Shinichiro Watanabe
FEMM
Gareth West
Lisle Wilkerson
Robert L. Mungle
Greg Ayres
Jay Hickman
Marcus Stimac
Random Encounters
Dorothy Fahn
Tom Fahn
Ambush Vin
YTCracker
John Swasey
Shinichiro Watanabe
Shinichiro Watanabe is a Japanese anime director. You are very likely to know almost all of his anime works. He is best known for directing the critically acclaimed and incredibly successful anime series Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, and Space Dandy. Watanabe is known for incorporating multiple genres into his anime creations, such as cowboy western in Cowboy Bebop. He has been the director of Kids on the Slope, Space Dandy, Terror in Resonance, as well as Cowboy Bebop, Carole & Tuesday, and Samurai Champloo.
Watanabe, born in the ancient city of Kyoto, started his work with Japanese animation studio Sunrise as he oversaw storyboards of several Sunrise shows, and soon after made his directing debut with Macross Plus. After Cowboy Bebop and the sequel movie Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door he even went on to develop some American-produced anime including A Detective Story and Kid’s Story.
FEMM
A dance and rap duo formed by RiRi and Lula; mannequins have emotions. “Fxxk Boyz Get Money,” released in 2014, became a big hit among teens in the US and Europe with its extreme rap and sexy TWERK dance. As a girlʼs anthem, it received high acclaim by fashionistas and influencers around the world. Its music video was viewed nearly 2 million times on YouTube! In the US, “Vice” called FEMM a “supergroup,” and FEMM got Artist Of The Week at MTV IGGY with 97.97% votes. Their digital album “Femm-Isation” was released on an indie label and it hit # 10 on the Billboard world hit chart. In Japan, they appear on the Google Android TV commercial “New Android version,” and in 2016, they made a major debut with an EP+1st Album ”PoW!/ L.C.S. +Femm-Isation.” 4 consecutive music videos released following their debut were on MTV JAPANʼs heavily played videos. They also made a debut in UK and selected as the most worth noting artist for 2016 by Huffington Host Entertainment UKand was mentioned on international recognized art website, Creators Project. FEMM also performed at “HYPER JAPAN Christmas,” the leading Japanese culture event in the UK. A gagaku trap, “animus” by “FAMMʼIN,” the female rap crew teamed up with FAKY and Yupʼin, has been premiered at Londonʼs DAZED. FEMM keeps making leaps in Japan and overseas.
Gareth West
Gareth is an actor, model, and voice actor based out of Texas. He is known for such Anime roles as; Ittetsu Takeda in Haikyu, Seiya Takehaya in Tsurune, Kanichi Konishi in Food Wars, Haruka Shinozaki in My Girlfriend Is Shobitch, Lizard Misty in Saint Seiya, 2D in Golden Time, Akihiro Tsukaba in Chihayafuru, Tomoaki Yamagishi in O Maidens In Your Savage Season, and Dinkuron in Log Horizon. He is also currently playing the role of Jason Lee Scott the Red Power Ranger in the upcoming release Red Rising: A Power Rangers Fan Film. When not making anime voices or acting, Gareth enjoys basically anything nerdy under the sun. So whatever it is you are into, chances are you can come up and geek out. Because there is nothing he likes more than getting enthusiastic, and making new friends!
Lisle Wilkerson
Lisle Wilkerson grew up in Tokyo, Japan. She speaks fluent Japanese, and does voice work in both English & Japanese.
