The official website for Anime Expo announced on Tuesday that it will host Sword Art Online: Alicization director Manabu Ono and character designer/chief animation director Shingo Adachi.
Ono is the director for Sword Art Online: Alicization (Tomohiko Ito directed all the previous anime installments in the franchise).
They will participate in a panel for Sword Art Online: Alicization that will also have the dub cast Cherami Leigh (Asuna), Bryce Papenbrook (Kirito), and Alex Von David (voice director, ADR script writer) as participants.
He is the character designer and chief animation director on all the anime installments of the Sword Art Online franchise.