Image courtesy of Otakon Otakon staff revealed on Wednesday that they will be hosting manga artist Hinoki Kino at this year's event.
Kino launched the manga adaptation of Tо̄ko Amekawa and Wan's The 7th Time Loop Hachipisu: The Villain Who Enjoys a Carefree Life Marries Her Worst Narcissist! (Loop 7-kaime no Akuyaku Reijō wa, Moto Tekikoku de Jiyū Kimamana Hanayome Seikatsu o Mankitsu Suru) light novel series on Overlap's Comic Gardo manga website in December 2020. Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the series. The series inspired a television anime on January 7. Crunchyroll streamed the anime in the West.
Kino has released a manga adaptation of the nine-volume novel No. 6 by Atsuko Asano on ARIA in 2011 after providing illustrations for the novels. Kodansha USA published the manga issue #6 in North America, and the company released the ninth and final volume in October 2014.
Kino launched the Setsuna Graffiti manga in Aria in July 2014 and ended it in December 2015.
Otakon 2024 is scheduled to take place August 2-4 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Last year's event took place in July 2023.
Source: Press release
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