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Otakon Hosts Anime Director Sunao Katabuchi, Game Director Jirō Ishii
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Jirō Ishii will attend the August 8-10 convention in Baltimore.
Katabuchi worked with famed Princess Arete anime films.
Otakon notes that Katabuchi is currently "hard at work on his new film." The director was most recently MAPPA.
Ishii is a video game director who has worked at both CANAAN television anime. He worked as a producer on the Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors mystery visual novel, and the Imabikiso, and the 3-Nen B-Gumi Kinpachi Sensei video games.
Previously Hiroaki Yura.