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Anime Banzai
Anime Banzai is an annual three-day anime convention held during October at the Davis Conference Center in Layton, Utah. The name of the convention roughly comes from the Japanese word for "hooray". The convention is organized by Utah Anime Promotions and is run by a volunteer staff. Programming The convention typically features an AMV contest, arcade gaming, artist alley, board gaming, card gaming, cosplay contest, formal dance, karaoke, panel discussions, special guests, video games, vendors, and workshops. History Anime Banzai was founded by the Salt Lake Community College "End of the World" Japanese Animation Club in 2004. Over 600 people attended the first year, while the organizers were expecting less than 300 attendees. The convention was held at the Salt Lake Community College in the Student Center for two years, the Sheraton City Centre Hotel for three, until moving to the Davis Conference Center due to the convention's growth. The convention in 2010 brought $400,000 to t ...
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Anime
is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of the English word ''animation'') describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. Animation produced outside of Japan with similar style to Japanese animation is commonly referred to as anime-influenced animation. The earliest commercial Japanese animations date to 1917. A characteristic art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of cartoonist Osamu Tezuka and spread in following decades, developing a large domestic audience. Anime is distributed theatrically, through television broadcasts, Original video animation, directly to home media, and Original net animation, over the Internet. In addition to original works, anime are often adaptations of Japanese comics (manga), light novels, ...
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The Slants
The Slants is an American dance rock band composed entirely of Asian Americans. The band was formed in Portland, Oregon by Simon Tam in 2006. The band went through a number of early lineup changes, but had a core lineup for its albums and tours by 2009 consisting of Aron Moxley (vocals), Simon Tam (bass, keys), Jonathan Fontanilla (guitar), and Tyler Chen (drums, backing vocals). After experiencing some transitions, the core lineup consisted of Simon Tam, lead singer Ken Shima, and guitarist Joe X. Jiang by 2015. The band's name originates from an effort of reappropriation and was the source of a protracted legal battle that took them to the Supreme Court of the United States. Influenced by 1980s bands such as Depeche Mode and New Order, as well as modern acts such as The Killers and The Bravery, the band refers to their sound as "Chinatown Dance Rock". The band has released five studio albums, two EPs, and a feature length film, ''The Slants - Taiwan Tour''. The group performed ...
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Daman Mills
Daman Mills is an American Voice acting, voice actor and ADR Director from Seattle, Washington. He is known for his work in anime and video game Dubbing (filmmaking)#Localization, dubs, and works frequently with Crunchyroll, Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Studiopolis and Sound Cadence Studios. Filmography Anime series Films Video games Animated series * ''RWBY'' (2017), Leonardo Lionheart Web series * ''Red vs. Blue'' (2020), Diesel References External links

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Sean Chiplock
Sean Edward Chiplock (born June 21, 1990) is an American voice actor who is known for voicing English versions of Japanese video games and anime. Based in Los Angeles, Chiplock is known as the voice of Rean Schwarzer from '' The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel'' series, Revali, Teba, and the Great Deku Tree from '' The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild'' and '' Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity'', Diluc from ''Genshin Impact'', Shiki Granbell from ''Edens Zero'', Subaru Natsuki from '' Re:Zero,'' Guido Mista and Sex Pistols from '' JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind,'' and Spider-Man Spider-Man is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, he first appeared in the anthology comic book '' Amazing Fantasy'' #15 (August 1962) in the ... from '' Marvel's Avengers''. Filmography Anime Animation Film Video games References External links * * * * {{DEFAU ...
