Naka-Kon 2012 Guest Information
This information is specific to Naka-Kon 2012. Naka-Kon 2013 information will be posted at a later date.
Aleathia Burns
Aleathia has been involved in costuming for over 10 years. Her fascination for costuming started when she first attended Dragon*Con and was blown away by the various costumes that roamed the hallways. What amazed her the most was the concept of seeing a character (even a few of her favorites) come to life through the workmanship of the cosplayers. This encouraged her to buy her first sewing machine and after teaching herself to sew, she created her first costume for her second visit to Dragon*Con earning her a "Best in Show" at the Cosplay Contest. This inspired her to continue on into creating more costumes, attending more conventions, and entering contests where she has won awards for her work. Now she is currently making guest appearances, serving as a Cosplay Judge, and hosting panels that cover budgeting for your cosplay and how to enter into craftsmanship contests. She looks forward to attending Naka-Kon this year so she can get a chance to see even more amazing costumes.
Her motto: Discourage yourself and your dreams are finished, Encourage yourself and your Dreams will come true!!!
Amelie Belcher
Amelie "Ami-Chan" Belcher is the artist behind the manga "Loud Snow" and the creator of the web comics "The Real Life Adventures of Amelie" and "Bounty Haunters" at www.amiarmy.com. She was born in Baton-Bloody-Boring-Rouge Louisiana where the combination of chemical plant fumes and river water did major damage to her fragile little mind at an early age. By all accounts, she started drawing at the age of five (when she figured out that the pencil goes on the paper and not up your nose) and didn't stop drawing until she ran out of paper...twenty years later. Amelie taught high school art for four years, but lost interest in teaching when it started cutting into her drinking time. She now travels the country selling her award winning art, doing one of a kind commissions for con goers, giving the best panels on earth, and being paid tribute to by her army of fans known as the "Ami Army" in the form of Pocky and manga.
BLOOD STAIN CHILD
In October 2010 BLOOD STAIN CHILD inked a record deal with Coroner Records and on December 19 and 20 they appeared at Kichijoji CRESCENDO "Tokyo 2DAYS" for the third time as headliners. BLOOD STAIN CHILD debuted its long awaited 5th album "Epsilon" at a dual headline event in Dallas, TX with Visual Kei super stars "D" in July 2011. The band played for over 3000 screaming Texan fans.
Because of the high demand and success of Epsilon, as soon as they returned back to Japan, a tour began immediately with 23 events played between August and September of 2011. Before they could get comfortable with time off, they were invited to do more shows in Japan and a Russia-Ukraine tour December 9-13, 2011. BLOOD STAIN CHILD is not slowing down and now have their eyes set on Kansas City at NAKA-KON this February 2012.
BLOOD STAIN CHILD was also invited to record songs for "Princess Ghibli" (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Grave of the Fireflies, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro). The album was released on April 13, 2011 and in its first week sold out of its first shipment in a week at Amazon.
For more information, visit http://www.bloodstainchild.com.
Chris Cason
For over ten years, Chris Cason has participated in almost every facet of anime production. He has been associated with numerous projects (exclusively for FUNimation Entertainment) in a voice acting, ADR directing, or scriptwriting capacity. Some of his work has been featured on Spike TV, The Independent Film Channel (IFC), Nicktoons, The Cartoon Network, and The CW.
Chris's best known voice credits include: "Gluttony" in Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, "Tien Shinhan" in Dragonball Z, "Mr. Popo" in Dragonball Z and Dragonball Z Kai, "Holy Roman Empire" in Hetalia: Axis Powers, "Jack the Ripper" in Soul Eater, "Boo" and "Whitey" in Shin-Chan, "Miyamoto" and "M1" in Yu Yu Hakusho, "Fumihiro" in Initial D, "Chamo" in Negima, "Hanai" in School Rumble, "Babbit" in Kodocha, "Taruru" in Sgt. Frog, "Seigfried" in Kenichi, and "Hanbei" in Sengoku Basara.
He can also be heard in: Case Closed, Gunslinger Girl, Basilisk, Ouran High School Host Club, Suzuka, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles, Black Cat, Darker Than Black, Bamboo Blade, Kaze no Stigma, Aquarion, One Piece, Big Windup!, D. Gray-Man, Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad, RIN, Corpse Princess, Speed Grapher, Summer Wars, and Fairy Tail.
Some of his ADR directing and assistant ADR directing credits include: DBZ Uncut, Dragonball, Dragonball GT, Yu Yu Hakusho, Negima, Kodocha, Galaxy Railways, Baki the Grappler, School Rumble, Hell Girl, Kaze no Stigma, Bamboo Blade, Birdy the Mighty: Decode, Initial D, and Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations.
He has also had the opportunity to be a part of many popular video games. His two favorites were: voicing random ghouls and specters for Ghostbusters: The Video Game, and as one of the contributing guitarists in Guitar Hero 3.
For additional information, visit "Chris Cason's Anime Chuckle Hut" on Facebook.
