#favorite would be her Robbie Daymond costume

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Oh no, the women are in suits.

I’m ruined.

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Contradictory Feelings (Spider!Prompto x Reader)

Character: Prompto Argentum (Spider!Prompto)

Fandoms: Final Fantasy XV & Spiderman

Categories: Reader Insert, Female!Reader, Crossover, AU, Spidey AU

Title: Contradictory Feelings

   Summary: Ever since he became Spiderman, Prompto is worried that something might happen to Y/N even though he has the biggest crush on her and wants to tell her everything, but that will put her in more danger.

A/N: Ever since I started watching Marvel’s Spiderman, the one in which Robbie Daymond (Prompto’s English VA) plays Peter Parker, I wanted to write an imagine with Spider!Prompto because reasons, inspired by the amazing Spidey AU by @destiny-islanders (love your blog!). Also, I’m posting this because today is the sunshine boy’s birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PROMPTO! <3

Prompto was definitely acting strangely lately. Whether it had anything to do with me or not, I couldn’t quite tell. All I knew was that one moment he was extremely clingy and the other very absent and distant. He kept contradicting himself, it seemed as though he had an inner struggle he couldn’t get over.

And there he was at it again, taking a picture of me with his camera. Even though he had barely said a word in the entire afternoon despite the fact that we were hanging out and taking a walk around Manhattan.

I gave him a strange look, raising an eyebrow. He held my glance with an innocent smile and chuckled awkwardly.

I had enough, putting up with his odd behavior. It had been almost a week now, and I was fed up with it! I stopped walking, forcing him to do too.

“What’s with you lately, Prom?” I asked, adamantly crossing my arms over my chest.

“N-nothing!” He absently saved his camera in his pocket and bashfully scratched the back of his head. “What’re you talking about?”

“There’s something going on with you” I gave him an intense glance. “And I wanna know what”

His blue eyes suddenly widened in panic, and he urgently took me by the arm and pulled at it to get me closer to him.

“Can you not stand so close to the edge of the sidewalk?” He made a face, letting go of my arm when he realized he was still holding on to it. “You’re making me nervous!”

“And that’s other thing” I sighed, very annoyed. “You’re freaking out all the time!”

Prompto had been worrying about me a lot lately. Telling me off for not looking both sides when I crossed the road, always offering to walk me home and going crazy whenever I told him I went somewhere alone.

“This is a dangerous city! Don’t you know there are villains on the loose?”

“That’s what Spiderman is here for, right?” I eyed him cautiously, trying to figure out what was on his mind in an attempt to make sense of his restless demeanor. “Anyway, I’m not doing anything that dangerous!”

Prompto frowned in concern and averted his eyes all of a sudden at the mention of everyone’s favorite web slinger.

“He can’t be there all the time, you know?” Suddenly, his voice became sad and defeated. "Even if he wants to”

I shook my head in resignation, having contradictory feelings about him. I had been crushing on him for a while now, yet these past days I was so irritated by him.

I just couldn’t understand him anymore! I knew him so well that most of the time I could almost read his mind. But not anymore, something had changed. And I couldn’t tell what it was.

A part of me wondered whether he had found out about my crush on him, that would somewhat explain his odd behavior. But did that mean that he felt the same way or that he was trying to stay friends without building my hopes up?

I didn’t know anymore! I was so lost, it felt like I didn’t know anything!

“Prompto” I began to say, gravely but softly. “I think we need to talk, because I-“

“Y/N, watch out!!” He shouted at the top of his lungs.

At first I thought it was just another tactic to change the subject. I rolled my eyes at him, knowing he was also exaggerating everything and probably the danger he was warning me about wasn’t that dangerous after all.

I reluctantly looked to check what was threatening my life. I gulped when I realized he had been right, as a driver had lost control of its truck and it was heading my way.

“Prompt-“ I turned to him, just to realize he was gone.

The world seemed to move in slow motion as I glanced back at the truck. I had no time to get out of the way, it would squash me like a bug.

I screamed in pure terror, closing my eyes tight as I cringed and waited for the impact.

But it never came.

I opened my eyes when I felt how my feet left the ground, and I screamed again when I saw myself flying around Manhattan.

“Aaaaah! What’s going on?!” An arm was also supporting me, wrapped around my waist.

