Otakon 2023 was host to many guests, and I did my best to cover all the anime production related ones. Here's all the stuff I heard and saw that I can't really turn into a full article, but is too interesting not to post about, featuring: >Veteran animator Yuuji Yanase >Director Takaharu Ozaki
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