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Otakon Hosts Hetalia Director Shirohata, Actor Sasanuma
posted on by Daryl Bunao
The organizers of Akira Sasanuma as guests of honor during the July 29-31 event in Baltimore.
The two guests worked on the comedy anime Hetalia World Series.
Shirohata (bottom left) served as the director for both the Hetalia television series and the Anime Central in Chicago earlier this year. 
Susanuma (bottom right) is a voice actor who has done notable roles in both anime and video games, including Austria in the Hetalia series, Dearka Elsman in Mobile Suit Gundam Seed and Link from both the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and Super Smash Bros. Brawl video games.
Funimation's Black Butler) will all appear at the Hetalia World Series premiere and Q&A .
First illustrated by Hidekaz Himaruya, the Hetalia series originated as a collection of webcomics involving the anthropomorphic representation of various world nations such as the Axis-aligned Italy, and Japan. Together they interact with America, Britain, Russia and other nations in a satirical, yet historically-based, storyline.
Thus far, four volumes of the webcomic have been published in Japan by closing down earlier in the year.
The webcomic went on to be adapted into an animated series amassing four seasons of 90 total episodes between Jan. 2009 to Dec. 2010, despite only being announcing acquisition of the third and forth season during Otakon 2010.
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Update 2: Added pictures of Shirohata and Susanuma
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