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C3 AFA Singapore Hosts Voice Actress Kiyono Yasuno as Guest

The Anime Festival Asia convention revealed on Friday that it will have the Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend Flat anime as a featured anime, and will feature voice actress Kiyono Yasuno as a guest. Yasuno voices the character Megumi Katō in the anime.

Yasuno made her major debut with the Kizuna Ichigeki anime short as the title character Kizuna Todoroki. The anime was part of the 2011 Young Animator Project (now called Anime Tamago). Since then, Yasuno has appeared in such anime as No. 6 (Safu), Aikatsu! (Sakura Kitaōji), Wake Up, Girls! (Tina Kobayakawa), Bodacious Space Pirates (Aster Aruhanko), Parasyte -the maxim- (Yuko Tachikawa), Macross Delta (Kaname Buccaneer), Schwarzes Marken (Gretel Jeckeln), and Twin Star Exorcists (Cordelia Kasukami). The original Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend anime aired in 2015, where Yasuno played the role of Megumi Katō. Her recent appearances include reprising her role as Tina Kobayakawa in the currently-airing Wake Up, Girls! New Chapter anime, and as Charmy Pappitson in the currently-airing Black Clover anime.

She has also performed songs for some anime in which she has voiced characters, including No. 6, Un-Go, and Anne-Happy. She has performed as her Kaname Buccaneer character as part of the Macross Delta anime's in-story Walküre group, and has performed songs as part of the Wake Up, Girls! group.

C3 AFA Singapore 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 Singapore, the events have also run in Thailand, Indonesia, and Japan, and will also have an event in Hong Kong in February 2018.

The convention will take place at the Suntec Singapore Exhibition & Convention Center on November 24-26. Other musical guests include ClariS, FLOW, fripSide, Luce Twinkle Wink☆, May'n, Shiena Nishizawa, Tomohisa Sakō, Konomi Suzuki, Moso Calibration, TRUE, Mashiro Ayano, Iris, Nano, and Nogizaka46. The event will screen an exhibition by musical group EGOIST. The event will also hold a preview screening of the first episode of Kyoto Animation's upcoming Violet Evergarden television anime.