Colleen Clinkenbeard
Colleen Clinkenbeard is a voice actor/ADR director/ADR scriptwriter/ Line Producer for FUNimation Productions. Her voice acting credits include: Dragonball Z Kai (Gohan, Android 18, Baby Trunks), Fullmetal Alchemist (Rose Thomas and Riza Hawkeye), One Piece (Luffy in the new FUNimation dub), Evangelion 1.0 and 2.22 (Ritsuko), Fairy Tale (Erza), Shin Chan (Himawari and Maso), Soul Eater (Marie), Evangelion: 1.0 movie (Ritsuko Akagi), Romeo x Juliet (Cordelia), D-Grayman (Miranda), Darker Than Black (Chiaki), Baccano (Nice), RIN-Daughters of Mnemosyne (Rin), Ouran High School Host Club (Éclair), Vexille (Vexille), Summer Wars (Noriko), Trinity Blood (Sister Esther), xxxHolic (Yuko), Solty Rei (Rose), Witchblade (Reina), Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle (Yuko), Trigun: Badlands Rumble (movie) (Amelia), Kiddy Grade (Éclair), Case Closed (Rachel Moore), Baccano (Nice), Nabari No O (Yae Oda), Oh! Edo Rocket (Blue Girl), Phantom (Claudia), Spice and Wolf II (Diana), Claymore (Galatea), Burst Angel (Maria), Samurai 7 (Kirara), Kodocha (Mama), Negima (Sakurako, Shizuna), Origin (Jessica), Eden of the East (Asako), Murder Princess (Alita/Falis), Heroic Age (Nilval), Aquarion (Reika), Rumbling Hearts (Mitsuki), Basilisk (Hotorubi), School Rumble (Anegasaki), Shuffle! (Kareha), My Santa (MaiMai), Dragonaut (Toa), Lupin III: Dead or Alive (Oleander), Lupin III: Farewell to Nostradamus (Mary), and Diamond Daydreams (Nurse Yuuki) and Ghost Train for ADV Films. She has also been featured in the video games: Borderlands, Aeon Flux, Ghostbusters, Spike Out, Battle Zone, Blood Rayne II, Stuntman:Ignition, Guitar Hero III, Fullmetal Alchemist, Fullmetal Alchemist II, Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai, and Dragon Ball Z: Budokai. Colleen’s ADR Directing credits include Fullmetal Alchemist, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Kiddy Grade, Kodocha, Negima, Moon Phase, Sakura Teisen: Ecole de Paris, Case Closed, Kenichi, and Aquarion.
DJ Infam0us
Infam0us is a DJ by night, IT Tech by day, and a massive nerd perpetually with a great love of all things music and dance.
Infam0us started as an event promoter in the night club industry, and found his love of performing and organizing dance events and concerts after being promoted to Night Time Entertainment Coordinator at Tokyo in Tulsa.
Nina Matsumoto
Nina Matsumoto (a.k.a. "space coyote") is a Japanese-Canadian Eisner Award-winning comic book artist critically acclaimed for her unique style and versatility. A lifelong fan of The Simpsons, she regularly pencils for Bongo Comics (Simpson Comics, Bart Simpson Comics). She has released two volumes of her original manga Yakaiden through Random House. She also illustrated The Last Airbender Prequel: Zuko's Story, a prequel comic for the film The Last Airbender by M. Night Shyamalan. Her work can also be seen on video game t-shirts released by Meat Bun.
Quinton Flynn
Quinton's voice has been burning up film and television since he first arrived in Los Angeles from his native Cleveland. He is an A-list voice actor, having played such famous animated characters as Jonny Quest, Spiderman, Speed Racer, The Human Torch, Timon, Snowbell in Stuart Little, just to name a few. His television and film appearances include Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, King of Queens, Animaniacs, Woody Woodpecker, Robot Chicken, and many more.
His best known roles in video game franchises have been his work providing the English voices of Raiden in the Metal Gear Solid series, Axel in Kingdom Hearts II, and Reno in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children the motion picture. If you're hip to the anime scene you’ll know him as Iruka-sensei and Deidara in Naruto and Naruto Shippuden, Marcus Damon in Digimon Data Squad, and Carl in Blood+. He is well known in the industry for his skills as an impressionist and improvisationalist, having played the role of Paul McCartney and tested for NBC's Saturday Night Live and Comedy Network's The Daily Show.
Steve Blum
With literally hundreds of voice-over credits to his name, VO veteran Steve Blum is best known as the voice of "Spike Spiegel" from Cowboy Bebop, "Vincent Valentine" (Final Fantasy VII), "Leeron" (Gurren Lagann), "Wolverine" from several incarnations of X-Men (animated movies, games, the Wolverine and the X-Men TV Series and The Super Hero Squad Show), "Tom" (the robot host) from Cartoon Network's Toonami, "Green Goblin" from the Spectacular Spiderman series, "Heatblast," "Vilgax" and "Ghostfreak" from Ben 10, "Grunt" (Mass Effect 2), "Tank Dempsey" (Call of Duty), "Oghren" (DragonAge), the voice of 7-11, dozens of Digimon and a gigantic list of other characters from Anime, Video Games, TV and Film.
Currently he's working on the new super-charged CGI series Transformers: Prime, playing the delusional but deadly Decepticon Starscream!!
