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C3 AFA Singapore to Host Gundam 00's Shinichiro Miki, Seiji Mizushima
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The Anime Festival Asia convention revealed last Friday that its C3 AFA Singapore event will have the Mobile Suit Gundam 00 anime as a featured anime to celebrate its 10th anniversary, and director Seiji Mizushima and voice actor Shinichirō Miki will be in attendance.
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 premiered in 2007. Miki plays the character Lockon Stratos in the anime, and he has also starred in other anime, including One Piece (Pedro), Initial D (Takumi Fujiwara), Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (Roy Mustang), and Nisemonogatari (Deishū Kaiki). Seiji Mizushima directed Mobile Suit Gundam 00, and also directed other notable anime, including Fullmetal Alchemist, Concrete Revolutio, Un-Go, Natsu-iro Kiseki, and Expelled from Paradise.
C3 AFA Singapore is one of five in content company Sotsu Co., Ltd. and Singaporean events and marketing agency Sozo Pte. Ltd.'s "C3 AFA" joint events that bring together their C3 and Anime Festival Asia events. Aside from Singapore, the events have also run in Thailand, Indonesia, and Japan, and will also have an event in Hong Kong in February 2018.
The convention will take place at the Suntec Singapore Exhibition & Convention Center on November 24-26. Other musical guests include ClariS, FLOW, fripSide, Luce Twinkle Wink☆, May'n, Shiena Nishizawa, Tomohisa Sakō, Konomi Suzuki, Moso Calibration, TRUE, Mashiro Ayano, Iris, Nano, and Nogizaka46. The event will screen an exhibition by musical group EGOIST. The event will also host voice actors Toshiyuki Toyonaga, Tetsuya Kakihara, Yūsuke Kobayashi, and Kentarō Kumagai as well as voice actresses Kiyono Yasuno, Narumi Kaho, Hibiku Yamamura, Rika Abe, and Izumi Kitta. Producer Kohei Kawase will also attend. The event will also hold a preview screening of the first episode of Kyoto Animation's upcoming Violet Evergarden television anime, which will also involve appearances by animators Akiko Takase and Haruka Fujita, and voice actresses Yui Ishikawa and Minori Chihara. The convention will also screen the first episode of the Record of Grancrest War anime.