“Hold on tight, miss!” A slightly high-pitched male voice told me.

I looked to see none other than Spiderman. The Spiderman! It was the first time I saw him in person, and definitely the first time I was so close to him! He was quite a presence.

“Spidey!” I urgently wrapped my arms around his neck, holding on to him for dear life as he was the only thing keeping me in place as we swung on his webs all around the city. “You saved me!”

“No biggie” He replied, still too busy swinging around to glance at me.

I gasped, feeling the adrenaline pumping through my veins. My heart was racing, and my stomach turned with the vertiginous sensation that had to be similar to actually flying.

The wind made my hair float behind me as we rushed through the air, it was an indescribable feeling. Was that how Spidey always felt? It was exhilarating!

We finally landed on a rooftop, and he was kind enough to hold on to me just for a few more seconds after my feet touched the ground. I had definitely lost the sense of gravity a little.

“You okay?” He asked me, attentively staring at me.

His voice sounded familiar… Very familiar.

“Yeah, thanks for saving my life!”

“You’re welcome!”

I stared at him in silence, rummaging through my head and trying to pinpoint where I had heard that voice before. Perhaps it was the shock and the rush of what just happened, but my mind was working slower than usual.

Yet that voice was so familiar! Almost like I had heard it every day of my…

“Hey, you sure you’re okay?” He reached out for me, ready to hold me up if my strength failed me. “You seem a little dizzy… and pale”

I definitely felt quite faint when I was hit with realization. When I finally realized who that familiar voice belonged to.

I pictured a pair of vibrant blue eyes behind that mask, a disheveled and slightly spiky mop of fluffy blond hair. Adorable freckles over his cute nose. A bright smile and some soft pink lips.

Prompto.

Of course his voice was familiar! I had just heard it, and it belonged to my best friend! To the boy I had a massive crush on.

“Hey…” He insisted worriedly, gently shaking my shoulder.

“A-actually…” I finally got back to reality, slowly getting used to the idea that Prompto was Spiderman. “I… Can I ask you something?”

“Sure!”

“You… help people, right? Not only saving them, you always try to help”

“Uh-huh…” He was definitely confused, and curious about what I was getting at.

“And you’re smart and stuff so… I could ask you for advice?” A little lightbulb turned on in my head when I got an idea.

Surely I had no proof that Prompto was Spiderman other than my instinct. And even if Spidey’s voice sounded like Prom’s, I still couldn’t be a hundred percent sure. So maybe I could take a different approach to confirm my suspicion.

It definitely made sense that, upon becoming Spiderman, Prompto was cautious about approaching me too much so I didn’t discovered his secret.

But I wanted to see what the webhead had to say for himself.

“Y-yeah!” He exclaimed, confidently closing his arms.

I observed him carefully for a brief moment before I kept talking. I just wanted to try and recognize any of his gestures, see the boy behind the costume.

I found myself needing a few more seconds to speak up, needing to gulp and take a deep breath. I was about to confess my feelings to him, whether he was actually Prompto or not.

“I… have this huge crush on my best friend Prompto…” I analyzed his reaction, and I noticed his eyes grew wide as the red mask stretched out a bit. It made me think that he might have blushed even if I couldn’t see his cheeks. “But he’s acting very strange lately, and I don’t know why”

“S-strange?” That voice had to be his, high-pitched and shy and stuttery and all! It had to be. “What do you mean by ‘strange’?”

“Well, he’s very worried about me and constantly making sure I’m safe” I averted my gaze, feigning thoughtfulness, but observed him with the corner of my eyes. He seemed nervous. “But the next thing I know he’s avoiding me like I don’t even exist!”

“Heh” That awkward chuckle was so Prompto as well. “Maybe he has contradictory feelings”

“About what?” Spiderman seemed to back up slightly when my eyes unexpectedly landed on him again.

“Maybe he likes you too and doesn’t know how to act around you…”

“But I have contradictory feelings too and don’t drive him crazy!”

Defeated, he hung his head low and sighed.

“I don’t know what to tell you, miss” He shrugged, shy and awkward. “I’m just...  your friendly neighborhood Spiderman”

He turned around and proceeded to leave me there alone, ready to shoot his webs and swing around the tall buildings of New York.

“Wait, Spidey” I held him by the arm, hoping I wasn’t making a fool out of myself.

