Maryland anime convention Otakon announced last Thursday and Friday that it will host Kenji Horikawa, Nobuhiro Kikuchi, and Kazuki Higashiji of anime studio P.A. Works; producer Masao Maruyama; Shiro Dogu and Shunsuke Wada of TakaOtacraft; and the P.A. Works 15th Anniversary Exhibit.
Horikawa founded the P.A. Works studio and serves as its CEO and producer.
Higashiji is a background art director, and has directed backgrounds for P.A. Works and other projects.
Persona series rapper Lotus Juice and singer Shihoko Hirata, as well as Naruto singer Diana Garnet will perform at Otakon Matsuri.