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Billy is an actor from Hershey Pennsylvania who now lives in the Los Angeles area. He came to CA 5 years ago to play Aladdin in the Aladdin Musical Spectacular in Disney’s California Adventure.

Since that time Billy has been fortunate enough to lend his voice to many popular anime, video games, and cartoons. You can hear Billy as Josuke in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Ferdinand von Aegir in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Galo in Promare, Rui in Demon Slayer, White Blood Cell in Cells At Work, Osomatsu in Mr. Osomatsu, Dr. Maruki in Persona 5 Royal, and Naofumi in The Rising of the Shield Hero which he won the Crunchyroll Award for Best (EN) Voice Acting Performance!

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Leah Clark is an American voice actor and Funimation Staff Script writer.

Her more recent voice acting roles include Himiko Toga (My Hero Academia), Kobayashi (Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid Season II), Sylvie (How Not to Summon a Demon Lord), and Megumi (Fruits Basket).

Other memorable roles include Negima (Nodoka); Fairy Tail/Fairy Tail Zero (Mavis); Soul Eater (Blair); One Piece (Coby/Miss Doublefinger); Eden Of This East (Saki); Baka and Test (Minami); Deadman Wonderland (Minatsuki/Hummingbird); Dragonball GT (Maron); Assassination Classroom (Kanzaki); Suzuka (Suzuka); Rosario + Vampire (Ruby); Murmur (Future Diary); Fullmetal Alchemist: The Movie – Conqueror of Shamballa (Noah). 

As a staff ADR script writer at FUNimation; Her most recent projects include SK8 the Infinity; Toilet Bound Hanako; Plunderer;  How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift; Ensemble Stars; RobiHatchi; How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord; Space Battleship Tiramisu; Chio’s School Road; A Certain Magical Index III, and Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka. Other favorite scripts are Panty and Stocking, Suzuka, Peach Girl, Baka and Test, Sasami: Magical Girl Club, B Gata H Kei – Yamada’s First Time; and Strike Witches. 

Leah studied music theatre at Circle in the Square in New York City.  She is madly in love with her family which include a gorgeous husband, two remarkable brilliant children, and three of the world’s most adorable and manipulative dogs. 

Follow Leah on Twitter and Instagram @leahclarkVA; leahclarkva.com;  youtube.com/laureandclark

Chicago native Erica Mendez is a longtime anime and video game fan who put in the work and became a voice actress. She has been fortunate to play some fan-favorite characters, including: Retsuko in Aggretsuko, Ryuko in KILL la KILL, Gon in Hunter x Hunter, Aladdin in Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, Yuuki in SAO2, Sailor Uranus in the new Viz Media dub of Sailor Moon, Megumin in Konosuba, Akko in Little Witch Academia, Diane in Seven Deadly Sins, Nico in Love Live, Mash in Fate/Grand Order, Bernadetta in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and Raphtalia in The Rising of the Shield Hero.

You can also hear her in OK K.O. Let’s be Heroes, The Promised Neverland, Re:ZERO, Fate/Apocrypha, My Hero Academia: Two Heroes, Magia Record, Your Lie in April, Anohana, Erased, Kakegurui, Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry, The Gundam Series, Megalo Box, Cells at Work, Dr. Stone, Yuki Yuna is a Hero, A Lull in the Sea, Tales of Berseria, Fire Emblem Warriors, Fire Emblem Heroes, Code Vein, Puyo Puyo Tetris, The Danganronpa series, Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon: Every Buddy!, Radiant Historia, Fairy Fencer F, Soul Calibur VI, BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, Street Fighter V, Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, Pokemon Masters, Detective Pikachu, Trails of Cold Steel II, Battle Chef Brigade, and more.