I was almost certain that the boy that hid under that mask was Prompto, it only made sense! It explained everything!

His strange behavior, his sudden concern about me, his disappearances, his lame excuses, his lateness… everything!

He cautiously looked over his shoulder to me, patiently listening to what I had to say.

“If Prompto happened to be here right now…” I slowly said, trying to make it obvious that I had figured it out so he would know. “Do you think he’d tell me something?”

The both of us froze. It made me think that he would run away immediately, but he didn’t.

“As in…” There came his soft, serious voice. “If he… were Spiderman and were standing in front of you?”

“Yes, exactly”

“I think he’d tell you that he’s scared out of his mind that telling you his secret can get you in danger” I could literally hear him gulp as he lowered his head again and glued his glance to the ground. “And that he likes you so much that… he’s worried that something might happen to you because of him”

He was always so caring… it warmed my heart to know he worried so much, that he loved me so much too.

“It will be alright, Prom” Gingerly, I took ahold of his mask. He flinched for a moment, but then let me lift it up to his nose to reveal his lips. “I have Spiderman to protect me, no less”

Inching painfully slow towards him, I brushed my lips against his. My heart raced again, almost as fast as when I was swinging through the air with him.

He leaned into the kiss and sighed softly before pulling away. Then, Spidey lifted his mask above his eyes to reveal his face.

I chuckled in relief and awe when I confirmed that it was Prompto.

I pursed my lips together not to laugh when I realized he was blushing really hard. But then again, so was I, probably.

“I… I can’t be there always, y’know?” He said again, repeating the words also like Spiderman and not only as Prompto Argentum.

“I know I’m no Spiderwoman…” I teased him, grinning widely. “But I’m not completely useless myself, y’know?”

That finally got him to smile his beautiful and bright smile. And he seemed to finally relax.

“But you gotta be careful… I don’t like to put you in danger, and now that you know…”

“I’ll take care of myself”

“You don’t understand, Y/N! If my enemies find out that you-“

“They won’t”

“But what if they do?! I wouldn’t forgive myself if something happened to you! With great power comes great responsibility, and it’s my responsibility to keep you safe, especially now that you know who I really am and-“

Wanting him to stop frantically rambling, I placed a hand in his nape and pushed him closer to me. This time our lips met more urgently, and the exchange was more passionate and definitely longer.

Prompto sighed almost unnoticeably, serene and content, and so did I.

His hands timidly rested in the small of my back while my arms wrapped around his neck to deepen the kiss.

We only broke away when we heard a distant police siren that made us lock eyes.

Prompto dedicated me a concerned expression as his blue eyes intently watched me and his brows furrowed in doubt.

“Go get ‘em, tiger” I encouraged him, proud that my… boyfriend? Was Spiderman.

He showed me a lopsided grin and put his mask back on. Then he shot one of his webs and flew off to save the day.

YOU CAN ALSO READ MY IMAGINE ‘HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PROMPTO!’ SINCE TODAY IT’S HIS DAY. MAYBE I SHOULD HAVE POSTED THAT IMAGINE TODAY, BUT I WANTED TO DO SOMETHING A BIT MORE SPECIAL LIKE THIS CROSSOVER :P

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Being a geek has its payoffs. For example, I’ve had to become a pretty dedicated person to hang onto my geek cred—scoring 100% completion runs, exploring every installment in my favorite series, and making four-hour roundtrips to Florida’s biggest anime Con, Metrocon, each year.

Since its inception, this Floridian Con giant has certainly spread its wings into other wares—including superheroes and the indie gaming scene. Unlike Megacon, however, which has always been a jack-of-all-trades in geekery, Metrocon’s Dragon Ball-shaped heart is firmly fixed on all things otaku—meaning that you’re never quite out-of-sight of a Karasuno jersey or Tokyo-dwelling ghoul.

This year marked my third time at Metrocon, alongside the event’s 15th anniversary. And despite a few significant bumps along the way, I had a “plus ultra” time.

The Scoop:

What – A for fans, by fans anime convention featuring celebrity guests, exhibitors, and the most unique and exciting convention entertainment in the multiverse!

