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Anime Expo Hosts Sega's Takashi Iizuka, Kazuhisa Wada, Shigenori Soejima, More Guests

• Takashi Iizuka - creative officer of Sonic the Hedgehog franchise
• Kazuhisa Wada - general producer for Persona
• Shigenori Soejima - character designer and illustrator at ATLUS, supervisor for art and character design for Persona 4 Revival
• Atsushi Nomura - business producer for Persona, including Persona 4 Revival
• Yoshiyuki Asai - director of Charlotte anime

DRECOM also recently announced that it will be holding a panel on July 4 at 1:00 p.m. with Makoto Furukawa (voice of Iarumas in BLADE & BASTARD), Daiki Yamashita (voice of Raraja in BLADE & BASTARD), and producers from Drecom.

Anime Expo 2026 will take place from July 2-5 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Sources: Email correspondence