2009

Rica Matsumoto

Rica Matsumoto is a Japanese voice actress, singer, and all-around idol. She was born on November 30. Her hobbies are travelling alone and meeting people. She likes to ski, swim, and do a traditional Jance dance called Nihon Buyo.

Rica is best known for her role as Satoshi in Pokémon—the character known to most American audiences as Ash Ketchum. Her other notable roles include Bikki in Fake, Sinunora in Gun Frontier, Sandie in Lupin III: Missed by a Dollar, Warren Trace (and others) in Mobile Suit Gundam Victory, Hibiki in My Dear Marie, James "Jim" Hawking in Outlaw Star, Rumi in Perfect Blue, Raishinshi in Soul Hunter, Nataku in X the Movie, and Futaba Aoi in You're Under Arrest.

She's also given her voice to a number of Japanese dubs of blockbuster films, including Sandra Bullock characters in Speed and Demolition Man, Drew Barrymore in Charlies Angels and Ever After, Jennifer Lopez in the Wedding planner, Milla Jovovich in 5th Element and much, much more.

As one of the original members of the JAM Project and as a solo artist, Rica has released a number of hit singles and albums. She's provided performances for a number of anime theme songs, including those for EX-Driver, Fake, Pokémon, Panda-Z: The Robonimation, Ruin Explorers, and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX.

 

Miki Nagasawa

Miki Nagasawa is a Japanese voice actress born on July 11. She is currently affiliated with Atomic Monkey. Notable voice roles include Neon Genesis Evangelion as Maya Ibuki, Soreike! Anpanman as Creampanda, Vampire Princess Miyu as Miyu, Detective Conan as Yoko Okino, as well as parts in Claymore, Cowboy Bebop, Kodocha and Love Hina. She also hosts a radio show with Tomokazu Seki in Tomokazu—Miki's Radio Bigban.

 

Cristina Valenzuela

Cristina "Vee" Valenzuela is an anime and video game voice actress residing near Los Angeles, California. Her story from a anime fan and cosplayer to a professional voice actress and singer is a unique one. She dreamed of becoming a voice actress years before she was discovered by Bang Zoom Entertainment at Anime Expo at the ripe young age of 16. Now, at 22, she has starred in anime such as Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha as the title character, Rozen Maiden as Kanaria, The Familiar of Zero as Louise, and Aika in Aika R-16.

 

Jason and Heather Martin

Jason's career officially began in 1993. He impressed fellow artists and editors with his slick inking style, and became a highly sought-after talent in the comic industry. Jason has collaborated with all the major U.S. companies (Marvel, DC Comics, Image, etc.), and his resume includes books such as Battle Chasers, X-Men, Witchblade, GEN-13, and Thundercats to name a few.

 

Jan Scott-Frazier

Welcome back Jan! She worked in the anime industry in Japan for almost 14 years. She attended animation school and later went on to work at a number of studios in including Artland, Production IG and Atelier BWCA on shows including RikiOh 2, Locke the Superman (OVA), Shurato (OVA), Bubblegum Crash (OVA) and Tottoi (feature). In 1994, Jan moved into consulting work, freelancing for Cambridge Animation Systems, the developers of Animo (a computer assisted (2D) animation production system).

 

Michael Powell

Michael Powell has been in the recording industry from the early age of 15 and gone on to record many voice actors' professional demos to obtain the next sought after role. This Dallas based engineer, composer, sound designer and producer operates his production company (First Chair Productions) and offers voice over recording/demo production and soundtrack composition. He found his way into the anime industry with help from his sister Wendy Powell (Envy on Fullmetal Alchemist).

Related Links: 
HomBru's Website
Extension Chords' Website
Extension Chords' MySpace Page
 

Kyle Hebert

Kyle Hebert is a Los Angeles-based anime and video game voice actor whose credits include Street Fighter IV (Ryu), Naruto (Kiba), Bleach (Aizen, Ganju), and Gurren Lagann (Kamina). He is best known as the Narrator and teen Gohan from Dragonball Z. Other notable roles include Ouran High School Host Club (Kazukiyo Soga), Fullmetal Alchemist (Vato Falman), and Tales of Symphonia (Richter Abend). Kyle also provides voices in video games for Watchmen, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and Wolfenstein. He cohosts a podcast dedicated to news on all things geeky called The Big Bald Broadcast.

Related Links: 
Kyle's Website
 

Todd Haberkorn

Todd Haberkorn is currently a proud member of the anime community and is hoping to be a mighty cosplayer at some point down the road during at least one convention just to say he's tried it. Haberkorn received his BFA in acting from Southern Methodist University and continues to work professionally, primarily in Texas and surrounding states as an actor, director, producer, and writer. Unfortunately, the FUNimation Podcast is no more, so you won't see him as the host of that (unless everyone bans together and writes to Funimation—there might be a box set in it for ya!!).

 

Tommy Yune

Tommy Yune has worked for over a decade in the comic book and video game industries. His early game development experience includes character design of the pioneering 3D fighting game FX Fighter for the Nintendo SuperFX chip and conceptual design of the award-winning Journeyman Project series. He also wrote and illustrated hit comic book titles such as Speed Racer, Racer X, Robotech, and Danger Girl: Kamikaze which were published by DC Comics' Wildstorm and Cliffhanger labels. His first work in feature animation was creating the computer-generated opening sequence of Kevin Altieri's Gen13.

Related Links: 
Tommy's Robotech.com Profile
 

Steve Yun

While still a young college student and part-time hacker in 1998, Steve got his first job at an anime company as a digital animator. It was a dream come true for any fan who grew up on Robotech and Macross to be working somewhere in the anime industry. After slaving away through 80 hour work weeks and one really bad 100 hour work week where he started hallucinating from being awake too long, Steve called it quits and went back to Riverside where he got his B.A. in Creative Writing. Stay in school, kids!

Related Links: 
Steve's Robotech.com Profile
Steve's E-mail Address