When:

Thursday, August 3rd (12:00PM – 12:00AM) Friday, August 4th (10:00AM –1:00AM) Saturday, August 5th (10:00AM – 12:00AM) Sunday, August 6th (9:00AM – 6:00PM)

Where – Tampa Convention Center

Who – Steve Blum, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Scott McNeil, Christina Vee, Vic Mignogna, Max Mittleman, Ray Chase, Robbie Daymond, Paul St. Peter, Kyle Rowling, NoFlutter, Caleb Hyles, Jonathan Young, Pikabellechu, Oliroux, TeppyBAKA, Mew21, Erin Hurst, TJ Omega, Dei Cosart, Duy Truong, and Papanotzzi

Price – $30-$40 (single-day), $85 (weekend)

Perks – Costume Content, Picture This! Contest, AMV Contest, Anime Idol, Lip Sync Battle, Illustration Content, Metrocade Video Gaming, Tabletop Gaming, Panels and Workshops, 600,000 square feet of convention space

With Metrocon crammed into one of my busiest weeks in August, I wasn’t sure I’d be able to make the drive this year and knew I’d only be able to attend on Sunday. But I was absolutely determined to go to the ends of Eos to obtain an autograph from Ray Chase and Robbie Daymond, voices of two of the lead characters in Final Fantasy XV (the number of hours I’ve clocked into that game is almost as uncomfortable as the length of time I waited for its release). Sweetening the deal were appearances by Steve Blum (voice of my favorite, phoneless, vampire-gunner-monster hybrid), Paul St. Peter, and Mary Elizabeth McGlynn.

The ride couldn’t have been smoother (with the total lack of traffic near the heart of Tampa nearly leading me into the uncanny valley). The parking fee: fair and affordable at a mere $10.

I woke up extra early and arrived about an hour before the autograph session with Chase, Daymond, and St. Peter—which, from past Con experience, has always been more than enough time. Unfortunately, the press pass reserved under my name had been given to someone else on accident, meaning I got held up in the ticketing line a bit too long, missing the only scheduled slot to meet with the voices of the FFXV bros. The autograph line had apparently been cut off about an hour early. On a Sunday.

It was disheartening, given all that I’d done to prepare for the moment. I spent my first few hours at Metrocon standing in the next autograph line as early as possible in order to ensure a meeting with Blum and McGlynn. The line cut off after being open a mere 15 minutes, about two hours prior to the scheduled meet-and-greet period. Because I had not been given a “free autograph” card when I checked in, I nearly missed obtaining autographs altogether—if not for a kindly attendee standing in front of me who offered me hers.

That’s not to dismiss Metrocon as a whole. Events this size require almost inhuman amounts of synchronization, and people were likely growing tired and short on supplies by the final day. Special guests had flights to catch, and that unfortunately meant not everyone would be able to meet them within an allotted time. Even so, I’d like to see reconsideration given to the autograph lines, perhaps allowing simple walk-ups like Megacon or spreading the guests’ appearances throughout the day rather than concentrating them into a single timeslot (as was the case on Sunday).

To their credit, the staff were very sympathetic of my plight. I was given a free pass for the day, handed more “free autograph” cards than I could ever use, and graciously allowed the chance to meet Ray Chase before he left. Many of my friends had an unabashedly smashing time at the event this year, so I can only call my experience an outlier. Even so, it was mine.

Rather than be pessimistic about these mishaps, I chose to enjoy the rest of Metrocon’s offerings—and, boy, am I glad I did. Being in line for three hours meant that I missed the Anime Chess Match and most of the panels that evening, but the vendor’s hall—which, might I add, was monstrous this year—completely turned the rocky start upside down.

I can’t remember the last time I purchased so much in so little time at a Con. I could hardly pass an artist or vendor without holding out a fistful of dollars in my best Futurama meme impression.

Many of Metrocon’s merchandise vendors were manned by familiar faces, focusing on clothing, figurines, keychains, and wall scrolls, primarily. The scarcity of imported snacks and savories from Japan seemed a bit out-of-place with Metrocon’s focus, but whatever diversity or unpredictability the merchandise lacked was more than made up for with the total joyride that was Artist’s Alley.

Simply put: there were a lot of prints and other homemade wares that grabbed my interest—and when I say “grabbed,” I mean like a shinigami grabs a stray apple. Fan-made acrylic keychains and standees—novelties I’ve seen little of elsewhere—were such a common sight that they almost seemed collaborated (I snatched a chibi Kotomine Kirei before the day was done). There were hologramic prints that transitioned between archenemy’s faces, pixelized bead statues, and some incredible close-out deals. (Vash the Stampede print by SamDelaTorre for a single double-dollar? You bet your doughnuts!)

