Guests
Tekkoshocon VII is always bringing you the best guests possible. Below we have our current confirmed guests for Tekkoshocon VII.
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Greg Ayres
Greg Ayres has spent the last year rockin' his way through two new anime series. As the loud-mouthed Hideki in Nerima Daikon Brothers, or singing with the the band in Beck:Mongolian Chop Squad as Koyuki. The once "Fanboy" turned VA started working for ADV Films a little over five years ago, and within the first two years managed to snag two of his favorite roles in anime. He was thrilled to voice the role of his favorite character Son Goku in Saiyuki. Just one year later voiced Kaworu Nagisa in the Director's Cut of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Other roles include Chrono in Chrono Crusade, Negi Springfield in Negima,Roan in Ragnarok The Animation, Hajime Hario in Magikano, Yamazaki in Welcome to the NHK, Heihachi in Samurai 7, Jr. in Xenosaga:The Animation, Satoshi Hiwatari in DNAngel, Pope Alessandro XVIII in Trinity Blood, Tsuyoshi in Kodocha, Leo in Ghost Stories, Tsujido in Speed Grapher, and Gau Ban in Shadow Skill.He can also be heard in other anime titles such as Super Gals, Spiral, Macross, Mythical Detective Loki, Burst Angel, Gravion, Godanner, Pretear, Full Metal Panic, E's Otherwise and a whole lot more.
When he's not in a booth with headphones on, you can usually find him sporting headphones of another variety behind "the decks". A veteran nightclub DJ of many years, Greg has really enjoyed the opportunity of doing something else that he truly loves. From packed rooms at anime conventions, to the legendary stage of *The Knitting Factory (NYC)*, Greg never misses an opportunity to share his love of music with anyone who will listen.
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Derek Stephen Prince
Derek Stephen Prince probably would not be doing voice overs today had it not been for some very key people in his life that had a great impact. His great uncle was the first actor to play Pinocchio on stage, his grandmother and great aunt were professional dancers, his mom and dad did musical theater and his dad often did funny voices and celebrity impersonations.
He had always been trained in musical theater and graduated from Carnegie Mellon with a BFA in it. After taking a leave from doing a musical tour through the states, he wound up back in California where his dad was, and decided to pursue acting. After landing gigs on ER, Saved By the Bell, Profiler and some indie movies, things became slow so he took a class with Bob Bergen, who does the voice of Porky Pig and Tweety Bird. At the time, Bob had a role in Eagle Riders, where Steve first caught onto dubbing for anime.
After taking a multitude of classes, and pounding the pavement, he landed Aulric the Conqueror, his first major voice over role, on Mighty Morphine Power Rangers. 12 years later, he has created a wealth of characters in the anime world that we all know. Here are just a few of the more memorable ones: Keitaro Urashima from Love Hina, Suguru Misato from Mahoromatic, Dr Root from Duel Masters, Mickey from the game Makai Kingdom, Nuke from the .hack series, Veemon, Impmon, Beelzamon & Ken Ichijoji from Seasons 2 & 3 of Digimon, Noxic from Big Bad Beetleborgs, Cho from Samurai Champloo, Phantom from MAR, Shino Aburame from Naruto, Uryu Ishida from Bleach, Arashi from Paradise Kiss, and Oswold from the PS2 game Odin Sphere.
For a full list of credits, just type his full name into the search boxes for www.imdb.com or www.animenewsnetwork.com . You can catch many clips from shows he’s done (both on camera and vo only) at a fan based & approved website at www.steveprince.org. If you’d like to join his fan group-Knights of the Dubbing Prince- type the group name into Google or MySpace’s search box & join up! He’d love to have you. “Steve” is honored to join Tekkoshocon for the first time and looks forward to meeting all the fans!
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Stephanie Sheh
Stephanie can be currently heard as the voice of Sue Yee on the new Nicktoons show "Three Delivery." To anime fans, she is probably best known as Hinata in "Naruto," Orhime in "Bleach," Eureka in "Eureka 7," and Mamimi in "FLCL." Her latest anime projects include Ao in "Freedom," Kinon in "Gurren Lagan," and Akira in "Lucky Star." Stephanie can also be heard in several video games, Kyrie in "Devil May Cry 4," Chow Yun Fat's daughter, Teko in "Stranglehold," Rebecca Chambers in "Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles," to name a few. In addition to voice acting Stephanie was also the ADR director for "Paradise Kiss" and has assistant voice directed on "Freedom," and "Huntik," which will air in January 2009.