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Kara Edwards
Kara Edwards (born February 17, 1977) is an American voice actress working for the English versions of Japanese anime. She is also well known in the Charlotte, North Carolina area for her past career as a radio host. Career Edwards began her broadcast career with a job at Radio Disney out of Dallas, Texas the fall after she graduated from high school. She interned for eight months before landing the more permanent jobs of writer, producer, voice actress and children's voice director. In July 1997, she became co-host of the ''Squeege and Kara Show'' on syndicated Radio Disney with friend and fellow voice actor Kyle Hebert. She did voice-over work in commercials for companies such as Blockbuster, Levi Strauss & Co. and Clinique. During the latter part of her Radio Disney tenure, Edwards voiced in a number of English-language versions of Japanese anime series for Funimation. Her most notable voice role as the child version of Goten and Videl in ''Dragon Ball Z''. In March 2002, ...
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Chris Cason
Christopher S. Cason is an American voice actor for English-language productions of Japanese anime shows mostly with Funimation. Some of his major roles include Babbit in ''Kodocha'', Haruki Hanai in ''School Rumble'', Gluttony in ''Fullmetal Alchemist'', and Shu in ''Dragon Ball''. He has also worked as an ADR director and script writer for various studios. Filmography Anime * ''AM Driver'' - Kukk "KK" Karan * ''Aria the Scarlet Ammo'' - Ryo Shiranui * '' Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest Season 2'' - Mikhail * ''Baldr Force EXE Resolution'' - Genha * ''Basilisk'' - Kazamachi Shogen * '' BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad'' - Akage * ''Beet the Vandel Buster'' - General Grineed * ''Big Windup!'' - Kazutoshi Oki * '' Birdy the Mighty: Decode'' - Masakubo * ''Black Blood Brothers'' - Rinsuke Akai * ''Case Closed'' - Bank Clerk, Shunen, Chiba, Emori * ''Chrome Shelled Regios'' - Dixerio Maskane * ''Corpse Princess'' - Rinsen Shirae * '' D.Gray-man'' - No. 65 * ''Darker than ...
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Laura Post
Laura Post (born June 23) is an American voice actress and voice director known for her works in anime dubbed in English by Bang Zoom! Entertainment and Studiopolis like portraying Aria Lieze in ''Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's'', Ragyo Kiryuin in ''Kill la Kill'', Rosalia in ''Sword Art Online'', Eri Watabe in ''Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne'', Blizzard in ''One-Punch Man, One Punch Man'', Bosbos in ''Redline (2009 film), Redline'', and Witch Regret in ''Edens Zero''. She also has portrayed characters in video games like Ahri in ''League of Legends'', Queen Azshara in ''World of Warcraft: Cataclysm'', Haruka Sakaki in ''Godzilla: The Planet Eater'', Valentine in ''Skullgirls'', Harley Quinn in ''Batman: The Enemy Within'', and Arfoire in ''Hyperdimension Neptunia''. Biography Post graduated from Columbia College Chicago in 2007. She was also taught by various voice actors like Steve Staley, Tony Oliver, Huck Ligget, Bob Bergen, Bill Holmes, and Richard Horvitz. Post started ...
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Jamie McGonnigal
James Campbell McGonnigal (born August 6, 1975 in Weymouth, Massachusetts) is an American voice actor, producer, activist and director, who has worked for various companies such as 4Kids Entertainment, Central Park Media, NYAV Post, DuArt Film and Video and Funimation. Biography As the founding Artistic Producer of The World AIDS Day Concerts and as a Founding Producer of the New York Musical Theatre Festival, McGonnigal presented the New York Premiere of Stephen Schwartz' ''Children of Eden'', the first major NY revisitation of Pippin starring Rosie O'Donnell, Laura Benanti, Michael Arden, and Ben Vereen, ''Snoopy The Musical'' (starring Tony Award-Winner Sutton Foster), ''The Secret Garden'' starring Laura Benanti, Will Chase, and Stephen Pasquale (named in top ten theatre events of 2005 by Playbill.com), Rags at Nokia Theatre Times Square (starring Lainie Kazan, Carolee Carmello, and Eden Espinosa), and the first major revival of the cult hit '' Runaways'' by Elizabeth Sw ...