Check out more of Steve's stuff at steveblumvoices.com or at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0089710/.
Take One Productions
Making people laugh is our main goal at Take One Productions, and since our start in 2007, we have been doing just that. From Hawaii to Kansas, and everywhere in between, our shows are always a smashing success. Not to toot our own horn… but we are pretty much all that and a bag of chips. But don't take our word for it! Come see for yourself at our improv show!
Some of you may be reading this wondering… what the French Toast is improv comedy? Well… if you've ever seen the TV show "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" then you have a pretty good idea of what we do. However, if you've never seen that show or heard of it… GET WITH THE PROGRAM!!! But since we at Take One are nice people, we'll clue you in… IF you swear to be at our shows!
Basically, we get all of our material on the spot from our audience members. A few lucky ducks may even be chosen to help us out in some of our games! So come join us for an always too short time of laughter and hilarity as our actors get on stage and make complete fools of themselves!
See you there!
Much love,
Take One Productions!
Wendee Lee
As one of the premiere voice artists on the cutting edge of anime, Wendee Lee has voiced numerous characters for over 300 series, games and films. Best known as the fem fatale FAYE VALENTINE in the hit series "COWBOY BEBOP", Wendee's career includes a wide array of characters ranging from KONATA in "LUCKY STAR", MOEGI in "NARUTO", villainesses on "POWER RANGERS", and RUMI in "PERFECT BLUE" to vamps like SPROCKET in "VIEWTIFUL JOE", MITSUKA in "DearS" and LORETTA in "WILD ARMS". She has voiced such memorable heroines as LADY ARIBETH in "NEVERWINTER KNIGHTS", UMI & PRINCESS EMERAUDE in "MAGIC KNIGHT RAYEARTH", RYOKO in "SAMURAI GIRL: REAL BOUT HIGH SCHOOL", RURIKO in "GATE KEEPERS", SAKURA in "SAKURA WARS", and sisters DA QIAO and XIAO QIAO in "DYNASTY WARRIOIRS".
Creating a niche as 'The Tough Chick', she played MAYA in "TENJHO TENGE", KIVA in "MEGAS XLR", BUZAM in "VANDREAD", BLACK ROSE in ".HACK", FEE in "PLANETES", DOROTHY in "MAR", and KAGERO in "NINJA SCROLL". On the softer side, her roles include CHARLOTTE in "VAMPIRE HUNTER D", ANGEL in "THE BIG O", ANTONIA in "HEAT GUY J", KARASUMA in "WITCH HUNTER ROBYN", "HELLO KITTY, STUMP VILLAGE" and her very first anime role VANESSA LEEDS in "ROBOTECH".
Wendee's diverse collection of characters have enabled her to play multiple roles in "BLEACH", "BRIGADOON", "GTO", "MON COLLE KNIGHTS", and "EVERQUEST II" as well as comediennes KAOLLA SU in "LOVE HINA", TINA in "AI YORI AOSHI", and WEDA in "HARE + GUU". She's also played several male characters such as TK in "DIGIMON", KACHIRO in "PRINCE OF TENNIS", YAHIKO in "RUROUNI KENSHIN" and GENKIMARU in "SD GUNDAM FORCE". Her film roles include THE VELVETEEN RABBIT, LOLA in "RUN LOLA RUN", KEI in "AKIRA", and FEMBOTS in "AUSTIN POWERS".
Currently she is voicing YORUICHI, TATSUKI and URURU in "BLEACH", and HARUHI in "THE MELONCHOLY OF HARUHI SUZUMIYA", in addition to several interactive game titles, while also voice directing a number of new games, anime, and the hit series "BLEACH".
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0283253/
Yaya Han
Yaya Han is a costume designer, model and cosplay entertainer with 12 years of experience. After discovering cosplay at her first con over a decade ago, she quickly absorbed the heart and soul of costume design and creation. To this day Yaya has made 200 (and counting) costumes in the genres of anime/manga, comic books, video games, sci-fi and of course from her own original designs. Her intricate and lavish creations have won many awards and acclaim world wide, and Yaya has been featured in a myriad of magazines, websites, and television programming. Commercially, Yaya's visage has been drawn, painted and sculpted by several professional artists and she enjoys modeling in her limited spare time. Additionally, Yaya has taught a multitude of panels on costume craftsmanship, presentation, makeup, wigs and more; and judged countless costume contests and performed in front of many peers and fans alike on stage. Over the past several years, Yaya has traveled to a long roster of conventions and events within the USA as well as internationally to Italy, Mexico, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany and Brazil as a Guest of Honor. Yaya is a strong advocate of preserving cosplay as an art form and encourages and mentors new cosplayers to improve their craftsmanship constantly. She is excited to see the World Cosplay Summit Preliminaries come to Katsucon and wishes all contestants best of luck. Yaya also is a driving force behind the cosplay charity calendar Cosplay For a Cause, with all proceeds being donated to the Japanese Red Cross directly benefiting the disaster relief. Yaya is excited to visit Naka-Kon and Kansas City for the first time! For more information, visit www.yayahan.com.