My Hero Academia was a “super” common sight, both among the cosplayers that day and the art prints for sale. I purchased one print of All Might in particular (drawn by the gifted MuddyMelly) that I hope to bestow with Christopher Sebat’s signature someday. Overwatch and Final Fantasy XV unsurprisingly held significant representation in-between all the quirky superheroes.

And that’s saying nothing of the live-action medieval duels, the wristband-checking Master Roshi, and the literal hordes of cosplayers—who, despite it being Sunday, came out in such force and with such fantastic style that I couldn’t help but feel pride as an otaku.

My spirits lifted with each new booth I explored and costume I photographed, until, by day’s end, I left with a trunk full of loot and a Sora-like smile plastered to my face—not least of which can be credited to a Gladio cosplayer wielding a sword made of cup noodles. (You, sir, are the hero Eos deserves.)

Metrocon is a for fans, by fans, four-day anime convention featuring celebrity guests, exhibitors, and the most unique and exciting convention entertainment in the multiverse, located annually at the Tampa Convention Center.

Visit the Metrocon Official Website

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Photography by Amy Covel

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Metrocon 2017 – Sunday Being a geek has its payoffs. For example, I’ve had to become a pretty dedicated person to hang onto my geek cred—scoring 100% completion runs, exploring every installment in my favorite series, and making four-hour roundtrips to Florida’s biggest anime Con, Metrocon, each year.

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Crunchyroll Announces "AHO-GIRL", "Elegant Yokai Apartment Life", "Netsuzou Trap -NTR-", and "Tsuredure Children" at Anime Expo

Crunchyroll has just wrapped up their Industry Panel at Anime Expo, so the time is right for an overview of the new including such titles as AHO-GIRL, Elegant Yokai Apartment Life, Netsuzou Trap -NTR-, and Tsuredure Children. Check out the info below for key art, story info, and other facts!

  AHO-GIRL

Launches: TBA

Territories: TBA

    Synopsis

  She is Hanabatake Yoshiko, and she's an idiot through and through. She loves bananas, and she loves her childhood friend Akkun. That is all! Summer 2017, Aho Girl gets its long-awaited anime! Watching it will surely cheer you up, probably?

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  Elegant Yokai Apartment Life

Launches: 7/3/2017 8:30AM PT (Monday)

Territories: Worldwide except Asia

  Synopsis

  Yushi Inaba is forced into an awkward living situation at his uncle's house after his parents pass away. He decides that when he goes to high school, he's going to live on his own, and finds an ultra-cheap apartment named Kotobuki-so. But it was a monster apartment, filled with monsters, humans, and ghosts! At first, Yuki doesn't know how to deal with these eerie monsters, but after spending time with these strange creatures his closed heart gradually begins to open...

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  Netsuzou Trap -NTR-

Launches: TBA

Territories: Worldwide except Asia

    Synopsis

  Yuma, a high school second-year, is enjoying every day now that she has her first boyfriend. After she asks for relationship advice from Hotaru, her beautiful long-time friend who has had many boyfriends, Hotaru teases her for her inexperience and playfully does things to her that even her boyfriend doesn't do. Yuma and Hotaru's secret relationship continues to escalate, and Yuma finds herself unable to deny how it makes her feel. This school drama tells the story of the interwoven lives of these two girls with boyfriends.

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  Tsuredure Children

Launches: TBA

Territories: TBA

  Synopsis

  To those of you out there who never could say "I love you"— This story is about ordinary highschoolers and how love makes them fired up, shaken, laugh, cry, and hurt. Whether things go well or not, this story of adolescence and romance will show you how they spend their precious youth. Every character is the main character here, and you're sure to find one you can sympathize with. Tsuredure Children's TV anime begins airing Summer 2017! Let's get our hearts racing together!

  In addition to the above titles, the following anme and manga titles will also premiere on Crunchyroll with dates and regions to be announced unless otherwise noted:

    Knight’s & Magic

A genius programmer and hardcore robot otaku are reborn into a world of knights and magic, where huge robots called Silhouette Knights roar across the land! Now reborn as Ernesti Echevalier, he uses his vast knowledge of machines and programming talents to begin to make his ultimate robot. But his actions have unexpected results...?! The dreams of a robot otaku will change the world!

