Johnny Yong Bosch
is an American actor, voice actor, martial artist, and musician. He is best known for portraying Adam Park in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and being the English voice of Vash the Stampede in Trigun, as well as the voice of Ichigo Kurosaki in Bleach, Lelouch Lamperouge in Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, Itsuki Koizumi in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Kiba in Wolf's Rain, Renton Thurston in Eureka Seven, Emil Castagnier in Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, Shotaro Kaneda in Akira, and Nero in Devil May Cry 4.
(飯 島 真理) is a Japanese singer-songwriter who became famous due to her participation as voice actress/singer in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross anime series and who also has released various top 10 albums in Japan. She wrote all of the music for her debut album Rosé, which was produced by composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. She currently has over 20 albums listed in her discography.
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Sonny Strait
is an American comic artist and voice actor (mainly anime related). He is best known as Krillin from Dragon Ball (series); the first voice of Toonami's mascot, TOM; Maes Hughes from Fullmetal Alchemist; and the current voice of Usopp from One Piece.
His first voice audition was as Krillin (from the hit anime series Dragon Ball (series)). He mainly works with FUNimation.
Besides his voice acting career, Sonny has also penciled several comic strips as well as two stories for the Elfquest series.
Sonny is currently under contract to publish a manga titled "We Shadows" with Tokyopop. The first volume debuted in August 2007 and was nominated shortly after for YALSA's Great Graphic Novels for Teens list in 2008.
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Stephanie
Yanez
Her love for music eventually led her to record four
songs at PARAMOUNT
STUDIOS on Geneon’s Anime Karaoke Collection with three of
those songs
recorded with overseas Japan-based record label I’VE, known
for their
singer Kotoko. This CD also includes the song that she won at Anime
Expo’s AX Idol 2004 “Ningyo Hime” from
the top anime series Chobits!
And
since her debut at ANIME EXPO 2005, she has been seen across the
country, performing at many different Japanese Events, Anime
Conventions, and Music Venues. She even went to Japan to have a live
performance in HARAJUKU! She has opened up for overseas Japanese
artists YOUSEI TEIKOKU and shared the same stage with KOTOKO. And has
now opened up for Major Record Label Artist NIKKA COSTA at The COACH
HOUSE in SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO!
Stephanie Yanez
site
The Slants
are an Asian dance/rock group from Portland, Oregon. The band was founded by Simon Young, formerly of The Stivs. They are one of the only Asian bands in the electroclash scene, combining traditional electronic dance/snyth pop sounds oft compared to Depeche Mode, or Joy Division with a modern, aggressive edge.
The Slants have garnered a niche fan-base of otaku as a result of their appearances at anime conventions. The Slants are also a Fender Music spotlight artist.
Their debut Slanted Eyes, Slanted Hearts was listed in the top 5 Asian-American albums of 2007 by AsiaXpress. Slanted Eyes, Slanted Hearts was independently produced and released. With the initial pressing of the album now out of print, the band remixed and re-pressed the album with new artwork.
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is a Canadian voice actor who works for Ocean Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Michael is a favorite among Anime Oasis attendees.
He's done voice in Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny, Hamtaro, DBZ and more...
is a local performing arts / cosplay group whose founding members have been at every Anime Oasis. They design and perform large scale productions.
This year, they will be debuting a new Gundam Wing performance, fully titled:
Gundam Wing: White Reflection.
Which will included a full cast of pilots and gundams and with take full advantage of our new location.
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is a manga (comics) company that works with local artists and writers to create new and exciting manga titles. They currently have created over a dozen original manga including the nationally published As Told By series. NDP comics has also helped other writer and artist teams publish their works such as Ghost Hunters, Blue Buster and Fools Gold. NDP is committed to helping people learn the art of drawing manga and works with various library systems, community programs, school system and private parties to help promote understand of other cultures through manga
Soul Candy
is an "otaku rock" cover band consisting of talented musicians who are also otaku--big anime and game fans. As such, they specialize in playing songs and music from anime series and video games. They hail from the Seattle/King County area and hope to get chances to play for fans of similar interests at events such as anime conventions. They formed in July 2008 as a 5 piece band to perform some songs for short set at a Filipino festival called Pista sa Nayon. Soon after that, they played their first anime convention and have been motivated by fans and their love for the music genre. Now a 4-piece band, Soul Candy (Christabelle, Josh, Carlos and Isaac) are beginning to tour the Northwest con circuit and hope to entertain you with their diverse selection of anime tunes.
(aka: COO) are an Idaho based fan group that run anime-styled convention game shows and create low budget films. They also run Karaoke events, including the karaoke at our slumber party.
is a local Yo-yo enthusiast, who displayed his talents during the AO Nana cosplay. His skills have been refined and he is looking forward to putting on an amazing Yo-yo demo. He'll also be giving tips.