Ai-Kon
Ai-Kon is an annual three-day anime convention held on a weekend during the month of July in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Ai-Kon was first held at the University of Manitoba in 2001 and is currently held at the RBC Convention Centre. The convention's name is a blend of the words ''ai'' (Japanese for ''love'') and ''convention'' and is derived from its slogan "For the love of anime". The word ''ai'' was also chosen to play on the fact that the club had a magazine they called Anime Injection. Programming Ai-Kon provides a wide variety of on mandate programming put on by committee staff, members of the community, guests and industry partners. Streaming/showing rooms run 24-hours during the conventions featuring titles in both Japanese and English languages. Alongside anime, the convention also hosts many video game and Japanese culture related activities. Additional convention events include: *Marketplace: Dealer's Room and an Artists Alley *Cosplay events: Cosplay Contest, Cosplay ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Winnipeg
Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,607 and a metropolitan population of 834,678, making it the sixth-largest city, and eighth-largest metropolitan area in Canada. The city is named after the nearby Lake Winnipeg; the name comes from the Western Cree words for "muddy water" - “winipīhk”. The region was a trading centre for Indigenous peoples long before the arrival of Europeans; it is the traditional territory of the Anishinabe (Ojibway), Ininew (Cree), Oji-Cree, Dene, and Dakota, and is the birthplace of the Métis Nation. French traders built the first fort on the site in 1738. A settlement was later founded by the Selkirk settlers of the Red River Colony in 1812, the nucleus of which was incorporated as the City of Winnipeg in 1873. Being far inland, the local cl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tiffany Grant
Tiffany Lynn Grant (born October 11, 1968) is an American voice actress and script writer who is known for her English-dubbing work for ADV Films on such anime films and television series as ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'', in which she voiced the character Asuka Langley Soryu. Biography Grant was born in Houston, Texas. She was the first actor hired by ADV Films in February 1994. Grant's first work in the field was Raina from ''Guy: Double Target''. In 1996, she was cast as Asuka Langley Soryu, one of the main female characters in ''Neon Genesis Evangelion''. She would later go on to write ADR scripts for several anime shows, having written over 200 TV episodes to date. Grant is also known for portraying Nojiko in ''One Piece'', Altena in '' Noir'', and Ryoko Subaru in ''Martian Successor Nadesico''. Grant is an independent contractor, and in addition to her work at ADV Films, she has also worked for Funimation, Seraphim Digital/Sentai Filmworks, and Illumitoon Entertainment. Grant ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Josh Grelle
Joshua Grelle ( ; born November 2, 1985) is an American voice actor and ADR script writer in English language dubs of Japanese anime, working mostly with Funimation, ADV Films and Seraphim Digital. Grelle is known for voicing numerous main characters in the harem genre. Major roles include: Armin Arlert in ''Attack on Titan'', Itsuki Takeuchi in '' Initial D'', Nobuchika Ginoza in ''Psycho-Pass'', Glenn Radars in ''Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor'', Kenichi Shirahama in '' Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple'', Fumikage Tokoyami in ''My Hero Academia'', Mao Sadou / Demon King Satan in ''The Devil Is a Part-Timer!'' and Yuri Katsuki in '' Yuri on Ice!!!''. Grelle has voiced lead characters, Zen Wisteria in ''Snow White with the Red Hair'', Kyohei Takano in '' The Wallflower'', Komatsu in ''Toriko'', Akihisa Yoshii in ''Baka and Test'', Koichi Hayase in ''Linebarrels of Iron'', Kazuya Aoi in ''Freezing'', Tasuku Yamane in ''Trickster'', Yuki "Yukiteru" Amano in '' The ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cherami Leigh
