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Fanime to Host Bandai Mecha Designer Tsuyoshi Nonaka
posted on by Lynzee Loveridge
The staff of the California anime convention Fanime announced on Tuesday that animator Tsuyoshi Nonaka will appear at the May 24-27 event at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose.
Nonaka served as mechanical designer for the Mazinkaizer SKL original video anime. This will mark Nonaka's sixth appearance at an anime convention since he moved to the United States two years ago.
Nonaka has been a boy's toy designer and planner at the Japanese toy company Bandai for more than 20 years. His duties include creating robots, vehicles, and weapons for children's television programs and transforming them into toys. Nonaka has also worked as a designer for the live-action Super Sentai (Power Rangers) and Thundercats kids' programs.
Fanime will also Gilles Poitras.
