Who to expect to see at

CAPITAL CITY ANIMEFEST 2026!

GUESTS

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GIGI MURAKAMI

Gigi Murakami is an award-winning manga artist & illustrator, and content creator at the intersection of horror media, Japanese manga and anime, alternative and nerd culture.

Colloquially known as “Queen of Horror Manga”, she has a handful of both traditionally published and self-published works, but is most recognized for her supernatural horror manga, RESENTER, which had a one-shot published with Viz Manga.

Mangaka

LUZ BATISTA

Luz Batista is best known for her work on Disney TVA’s The Owl House as a storyboard revisionist, storyboard artist, and screen writer! She has also worked on other animated shows as a character designer or storyboard artist like Moon Girl and the Devil Dinosaur, MTV’s Greatest Party Story Ever, and Fox ADHD. She also teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Storyboard Artist and Illustrator

PAUL CASTRO JR.

VOICE ACTOR

Paul Castro Jr. is a voice actor most known for voicing Freminet in Genshin Impact, Opal in Honkai: Star Rail, Rindo Kanade in Square Enix's NEO: The World Ends with You, Chocobo Billy in Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, Dragon in Mamoru Hosoda's critically acclaimed anime movie, BELLE, Aliquis in Pokemon: Paldean Winds, Ryota Miyagi in NETFLIX's The First Slam Dunk, Chion in The Seven Deadly Sins: The Four Knights of the Apocalypse, Clifford The Big Red Dog and many more!

SARAH-NICOLE ROBLES

Sarah-Nicole Robles is a Puerto rican voice actress most well known as the voice of Luz Noceda in the Disney Channel show, The Owl House, but has also done voice work for Encanto, Carmen San Diego, Baymax!, and more. Additionally, she has had acting roles in various commercials and Grey's Anatomy and The Fosters.

VOICE ACTOR