Cherami Leigh (born July 19, 1988) is an American actress. She has provided voices for a number of English-language versions of anime series and video games with Funimation, Bang Zoom! Entertainment, NYAV Post, Studiopolis and Viz Media. Some of her roles include Kazari Uiharu in ''A Certain Magical Index'' and ''A Certain Scientific Railgun'' series, Yoshika Miyafuji in ''Strike Witches'', Eucliwood Hellscythe in '' Is This a Zombie'', Mutsuki in ''KanColle: Kantai Collection'', Aisa in ''One Piece'', Mika Shimotsuki in ''Psycho-Pass'', Shijima Kurookano in ''Nabari no Ou'', Hibiki in ''Sekirei'', Elizabeth Midford in '' Black Butler'', Road Kamelot in '' D.Gray-man'', Sae Kashiwagi in ''Peach Girl'', Tamaki Kawazoe in ''Bamboo Blade'', Patty Thompson in '' Soul Eater'', Lucy Heartfilia in ''Fairy Tail'', Cecily Campbell in ''The Sacred Blacksmith'', Asuna Yuuki in ''Sword Art Online'', Sailor Venus , better known as , is a fictional character in the ''Sailor ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bryce Papenbrook
Bryce Austin Papenbrook (born February 24, 1986) is an American voice actor and martial artist who has done voice work for Funimation, Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Viz Media, Animaze, Studiopolis and Scoffer Studios. He has voiced in several anime series, particularly those of young male protagonists. Early life Bryce Austin Papenbrook was born in the Reseda area of Los Angeles on February 24, 1986,Birthday references: * * the son of voice actors Debbie Rothstein (born 1956) and Bob Papenbrook (1955–2006). Papenbrook is half-Jewish, via his mother. He graduated from University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA in 2007 with a bachelor's degree in political science. Career Papenbrook is best known for his portrayals of Kirito (Sword Art Online), Kirito in ''Sword Art Online'', Eren Yeager in ''Attack on Titan (TV series), Attack on Titan'', Inosuke Hashibira in ''Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba,'' Rin Okumura in ''Blue Exorcist'', Rokuro Enmado in ''Twin Star Exorcists'', List ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ian Sinclair (voice Actor)
Ian Sinclair (born March 2, 1984)Birthday references: * * * is an American voice actor and voice director who works with Funimation and Sentai Filmworks. He provides voices for English versions of Japanese anime series and video games. Some of his major roles include Toraji Ishida in ''Bamboo Blade''; Dallas Genoard in ''Baccano!''; Douglas Rosenberg in ''El Cazador de la Bruja''; Takeru Oyama in ''Maken-ki!''; Brook in the Funimation dub of ''One Piece''; Juzo Sakakura in the ''Danganronpa'' series; Whis in ''Dragon Ball Super'', and the title characters in ''Toriko'' and ''Space Dandy''. In addition he performs the voice in video games the likes of '' Battleborn'', Baron Flynt in ''Borderlands'', Professor Nakayama and Jimbo Hodunk in ''Borderlands 2'', and Berkut in '' Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia''. Ian was in the English Dub cast as Yasuda in ''Shin Godzilla''. Biography Sinclair was born in Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. on March 2, 1984. He is half-Canadian. Si ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Terri Hawkes
Terri Hawkes (born ) is a Canadian actress and writer, known for playing Kelly Hennenlotter in the horror film, '' Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II'', Adrienne in ''Beverly Hills 90210'', Wendy Masters in ''General Hospital'', and for being the second English dub voice actress of the title character of the Japanese anime ''Sailor Moon''. She is the daughter of politician Jim Hawkes. Hawkes' other voice acting roles include Baby Hugs Bear in ''The Care Bears Movie'', and reprised the role in Nelvana's ''Care Bears'' TV show, where she also voiced Shreeky (No Heart's niece). Hawkes also had a role playing Monika Barnes in the early episodes of '' Traders'', and also was the voice of a 3D sphere in Max Maven's ''The MAXimum Dimension''. Hawkes also worked as a voice director for the popular children's animated series ''Flying Rhino Junior High'', and the English version of the 1996 Canadian Horror film ''Karmina'' and was an assistant voice director for ''Sailor Moon''. She also wrote ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Funimation
Crunchyroll, LLC, previously known as Funimation from 1994 to 2022, is an American entertainment company owned by Japanese conglomerate Sony as a joint venture between Sony Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment Japan's Aniplex that specializes in the dubbing and distribution of East Asian media, with a long history of working with Japanese anime. The company was founded in May 1994 as Funimation Productions by Gen Fukunaga and his wife Cindy Brennan in Silicon Valley, with funding by Daniel Cocanougher and his family, who became investors in the company, which then relocated to North Richland Hills, later to Flower Mound, Texas, and after that in Coppell, Texas. Funimation was one of the leading distributors of anime and other foreign entertainment properties in North America. It licensed popular series, such as ''Dragon Ball'', ''One Piece'', ''Yu Yu Hakusho'', ''My Hero Academia'', '' Attack on Titan'', ''Fairy Tail'', '' Black Clover'', ''Fruits Basket'', '' Assassination ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chris Patton
