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Anime USA
Anime USA (AUSA) is an annual three-day anime convention held during September/October at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia. Programming The convention typically features an AMV contest, artist's alley, cosplay contest, dealer's room, host club/maid cafe, LARP, musical performances, tabletop gaming, video rooms, and workshop rooms. History The Northern Virginia Anime Association first organized the convention. Anime USA moved from the Sheraton Premiere in Tyson's Corner to the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in 2007, a location previously used by Katsucon and Otakon, due to the convention's growth. Renovations and the Hyatt Regency Crystal City layout caused problems during the 2008 convention. In 2010, the video games room was located in a sectioned off part of the parking garage, with at times a cap of 45 people, due to crowding and fire marshal concerns. In 2011 the video game room had to moved out of the parking garage due to concer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arlington County, Virginia
Arlington County, or simply Arlington, is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Virginia. The county is located in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly across from Washington, D.C., the national capital. Arlington County is coextensive with the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau's census-designated place of Arlington. Arlington County is the eighth-most populous county in the Washington metropolitan area with a population of 238,643 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. If Arlington County were incorporated as a city, it would rank as the third-most populous city in the state. With a land area of , Arlington County is the geographically smallest Administrative divisions of Virginia, self-governing county in the nation. Arlington County is home to the Pentagon, the world's second-largest office structure, which houses the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Defe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie McGonnigal
James Campbell McGonnigal (born August 6, 1975) is an American voice actor. 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 Swados starring Ezra Miller, Max Jenkins, and Alex Brightman. His FLOPZ n' CUTZ series benefiting the Joey DiPaolo AIDS Foundation was declared a "smash" by New York's NEXT Magazine. Named a "musical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristine Sa
Kristine Sa (June 6, 1982) is a Vietnamese-born Canadian singer and songwriter. Career Sa was born in Song Be, a small town near Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) in Vietnam. When she was six, her family moved to Canada and she grew up in Toronto. She enjoyed singing and performing since she was little, and attended a special performing arts school in ninth grade. She was in a television pilot called ''Wexford''. When she was in high school, a friend of hers contacted Nemesis Records to look at her webpage and the CEO Minh-Dan Pham was interested in her writing. She sent in a demo cover of "Unbreak My Heart" and a self-written song and was soon signed. While she was a college student at York University, she released her debut album ''I Never Knew'' in 2002. It contains a mix of songs written and performed by Sa with what Steve Diabo of Animefringe calls "heartfelt ballads and experimental pop". It was marketed mostly through online radio stations, selling in Taiwan, Australia, and the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ananth Panagariya
''Johnny Wander'' is a former webcomic written by Ananth Hirsh and illustrated by Yuko Ota. It was published bi-weekly. In its earlier days, the comic generally focused on slice of life stories involving Ananth, Yuko, and their friends and family following graduation from college. However, the comic occasionally encompasses unrelated fantasy storylines. The comic is currently focusing on one of its ongoing fictional storylines, "Barbarous." The name "Johnny Wander" is meant to evoke the creators' desire to use the comic to "wander" through whatever topics interest them at the moment. The webcomic has been generally well-received, with reviewers calling it as a humorous and sweet comic that invites new readers to continue reading. The artwork has also been praised for its depth and quality. The first physical book collection "Johnny Wander Vol. 1: Don't Burn the House Down" was published in 2010. History From 2006 to 2010, Ananth Hirsh (then called Ananth Panagariya) wrote t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Move (Japanese Band)
Move (styled as M.O.V.E or m.o.v.e, and previously as move) was a Japanese band. The band consisted of producer t-kimura (), rapper motsu () and singer yuri (). t-kimura left the band in 2009. History t-kimura formed the band move and by 1997 they released their first single "Rock It Down", but they achieved fame when their follow-up single, "Around the world" was used in the anime ''Initial D''. In 2005, the band changed their name by adding abbreviation marks between letters and are currently still signed with Avex Group. The same year, the band traveled to the United States and performed at the Anime USA convention in Northern Virginia. Move is perhaps best known for the unique style with which they blend rock, pop, hip-hop and many electronic genres into their music. Move are also well known for their contribution of opening and closing theme songs for the ''Initial D'' series and arcade games and in a scene of 3rd Stage the movie where Takumi is rescuing Natsuki from Miki' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vic Mignogna
Victor Joseph Mignogna ( ; born August 27, 1962)Birthday tweet: * is an American voice actor and musician known for his work in the English dubs of Japanese anime shows, such as Edward Elric from the ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' series, which earned him the American Anime Award for Best Actor in 2007. He has voiced characters in over 100 anime and video game titles, including ''Dragon Ball Z'', ''Bleach'', ''Code Geass'', '' Shin-chan'', and '' Hell Girl''. Other animation roles include Broly from the ''Dragon Ball'' films, Tamaki Suoh in ''Ouran High School Host Club'', Fai D. Flowright in '' Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle'', Dark in '' D.N.Angel'', Kurz Weber in the ''Full Metal Panic!'' series, Zero and Ichiru Kiryu in the '' Vampire Knight'' series, Christopher Aonuma in ''Digimon Fusion'', Nagato and Obito Uchiha in ''Naruto Shippuden'', Kougaiji in '' Saiyuki'', Ikkaku Madarame in ''Bleach'', Rohan Kishibe in '' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable'', H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaya Han
