Haruna Ikezawa is a Otakon 2023 Guest

Voice actress and author Haruna Ikezawa will be a guest at Otakon 2023, according to Otakorp Inc.

Ikezawa was born in Athens, Greece. She has studied in England, Thailand, China, Chile and the USA. Her father is the Akutagawa Prize-winning novelist and poet Natsuki Ikezawa, and her grandfather is the novelist Takehiko Fukunaga.

She is an elected member of SFWJ: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan. She also served as the 20th Chairperson of the Board of Directors of SFWJ.

Her main roles in anime include Gō Seiba in “Bakusō Kyōdai Let’s & Go!!”; Hiroko Haruna in “Hamtaro”; and Momoka Nishizawa in “Sgt. Frog.” In video games, she has voiced Athena Asamiya in “King of Fighters” since 1998, and Coco Bandicoot for the Crash Bandicoot series.

She won The 48th Seiun Award in the Non-Fiction category for the SF essay collection “The S in SF Stands for Wonderful(Subarashii)” and the 52nd Seiun Award in the Japanese Short Story category for “Orbital Christmas” (original script by Mitsuyasu Sakai).

Otakon 2023 will be held from July 28 to July 30 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.