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Chris Patton
Chris Patton is a Voice Actor for Funimation Entertainment and ADV Films.
Some of his credits include Full Metal Panic, Fummoffu, and Second Raid (Sousuke Sagara), Fullmetal Alchemist (Greed), Nerima Daikon Brothers (Ichiro), The Wallflower (Ranmaru), Welcome to the NHK (Sato), Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad (Manabu), Pretear (Sasame), Kanon (Yuuichi), RahXephon (Ayato), Black Cat (Creed Diskence), Gantz (Nishi), Bubblegum Crisis 2040 (Daley Wong), plus roles in Case Closed, Shin Chan, Gravion, Gravion Zwei, Saint Seiya, Dirty Pair, Noir, Elfen Lied, Ghost Stories, The Place Promised in Our Early Days, Saiyuki, and more. Chris also acted as ADR Scriptwriter on Gravion Zwei and Gantz. This is his first Tekkoshocon!
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Johnny Yong Bosch
Johnny Yong Bosch got his start fighting giant bugs as Adam, the Black Ranger on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. He is also known for his voice work as 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, Mike in Please Twins, Albert in The Count of Monte Cristo, Nero in Devil May Cry 4 and Kiba in Wolf's Rain.
Aside from acting Johnny's the front man for the edge rock band, Eyeshine.
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Eyeshine
Eyeshine is a 4-piece edge rock band hailing out of Southern California. Their huge hooks and infectious melodies are bound to make it into your favorite playlist or just get stuck in your brain. Their debut EP, "How about that?" was received well by fans and helped them to get into the studio for the recording of their full album, "Red Stripes / White Lights". Random Facts: Maurice Salmin (drums) likes gummy bears, Alex Orantes (bass) loves ketchup, he loves it so much he wants to marry it and Johnny Yong Bosch (vocals, guitar) likes peanut M&M's and sometimes eating fire. Check them out at www.myspace.com/eyeshine or www.eyeshine.net.
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Freezepop
Freezepop has always been something of an oxymoron: embraced by both hipsters and nerds; serious about irony; and retro-futuristic. A synth band in a guitar videogame, singing pop songs about rock. And it all somehow makes sense when you listen to the music.
Formed in Boston in the summer of 1999, Freezepop is comprised of Liz Enthusiasm (vocalist/designer), the Duke of Pannekoeken (producer/vocalist/programmer), and Sean Drinkwater (synthesizers/programmer/vocalist). Within eight months, Freezepop had released two homemade EPs and started a DIY machine that would become one of their trademarks. Their debut album, 2000’s Freezepop Forever, was released domestically on their own label, Archenemy, as well as licensed in Europe by the Spanish indiepop label Elefant. Several more EPs followed, and in 2004, Freezepop released their sophomore album, Fancy Ultra•Fresh. After nearly eight years of self-releasing their CDs, they partnered with Rykodisc/Cordless Recordings for their most recent album, Future Future Future Perfect. Their single “Less Talk More Rokk” was the iTunes #4 dance/electronic song of 2007, and the band recently swept the Boston Phoenix/WFNX Best Music Poll 2008, winning the local categories of Best Band, Best Live Act, and Best Album.
While the band has done well on college radio, repeat-charting in the CMJ Top 50, a key factor in Freezepop’s success has been that they have sought out licensing opportunities as an alternate means of getting their music out into the world. A natural fit on videogame soundtracks, the band saw their following grow through songs in the cult music-based games Frequency and Amplitude, and then increase exponentially after appearing in the massively popular Guitar Hero series, Dance Dance Revolution, and the new MTV Games release Rock Band. Freezepop’s songs are also featured in television shows as diverse as Showtime’s drama The L Word, and the PBS children’s series Arthur.
Freezepop have a strong connection with their fans and have toured extensively, playing energetic, fun, and chaotic shows throughout North America and Europe. The band has used the internet to reach out to new listeners and stay in touch with the diverse ranks of old-schoolers. Freezepop.com features enough content to keep visitors entertained for hours; the band’s MySpace page is still maintained by the band members themselves, and has racked up over 60,000 friends and more than four million plays.
