Harumi Fujita was born in Osaka, Japan. After graduating from music school, she joined Osaka-based SNK in 1983, where she composed for Mad Crasher. She moved to Capcom shortly thereafter, where she worked on iconic franchises like Ghosts ’n Goblins, Bionic Commander, Chip ’n Dale, Final Fight and Mega Man 3. She became independent going into the 1990s, and worked on titles like Tomba!, PULSTAR and BLAZING STAR. More recently, she composed for Spidersaurs with WayForward. Today, Fujita enjoys travel and working on music for games and other media with her son, who is a mixing engineer.

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Alexander Aniel is the co-founder of Japanese music label Brave Wave Productions. Originally from San Francisco, he moved to Tokyo in 2007 partly out of a passion for games and travel. At Brave Wave, he assists artists such as Manami Matsumae, Harumi Fujita and Takahiro Izutani in getting connected with game developers around the world, and well as attending various international events such as High Score. Alex also works for Limited Run Games as Business Development Manager for Japanese developers/publishers.

View all the guests we have announced so far on our website at: https://www.otakon.com/guests/

New for Otakon 2020 - Installment Payment Option for Full Weekend memberships!

This year we are offering the opportunity to divide your membership fee payment up across 4 months.  The price for this option is $100/membership, $25 paid on registration and then $25 will be charged to your card on the 15th of the following 3 months.

Visit the regisitration page here for more details.

Artist Alley at Otakon 2020 registrations for Unlimited and Professional Row tables are curently being accepted. Standard table registration for the Artist Alley at Otakon 2020 opens, Wednesday, December 18th at 7pm EST. 

Updated rules for all table types can be found at Otakon.com under the Artist Alley section.

Good news everyone! Registration for Otakon 2020 is now open!

Register early to lock in the special "early bird" discount rate. Learn more at our website and join us July 31 - August 2, 2020!

The Otakon 2020 Hotel Room Block is now Open!  Reserve your room today and stay closer to the action.  Find out more on the Otakon Hotels page here.

Save the Date! The hotel portal for Otakon 2020 will go live on October 11th at Noon! Find out all the details here on our Hotels page.

We hope you enjoyed everything we had to present at this year's Otakon. Now that you've had some time to reflect, we'd love to get your feedback -- let us know how we did!

The format of the survey is much like last year's and should only take about 10 minutes to complete. Didn't attend? Let us know why. Your feedback helps us plan for next year!

Otakon 2019 Feedback Survey

Are you interested in participating in one of several exciting events hosted by Capital Area Budokai? If so, read on! Capital Area Budokai will be hosting 4 workshops at Otakon 2019. Participation in each session will be limited to participants selected via this web form. Sing ups end at 6:00 PM on Tuesday, July 23

Details: 

All 4 events will take place in Workshop 3 (WEWCC 146A) 

Three of the Japanese voice actors for the 2019 Fruits Basket anime will be attending Otakon 2019, and here’s your chance to meet them and get an item autographed!

Through a special arrangement with our partners at Funimation, 3 Japanese voice actors for Fruits Basket, Manaka Iwami (Tohru Honda), Nobunaga Shimazaki (Yuki Soma), and Makoto Furukawa (Hatsuharu Soma) will be holding a special meet and greet session for an autograph board at Otakon 2019! This is a ticket-only event courtesy of Funimation.

For details on how to attend this EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED signing opportunity, check the event web page here