Voice Actor

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.

 

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!!).

 

Melodee Spevack

Melodee's career in anime began as a flying purple blob in the classic Captain Harlock and has stayed seriously eccentric. How else can you explain Torpedo Girl (Bobobo-Bobobobo), Rapunzel (Mar) or Bell (Hare+Guu)? More serious roles like Julia (Fist of the North Star), Misae Ikari (Paranoia Agent), Derrida (Ergo Proxy) and Lana Ines (Argento Soma) have come her way as well as some deliciously evil bad girls like Lady Debonair (Magic Knight Rayearth) and Lady Devimon (Digimon).

 

Wendy Powell

Wendy is so excited to be here with all of you... so let’s start this con out with a bang!

Wendy has been a professional voice actress for FUNimation Entertainment and Okratron 5000 for over seven years. She is probably most well known for a little villain named Envy on Fullmetal Alchemist. She was most recently in Claymore where she played Ilena. And her most challenging role this year was her role of Iku in Shigurui... but you need to watch it to know why!

Related Links: 
Wendy's MySpace Page
 

Chris Patton

Chris Patton, an actor since early childhood, began voice acting professionally over 10 years ago. He has since gone on to voice well over 100 titles for FUNimation Entertainment and ADV Films, including: Fullmetal Alchemist (Greed), Kanon (Yuuichi), Welcome to the NHK (Sato), Air Gear (Ikki), Full Metal Panic (Sousuke), Ghost Stories (Hajime), Baccanno (Graham Spector), RahXephon (Ayato), Princess Tutu (Fakir), Super Gals! (Rei), Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad (Manabu), and many, many more.

 

Michael McConnohie

Michael McConnohie's career in anime actually began before the beginning, with the original Transformers (Tracks and Cosmos). He was there during the Harmony Gold years of Robotech (Rolf Emerson) and Captain Harlock (Harlock), through the Streamline films Vampire Hunter D (as D himself and his demon left hand) and Fist of the North Star (Shin), into such modern-day fare as The Big O (Schwarzwald), Paranoia Agent (Det. Ikari), Hare + Guu (Village Elder), MÄR (Babbo) and Disgaea (Captain Gordon).

 

Aaron Dismuke

Texas-born Aaron Dismuke started with a few small parts (in Fruits Basket and Kiddy Grade), courtesy of his cousin, FUNimation ADR director Justin Cook. But it wasn't long before the budding voice actor showed real talent, and quickly catapulted to a critical leading role in Fullmetal Alchemist as Alphonse Elric . It's a feat all the more impressive when you do the math and realize that he was only 11 years old when he started voicing Alphonse, and that he did most of that difficult work while speaking into a big metal bowl.