She is the powerhouse behind some of the gaming industry’s most popular female fighting characters, such as Nina Williams and Christie Monteiro, Sarah Bryant from Virtual Fighter, as well as Joy and Xiuying in Shenmue II. She not only does video game voices, she has also done the voice of Badtz Maru (from Hello Kitty) and commercials for many internationally renown companies as Nissan, Panasonic, Sony, United etc. Lisle did dubbing for two live action ULTRAMAN films, which were just recently in theaters here in the US. And she will be doing more work this year with the Ultraman franchise. Lisle acted alongside Bill Murray in the Academy Award winning Sofia Coppola film “Lost In Translation”, and had a lead role in the award winning indie film "Kamataki”. She currently lives in Los Angeles, where she continues to do voice work, and also works as an interpreter. Lisle has interpreted for everyone from Keanu Reeves to best-selling author Marie Kondo to anime director Makoto Shinkai and Love Live Sunshine. She is also a local media correspondent for Japan, covering high-profile events like The Grammys, Academy Awards, Emmys and Golden Globes. And she does a monthly entertainment news show for Japanese television Lisle is also the assistant producer of the upcoming film, "Black Hat”. Most of Lisle’s panels are focused on Japanese culture, as well as about the VA world and working in Japan. (and yes, OF COURSE that includes many Engrish stories!!) Lisle is also excited about the 2020 Olympics being hosted in her home city, Tokyo, and has recently started doing quite a bit of work related to that. And when Lisle isn’t busy working or running around the country doing cons, you might find her in her pink boxing gloves trying to save the world Nina Williams-style.
Robert L. Mungle
Robert L. Mungle is a voice actor for Funimation, ADV Films, Seraphim Digital/Sentai Filmworks, and OkraTron 5000. The Right Reverend Robert L. Mungle founded The Whiskey Brothers in 1998. Since then, while the line-up has changed, it has been his outrageously loud voice that has led the group. Mungle has taken the stage everywhere from sold out theaters to seedy strip clubs. His IMDB page boasts over 100 different anime roles, from “Ghost Stories” to “Lady Death” to “Excel Saga.” He was born in Houston and you might recognize him from any of tons of anime roles, some of which include Amanojaku from Ghost Stories, Mr.8 from One Piece, Matsushita from Angel Beats, and Pedro Domingo from Excel Saga. He’s appeared in Akame ga Kill!, 009-1, Broken Blade, Gantz, Halo Legends, and many others.
Greg Ayres
Greg Ayres has been screaming into microphones for close to 25 years now! With over 376 credits to his name, he has managed to play a variety of characters that are almost as colorful as his hair. He was honored to recently return to his role of Son Goku in Saiyuki Reload Zeroin, having worked on the Saiyuki franchise for over 20 years. He can currently be heard as Po in Eminence and Shadow, As Kenta Kanzaki in The Dangers in My Heart, Yu Nishinoya in Haikyu, Chai in Shenmue The Animation on Adult swim, and a super bad demon known only as “God” in Dark Gathering. Some other recent roles include Chota Segawa in Alice in Borderland (OAV), Sho Utsumi in SSSSGridman, Frost in DragonBall Super, Geo in Sony Picture’s Starship Troopers : Traitor of Mars, Jiro in Concrete Revolutio, Ryuuou Edogawa in Doreiku, Koji Koda in My Hero Academia, and he even makes an appearance as Popuko in Pop Team Epic.
He is proud to be a part of the new “Pink Harvest” productions from Sentai Filmworks, in the roles of Izumi Sena in Lovestage, and Yabase in Hitorijime My Hero. Some other recent favorites include Nagisa Haruki in Free, and Free Eternal Summer, MonoKuma in Danganronpa, Clear in Dramatical Murder, Doug in Gangsta, Zenji Marui in Food Wars, Ganta Igarashi in Deadman Wonderland, Heihachi Hayashida in Samurai 7, and Kouichi Sakakibara in Another. Some of his all-time favorite roles include Chrono in Chrono Crusade, Kaoru Hitachiin in Ouran High School Host Club, Hideki in Nerima Daikon Brothers, Youhei Sunohara in Clannad, Yuki in The Wallflower, Leo in Ghost Stories, Satoshi Hiwatari in DNAngel, Kaworu Nagisa in the Director’s Cut of Neon Genesis Evangelion, Tomoki Sakurai in Heaven’s Lost Property, and Negi Springfield in Negima.
Of all of his many roles, his favorite will always be the real life role of “Little Brother” to voice actor Christopher Ayres. The little guy with a big Sippy Cup, and even bigger heart – who touched the world with his “Love and Laughter”.
