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ZUN

A man of many talents, ZUN is the sole member of Team Shanghai Alice, the developer responsible for the creation of the Touhou Project series of games. He works as the main programmer, composer, and designer for the Touhou games, and is the author of various related books and manga.

First created in 1995, the Touhou Project has grown to include 19 games, as well as numerous musical CDs, books, and manga. In addition, the Touhou series has spawned a huge following, resulting in a slew of fan created illustrations, music, games, and other works.

Yuu Asakawa

Yuu Asakawa is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Tokyo, Japan. A multi-talented and versatile artist as both a voice actress and a singer, Asakawa-san provides the voice samples for the Vocaloid 2 era Vocaloid, Megurine Luka. She has also voiced Rider in “Fate/Stay Night,” Sakaki in “Azumanga Daioh,” and Priss Asagiri in “Bubblegum Crisis 2040.” Other notable roles include Motoko Aoyama in “Love Hina,” and Shiris “Record of Lodoss War.” She is currently affiliated with Arts Vision.

Mitsuo Iwata

Mitsuo Iwata is a Japanese voice actor from Saitama, Japan. A prolific and gifted voice acting talent, Iwata-san has voiced over 30 different characters in his anime career alone. Mania.com stated in a review of his role as Kintaro Oe that he is "truly one of the greatest seiyuu." Some of the most notable characters that Iwata-san has voiced include Kaneda in “Akira,” Kintaro from “Golden Boy,” Marchosias in “Shakugan no Shana,” and Arystar Krory from “D.Gray-man.”

bless4 with AKINO

bless4 is an internationally-acclaimed chorus and dance group comprised of 4 brothers and sisters. Their European debut, Dandelion, placed at number one on the Berlin International charts. AKINO, the second youngest in the group, sang her way to the top of the charts with Sousei no Aquarion at the age of 15. bless4 has been featured on on both Disney Channel Japan and the US Disney Channel, as well as starred in the Kansai Super 50th Anniversary.

Chris Sabat

Christopher Sabat is voice actor who provides voices for a vast number of English versions of anime and video games. He’s the founder and director of OkraTron 5000 audio production company in Dallas, TX. He is best known for his voice work as various voices for Dragonball, especially Vegeta and Piccolo. He’s voiced such characters as Jigen Daisuke in several of the Lupin the 3rd movies, Ayame Sohma in Fruits Basket, Alex Louis Armstrong in Full Metal Alchemist, Kazuma Kuwabara inYu Yu Hakusho, Garterbelt in Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt, and Roronoa Zoro in One Piece.

Todd Haberkorn

After doing several bit roles for the anime shows Peach Girl and Black Cat, Todd got his first major role in Suzuka as Yamato Akitski. Shortly thereafter, Haberkorn began directing anime under Line Producers Colleen Clinkenbeard and Chris Sabat while continuing to voice in numerous properties for Funimation and video games. A few notable roles include Italy from Hetalia, Ling Yao from Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Keroro from Sgt. Frog, Keiskuke from Initial D, Allen Walker from D. Gray Man, Hikaru Hitachin from Ouran High School Host Club, Death The Kid from Soul Eater, and many others. This also led to a stint as a director and writer for animated properties as well. Triple A title video games such as Street Fighter IV and Rage involved Todd’s voice as well. But not only in LA, but also recording overseas in Asia too.