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Jonathan Klein
Jonathan Klein is the vice-president, co-founder and co-owner of New Generation Pictures, Inc., a company that has been producing English versions of anime and videogames for many of the leading companies both in the United States and Japan. During the last 11 years, New Generation Pictures has worked on more than 320 different projects for both U.S. and international release. Jonathan's work has been as the producer of both English dubbed and subtitled versions for such anime, including; Hellsing and Hellsing Ultimate, Gun x Sword, Kamichu, R.O.D the TV, Daphne in the Brilliant Blue, The Melody of Oblivion, Ghost Talker Daydream, Ikki Tousen, I My Me! Strawberry Eggs, NieA Under 7, 3x3 Eyes and many other titles. In addition, Jonathan has also directed the English language versions of such animes as Ergo-Proxy, Haibane Renmei, Texhnolyze, Melody of Oblivion and Anime Insider Magazine “Best Dub of 2004”, Paranoia Agent. Besides anime, Jonathan has also directed several video game projects for Square Enix, Capcom and Namco, including The Last Remnant, Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy Fables; Chocobo’s Dungeon, Time Crisis 4, Dawn of Mana, Valkyrie Profile 2 and Romancing Saga and was also the English language producer on Street Fighter IV. Jonathan has also directed several other videogame titles that he hopes to talk about by the time the convention. Beyond working as producer and director, Jonathan's responsibilities also include scriptwriting, script adaptation and even working behind the microphone as a voice actor. Jonathan has voice acted in such shows as Ergo Proxy, Rumiko Takahashi Anthology, Kamichu, Girls Bravo, Gun x Sword, Burst Angel, Galaxy Railways and Beck. Most recently his company has expanded their offices into Shanghai, China where they also do work for international clients on movies, videogames and other projects. This will be his first time at Tekkoshocon.
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Otokage
Otokage is a new sensation sweeping across Japan, or as Otokage calls it, Ninja country. since late 2007. Holding their first live performance in November of 2007, Otokage was quickly invited for a guest performance at ART POP in April and by July of 2008 they released their 1st single "Nimpo-Rambu-no-Jutsu/Iroha Koiuta" which sold out in the first month. Otokage's popularity began to rise quickly and by August of 2008 their first hit single had reached Number 1 on the west coast of the US. Later that month they performed at Chokkana, a comic-market event on the coast of Shinkiba, which saw over 2500 attendees.
In September of 2008 Otokage held their first live headline performance. By November of that year they released their second single "asura". This was released on a Visual-Kei CD at an event titled M3 in Japan. The 3rd single "Hyakunen-Yozakura-Nimpo-cho" was released in conjunction with the performance at Tokyo-Kinema-Club in Uguisudani!
Now, come this April, Otokage will have their first live performance in the United States at Tekkoshocon 7!
You can check out Otokage at their MySpace or their official website (Japanese).
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Michael Poe
Michael Poe is the creator of the comics Errant Story and Exploitation Now.
A long time fan of both classic comics and manga, Poe got his start in webcomics when he dropped out of an overpriced art college to become 'internet famous' with his first long-running online comic, Exploitation Now. After two years of proving to his satisfaction that blatant pandering is far more effective than a degree when it comes to success in sequential art, Poe decided to end the comic and try his hand at something that would accommodate some slightly more serious storytelling.
Naturally, Poe completely ignored the old adage to write what you know. Despite never having read almost any fantasy novels except perhaps some Discworld, Poe opted to place his next graphic novel, Errant Story, in a fantasy setting. Much to his astonishment, Poe discovered that he really loves writing fantasy, and Errant Story generated an even more dedicated readership than any of his previous works. He’s been writing it ever since.
At the urging of his fans, Poe took the big plunge and started making comics full time in 2004. With the help of his wife, Hilary Hatch, he created the company Caffeine Angel Studios, which they continue to run together with the dedicated assistance of their three very neurotic cats.[/img]
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Uncle Yo
Since first emerging , Uncle Yo has appeared at numerous conventions to perform his unique stand-up comedy aimed exclusively at the geek community.
