Kanon de An Café and Takamasa SAKURAI give a conference at Japan Expo: Japanese pop culture and its international influence.

KANON

Kanon is known as the bassist of the successful Visual-kei band An Cafe. He was taking the creative part in the band as well as being its Otaku icon, who are naturally fond of the Anime, Manga, video game and other Japanese pop cultures.

"Studio Blue-3" is a brand new label started by Kanon since then. This is to be a home-base for him to release any genre of contents - not limited to music but also other relevant culture of fashion, Otaku, or any things that he is interested. The label's first project is Pinky☆Distortion, a visual novel game for mobile/smartphones in which players can play the role of a personal manager to a Visual-kei band.

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Takamasa SAKURAI

Born in 1965. Graduated from Waseda University School of Political Science and Economics. After working at publishing company, he produced radio program, website, music promotion video and wrote nonfiction stories. Recently he is researching Japanese pop cultures and conducting cultural diplomatic activities in 17 countries, 43 cities such as Europe and Brazil.

He has a lot of works such as Anime Bunka-Gaikou (Chikuma-shinsho), Sekai Kawaii Kakumei (PHP-Shinsho), Nihon wa Anime de Saikou suru (Asukii-Shinsho), Kawaii Bunka Okkake Nikki appearing serially on Shuukan Askii and Sakurai Takamasa no Look East appearing serially on Yomiuri newspaper.