"ANIME FANTASISTA JAPAN" event to be held in August

It has been announced that "ANIME FANTASISTA JAPAN 2025", an event focusing on Japanese anime creators, will be held on August 16th and 17th at Kichijoji Excel Hotel Tokyu (Musashino City, Tokyo). The event will feature Japanese anime creators with outstanding skills and creative expressiveness as "ANIME FANTASISTA", and will feature talk sessions, demonstrations, workshops, and more. This will be the second time the event has been held, having been first held last year. The poster visual, drawn by Takeshi Honda, who is also known for serving as the animation director for Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki's animated feature film "The Boy and the Heron?", has been released.

On the main stage, there will be a talk program with Honda, Erika Yoshida, Hiroyuki Imaishi, Masahiro Maeda, Kyoji Asano, Kyoji Asano, Naoyoshi Shiotani, Yasuhiro Aoki, Seigo Yamashita, and Kenichi Kutsuna. From 10:00 am on August 17, Asano will hold a three-hour live drawing session. Admission to the live drawing session is free.

There will also be anime screenings and anime workshops that children can participate in.