Guests
Our guests include:
Yoshitaka Amano
Famous artist and illustrator, known for his work on Final Fantasy and Vampire Hunter D.
He often works with the greatest author like Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell)
Yōichi Takahashi
Yōichi Takahash is a Japanese cartoonist and manga artist, best known for his work Captain Tsubasa, published in 1980 in the magazine Shōnen Jump. This successful soccer series was also adapted as a cartoon.
Shinji HASHIMOTO
Shinji Hashimoto,the producer of Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts's franchises will be at MAGIC ! As the Vice Président of Square Enix, Hashimoto san will lead an outstanding conference about The History of Final Fantansy including exclusives pieces of information about the new episode still in preparation !
Yuji NAKA
The living legend and the video games developer, Yuji Naka, will be at MAGIC ! What an amazing news for the video games fans ! So, we are waiting for you on the 21st of march to come and meet the creator of Sonic, Phantasy Star, Nights and much more cult games !
Oskar Guilbert
Oskar Guilbert, President of Dontnod Entertainment & Hesaw, will be there as a member of the Jury for the Game contest. He joins Alain Damasio and Eric Chahi. He’ll come also with some exclu’ for our audience.
As a reminder, Dontnod works on the game Life is Strange edited by Square Enix.
Philippe Buchet
Born the 17th may 1962 in the Ardennes in France.
He starts his career by drawing for little cofee shop and sells some of his work. He won a drawing contest for preproduction movie. During 7 month, he created science fiction 's costumes and decorations.
Franck Pitiot
Born the 27th juin 1964 un Lyon (France), he is a French theatre and TV comedian, known for his performance as Perceval in the TV series Kaamelott. He is also musician and lead the Record studio of Miroslav Pilon in Lyon, in witch he make french dubbing of Trinity Blood and Black Lagoon1.
Frederick Raynal
He is the spiritual father of the Survival Horror 's Style thanks to Alone in the Dark
He is also the greatest creator of Little Big Adventure, Time Commando and Toy Commander, to quote only that game...
Eric Chahi
Eric began his career as a representative of Loriciels in Oric Atmos and Amstrad in 1983.
While working with Atari and Amiga, he impressed many with his work on games such as ‘Joan of Arc’ and Chip’s ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’.
In 1989 he joined the game developer Les Voyageurs du Temps as a graphic designer.
Sebastien Abdelhamid Godelu
TV presenter and journalist, Abdel works with SAS, Street player and Superstore on a series reviewing the latest in video gaming alongside different celebrity guests.
Viktor Kalvachev
Viktor Kalvachev is an American comic book author, who was nominated for the prestigious Eisner Award.
Born in 1972 in Varna, Bulgaria, he received a Master’s degree from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia. He then moved to the USA to pursue a career in video games and comics. His work in teen gaming peaked when his team was nominated for Best Downloadable Game of the Year ( ‘ The Incredibles: Escape from Nomanisanisland").
Alain Damasio
Born in 1969 in Lyon, Alain Damasio is a committed writer, convinced that science-fiction can say and change the world. He reached a considerable critical and popular success with his novel "La Horde du Contrevent" (The Horde of the Counterwind), Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 2006, and as a scriptwriter too for the AAA game "Remember Me" and for the ‘Phonophore’ projects, an radiophonic expansion of his future novel "The Stealthies".
YANEKA
Yaneka’s duo will be present at MAGIC for the Clara Maeda’s Fashion show. They will come exceptionaly from Japan for this occasion.
Recently, Issey Miyake chosen them for her fashion show in the Paris Fashion Week.
Mouloud Achour, (Clash of the Titans) will co-present the cosplay contest!
The famous French tv journalist, Mouloud Achour ( Le grand journal, Clique) and actor (Clash of the titans, Asterix), will be at Monaco Anime Game International Conferences in order to co-present our great cosplay contest!
Ayanna
Sikay
Nérine
Leo Bane
Clef
Pichu
Ivy
Arlek 1
Kirae
Nikita