  Knights & Magic’s first episode is available for premium users now.

  Kino’s Journey

"The world is not beautiful, therefore it is."

  "Kino's Journey -the Beautiful World-" is a story about Kino, who travels around the world with nothing but her guns (for protection) and talking motorcycle Hermes (for company). Kino travels to many mystical lands, each with its unique customs and people, and learns about the world through their stories, at some times conjuring humor and inspiration or other times piercing cynicism. However, Kino has her own custom, to stay no longer than three days in every town without exception, as she believes it is enough time to learn almost everything important about the place while still leaving time to explore new lands.

  Kino’s Journey will debut in the upcoming fall season.

  URAHARA

“PARK: HARAJUKU Crisis Team!” is now an anime! Top Japanese creators have partnered with the North American anime streaming site Crunchyroll to create URAHARA – a new series with a unique worldview and a striking visual style. A new era in Harajuku is dawning!

  PARK: HARAJUKU Crisis Team! started serialization on Crunchyroll Manga and Tumblr in 2015 as part of a collaboration between writer-editor Patrick Macias, artist Mugi Tanaka (aka Oplant), and the PARK store in Harajuku, Tokyo. The story concerns a trio of shop girls – Rito, Mari, and Kotoko –  that band together to battle an alien menace intent on removing famous locations and landmarks from the Earth.

  URAHARA will debut in the upcoming fall season.

  Manga

Crunchyroll also had several exciting manga announcements for the packed room on Sunday. Crunchyroll’s ebook service, currently available in the manga app, launched earlier this year with over 800 books from Kodansha Comics. Seven Seas has now joined the platform with over 400 titles that will being to be available later this month.

  Three exciting new titles are joining the manga simulpub service, available on web, iOS and Android!

  Final Fantasy: Lost Stranger by Hazuki Minase

Scoring a job at Square Enix, Sasaki Shogo's dream of producing a Final Fantasy game finally seems within his grasp! But after he starts, he quickly discovers that the work has nothing to do with his favorite franchise at all… Disillusioned, his enthusiasm for FF begins waning despite his sister / co-worker Yuko’s attempts to lift his spirits. Their conversation is cut short, though, when a runaway truck suddenly careens toward the two of them…!When Shogo comes to, the first thing he sees is…a Moogle?! Wait, was that a Cure spell? And chocobos…?! Hurled into a Final Fantasy world unbound to any particular installment, how will an uber-fan like Shogo survive?!

  Final Fantasy: Lost Stranger launches on July 12.

  Knight’s & Magic by Takuji Katō

A genius programmer and hardcore robot otaku is reborn into a world of knights and magic, where huge robots called Silhouette Knights roar across the land! Now reborn as Ernesti Echevalier, he uses his vast knowledge of machines and programming talents to begin to make his ultimate robot. But his actions have unexpected results...?! The dreams of a robot otaku will change the world!

  Knight’s & Magic launches on July 5.

  Restaurant to Another World by Junpei Inuzuka and Takaaki Kugatsu

There is a certain restaurant in one corner of a shopping street near the office district. The historical restaurant, marked by a sign with a picture of a cat, is called "Western Cuisine Nekoya." This restaurant looks completely normal through the week, but on Saturdays, it opens in secret exclusively to some very unique guests. During these hours, doors in various areas of a parallel world open to allow customers of many different races and cultures into the restaurant. This "Restaurant to Another World" and its food hold an exotic charm to these highly diverse customers. This is a story of the heartwarming, once-in-a-lifetime encounters between our reality and another world, between the restaurant's customers and its owner, and the food shared among them all.

  Restaurant to Another World launches on July 2.

  Crunchyroll Expo

And finally, Crunchyroll announced its first round of guests for the inaugural Crunchyroll Expo, set for August 25-27 in Santa Clara, California!

  Yoshitaka Amano

As a Japanese artist, character designer, and illustrator, Amano also works in the grounds of scenic art and stage costumes. Hired at Tatsunoko Production at the age of 15, he has created characters for some of the most prominent TV animations in Japan. He then became an independent artist in 1982. He is most well-known for his work as a character designer, title logo designer, and image illustrator for the Final Fantasy series. Since his debut, Amano’s career as an artist has flourished, producing paintings with his unique, mysterious touch in solo shows in cities such as New York, Paris, and London.