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Kyle Hebert
Kyle Henry Hebert ( ) is an American voice actor and DJ who works for anime and video game series, such as the teenage/adult Gohan and the narrator in the Funimation dub of the ''Dragon Ball series'', Sōsuke Aizen in '' Bleach'', Ryu in the ''Street Fighter'' video game series, Kiba Inuzuka in ''Naruto'', Kamina in ''Gurren Lagann'', Ryuji Suguro in ''Blue Exorcist'', Noriaki Kakyoin in '' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders'', Dribble and Dr. Crygor in ''WarioWare Gold'', and Big the Cat in '' Sonic the Hedgehog''. Career Hebert got his start in voice-over during the mid-1990s as a disc jockey for Radio Disney, under the pseudonym Squeege. This lasted until September 2005, when he moved from Dallas to Los Angeles, to get bigger interests in the world of voice acting. He had cameo roles in various anime dubs such as ''Case Closed'', ''Fruits Basket'', and ''One Piece'' with recurring roles including ''Fullmetal Alchemist'', Kiba Inuzuka on ''Naruto'', Sōsuke ...
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Darrel Guilbeau
Darrel Guilbeau is an American voice actor. He began working on voice acting in anime roles, when his friends asked him to audition for ''Overman King Gainer'' and he won the title role, Gainer Sanga. Guilbeau is also known as the voice of Mikado Ryugamine from ''Durarara!!'', the title character of '' Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan'', Rikuo Nura; Hakuryu Ren from the ''Magi'' series, and Amaimon from the ''Blue Exorcist'' series. He has reprised his roles as Mikado and Rikuo in ''Durarara!!×2 The second season of the '' Durarara!!'' anime series, titled ''Durarara!!×2'', was directed by Takahiro Omori and produced by Shuka. The episodes are adapted from the light novel series '' Durarara!!'' by Ryōgo Narita and Suzuhito Yasuda. It c ...'' and '' Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan - Demon Capital'', respectively. Filmography Anime Video games References External links * *Darrel Guilbeauat the English Voice Actor & Production Staff Database * {{DEFAULTSORT:Guilbeau, Darrel ...
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Richard Ian Cox
Richard Ian Cox (born October 3, 1973) is a Welsh-born Canadian actor, comedian and online radio host. He is best known for his voice work for English language dubs of anime, mainly for ''Inuyasha''. Cox gained prominence for playing the character of Henry Dailey's (played by Mickey Rooney) teenaged traveller and horse rider, Alec Ramsay, in The Family Channel's ''Adventures of the Black Stallion'' during the early 1990s. Cox also gained fame for voicing Ian Kelley, the title character in the animated series ''Being Ian'' and for voicing Scattershot, one of the Autobots in the CGI-Animated series '' Transformers: Cybertron''. In 2015, he provided the voice of Lofty in the American dubbed version of the 2015 reboot of the British children's animated television series ''Bob the Builder'' taking over from both Sonya Leite and Emma Tate. He had a prominent live action role alongside Robin Williams in the 2006 comedy '' RV''. He maintains an active online presence on Tumblr and Tw ...
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David Vincent (actor)
David Vincent is an American voice actor and director who provides voices for animation, anime and video games. Some of his roles include Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez in ''Bleach'', Senketsu in '' Kill la Kill'' and Gilgamesh in '' Fate/Zero'' and ''Fate/stay night''. In video games, he voices Male Robin in ''Fire Emblem Awakening'', the '' Super Smash Bros.'' series and '' Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.'', Marshall Law in the ''Tekken'' series, T. Hawk in ''Super Street Fighter IV'', Richter Belmont in '' Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles'', and Jin Kisaragi and Hakumen in the ''BlazBlue'' series. He also had a guest role in ''Ghost in the Shell''. Filmography Anime Films Animation Video games Live-action References External links * * David VincentanDavid Earnestat Crystal Acids Voice Actor Database * * "Kana's Korner" Interview With David Vincenton 91.8 The Fan {{DEFAULTSORT:Vincent, David 1972 births Living people American male video game actors American male ...
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