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Hyper Japan Festival Will Run in London From July 19 to 21

London's next Hyper Japan event will take place from Friday July 19 to Sunday July 21. The guests will include the voice actress Romi Park, whose roles include Edward Elric in Fullmetal Alchemist and Hange in Attack on Titan; she will appear on the Saturday (20).

Other guests at the event include the music group Who-ya Extended, which has contributed songs to Jujutsu Kaisen and Psycho-Pass 3; and also Yoshiaki Okawa, who was in charge of the koto tones for the "Wano Country" arc of One Piece.

The event will take place at Olympia Events next to Kensington (Olympia) stations (directions).

Park will appear on Saturday July 20 from 4.30 p.m. to 5 p.m., followed by an autograph session on the same day from 5.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. She is currently one of the actresses playing the witch Yubaba in the stage play version of Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away at the Colisseum Theatre in London. Park's many anime voice roles include Fullmetal Alchemist's Edward Elric, Naruto's Temari, Turn A Gundam's Loran Cehack, and Digimon Adventure 02's Ken. More recently, she has voiced Hange in Attack on Titan, Ragyo Kiryuin in Kill la Kill, and Seimei in Garo: Crimson Moon. She won the best leading actress award for her performance of Nana Osaki in NANA at the first ever Seiyuu Awards in 2007.

The music band Who-ya Extended created the songs "Vivid Vice," which was the second song to open Jujutsu Kaisen, and "Q-Vium," which opened Psycho-Pass. The band will perform on Friday 19 from 6.55 p.m. to 7.40 p.m. (following an autograph session on the same day from 5 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.)

The Koto player Yoshiaki Okawa will appear on Friday 19 from 5.25 p.m. to 5.55 p.m. (followed by autographs from 6.15 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.)