  Crunchyroll is further excited to announce that it will work with Amano-sensei to display an exhibition of his artwork. This marks the first time Amano has exhibited in the U.S. for seven years.

  Gigguk

Gigguk is a Youtuber best known for his satirical look into the world of anime and it's culture. He has done various reviews and rants but is also known for his parody work.

Hiroshi Shimizu

A prolific Japanese animator​, Hiroshi​ Shimizu started at Ghibli studio ​working on Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke,​ My ​Neighbor Yamada and Pompoko. After leaving Ghibli he ​went freelance​ and started to work on ​a combination of ​series​, high quality movies and OVA​, including​: JinRoh, Furi Kuri, Ghost in the Shell (Stand Alone Complex season 2), Millennium ​A​ctress, Lupin, SkyCrawler, One ​Piece (OAV)​, Naruto, Dragon Ball Z,​ and recently on the last Doraemon movie. He worked in ​several well known studio​s​ such as ​Studio Ghibli, Madhouse, Ankama Japan,​ TMS, Production IG, TOEI Animation, WIT STUDIO, Shin Ei Studio and now Yapiko-animation. His specialities are character ​designer, animator, animation supervisor and storyboarder. His most famous series as character designer is Michiko to Hachin.

  The Chocobros are Coming to CRX!

  Ray Chase

Ray Chase is best known for his versatility as a voice actor in video games and animation. Video game fans know him as the lead protagonist Noctis in the best-selling Final Fantasy XV and Edgar from Final Fantasy VI in World of Final Fantasy. Superhero fans know him as the voices of Jason Blood and Etrigan the Demon in the DC feature film Justice League Dark. He is a con fixture making appearances all over the world with his show "Loud, Annoying, and Very Annoying" (LAVA) with fellow voice actors Robbie Daymond and Max Mittelman.

  Max Mittelman

Max Mittelman is a voice actor and native of Los Angeles, CA. For most of his young life, Max had wanted to become a doctor. His parents were so proud of him. Once he realized, however, that he would need to study grown-up things like organic chemistry, he decided that he would rather make loud noises in a padded booth for a living. Max never looked back and has since had the opportunity to play lead characters in popular Anime series such as Kousei in “Your Lie in April,” Inaho in “Aldnoah.Zero,” and Saitama in “One-Punch Man.”Other notable roles include: Persona 5 (Ryuji); Fire Emblem Fates (Leo, Kaden, Forrest); Seven Deadly Sins (King); Miraculous Ladybug (Plagg); Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans (Ein); Star Ocean 5 (Fidel); Transformers: Rescue Bots (Blurr); Mobile Suit Gundam: Thunderbolt (Io); Fallout 4 (Zeke); Star Wars: Battlefront; (Quarren); Halo 5 (Promethean Captain, Rooker); Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void (Stone); Skylanders: Superchargers (Panderghast); Durararax2 (Shijima); Sword Art Online II (Jun); Magi: The Kingdom of Magic (Yunan); Doraemon (Soby); Atelier: Escha & Logy (Logy). Max Mittelman plays as Tredd in Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV.Follow Max on Twitter @MaxMittelman

  Adam Croasdell

Adam Croasdell is a film, TV & voice actor who's worked with Alan Rickman on the West End. He starred as Baldur in Supernatural, Hook's father in Once Upon A Time, is Bothwell on Reign. For video games he's Torvin in Middle Earth: Shadow Of Mordor & Ignis Scientia in Final Fantasy XV.

  Chris Parson

Chris Parson is a voice actor who has voiced the title role (as well as many others) on Comedy Central's animated series Lil' Bush, and has lent his voice to episodes of Fox's popular shows Family Guy, American Dad!, The Cleveland Show, and Disney's Handy Manny.

Parson has also provided voice overs for several video games; he voiced the character Yusuf Tazim in Assassin's Creed: Revelations and has provided additional voiceover work for Red Faction: Guerrilla, Infamous 2, Mafia III, and Overwatch.Recently, he voiced the character Gladiolus Amicitia in Final Fantasy XV.

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