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The World is Dancing, The Vermillion Mask, Trigun Stargaze Anime's Cast/Staff to Attend Otakon 2026

• The cast and staff from the television anime of Kazuto Mihara's The World Is Dancing manga. It will host voice actor Simba Tsuchiya (Backflip!! Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX), director Toshimasa Kuroyanagi (Shōnen Hollywood, The Great Passage), and the animation producer associated with Cypic Kan Mizoguchi (Umamusume: Pretty Derby — Road to the Top). They will participate in a panel on July 31 from 10:15 a.m. EDT - 11:15 a.m. EDT.

• The staff of the anime adaptation of Dr.Poro and Nabana Naba's The Vermillion Mask (Shuiro no Kamen) manga. Director Tetsuaki Watanabe (BLUE LOCK) and producer Kozo Misawa (Ascendance of a Bookworm) will attend the event.

• Cast and staff members from Orange's Trigun Stargaze anime, including director Masako Sato, business producer Yoshihiro Watanabe, and Milly Thompson's voice actress Chika Ayamori

The event will also host art director and background artist Kazuki Higashiji, voice actor Ryōtarō Okiayu, voice actor Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, director Yūji Yanase, producer Nozomi Shimakura, voice actress Ayaka Nanase, voice actress Machico, director Nobuharu Kamanaka, FuRyu Pictures' Takayuki Yoneyama, voice actress Yuka Iguchi, director Yoshiaki Iwasaki, producer Keita Yoshinobu, producer Goshi Yoshida, Production I.G director Yōko Ueda, Final Fantasy XIV's Michael-Christopher Koji Fox and Toshio Murouchi, Romelia War Chronicles' Ryō Ariyama and Ryō Kamito, voice actress Yuna Nemoto, producer Yuki Watanabe, manga artist Mitsuru Sangō, producer Yūya Ogisu, Kaiju Girl Caramelise director Teruyuki Omine, BONES president Masahiko Minami, manga artist Ichi Sayo, author and scriptwriter EnJoe Toh, producer Kengo Abe, voice actor Kazuki Ura, voice actor Shōgo Sakata, voice actress Ayaka Fukuhara, producer Takanori Matsuoka, Production I.G co-founder Takayuki Gotō, and Production I.G. USA president Maki Terashima-Furuta.

The convention announced in January that it is no longer allowing the sale of fan art in its dealers room, beginning with the 2026 event. Dealers who wish to sell fan art were allowed to apply instead for the artist alley without penalty.

Otakon 2026 is scheduled for July 31-August 2 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.

Source: Press releases