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AnimeVegas

Where:

Renaissance Hotel
3400 Paradise Rd.
Las Vegas, NV.
Six blocks from the Las Vegas Strip and next door to the Las Vegas Convention Center.
 
What:

An anime con located in Las Vegas, NV. This con has several fairly well known voice actors attending. The con's first year was in 2004.

2008 Guests:

Eyeshine -- Indie rock band

Lyv -- rock band

Makenai -- anime music band

Caitlin Glass -- voice actor. Her roles include Winry in Fullmetal Alchemist, Triela in Gunslinger Girl, Hiyono in Spiral, and Yakumo in School Rumble, as well as roles in Negima, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, and BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad.

Colleen Clinkenbeard -- voice actor, ADR director, ADR scriptwriter and Line Producer for FUNimation. As a voice actor she's played Rose and Riza on Fullmetal Alchemist and Luffy in the new dub of One Piece. She's also had parts in Shin Chan, Trinity Blood, Solty Rei, Witchblade, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Kiddy Grade, Case Closed, Burst Angel, Samurai 7, Kodocha, Negima, Origin, Rumbling Hearts, Basilisk, School Rumble, Lupin III: Dead or Alive, Lupin III: Farewell to Nostradamus, Diamond Daydreams and Ghost Train. She's also been in video games including Aeon Flux, Blood Rayne II, Guitar Hero III. And Colleen’s ADR directing credits include Fullmetal Alchemist, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Kiddy Grade, Kodocha, Negima, Moon Phase, Sakura Teisen: Ecole de Paris, Case Closed, and Aquarion.

Cristina Vee -- voice actor and singer with lead roles of Kanaria in Rozen Maiden: Traumend, Aika in Aika R-16, Nanoha Takamachi in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, and Louise de La Vallier in the Familiar of Zero. She also had roles in Tweeney Witches, Hare + Gu, One Missed Call, Izo, and Rozen Maiden. She sings for Broccolli International’s DUP USA song group as Puchiko and records her own renditions of anime songs which have totalled millions of collective views on YouTube.

Derek Stephen Prince -- actor, voice actor. He's had acting parts on ER, Saved By the Bell, Profiler and voice acting roles including Keitaro Urashima from Love Hina, Suguru Misato from Mahoromatic, Dr Root from Duel Masters, Mickey from the game Makai Kingdom, Nuke from the .hack series, Veemon, Impmon, Beelzamon & Ken Ichijoji from Digimon, Noxic from Big Bad Beetleborgs, Cho from Samurai Champloo, Phantom from MAR, Shino Aburame from Naruto, Uryu Ishida from Bleach, and Arashi from Paradise Kiss.

Jerry Jewell -- voice actor. Voice roles include Kyo on Fruits Basket, Jummy Kudo on Case Closed, Taira on Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad, Barry the Chopper on Fullmetal Alchemist, Happiness Bunny on Shin Chan, Rin Tuschimi on Shuffle, Zellman Clock on Black Blood Brothers, Tony Frost on Blue Gender, Suzaku and Jin on Yu Yu Hakusho, and Akito Hayama on Kodocha. He also had roles on Dragonball and Dragonball GT, Black Cat, One Piece, Tsubasa, Trinity Blood, and lots of others. He also has a band, Peach Truck Republic.

Johnny Y. Bosch -- actor, voice actor. Roles include the Black Ranger on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and voice parts including Vash the Stampede in Trigun, Kiba in Wolf's Rain, Ichigo Kurosaki in Bleach, Itsuki Koizumi in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Nero in Devil May Cry 4, Guy in Tales of the Abyss, Lelouch Lamperouge in Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, Sid in Three Delivery and Rossiu in Gurren Lagann.

Jonathan Klein -- vice-president, co-founder and co-owner of New Generation Pictures, Inc., which has been translating, subtitling and dubbing anime and video games for 11 years. They have worked on more than 320 different projects for both U.S. and international release. Jonathan has worked in various capacities on anime including Hellsing and Hellsing Ultimate, Gun x Sword, Kamichu, R.O.D the TV, Daphne in the Brilliant Blue, The Melody of Oblivion, Ghost Talker Daydream, Ikki Tousen, I My Me! Strawberry Eggs, NieA Under 7, 3x3 Eyes, Ergo-Proxy, Haibane Renmei, Texhnolyze, Melody of Oblivion Paranoia Agent. He has also directed several video game projects including The Last Remnant, Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy Fables; Chocobo’s Dungeon, Time Crisis 4, Dawn of Mana, Valkyrie Profile 2 and Romancing Saga. Jonathan has also lent his voice to shows including Ergo Proxy, Kamichu, Girls Bravo, Gun x Sword, Burst Angel, Galaxy Railways and Beck.

Julie Rei Goldstein -- voice actor, storyteller. She won the 2005 Kaucher-Mitchell Excellence in Storytelling competition with her story The Monster Without A Name based on Naoki Urasawa's manga Monster. She got her start in the Anime industry after winning the AX Idol 2005 Voice Acting competition, which led to a chance to play Risa Nagase in Paradise Kiss. She recently landed a major role as Precia Testarossa the tortured villain of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and played Biris in Tweeny Witches.

