Ai-Kon is happy to announce its guest line up for 2011!
Guests
Greg Ayres
Greg Ayres has been a guest at Ai-Kon for 2007, 2008, 2010, and will be returning this year for Ai-Kon 2011! The once “Fanboy” turned VA started working in anime a little over six years ago, and within the first two years managed to snag two of his favorite roles in all of anime. He was thrilled to voice the role of his favorite character Son Goku in Saiyuki. Then just one year later voiced Kaworu Nagisa in the director’s cut of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Other roles include Chrono in Chrono Crusade, Negi Springfield in Negima, Heihachi in Samurai 7, Jr. in Xenosaga: The Animation, Satoshi Hiwatari in DNAngel, Pope Alessandro XVIII in Trinity Blood, Tsuyoshi in Kodocha, Leo in Ghost Stories, Tsujido in Speed Grapher, and Gau Ban in Shadow Skill. He can also be heard in other anime titles such as Super Gals, Spiral, Macross, Mythical Detective Loki, Burst Angel, Gravion, Godanner, Pretear, Full Metal Panic, E’s Otherwise and a whole lot more.
Eric Vale
"Eric Vale is going to take over the world. Actually, he’s just an actor who has spent a lot of time under lock and key in sound booths voicing anime characters such as Trunks in Dragon Ball Z, Sanji in One Piece, Yuki in Fruits Basket, Kymblee in Fullmetal Alchemist, and America in Hetalia among many others. Eric has also spent time as an ADR director in addition to scripting over fifty anime programs as Head Writer with FUNimation Productions. Outside of the world of anime, Eric has written, produced, and directed three short films, written stories (published), screenplays (sold but unproduced), and acted in film and TV. As you can see, one should not trifle with Eric Vale. On the weekends he travels back in time to right the wrongs of the past, builds playgrounds for children, repairs ancient churches in Europe, and crafts your destiny with his buddies the Illuminati.
Johnny Yong Bosch
Johnny Yong Bosch got his start fighting giant monsters as Adam Park, the Black Ranger on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
After Power Rangers, Johnny became very involved in voice acting work for various anime titles. His first major voice acting role was Vash the Stampede in Trigun. He would later go on and play the voices of such popular characters as Renton in Eureka Seven, Ichigo Kurosaki in Bleach, and Lelouch Lamperouge in Code Geass.
Johnny’s voice can also be heard in numerous video games. He voices the main character Nero in Devil May Cry 4 and performed voiceover work in Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria, .hack//G.U. , Persona 4, Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, Xenosaga, Wild Arms 4, Disgaea 3, Tales of Symphonia, Tales of the Abyss, Eternal Sonata, and Bumblebee in Transformers: War for Cybertron.
When Johnny is not voice acting, he is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of his band Eyeshine.
Christopher Sabat
Best known for his work as a lesser known voice actor, Christopher Sabat is oftentimes better known. Before being best known, he performed every single voice in Dragonball Z, with exception only to the roles he did not play. Vegeta, Piccolo and Yamcha were very popular characters. He played those, of course. Aside of those characters, he played others. Aside of those, he played seven more, or more. If his roles were listed in a sentence they would look like this: Kuwabara and Rizen in Yu Yu Hakusho, Jigen in Lupin III, Ayame in Fruits Basket, Alex Luis Armstrong in Full Metal Alchemist, Father Tres in Trinity Blood, Kikichio in Samurai 7, Kurogane in Tsubasa Chronicles, Naru Naru in Kodocha, Saiga in Speed Grapher, Roy in Solty Rei, Zoro in One Piece, Giroro in Sgt Frog and seven or more others, or more, respectively.
Videogames are very popular, especially among gamers. The word Atari comes from the ancient Japanese game of Go and means "you are about to be engulfed." He has also been his favorite character in games such as Metroid Prime 3, Deus Ex: Invisible War, Battlezone, Time Crisis 4, Final Fantasy and The Maw.
Aside of acting he has a wife and two dogs and owns a studio called OkraTron 5000, which is a real studio. His dogs are named Apple and Rockit. His wife is named Superloveactionpants Supreme. When not on his iPhone, Chris spends his time writing bios for himself, and often says he enjoys surfing, karate, and reading although he doesn’t really do any of those things very often or, more often, ever. Aside of that, Chris is usually vast.
Currently, Chris is IN UR CONVENSHUNZ SINEING UR GOKOOZ.
Disclaimer
Please note that all guest appearances are subject to change due to work-related or personal circumstances. Ai-Kon is not responsible for cancellations, missed flights, or other unforeseen circumstances. Admission refunds will NOT be given.
If you would like to be a guest at Ai-Kon 2011, please forward an email to our guest relations.