Yaya Han is a Chinese–American cosplayer, model and costume designer based in the United States. She is a regular judge at cosplay competitions. Han was featured on the Syfy channel's ''Heroes of Cosplay'', and has appeared as a guest judge on the TBS reality show '' King of the Nerds'' multiple times. . '' TV Guide
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Hilary Haag
Hilary Haag () is an American voice actress. Haag has been involved in several lead roles in anime series, including Nene Romanova in '' Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040'', Teletha Testarossa in the '' Full Metal Panic series'', Seth Nightroad in '' Trinity Blood'', Rebecca Miyamoto in ''Pani Poni Dash!'', Mari Wakatake in '' Blue Drop'', Rosette Christopher in ''Chrono Crusade'', Chloe in '' Noir'', and Katyusha in '' Girls und Panzer''. She attended Lamar Consolidated High School and later studied English Rhetoric at Texas A&M University Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, TA&M, or TAMU) is a public university, public, Land-grant university, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas, United States. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of .... Haag resided in Los Angeles for almost 2 years after she graduated from Texas A&M University, but moved back to Houston where she grew up. Because of her distinctive natural child-like voice, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caitlin Glass
Caitlin Tiffany Glass (born November 16, 1981) is an American voice actress, dubbing director, and script writer who provides voices for English versions of Japanese anime series and video games. Biography Caitlin Tiffany Glass was born on November 16, 1981, in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Helen Glass and the sister of Caitlyn Elizabeth. Glass grew up in the San Diego area and attended middle school and high school in Escondido, California. Glass graduated magna cum laude from the University of Texas at Arlington with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Arts in 2004. While still a college student, Glass went on a Funimation studio tour and was hired the same day by voice director Eric Vale. Her first roles were bit parts in ''Case Closed'' until she landed the role of Hiyono Yuizaki in ''Spiral''. Glass then went on to voice Triela in '' Gunslinger Girl''. One of Glass's most notable roles is Winry Rockbell in the English-language adaptation of the ''Fullmetal Alchemi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Williams (producer)
David L. Williams, sometimes referred to by his initials, DLW, is an American producer and ADR director (and, occasionally, a voice actor) that has been with ADV Films from the beginning when his living room was used as a production facility for their first show, ''Devil Hunter Yohko''. He left ADV in March 2008 and has since worked at Sentai Filmworks and Seraphim Digital. David regularly makes appearances at anime conventions as a representative of ADV. When asked questions about future productions, he often replies with his trademark phrase, "I can neither confirm nor deny". Production credits ADR Director * '' All Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku'' (co-directed with Janice Williams) * ''Angelic Layer'' * '' Aquarian Age: Sign for Evolution'' * ''Clannad'' (co-directed with Janice Williams) * '' Clannad After Story'' (co-directed with Janice Williams) * '' D.N.Angel'' * '' Dirty Pair'' (OVAs only) * '' Dirty Pair: Project Eden'' * '' Najica Blitz Tactics'' * '' Pretear'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Savage
Carrie Anne Savage is an American voice actress. Her anime roles included Rakka in ''Haibane Renmei'', Solty Revant in '' SoltyRei'', the Mokonas in ''xxxHolic'' and '' Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle'', Miu Fūrinji on '' Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple'', Hakufu Sonsaku in ''Ikki Tousen'', Kaede Fuyou in ''Shuffle!'', Nancy in '' R.O.D The TV'', Penny in ''Crayon Shin-chan'' and Asta in ''Trinity Blood''. She has charitable work in countries such as Africa, Mexico and the Philippines. – post of schedule of events from Ikkicon 2009. See also Facebook page. Filmography Anime * ''A Certain Scientific Railgun'' series – Eri Haruue * '' Angel Tales'' – Tamami the Cat * '' Aquarion'' – Rena Rune * '' Aquarion Evol'' – Crea Drosera * '' Aquarion Logos'' – Karan Uminagi * '' B'tX'' – J'Taime * '' Babel II: Beyond Infinity'' – Meilin * ''Baccano!'' – Lua Klein * '' Baldr Force EXE Resolution'' – Ren Mizusaka * '' Bamboo Blade'' – Satori Azuma * '' Birdy the Migh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Rial
Monica Jean Rial (born October 5, 1975) is an American voice actress and ADR script writer affiliated with Funimation/Crunchyroll, ADV Films/ Sentai Filmworks and Toei Animation USA. She provides voices for English language versions of Japanese anime films and television series. Early life Monica Rial was born in Houston, Texas. Her father is from Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain. When she was young, her family would often visit Spain. She would translate for her younger brother some of the European Spanish-dubbed cartoons, which included anime shows ''Doraemon'' and '' Dragon Ball Z'', often imitating the various characters. Rial studied ballet, tap, and jazz, but transitioned to musical theater when she was 12. She studied acting through high school as well as college at the University of Houston. In an interview with Otaku News, Rial mentioned voice actor inspirations from ''The Simpsons'', ''Family Guy'' and ''Beavis and Butt-head''. Career Rial's first voice-over role was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