Laura Bailey -- voice actor. Roles include Tohru Honda in Fruits Basket, Lust in Fullmetal Alchemist, Keiko in Yu Yu Hakusho, Sana in Kodocha and Marlene in Blue Gender. In total she's worked on over thirty shows. Currently, she's playing the title character, a foul mouthed five year old, on Adult Swim's Crayon Shin Chan. She's also lent her voice to Rayne on the BloodRayne video game and has worked on other video games.

Lauren Landa -- voice actor. Roles on Magical Lyrical Girl Nanoha, The Familiar of Zero and The Adventures of Tweeny Witches.

Lex Lang -- voice actor. Famously, he voiced Sagara Sanosuke on Rurouni Kenshin. Other important roles include Goemon on Lupin III, Sanzo in Saiyuki Reload, Crim in .hack, Kimishima in Scryed, Nagira in Witch Hunter Robin, Shouryuu in The Twelve Kingdoms, Captain Herlock in Captain Herlock, Zagato, Lantis, Rune Gods, Windam and Rayearth in Magic Knight Rayearth, Dread in Ghost in the Shell, Jovanni and Shun in Heat Guy J, and Chiaki in Mirage of Blaze. He's also recently had parts such as Doto Kazehana in Naruto The Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow, Teuchi and Hayate in Naruto (the TV show), Marechiyo Oomaeda in Bleach, Blue Dragon in Blue Dragon, Meito Anisawa in Lucky Star, Dew in IGPX, Kenji Kondo in Fafner (which Lex also directed), Xavier III in Samurai Champloo, and Mansairaku in Otogizoshi and way too many more to list them all.  He's also played parts in western animated shows including Metallo and Clayface on The Batman, multiple roles on Justice League Unlimited, as the Lord of the Fire Nation on Avatar: The Last Airbender, and tons of others.

Marianne Miller -- voice actor. Roles on Magical Lyrical Girl Nanoha, Familiar of Zero, Takashi Miike's Zebraman, Tweeny Witches, and Fullmetal Alchemist and the Conquerer of Shamballa.

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn -- voice actor, director, writer, singer. Voice acting roles include Major Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost In The Shell: Innocence, Solid State Society and Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex (for which she won the first ever American Anime Award for Best Actress), Cordelia in Code Geas, Kurenai in Naruto, Julia and Twinkle Maria Murdock from Cowboy Bebop, Helba and Bordeau from .hack, Jagura from Wolf's Rain and Caroline from Vampire Hunter D.

As a director, Mary Elizabeth is currently working on Naruto, Ninja and Clash of Ninja games. Among her many other directing credits are Cowboy Bebop (the series) and Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (this writer notes that dubbing Bebop into English could not possibly have been an easy job), Wolf’s Rain, Digimon Tamers and Frontier and the movie Appleseed. She's also directed Samuel L. Jackson's role in the Afro Samurai video game, soon to be released, as well as working on video games which include Soul Caliber Legends, Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, Devil May Cry 3, 3.5, and 4, Spyhunter, Tokobots, Ninja Gaiden, Castlevania 1 and 2, and Kung Fu Panda.

Monica Rial -- voice actor. Her roles include Lyra/Dante on Fullmetal Alchemist, Misuzu on Air TV, Simca on Air Gear, Okoi on Basilisk, Jo on Burst Angel, Towa on DN Angel, Hyatt on Excel Saga, Kyoko on Full Metal Panic, Momoko on Ghost Stories, Angelica on Gunslinger Girl, Hello Kitty on Hello Kitty's Animation Theater, Renee on Innocent Venus, Lumier on Kiddy Grade, Kurau on Kurau: Phantom Memory, Konoka, Kazumi and Satsuki on Moon Phase, Nanaka on Nanaka 6/17, Kirika on Noir, Izumi on Princess Nine, Haruka on Rahxephon, Misa on Macross, Saya/Saizo on Peacemaker Kurogane, Misao on Sasami, Kagura on Speed Grapher, Rio on Spiral, Saki on Steel Angel Kurumi, Sakura on Tsubasa Chronicles, Yuzuha on Utawarerumono and Maria on Witchblade and Vanessa on Trinity Blood. She also writes ADR script adaptations and is currently directing XXXHolic for Funimation.

Todd Haberkorn -- actor, voice actor.  Voice roles include parts in Suzuka, Hell Girl, Shuffle, and XXXHolic. Todd also writes and directs for FUNimation.

Travis Willingham -- voice actor, actor. He is best known for the role of Colonel Roy Mustang in Fullmetal Alchemist. He's also played Pierre in Aquarion, Badrick Serihan in Black Blood Brothers, Andreas Darlton in Code Geass, Iggy in Ergo Proxy, Kaiji in GunxSword, Cleo in Glass Fleet, Ginko in Mushi Shi, Portgas D. Ace in One Piece, Eustoma in Shuffle, as well as roles in Hellsing Ultimate, Case Closed, Ghost Hunt, Naruto, Blue Gender, Dragonball Z, Dragonball GT, Daphne in the Brilliant Blue, Mermaid Forrest, The Melody of Oblivion, and Yu Yu Hakusho. His live acting roles include parts in Secondhand Lions, Ray, Friday Night Lights, Prison-A-Go-Go, The Guardian and Cold Case. He is set to star in a new feature film entitled The Gunslinger.

Disclaimer: Information is based on the convention's web site as of the date of posting of this article. Please confirm all relevant information with the con before attending as information may change. We will make updates to information in a timely fashion if we are notified of errors, but we are not liable for any incorrect or missing information.