Jay Hickman
Jay began his career in anime in the 1990s, when he landed his first role at ADV Films in Master of Mosquiton. Since then, he has appeared in more than 100 titles with studios including ADV Films, Funimation, Sentai Filmworks, Switchblade Pictures, Okratron 5000, and others. As a character actor, Jay has been able to voice a broad variety of colorful roles, with the occasional romantic lead thrown in for good measure. His notable credits over the past two decades are Mechazawa in Cromartie High School, Spitfire in Air Gear, Sho Zama in Aura Battler Dunbine, Shiryu in Saint Seiya, Chuu and Hammond in One Piece, Kagetane Hiruko in Black Bullet, Chief Kurama in Elfen Lied, Koji in Generator Gawl, Toru Watanabe in Excel Saga, The Fool in Kaleido Star, Crusty in Log Horizon, SSS in Madlax, Dera Mochimazzi in Tamako Market, Sanetoshi Watase in Penguindrum, Prince Mytho in Princess Tutu, and Giraffe in Revue Starlight, among many others.
Jay’s voice has also been featured in live action series and films such as Dark Water, Synesthesia, Conduct Zero, The Fuccons, Touching Wild Horses, Gamera – Attack of Legion, as well as in the video game Unlimited Saga. Jay had his Toonami debut playing Dr. Stylish in Akame ga KILL!, followed by Shiro Kuramori in Parasyte – the maxim, and now Joichiro Yukihira in Food Wars!
Marcus Stimac
Marcus is an actor who provides the voices for many anime characters including: Bergamo in Dragon Ball Super, Taro in Dragon Ball Super: Broly, Tiger in My Hero Academia, Nobu Shimoguichi in Tokyo Ghoul, Dr.Hogback and Young Gol D. Roger in One Piece, Saito in Ghost in the Shell: Arise/OVA/Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie, Tomas in Attack on Titan/Attack On Titan: The Roar of Awakening, Heath Grice in Black Clover, Shelley De Killer in Pheonix Wright Ace Attorney, Terasaka in Assassination Classroom, Warcry in Fairy Tail, Don Bossman in Radiant, Sairaorg Bael in Highschool DXD, Ando in Chio’s School Road, Delico in Gangsta, Madarao in D. Gray-man ,Amata Kihara in A Certain Magical Index, and Cornet in Space Dandy!, Shokudaikiri in Touken Ranbu, Yamato in Nanbaka, Chihiro in Hinomaru Sumo, Jaswant in The Heroic Tales of Arslan, Argon in Show By Rock!!,Kazama in Ping Pong the Animation, Carrion in Reincarnated As a Slime, Kaede in Psycopass 2, Volpe in 91 Days, Kyioto in Prince of Stride, and many others. He is also the Narrator of the Golden Kamuy series . He was Nominated for 2015 Breakthrough Voice Actor of the Year by Behind The Voice Actors.com His directing credits include work on One Piece, One Piece: Heart of Gold, Alderamin of the Sky, Chaos Child, and Show By Rock!!. If you don’t see him in an Anime you can always find him acting on a stage , he is a classically trained theatre artist and has acted/directed in many different plays, musicals, rock operas including over 40 full length Shakespearean productions. He is also a fan of anime and gaming, some his favorite animes include Cowboy Bebop, Yu Yu Hakusho, and One Piece.
Random Encounters
Random Encounters is that YouTube channel that thinks any video game worth talking about, is worth singing about. Since 2011, the channel has produced 140+ nerdcore musicals complete with catchy tunes, big costumes, and epic twists. We’ve covered everything from classic games like SONIC THE HEDGEHOG and THE SUPER MARIO BROS, to pop culture favorites like FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S and AMONG US, all the way to indie gems like UNDERTALE. 10 years, 1.6 billion views, and just like all good random encounters… you know something exciting is coming up next.
Dorothy Fahn
Dorothy is known for video game roles including Mercedes in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Tsumugi in Danganronpa V3, Chihiro & Sayaka in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, and Rinea in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.
