Guests

John Michael Tatum (born May 25, 1976 in McKinney, Texas, USA) is an American voice actor, ADR director and scriptwriter working for OkraTron 5000, FUNimation Entertainment/Crunchyroll, Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Sound Cadence Studios, Studio Nano and VSI Los Angeles. He is known for voicing Dororo in Sgt. Frog , France in Hetalia: Axis Powers , Scar in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood , Zarbon in Dragon Ball Z Kai , Komui Lee in D.Gray-Man , Sebastian Michaelis in Black Butler , Shizuka Dōmeki in xxxHOLiC , Rintaro Okabe in Steins;Gate , Kraft Lawrence in Spice and Wolf , Erwin Smith in Attack on Titan , Kyōya Ōtori in Ouran High School Host Club and Rei Ryugazaki in Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club .

Brandon Christopher McInnis (born July 7, 1987 in Dallas, Texas, USA) is an American voice actor affiliated with FUNimation Entertainment/Crunchyroll, Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Sound Cadence Studios, Studio Nano and OkraTron 5000. He is best known for voicing Gyutaro in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Entertainment District Arc , Sir Nighteye/Mirai Sasaki in My Hero Academia , Finral Roulacase in Black Clover , Astolfo Granatum in The Case Study of Vanitas , Yuta Hibiki in SSSS.GRIDMAN , Gen Asagiri in DR. STONE and Mafuyu Sato in given .

Laura Megan Stahl (born August 12, 1991 in Oahu, Hawaii, USA) is an American voice actress based in California. She is affiliated with Bang Zoom! Entertainment, FUNimation Entertainment/Crunchyroll, OkraTron 5000, VSI Los Angeles, NYAV Post, Studio Nano and Studiopolis. She is known for her roles as Dorothy in Great Pretender , Ray in The Promised Neverland , Bea in Pokémon Twilight Wings , Aiger Akabane in Beyblade Burst: Turbo , Homura Kōgetsu in Edens Zero , Hayato Kawajiri in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable and Iruma Suzuki in Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun .

Khoi Dao (born September 3, 1998 in Vietnam) is a California-based American voice actor working for FUNimation Entertainment, Bang Zoom! Entertainment and Studio Nano. He is best known for voicing Iskahn in Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld , Keiichi Maebara in Higurashi: When They Cry - Gou , Yuliy Jirov in Sirius the Jaeger , Free De La Hoya in Beyblade Burst: Surge , Rei Kiriyama in March comes in like a lion and Tetsuya Kuroko in Kuroko's Basketball .

Nancy Kepner loves to joke around with her friends about the ridiculous things that happen in the crazy world of fandom and in everyday life. It’s easy for her because, at heart, she’s just a huge fan who sets her love of all things fandom related to music. Armed with a guitar and clever song lyrics, Nancy Kepner has performed songs such as “The Explaining Anime to Your Parents song,” “Santa doesn’t understand your fandom,” and “Graduating Hogwarts” at numerous conventions. She currently has three albums full of these hilarious songs available for purchase on CD Baby, iTunes, and Amazon and is thrilled to share them with all of you!!

You can also find her all year round on her YouTube channel, HeartfeltHumor , delighting viewers with original compositions, live performances, and the occasional music video. If there’s something ridiculous that happens in fandom, Nancy has probably written a song about it. And if she hasn’t, let her know! She loves suggestions!

He's the merc with the mouth and his swordplay always comes with maximum effort...wait; it's not who you think it is! However, there ARE similarities: both fight with swords for pay, both run their mouths, both have beautiful love-of-their-lives, and sadly, both look the same beneath their masks/headwraps! Samurai Dan and his lovely lady Jillian teach sword and self defense classes, give informational panels, perform stage shows, and do almost anything else to ensure that congoers enjoy themselves.

Be sure to like them at www.facebook.com/SamuraiDanAndJillian

Charles Dunbar is a consummate fan. And they never expected their fandom to become such a huge part of their life. After deciding (on the road back from a con, no less) to study con culture back in 2008, they have spent the next decade of their life devoted to not only Japan (and its history, monsters, and culture) but to building their own base of knowledge from which they can draw and teach others. Since then, they have lectured at over 200 cons (including Anime Boston), libraries, and universities on all manners of fandom, history, culture, and folklore, and anything else that strikes their fancy, in hopes of bringing new perspectives and points of view to the appreciation of Japanese animation, and everything else associated with it.

You can keep track of their ramblings on Facebook.com/StudyofAnime .