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Ei Aoki and Shizuka Kurosaki to Attend Otakon 2015


The Vers Empire is coming to Otakon!

Earlier today, the Baltimore convention announced that director Ei Aoki and producer Shizuka Kurosaki will attend the event as guests.

Ei Aoki made his directorial début in 2004, with Girls Bravo. In the years that followed, Aoki directed numerous fan-favorite titles, including Fate/Zero and Ga-Rei: Zero. He co-founded animation comapny TROYCA in 2013 with Toshiyuki Nagano and Tomonobu Kato. Aoki served as director on TROYCA’s début production piece, Aldnoah.Zero.

Kurosaki is a producer at Aniplex, whose credits include The Garden of Sinners, Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works, and Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie Part 3: Rebellion.

Otakon will be held at the Baltimore Convention Center from July 24-26. Voice actors Laura Bailey, J. Michael Tatum , and Travis Willingham were also confirmed to be attending the event as guests.

Source: Otakon

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