The staff of Otakon announced on Tuesday that this year’s convention will host the staff of the CG anime Studio Orange, including CG director Akihiko Orikasa, director Kensuke Yamamoto, producer Yoshihiro Watanabe, and chief producer Kiyotaka Waki.
The studio is known for its adaptation of Haruko Ishikawa’s Land of the Lustrous manga, the anime of Paru Itagaki’s BEASTARS manga, the Netflix series Godzilla Singular Point, and the Trigun Stampede anime, among other works.
Orikasa worked as a CG sub-director on Land of the Lustrous, Active Raid, and several Ghost in the Shell projects, before being promoted as a full CG director on Trigun Stampede.
Watanabe was the business producer on Trigun Stampede and BEASTARS.