In Anime she plays Pioran in To Your Eternity, Kie Kamado in Demon Slayer, Sai in The God of High School, Arte’s mom in Arte, Merribit in Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans, Konan in Naruto, Meryl in Trigun, Melody in Hunter X Hunter, Margaret in The Seven Deadly Sins, An/Natsumi and Cyprine & Ptilol in Sailor Moon, Ms. Bustier in Miraculous Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, Kaoru in Rurouni Kenshin, Nerine & Alberta in Violet Evergarden, Kawaru Natari in Kakegurui, Lech’s Mom/Takako’s Mom in Forest of Piano Fuuko/Sky Raker in Accel World, Naru in Love Hina, Kyoko in Sword Art Online, Marina in Kuromukuro, Yoshino in Bleach, Ms. Ochiai in Your Lie In April, Hana Saryu in Ai Tenchi Muyo!, Marryl and Bernadette in Little Witch Academia, Sneetch’s Mom in Doraemon, Nena/Empress in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, Lillymon-Rosemon-Tai’s Mom and more in Digimon and Digimon Adventure Tri movies, Maiko in Kill La Kill, Sakura in Rock Lee, Ren Hakuei in Magi The Kingdom of Magic, Taro in Devilman Crybaby, Miyu in Vampire Princess Miyu, Fujiko in Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro, Yoko in The Twelve Kingdoms, Hagoromo Gitsune in Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, Mimori in S-CRY-ed, Suzu in Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, Matsuri in Lucky Star, Tomoe in Rozen Maiden, Ruka in Vampire Knight, Nina Purpleton in Gundam 0083, Kyouko in Asterisk War, Amane in Tenchi Muyo! GXP, Sophie in Code Geass, Francoise in Cyborg 009, Zan in Heroes: Legend of the Battle Disks, and many more.
Other video game credits include Pokemon Masters,Valkyria Chronicles 4, Death End Request 2, Phantasy Online 2, Naruto Shippuden Shining Resonance Refrain, World of Warcraft: Legion, Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 1, 2 & 3, Elsword, Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV, Fallout 4, League of Legends, Mugen Souls, Fairy Fencer F, Atelier Esha & Logy, Atelier Shallie, Persona 2, Star Ocean Till The End of Time, God Eater 2: Rage Burst, Earth Defense Force 2025, Yuri in Seven Knights and Seven Knights 2 to name few. She is represented by CTC Talent in Los Angeles CA, and thanks her hubby, daughter and family for all their love and support!
Tom Fahn
Tom is best known as the voice of “Agumon” on the TV Series Digimon: Digital Monsters and recently reprised the role in the Digimon Adventure Tri movies and Video Game. Most recent Anime credits include Edens Zero for Bang Zoom! on Netflix and Cells at Work! Code Black for Funimation. Recent Video Game credits include Twin Mirror and One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows both for Bandai, as well as God of War for Sony. On Toonami Adult Swim, Tom’s voice can be heard on Dragon Ball Super, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Hunter X Hunter, Naruto and Bleach, among others.
Memorable career roles include Stu the Turtle and a Male Ox in Ice Age 2: The Meltdown directed by Carlos Saldanha for 20th Century Fox. Some Anime fans may remember Tom’s memorable death scene as Rocco Bonnaro in Cowboy Bebop with Steve Blum, directed by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn. A memorable Video Game credit includes begging for his life (yet again!) on Watchmen: The End Is Nigh directed by Collette Sunderman, and he’s also died several times, on several episodes, voicing several characters on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. A career highlight is working in the same studio on the old Hanna-Barbera lot where The Flintstones were recorded, playing the Woim in the Boid N Woim for Cartoon Network-What A Cartoon, directed by Kris Zimmerman.
From the early days of anime when it was known as Japanimation, other credits include The Guyver as Sho Fukamachi, and Orguss as Kei Katsuragi directed by Kevin Seymour. Originally from Huntington, New York, Tom always wanted to be an actor, but his greatest credits are his wife Dorothy, and their daughter. They live in Los Angeles where he is represented by the legendary Vanessa Gilbert at RSA.
