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AnimeFest
AnimeFest is an annual four-day anime convention held during August at the Loews Arlington Hotel in Arlington, Texas. Programming The convention typically offers an art show, autograph sessions, cosplay contests, dealers room, gaming, and a masquerade. History In 2012, the convention moved from the Hyatt Regency Dallas to the Sheraton Dallas Downtown Hotel. A-Kon also used the same hotel in 2012. AnimeFest in 2017 had issues with its autograph lines. AnimeFest 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December .... AnimeFest 2021 was initially cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and an online event held in its place. The convention would later hold an event in December 2021. AnimeFest held its last full event in 2024, with future pla ... [...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] |
Arlington, Texas
Arlington is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, Tarrant County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Mid-Cities region of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan statistical area, and is a principal city of the metropolis and region. The city had a population of 394,266 in 2020, making it the second-largest city in the county after Fort Worth, Texas, Fort Worth and the third-largest city in the metropolitan area, after Dallas and Fort Worth. Arlington is the List of United States cities by population, 50th-most populous city in the United States, the List of cities in Texas by population, seventh-most populous city in the state of Texas, and the largest city in the state that is not a county seat. Arlington is home to the University of Texas at Arlington, a major urban research university, the Arlington Assembly plant used by General Motors, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region IV, Texas Health Resources, Mensa International, and D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Nadolny
Stephanie Nadolny is an American voice actress, known for her English dubbing role as the child version of Son Goku, the protagonist of the ''Dragon Ball'' series, and the child version of Goku's son, Son Gohan, in ''Dragon Ball Z''. She reprised both roles in several ''Dragon Ball''–related video games and other media. She formerly worked for Funimation and ADV Films. In 2013, Nadolny voiced K.O. in the pilot of the Cartoon Network Studios original program '' Lakewood Plaza Turbo''. She reprised the role in Cartoon Network's '' OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes'' from 2017 to 2018. Filmography Animation * ''Lakewood Plaza Turbo'' (2013) – K.O., Gladys * '' OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes'' – K.O. (Episodes 4, 5, 6, 11, and 43) ** '' TV Shorts'' (2016–2017) ** ''TV series'' (2017–2018) Video games * ''OK K.O.! Lakewood Plaza Turbo'' – K.O. (2016) Dubbing roles Voice roles dubbing (as Goku and Gohan in ''Dragon Ball'' series) Series * ''Dragon Ball'' - Goku (Young) * ''Dragon B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Blum
Steven Jay Blum (; born April 29, 1960) is an American voice actor. Known for his distinctively deep voice, his roles include Spike Spiegel from the anime series ''Cowboy Bebop''; Amon from ''The Legend of Korra''; Heatblast, Ghostfreak, and Vilgax from '' Ben 10''; Garazeb Orrelios from '' Star Wars Rebels''; Starscream from '' Transformers: Prime''; Sub-Zero from the ''Mortal Kombat'' franchise; Tank Dempsey from the ''Call of Duty'' Zombies franchise; Ares in ''God of War'', '' God of War: Ghost of Sparta'', and '' God of War: Ascension''; and Wolverine from Marvel's '' Wolverine and the X-Men'', '' Marvel Anime: X-Men'', and various other projects featuring the character. Blum has also been credited as David Lucas, Richard Cardona, Roger Canfield, Tom Baron, and Daniel Andrews in various anime and other live-action appearances. Early life Steven Jay Blum was born on April 29, 1960, to a Jewish family in Santa Monica, California. As a child, Blum was overweight and bull ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beau Billingslea
John "Beau" Billingslea (born 1944) is an American actor, known as the voice of Jet Black in the critically acclaimed anime ''Cowboy Bebop'', Ogremon in ''Digimon'' and Homura and Ay, the Fourth Raikage in ''Naruto Shippuden''. In addition to voice acting, he appeared in many television shows and some films including '' North and South Book II: Love and War'', ''Just Jordan'', '' The Hannah Montana Movie'', and ''Star Trek Into Darkness''. Biography Early life and career Billingslea was born in Charleston, South Carolina. His mother was from Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, near Charleston, and his father was from Macon, Georgia. His family moved to Meriden, Connecticut, where he grew up. At Maloney High School, he lettered in football, basketball and baseball and was offered a contract with the Kansas City Athletics, but at the advice of his father, went to University of Connecticut, where he played football and co-captained in his senior year. He graduated with a Bachelor's in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan J
