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NYCC Hosts Shinichiro Watanabe, Kamome Shirahama, Takashi Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Watanabe
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Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Space Dandy) will be at a panel on October 18 for Lazarus (Lazaro in Japanese, pictured right), the new original anime for Toonami with Watanabe and animation studio MAPPA (Chainsaw Man, Jujutsu Kaisen, Attack on Titan The Final Season).
Watanabe directed such notable anime productions as Cowboy Bebop, Macross Plus, Samurai Champloo, Space Dandy, Carole & Tuesday, and Terror in Resonance. He also directed the "Blade Runner: Black Out 2022" anime short. Watanabe's short film "A Girl Meets a Boy and a Robot" screened at the 26th Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, Canada in July 2022.
In addition to creating Witch Hat Atelier, Shirahama has drawn cover illustrations for comics, including Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, Star Wars: The last Jedi, Batgirl and the Birds of Prey, and Wonder Woman.
Yamazaki was the director, writer, and visual effects supervisor for the Godzilla Minus One film. He will attend a Godzilla panel on October 19.
Hiroyuki Watanabe, editor for the Neon Genesis Evangelion and Sgt. Frog manga, will be at a panel on October 20 about Kadokawa's Wordless World Manga Contest.
New York Comic Con will take place at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on October 17-20.
Source: NYCC (link 2, link 3, link 4)
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