Anime NYC Hosts Kagurabachi Creator Takeru Hokazono, Voice Actor Yuma Uchida, CloverWorks President Akira Shimizu

The staff of Anime NYC announced on Friday and Monday that it will host Kagurabachi creator Takeru Hokazono, voice actor Yūma Uchida, and CloverWorks, A-1 Pictures president Akira Shimizu at this year's event.This year's Anime NYC has expanded to a four-day event (Thursday to Sunday) for the first time, on August 21-24 at the Javits Center. The event will also host Rooster Fighter (Niwatori Fighter) manga creator Shu Sakuratani, and the upcoming anime adaptation's screenwriter Hiroshi Seko.Anime NYC launched in November 2017, and has taken place in November each year until in 2024, when it moved to August, and used the full main building of the Javits Center for the first time. (The event was online only in 2020.)Sources: Anime NYC's X/Twitter account, (link 2), (link 3)