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Brittney Karbowski has been voice acting for 14 years. Some notable roles include Pride in Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood; Ikaros In Heaven’s Lost Property, Migi In Parasyte The Maxim, Yuri In Angel Beats, Hisako In Food Wars, Karen In Gamers, Papi In Monster Musume, Papika In Flip Flappers, Hitoka in Haikyuu, Apis and The Going Merry In One Peice, Yamada In B Gata H Kei, young Hide in Tokyo Ghoul, Melinda In Nomad of Nowhere, Hitch in Attack on Titan, Kusu In Dragon Ball Super, Mikoto Misaka In the Railgun and Index series, Nanachi In Made In Abyss, Popuko In POP Team Epic,  Karen In Review Starlight, Kanade in Bofuri, Melida in Assassins Pride, Black Star In Soul Eater, Camie In My Hero Academia, Wendy in Fairytail, Rimuru in That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime, and the list just keeps going! Check out a more extensive list of her many roles on AnimeNewsNetwork.com/BrittneyKarbowski 

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MINT, the designer of MINT NeKO, was born in Shimane in 1984.

After graduating Bunka Fashion College, he became an assistant designer of h.NAOTO and made his debut as a designer of Sixh. in 2006.

While part of a fashion duet with the brand Sixh., MINT has created his own line called MINT NeKO. MINT NeKO uses oriental silhouettes inspired by mode style with cat character graphics. There are actually more than 250 original kitty characters that are created and used in the garments.

MINT has created cats to collaborate in the world of fashion. MINT has collaborated with many Japanese artists and is becoming one of the leading young designers in Japan.

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https://mintneko.com

Web shop

https://s-inc.fashion/mintneko/

Twitter 

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Kristen McGuire is a professional voice actor, ADR Director and Script Adapter. When it comes to voice work, Kristen has worked on over 200 different titles, but she is most well known for her work as Yume Minami in SSSS.DYNAZENON, Ruri in Dr. Stone, Tatami Nakagame and Tamashiro in My Hero Academia, Yu in Fire Force,  Milim Nava in That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Senko in The Helpful Fox Senko-san, Young Nora in RWBY, Hinano Kurahashi in Assassination Classroom, Yui in Bofuri, Cinnamon in Nekopara, Rin Toyama in New Game and Yuuko (AKA Slug Girl) in Junji Ito: Collection. She has also provided voices for several video games, including Lucia in Punishing: Gray Raven, Mother Fearest in Borderlands 3: Psycho Krieg and the Fantastic Fustercluck, Chibi Arachne in Smite, Sarah Ridley in Xeno Crisis and Fae and Etheldred in Battle Axe.

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QUEEN BEE is a 4-piece band from Japan formed in 2009. With their unique and intense performances and newsworthy activities in various fields, they have created a buzz not only in the music industry but also in various other fields.

Their songs rank high on music charts, and their live shows are sold out in many places, boasting an overwhelming presence in terms of both popularity and ability. Their songs have also been used for popular anime such as “VIOLENCE”, the ending theme for the anime “Chainsaw Man”, “Kaen(Fire)”, the opening theme for the anime “Dororo”, and “HALF”, the ending theme for the anime “Tokyo Ghoul:re”.

Cassandra Lee Morris is an award-winning voice actor who has brought over 100 characters to life for video games, anime and animation.

Some of her fan-favorite roles include Morgana in Persona 5, Elora the Fawn in Spyro: Reignited Trilogy, Sarah Hotep in Fortnite: Save the World, Leafa in Sword Art Online, Operator 6O in Nier: Automata, Nami in League of Legends, Taiga in Toradora!, Kyubey in Madoka Magica, Kota in My Hero Academia and Edea Lee in Bravely Default. Other notable roles include Benio in Twin Star Exorcists, Nero in Fate/Extra Last Encore, Julia in Fire Emblem Heroes, Fie Claussel and Princess Alfin in the Trails of Cold Steel franchise, Atra in Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans, and Cere-Cere and Calaveras in the Sailor Moon franchise. 

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Legendary Actor RICHARD EPCAR – Gamepur’s VOICE ACTOR OF THE YEAR is one of the hardest working men in show business, having voiced over 1,200 characters in Games, Animation and Anime.

