AKB48 idol group member Sayaka Nakaya and AKB48 trainee Karen Iwata cosplayed as the characters they will voice in the AKB0048 anime during the "tvk Anime Festival 2012" event in Yokohama City on Tuesday. In December, the performers won their respective roles as Orine Aida and Nagisa Motomiya for the television anime also inspired by the idol group.