Armed with his giant D20, Uncle Yo celebrates all brands of geekery: anime, comic books, video games, LARPing, Star Wars, RPG's and manga.
www.uncleyo.com
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Stephanie Young
Stephanie Young is thrilled to be working with Funimation as a voice actress and singer. Her voice acting credits include the lead role in the highly anticipated, new release of Claymore portraying “Clare”, “Nico Robin” in One Piece (new dub with Funimation), “Junko” in Desert Punk, “Elfriede” in Moonphase, “Miranda Maverick” in Solty Rei, “Sophia” in Aquarion, “Kagero” in Basilisk, “Oruha” in Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, “Nora” in Witchblade, “Echidna Parass” in Black Cat, “Nanako” in Crayon Shin-chan, “B.B.” in Glass Fleet, “Jane” in Grappler Baki Maximum Tournament, “Yahagi” in Mushi-shi, “Mana” in Negima, “Female Rogue” in Ragnarok, “Dr. Kozuki” in Rumbling Hearts, “Itoko Osakabe” in School Rumble, “Mireille” in Trinity Blood, “Aki Abe” in Hell Girl, “Reika Tachibana” in Balder Force Exe Resolution, “Xavier Tatum” in Shuffle, “Mrs. Tomita” in Kodocha, Hanahana in XXXholic, and “Shika” in Samurai 7. Her game credits include “Fiona” in Spike Out and “Selket” in Unreal Championship II, The Liandri Conflict. Stephanie can also be heard singing theme songs for Dragon Ball GT, Negima, and Tsubasa. With Illumitoon, Stephanie recorded “Paf Shining” in AM Drive and “Karen” in B’tx.
As an actress, Stephanie has appeared in numerous film, television, voice over, and national commercial/print projects. She is currently working on the exciting webisode series, created in a graphic novel style, Scout Six, where she plays the lead role of detective Scout Six! www.scoutsix.com .Stephanie is a two-time nominee for the Dallas Theatre League’s Leon Rabin Award for her work in the Dallas Theatre Community. As a singer/songwriter, Stephanie enjoys lending her signature, soulful vocals to the Dallas-based pop/jazz band, The Brehms (www.the-brehms.com). She is represented by The Horne Agency.
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David Brehm
David L. Brehm's animation career started in England where he worked as a 2D freelance artist before being hired by the renowned animation company DNA Productions. David soon become Department Head on several animated projects including "Olive, The Other Reindeer," “Jimmy Neutron” (the feature film and subsequent TV Series,) and also “The Ant Bully,” a feature film starring Nicholas Cage, Glenn Close, and Julia Roberts. David’s knowledge of cinematography and instinctive talent for film directing came to bear as he wrote, directed, produced, and composed the score for the impactful short film, “A Noble Way.” http://www.anobleway.com/
As a computer artist and live action director, David has had the pleasure of working with a variety of talented people, from Matt Groening (of Simpson's fame) to Natalie Portman (Star Wars) and a whole host of amazing production personnel from all around the country. Currently David is the creator/writer/director of the SCOUT SIX webisode series http://www.scoutsix.com/ produced by GETmill productions.
David’s educational/entertainment background includes mentoring young up and coming artists, particularly during his tenure as an instructor at the Art Institute of Dallas. As a progressive illustrator, David is able to capitalize on his degree in Behavior Analysis while producing books such as “Get Rid of the Hurt,” http://www.marcoproducts.com/getridofhu16.html “Activities for Students With Special Needs,” and “Movement with a Purpose.”As a composer and guitarist, David has toured extensively with "The Destination Texas" band as well as "The B Side Project" and the critically acclaimed pop/jazz band, "The Brehms.” http://www.the-brehms.com/
David’s home is in Dallas, Texas where he has an active schedule performing, recording, teaching, directing, writing, and composing for GETmill Inc. http://www.getmill.com/ and performing his duties as creative director for HKS VIZ http://www.hksviz.com/ This holiday season you can see David’s directing skills in a live action short format while watching the music video “Alone This Christmas” for fiery OCHO Entertainment artist, Lynette Rocks. http://www.myspace.com/lynetterocksmusic
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Battlecake
Battlecake is a five-piece instrumental band from Carnegie Mellon University that mainly plays covers of popular video game music. The band is comprised of Sam Chien (Guitar), John Lee (Guitar), Adam Lederer (keyboard), Eugene Kang (Bass), and Tedo Salim (Drums). The band was originally formed in the spring of 2008 by John and Eugene, the other members joining over the following summer. Since that time, Battlecake has built an extensive repertoire of songs from games such as Final Fantasy VII, Chrono Trigger, Metal Gear Solid 2, Street Fighter II, and Kingdom Hearts. In addition, Battlecake has had past performances in Tekkoshocon ½ and RocktakuFest, a musical event held by Carnegie Mellon University dedicated to anime and video game music.
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