Vic Mignogna

Vic has been acting for stage and screen since he was 8 years old. But he started his career in anime a little over ten years ago as Vega in Streetfighter II. Since then Vic has been in more than a hundred and fifty shows and video games, known for such roles as Edward Elric in Fullmetal Alchemist, Tamaki Suou in Ouran High School Host Club, Fai in Tsubasa Chronicle, Dark in DN Angel, Kurz in Full Metal Panic, Broly in Dragonball Z, Kougaijji in Saiyuki, Ikkaku in Bleach, Yukito in Air, Takanaga in Wallflower, Tatsu in Peacemaker, Luciano in Code Geass, Virgil Walsh in Trinity Blood, Hikaru in Macross and many more. Currently Vic is playing roles in the new Wolverine and Iron Man series on G4. He's also playing Zero in Vampire Knight, and Yoshimori in Adult Swim's Kekkaishi. He is also back in the role of Edward for Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, playing Death Scythe in Soul Eater, as well as Pokemon, Naruto, Bleach and several others. Vic has also voiced roles in a large number of video games including Soul Calibur, Disgaea, Persona III, Sonic Colours, Project Sylpheed, DBZ, Bleach, FMA and more. But even longer than his voice acting, Vic has been a professional music composer / singer / producer who has written and produced hundreds of pieces for TV, radio and CD. He sings the themes for shows like One Piece & DBGT, and has produced several CDs of his own original music, all available on iTunes. Finally, in addition to anime and music, Vic has a degree in film and is deeply involved as an actor and director in several web series like “Nuka Break”, “Starship Farragut”, and is executive producing a brand new TOS based series “Star Trek Continues”. Vic works regularly writing, producing and directing video and film productions of all kinds.

Amy Howard Wilson

Born in Detroit on May 28, 1955, I was "bit by the acting bug" in high school. I am a proud graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City - Class of '75.
In 1979, I was working in the front office of the Weist-Barron School For TV and Commercial Acting. Kit Carter, the casting director, called the school looking for non-union talent to do the English dub for a new
Japanese animated series, which would eventually come to be known as Star Blazers. I had the honor of being cast as the voice of Nova (Mori Yuki) for Season 1 - The Quest For Iscandar and Season 2 - The Comet Empire.
In 1997, after many years of thinking about Star Blazers only as a fond memory, I was delighted to learn that there are fans around the world who still value it as I do. In 1999, I met one such long time fan, Jeff Thompson, who very kindly asked me to dub the voice of Miranda in The Rules of Being 16 episode of The Irresponsible Captain Tylor OVA for RightStuf, Int’l.
In 1998, right here at AWA, I met the man who would become my husband, David G. Wilson, III. We were married on October 14, 2000 and now share a beautiful home in Virginia with 5 fabulous felines.
Since 2002, I've been recording and producing audio books. Ask me about my company - Studio V.O.I.C.E., and please visit my web site: http://www.amysvoices.com/.

Jennie Breeden

Jennie Breeden is the creator of the autobiographical webcomic The Devil's Panties. She has a BFA in Sequential Art(comics. ...seriously.) from Savannah College of Art and Design. Ms. Breeden has been updating her comic daily since 2001 with over 3,000 comic strips online and multiple graphic novels that are in comic shops and book stores around the world. Via the comic she documents her adventures at comic conventions and in life. From pirates to taxes, kilt blowing to real estate and knitting to romance, life always seems to have something new in store: sometimes to the chagrin of Jennie, but always to the delight of her fans. Visit her comic and watch Life and Art argue it out: http://thedevilspanties.com

Tim Eldred

Tim first saw anime back in the cave man days when Star Blazers came on air in 1979, and that spelled his doom. For the rest of his life, he followed an obsession that lead him into the professional comic book world, and then the animation industry, all on a quest to capture that magic. So far he's turned that quest into a website (starblazers.com), an original SF/comedy graphic novel titled "Grease Monkey" (greasemonkeybook.com), and a long-running career drawing storyboards for TV cartoons (such as Batma: the Brave and the Bold, Ultimate Spider-Man and Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes). And you better believe he's not even close to being done yet.

Carl Gustav Horn

Carl Gustav Horn of Dark Horse Comics has been a manga editor for fifteen years, beginning with Neon Genesis Evangelion in 1997. He has worked on titles including The Shinji Ikari Raising Project, Eagle: The Making of an Asian-American President, Oh My Goddess!, The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Cardcaptor Sakura, Golgo 13, Excel Saga, Chobits, Banana Fish, and Flowers & Bees.

David Williams