Ambush Vin
Ambush Vin is an exciting lyricist specializing in Sci-Fi Music, captivating music listeners who crave a different sound with his unique style of hip-hop! He is the world’s first and ONLY Sci-Fi Hip-Hop artist! His motto, “1/2 Street but ALL Geek,” describes his journey to sci-fi hip-hop: “My options in life appeared to be slim growing up with future hustlers, gangsters, and criminals,” Vin explains. “Despite the pressure, my fondest childhood memories are filled with geeky fandoms. I have a Star Wars obsession that still exists today, a love affair with comics that started at age 7 with Marvel’s 1984 Secret Wars, and a love for video games that began with a Commodore 64!” The self-described “authority on all things Sci-Fi” has been described as eccentric, ground-breaking and unique. Vin’s mission is to motivate the millions of hip-hop listeners to promote the power of being unique individuals. “Hip-Hop is the ONLY genre of music where you have to have a certain image in order to be accepted as a “real” or “lyrical” artist. It’s time for everyone to lend an ear to the talented artists who aren’t thugs or street. How do we expect Hip-Hop to evolve into its full potential if we become trapped within the monotony of one voice with multiple personalities?” On October 1, 2015, Ambush Vin released the critically acclaimed “SciFiMusic” album, along with “The Mastigical Solution” e-book and “Pre-Cosmic,” which is a 10 page comic book. He is currently working on, “Tales from the Multiverse”, which is a monthly EP series, and the follow-up to SciFiMusic – “The Quantum Tollbooth”. Follow Ambush Vin’s music at http://ambushvin.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/scifivin.
YTCracker
YTCracker is a rapper, former cracker, and Internet entrepreneur. YTCracker began producing rap music in 1998 in the genre that has since become known as nerdcore hip hop. YTCracker is a self-proclaimed “jack of all trades”, also making a name for himself as a professional disc jockey, computer programmer, graphics designer and webmaster. His music covers everything from computer hacking to bitcoin. He has performed on legendary stages across the world in front of some of the largest crowd both as a DJ and as a lyricist, including events like the Consumer Electronics Show, MAGFest, SXSW and beyond.
John Swasey
John started down the road of anime in 1997, when he landed his first role in Golden Boy from ADV Films. Since then, John has gone on to voice hundreds shows and characters. John’s wife once quipped that there are certain actors who might be the “Brad Pitts” of anime but John is the “Kevin Bacon” of anime.
Being the character actor type has given John the freedom to voice bazillions of characters such as Undertaker in Black Butler, Salvador in Borderlands II (VG), Gendo in Evangelion, the Captain in Halo (VG), Lord Death in Soul Eater, Hoenheim in Fullmetal Alchemist, Sir Crocodile in One Piece, Salvador in Borderland II, Kogoro in Sgt. Frog, Huang in Darker than Black, Vulcan in Orphen, Ken in Kaleido Star, Captain Ahab in Hakugei The Legend of Moby Dick, Rikudoh in RahXephon, Mister in Coyote Ragtime Show, as well as roles in the live action films 2009 Lost Memories, Conduct Zero, Yesterday, Jungle Juice, and the Gamera trilogy. Most recently you can catch John in the broadcast series of GANGSTA as Chad, and Akame Ga Kill as Bols as seen on Toonami.
In 2004, John jumped to the other side of the “mic” to direct. Among the shows he has directed are Welcome to the N.H.K., AirGear, Wandaba Style, St. Seiya, Shadow Skill, E’s Otherwise, Michel, Jinki Extend and Shinobi (live action co-directed with longtime pal, Kyle Jones). John loves working in the world of anime as a director and voice actor! Currently John is working with pals Kyle Jones and Jay Hickman on an original animation full length movie called The Perfect Khan. In addition to anime, John has voiced thousands of radio and tv commercials – even acted in a few films. One of the coolest acting jobs was being the Beer Delivery Guy in Dazed and Confused.
