Sakura-Con announced that they will host several new guests. The latest guests announced are as follows:

• Yoshitoshi ABe
• Nozomu Sasaki
• Koichi Ohata
• Hideo Okamoto
• Myuji

Yoshitoshi ABe is the creator of a number of influential and fan-favorite titles, including Serial Experiments Lain and Haibane Renmei.

Nozomu Sasaki is a veteran voice actor who has over 100 anime roles on his resume. Sasaki's more prominent roles include Tetsuo from Akira, Clef from Magic Knight Rayearth, and Yuusuke Urameshi from Yu Yu Hakusho.

Koichi Ohata is a mechanical designer and director. His mechanical design portfolio includes Gunbuster and Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, among other titles. Ohata served as director on Ikki Tousen: Dragon Destiny and You're Under Arrest! Full Throttle.

Hideo Okamoto served as mechanical designer for Ronin Warriors. Aside from his anime work, Okamoto contributed to the Transformers and Zoids toy lines.

Myuji is best known for her song eX dream, the theme song to the X television series.

Sakura-Con will April 10-12, 2009.