Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy, Tekkaman) announced as Guest of Honor at Anime Expo 2023
Anime Expo has announced a major guest for this year’s event.
Announced yesterday, visual artist Yoshitaka Amano will be a Guest of Honor at the popular Los Angeles anime convention. Amano has been a character designer for popular anime shows such as Gatchaman, Tekkaman, and Speed Racer. In 1987, they joined Square Enix to be a character designer for Final Fantasy. Since then, Amano has continued to work on the popular video game franchise as a title logo designer and for promotional artwork.
In 1999, Amano joined forces with author Neil Gaiman for the DC Comics novella The Sandman: The Dream Hunters, which earned a Bram Stoker Award for Best Illustrated Narrative. Light novel fans also know Amano’s work from the popular Vampire Hunter D series.
Badges for Anime Expo 2023 are on sale to the general public right now here. Anime Expo will take place from July 1 through July 4 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Check out our review and photos from last year’s event here.
Since 2009, MP3s and NPCs owner Terrance Pryor has written about music, conventions, cosplay, and video games for publications such as AXS, Examiner, Fake Walls, and Ranker. Based out of Los Angeles, the former rock concert promoter/radio host can be seen talking about rock music on AXS TV’s Music’s Greatest Mysteries and discussing music and whatever else on their Black Man Talks Rock channel on YouTube.