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Yurucamp Production Team Guests at Otakon 2024

Washington, D.C. (July 26, 2024) – Yurucamp production team for “Laid Back Camp” (Yurucamp) Season 3 will be guests at Otakon 2024, according to Otakorp Inc. Presenting will be the anime director with Eight Bit Susumu Tosaka, art director Taketo Gompei, producer Takashi Otake, and Furyu Corporation Producer Kaoru Wada.

Susumu Tosaka is an anime director with Eight Bit. He started his career as an animator. At Eight Bit, he has directed “Laid Back Camp” (Yurucamp) Season 3, and he has also worked on “Infinite Stratos,” “That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime,” “Encouragement of Climb,” and “If My Favorite Pop Idol Made it to the Budokan, I Would Die.”

Takashi Otake began his career in the amusement industry in 2008 as a director and planner. For eleven years, he produced collaboration goods with various anime titles. He joined the anime industry in 2019. After gaining experience working on promotional videos, opening sequence, ads, and game apps, he debuted as a producer of anime series with “Laid Back Camp” (Yurucamp) Season 3. He has worked with titles such as “That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime,” “Blue Lock,” “Synduality: Noir,” and “The irregular at magic high school.”

Taketo Gompei works at Goofy, Inc. He has been with the anime industry since 2017 and debuted as the art director for a TV anime series with “SSSS.DYNAZENON” in 2020. He has worked on various projects including TV series, short movies, as well as theatrical titles. Other titles he has been the art director for include “Gridman Universe,” “Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead,” “Go! Go! Lower Ranger!,” and “Laid Back Camp” (Yurucamp) Season 3. Kaoru Wada is a producer with Furyu Corporation. She has been in the anime industry since 2007 in roles such as production assistant, production supervisor, and line producer. She joined FURYU in 2016, producing titles such as “Laid Back Camp” (Yurucamp) Season 3 and “Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle.”

ABOUT OTAKON AND OTAKORP, INC.: Now entering its thirtieth year, Otakon is an annual celebration of Japanese and East Asian popular culture, and also one of the largest gatherings of fans in the United States. Otakon celebrates popular culture as a gateway to deeper understanding of Asian culture, and has grown along with the enthusiasm for anime, manga, video games, and music from the Far East. Historically, Otakon has drawn up to 42,000 people for three days each year (for a paid attendance of over 157,000 turnstile attendees). Otakon is a membership-based convention sponsored by Otakorp, Inc., a Pennsylvania-based, 501(c)3 educational non-profit whose mission is to promote the appreciation of Asian culture, primarily through its media and entertainment. Otakorp, Inc. is directed by an all-volunteer, unpaid staff – we are run by fans, for fans.

For more information about Otakorp, Inc., see https://www.otakorp.org/

For more information and the latest news on Otakon 2024, see https://www.Otakon.com/

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