{"id":4914,"date":"2002-05-31T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-31T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2002\/05\/31\/anime-expo-confirms-new-guests\/"},"modified":"2002-05-31T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2002-05-31T15:17:00","slug":"anime-expo-confirms-new-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/anime-expo-confirms-new-guests\/","title":{"rendered":"Anime Expo confirms new Guests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anime-expo.org\/guests.html\" target=\"_blank\">Anime Expo<\/a>, scheduled for the July 4th weekend in Long Beach, California, has confirmed a number of new Japanese guests of honor:<\/p>\n<p>Maria Kawamura, the voice of Naga from Slayers, Quess in Char&#8217;s Counterattack, and Lachesis of the Five Star Stories movie among many others.<\/p>\n<p>Hidenori Matsubara, animation director and character designer for the Ah! Megami-sama and Sakura Taisen anime, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Mamiko Noto, voice actress of Kotori in the X TV series, Yoshiko of Tenchi Muyo! GXP, and numerous other characters.<\/p>\n<p>Hiroaki Goda, director of all of the A!MG anime and Onegai Teacher character designer.<\/p>\n<p>Toshiharu Murata, character designer on Hellsing, Eat-Man and Blue No. 6 among other positions.<\/p>\n<p>Tsukasa Hojo, creator of City Hunter and Cat&#8217;s Eye.<\/p>\n<p>Article provided by &#8220;Spirit of Gai&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anime Expo, scheduled for the July 4th weekend in Long Beach, California, has confirmed a number of new Japanese guests of honor: Maria Kawamura, the voice of Naga from Slayers, Quess in Char&#8217;s Counterattack, and Lachesis of the Five Star Stories movie among many others. Hidenori Matsubara, animation director and character designer for the Ah! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}