Susan is a feminine given name, the usual English version of Susanna or Susannah. All are versions of the Hebrew name Shoshana, which is derived from the Hebrew ''shoshan'', meaning ''lotus flower'' in Egyptian, original derivation, and several other languages. Variations * Susana, Susanna (or Suzanna), Susannah, Suzana, Suzannah * Susann, Sussan, Suzan, Suzann * Susanne, Suzanne * Susanne * Suzan * Suzanne * Suzette * Susie, Suzy Nicknames Common nicknames for Susan include: * Sue, Susie, Susi (German), Suzi, Suzy, Suzie, Suze, Sanna, Suzie, Sookie, Sukie Sukie are an English four piece indie band from Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, who formed in March 2006. They had a number one on the UK Indie Chart in 2008 with the double a-side "Pink-A-Pade" / "Fairies". Following the split of the band, ..., Sukey, Subo, Suus (Dutch), Shanti In other languages * Albanian and * * , or * * , or * * , or * Catalan, Estonian and * ** * Czech and ... [...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] |
Mike McFarland
Michael McFarland is an American voice actor, ADR director, script writer and line producer who works on English dubs of Japanese anime. He is known as the original English voice of Master Roshi and Yajirobe in Funimation's dubs of '' Dragon Ball'' and '' Dragon Ball Z''. McFarland's other notable roles include Teppei Sugo in '' Psycho-Pass'', Jean Havoc in '' Fullmetal Alchemist'', Buggy the Clown in the Funimation dub of '' One Piece'', and Jean Kirstein in '' Attack on Titan''. He has voice directed on multiple Funimation titles including '' Dragon Ball'', '' Fullmetal Alchemist'', ''Case Closed'', and '' Attack on Titan'', the '' Rebuild of Evangelion'' films, and '' Summer Wars''. Filmography Anime [Baidu] |
Tiffany Grant
Tiffany Lynn Grant (born October 11, 1968) is an American voice actress and script writer who is known for her English-dubbing work for anime films and television series as '' Neon Genesis Evangelion'', in which she voiced the character Asuka Langley Soryu. Biography Grant was born in Houston, Texas. She was the first actor hired by ADV Films in February 1994. Grant's first work in the field was Raina from ''Guy: Double Target''. In 1996, she was cast as Asuka Langley Soryu, one of the main female characters in '' Neon Genesis Evangelion''. She would later go on to write ADR scripts for several anime shows, having written over 200 TV episodes to date. Grant is also known for portraying Nojiko in ''One Piece'', Altena in '' Noir'', and Ryoko Subaru in '' Martian Successor Nadesico''. Grant is an independent contractor, and in addition to her work at ADV Films, she has also worked for Funimation, Seraphim Digital/ Sentai Filmworks, and Illumitoon Entertainment. Grant enjoye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Dobson (actor)
Michael Dobson (born August 12, 1966)Birthday tweets: * * is a British-born Canadian voice actor and voice director, who works for various studios in British Columbia, Canada. He voiced Starscream in the '' Transformers Unicron Trilogy'' ('' Armada'', '' Energon'', and '' Cybertron''), Supreme Kai and Nappa in the Ocean dub of ''Dragon Ball Z'', Cobra Commander in '' G.I. Joe: Spy Troops'' and '' G.I. Joe: Valor vs. Venom'', Blob in '' X-Men: Evolution'', Leonardo in '' Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation'', Big Ears in ''Make Way for Noddy'', Bulk Biceps in '' My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'', Bull Dog in '' Krypto the Superdog'', Pythor in '' Ninjago'', and Will Nekton and Captain Hammerhead in '' The Deep''. Personal life Michael Richard Dobson was born in Kingston upon Thames, London, England. He lived in both England and Canada throughout his childhood, and obtained Canadian citizenship in 1992. His younger brothers Paul Dobson and Brian Dobson are also voice ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Ayres
Greg Ayres (born December 7, 1968) is an American voice actor who works on a number of English versions of Japanese anime series. He voiced Hideki in '' Nerima Daikon Brothers'', Koyuki Tanaka in '' Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad'', Son Goku in '' Saiyuki'', Clear in '' Dramatical Murder'', Takaya Abe in '' Big Windup!'', Chrono in ''Chrono Crusade'', Yuu Nishinoya in '' Haikyu!!'', Kaoru Hitachin in '' Ouran High School Host Club'', Kouichi Sakakibara in '' Another'', Sorata Kanda in '' The Pet Girl of Sakurasou'', Negi Springfield in '' Negima'', Kenta Nakamura in '' Initial D'', Heihachi Hayashida in '' Samurai 7'', Taichi Yaegaeshi in '' Kokoro Connect'', Frost in '' Dragon Ball Super'' and Tomoki Sakurai in '' Heaven's Lost Property''. Outside of voice acting, he has worked as a nightclub DJ and even performs as such at anime conventions. Personal life Ayres is gay. Filmography Film Dubbing roles Anime Film Video games References Further reading * * * Greg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
