Anemone "Animo" Mournian and Daniel Vetter alias GentleGamer have started an agency bringing Japanese stars like Kenji Ozawa and Chihiro Fujioka to European events. We interviewed the team how they found together, their first contact with Japanese talents and their first gig at CCON Stuttgart.
You have started to offer a very unique service in 2025. What is it?
Daniel Vetter: We are providing Japanese video game talents to conventions around the world. This could be video game conventions like gamescom or pop culture conventions like a Comic-Con, but also game developer conferences who would like to represent Japanese talent as well, which maybe have difficulties to reach out to Japanese talents because there's a language barrier or maybe there is not a reliable way to contact them at all.
We think that Japanese talents are underrepresented at cons like these, and there are a lot of fantastic people who have a lot of fans. There's a huge fan base, and we just want to make sure that they get recognized and they get the recognition that they deserve.
It's hard to imagine the opportunity to bring Japanese talents to Germany without prior connection to them, or at least to the Japanese culture industry. How did this connection start for Gentle Gamer?