Now voicing YHWACH the Quincy King in Bleach The Thousand Year Blood War!

Best known as:

RAIDEN in MORTAL KOMBAT,

The JOKER in several Batman games including INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US (Fighting Game of the Year!) and MORTAL KOMBAT 11 (Fighting Game of the Year!)

ANSEM in KINGDOM HEARTS,

JOSEPH JOESTAR in JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE,

BATOU in GHOST IN THE SHELL,

JIGEN in LUPIN the THIRD,

AKUMA in STREET FIGHTER V,

SANDMAN in MARVEL ULTIMATE ALLIANCE 3 and The BRIGADIER GENERAL in DAEMON X MACHINA!

Voted one of the Top 20 Video Game Voice Actors of all Time and Top 20 Anime Actors of all time by IMDB! And Gamepur’s Top Ten Video Game Voice Actors of all time!

Starting out in ROBOTECH, you’ve heard him in LEGEND OF KORRA, LUPIN THE THIRD, BATMAN UNLIMITED, BLEACH, BOBOBO-BOBOBO, ONE PUNCH MAN, MEGLOBOX, POKEMON GENERATIONS as Giovanni, & POKEMON MASTERS, DRAGON BALL SUPER, BERSERK, BACK STREET GIRLS, DURARARA, SIRIUS THE JAEGER, DIVE OLLY DIVE, MARVEL DISK WARS, GORMITI, COPPELION, PATEMA INVERTED, PEABODY & SHERMAN, ASTERIK WAR, BLOOD LAD, MONSTER, NARUTO, TRANSFORMERS, KENSHIN, SAO II, GTO, A LULL IN THE SEA, STITCH & AI, HUNTERXHUNTER, GUNDAM, MACROSS, DC SUPER FRIENDS, CYBER SOLIDER 009, LUCKY STAR, DIGIMON, 7 DEADLY SINS, X-MEN, GUNDAM UNICORN, BABYLON 5, DETECTIVE CONAN and POWER RANGERS to name a few!      

He’s also in tons of games including:

SKYRIM, WARHAMMER, GRANBLUE, BLADE 2, LINEAGE 2, ELEX 2, OVERSTRIKE, BRAVELY DEFAULT, FINAL FANTASY as Gaius and Ilberd, SAINTS ROW, MAFIA III, ARKHAM ORIGINS, PERSONA 5, INFINITE CRISIS as the Joker, CALL OF DUTY-ADVANCED WARFARE, MAD MAX, FIRE EMBLEM: AWAKENING as Walhart, MK vs D.C. UNIVERSE as the Joker and Raiden, STARGATE SG-1 as Gen. Hammond, CALL OF DUTY-BLACK OPS, STAR WARS: EMPIRE AT WAR, STAR WARS: OLD REPUBLIC, TRANSFORMERS, MONSTER HUNTER WORLD, X-COM, COMMAND & CONQUER, DEAD OR ALIVE 3-D, STARCRAFT as Dark Templar, DEAD SPACE, XENOSAGA as Ziggy, MARVEL HEROS, WORLD OF WARCRAFT, SMITE, SPEC OPS, LEAGUE OF LEGENDS as Xin Zhao, NARUTO,  COWBOY BEBOP, SAMURAI WARRIORS, BLUE DRAGON, STAR OCEAN, XENOSAGA, SPLINTER CELL, GUILTY GEARS, .HACK, MEDAL OF HONOR, GHOST RECON, BATON KAITOS ORIGINS, SPACE SEIGE, SPEC-OPS, BAYONETTA, SOULCALIBUR VI,  CATHERINE, TEKKEN, ACE COMBAT, MODNATION RACERS, and RESIDENT EVIL.

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We are beyond excited to announce that registration for Sakura-Con’s 25th anniversary in 2022 is now open!

We can’t wait to see you there. Keep your eyes peeled for upcoming guest announcements and news.

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