Anime Cons
Ever been to an Anime Con? Whether you went as a fan or a featured voice actor, we want to hear about your experiences.
Yesterday, I was updating our Profile on MySpace and noticed that several of our friends are anime voice actors, including Kyle Hebert.
Interestingly enough, a couple of weeks ago there was an anime con, Anime USA Convention, and one of my MySpace friends, Crispin Freeman, was mentioned as having attended the conference with several of his colleagues and cast mates.
You can read more from Toon Zone's account of the Anime USA Convention here.
I myself have a vague idea of what these conventions consist of.
I understand that fans often come to the conventions and dress up as their favorite characters and celebrity voice actors make appearances throughout the weekend convention.
Come to think of it, I believe there was an Anime (or perhaps, sci-fi) convention going on once when I was in Toronto five years ago in the same building (or thereabouts) as the filming of the Great Canadian Music Dream on the CBC hosted by Jian Ghomeshi.
I'd like to create some awareness for those of us who are not as familiar with the Anime voice acting art form, but I need your help.
Are any of you Anime voice actors or fans of them?
Leave a comment!
Cheers,
Stephanie
Comments
Stephanie,
I'm a 40 year old Anime fan via my daughter and a big fan of Kyle Hebert. You can hear Kyle in Bleach, FMA, and Naruto on TV depending the episode airing. Kyle is a great talent. My daughter (in full cosplay gear) and I have attended a few Anime conventions in the Sacramento area and one in Las Vegas.
The most recent con we attended was the Sac Anime Convention in July where Crispin Freeman, Spike Spencer and Chris Patton all appeared and held workshops and panels. Plus there were about 1000 Anime fans dressed in their cosplay best. It’s like Halloween in July.
Spike is just one crazy dude and is probably the funniest guys I have ever seen. You have to sit in one of his workshops to really get a feel of how funny he really is.
Since the Sac con was a bit small, my daughter was able to hang out with Chris Patton and get some quality time with one of the best in the business. He is a real cool person. Oh, yeah, his band PLID played there as well. They are a real treat as well if you are into Electronica type music. Check YouTube for the Panda Song from Sac Anime and hear Patton sing a very funny song. Yeah it was me who asked him to sing... Chris has a Great voice.
Crispin is just God in the Anime business. He is not as approachable as the others, but I would imagine he gets attached by many freaky Anime fans. Crispin puts on a great Anime VO ADR Workshop.
In 2005, my daughter and I attended Anime Vegas where there were at least 30 VO artists on a single stage in a Q&A session. This was simply insane. We plan to attend this years Anime Vegas scheduled for Sept. 1-3 at the Cashman's Center in Downtown vegas. http://www.animevegas.com
This year's guest list includes:
Daran Norris (Vincent Volaju in the Cowboy BeBop movie, Heavy Load in Transformers, and Durge and Ki Adi Mundi in the Star Wars cartoons, Cosmo, Timmy’s Dad, and Jorgen Von Strangle on Nickelodeon’s The Fairly Odd Parents, Ned’s Declassified as Gordy, the school janitor, and recurs as attorney Cliff McCormack on Veronica Mars)
Tony Oliver (ROBOTECH, VANDREAD)
Travis Willingham (FULL METAL ALCHEMIST, MUSHISHI)
Justin Cook (YUU YUU HAKUSHO, DRAGON BALL Z, BECK)
Maile Flanagan (The voice of NARUTO) in her first Las
Vegas Appearance!
Sam Regal (FATE/STAY NIGHT, NARUTO, MELANCHOLY OF HARUHI SUZUMIYA, THE THIRD: THE GIRL WITH THE BLUE EYE).
Aaron Dismuke (FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST, FRUITS BASKET, TRINITY BLOOD).
Christopher Sabat (Vegeta and Piccolo in Dragonball Z, Kuwabara in Yu Yu Hakusho, Jigen in Lupin III, Ayame in Fruits Basket, Alex Luis Armstrong in Full Metal Alchemist)
Colleen Clinkenbeard (Kiddy Grade (Éclair), Case Closed (Rachel), Fullmetal Alchemist (Rose, Hawkeye), Lupin III: Dead or Alive (Olean der)
Johnny Yong Bosch (Adam, the Black Ranger on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Vash in Trigun, Kaneda in Akira, Ichigo in Bleach, Renton in Eureka Seven, Claus in Last Exile, Clair in Heat Guy J, Sakaki in Witch Hunter Robin)
And many others...
See ya there.
Jon
Posted by: Jon Morss | August 24, 2007 7:10 PM