Chris Patton is an American voice actor who has worked on a number of English-language versions of Japanese anime series that have been dubbed by ADV Films, Funimation, and Sentai Filmworks. Some of his major roles at ADV include Sousuke Sagara in ''Full Metal Panic!'', Ikki Minami in ''Air Gear'', Ayato Kamina in ''RahXephon'', Fakir in ''Princess Tutu'', Hajime Aoyama in ''Ghost Stories'', and Tatsuhiro Sato in '' Welcome to the N.H.K.''. At Funimation, he voiced Greed in ''Fullmetal Alchemist'', Turles in '' Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might'', Graham Specter in ''Baccano!'', Manabu Yuuki in ''The Galaxy Railways'', Creed Diskenth in ''Black Cat'', Asura in '' Soul Eater'', and Agito in '' Origin: Spirits of the Past''. With Sentai, he voiced Keima Katsuragi in ''The World God Only Knows''. Personal life Patton was born in Houston, Texas. He moved to Annapolis, Maryland Annapolis ( ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Maryland and the county seat of, and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Todd Haberkorn
Todd Haberkorn is an American voice actor and director, who has dubbed in anime, films, and video games. Career While Haberkorn was working in theater, he joined Funimation as a voice actor, with minor roles in ''One Piece'', ''Black Cat'', and ''Peach Girl''. Since then, he has voiced characters such as Natsu Dragneel in ''Fairy Tail'', Italy in '' Hetalia: Axis Powers'', Hikaru Hitachiin in ''Ouran High School Host Club'', Allen Walker in '' D.Gray-man'', Death the Kid in '' Soul Eater'', Tsukune Aono in '' Rosario + Vampire'', Kimihiro Watanuki in '' xxxHolic'', and Yamato Akitsuki in '' Suzuka''. He has also worked in Los Angeles as an actor, director, producer and writer. He also played Aru Akise, one of the main set of characters in ''Future Diary'' and provided the English dub voice for Hiroki Hasegawa in ''Shin Godzilla'', as well as Razor for ''Genshin Impact''. Personal life Haberkorn is of partial Vietnamese descent on the maternal side of his family. Meanwhile ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Brina Palencia
Brina Michelle Palencia (born February 13, 1984) is an American voice and television actress. She has voiced a number of English-language versions of characters featured in anime. Palencia provided the dubbed voices of Tony Tony Chopper in ''One Piece'', Touka Kirishima in ''Tokyo Ghoul'', Vi Graythorn in '' Case Closed'', Eve in '' Black Cat'', Honoka Sakurai in '' Suzuka'', Ai Enma in ''Hell Girl'', Kazumi Yoshida in ''Shakugan no Shana'', Kurumu Kurono in '' Rosario + Vampire'', Ciel Phantomhive in '' Black Butler'', Juvia Lockser in ''Fairy Tail'', Holo in ''Spice and Wolf'', Kazuhiro Mitogawa in '' Ga-Rei: Zero'', Sakura Minamoto in ''Zombie Land Saga'', Yuno Gasai in ''Future Diary'', Miharu Rokujo in ''Nabari no Ou'', Ruiko Saten in ''A Certain Scientific Railgun'', Maho Minami in '' Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad'', Ryoko Okami in '' Okami-san and Her Seven Companions'', Minoru Mineta in ''My Hero Academia'', and Isuzu Soma in ''Fruits Basket''. On camera, s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Christopher Sabat
Christopher Robin Sabat is an American voice actor, voice director, ADR engineer, and line producer working for Funimation, and OkraTron 5000. Some of his prominent roles in animations and anime include Vegeta and Piccolo in '' Dragon Ball'', Roronoa Zoro in ''One Piece'', All Might in ''My Hero Academia'' and Daisuke Jigen in ''Lupin the Third''. Career Sabat has provided voices for English-versions of Japanese anime and video games, including a variety of '' Dragon Ball'' characters, such as Vegeta, Piccolo, Yamcha, Shenron and others. Besides voicing in ''Dragon Ball '' he has lent his voice to several other anime characters including Daisuke Jigen in ''Lupin the Third'', Kazuma Kuwabara in ''Yu Yu Hakusho'', Alex Louis Armstrong in ''Fullmetal Alchemist'', Tatsumi Saiga in '' Speed Grapher'', Kurogane in '' Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle'', All Might in ''My Hero Academia'', Roronoa Zoro in the Funimation dub of ''One Piece'', Yami Sukehiro in '' Black Clover'', Elf ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |