voices the character Akihiro Altland.
The convention is one of five in content company Sotsu Co., Ltd. and Singaporean events and marketing agency Sozo Pte. Ltd.'s "C3 AFA" joint events that bring together their C3 and Anime Festival Asia events. Aside from Jakarta, Indonesia, the events will also run in Thailand, Japan, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
The event will take place at the Royal Paragon Hall at the JIEXPO in Jakarta, Indonesia on August 18 to 20. A music concert will take place over two nights on August 19 and 20. The musical guests include Kishida Kyōdan & The Akeboshi Rockets, Konomi Suzuki, kradness, Luna Haruna, Shiena Nishizawa, Tomohisa Sakō, fhána, and May'n. Voice actors Satoshi Tsuruoka and Tohru Furuya, and voice actresses Saki Ono and Rike Abe will also attend.
